Posted on 09/17/2004 8:47:16 AM PDT by RightOnTheLeftCoast
More important, these histrionics about Europe's imminent demise, really divert us from the real demographic catastrophe taking place in the United States. It is WE, not Europe, who are being inundated by illegal immigration and demographic change. I think it was creepy Clinton who kept gloating when he was president that the US was the only nation in history which was voluntarily permitting itself to become ethnically transformed (by 2050) from a European based society to an Hispanic based society.
This reading of OUR future was recently expanded upon by Sam Huntingtom, who affirmed that it is WE who are facing the existential question, whether we will remain a society and culture based on an Anglo-Saxon creed or whether we will splinter into two societies and cultures.
Europe, on the hand, gives few political rights or privileges to its non-natives. Witness, too, France's ruling on head-scarves, etc.
In Daniel 7, the prophets has a vision of four beast which each represent an empire that will rule on Earth and reign over God's people (the Jews). Biblical scholars have long associated these beasts with the following. The lion was to represent Babylon with her swift conquests (statues of winged lions have been recovered from Babylons ruins). The bear that ravaged the lion is the Medo-Persian Empire. It is shown with three ribs in it's mouth which is thought to represent the conquest of three major enemies which is historically accurate. The leopard is Greece (specifically Alexander's Greece which conquered the known world with such speed). The leopard also has four heads whhich rep[resent the divisions of the empire after Alexander's death.
The fourth beast is the really scary one, and the one that affects the end times. In verses 7 & 8 it says "After that, in my vision at night I looked, and there before me was a fourth beast-terrifying and frightening and very powerful. It had large iron teeth; it crushed and devoured its victims and trampled underfoot whatever was left. It was different from all the former beasts, and it had ten horns. While I was thinking about the horns, there before me was another horn, a little one, which came up among them; and three of the first horns were uprooted before it. This horn had eyes like the eyes of a man and a mouth that spoke boastfully." This beast represents Rome which had not come to power when Daniel was writing. He continues his description in verses 23-27 when he is explaining the meaning of the beast. "He gave me this explanation: 'The fourth beast is a fourth kingdom that will appear on earth. It will be different from all the other kingdoms and will devour the whole earth, trampling it down and crushing it. The ten horns are ten kings who will come from this kingdom. After them another king will arise, different from the earlier ones; he will subdue three kings. He will speak against the Most High and oppress his saints and try to change the set times and the laws. The saints will be handed over to him for a time, times and half a time. 'But the court will sit, and his power will be taken away and completely destroyed forever. Then the sovereignty, power and greatness of the kingdoms under the whole heaven will be handed over to the saints, the people of the Most High. His kingdom will be an everlasting kingdom, and all rulers will worship and obey him.'" This is also mentioned in Revelation 17:12.
Okay, I know that this is wierd, so bear with me. Basically, scholars have said that this beast represents Rome. The other beasts mentioned had a clear end, but this one sort of fades away for a while and then rises up again during the end times. Rome never really had a definitive end. The Empire sort of faded away, breaking up into spheres of power and then suffering a slow decline. At the point of it's resurgence in Daniel it is basically controlled by a malevalent power usually considered to be the Anti-Christ.
There's a lot more. Read Daniel 8 for the same prophecy in a different form. Just make sure that you have a Bible with some notes at the bottom in order to try to undersdtand some of it. I borrowed liberally from my notes to give you the above summation. Basically though, all of these passages (in Daniel, Ezekiel, and Revelation) speak of this malevelent power making war against Israel and God's people. (Depending on your theology, that could mean all Christians and Jews, just the Jews, or just the Christians.) This "king" though definately emerges from what was once the Roman Empire. If you're interested in more, let me know. I'll do a little homework and get back to you.
Islam will be but a memory by 2100.
we have similar problems with mexicanos in parts of our cities
Thank you America friend.
Yes.
Thank you. Be strong America persons. Evil, devil lucifer persons do not like children, that evil persons do not like good persons. Time to atack, I want that evil licfer persons dead dead dead!!!!!!!!!!!!! War War War, no to evil devil persons that atack good persons!!!!!
Jan III Sobieski.
Wished he was still around.
To anyone who would like to have a factual rationale for justifiably fearing islam, the following four books are recommended at a minimum:
Carnage and Culture, Victor Davis Hanson
Jihad, Paul Fregosi
What Went Wrong?, Bernard Lewis
The Siege of Vienna, John Stoye (Sept 11, 1683)
This cannot be stressed enough: ... since one cannot by any means screen out the jihadists from the moderate Muslims...
The "moderate muslims" myth cannot be overemphasized; The moderate ones simply are not "active participants" in the daily murder and mayhem.
Don't forget Hatred's Kingdom
The bitter fruit of multiculturalism.
There is only one effort which will save Europe and turn back the subhuman, murderous Muslim hordes: kill them all, to the very last Muslim. No mercy shown, no quarter given, no exceptions.
All to soon enough, we will have to do the same here in America.
Islam is Antichrist
I would tend to agree. The again I'm Lutheran and the party line is that the Pope is the antichrist. Go figure.
I did say at a minimum.
Who wrote that and when was it written?
If we want to start adding, I could add another dozen titles easily. Let's be modest, here.
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