To: vladimir998
I guess your are BLIND TOO !
Ever hear of the
Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible (Complete) ?
(1.) The first beast was like a lion, v. 4.
This was the Chaldean monarchy, that was fierce and strong, and made the kings absolute.
This lion had eagles wings, with which to fly upon the prey, denoting the wonderful speed that Nebuchadnezzar made in his conquest of kingdoms.
But Daniel soon sees the wings plucked, a full stop put to the career of their victorious arms.
Divers countries that had been tributaries to them revolt from them, and make head against them;so that this monstrous animal, this winged lion, is made to stand upon the feet as a man, and a mans heart is given to it.
It has lost the heart of a lion, which it had been famous for (one of our English kings was called Caeur de LionLion-heart ),
has lost its courage and become feeble and faint, dreading every thing and daring nothing;they are put in fear, and made to know themselves to be but men.
Sometimes the valour of a nation strangely sinks, and it becomes cowardly and effeminate,so that what was the head of the nations in an age or two becomes the tail.
I considered * the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn,
before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots :
and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things. AGAIN I ASK, Ever hear of the
Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible (Complete) ?
The learned are not agreed concerning this anonymous beast; some make it to be the Roman empire,which, when it was in its glory, comprehended ten kingdoms, Italy, France, Spain, Germany, Britain, Sarmatia, Pannonia, Asia, Greece, and Egypt;
and then the little horn which rose by the fall of three of the other horns (v. 8) they make to be the Turkish empire, which rose in the room of Asia, Greece, and Egypt.
Others make this fourth beast to be the kingdom of Syria, the family of the Seleucidae, which was very cruel and oppressive to the people of the Jews, as we find in Josephus and the history of the Maccabees.
And herein that empire was diverse from those which went before, that none of the preceding powers compelled the Jews to renounce their religion, but the kings of Syria did, and used them barbarously.
Their armies and commanders were the great iron teeth with which they devoured and broke in pieces the people of God, and they trampled upon the residue of them.
The ten horns are then supposed to be ten kings that reigned successively in Syria;and then the little horn is Antiochus Epiphanes, the last of the ten,
who by one means or other undermined three of the kings, and got the government.
He was a man of great ingenuity, and therefore is saidto have eyes like the eyes of a man; and he was very bold and daring, had a mouth speaking great things.
We shall meet with him again in these prophecies.
And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise : and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings. So HOW DENSE do YOU have to be ?
Ever hear of the
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible ?
24. ten horns--answering to the ten "toes" ( Daniel 2:41 ).
out of this kingdom--It is out of the fourth kingdom that ten others arise, whatever exterior territory any of them possess ( Revelation 13:1 , 17:12 ).
rise after them--yet contemporaneous with them; the ten are contemporaries.
Antichrist rises after their rise, at first "little" ( Daniel 7:8 );
but after destroying three of the ten, he becomes greater than them all ( Daniel 7:20 Daniel 7:21 ).
The three being gone, he is the eighth (compare Revelation 17:11 ); a distinct head, and yet "of the seven."
As the previous world kingdoms had their representative heads (Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar; Persia, Cyrus; Greece, Alexander), so the fourth kingdom and its Antichrists shall have their evil concentrated in the one final Antichrist.
As Antiochus Epiphanes, the Antichrist of the third kingdom in Daniel 8:23-25 , was the personal enemy of God, so the final Antichrist of the fourth kingdom, his antitype.
The Church has endured a pagan and a papal persecution; there remains for her an infidel persecution, general, purifying, and cementing [CECIL].
He will not merely, as Popery, substitute himself for Christ in Christ's name, but "deny the Father and the Son" ( 1 John 2:22 ).
The persecution is to continue up to Christ's second coming ( Daniel 7:21 Daniel 7:22 ); the horn of blasphemy cannot therefore be past; for now there is almost a general cessation of persecution.
The more you PROVE what you do
NOT KNOW,
the more that is revealed
AGAINST your FALSE CHURCH !
82 posted on
09/26/2015 5:51:50 PM PDT by
Yosemitest
(It's SIMPLE ! ... Fight, ... or Die !)
To: Yosemitest
“AGAIN I ASK, Ever hear of the Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible (Complete) ?”
Sure have - and I know why it isn’t that worthwhile either. And not a single thing you posted shows “The HERULI Odoacers government, A.D. 476-493 is in any verse in the Bible. You’re posting interpretations. Not scripture. All you’re doing is proving I was right all along.
83 posted on
09/26/2015 6:06:14 PM PDT by
vladimir998
(Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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