The kingdom of God is the New World Order and according to prophecy Christ’s world government, will never end, will never end. “Of the increase of His government and peace there will be no end, upon the throne of David and over His kingdom, to order it and establish it with judgment and justice from that time forward, even forever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this. (Isaiah 9:7)
Are we so faithless that we believe man has more zeal than did God? Compare Daniel 2:44, 45; Luke 1:32, 33 and Hebrews 12:26-28.
The scene of Daniel 7:14-27 is not a modern 21st century context, but that of ancient Rome, Israel and first century Christianity. For millennial futurists like Jeffrey, Lindsay, LaHaye, Hagee, Van Impe and others, they must remanufacture first century history today to find a place for their theories.
Their writings are filled with language of a new temple, new Rome, new Israel, etc. Only one problem, history does not cooperate. Russia, Iraq, the U.S. and even national Israel refuses to cooperate prophetically thus their horns and hoofs keep changing as history repeatedly fails them.
This plague has afflicted futurists since the close of the first century. Each time we begin outside of an imminent, at hand, shortly to come to pass time frame in the first century, doom and gloom is the result.
End-time prophecy does not bypass the first century. The apostles clearly saw their generation as the terminal one of Old Testament prophecy, (1 Corinthians 10:11) --meaning, the last days of Israel's Old Covenant, (Hebrews 1:1, 2; 8:13). That time marked the soon appearing of Christ, a time those writers saw as occurring in a very little while, (Hebrews 10:25, 37) |