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DOMINOES

While producing the latest episode of the Streamwars video series, which featured a political cartoon imaging Russia as a Bear who attacked Biden for his linking them to the latest hacking attack on US infrastructure, it struck me how incredibly ironic it is that the world widely recognizes the imagery of Russia as a bear, and the Christians are the only group who don't universally see the same symbolism.

The image of a bear as Russia has a long history, going back centuries. Indeed, a Google search of images under the phrase Russia Depicted as a Bear, pulls up pages and pages of images – including a few that also have Britain depicted as a lion opposing the beast, as well as the American Eagle in a similar light.

Oddly enough, although Christian Media has identified Russia as the Bear in Daniel 7's prophecy of the Lion, the Bear, and the Leopard since our mass mailed prophecy articles began in the early 1990's (which included images that were subsequently transferred to the Internet), Christian Media is conspicuously absent from the Google search results.

"And I beheld another beast, a second, like to a bear…and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh" (Daniel 7:5).

Having now written several books with extensive historical data connecting the four beasts mentioned in Daniel 7 with consecutive Christian era kingdoms, the perception that recently impacted me was how the Christians, who are said in Scripture to have the light of Christ helping to guide the rest of the world through the Spiritual darkness of our time, still cling to the false interpretation that the four "Beast" kingdoms of Daniel 7 are simply restatements of the four Old Testament era kingdoms of Babylon, Persia, Greece, and Rome. This false reckoning would indicate the Bear is Persia.

This is not only thoroughly illogical because the context of the "Beast" Scriptures in Daniel 7 shows these kingdoms will progress "unto the end" (Daniel 7:26) of the world, it engenders a deep suspicion that a mystical Spiritual power is at work.

After all, the opposite of shining the light of JESUS CHRIST as we journey through the "wilderness" of our time, is said to be Spiritual blindness. In multiple prophetic metaphors, we see Jesus as the "third part," lighting the way for the "two parts" which are traveling on the road to ruin.

"And, behold, two blind men sitting by the way side, when they heard that Jesus passed by, cried out, saying Have mercy on us O Lord, thou Son of David" (Matthew 20:30).

Actually, there are many verses where we see what has been called the mystery of thirds, where the singular Light of Christ shines to a two-fold description of those in desperate need of Spiritual guidance.

"There met him two possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs…And, behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God?" (Matthew 8:28, 29).

There are many more examples. Of course, those believers who have been sold on the faulty literal fulfillment of prophecy and the disparagement of prophetic metaphor pitched by the False Prophets of the Rapture Cult, have seriously hampered their understanding of crucial issues related to the salvation offered by the Saviour.

"And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the Lord, two parts therein that be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein. And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them" (Zechariah 13: 8, 9).

Having authored three volumes on what we call the Triuniverse, I won't belabor the veracity of the triune creation as I've extensively documented it in prior studies, but I am interested in how true revelation from the Lord can occur like Dominoes that are lined up in a sequential pattern of revelation. These could be referenced as the Dominoes of Doctrine.

Just like the Dominoes that fall in a pre-arranged pattern, when they are intentionally set up in a sequential fashion, if you miss one when they start to fall, the link in the train of doctrinal thought is broken.  

At this juncture, a personal anecdote would appear to be in order. When the Lord revealed to me that the bulk of published prophetic doctrine linking the four "Beast" kingdoms in Daniel 7 were not the same four kingdoms seen in Daniel 2 representing Babylon, Persia, Greece, and Rome, I wondered whether or not virtually everyone had this perspective wrong. This occurred because the text said that when the statue empires had run their course, "no place was found" (Daniel 2:35) for the four ancient kingdoms.

Conversely, the four kingdoms imaged as the Lion, Bear, Leopard, and Diverse fourth beast had "their lives…prolonged" (Daniel 7:12). If I missed that "Domino," I might still be searching for the fictional "Revived Roman Empire."

The Lord helped me to discern that some sort of parallel to the Old Testament kingdoms had occurred, and I discerned the Lion as the British Empire, and the Bear as Russia. I also realized the fourth kingdom – the "diverse" beast - had to be America, but I was unsure of the "Leopard" beast's identity. At this point, the "dominoes of doctrine" could not fully be realized, and I was stalled in what the Lord was revealing.

Eventually I saw the third kingdom of the Leopard had to be Nazi Germany, but for a lengthy period of time, I could not accurately evaluate the whole picture because an important link of doctrine (a "domino") was missing in the progression. The knowledge of the kingdoms is cumulative.

For example, I did not initially see the imagery also communicated the political system of Fascism relative to the Nazis, and the Communism of the Soviet Union. Both political systems were the result of Flesh and Blood initiative, as opposed to the Lord's wisdom.

These character attributes are crucial in understanding the fourth kingdom, as they show how the two political systems are both at work within the American beast. To put it another way, the LORD was teaching me to wait on Him, and He would not let me move on to other prophetic territory until I factored in the all of the data.

Further, in retrospect, I realize now that the most significant prophetic understanding was still to come. The same basic scenario occurred again, years later, when I learned that the two kingdoms in the Old Testament that preceded the ancient foursome of Babylon, Persia, Greece, and Rome (imaged as the composite status with the head of gold, arms of silver, brass torso, and iron legs) were extremely important. The LORD knew I had to learn about these things before He could reveal more significant understanding.

The two Scripturally documented kingdoms that preceded Daniel's four "statue" empires were Egypt and Assyria, and because most modern prophecy figures are still trying to contrive how Rome – the last empire of Daniel 2 – could become the final "Beast" empire, they miss the enormous truth that the six kingdoms in the Old Testament period are doubled by six identities in the Christian era.

In other words, there is a domino that has not fallen to their understanding of the Old Testament sequence, so they cannot discern the next layer of understanding the LORD desires to reveal.

Perhaps the most critical of all these things is the kingdom of God. We read dozens of Scriptures (and parables) describing the kingdom, but we tend to resist the truth which an accurate rendition of the what the six ancient kingdoms of man tells us. A moment ago, I mentioned the two major empires of Egypt and Assyria, which are extensively documented throughout the Old Testament.

These two enormous dominions are followed by Daniel's foursome, revealed in Nebuchadnezzar's famous dream.

"Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. This image's head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass, His legs of iron" (Daniel 2:31-33).

This means that our count of the kingdoms in the Old Testament is skewed, so the total of six earthly kingdoms is somewhat masked.

After describing the last four kingdoms, Daniel makes the astonishing statement that it is when kingdoms 3, 4, 5, and 6 have arrived, God will fulfill His long standing promise to Israel to deliver the kingdom of God:

"And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed" (Daniel 2:44).

This makes the kingdom of God the seventh kingdom, and almost every believer knows the number seven is highly symbolic. It also means that God has kept His promise to redeem Israel, because His long promised salvation of Israel is synonymous with the kingdom of God.

"The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the Gospel" (Mark 1:15).

Moreover, the text says that when the kingdom of God arrives, it "shall never be destroyed" (Daniel 2:44). Obviously, Israel was destroyed shortly after Christ ascended into heaven, so something is desperately wrong with the myriad of systems offered by the many False Prophets, who were clearly prophesied to arrive in the end times.

"Many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many" (Matthew 24:11).

When we go back and review each Domino that must fall as we seek "the mind of Christ" (I Corinthians 2:16), the truth is, the kingdom of God must arrive with the ministry, life, doctrine, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ – some two thousand years ago – because that is the Word of the LORD. If you reach a different conclusion, and do not see that God has kept every promise – including His promise to redeem Israel – the cumulative understanding that God wishes to impart to you has been obscured by a Domino of Doctrine that has failed to fall, in the sequence of events the LORD has brought to pass.

-- James Lloyd

To Be Continued