A Parallel Prophecy

In Daniel 11 we are given a prophecy concerning the king of the north. The king of the north is identified as saying “unheard of things against the God of Gods.” This links the king of the north to the little horn in Daniel 7:25 who prophecy says “will speak against the Most high and oppress his saints.” The little horn in Daniel 7, the beast of Revelation 13 and 17 and the king of the north in Daniel 11 are the same entity. We are told that the king of the north “will show no regard for the god of his fathers, or for the one desired by women. … Instead of them he will honour a god of fortresses.” In ancient times the god of fortresses was a goddess. Feminine deities were universally depicted as wearing a crown in the shape of a fortress tower patterned on the worship of the original goddess Semiramis. The distinctive mark of the final antichrist will be the worship of a feminine deity. The practice of Mary worship fulfils this prophecy.

We are told that when the king of the north comes to power “he will greatly honour those who honour him. He will make them rulers over many and distribute the land for a price.” This a direct reference to the power sharing between the ten kings and the beast in Revelation 17:12.

And the ten horns which you saw are ten kings who have not yet received a kingdom, but they receive authority as kings with the beast for one hour.

Prophecy says that the ten kings “give their power and authority to the beast.” In order to give their authority to the beast they must first have that authority. What do we have. We have “the merchants of the earth” on the verge of setting up a one world government structured on the abolition of national boundaries and the division of the world into ten economic zones. This means that Revelation 17 is not a future prophecy, it is a prophecy in the process of fulfilment.

We are not epochs or years away from final world events, we are in the middle of them. Years ago the Seventh-day Adventist Church was given a warning by an appointed messenger.

The work of the people of God is to prepare for the events of the future, which will soon come upon them with blinding force. In the world gigantic monopolies will be formed. … A few men will combine to grasp all the means to be obtained in certain lines of business.[37]

The ‘time of trouble, such as never was,’ is soon to open upon us; and we shall need an experience which we do not now possess and which many are too indolent to obtain. It is often the case that trouble is greater in anticipation than in reality; but this is not true of the crisis before us. The most vivid presentation cannot reach the magnitude of the ordeal.[38]

How is it that the world and even most professed Christians are ignorant of these things? When asked to give a toast before the prestigious New York Press Club in 1953, John Swinton, the former Chief of Staff at the NEW YORK TIMES, made this candid confession,
There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job.
If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. The business of the journalist is to destroy the truth; to lie outright; to pervert; to vilify; to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell the country for his daily bread. You know it and I know it and what folly is this toasting an independent press. We are the tools and vassals of the rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.....(Victor Christensen)