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I will also make the pomp of the strong to cease;

and their holy places shall be defiled.

JUST about now you are probably saying, “So that’s who the Lord’s

forces are, but what about this antichrist? Aren’t the beasts of Revelation

about him and his army, and isn’t he supposed to give the unsaved a

mark in their hands or on their foreheads?

Well, now that we understand day=years, it’s obvious that at least

part of Revelation is less about the end-times than it is about the Holy

Land during the Christian Era. Is it possible that the rest of Revelation

is also being fulfilled in the Holy Land during this era? Lets look at that

The following verse was written on mount Nebo in 1406BC. Moses

was about to die and this declaration is in his final oration to the

Children of Israel just before they enter the land of Canaan.

Deu 11:11-12 But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land

of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven: A

land which the LORD thy God careth for: the eyes of the LORD

thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even

The Lord’s eyes are still upon the Holy Land. Do you think the Lord has

forgotten His promises about the land where Abraham offered up Isaac,

where His temple was built, “a house of prayer for all people”? The land

where His Son died, “not only for our sins, but for the sins of the whole

world”? (1Jo 2:2)1. Of course not, and that land is not holy to the Jews

alone. We have been adopted into Israel (Gal 3:29). If the land of

Canaan is holy to the Jews, it is holy to us. If Jerusalem is a Holy City

to the Jews, then it is a Holy City to the Church.2

Gal 6:15-16 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any

thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature. And as many as

walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon

All of Revelation’s day=years and “times” were fulfilled, in the

Holy Land by 1967, so we should look at the possibility that other

prophecies in Revelation, like its three Beasts, might also be fulfilled

Knowledge is cumulative. We had to understand that prophetic days

were really years before we could identify the Dome of the Rock as the

Abomination of Desolation. Only then could we understand the

significance of the Moslems in Bible prophecy. We also had to

understand day=years to identify the Two Witnesses. Only then could

we understand the spiritual position of Jews during this era. In the same

way, we now need to know about the four beasts of Daniel 7 before we

can identify the Leopard-Bear-Lion Beast of Revelation 13.

Keep in mind that Revelation is a figurative book. It is full of

concepts expressed in a pictorial way such as beasts, horns, seals, trumpets,

candlesticks and bowls. If we are to understand God’s intent for

these figures, we need to find out what they mean. Let’s first look at a

1 If you question that concept, please read 2Ch 7:12-16 and Eze 43:7. These verses are

not alone; Gen 16:18-21, 17:8, Num 34:1-15, Jos 21:43, Exo 23:31 and Act 7:5 also affirm

that the land of Canaan is eternally Holy unto the Lord.

2 In Daniel and Revelation, God reveals the future of the Holy Land and the future of His

people, the “Israel of God,” both Jew and Gentile. Daniel was positioned at the beginning

of Gentile domination of the Holy Land, 606BC, so he is a prophet to “the time of the

Gentiles.” With the exception of those few verses which relate to the ultimate time of the

end (Dan 8:19-25), Daniel’s book was fulfilled in 1967AD. John, on the other hand, was

positioned in 95AD, at the beginning of the Christian Era, so he is obviously the prophet

Rev 16:1-2 (NASB) And I heard a loud voice from the temple,

saying to the seven angels, "Go and pour out the seven bowls of the

wrath of God into the earth." And the first angel went and poured

out his bowl into the earth; and it became a loathsome and

malignant sore upon the men who had the mark of the beast and

Not for a minute does anyone believe that there will be holy angels

up in Heaven pouring out an alphabet soup of trials on Earth from huge

gold-rimmed alabaster “bowls.” Many severe trials are indeed going to

come upon the Earth, but enormous bowls full? Not very likely. It is

more reasonable to conclude that God is using “bowl” figuratively, to

show us the vast quantity and severity of the trials coming upon the

Nor does anyone believe that we are going to have a flaming red,

ten-horned, seven-headed dinosaur roaring about the land, with an alldecked-

out, blood-drinking “lady of the night” riding on its back (the

Scarlet Beast of Rev 17:3). Nor are we likely to see a real, living animal

that is a cross between a leopard, bear and lion all rolled up into one,

with blasphemous names tattooed all over its seven heads (the composite

beast of Rev 13:2). Nor are we likely to hear a spirited oration from a

stone idol that looks like that beast (the image of Rev 13:15). However,

if we interpret Revelation literally, that is what we have to believe

because that is what Revelation says. Since none of the above is even

remotely sensible, then Revelation must be figurative in nature. God’s

eternal plan given to us in pictorial language.

Now, figurative language is as different from literal language as

Japanese is from English. If Japanese were the only language I spoke

and you wished to tell me something, you would need to speak to me in

Japanese. If you addressed me in English, I wouldn’t understand a word

you said. Some of your words might sound familiar and I might even try

to make sense of them, but I would only be guessing, and probably

guessing wrong. Well, Revelation is written in a special language, too

– a pictorial one. Revelation cannot be understood unless you “speak”

the pictorial language in which it was written.

So let’s look at the pictorial language God used to tell the Jews

about the nations who were going to rule in the Holy Land during the

“Time of the Gentiles.” This is a rather lengthy quote and commentary,

but I don’t know of a better way to explain these verses. Comments are

set within the Bible text itself, in italics. Please study the passage

carefully because your ability to identify the beasts in Revelation will

depend upon your understanding of these principles:1

Dan 7:3-4 And four great beasts came up from the sea [the sea is

the peoples and nations of the world, Rev 17:15], diverse one from

another. The first was like a lion [The national emblem of Babylon

was the winged lion], and had eagle’s wings [The Ishtar gate of

that city has bass reliefs of winged lions upon it]: I beheld till the

wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and

made stand upon the feet as a man [The Neo-Babylonian Empire,

begun under Nebopolasser, was brought to the peak of its power by

his son Nebuchadnezzar, (606-562BC). Nebuchadnezzar was the

most absolute monarch in all human history], and a man’s heart

was given to it [Also a reference to Nebuchadnezzar, who came to

Dan 7:5 And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear [After

Babylon was taken in 536BC, Medo-Persia became the dominant

world power], and it raised up itself on one side [The Persians were

“raised up” over and ruled the Medean half of their empire], and

it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it [The

Medo-Persians conquered three other empires: Lydia, Babylon,

and Egypt]: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh.

Dan 7:6 After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which

had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl [Alexander the Great

defeated the Medo-Persian Empire at the Battle of Issus, in

332BC]; the beast had also four heads [Alexander had four great

generals under him]; and dominion was given to it [After

Alexander died in Babylon, 323BC, his empire was divided

between his four generals: Ptolemy, Selucius, Lycimicus, and

1 This prophecy was given to Daniel in 552BC. Daniel lived at the beginning of the time

of the Gentiles, so his prophecies look forward at world history from the beginning of that

time. The identity of these beasts has been understood by the church for centuries and this

view is accepted by most conservative theologians.

Dan 7:7 After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth

beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had

great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the

residue with the feet of it [Rome destroyed the remnants of the

divided Grecian Empire and began to control the Holy Land in

65BC – The Roman Empire continued until 476AD]: and it was

diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns

[After Rome fell, it was divided into roughly ten Eastern and

western nations which have continued to this day.].

Dan 7:8 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 [Adolf Hitler – The Nazi regime

controlled most of the geographic area of the old Roman Empire.

Which three nations the Lord is talking about here is open to

question, however Nazi Germany did pull surrounding states up by

the roots]: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man

[Same expression as is used to describe Nebuchadnezzar, so the

Lord is telling us of a single king with absolute power], and a

mouth speaking great things [Dan 7:11 continues on to tell us of

the fall of Nazi Germany, which was the death-knell of the Roman

Dan 7:12 As concerning the rest of the beasts [Lion-Bear-Leopard

or Babylon, Medo-Persia and Greece] they had their dominion

taken away: yet their lives were prolonged for a season and time

[After Rome fell, the Holy Land again came under the dominion of

the descendants of the three first beasts, Babylon, Medo-Persia,

and Greece. They came back into power as the 1st Islamic Jihad of

634AD. They conquered Jerusalem in 639AD, and ruled that city

for most of the Christian Era. A time of 1000 years, plus a season

of 250 years=1250 years. The Moslems ruled in the Holy Land for

Dan 7:17-20 These great beasts, which are four, are four kings [or

kingdoms], which shall arise out of the earth. But the saints of the

most High [the Jews were the saints during Daniel’s time] shall

take the kingdom [i.e., the Holy land], and possess the kingdom for

ever, even for ever and ever. Then I would know the truth of the

fourth beast [Rome], which was diverse from all the others,

exceeding dreadful, whose teeth were of iron, and his nails of brass;

which devoured, brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with his

feet [Rome dominated the known world for over 400 years]; And

of the ten horns that were in his head [the Roman Empire divided

into many smaller states including the major European nations we

know today], and of the other which came up, and before whom

three fell; even of that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spake

very great things [Adolf Hitler], whose look was more stout than

his fellows [The Hitler regime. Nazi Germany was the last gasp of

Dan 7:21-22 I beheld, and the same horn [Hitler] made war with

the saints, and prevailed against them [the Jews were the saints

when God gave Daniel this prophecy, and 6,000,000 Jews were

killed by the Nazis]; Until the Ancient of days came, and judgment

was given to the saints of the most High; and the time came that the

saints possessed the kingdom [and in 1948 the Jews did indeed

Dan 7:23-24 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth

kingdom upon earth [This is how we know that this passage is not

about just individual kings, but really about kingdoms or empires],

which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the

whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces. 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 [Austria, France and Italy were

Dan 7:25 And he shall speak great words against the most High

[Satan speaks out against the Most High, so now God is telling

Daniel about the vast unseen spiritual battle taking place all

around us], and shall wear out the saints of the most High [When

this was written, in 552BC, the Jews were all the saints there

were], and think to change times and laws2 [Islam begins counting

its years in 622AD and ignores the Sabbath]: and they shall be

given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time

[The Jews were given into the enemy’s hand from 552BC, when

1 Dan 7 is not an end-time prophecy. Dan 8:17-19 identifies the little-horn out of the He-

Goat (Greece) as the final enemy of Israel and the Church. Since Syria-Lebanon was

recognized as Grecian during John’s time, the final enemy leader to come against Israel

will be Muslim, probably out of the Syria-Lebanon area.

2 June 25th, 622 AD marked the turning point in Islam as Muhammad migrated (Hijra) to Yatrib

(now Medina) and was declared as head of state and commander in chief of the first Islamic

Umma (community of believers). Moslems start their dating from that year. Thus, according to

Islam, we are in the fifteenth century not the twentieth.

this prophecy was given, until the new nation of Israel, 1948AD.

Now the most important thing to notice in the above quote is that the

“beasts” in Daniel were not conquerors or kings. In fact, they were not

people at all. Those “beasts” were empires. Nowhere in the Bible has

the Lord changed the definition for “beasts,” and that key unlocks the

hidden identity of the “beasts” in Revelation. It’s a pretty obvious key

Daniel 7 firmly establishes the figurative identity of the first three

Middle Eastern empires that dominated the Holy Land after the fall of

The modern counterparts of those beasts are:

1 Since it is evident that this “time, times and half a time” was fulfilled in 1948AD,

regardless of who we wish to claim as the “Little Horn” of Dan 7, that person would have

to be placed before 1948. Looking at history, it appears that Adolf Hitler and the German

Third Reich accurately fulfill this 4th beast.

Nowhere in the Bible have those figurative identities been changed.

Throughout Scripture, Lion remains Babylon or Iraq, Bear remains

Medo-Persia or Iran, and Leopard remains Greece or Syria-Lebanon. So

when we read about a beast in Revelation with those same names, we

have every reason to believe the Lord is telling us of the offspring of

Rev 13:1-2 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast

rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon

his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.

And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet

were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion:

and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great

And there he is! The Leopard-Bear-Lion Beast of Revelation

thirteen (LBL). Notice that this one beast looks like all three of those old

empires rolled into one. So what has tied the three separate Middle

Eastern states of Iraq, Iran, and Syria together during the last two thirds

of the Christian Era? Islam and the false prophet, Muhammad, that’s

what! Though they have sometimes battled each other, for thirteen

centuries Iraq, Iran, Syria and associates, including Saudi Arabia, have

been the home of the radical Moslems, the lair of assassins, a haven for

terrorists and a roost for all who hate Israel and the Christian nations.

That’s not guesswork theology, folks. The Islamic states have

historically been the enemies of the West and they still are today.

Furthermore, those radical Muslim states will continue to be enemies of

God’s people until Jesus returns. Why? Well, notice who empowers

those countries, the dragon! And Satan has always been the implacable

enemy of God and of God’s children. Do not be deluded that the Muslim

god, Allah, is the same as our Heavenly Father. Our Sovereign God is

a God of love, a word conspicuously absent from the Koran. There may

indeed be loving Moslems, but the Koran doesn’t teach it.

So the Leopard-Bear-Lion is the Islamic nations of the Middle east

and their radical friends. Now we need to know when this beast will be

in power. To establish that, we need a little review:

Rev 11:2 But the court which is without the temple leave out, and

measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city

shall they tread under foot forty and two months.

The 42 months of Rev 11:2 were explained at length in Chapter 5.

They were 1278.34 years, and it was 1278.34 years from the

construction of the Dome of the Rock until Jerusalem

was again under Jewish control. In the prophecy of the Leopard- Bear-

Lion, we again see 42 months (Rev 13:5). LBL was granted authority

Rev 13:5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great

things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue

The Leopard-Bear-Lion also was given authority to “blaspheme

God’s tabernacle” for 42 months, so these prophecies are clearly

parallel. They are obviously about the Muslim rule of Jerusalem (688-

1967AD). From the above verses we can now positively identify the

Leopard-Bear-Lion beast of Revelation 13 as the Muslim states of the

Middle East. LBL is not some future antichrist after all. LBL is those

Islamic nations that now stand against Israel and the West. Now let’s

look at Rev 13:3-10 in detail. Explanatory notes are again set within the

Rev 13:3-4 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to

death [The battles of Tours and Vienna struck death blows against

Muslim expansion into Europe that destroyed their hope of world

conquest]; and his deadly wound was healed [After WW2, the

western nations sent a major portion of their liquid capital into the

Middle East which enabled the Muslim states to rebuild]: and all

the world [Remember that Bible prophecy is ethnographic – The

"whole world" refers to the part of the planet John knew about,

John’s known world. The Lord is not telling us of China, Australia,

or the Americas here] wondered after the beast. And they

worshiped the dragon [This verse shows that Islam is not another

route to heaven – The dragon is Satan, ergo, The Moslems worship

Satan] which gave power unto the beast [LBL]: and they [the

Moslems] worshiped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast?

who is able to make war with him? [During the 1st Jihad the

Moslems were indeed victorious over the weaker Christian Middle

East and African states and the Eastern Roman Empire].

Rev 13:5-6 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great

things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue

forty and two months. [the Moslem domination of Jerusalem from

688 to 1967 is 42 months of day=years] And he [LBL, the Muslim

states] opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme

his name, and his tabernacle [The Moslems built a memorial to

Muhammad on the footstool of God’s feet], and them that dwell in

heaven [we dwell in the heavenlies right now, Eph 2:6 “and raised

us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places, in

Rev 13:7-9 And it was given unto him [LBL] to make war with the

saints, and to overcome them [The 1st Jihad overwhelmed the

Coptic Church which at the time covered the Middle East including

North Africa, in fact, from India to Spain]: and power was given

him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations [remember that

Bible prophecy is ethnographic, that it primarily addresses the

countries that surround the Holy land]. And all that dwell upon the

earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book

of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world [again a

reference to show that Islam is not another road to Heaven]. If any

Rev 13:9-10 He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity

[during the 1st Jihad, the area controlled by the Coptic church

went into captivity, including the Holy Land]: he that killeth with

the sword must be killed with the sword [the Muslim armies of the

Middle Ages were defeated at Tours and Vienna, with great loss of

life]. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.

The beasts of Revelation appear to be a figurative picture of Satan’s

total kingdoms on Earth, both physical and spiritual. The Leopard-Bear-

Lion appears to be a VISIBLE aspect of Satan’s unseen spiritual kingdom

in the Middle East. The Moslems who controlled the Holy Land were

held together by a common religion, a spiritual unity, rather than by a

common ethnicity. In Rev 13:2, the prophet John also declares the

Middle East to be the seat of Satan’s power, and Satan’s throne does

There is probably one more aspect of the Leopard-Bear-Lion we

ought to examine. When God gave the land of Canaan to Abraham, He

set the boundaries thereof: From the River of Egypt (at the southern

border of the Gaza Strip) to the River Euphrates (near Damascus in

Syria). That area has always been the land the Lord gave to Isaac and

Jacob. The Jews know it and the Arabs know it. But ever since, the

Moslems have been trying to take the land God gave to Israel:

Gen 15:18-21 The LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying,

Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto

the great river, the river Euphrates: The Kenites, and the Kenizzites,

and the Kadmonites, And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and

the Rephaims, And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the

Those peoples were the original inhabitants of the land. When Joshua

and the Children of Israel entered Canaan in 1406BC, God commanded

them to drive all those people out.1 They didn’t do so. Instead, Israel

enslaved the local people and put them to forced labor. When

Nebuchadnezzar took the Jews captive to Babylon, he left the “poorer

people in the land.” That would have included the descendants of those

Canaanite slaves, and the descendants of those slaves have been a thorn

in the side of Israel ever since. They are probably the Palestinians and

they are still a thorn in the side of Israel today!2 But they are only part

The ten horns of the Leopard-Bear-Lion are the Jihadists like

Usama bin Laden with his al Queda, Yasser Arafat’s Hamas,

Hizbullah, Islamic Jihad, the Infitada, all the militant fundamental

Moslems and the nations that support them: Iraq, Syria, and Iran

(in ancient times, Afghanistan was also part of the Medo-Persian

Jews are being tortured and killed almost daily by terrorist

Palestinians from the Gaza strip and Jericho, with the full blessing of

Yasser Arafat and the surrounding Arab states. The Palestinians are

trying to destroy God’s people one soul at a time and take their land one

square inch at a time. May Yeshua defend Israel, for no one else will. If

an Israeli kills a terrorist in self-defense it is front page in the world’s

newspapers, reported as a vicious homicide. But if a Palestinian bombs

a bus full of women and children, you might be able to find it as a two

inch filler hidden on page 14 of section “B” – and even then, only

1 Though the Arabs are also children of Abraham through Hagar, God gave the Holy

Land to the people born through Sarah’s son Isaac: “Neither, because they are the seed of

Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called” (Rom 9:7).

2 The name Palestinian is derived from Philistine. Those people were the worst of David’s

enemies. Goliath of Gath was a Philistine.

reported as a justifiable act in a Palestinian “war of liberation” against

Should we be surprised by this biased journalism? Not at all. That

is what we should expect from our media today, considering the

influence that OPEC money and Moslem extremists now have on the

economies and news agencies of the Western world. Supposedly, these

Palestinians are just a poor misunderstood people who are being

oppressed by their Jewish landlords, but it isn’t so. The Holy Land was

a sand hill until, the Jews returned and started cultivating it again in

Isa 35:1 The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for

them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.

Christian Action for Israel Newsletter #49, 10/5/2001, 4:55pm

In Gaza City recently, Palestinians put on a reenactment of the

suicide bombing of the Sbarro Pizzeria in Jerusalem. The

Palestinian Authority bomber and 15 people were blown to pieces

in the actual Aug. 9 bombing. Of the 15 victims, seven were

children, including a 4-year-old boy and his 2-year-old sister. One

of the victims was a 31-year-old American woman. Four were teenagers.

The exhibition included fake body parts scattered about to

The Palestinians aren't interested in peaceful coexistence with

Israel on any terms. A poll taken last week showed 72 percent of

Palestinians favor continuing the uprising, while 66 percent favor

continued attacks against Israeli civilians.