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Babel

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Shanah | Transformation

 

From Empire to Church…

The pagan warrior who militarized, politicized, and legitimized Christianity, Constantine, wasn’t willing to share power with anyone. This makes him the next Roman in a long line of egotistical men who fought other Romans for control of the most depraved civilization in human history.

His initial rival was Maxentius. He was not only the legitimate heir to the throne, he had just completed fortifying Rome with one hundred thousand soldiers. However, since Constantine couldn’t play nicely with others, the empire was split between these men.

Junior Co-Emperor Constantine initiated hostilities against his brother-in-law, Emperor Maxentius Augustus, in 312 CE by crossing the Alps from Gaul with forty thousand troops. Constantine was initially thwarted at Susa, Italy, when the residents refused to open their gates to the usurper. So the Junior Co-Emperor took the city by force and burned it, only to extinguish the flames thereafter to gain the support of the surviving Romans. This example of what’s now known as the Stockholm Syndrome would be deployed again.

Constantine would fight his brother-in-law, Emperor Maxentius Augustus, at Turin, Italy. Displaying a head for 198conflict, not family, Constantine elongated his line, hoping that the superior heavily armored cavalry of his foe would ride into the middle of his infantry, leaving his opponent’s flank vulnerable to his more maneuverable cavalry. Wielding heavy clubs with iron spikes, Constantine’s horsemen ripped Maxentius’ riders off of their mounts, clubbing them to death on the ground. If it were just a clash of Roman egos, we’d pay it no heed, but in this case, the most vicious Roman was instrumental in the transition from Imperial Rome to the Roman Catholic Church, and the men being bludgeoned were given no option but to die in a gruesome manner.

As the battle progressed, the Junior Co-Emperor ordered his infantry to advance, cutting down the men retreating in Emperor Maxentius Augustus’ army as they fled. Celebrating the carnage, the citizens of Turin cheered from afar while the fighters assigned to Maxentius were slaughtered with their backs up against the city’s walls.

Bad became worse because, later that same year, Milan changed allegiances, drawing Constantine further south toward Rome. Following this defection, Verona, which was an imposing Maxentian stronghold, became the next target. Doing what the “Barbarians” had thus far been able to achieve, wannabe Emperor Constantine encircled and besieged the Roman cities. Then Constantine attacked them. The Legions of Christianity’s sponsor prevailed, forcing their foe to retreat into the city center. But Maxentius summoned additional troops, forcing the Junior Co-Emperor to fight on two fronts.

Even with his army divided, Constantine prevailed, routing the newly arrived recruits while demoralizing those still garrisoned in Verona. With the surrender of the city, and the death of Emperor Maxentius’ most trusted general, opposition to Constantine in northern Italy collapsed. One city after another changed its allegiance. Heil Emperor.

199Soon thereafter, the resolutely pagan, egomaniacal general and emperor would advance the transition from empire to church at the Battle of Milvian Bridge. If only there had not been the claim of a vision, if only Constantine had not won.

The problem isn’t just that Constantine legalized Christianity. Galerius, the man responsible for what has been blamed on Diocletian, ended whatever harassment may have prevailed with a declaration enormously favorable to the new religion. In fact, Constantine’s edict wasn’t even specific to Christianity but, instead, was written on behalf of every religion – not unlike the U.S. Constitution.

The problem with Constantine wasn’t just that he was an anti-Semite who passed laws in opposition to Jews and the Torah. Hadrian had been infinitely worse, and Vespasian and Trajan had been equally as bad. The issue wasn’t just that Constantine was a warrior, a man whose life had been devoted to killing. Roman Emperors were always chosen based on their military prowess and vengeful nature. He was even willing to lead Romans and conscripts into battle to slaughter fellow Roman conscripts, simply to satiate his lust for power.

The prevailing concern wasn’t just that Constantine’s alleged conversion was feigned by his propagandist and Christian apologist, Eusebius, or that the emperor remained devoted to Mithras. Romans had made hypocrisy and duplicity into performance arts.

The problem with Constantine is that he blended all of these adverse characteristics together, in addition to all of his pagan beliefs, creating an immensely popular, deadly and demonic, duplicitous and hypocritical, politicized and militant, anti-Semitic religion driven by rival egomaniacs that was economically and socially integrated into Roman society. The issue with Constantine is that the man most 200responsible for the anti-Semitic tone of the Christian New Testament, Eusebius, created a revisionist history of this battle long after it was fought, attributing a conversion experience to the general which was reminiscent of Paul’s encounter with Satan on the road to Damascus. By so doing, the bishop beguiled billions, turning an appalling villain into a Christian hero.

Eusebius, who was no doubt enamored by the power and appeal of Constantine, as well as pleased with the attention and money the emperor threw his way, became the man who would shape and favor the religion, completing what Paul had begun. Christianity became politicized and anti-Semitic. Revisionist history and Replacement Theology would turn the Passover Lamb into a god – one modeled after the popularity of Dionysus.

As a result, Constantine’s publicist and religious advisor embellished stories that served to integrate Christianity into the fabric of the Beast that was Rome, making the nation and the religion homogenous. The Beast would live on and trample the world – right up to the very end.

The reason that there is no common accord regarding when, where, what, or how Constantine experienced the vision that would change Rome, and then the world, is because it was made up, like much of the Christian New Testament. In the third rewrite and embellishment of Constantine’s biography, Eusebius wrote that during the evening of October 27, 312 on the Julian calendar, with the Roman armies preparing for battle, Constantine had a vision which “led him to fight under the sign of the Christian god.”

Another conspirator, the Christian apologist, Lactantius, proposed: “the night before the battle, Constantine was commanded in a dream to delineate the heavenly sign on the shields of his soldiers.” (On the 201Deaths of the Persecutors 44.5) Lactantius describes that sign as a “staurogram,” or Latin cross, with its upper end rounded in a P-like fashion. But in reality, there is no evidence that Constantine envisioned anything or ever deployed the sign.

Eusebius, for his part, provided several conflicting accounts. In his Ecclesiastical History, he promotes the belief that god helped Constantine, but he does not mention any vision. Then in his second edition of the Life of Constantine, Eusebius, who had become the Emperor’s premier propagandist, conveyed a detailed account of the supposed vision and stressed that he had heard the story from the Emperor himself. As to why it was omitted from his three previous accounts, he did not say.

According to this version, “Constantine was marching with his army, when he looked up to the sun and saw a cross of light above it, and with it the Greek words ‘Εν Τούτῳ Νίκα,’ usually translated into Latin as ‘in hoc signo vinces,’ with both phrases meaning ‘In this sign, conquer.’” Eusebius never specified an actual location for the momentous event, or even indicated when it occurred, but testified that it was not near the camp outside Rome where the battle was waged. And that is to say, Constantine couldn’t remember the details because it did not actually happen.

The alleged sign on the shields was not reported by any of the participants in or witnesses to the battle. Moreover, there is no evidence to suggest that the Greek letters Chi Rho were identified with any individual or with any religion previously. It is a religious myth, one developed five years after the civil war on behalf of the victor, initially appearing on Roman coinage to facilitate Constantine’s grandiose ambition to embellish his legacy.

Those who have studied Constantine, speak of him as a devotee of Mithras. Coins depicting the emperor as a 202“companion of Mithras” were minted as late as 313 CE, a year after the battle. The Roman solar deity, “Sol Invictus – the Unconquerable Sun,” was not only pictured with a halo, but Constantine’s official coinage also continued to feature the Unconquerable Sun as the companion of the Emperor through 356 CE, doing so with much greater frequency than his predecessors. His gold coinage, or solidus, presents his bust with Sol Invictus. Moreover, the official cults of Sol and Mithras were especially popular with the Roman Legions. Statuettes of Mithras as the Unconquerable Sun were carried by the Legion’s Standard Bearers along with their Eagles. These likenesses even appear on the Arch of Constantine, which was positioned to align with the Colossus of Sol Invictus (formerly the Colossus of Nero) outside the Roman Colosseum – the most depraved pagan amphitheater in human history. This is all to say that Emperor Constantine was a pagan – as are those who believe the religion he fashioned to burnish his legend.

But this we know; the two Roman generals, Junior Co-Emperor Constantine and Emperor Maxentius Augustus, met on October 28, 312 along the banks of the Tiber River just eight miles from Rome. Constantine camped in Prima Porta, famous for its statue of the Divine Augustus. After his stay, the Junior Co-Emperor would erect the Arch to commemorate the arrival of the Divine Constantine.

It was assumed that Emperor Maxentius Augustus would remain in Rome and endure the expected siege, a strategy he had deployed successfully twice previously. In preparation, he had even stockpiled sufficient food supplies. But instead, he met his brother-in-law in battle formation after consulting the oracle of the Sibylline Books. Since the religious sage declared “on October 28 an enemy of the Romans would perish,” he assumed that his rival and usurper was doomed.

History tells us that Maxentius organized his superior 203forces in long lines along the Tiber River next to the Milvian Bridge. Defending the portal was critical if the Emperor was to keep Constantine’s Legions out of Rome. He knew that the fickle Senate, in an act of self-preservation, would endorse whoever the Legions closest to Rome favored. But inexplicably, Maxentius positioned his troops with their backs to the river, removing an obstacle from his opponent and creating one for himself. He was so close to the Tiber, he left no room to reposition his forces or strengthen his lines.

Initially, the cavalry on both sides engaged, with Constantine’s horsemen prevailing. Then, the Junior Co-Emperor’s infantry pushed Maxentius’ infantry back and into the Tiber River. At that point, the Emperor wanted to retreat back into the city and make another stand from inside Rome. But since he had already destroyed the original Milvian Bridge in preparation for a siege, the substantial rock bridge had been replaced with a temporary pontoon conduit. With panicked troops scrambling for their lives, the only escape route collapsed. Constantine took advantage of his brother-in-law’s misfortune, slaughtering the men who were now stranded on the north bank of the Tiber. The troops who were not killed were taken prisoner. Most of those who tried to swim across the river drowned, including Emperor Maxentius Augustus.

The following day, Constantine entered Rome as a conquering god, personally staging a grand religious and political celebration in his honor. He fished Maxentius’ body out of the river, decapitated him, and paraded his head through the streets for all to see. Shortly thereafter, religious structures such as the Temple of Romulus and the Basilica of Maxentius were rededicated to Rome’s new god: Emperor Constantine. Then Rome’s new divinity condemned his brother-in-law to “Damnatio Memoriae – Damnation of Memory.” All of Maxentius’ legislation was invalidated. And the fine fellow who did these things is 204considered by many to be the founder of the Roman Catholic Church.

In reality, at this point Constantine was only Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. Licinius was still in control of the East. He had come to that position as the close childhood friend and most trusted confidant of Emperor Galerius. He had received the title Augustus in 308 CE, when he was put in command of the Provinces of Illyricum, Thrace, and Pannonia. Thereafter, he successfully fought the Sarmatians in 310 CE.

Upon the death of Galerius in 311, Licinius entered into an agreement with Emperor Maxentius to share the Eastern Provinces between them. Also noteworthy, in 313 Licinius married Julia Constantia, Constantine’s half-sister. It was during the wedding that Emperors Licinius and Constantine jointly issued the Edict of Milan, allowing freedom of religion “on behalf of any Divinity whatsoever in the seat of the heavens” – including pagan gods but excluding the God of the Jews throughout the Empire. Subsequent edits returned confiscated Christian property and provided Christian clerics with tax-exempt status.

Licinius wasn’t Emperor Galerius’ only appointment, however. Daza, the son of Galerius’ sister, rose in rank after joining the Roman army. So, in 305 CE, when his maternal uncle Galerius became the Eastern Augustus, he adopted Daza and gave him the rank of Caesar, making him the Junior Eastern Emperor over Syria and Egypt. Therefore, when Maxentius and then Constantine leagued with Licinius, Daza became envious.

As our saga continues, Junior Emperor Daza decided to attack Emperor Licinius Augustus. He left Syria with seventy thousand troops, but by the time he reached Bithynia, as a result of the harsh weather he encountered along the way, his army had been weakened. Nonetheless, in April 313, he crossed the Bosporus to blockade 205Byzantium which was held by Licinius’ troops. He prevailed after an eleven-day siege and quickly moved on to Heraclea, which he attacked immediately thereafter.

With half as many troops, Emperor Licinius arrived at Adrianople, in East Thrace along the border between modern-day Greece and Bulgaria. As Licinius readied his troops for the battle, he also claimed to have had a vision in which a spirit recited a generic religious benediction which could be accepted by the followers of every cult. Licinius repeated it to his soldiers on April 30, 313 when armies clashed at the Battle of Tzirallum in Eastern Thrace (later renamed Constantinople then Istanbul).

In the ensuing scuffle, Caesar Daza’s forces were routed. So ridding himself of the imperial purple and dressing like a slave, Daza fled. But once he reached Nicomedia, Daza attempted to stop the advance of Licinius who was pursuing him at the Cilician Gates. His second attempt didn’t work and Daza retreated to Tarsus where Emperor Licinius killed his children. As for Daza, he would die of complications from Graves’ disease.

In 314, Emperor Constantine challenged Emperor Licinius militarily. The paranoid and manipulative Constantine accused Licinius of harboring Senecio, his Dux Limitis (consul and/or general). Constantine had accused Senecio of plotting to overthrow him.

By way of background, Constantine had promoted Senecio’s brother, Senator Bassianus, who was also Constantine’s brother-in-law, to the rank of Caesar. Then once empowered, Constantine accused him of promoting a conspiracy to assassinate him. So Constantine killed Bassianus and wanted to do the same to his brother, Senecio. But when Licinius refused to hand him over, it was used as a pretext for war.

Constantine marched his Legions into Pannonia, which was Emperor Licinius’ territory in present-day 206Croatia. The opposing Roman armies met on the plain between the rivers Save and Drave. The infantry fought to a bloody draw, but Constantine positioned his cavalry against Licinius’ flank, breaking his ranks. Twenty thousand of Emperor Licinius’ calvary were killed in the ensuing mêlée. By nightfall, Licinius and his cavalry fled under the cover of darkness.

Licinius, after collecting his family and treasury, moved into Thrace, where he commenced peace negotiations with Constantine. Initially successful, both men shared power throughout 315 CE. But the next year, a new war erupted once Licinius promoted one of his generals, Valerius Valens, to the rank of Augustus, thereby securing his loyalty. The move irritated Constantine, who tried to intimidate Licinius into demoting Valens to keep his rival vulnerable.

The pagan patron of the Roman Catholic Church conveyed his condescending ire in the following note: “The Emperor made clear the extent of his rage by his facial expression and by the contortion of his body. Almost unable to speak, he said, ‘We have not come to this present state of affairs, nor have we fought and triumphed from the ocean till where we have now arrived, just so that we should refuse to have our own brother-in-law as joint ruler because of his abominable behavior, and so that we should deny his close kinship, but accept that vile slave [i.e., Valens] with him into Imperial College.’”

All the while, Constantine moved his army through the Balkans and established a base at Philippi. He struck Licinius at Mardia, Thrace, located in modern-day Bulgaria in the fall of 316 CE. The outcome was predictably gory. After fierce fighting between Romans, both sides endured massive casualties. While they struggled to a draw, during the night, Licinius retreated with much of his army intact. Constantine declared victory.

207Thinking that Licinius might flee to Byzantium, Constantine pushed his bloodied Legions in that direction, which unintentionally and dangerously caused his rival’s forces to be between himself and his supply lines with Rome. So while Constantine was vulnerable, Licinius was in too precarious a position to retaliate. Instead, Licinius requested a truce, which Emperor Constantine denied until he learned that his royal entourage and his baggage had been captured. Then in the ensuing agreement, Constantine forced Licinius to cede to him all European Provinces except for Thrace, to depose and then execute Valens, and to acknowledge and declare that Constantine was superior. This means that they had fought, and men had suffered and died, over their egos.

With Constantine able to gloat for having gained control over the Balkan Peninsula, there was an uncomfortable peace between the grand and lesser Emperors for seven or eight years. Licinius kept busy fighting the Sarmatians, beginning in 318 CE. But the truce wore thin three years later, in 321 CE, when Constantine also engaged against the Sarmatians, pursuing them and allied Visigoths across the Danube and into Licinius’ territory. Constantine followed that battle with another invasion in 323, this time pursuing the Goths into Thrace. So Licinius noted that Constantine had broken the treaty between them by using Thrace as a repository for Roman foes.

Now that he had prodded his rival to fight, Constantine wasted no time and went on the offensive. He invaded Thrace with an army comprised of battle-tested veterans. And now that he controlled the Balkans, supply lines were no longer an issue. One of his publicists would later write: “Constantine, tempted by the advanced age and unpopular vices of his colleague, again declared war against him.”

Emperor Licinius positioned his army at Adrianople, in East Thrace, near the border between Greece and 208Bulgaria. Constantine advanced from Thessalonica in the west. They met along the shores of the Hebrus River, a site well-suited to their purpose.

With both armies aligned in Roman formations, they glared at each other for several days as the Hebrus flowed between them. Licinius, however, was better positioned on higher ground, so the normally aggressive Constantine was hesitant.

Then as Eisenhower would do with Patton, positioning him at the head of a fake army to deceive the Germans into believing that the Allies would be crossing the English Channel at Pas de Calais, the shortest distance, Constantine ordered his men to conspicuously stage most of their equipment at the most suitable crossing, where the Hebrus narrowed and where his men would be best protected by thick forests, thereby giving the impression that he was going to build a bridge at this point. But it was a ruse. Constantine secretly moved his archers and cavalry across the river upstream and caught his rival off guard. A great massacre followed, with Constantine’s army slashing thirty-four thousand Romans to death over the course of several hours.

Constantine, who had been slightly wounded in the thigh, halted the attack at sunset. This allowed Licinius and what little was left of his army to retreat. They withdrew to Byzantium and to the safety of his fleet of nearly three hundred fifty ships – one of the largest in the world at that time.

However, with personal egos outweighing the value of individual lives, Emperor Constantine besieged Byzantium, the city he would one day rename Constantinople in his honor. At the same time, he dispatched his son, Crispus, in command of the Roman navy. His orders were to gain control of the Bosporus Strait – the narrow waterway separating Thrace from Asia Minor. 209He was successful initially, although not in the Bosporus. He had sailed into the western end of the Sea of Marmara in the narrow waters of Hellespont, known today as the Dardanelles.

Crispus, at the command of just eighty ships, was able to prevail against the Licinian fleet of two hundred vessels because the Strait was too narrow to maneuver a large navy. So the Licinian fleet withdrew to the eastern end of the Dardanelles / Hellespont. Concurrently, Crispus augmented his fleet with ships that sailed in from the Aegean Sea.

The opposing navies would face off again near Gallipoli. As the battle raged, so did the seas. A storm blew most of Licinius’ ships into the shore, wrecking all but four of them. As a result, Constantine could now safely cross the Bosporus into Bithynia. And with his navy destroyed, Licinius left Byzantium and repositioned his army at Chrysopolis, along the Asiatic shore of the Strait.

This brings us to 18 September 324 CE and to the final battle between the rival Roman Emperors and brothers-in-law. The empire wasn’t big enough for them to share. Constantine wanted it all, to be both god and man, general and politician, pope and king.

In dire straits and fighting for his life, Emperor Licinius replaced Valens, the general that Constantine had wanted to be executed, with Sextus Martinianus, naming him co-emperor. They attempted to unify their armies and supplement their force with Visigoths under the command of Aliquaca, but Constantine may have struck before any of this transpired.

Constantine’s historians tell us that, after summoning “divine guidance” in a tent meeting with his gods, Constantine attacked his brother-in-law. The religious nature of the battle was undeniable, with Emperor Licinius prominently displaying images of Rome’s pagan gods 210throughout his battle lines. His troops also carried images of Licinius with a halo, implying that he was the son of the Sun. On the other side, Constantine’s soldiers drew upon occult powers with talismans worn as magic charms and amulets in addition to their Rx Labarum above a red field with three golden suns. And while I realize that the order of the letters is typically reversed as XR, all of the images I’ve examined show the Rho superimposed upon the Chi.

In this regard, it should be noted that Constantine and his Legions worshiped Mithras, a Persian, Hindu, Chinese, Greek, and Roman solar deity. The god’s name means “Covenant,” making it a clever counterfeit. According to ancient mythology, Mithras was the son of the Sun, born of a virgin known as the “Mother of God.” Therefore, Mithraism’s Trinity explains why there were three golden suns on Constantine’s war banner.

Salvation through baptism and Sunday worship were among countless similarities between Mithras and Christianity. And as was the case with Dionysus, the devotees of Mithras observed an annual Last Supper featuring wine and bread, symbolizing the body and blood of their pagan god. Mithras’ birthday was observed at the same time Christians celebrate Christmas. On Easter Sunday, Mithras who had died for the sins of the faithful was resurrected, making Mithras very similar to Tammuz, Osiris, Adonis, Dionysus, Bacchus, and the Christian Jesus.

Also interesting, especially considering Paul’s influence on Christianity, Mithraism was developed in the city of Tarsus, Paul’s birthplace. The followers of Zoroaster are credited with developing the sun god into a religious cult, one which became especially popular in the 1^st century CE, particularly among Roman soldiers.

While the religious artwork may have taken days to construct, the battle was over in minutes. Emperor 211Constantine struck the center of Emperor Licinius’ line and it buckled. According to the historian Zosimus: “There was great slaughter at Chysopolis,” affirming that it was indeed a religious spectacle. More than twenty-five thousand Romans died on this day. But Licinius escaped, gathering thirty thousand troops around him at Nicomedia.

In what appeared to be a brief moment of sanity, Constantine’s sister, who was Licinius’ wife, convinced her husband to surrender. Then, responding to her tears and pleas for mercy, Constantine vowed to spare the life of his brother-in-law. But once his sister was out of earshot, he ordered his execution, breaking his vow. He justified the hanging by accusing Licinius of treason – which is an odd charge to pin on an Emperor defending his empire. A year later, Constantine’s nephew and Licinius’ son, fell victim to the Emperor’s suspicions. He was killed as was Martinianus, the short-lived co-emperor.

Constantine, ever the egomaniac, and always seeking to promote his legacy, made every effort to besmirch the reputation of his former Imperial colleague. To this end, he circulated stories about Licinius’ cruelty – which is hypocritical considering Constantine’s propensity to be savage. The Emperor claimed that Licinius had murdered Severianus, the son of Emperor Severus, as well as Candidianus, the son of Emperor Galerius. Then Constantine claimed that Licinius had ordered the execution of the wife and daughter of Emperor Diocletian. It was all propaganda, with the pot calling the kettle black. And with the dirty work done, Constantine turned Licinius’ capital, Byzantium, into Constantinople – a shrine to his ego.

Christianity’s newly minted apologists attempted to minimize concerns over Constantine’s questionable behavior by besmirching the behavior of his predecessors. Their best argument in favor of the monstrous man who was using them for his own benefit was to say that other 212Romans had been worse. It was as if we were to consider Stalin good because Hitler was worse.

With the new religion itching to be integrated into Roman politics, Licinius was portrayed as anti-Christian. But this was not the case. Contemporary evidence demonstrates that he co-authored the Edict of Religious Tolerance in Milan which specifically exonerated Christianity. Licinius was far more aggressive than Constantine in reaffirming the rights of Christians in his half of the Empire. Licinius even orchestrated the affairs of the Church, establishing its hierarchy while determining its doctrine.

And yet according to Eusebius, Constantine’s lead propagandist, Emperor Licinius simply feigned sympathy for the sect while actually being a bloodthirsty pagan who had to be stopped by the virtuous Constantine. On Licinius’ death, his memory was branded with infamy, and his statues were toppled. Every law, edict, and judicial proceeding during his reign was overturned. In other words, Constantine treated Licinius’ legacy the same way he had treated Maxentius’ reputation. But in doing so, it’s Constantine’s reputation for duplicity and revenge that is laid bare. Christianity could not have had a much more pathetic man than Constantine to set the stage for the transformation of the Roman Empire into the Roman Church.

And quite the transition it was – from convicting and then murdering Yahowsha’, torturing the Passover Lamb in the cruelest possible way – to revisionist history with Romans portrayed as the good guys advancing their incredible rendition of his reputation. Jews would play the role of Romans and be recast as the villains. And Romans would become the priests – having turned the fulfillment of God’s sacrifice for the benefit of His people into a religion hell-bent on accusing and annihilating them.

213The most monstrous thing these Romans would accomplish would be to upend everything Yahowah had said and done for Yisra’el. Satan had achieved a great victory. He was now the Lord God, Holy Ghost, and Jesus Christ of the Roman Catholic Church.

Since we have now chronicled the lives and wars of the most influential Romans, and have detailed the character flaws of men like Trajan, Caligula, Nero, Hadrian, and Constantine who shaped the empire and cultured its animosity toward God, His People, Land, Towrah, and Covenant, we will now move more quickly through Rome’s flickering future. That is with one exception, that of Eusebius, which we will table until an appropriate time in another chapter.

Constantine’s son, Constantius II, kept the Persian army under Shapur II from acquiring territories that had been lost by the Eastern Roman Empire in 344 CE. But shortly thereafter, there would be another Civil War, this one waged between 350 and 351 CE. Constantine II, who was given control over Gaul, Spain, and Britain, resented his brothers, Constantius II, who ruled over Asia Minor, Egypt, and Syria, and Constans I, reigning in Italy, North Africa, and Illyricum.

They did not seem to care that he was older and therefore the senior Augustus. So in the war of the Constantines, Constantine II invaded Italy, only to be killed in an ambush, further empowering Constans. But alas, Constans was despised by the Legions, causing him to be the victim of a military coup. With two of the three princes gone, the army promoted a barbarian officer, Magnentius, declaring him Emperor.

214Constantius II, following in his father’s footsteps, responded by attacking Magnentius in 351, defeating him in one of the bloodiest battles in Roman history. Magnentius lost two-thirds of his army while Constantius sacrificed half of his, squandering the lives of fifty thousand men in a single day.

We are told that it was a religious affair. Magnentius evidently restored some pagan rites and Constantius is said to have prayed while men were bludgeoning fellow Romans to death. His Church would have us believe that the “bishop of Mursa, Valens, told the pious Constantius that an angel had reported news of the victory, thus ending any chance of a pagan revival.”

However, back on Earth, these same men would choose to fight again two years later in the Battle of Mons Seleucus. Constantius’ forces prevailed and Magnentius committed suicide. Now Roman Christians would be defending pagan Rome from invading pagans. The most ruthless killers would surely prove that their gods were most merciful.

A handful of years later, in the Battle of Reims in 356 CE, Caesar Julian the Apostate was defeated by the Alemanni. But the following year, the Alamanni tribal confederation lost a battle to Deputy Emperor Julian near Strasbourg, France, thereby reducing the nuisance of the Gallic marauders.

In the East, the Persian Sassanids under Shah Shapur II besieged the Roman city of Amida in 359. After crushing Arabs south of their position, Shapur sought to recapture additional territories the Persians had lost to Rome. Realizing this, Constantius II wanted the region to be as inhospitable to the invaders as possible, so he ordered “the Romans living around Carrhea to flee, moving their families and livestock to safety, setting their entire country on fire behind them, leaving nothing but scorched earth.”

215But the wholesale destruction panicked the Roman military stationed in the region and they retreated chaotically to escape the Persian advance. Then once in Syria, the Sassanid Persians were actually provoked into attacking Amida. Shapur’s son, Grumbates, was shot and killed by a Roman archer. Shapur reacted by comparing the provocation with that of Patroclus at Troy. So the Sassanids attacked. Festooned with a golden and jeweled ram’s head, Shapur rallied his men who succeeded in their pursuit of the city only to find it infected with the plague.

Shortly thereafter, Emperor Julian was killed in the Battle of Ctesiphon fighting against Shapur and the Sassanids. While the battle ended in a draw, His successor, Jovian, signed a truce, whereby five Roman Provinces along the northwestern banks of the Tigris were ceded to the Persians.

The Romans would fight another Civil War in 366 CE at Thyatira, Lydia, this time between Emperor Valens and Procopius. It was yet another case of a general being heralded Caesar by his Legions. Valens prevailed, capturing, imprisoning, and then killing Procopius.

By 368 CE, the Romans were battling the Alamanni again. Emperor Valentinian managed to win the conflict but may have lost the war as a result of sacrificing too many of his troops fending off the Germans.

The Goths would be targeted next. They were accused of rebelling and then of plundering the Balkans. Western and Eastern Legions converged in present-day Bulgaria to stop them. Men on both sides fought to a bloody draw. Then in 378, the invading Lentienses, a branch of the Alamanni, were defeated when their king was killed.

Later that same year, Emperor Valens would confront Gothic tribes north of Adrianople in the Roman Province of Thrace. It was an overwhelming victory for the Goths who had no interest in fighting. They had been displaced 216by the Huns and simply wanted to settle in the region. But the Romans were not good at sharing.

On the morning of August 9^th, Valens left the Imperial treasury in Adrianople and marched his troops for seven hours over difficult terrain. When he arrived at the Gothic camp, his men were exhausted and dehydrated. Worse, they were disorganized and the Goths held the high ground. Despite their disadvantage, the Romans struck first but were pushed back. The Gothic cavalry, arriving late, galloped through the haze of dust and smoke to surround the Romans, routing them. The Emperor was abandoned by his guards and Valen’s fate remains unknown. His body was never found. It was among the last gasps for Rome.

In 380 CE, in the Battle of Thessalonica, the Goths pummeled the Romans yet again. Eastern Emperor Theodosius, who led the Byzantines, surrendered. Then to further ensure their impending demise, Rome fought two additional Civil Wars, the first pitting Magnus Maximus against the Eastern Roman Empire led by Theodosius. The usurper was defeated, and Maximus was captured and executed.

In the second of these two internal conflicts, Byzantine Emperor Theodosius engaged the army of Roman Emperor Eugenius. This conflict was seen as a major milestone because Eugenius, the king of the Western Empire, while professing to be a Christian, has been presented as having had some pagan sympathies – which is to say that he was willing to let people make their own choices in this regard. So his defeat meant that the politicized Christianization of the Roman Empire was complete. Christianity wasn’t just accepted; it was required. Greco-Roman polytheism was replaced by the Babylonian Trinity. Although in reality, there was little difference.

It should be noted that the supposed hero, Theodosius the Great, as he was now called, was the last Emperor to 217rule over both halves of the Roman Empire but his reign would shape Europe for a thousand years. Much of the horror imposed on the continent by the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Church can be laid at Theodosius’ feet. He inaugurated the feudal system and imposed religious mandates that plagued the masses, robbing them of personal freedom.

Theodosius forced the Church’s and State’s interpretation of Christianity on everyone, declaring that the Eastern Orthodox Church was the official State religion of the Roman Empire. It began an open hunting season on pagans and heretics. Every polytheistic ritual which hadn’t already been incorporated into the Church’s nomenclature was banned. The mantra was: convert or die – submit or cease to exist.

The imposed orthodoxy was Nicene (named after the Greek Goddess of Victory) – which is now the only accepted form of Christianity in the Roman Empire. Every Christian denomination in the world today, no matter if it is Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, or Protestant, was conceived in Nicea in 325 CE. The bishops of the emerging Church convened the Council of Nicea on Constantine’s orders to resolve the controversy of Arianism. The Arians recognized that Yahowsha’ was conceived and was not Divine.

With the truth of Arianism disposed of, the religious zealots sought to remove Yahowah and His “Old Testament” from their religion and replace God and His Towrah with Iesous Christos and their New Testament.

To accomplish this less-than-divine duplicity, the Christian man-god had to be at least equal to the God he was replacing and, thus, “homoousios – the exact same essence and being,” albeit completely disassociated from everything that the “old god” has said and done. These Roman clerics would turn their reincarnation of Dionysus 218into the totality of their god in concert with the “fullness of the godhead” notion that had been preposterously promoted by Paul.

It was so Roman of them. God not only became a man, he was so malleable, the Romans could remove him from his Yahuwd | Jewish roots and turn him into a Roman. He was easily controlled as well, always depicted as a baby in his mother’s arms or nailed to a stake and suffering unto death. Then by usurping control over his alleged testimony, they could make him say whatever they wanted, whatever they needed to promote the greatest crime in human history.

The fact that the mother was modeled after Astarte, the Queen of Heaven and Mother of God in Babylon, was convenient because it made the ensuing religion easier to impose. Pagan Romans were already worshiping her. The image of a dead god on a stick (even altered as it was from the Roman form of crucifixion, which appeared more like a capital T so that the horizontal beam could be reused), served Roman interests. Nothing says submit or die more clearly than the world’s most agonizing implement of torture.

With a little judicial editing, well actually a comprehensive rewrite and embellishment of the Gospels by Eusebius, the empire would hold the keys to heaven. The Beast was reborn as the Church.

However, as mentioned, there were men at the time who knew that this was nonsense. Yahowsha’, by his own admission, revealed that he was not God. The totality of Yahowah won’t fit into a 3-D construct nor into the totality of our solar system. Rome’s entire creative repurposing of pagan deities was insane.

Yahowsha’ bore Yahowah’s nepesh | soul – God’s projected consciousness. In this way, the body it was occupying could be sacrificed as the Passover Lamb and 219destroyed in accordance with the Towrah. Yahowah’s projected consciousness could then be laden with the former waywardness of the Covenant’s children, with the Set-Apart Spirit depositing our prior religiosity and politics in She’owl during UnYeasted Bread for our benefit.

However, to acknowledge the truth meant accepting the Towrah. By doing so, there could be no Jesus Christ, no Christians, no Christianity, no dead god on a stick, no Church, no Trinity, no Lord God, and no Roman Catholicism.

Therefore, at the Nicene Council, the emerging Roman Church chose to ignore the realization that Yahowsha’ came to fulfill Pesach. They had to upend his purpose because Yahowsha’ did not come for us to pay attention to him, for us to listen to him, for us to worship him, for us to pray to him, for anyone to turn him into a god, or to promote an anti-Semitic religion.

Those who place their faith in the misnomer, Jesus Christ, and who believe any of this Roman revisionism, have damned their souls. Even those who focus on Yahowsha’ rather than looking past him to Yahowah miss the purpose and benefit of his mission. In perspective, it would be akin to worshiping a toenail clipping rather than looking up and coming to know the individual from which it came.

The most outspoken advocate of the truth at the time was Arius. He cited Yahowah’s and Yahowsha’s testimony to prove that, according to God and reason, Yahowsha’ was not equivalent to the Father. But this truth had to be eradicated for the new religion to prosper in the anti-Semitic culture of Greece and Rome. As a result, those who agreed with Arian were labeled heretics and Iesous Christos became the “Lord God,” entirely divine – with “the fullness of the godhead residing upon him bodily.”

With Constantine imposing the edicts of the Nicene 220Council, the future of Christianity was settled politically and religiously. Any other form of the religion, even any other approach to God, was labeled heretical, such that those advocating it could be hunted down and tortured to death.

They would rewrite history to establish the uniform observance of the pagan celebration of Easter. Truth would be discarded to promulgate Cannon Law and to degrade Yahowah’s name and His Towrah. God’s actual instructions and His Covenant would be outlawed to impose the resulting religion on Rome’s subjects.

The first step in the process was initiated in Paul’s letters to the Galatians and then to the Romans. The second step was inaugurated under Constantine and the Nicene Council. The third materialized 55 years later under Theodosius when he imposed the resulting religion in 380 CE. Nothing has changed since. The Beast that was the Empire of Rome was soon to be severed and then die, only to be resurrected as the Christian Church.

There would be more meetings and decrees to be sure, but the world was profoundly punished during the Easter Nicene Council in 325 when Jesus Christ became the Christian god. It was pummeled again in 380 when the Trinitarian religion was imposed as the only acceptable Imperial and Catholic religion in the Edict of Thessalonica. While Rome was two distinct Empires, West and East, it was one religiously.

The following year, Theodosius reiterated his ban on all religions except the officially accepted version of Christianity. And with this decree, he began to prosecute any magistrate who failed to enforce his laws against polytheism. Persecution followed, with Christians doling out the abuse. All non-Nicene Christians were excommunicated from the Church. Roman holidays, as had been the case with Yahowah’s Feasts, were now outlawed. 221Witch hunts were pursued vigorously. All temples were either shuttered or transformed into churches. Theodosius even banned the Olympics due to its association with Mount Olympus. He encouraged the destruction of any ancient edifice that had any association with any god other than his own Christian construct, unless, of course, they could be converted into palaces for his lords or into churches for his priests.

Like Constantine, his comrade in crime, Theodosius was a product of his environment. He began his career in the military, accompanying his father into Britannia. Together they quelled the “Great Conspiracy.” His father, however, was disgraced and executed after losing two Legions to the Sarmatians (Iranians) in 374 CE. Theodosius, not wanting the same fate, retired to live the life of a feudal lord as a provincial aristocrat on an enormous family plantation in Galicia in northwestern Spain.

However, four years later when Gratian invited Theodosius to take command of the Illyrian army following Valens’ death, it served as his de facto invitation to become Co-Augustus of the Eastern Roman Empire. Within five years, Gratian was killed during a rebellion, enabling Theodosius to fight his way to supremacy.

While the Church regales him, as it does Constantine, neither were bastions of virtue. In 390 CE, after one of his garrisons in Thessalonica abused the indigenous population, they rebelled, and in the ensuing chaos, the Roman commander was killed. So in retaliation, Theodosius ordered a garrison of enslaved Goths under his command to “kill all of the spectators in the Circus.”

Theodoret, who was not alive at the time and, therefore, promoting hearsay, claimed the following of Theodosius: “The anger of the Emperor rose to the highest pitch, and he gratified his vindictive desire for vengeance 222by unsheathing the sword most unjustly and tyrannically against all, slaying the innocent and guilty alike. It is said seven thousand perished without any forms of law, and without even having judicial sentence passed upon them; but that, like ears of wheat in the time of harvest, they were alike cut down.”

With the imposition of Roman Catholicism and the transition from Empire to Church, from Emperor to Pope, predicated upon the edicts of these two horrendous individuals – Constantine and Theodosius – it is little wonder that it all turned out so badly. This deplorable shadow would linger over Europe and the Church for one thousand years – establishing and imposing the only surviving form of the Christian religion along with its preferred financial system – feudal fascism.

But there was yet another incident in Theodosius’ morbid existence that would influence the world for the next millennium. As a result of the massacre of civilians in Thessalonica, the Bishop of Milan, Saint Ambrose, excommunicated Theodosius for a couple of months, readmitting him to the Eucharist after proper penance and payments.

His additional contribution to Christendom included the removal and transfer of an enormous obelisk from Alexandria, Egypt to Constantinople. The Obelisk of Pharaoh Thutmosis III, now a monument to Emperor Theodosius the Great, still stands in the Hippodrome, the long racetrack in the center of the city. The obelisk was replete with sun-god slogans and imagery devoted to Amen Ra. It had originally been dedicated in Karnak, the Vatican of the Egyptian priesthood. The Church, in order to make the pagan object Christian, carved a supporting base that shows Theodosius and his royal family set apart from other nobility, offering a laurel wreath – another symbol of the sun.

223This obelisk was actually part of a pair of religious icons. Its partner, now called the Lateran Obelisk of Constantius II, was shipped to Rome a few years earlier. The Pharaoh Thutmosis IV monument became Emperor Constantius II Obelisk. The pagan symbol currently stands next to the Papal Palace in the Vatican. It is also covered from tip to base in the names and claims of false gods.

The most famous Roman Catholic obelisk, the one in the center of the Vatican, was brought from Egypt to Rome by Caligula. It reveals that there is no distinction between this evil Empire and its Church. One simply emerged out of the other.

Another issue that would loom large in Theodosius’ reign as Pope, Lord, Emperor, and General was his predilection for using barbarians to suppress barbarians. Goths were allowed to settle alongside Romans so long as they gave their sons to the Legions. But they were as prone to pounce on their masters as they were to leave and go back home.

A moment ago, we discovered that Theodosius would fight not one but two civil wars in pursuit of his ambition. In the second battle of egos, Theodosius sought to rid the empire of Flavius Eugenius simply because he was reluctant to impose his religion on all Romans. During the ensuing conflict, Christian propagandists masquerading as historians want us to believe that the Christian Eugenius placed a statue of Jupiter on the battlefield. To position this as the ultimate battle between good and evil, he is said to have had images of Hercules drawn on his Legion’s banners. In this way, we are told, he had hoped to reclaim Rome’s greatness. It wasn’t true, but truth has never been Christianity’s strong suit – nor Rome’s.

With the landscape duly colored, the Lord Pope General Emperor Theodosius, Rome’s fascist and dictatorial Christian, deployed a Gothic army comprised 224principally of pagans. With them considered of little value, he sacrificed them first, having the Goths charge headlong into the Roman lines, hoping to prevail by attrition. It produced nothing but blood and death. Then the following day, some Western troops deserted, which the Christian Emperor looked upon as an omen from his god, even though they were also pagans.

But the plot would thicken. A fierce tempest blew over the Western Empire, allegedly casting their arrows back at them. Theodosius announced that it was an answer to his prayers and the fulfillment of a prophecy. Buffeted by the winds, the Western Empire’s lines broke, enabling the Lord Pope Emperor General Theodosius and his Eastern Empire, aided as they were by barbarian mercenaries, to claim supremacy over the West, turning out the lights on Rome and eventually the whole of Europe.

Roman Emperor Eugenius, a fellow Christian, was captured. He was brought before the Emperor of the East where he begged for mercy. None was shown and he was beheaded.

In the real world, there was no divine wind. If there was a breeze at all, it blew before the battle was even waged according to contemporary sources. The whole religious underpinning was contrived by the Christian theologian, Rufinus, to demonstrate the validity of his faith. This fanciful myth was promoted by the propagandist poet, Claudian, to make war seem godly. Pagans were fighting pagans under different names, but it was now: “Onward, Christian soldiers, marching off to war, with the cross of Jesus going on before! Christ, the royal Master, leads against the foe; forward into battle, see his banner go!”

In reality, all this battle did was hasten Rome’s demise. Theodosius died a mere four months later, leaving the crumbling empire to be governed by his incompetent children, Honorius and Arcadius.

225Soon thereafter, the pagan aristocracy in Rome reinvented themselves as papal families providing decadent popes for the new Church. It all became Machiavellian.

We have arrived in the 5^th century. It opens with the Battle of Pollentia in 402 CE. Stilicho, who was the son of a Vandal father, was serving as Consul on behalf of Theodosius’ children, who were still too young to govern. He was assigned the task of subduing the disgruntled Visigoths. They were rebelling because Rome reneged on its promises.

Taking back what they felt they were due by force, they plundered the territory immediately adjacent to Constantinople. The empire was in such deplorable shape, the city bribed the Visigoths to stop robbing them. But that did not work, so the Visigoths, who were now Christians, devastated the Peloponnese and the Balkans.

After doing so, their leader, Alaric, tried negotiating with the Western Empire for status, as well as rations and supplies for his troops. But turnabout wasn’t considered fair play, and he was rebuffed. The Roman government, which had imposed all manner of onerous deals on those they considered barbarians, thought it beneath them to make deals with barbarians.

Before his death, Emperor Theodosius had set these pieces into motion – essentially assuring Rome’s demise. After all, with the Roman Church having risen like a Phoenix from its carcass, the empire was disposable.

Theodosius signed a treaty with the Visigoths, who at the time were the Empire’s most formidable foe. Then he demeaned them, calling them rabble and, thus, serfs, even 226after allotting their king’s vast territorial concessions. Soon thereafter, one of the enriched monarchs, the aforementioned, Alaric (meaning: Ruler of All), unified the Visigoths, becoming king of kings.

Then, desirous of learning the Roman ways in order to help his people survive them, Alaric accompanied Theodosius’ army. He saw how the Romans willingly sacrificed the lives of his people in their battles, witnessing the great slaughter of the Visigoths who were deployed in combat between the Eastern and Western Empires – seeing half of them die in a single day. He realized that Romans sought to weaken the Goths by having them bear the brunt of Roman battles. Conflicts between Emperors became a game, with barbarian lives used as pawns. So rather than continue to fight with Rome, he began fighting against Rome.

And while Alaric would try, his early attempts to invade Italy were repulsed, initially by the aforementioned Stilicho. Then suddenly, Stilicho did an about-face and allied with those he was opposing. His motives were simple enough; he wanted to reclaim Illyricum for the Western Empire and thought Alaric could help. However, when the Vandals crossed the Rhine and invaded Gaul, the invasion was called off, leaving the Visigoths with the cost of preparing for the battle without anyone to plunder. So Stilicho persuaded a fickle Roman Senate to reimburse Alaric, essentially buying him off with the promise of status and thousands of pounds of gold. But then the Senate changed its mind and, displaying their inbred prejudice, began to demean Stilicho, Alaric, and the Visigoths, building upon the arrogance and subsequent resentment that would lead to Rome’s demise.

Realizing that the city could no longer be defended against the aspiring Visigoths, the capital of the Western Empire was moved to Mediolanum, and then from there to Ravenna. Worse, as Alaric marched toward central Italy in 227early 402 CE, the Roman Legions were distracted fending off a Vandal rebellion in the north, giving the approaching Visigoths unimpeded access.

Alaric, however, and the marauding Visigoths, took a momentary break from their siege of Italia to celebrate Easter in Pollentia (modern Pollenzo, Italy). With them distracted with religious observances, Stilicho attacked, resulting in a draw that left many Christians dead on both sides. But by sneaking behind the battle lines in a terrorist ploy, Consul Stilicho had managed to capture Alaric’s wife, children, and extended family.

The Christian propagandists reporting on the battle, men like Claudian, praised the strategy, calling it divinely inspired: “Thy glory, Pollentia, shall live forever.... Fate pre-ordained thee to be the scene of our victory and the burial-place of the barbarians.” Easter, indeed.

By 405 CE, Stilicho (the Easter kidnapper) approved another treaty with Alaric, conceding to his earlier demands. The Visigoths were afforded the titles and status they desired along with four thousand pounds of gold for his troops in exchange for Alaric promising to respect the authority of the man who had robbed him of his wife and children. The Senate wasn’t impressed with the gift or Stilicho’s negotiating skill so they labeled him “an enemy of the people.” It wasn’t a criminal offense to kidnap a monarch’s wife and children, but it was treasonous to deal with a barbarian, even if the savages were Christians. For his trouble, Consul Stilicho was executed. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of god.

This brings us to a glorious moment in this hideous journey through Roman history. It is 410 CE. By August, Rome will be in ashes, a tumbled heap of ruins. The spiritual heart of the Roman experience, “the Eternal City,” would receive a fatal blow. If only it hadn’t been resurrected, the Empire becoming the Church.

228The fall had been inevitable. Rome treated so many people so badly for so long, it was only a matter of time before someone gave them a taste of their own medicine. On this day it was Alaric and the Visigoths.

The chain of events was simple enough. The Huns, a loose federation of nomadic tribes originating in China and Mongolia, migrated west toward the Caucasus Mountains and the Caspian Sea around the 1^st century. They would resume their westward migration in the 4^th and 5^th centuries, appearing north of the Black Sea in today’s Ukraine around 370 CE.

The Huns crossed the Volga from there and attacked the Alans, whom they subjugated. From that point, the Huns began plundering Gothic settlements. Unsatisfied, the Mongolians would pursue the Visigoths, displacing native peoples who sought asylum in the Balkans and then in northern Italy. It was the domino effect, with people pushing into others, toppling over the next.

But the Romans did a strange thing. Rather than befriend the victims of the Huns, they opposed the Goths. Then noting their ability to fight and their lust for plunder, the Romans afforded the Huns Foederatus status, providing them with all manner of inducements and benefits in exchange for military assistance. That made the Huns mercenaries in the modern vernacular. It also allowed them to settle in the Pannonia Province, which the Huns used as a base to raid the Eastern Roman Empire, attacking Thrace and pillaging Cappadocia, before invading Syria. And while they turned north and east from there and did not pursue Rome, the mass migration they had initiated by destroying the Gothic kingdoms pushed the Visigoths in Rome’s direction.

The other overriding problem was that the Romans had been racists and imperialists, subjugating and oppressing everyone within reach of their massive military. 229They taxed their subjects to death, making them serfs to a Beastly Lord. They were carnal and corrupt and couldn’t be trusted. The real barbarians were those dressed in elegant togas.

At this point, the young Honorius, the eldest son of Theodosius, craved adventure and journeyed east to settle a brewing succession battle in the Eastern Empire, something his former consul, Stilicho, had discouraged while he was alive. Somehow it led to a mutiny, one orchestrated by Olympius, a Roman bureaucrat, who murdered most of Stilicho’s appointees.

Olympius persuaded the gullible Honorius that anyone loyal to the late Stilicho was a threat. The solution, he said, was to appoint him Magister Officum. Complicating matters during this time of intrigue and misadventure, Rome’s military commanders became especially vicious toward the Gothic slaves in their service, many of whom were captured by Stilicho and forced into the army. Some thirty thousand escaped Italy and joined forces with Alaric, providing him with the motive and means to sack Rome.

Collectively, they would hold the Romans accountable for the misery the empire had inflicted on them and upon so many others. After invading Italy, they would lay siege to the Eternal City in the autumn of 408 CE. With its population starving and diseased, Senators offered Alaric five thousand pounds of gold and thirty thousand pounds of silver, in addition to undisclosed amounts of silk and pepper to lift the siege. But Alaric didn’t trust the Senate.

So the Roman Senate, which by this time had become the breeding ground for corrupt and self-indulgent popes, dispatched Pope Innocent to Ravenna to encourage the child Emperor Honorius to make a deal with the Goths. En route, Alaric intercepted him and requested that the provinces of Rhaetia and Noricum be given to him as a home for the Visigoths and that he be appointed a general 230in the Roman army.

With the request in hand, when it came time to engage Honorius, he wouldn’t even meet with the man who he considered inferior. With extreme prejudice, he composed a letter refusing Alaric’s request, foolishly insulting him in the process because he considered him a barbarian. Then, making matters worse, Honorius tried to sneak Illyrian soldiers into Rome. Alerted to the backhanded ploy, Alaric intercepted them. Outraged by the insults and diplomatic failures, he besieged Rome a second time, this time beginning his assault by destroying the food supplies warehoused in the harbor at Portus.

The Senate and its Pope capitulated, giving Alaric more than he had previously requested. Rather than declaring him one of a hundred “dux – generals,” he was named: Magister Utriusque Militium – Supreme Military Commander. His brother-in-law, Ataulf, was afforded the title, “Comes Domesticorum Equitum,” which made him part of the Roman Elite Guard over equestrian units which protected the Emperor and served as his staff officers.

Properly commissioned, they marched toward the boy who roared, seeking to depose Honorius. And this time, the man who would never live up to his name was shaking in his sandals, ready to surrender – that is until an army from the Eastern Empire arrived at his doorstep.

This is not to suggest Rome or the Goths were suddenly united. Heraclian, the governor of Africa, cut off Rome’s food supply from Egypt. And Sarus, a fellow Gothic commander, who was allied with Honorius and who had an ongoing blood feud with one of those involved, attacked Alaric.

So Alaric, recognizing that Honorius was behind the assault, returned to Rome a third time. When he arrived on August 24, 410, slaves inside the city opened Rome’s Salarian Gate allowing the Visigoths to enter without a 231fight. They looted the city for three days, ransacking the mausoleums of Augustus and Hadrian, shattering the urns that contained the ashes of these despicable men. But beyond this, the barbarians were better behaved than the Romans. They pillaged the Basilica Aemilia, where the merchants that had pillaged them sold their wares, and the Basilica Julia, which housed the offices of the Roman bureaucracy that had taxed and oppressed them. The Roman citizens that had plundered them and enslaved them were taken hostage.

Ever willing to attribute all manner of absurdities upon the gullible, Roman patriots and pagan theologians said that the sack was divine punishment for turning away from the traditional gods. Seeing just the opposite, Saint Augustine wrote De Civitate Dei contra Paganos - The City of God against the Pagans to describe Christianity’s relationship with competing religions and with the Roman government. In the aftermath of Rome’s sacking by the Visigoths, the man considered the most influential Father of the Church wanted to reassure Christians that, even if the earthly rule of the Roman Empire was imperiled, it was the City of God that would ultimately triumph.

With the city of Rome in ashes, in 419 CE, a coalition of Suebi (Baltic Germans) allied with the remaining Imperial Roman forces to combat a confederation of Vandals (East Germans) and Alans (Iranians) in Leon, Spain. Thereafter, as if fighting over a corpse, in 432, Romans clashed with Romans when the Junior Magister Militum Flavius Aetius and the Senior Magister Militum Bonifacius were spared. Bonifacius, while victorious, was mortally wounded, taking some of the luster away from his success. As for Aetius, he fled to the Huns and returned with them to fight another day.

So now, with Flavius Aetius perched on the throne, he would send his Huns after the Visigoths in 436. Surprising them, the Huns defeated the Visigoths, with Romans 232claiming it as a victory of sorts.

Then in the Battle of the Utus in 447, the Byzantines would face off against the Huns again, but this time, they were led by the infamous Attila. However, due to the Christian influence, there was no longer any pretense of historical accuracy. Therefore, it is difficult to know what actually occurred. The Huns didn’t leave us a written legacy and the Christians had a predilection for revisionism. Our view is therefore obscured, precluding a reconstruction of the events.

But this we know, beginning in 443, the Byzantines stopped paying tribute to Attila the Hun. Thereupon, in 447, he invaded the Balkans. A Roman force moved northeast to intercept him. They engaged in the Province of Dacia Ripensis along the Vit River, a tributary of the Danube. The Byzantines lost. The city of Marcianopolis, Thrace, in modern-day Bulgaria, was completely destroyed. Constantinople, the capital of Byzantine Rome and the Eastern Orthodox Church, was now vulnerable, especially in light of the fact that an earthquake earlier that year had destroyed its protective walls. But since the city’s inhabitants were suffering from the plague, Attila the Hun wisely decided against infecting himself and his men. Moreover, he lost too many soldiers at the Battle of Utis to mount another campaign.

There were safer hunting grounds with easier prey. So Attila pillaged and plundered the Balkan Provinces, including Illyricum, Thrace, Moesia, Scythia, and Dacia. In haunting echoes of past glory, he was finally turned back at Thermopylae – the site of Spartan heroism against the Persians long ago. The Greeks supposed it was the gateway to Hades. But these skirmishes were just the lull before the storm.

In hopes of delaying the inevitable, Emperor Theodosius II, a junior Augustus, and Honorius’ nephew, 233decided to bribe Attila, paying him an enormous annual tribute to dissuade him from destroying Constantinople, Byzantium, and the Eastern Orthodox Church.

Like his namesake, Theodosius II made his mark on Christendom. He is noted for compiling the laws and edicts promulgated by Constantine’s spiritual advisors, thereby creating the groundwork for Emperor Justinian’s Corpus Juris Civilis of the Eastern Orthodox Church. By this time, it had become synonymous with Byzantium. He also presided over a significant religious dispute. After meeting Nestorius, a renowned monk, Theodosius II appointed him Archbishop of Constantinople in 428 – further demonstrating that there was no distinction between Church and State. But Nestorius quickly became involved in an argument whereby he tried to find a middle ground between those who insisted on calling Mary “Theotokos – Mother of God” and those who rejected that title because God, as an eternal being, could not have been born. Nestorius’ compromise, a heresy later called Nestorianism, was initially supported by the emperor but opposed by Archbishop Cyril of Alexandria. At the request of Nestorius, Theodosius II convened a council in Ephesus in 431. They condemned Nestorius and affirmed the title, Theotokos, making Mary the “Mother of God,” just as the Babylonians had done with the Queen of Heaven and Madonna of their Trinity.

Moving from religion to war, in 451 CE, during the Battle of Chalons, General Flavius Aetius and the Visigoth King Theodoric I were allied against Attila the Hun. The Visigoths, who at this time comprised the preponderance of soldiers in the Roman army, kept the Huns from conquering Gaul.

Attila, as was his custom, had his diviners examine the entrails of an animal sacrifice the morning before battle. The soothsayers allegedly predicted the Hun’s defeat, predicting that one of the enemy leaders would be killed. 234Wanting Aetius to die and to hedge his bets, Attila decided to engage but delayed until sunset so that he and his troops could escape if their fortunes turned. And as it would transpire, Theodoric was thrown from his horse and trampled to death by his own men. The following day, with the battlefield littered with dead bodies, the Huns stayed in their camp while the Visigoths sang heroic songs to their fallen king.

The Vandals were up next, drawn into the conflict to oppose Emperor Petronius Maximus who had usurped the throne. His reign would be short-lived, however, even by Roman standards. As a wealthy Senator and prominent aristocrat, he had been instrumental in the murders of General Flavius Aetius and Emperor Valentinian III. And murder had its rewards. He was designated the “Comes Sacrarum Largitionum – Count of Sacred Largess,” because he led the restoration of the Old St. Peter’s Basilica. But it didn’t do him much good. He would be dead within two months, killed during the third sack of Rome.

The dual murders were interesting in their own right. Rome evidently fiddled as the city burned. Emperor Valentinian and Maximus placed a wager on a game that Maximus lost. Without his purse, Maximus left his royal ring as collateral, guaranteeing that he would pay the debt. But according to Roman lore, Valentinian III used it to court Lucina, the beautiful wife of Maximus, whom Valentinian had lusted after. Believing she had been summoned by her husband, Lucina found herself at dinner with Valentinian. He raped her. So much for Valentine’s Day.

Lucina, upon returning home, accused her husband, Maximus, of betrayal, believing that he had sent her to the Emperor to curry political favor. This in turn gave Maximus every motivation to eliminate an obviously detested and despicable individual. But he had to be 235careful, knowing that, while Aetius was the Supreme Military Commander and a Maximus loyalist, he could not exact the vengeance he craved on Valentinian without it costing him his own life.

Then as the story goes, Maximus cozied up to a eunuch serving Valentinian, the Primicerius Sacri Cubiculi Heraclius, who had quietly shown his contempt for General Aetius. Conspiring together, they convinced Emperor Valentinian that Aetius was planning to assassinate him, urging Valentinian to strike first, which he did with the help of his eunuch on September 21, 454.

With the general dead, Maximus asked Emperor Valentinian to appoint him Supreme Commander. But he refused based upon the eunuch’s counsel. Now, with two reasons to kill the king, Maximus nurtured two willing accomplices in Optilia and Thraustila, both Scythians, who had fought under Aetius, but were now serving as Valentinian’s escort. Maximus simply told the truth, albeit not the whole truth, revealing that Valentinian had killed their general. Then after offering them a reward for the betrayal of the emperor, on March 16, 455, they executed him along with the previously complicit eunuch. The Scythians took the imperial diadem and robe and brought them to Maximus, who used them to claim the throne. To his credit, the Scythians were properly paid for the fine work that they had done. Then working quickly, Emperor Maximus married Licinia, Valentinian’s widow.

With no time for a honeymoon, the murdering Maximus sent a mission to Toulouse to gain the support of the Visigoths, recognizing that Rome’s foe now comprised most of its army. At the same time, he canceled the betrothal of Licinia’s daughter, Eudocia, to Huneric, the son of the Vandal King Geiseric. Instead, he wanted his son, Palladius, to wed Eudocia, all to strengthen his ties with the Theodosian dynasty in Constantinople. But it proved to be a miscalculation. The Vandal king claimed 236that the canceled marriage invalidated his treaty with Valentinian, which was sufficient to motivate the Vandals to invade Italy.

Within two months of Maximus assuming the throne, the Vandal fleet was en route to Rome. Recognizing that the Visigoths would not arrive in time to save him, Maximus was minimized when he rode out of the city on May 31, 455 without an escort. He was stoned to death by a soldier who mutilated his body and tossed it into the Tiber River. Maximus’ son was also killed.

Three days later, Vandal King Geiseric captured Rome. In actuality, the gates were thrown open to him on the order of Rome’s actual authority, Pope Leo, who requested that the Vandals not destroy his Basilica or any of the religious buildings of ancient Rome that the Church had converted for their use. In that they were all Christians, the Vandal soldiers would plunder the city for weeks, all while respecting the pope’s directives. They minimized their use of arson, torture, and murder, but not stealing or kidnapping. And who said that Christianity wasn’t a positive influence?

Speaking of the Vandals, the English term “vandalism” is derived from this period, because the Vandals stripped away almost everything, including the bronze roof tiles of the Temple of Jupiter. The women of the royal court were kidnapped and forced to “marry” Vandal chieftains, which is to say that they were raped. And countless shiploads of Roman citizens, now captives, were sent off to Africa to be sold as slaves. But St. Peter’s wasn’t burned, and the priests and pope were not harmed.

After begging the Visigoths to rescue them from the Vandals, the Western Roman Empire under General Aegidius confronted the army of their fickle friend and often foe under King Theodoric at the Battle of Orleans. Two years earlier, the general had announced Northern 237Gaul’s secession from Rome, as Imperial assassinations continued to plague the fading empire.

Having been stripped of his title by Ricimer, Rome’s emperor de jour, Aegidius decided to invade Italy. Meanwhile, the Visigoths saw this as an opportunity to expand their territory. The opposing armies met in 453 CE in north-central France. The result was scored as a marginal victory for the breakaway sub-province.

Deprived of the soldiers required to menace the world, the battles were now fewer and further between. It wasn’t until 486 that a Roman rump state would fight again. The breakaway province of Northern Gaul, which was now called the Domain of Soissons, would battle the Franks in 486 CE. Clovis, who had dared the Gallo-Roman leader, Syagris, to fight, led the Franks. He prevailed, thereby substantially expanding Frankish holdings.

The last skirmish of the 5^th century was waged sometime around 495 CE, but the sources are now exceptionally sketchy. The Battle of Badon Hill was allegedly fought between Britons and Anglo-Saxons – stirring the legend of King Arthur. Gildas, writing The Ruin of Britain not long thereafter in the early 6^th century, claims, “The Saxons dipped red and savage tongue in the western ocean.”

The impressionable Christian, Gildas, would write: “From that time, the citizens were sometimes victorious, sometimes the enemy, in order that the Lord, according to His wont, might try in this nation the Israel of to-day, whether it loves Him or not. This continued up to the year of the siege of Badon Hill, and of almost the last great slaughter inflicted upon the rascally crew. And this commences, a fact I know, as the forty-fourth year, with one month now elapsed; it is also the year of my birth.”

Me thinks that they were not Israel, but me knows that their Lord was uninterested in their love.

238Consulting a late 10^th century source, one equally prone to embellishments, in the Annals of Wales, we read: “The Battle of Badon, in which Arthur carried the Cross of our Lorde Iesus Christi for three days and three nights upon his shield, and the Britons were the victors.”

This brings us to the only reason for recounting this otherwise meaningless affair. The propensity of Roman Christians was to develop mythical characters and then set them into the flow of their revisionist history. They sought to sensationalize the merits of their ancestors and promote unifying religious, political, and military propaganda. This speaks to how they created the false characterization of Yahowsha’, removing from him everything that actually mattered, while replacing the truth with a plethora of pagan predilections.

There would be fourteen wars waged by the Romans in the 6^th century. The Byzantines would fight the Sassanid Persian Empire eight times, prevailing on six occasions. They would engage the Vandals twice, winning both battles.

In the West, Rome would be sacked again in 546 CE, this time by Gothic King Totila. But even this battle was a spillover from the twenty-year war between the Ostrogoths and Byzantines. The Gauls, seeking to recapture Latium, moved against Rome, laying siege to the once grand-appearing edifice for many months. Inside the crumbling relic, Bessus, the Commander of the Imperial garrison, wouldn’t allow anyone other than the pope to leave. He then profiteered by selling grain to the civilian population at greatly inflated prices. We are told that Plebeians were eventually reduced to eating nettles, dogs, mice, and finally each other’s dung. Many committed suicide.

Pope Vigilus, who had fled to the safety of Syracuse, dispatched his fleet of ships to Rome but they were intercepted by the Goths. Meanwhile, the dwindling 239Imperial forces, led by Belisarius, remained mostly idle in their camp at Portus, awaiting reinforcements.

Totila’s men would scale Rome’s walls during the night of December 17, 546. As they opened one gate, the Roman defenders fled out through another, leaving only five hundred people in what had once been the heart of the empire. Eighty-six of them were killed, mostly civilians huddling in churches. What little was left in Rome was plundered by Totila, whose intent was to turn the gated ruin into an enclosed pasture for his sheep.

Somehow, with visions of carnage swirling in his head, Totila relented, ostensibly to pursue the Byzantine army through Apulia – the slender heel of the boot set between the Adriatic and Ionian Seas. As he rides off into the sunset, leaving nothing but the Church of Rome in the dust, thus ends our romp through the gory and glorified history of Rome.

Those who are impressed by architectural grandeur and military might still revere Rome. Those who are opposed to arrogance, decadence, savagery, and paganism are less impressed and view the Roman Empire from Yahowah’s perspective: monstrous, fearsome, horrifying, appalling, and evil with the power, capacity, and will to destroy.

Let’s reestablish our bearings. We have just completed the first seven statements of Dany’el 7. By way of review, they reveal...

“In the first year of (ba chad shanah la) Belsha’tsar | the Lord Supports his Dictator (Belsha’tsar), the ruler of (melek) Babel | to Commingle and Confuse on behalf of the Lord (Babel), Dany’el | My God Judges, 240Vindicates, and Condemns (Dany’el) saw (chazah) a revealing vision (chelem) along with (wa) distinguishing insights (chazuw) in his mind (re’sh huw’) while upon his bed (‘al mishkab huw’).

Thereupon, during (ba ‘edayn) the prophetic revelation (chalam), he was prompted to write a complete copy of (kathab) the things (milah) being communicated (‘amar). (Dany’el 7:1)

Dany’el | God is My Means to Decide Between Vindication and Condemnation (Dany’el) responded (‘anah) and said (wa ‘amar), ‘I am able to see (hawah chazah) the vision with my sensory perceptions (ba chazuw ‘anah) during the night (‘im lyly).’

And (wa), behold, right there (‘aruw), four (‘arba’) spirits (ruwachy) of the heavens (shamayn) were churning up (guwah) that which corresponds to the Great Sea (la yam rab). (Dany’el 7:2)

Then four (wa ‘arba’) monstrous beasts, powerful and mighty creatures, lordly and militant (chyuwah rab) came up from and emerged to project the thinking and influence of (salaq min) the Sea (yam), evolving, changing, and transforming to frustrate while being progressively more defiant (shanah), one to another, each growing in opposition (da’ min da’). (Dany’el 7:3)

The first in the series (qadmay) can be associated with (ka) a fierce and powerful lion (‘aryeh), but with (wa) the wings (gaph) of (dy) an eagle (nashar) upon it (la hy’).

I kept watching (hawah chazah) while (‘ad) her wings were plucked off (marat gaph hy’). So then (wa) she was lifted up and resurrected (natsal) from the earth (min ‘ara’).

Upon (wa ‘al) two feet (ragalyn), like a man (ka ‘enash), it arose and was established, becoming 241influential and powerful (quwm). Additionally (wa), the heart and mind, the desires and inclinations (labab), of a mortal man (‘enash) were given to it (yahab la hy’). (Dany’el 7:4)

So then, behold (wa ‘aruw), another (‘achoran) beast (chyuwah), a second one (tinyan), resembled (damah) a bear (la dob). On one side (wa la satar chad), it was fully developed (quwm). And (wa) there were three (telath) ribs (‘ala’) in its mouth (ba pum hy’), between her teeth (ben shen hy’). And (wa) therefore (ken), it was said of her (‘amar la hy’), ‘You have chosen to rise up (quwm) and devour (‘akal) an abundance (sagyi’) of human witnesses and potential heralds (basar).’ (Dany’el 7:5)

At another point in time in this same sequence (ba danah ‘atar), by remaining observant, I was able to witness (hawah chazah) the revelation (wa ‘aruw) of another (‘achoran), this one resembling (ka) a leopard (namar). And with it (wa la hy’) were four wings (‘arba’ gaph), such as (dy) a bird (owp). They were on her back side (‘al gab hy’). The beast (la cheywah) had four heads (wa ‘arba’ re’sh), and to it (la hy’) was afforded (yahab) governmental dominion and the power to rule (wa shalatan). (Dany’el 7:6)

Following this sequence of events (ba danah ‘atar), I remained observant (chazah hawah) regarding this revelation during a time of enfolding darkness (ba chazuw lyly). And behold (wa ‘aruw), the fourth (raby’ay) monstrous beast (chywah) was the most fearsome and formidable, dreadful and frightening, respected only for being overtly oppressive, terrifying, and threatening (dachal), genuinely horrifying and appalling, terribly gruesome (wa ‘eymatan), with (wa) an exceptionally powerful and preeminent military (yatyr taqyph).

242It had (wa la hy’) teeth comprised of iron (shen dy parzel la). Great multitudes, including the highly populated and powerful (rab), it devoured and devastated (‘akal), crushing the remainder (wa daqaq wa sha’ar) with its feet (ba ragal hy’) by trampling them down violently, celebrating while destroying them (raphats) under foot (ba ragal).

And so (wa), this one was different in its transformation and evolution (hy’ shanah) from all of the other (min kol) beasts (chywah) which preceded it (dy qodam hy’). Ten (wa ‘asar) horns (qeren) were extended from her (la hy’).” (Dany’el / God Judges and Vindicates / Daniel 7:7)

While it is unlikely, the ten horns may depict the ten ethnicities of the Western Roman Empire. They were: Alemanni (Gaul / Germany), Franks (France), Burgundians (Switzerland), Suevi (Portugal), Vandals (exterminated), Visigoths (Spain), Anglo-Saxons (England), Ostrogoths (exterminated), Lombards (Italy), and the Heruli (who were also exterminated). But ultimately these diverse people coalesced into five political and geographic divisions: Britain, France, Spain, Germany, and Italy. But let us not forget, there were also five kingdoms in the east. They were: Greece, Turkey, Syria, Egypt, and Libya. These ten principalities are important, so we’ll want to remember them.

Yahowah provided Dany’el with an amazing vision, and even tried to explain it to him. So it’s no surprise that he sought to understand and then share what he had witnessed. This is no exception...

“I was thinking about, trying to understand (hawah 243sakal – I was contemplating, considering, and reflecting upon, prudently evaluating the insights and instruction regarding) what was with the horns (ba qeren) and then, behold (wa ‘aluw – there while paying attention), another and final (‘achoran – someone else and something different which appears in the end) horn (qeren), a smaller one of lower status (za’eyr – little and lowly, insignificant and worthless, one to be brought down and dissipate), came up between them and among them (selaq ben ‘inuwn – grew out and ascended in their midst).

And three (wa talat) among (min – from) the initial group of horns (qadmay qeren – the previous horns) were dehorned (‘aqar – were deprived of their horns, with them pulled out at their roots, cutting them off at the stump, and plucked up) from before her (min qodam hy’ – from involvement in the previous relationship with the Beast).

Then behold (wa ‘aluw), eyes (‘ayn), like the eyes of a human (ka ‘ayn ‘enash – similar to the perceptions and sight of a mortal man, of humankind) in this unique horn (ba qeren da’), along with (wa) a mouth (pum) speaking powerfully and abundantly as if an esteemed rabbinical authority (malal rab – prolifically conversing from a position of high status, pontificating verbosely as a great individual, conveying big words which are considered high and mighty, while discussing the important issues regarding the almighty).” (Dany’el / My God Judges, Vindicates, and Condemns / Daniel 7:8)

At this point, Dany’el was overwhelmed, confused, and agitated. The vision was frightening to be sure, but mostly appalling. How was it that humankind, with all of its potential, with all Yahowah had provided, could be this horrid? From Babylon to Persia, from Greece to Rome, and from the Empire to the Church, man continued to devolve, becoming progressively more duplicitous, destructive, and deadly.

244Since we can read ahead in the text and see that the identity of the Chywah | Beasts are disclosed, and with the benefit of history, this progression from bad to worse is readily discernible. But even with further elaboration, we have far less data from which to ascertain the names of the ten horns which emerged from the Beasts of Imperial Rome and the Roman Catholic Church as presented in Dany’el 7:7 – which is why we tabled the subject.

And now, we find ourselves scratching our heads along with Dany’el as to the identity of the final horn, the Za’eyr | Lowly and Little One with human characteristics that is predicted to arise from among the undisclosed ten nations. All we know at this reading is that they will not only evolve out of the Roman Empire and the Roman Church, but that they will do great harm to the Land and perhaps the world.

The fact that this infamous and verbose ruler will take down three of the ten nations is intriguing, but also left unspecified. Adding to the intrigue is the realization that the rise of the one leader, the ten nations, and the demise of three of them will be Last Days events, not past days – so we do not have the luxury of history as our guide.

Further, while considerably more information regarding all of this will be provided as we move from Dany’el 7 through the 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, and 11^th chapters, we are explicitly told in the 12^th chapter that an accurate explanation of the last 3½ years will not be forthcoming until we are nearly in the throes of them. And even then, there will be very few who understand, although they will enlighten many as we approach Yahowah’s return.

Indeed, in the concluding chapter of Dany’el, we are 245told that something marvelous happens in the midst of something equally horrific. The Last Days will be a tumultuous time. And so, before we attempt an explanation, even before we have been afforded all of the details which will soon be forthcoming, let’s consider what God revealed to Dany’el in the 12^th and final chapter.

It is here we discover that “wa ha sakal – one or two with insight, along with those who are discerning with the capacity to understand, will learn based upon what will be taught.” Then: “zahar – they will become prominent, obtaining a high status, being respected among heavenly beings, shining brightly while enlightening.” This is because they will be “ka zohar – like light, brilliant and intense, glowing while teaching and admonishing, enlightening and warning.”

The scope and nature of these informative heralds, and likely also those who will benefit from them and join them, will be “ha raqya’ – a big deal, as rock solid as it is expansive, so enormously important that its merits are comparable to the entirety of the universe.”

As a result: “wa tsadaq ha rab – the numerous and valued individuals who are right will be vindicated” becoming “ka ha kowkab – like stars, heavenly and powerful, brilliant luminaries” “la ‘owlam wa ‘ad – forevermore as restored and eternal witnesses.” That is quite a promise, but also one which comes with a sobering reminder – a great deal is at stake, and it is important that we do our part to capitalize upon this opportunity.

So with the fate of humankind and with your soul hanging in the balance, here is the concluding chapter of Dany’el for your consideration…

“And so at that time (wa ba ha ‘eth ha hy’), Myka’el | One Who is Truthful and Right About God (Myka’el – Who is Correct About the Almighty, Who Validates these Connections with God; from a compound of my – who is 246ky, ka, and ken – verifying these associations, connections, and comparisons to be correct and truthful, even emphatic and certain regarding of ‘el – Almighty God), who is representing the king (sar – the one serving the anointed leader by focusing on his family and their relationship as an authorized and designated individual), will have an important role in nourishing the growth and promoting (ha gadowl – will be applicable and vociferous, even intense, using amplification to empower, distinguishing himself by magnifying) your family’s children (‘al ben ‘am ‘atah – on behalf of the people and their children), taking a stand, present and accountable (‘amad – standing up, never bowed, appointed and supported (qal participle)).

Then there will be (wa hayah – so there will exist (qal perfect)) a Time (‘eth – a period) of Trouble (tsarah – of confinement, anguish, and distress, of competition in the relationship, of tribulation and affliction, of adversity and of the adversary, of being opposed and then constrained), beyond which has ever existed (‘asher lo’ hayah) from a gentile nation (min hayah gowy – occurring as a result of gentiles, people other than Yisra’elites) prior to this time (‘ad ha ‘eth ha hy’).

And (wa) during this period (ba ha ‘eth ha hy’), your people (‘am ‘atah – your family) will be saved, everyone rescued from harm’s way and delivered (malat kol – all will be spared and liberated (nifal imperfect)) who is found (ha matsa’ – who is discovered) written (kathab – inscribed and engraved, recorded and listed in writing) in the book (ba ha sepher – within the written record). (Dany’el 12:1)

There are thirteen references to Myka’el in the Towrah, Prophets, and Psalms, ten of which address ordinary individuals from long ago. The three depictions which apply to this particular individual are found only in Dany’el – with the other two appearing in the 10^th chapter. 247Therefore, what we know of him, his identity and purpose, is explained here.

The most overriding clue to the nature of this individual is the recognition that Myka’el | One Who is Truthful and Right About God is a descriptive title rather than a name each of the three times that it is presented. It is a compound of several Hebrew words, beginning with my, which is an interrogatory, asking us if we know “who” is being addressed.

This is followed by a contraction of ky, ka, and/or ken. If ky, then it means “indeed,” speaking of someone who is “certain, sure, and truthful” and who is “emphatic and reasonable.” If ka, then this individual has a propensity to make the kind of “comparisons and associations” needed to understand. And if ken, then his claims about Yahowah are “verifiable and correct, truthful and certain.”

Myka’el concludes with ‘el which is Yahowah’s title, meaning Almighty God. Therefore, Myka’el asks those seeking to understand: who, indeed, is confident and truthful, emphatic and reasonable about God, consistently and definitively making the kind of comparisons and associations needed to verify that he is correct, even certain, about God. Or more succinctly – Myka’el | Who is Truthful and Right About God.

As we would expect from such an individual, especially as we approach Dowd’s return to defend and lead his people, Myka’el is sar | representing the king. He is sar | serving the anointed leader by focusing on his family and their relationship with God. As such, he is sar | clearly designated, overtly authorized, and resolutely empowered.

Few things are more important than recognizing that Dowd is the Son of God, our Shepherd, the King of Kings, and the returning Messiah. This realization not only nullifies the aspirations of Progressives, Judaism, 248Christianity, and Islam, it presents the ultimate Yahuwd calling his people home. This is the essential truth documented throughout Yada Yahowah and, in particular, in Coming Home.

Next, we are told that Myka’el will ha gadowl | play an important role in nourishing the growth of, while promoting, “‘al ben ‘am ‘atah – your family’s children.” This means that he will gadowl | intensely and vociferously distinguish himself through amplification to empower the prophet’s people – a.k.a., Jews.

Further, not only will Myka’el ‘amad | be appointed and supported while taking a stand on behalf of the Chosen People, he will begin immediately prior to ‘Eth Tsarah | the Time of Trouble. And so that there is no mistaking the timing as our own, we were told that the resulting tsarah | confinement and adversity will be as a result of gowym and their nations being more overtly hostile toward Jews and Israel than at any time in history – worse that Assyria, Babylon, Greece, Rome, the Church, Muslims, or Nazis.

And if that was not enough to correctly identify Myka’el | One Who is Truthful and Right About God, and place him ba ha ‘eth ha hy’ | in this specific period, his contribution to Yahowah’s Family will be to matsa’ | find and then share kathab | what is written ba ha sepher | in the book such that Yahuwdym are malat | rescued from harm’s way and delivered unto Yahowah.

Recognizing that this realization regarding Myka’el destroys the credibility of Judaism (because he is right about God), Christianity, and Islam (both for the same reason), let’s be thorough in our analysis. When Myka’el is initially introduced, it is in Dany’el 10:13, where he is ‘echad ha sar ha ri’shown. ‘Echad means that Myka’el is either “a certain one of” or “the one and only” in his stated role. He is either “the first” or “the foremost on this particular occasion.”

249As the ha sar, he is “the leading representative of the king” – at least pursuant to this particular mission on Dowd’s behalf. As a sar, he is “authorized, empowered, and capable,” so he “will prevail” even “when challenged.”

Ha ri’shown reveals that he is “the primary and foremost” and, thus, “the principal person” serving in this capacity. He is likely the “first” to do so. Ri’shown reveals that he would have “began” conveying this particular message “before” anyone else.

Therefore, Myka’el is first and foremost, one of the leading representatives of the king, a certain individual who was among the first authorized and empowered to serve in this capacity – which is to explain what we are reading here in Dany’el.

This is further affirmed in Dany’el 10:14, which is in Myka’el’s voice and reads, “Now I have come to provide you with an understanding of what will happen to your people in the end of days, because the revelation pertains to that time.”

The second of three references to the Myka’el who was responsible for explaining Dany’el’s vision is found in the 21^st and concluding statement of the 10^th chapter. There, we learn that his role was nagad | conspicuously reported to us by ha rashuwm | having been inscribed ba kathab | in writing in the book ‘emeth | which is trustworthy, enduring, and reliable. It also reveals that he was and will be lo’ echad chazaq | uniquely contentious and very intense, even overpowering in pursuit of the restoration of God’s people. And once again in this pronouncement, Myka’el is a sar | leading representative of the king and his family.

It is mistakenly assumed that Myka’el is the name of an archangel – but such nonsense comes from the book of Jude in the New Testament where there is a mythical “dispute” between “Michael, the archangel,” and “the 250Devil” over the “body of Moses” “durst not bring against him a railing accusation.” Let me assure even those who venerate gravesites – the prophet’s words matter, while his body was irrelevant, devil be damned, durst or not.

Mal’ak do not sar | represent kings. Moreover, there is no record of anyone named Myka’el writing anything which would gadowl | have promoted the growth of Yahowah’s Family. In particular, while mal’ak have speaking roles, they are seldom vociferous, they do not rely upon amplification, nor is it their role to magnify anyone. And as we will discover in due time, Gabry’el isn’t a mal’ak either. He is, instead, the greatest of the men of God.

Therefore, Myka’el is descriptive of a person who validates and verifies the status of our relationship with the Almighty. He will be present and accountable, appointed and supported prior to Yisra’el’s descent into the Time of Trouble. So, unless someone arrives on the scene and uses their translations and insights to compose something comparable to the 25 volumes of Yada Yahowah within the next few years, you are reading the results of Myka’el’s service to Yahowah and Yisra’el by doing his best to represent Dowd as our returning king. But more than this, Myka’el’s role is to explain Dany’el’s vision so that we understand it before it is too late.

As bad as Rome and Roman Catholicism have been, what is about to unfold will be worse. In the annals of human history, considering the blight of nations, even the bitterness of the gowy, nothing has ever existed which can compare to the ‘Eth Tsarah | Period of Anguish, Adversity, and the Adversary.

All we have read has built up to this point. The confounding confusion of Babylon and the Bible was horrific as it metastasized through Persia, Greece, Rome, and Christianity, but it will become ever more vicious and 251deadly because the worst is yet to come.

Fortunately, it is during this Time of Trouble that God’s people will be saved. And those who are rescued will find their names scribed in the book of life.

“And many important and infamous individuals (wa rab – numerous people, an undisclosed but significant quantity) of those who are asleep (min yashen – from those in an altered state of consciousness) in the dust of the earth (‘adamah ‘aphar – of the natural elements of the material realm) will be awakened (qyts – will be roused (hifil imperfect)), some of these (‘eleh) to the restoration of life everlasting (la chay ‘owlam – to be restored and invigorated, growing forevermore) and others (wa ‘eleh) to eternal (‘owlam – perpetual and everlasting) scorn and shame, insults and reproach, accusations and censure (cherpah – disgrace and contempt, the dishonor of a diminished status) for having been abhorrent and appalling (dera’own – for goading people in a repulsive and loathsome manner, prodding them as animals).” (Dany’el 12:2)

After the arrival of Myka’el and his uplifting and enlightening message on behalf of the Covenant Family, after the Time of Trouble, and even after Yahowah has redeemed His people, rescuing those written in His book from harm’s way, God will deal with the most important and infamous souls – those who were right and those who were wrong – among those who have passed away prior to His return. Those who are awakened will be headed to one of two outcomes – Shamaym or She’owl. Those who read the Book and who have found the means to restore their souls in the Book will live forevermore with the Author of the Book.

However, those who sought to change the Book, discard the Book, or write their own book will be awakened to cherpah wa dera’own | contempt and censure for having 252been so abhorrent in the goading of others. And while this will serve as the reward for the Covenant’s children and the punishment for those who have harassed them, the vast preponderance of people will not be awakened for either of these eventualities – only the most influential and infamous, either good or bad. We know this because Yahowah specified that rab | many of status or renown will be awakened, not kol | all.

“Therefore, the circumspect with insight, who are discerning, demonstrating the capacity to understand (wa ha sakal – the one who is intelligent, properly instructed, and successful, with desire to be observant so as to comprehend, who will learn based upon what will be taught) will become prominent, obtaining a high status, being respected among heavenly beings, shining brightly while enlightening and admonishing (zahar – they will teach and warn, they will brilliantly persuade and dissuade (hifil imperfect)), similar to the light (ka zohar – like the brilliant and intense glowing of a guide, directing and cautioning, educating and alerting) of the expansive universe (ha raqya’ – of the heavens, a big deal, as rock solid as it is enormously important, with merit comparable to the entirety of spacetime), such that they will be greatly valued for the numerous worthy individuals who will be vindicated for being right (wa tsadaq ha rab – there are many who will be correct and thus acquitted) becoming like stars (ka ha kowkab – similar to heavenly and akin to powerful and brilliant luminaries) as eternal and restoring witnesses forevermore (la ‘owlam wa ‘ad).” (Dany’el 12:3)

There is much to be done, much to learn and teach. God’s people will grow in understanding and they will enlighten and admonish others.

Ultimately, all of Yahowah’s Covenant children will become like our Father. We will be transformed into light and, thus, become immortal, perfected, and greatly 253empowered. The remnant who survives to greet our Father upon His return will be bright, well-educated, and alert. And, therefore, the expansiveness of the universe will be our playground. These are the benefits of being right.

This known, there is more to this prophetic declaration. The ha sakal | insightful are masculine plural, suggesting that Yahowah is speaking of His two witnesses. They will pack a punch, wielding words wisely. And they will be the most prominent people in the world at this time. Their role will be to enlighten those who choose the Covenant while admonishing those who oppose God’s Family.

‘ElYah and Myka’el will have become spiritual beings, and thus upon their return, they will appear as light. And while you would not think that there is much a couple of sarcastic and judgmental fellows could do to impress the heavenly host, these guys are going to have friends in high places. Not only is their witness going to be appreciated and valued by the chosen on Earth, it will resonate in heaven too.

Also encouraging, as a result of their witness, many Yahuwdym will come home, returning to Yahowah. They will be vindicated for having been right, enriched and empowered by the eternal and restoring witness of God’s word.

Dany’el’s work as our scribe is now over. There will be a long intermission and then the work of the witnesses will commence. And among their roles will be to leave the religious without excuse, so that, when they are judged, they will have no one to blame but themselves.

“As for you, Dany’el (wa ‘atah Dany’el – and so for the one whose God is his means to decide between vindication and condemnation), seal up this testimony, making the message secure while precluding access to the meaning hidden within the words (satam ha dabarym 254– exclude access, closing off the message so that it is protected) and place a stamp and signature on the book (wa chatam ha sepher – affix a seal, fastening the written message inside the scroll) until before the time of the restoring witnesses runs out (‘ad ‘eth qets – during the concluding period for the witnesses).

Many, and notably rabbis and others who are infamous and exalted (rab – numerous), will wander about aimlessly, rowing up a waterfall (shuwth – roaming around randomly, accomplishing nothing while rowing against the current (polel imperfect)), even with access to information which leads to understanding (wa ha da’ath – even as learning the truth is made readily available) becoming more prevalent (rabah – increasing in quantity and quality (qal imperfect)).” (Dany’el 12:4)

This realization is one of the reasons we turned to Dany’el 12 prior to analyzing the symbols presented in the 7^th chapter. An accurate assessment of the events being foretold, even identifying the names of the people and nations, will not occur until Yahowah determines it to be appropriate to disclose.

As I share these thoughts with you in the late summer months of 2022, with just 11 years left until Yahowah’s return, and only 7½ years prior to the commencement of the Time of Troubles. I am hopeful that we are close enough to both that we will prevail in unraveling the mystery of who will be doing what to whom and when. But if not, we will do our best to set the stage – to present Yahowah’s prophetic witness as clearly, correctly, and completely as possible.

I am particularly fond of the concluding statement: rab shuwth wa rabah ha da’ath | many, and notably rabbis as well as others who are infamous and exalted, will wander aimlessly while foolishly attempting to row up a waterfall, doing so at a time when access to quality information 255which leads to understanding is becoming more prevalent and pervasive. If nothing else comes of these translations of Dany’el, we have made understanding easier, sharing what we have learned freely and abundantly at www.YadaYah.com. And what we miss, the witnesses will be sure to provide.

“Then I, Dany’el (wa ‘any Dany’el – because I know that my God is judgmental, I), looked (ra’ah – I continued to be observant), and behold (wa hineh – paying attention), the two others in the end (shanaym ‘acher) were present, appointed and accounted for, supported while taking a stand (‘amad – assigned and sustained (qal participle masculine plural)). One individual (‘echad – a single and unique man) was now present here (henah – therein and thereby, hither and hereto) as the means to channel speech, conveying the message (la saphah ha ya’or – as lips which flow at the brink and as the language of the stream).

And the other person (wa ‘echad – a single individual) was simultaneously present close by (henah – now nearby) as a conduit for words, with verbally expressive lips flowing with language (la saphah ha ya’or – as the means to channel speech, conveying the message).” (Dany’el 12:5)

When viewed within the context of what we have just read, and from the perspective provided by Zakaryah and Mal’aky, these are the two witnesses – ‘ElYah and the one described as Myka’el. They are communicating Yahowah’s message to all who will listen. Their presence here in Dany’el 12:5 serves to further underscore the realization that they are the ones being described in the glowing and enlightening commentary found in Dany’el 12:3 and 12:4.

256As witnesses, they are conduits for Yahowah’s message. God’s Towrah | Source of Guidance and Teaching Flows through them.

“Then (wa) he said (‘amar – he asked (qal imperfect third-person masculine singular)) to the individual (la ha ‘iysh) of linen garments (ha bad) who, for the benefit of the relationship (‘asher), was from the dimension above and beyond (min ma’al – out of the higher place) the source of the waters of the stream (la maym ha ya’or), ‘How long will this restoring witness be until (‘ad matay) the end (qets – the conclusion and limit) of these distinguishing and intensely wonderful explanations and astounding communication of things that would otherwise be difficult to understand (ha pele’ – of these amazing things, extraordinary occurrences, and miraculous signs)?’” (Dany’el 12:6)

Should we be curious as to who asked this question, those present at the time would have been Dany’el, Gabry’el (who we will learn is a pseudonym for Dowd), ‘ElYah, and Yada’, now referred to as Myka’el. One of these three individuals asked the fourth – the one in bad | linen from ma’al | greater dimensions how much time was remaining. And since everyone but Dany’el would have known the answer, this is being asked and answered for our benefit.

The more interesting question is the identity of the man in linen who had come from a higher dimension and who was clearly above the witnesses and the mal’ak in status. And based upon what we learned when reviewing the prophecies pertaining to Kipurym, there is no question that he is Dowd, the returning Messiah and King. He is not only the one who will be ending the Time of Trouble and delivering his people, he is dressed in linen for a reason. Dowd will be serving as the High Priest on Yowm Kipurym, preparing the Mercy Seat for Yisra’el’s reconciliation. As such, his pants, sash, and headwrap will 257be linen. This is a lesson we learned when translating Zakaryah for the Mow’ed | Appointments volume of Yada Yahowah.

Dowd’s appearance also explains why Myka’el was depicted as sar | representing the anointed king while serving his family. Dowd is the King and we are heralding his return.

This pronouncement indicates that the witnesses will be able to explain the events foretold here in Dany’el and throughout the prophets. So whatever we may miss today, will be resolved soon enough.

Speaking of Dowd…

“Then I listened to (wa shama’) the individual (‘eth ha ‘iysh) clothed in linen (lebuwsh bad) who, for the benefit of the relationship (‘asher), was from the dimension above and beyond (min ma’al – out of the higher place) the source of the waters of the stream (la maym ha ya’or).

He raised (wa ruwm – he lifted up) his right hand (yamyn huw’) and his left (samo’l huw’) toward the heavens (‘el ha shamaym). And then he made a solemn promise (wa shaba’ – he swore an oath based upon seven) in conjunction with the One who lives forever (ba chay ha ‘owlam – through the One who restores life forevermore) that there will be to draw near (ky’ la – on behalf of actually approaching) Mow’ed Mow’edym | Three Years of Restoring Witnesses to the Appointments (Mow’ed Mow’edym – three complete iterations of the continued testimony for the eternal meeting times; from mow – this pertains to and ‘ed – the eternal and restoring witness, everlasting testimony, and enduring evidence) and in the midst of another (wa chatsy – in the middle), then accordingly (wa ka), the separating (naphats – the breaking and dividing, even shattering (piel infinitive)) of the hand and outreach (yad 258– the arm, ability, and influence) of the set-apart people (‘am qodesh – of the family which is distinct and separated, uncommon and unique, special) will be over (kalah – will cease, be finished, and completed (piel infinitive)). All of these things (kol ‘eleh) will come to fruition (kalah – will be fulfilled (qal imperfect jussive)).” (Dany’el 12:7)

Since this story began in the Gan ‘Eden 6,000 years ago, Yahowah has chosen to engage through individuals, whether they be ‘Adam and Chawah, Noach and his family, ‘Abraham and Sarah, or the greatest among us, Moseh and Dowd. On this day, and forevermore, Yahowah has chosen to communicate through His favorite son and our eternal Shepherd. So the returning Messiah and King is making a solemn promise based upon the formula of 6 + 1 = 7 and in concert with God.

It may sound odd to our ears that Dowd is referring to Yahowah as Chay ha ‘Owlam | the One Who Lives Forever and Who Restores Life Forevermore. But it has been 2,500 years since Yahowah last spoke to His people and nearly 3,500 since they last acknowledged His presence in their midst.

‘Eth is the Hebrew word for “time,” not Mow’ed, which is among the most important titles in the Towrah. Therefore, Dowd is being quite specific. He is announcing that the events being discussed here will play out over Mow’ed Mow’edym | three full cycles of the seven annual meetings and then conclude in the midst of the fourth iteration.

He is revealing that the beginning of this timeline, with the arrival of the witnesses, leading to his return will both occur during one of the Mow’ed. Otherwise, there would be no reason to reference this exceptionally important title. And this being the case, the two most important are Chag Matsah, which includes Pesach, and Yowm Kipurym | the 259Day of Reconciliations leading to Sukah | Camping Out with God.

If, therefore, the two witnesses arrive on Pesach | Passover in year 5,997 Yah, which I have concluded is April 17^th, 2030, then the Time of Trouble must conclude in the midst of the annual cycle of Miqra’ey in year 6,000 Yah, which is 2033. Since Chag Matsah is an integrated celebration, Dowd’s return with Yah would have to be no earlier than Shabuw’ah nor later than Kipurym, making October 2^nd at sunset in 2033 the last possible moment.

The statement made by the man in white affirms something I surmised years ago – the Time of Ya’aqob’s Troubles will be 3½ years. While things will become increasingly difficult for Israel and for Jews between now and then, and while there may be a 7-year period of oppression for Israel, the worst will be concentrated toward the end. And this means that the fulfillment of the Taruw’ah Harvest could be as late as year 5996 Yah – September 9^th or 10^th 2029 – which is what we surmised by studying Yasha’yah 17 and 18.

While we would have expected Dowd to reveal that it kalah | will all be over, with every promise fulfilled, only a warrior would say that the hands of the people will no longer be separated or shattered. A sword cannot be lifted nor a shield raised with a broken hand. And in a broader sense, the yad represents a person’s or nation’s outreach and influence, and we know that Yisra’el’s will no longer be constrained. Yahowah and His people will no longer be naphats | separated, as He and a remnant will walk through eternity hand in hand.

Considering what is revealed next, we must approach all of this with the utmost respect and appropriate humility.

“And I listened (wa ‘any shama’), but I did not understand (wa lo’ byn – I was unable to comprehend, failing to make the necessary connections to distinguish 260and discern the lesson).

So I said (wa ‘amar), ‘Dear sir (‘adown ‘any – my upright one), what is the end result of these things (mah ‘acharyth ‘eleh – how does this all conclude at the end for the remnant of the descendants during the last days)?’ (Dany’el 12:8)

He said (wa ‘amar), ‘Go, choosing to walk through life (halak – decide of your own initiative to go on with the conduct of your life (qal imperative)), Dany’el | My God is Judgmental (Dany’el – God is My Means to Decide between Vindication and Condemnation).

These words (ha dabarym – these statements, pronouncements, declarations, and message) are sealed up (satam – are off limits, closed up and hidden, inaccessible and unknowable (qal participle)), enclosed, signed, and stamped (wa chatham – affixed with a seal to prevent being prematurely or inappropriately opened) until the time of the final witness (‘ad ‘eth – for the time just prior to eternity) at the very end (qets – at the completion of time during the last days).’” (Dany’el 12:9)

It is okay. We do not have to know everything to benefit from what Yahowah has provided. Dany’el passed away without understanding what he had seen.

This is important for us for two reasons. First, we ought not be dogmatic and pretend to be know-it-alls. Even Moseh wasn’t perfect – nor was Dowd, not by a long shot. We need to know and understand the elements of Yahowah’s plan which are essential, but not everything is life or death. Our relationship with God is not going to suffer if we struggle in trying to determine the names of each horn, for example.

Second, we must come to grips with the reality that there are things that Yahowah does not want openly disclosed. He does not want everything laid out on a silver 261platter such that even the religious can figure it out. We may or may not answer every riddle in this prophetic puzzle, and yet, we will have fun trying.

In over twenty years of translating and analyzing, I’ve seen many things, but never the rarest of the stems – the hitpael – deployed with successive verbs. It is uncommon because it reveals that those being purged of religion and politics are being perfected expressly because they have avoided being misled or influenced by either of humankind’s most controlling influences…

“Many (rab – numerous and important individuals, an undisclosed but significant quantity of worthy people) will be purged of prevailing influences and cleansed as a result of choosing to examine religious and political constraints (barar – will be cleansed (hitpael imperfect)), independently purified as a result of avoiding societal pressures (wa laban – becoming white and spotless by taking personal responsibility for their lives (hitpael imperfect)) and, thus, they will be refined, benefiting from having been tested and proven right (wa tsaraph – they will be examined and shown to be valuable (nifal imperfect)).

However (wa), of those who will be condemned for acting inappropriately, perpetrating religious and political crimes (rasa’ rasa’ – those who are wrong, who are guilty, and who will be punished for being evil (hifil perfect)), none of them will understand (wa lo’ byn kol – all of them will remain clueless, totally incapable of making the connections needed to be perceptive and comprehend much of anything (qal imperfect)).

And yet (wa), the ones with insight who are discerning, demonstrating the capacity to be observant and circumspect (ha sakal – the prudent who closely examine and diligently explore the evidence, showing discipline in their reasoning (hifil participle)) will 262understand (byn – will make the proper associations and necessary connections to learn and then teach (qal imperfect)).” (Dany’el 12:10)

The fulcrum upon which a soul’s fate pivots downward is religion for most and politics for many. Those who embrace either are ineligible for Shamaym and disqualified from the Beryth.

The conditions of the Covenant are clear. We must walk away from a reliance on human institutions, disassociating from the babel | confusing commingling present within religious and political cultures. It is only then that we are permitted to walk to Yahowah and be perfected. And those who are right in this regard, who pass the open-book test, receive the benefits of the Covenant.

While this is a rewarding time for Yahowah’s Family, it is also Judgment Day for those who have led others astray. Religious and political leaders will be tried and convicted for their crimes against man and God.

There are many things of which I am certain. And one of those is that there is no hope for the overtly religious or political. They will remain clueless, even when given access to the truth. Their faith in what they have chosen to believe has rendered them impervious to evidence and reason. Do not waste your breath with them. You cannot help them. They will not listen to God, and so you will not do any better.

We can read the concluding statement of Dany’el 12:10 in two different ways. The first is that sakal | being observant and circumspect, demonstrating the desire to diligently explore the evidence and then reason our way to understanding represents the means to life eternal. The second is that God is challenging us, saying that if we go about our study in the proper manner, we will understand even the most challenging prophecies.

263That said, since no one has put all of these pieces together to reveal the big picture, sakal has been in short supply. And to be fair, considering the source of this challenge – Dowd – he is likely the smartest person who ever lived. And he had the distinct advantage of being Yahowah’s most prolific prophet. What may have come easy for him will not be as effortless for the rest of us. But fortunately, we do not have to be as wise as our shepherd to be among his sheep.

“And from the time (wa min ‘eth) the continuity (ha tamyd – the continuance and unceasing regularity) is abolished by overwhelming ferocity and force (suwr – is changed and rejected in such a manner that a failure to comply is fatal at this moment in time (hofal perfect)) and the devastating and appalling (wa la shamem – the desolating and damning) abomination (shiquwts – vile religious filth associated with a false god) is appointed (nathan – is assigned and brought forth (qal infinitive)), there will be 1,290 days (yowmym ‘eleph me’ahym wa thesha’ – days one thousand two hundred and ninety).” (Dany’el 12:11)

Dowd has provided a number of definitive clues. First, Yahowah’s Mow’ed will be outlawed – abolished with severe prejudice. The hofal stem affirms that someone – and likely the Lowly and Little Towrahless One – will compel a change of dates, such that observing the Miqra’ey will become a matter of eternal life and mortal death.

Either Satan or his Advocate will announce that he is God. He will demand to be worshiped at the exclusion of Yahowah – whom he will condemn and supplant. An appalling abomination, indeed.

Since the Towrah’s path to God through the Mow’ed Miqra’ey is being universally rejected, even abolished, by the Towrahless One, we can be assured that the Appalling Abomination will not be occurring during Chag Matsah. 264However, there is another date of interest. April 4^th in 2030 is the first day of ‘Abyb, the first month of the year. And it is exactly 1,290 days from the 1^st of ‘Abyb to the conclusion of Sukah in 2033, which occurs on Tishri 23 | October 15^th.

An argument can also be made that ‘Abyb 1 in year 5997 Yah – the date which sets the Mow’ed Mow’edym countdown in motion – begins the previous day, April 3^rd at sunset. And while the renewing sliver of light will cover less than one percent of the moon’s surface and be obscured by the competing light of the setting sun on the 3^rd, if that is the 1^st of ‘Abyb, then 1,290 days takes us to the beginning of the 8^th day of Sukah. And since the 8^th day represents eternity, the trials which follow will determine who has earned an enduring stay in She’owl.

We should expect Satan to use this date because it follows the pattern he has established. His approach is to change the things of God, counterfeiting and corrupting them for his purpose, rather than invent something creative on his own initiative. Further, in that the Appalling Abomination is Satan’s coming-out party, where he declares that he is God Almighty, there would be no more appropriate time for this new era to begin than on ‘Abyb 1, New Year’s Day.

Recognizing the fact that there are exactly 1,290 days from either April 3^rd or 4^th, 2030 to the commencement or conclusion of the eighth day of Sukah, October 14^th or 15^th, 2033, the fit is compelling.

It is nonetheless possible that the concluding date could be Dowd’s Yowm Kipurym return with Yahowah on Tishri 10 | October 2^nd, 2033. If so, it would mean that the Appalling Abomination will occur on Saturday, March 23^rd, 2030 – a day which currently has no significance. Either way, the timing is intriguing because in both scenarios, the Appalling Abomination will be occurring 265just prior to Chag Matsah and the arrival of the two witnesses on Pesach in 5997 | 2030. This, thereby, explains why a banner is going to be elevated by God showing the consequence of this change.

Only one problem remains, and it is found in the next statement where 1,335 days are referenced. We are not expressly told why 45 days have been added, but the clues have been laid out all around us. So I think the answer is apparent.

With there being exactly 1,290 days, and with the symbolism so appropriate for the beginning and concluding dates of ‘Abyb 1 and the 7^th or 8^th day of Sukah in years 5997 and 6000 Yah, the answer is staring us in the face. The addition of 45 days, from 1,290 to 1,335, depicts 40 and 5 days following Sukah’s eighth day in year 6000 Yah. Forty represents the time of testing throughout the Towrah and Prophets and five is the number of confusion, the number assigned to the era of political and religious control over Yisra’el and Yahuwdym. Man (6) without God (1) = 5. Therefore, there will be 5 days of trials for the 5 worst men who ever lived followed by 40 days when the less offensive religious and political players will be judged.

As for the Evil Five on Yahowah’s Wall of Shame, consider Paul, ‘Akiba, Hadrian, Maimonides, and Muhammad. The contenders, should there be tandem trials each day, might pair up as follows: Paul and Muhammad, ‘Akiba and Maimonides, Titus and Hadrian, followed by Hitler and Stalin, with a full day reserved for Roman emperors and Catholic popes.

Satan will want to usher in his reign as God on New Year’s Day and Yahowah will want to complete His Sukah celebration with His family after His Kipurym return. The business of judgment will wait. And as He has always done, Yahowah will assign the responsibility of eliciting retribution and recompense to those He deems fit – likely 266the two witnesses with teams of mal’ak | messengers at the ready. This is precisely what we have been reading about.

Therefore, with the Appalling Abomination occurring on ‘Abyb 1, 5997 Yah – New Year’s Day – the Time of Trouble will run 1,290 days from April 3^rd or 4^th, 2030 to the commencement or conclusion of Chag Sukah on October 14^th or 15^th, 2033, in year 6000 Yah. Then the five and forty days of trials will commence with the Witnesses presiding.

“Blessed and delighted (‘ashry – we are thrilled, enjoying every moment; from ‘asher – to receive the benefits of the relationship and ‘any – we or me (plural)) are those who continue in this state and who remain confident and certain (ha chakah – are those who anticipate and expect this outcome to occur by adhering to that which can be trusted, longing for it to transpire (piel participle)), continuing in close contact for the arrival (wa naga’ – reaching the point (hifil imperfect)) of 1,335 days (la yowmym ‘eleph shalosh me’owah shalosh wa chamesh).” (Dany’el 12:12)

In chamesh | five, we find a telling insight. It is closely related to chamets | the embittering fungus of yeast which is cruel and oppressive – Yahowah’s favorite symbol for the pervasive corruption associated with religion and politics. It is chamets which must be removed for us to live with Yah. And that is why those abounding in chamets | yeast are enduring the five days of trials for the worst of men followed by 40 days when the less offensive religious and political actors will be judged at the end of the age.

For God’s Covenant Family, these are the best of times. For the religious and political, the patriotic and conspiratorial, it is their prelude to hell. And there will be 45 days of trials to set the record right.

There is a subtle reminder here of something we learned in previous volumes. Yahowah is serious about 267recompense and retribution – about righting wrongs, holding the guilty accountable, and providing justice and a sense of closure for the victims along life’s way. This suggests that God’s witnesses will not be alone executing judgment. Yahowah’s Covenant Family and those who were abused by the worst of humankind will be in attendance. Although, those who were unfairly stricken will rest in peace knowing that those who tormented them are being held accountable, their souls will not survive to enter forevermore. Only those who were right, who continued to be assured of their relationship with the Almighty, will continue to be blessed and delighted.

I cannot help but smile knowing that my personal journey and work with Yahowah will conclude where it began, with ‘asher. This is the word which was errantly translated in every English Bible I consulted some 21 years ago when trying to make sense of the prophecy in 2 Shamuw’el 7. ‘Asher is the first word I would attempt to translate from the Hebrew text. And now, on the cusp of retirement, it defines forevermore with friends and family – many of whom will have journeyed along with me.

Like so many of us…

“Of your own freewill, choose to journey through life, traveling (wa ‘atah halak – you should go (qal imperative)) to the final destination (la ha qets – to the finish line, right to the very end, pushing the boundaries and the limits).

Then you will find spiritual rest, settling down and relaxing (wa nuwach – you will find repose and be permitted a vacation in your retirement (qal imperfect)), allowed to be present and always remain (wa ‘amad – appointed and sustained, empowered and supported, standing up and enduring (qal imperfect)) in your allotted place (la gowral ‘atah – as your inheritance and share of what is being offered) at the end of days (la qets ha 268yowmym).” (Dany’el / My God is Judgmental / Daniel 12:13)

The reason Dany’el wrote this down was for our edification. If this message was just for him, God’s word would have been sufficient. Therefore, we should all live our lives to the fullest extent, pushing the boundaries, so that, when we reach the final destination, there are no regrets. It is why I have been devoted to translating and explaining Yahowah’s Towrah and Naby’ to the best of my ability as God has equipped me to complete this mission for His people. And there are now many at my side, walking with purpose, fulfilling their roles in Yahowah’s Family and for the benefit of Yisra’el.

We will have all eternity to rest, relax, and reflect upon all that was accomplished during the time it mattered for those whose lives will have been restored. Let’s push ahead, test our limits, and cross the finish line with smiles on our faces and our heads held high.

Before we return to the 7^th chapter of Dany’el and consider the events which are foretold, let’s reconsider what we have just read…

“And so at that time (wa ba ha ‘eth ha hy’), Myka’el | the one who validates this association with God, verifying these connections to the Almighty (Myka’el), who is the representative of the anointed king while serving the leader’s family (sar), will have an important role in nourishing the growth while promoting through amplification to empower (ha gadowl) your family’s children (‘al ben ‘am ‘atah), taking a stand, present and accountable, appointed and supported (‘amad).

Then there will be (wa hayah) a Time (‘eth) of Trouble (tsarah), beyond which has ever existed (‘asher lo’ hayah) from a gentile nation (min hayah gowy) prior to this time (‘ad ha ‘eth ha hy’).

269And (wa) during this period (ba ha ‘eth ha hy’), your people (‘am ‘atah) will be saved, everyone rescued from harm’s way and delivered (malat kol) who is found (ha matsa’) written (kathab) in the book (ba ha sepher). (Dany’el 12:1)

And many important and infamous individuals (wa rab) of those who are asleep in an altered state of consciousness (min yashen) in the dust of the earth (‘adamah ‘aphar) will be awakened (qyts), some of these (‘eleh) to the restoration of life everlasting, growing forevermore (la chay ‘owlam) and others (wa ‘eleh) to eternal (‘owlam) scorn and shame, insults and reproach, accusations and censure (cherpah) for having been abhorrent and appalling in goading others in a repulsive and loathsome manner (dera’own). (Dany’el 12:2)

Therefore, the circumspect with insight, those who are intelligent and properly instructed, discerning and discriminating, demonstrating the capacity to understand (wa ha sakal) will become prominent, obtaining a high status, being respected among heavenly beings, shining brightly while enlightening and admonishing (zahar), similar to the light (ka zohar) of the expansive universe (ha raqya’), such that they will be greatly valued for the numerous worthy individuals who will be vindicated for being right (wa tsadaq ha rab), becoming like stars (ka ha kowkab) as eternal and restoring witnesses forevermore (la ‘owlam wa ‘ad). (Dany’el 12:3)

As for you, Dany’el (wa ‘atah Dany’el), seal up this testimony, making the message secure while precluding access to the meaning hidden within the words (satam ha dabarym) and place a stamp and signature on the book (wa chatam ha sepher) until before the time of the restoring witnesses runs out (‘ad ‘eth qets).

270Many, and notably rabbis and others who are infamous and exalted (rab), will wander about aimlessly, rowing up a waterfall, accomplishing nothing and getting nowhere (shuwth), even with access to information which leads to understanding (wa ha da’ath) becoming more prevalent (rabah). (Dany’el 12:4)

Then I, Dany’el | knowing that my God is judgmental (wa ‘any Dany’el), looked (ra’ah), and behold (wa hineh), the two others in the end (shanaym ‘acher) were present, appointed and accounted for, supported while taking a stand (‘amad). One individual (‘echad) was now present here (henah) as the means to channel speech, conveying the message (la saphah ha ya’or). And the other person (wa ‘echad) was simultaneously present close by (henah) as a conduit for words, with verbally expressive lips flowing with language (la saphah ha ya’or). (Dany’el 12:5)

Then (wa) he said (‘amar) to the individual (la ha ‘iysh) of linen garments (ha bad) who, for the benefit of the relationship (‘asher), was from the dimension above and beyond (min ma’al) the source of the waters of the stream (la maym ha ya’or), ‘How long will this restoring witness be until (‘ad matay) the end (qets) of these distinguishing and intensely wonderful explanations and astounding communication of things that would otherwise be difficult to understand (ha pele’)? (Dany’el 12:6)

Then I listened to (wa shama’) the individual (‘eth ha ‘iysh) clothed in linen (lebuwsh bad) who, for the benefit of the relationship (‘asher), was from the dimension above and beyond (min ma’al) the source of the waters of the stream (la maym ha ya’or).

He raised (wa ruwm) his right hand (yamyn huw’) and his left (samo’l huw’) toward the heavens (‘el ha 271shamaym). And then he made a solemn promise, swearing an oath based upon seven (wa shaba’) in conjunction with the One who lives forever and restores life forevermore (ba chay ha ‘owlam) that there will be to draw near (ky’ la) Mow’ed Mow’edym | Three Years of Restoring Witnesses to the Appointments (Mow’ed Mow’edym) and in the midst of another (wa chatsy), then accordingly (wa ka), the separating (naphats) of the hand and outreach (yad) of the set-apart people (‘am qodesh) will be over (kalah). All of these things (kol ‘eleh) will come to fruition (kalah). (Dany’el 12:7)

And I listened (wa ‘any shama’), but I did not understand (wa lo’ byn). So I said (wa ‘amar), ‘Dear sir (‘adown ‘any), what is the end result of these things (mah ‘acharyth ‘eleh)?’ (Dany’el 12:8)

He said (wa ‘amar), ‘Go, choosing to continue to conduct your life (halak), Dany’el | because My God is Judgmental (Dany’el). These words (ha dabarym) are sealed up (satam), enclosed, signed, and stamped (wa chatham) until the time of the final witness (‘ad ‘eth) at the very end during the last days (qets).’ (Dany’el 12:9)

Many (rab) will be purged of prevailing influences and cleansed as a result of choosing to examine religious and political constraints (barar), independently purified as a result of avoiding societal pressures (wa laban), and they will be refined, benefiting from having been tested and proven right (wa tsaraph).

However (wa), of those who will be condemned for acting inappropriately, perpetrating religious and political crimes (rasa’ rasa’), none of them will understand, remaining clueless, unable to make the connections needed to comprehend much of anything (wa lo’ byn kol).

And yet (wa), the ones with insight who are discerning, demonstrating the capacity to be observant 272and circumspect (ha sakal) will understand (byn). (Dany’el 12:10)

And from the time (wa min ‘eth) the continuity, the unceasing continuance (ha tamyd) is abolished by overwhelming ferocity and force (suwr) and the devastating and appalling, even damning (wa la shamem) abomination (shiquwts) is appointed (nathan), there will be 1,290 days (yowmym ‘eleph me’ahym wa thesha’). (Dany’el 12:11)

Blessed and delighted (‘ashry) are those who continue in this state and who remain confident and certain (ha chakah), continuing in close contact through the arrival (wa naga’) of 1,335 days (la yowmym ‘eleph shalosh me’owah shalosh wa chamesh). (Dany’el 12:12)

Of your own freewill, choose to journey through life, traveling (wa ‘atah halak) to the final destination, to the finish line, right to the very end, pushing the boundaries and the limits (la ha qets).

Then you will find spiritual rest, settling down and relaxing during your retirement (wa nuwach), allowed to be present and always remain (wa ‘amad) in your allotted place as your inheritance (la gowral ‘atah) at the end of days (la qets ha yowmym).” (Dany’el / My God is Judgmental / Daniel 12:13)

Since there is so much more to learn regarding the identity of the horns growing out of Imperial and Catholic Rome, let’s contemplate the possibilities while trying not to get too far ahead of God’s story. If you recall, in the 7^th chapter of Dany’el, Yahowah explained…

273“After this, following this sequence of events (ba danah ‘atar), I remained observant (chazah hawah) regarding this revelation during a time of enfolding darkness (ba chazuw lyly). And behold (wa ‘aruw), the fourth (raby’ay) monstrous beast (chywah) was the most fearsome and formidable, dreadful and frightening, respected only for being overtly oppressive, terrifying, and threatening (dachal), genuinely horrifying and appalling, terribly gruesome (wa ‘eymatan), with (wa) an exceptionally powerful and preeminent military (yatyr taqyph).

It had (wa la hy’) teeth comprised of iron (shen dy parzel la). Great multitudes, including the highly populated and powerful (rab), it devoured and devastated (‘akal), crushing the remainder (wa daqaq wa sha’ar) with its feet (ba ragal hy’) by trampling them down violently, celebrating while destroying them (raphats) under foot (ba ragal).

And so (wa), this one was different in its transformation and evolution (hy’ shanah) from all of the other (min kol) beasts (chywah) which preceded it (dy qodam hy’). Ten (wa ‘asar) horns (qeren) were extended from her (la hy’). (Dany’el 7:7)

I was thinking about, trying to understand (hawah sakal) what was with the horns (ba qeren) and then, behold (wa ‘aluw), another and final (‘achoran) horn (qeren), a smaller one of lower status (za’eyr), came up between them and among them (selaq ben ‘inuwn).

And three (wa talat) among (min) the initial group of horns (qadmay qeren) were dehorned (‘aqar) from before her (min qodam hy’).

Then behold (wa ‘aluw), eyes (‘ayn), like the eyes of a human (ka ‘ayn ‘enash) in this unique horn (ba qeren da’), along with (wa) a mouth (pum) speaking 274powerfully and abundantly as an esteemed rabbinical authority (malal rab). (Dany’el 7:8)

I caught myself laughing because Sha’uwl, the founder of the Christian religion and the author and inspiration behind the faith’s “New Testament,” chose the Roman name “Paulos” which means “lowly and little.” Paul, therefore, serves as the archetype for the Towrahless One whose most appalling act will be the abomination of imposing the Lord as God.

While the 7^th chapter, unlike the 12^th, was written in Aramaic, Yahowah uses ‘achoran to address the “last” days leading up to and during the Time of Troubles. Therefore, this final horn emerges long after the fall of the Roman Empire – although not its Church.

In Hebrew, the same word, qeren, speaks of power, influence, and therefore kingdoms and institutions. Horns were initially used as the crowns for kings and leading clerics. As an example, the Horns of Ammon symbolize Alexander the Great’s claim that he was the son of the Egyptian god Ammon.

In trying to ascertain the identity of the newly fashioned, lowly and little horn emerging in the last days from among the ten divisions of Imperial Rome and the Holy Roman Empire, we are immediately drawn to nations which were once part of both. The most important ten would include: Italy, Spain, France, England, Germany, Austria / Hungary, Romania, what was once Yugoslavia, Greece, and Turkey. As for the Lowly and Little Horn and the three emerging nations, let’s begin by considering the candidates. In doing so, we are drawn to the plethora of nations emerging from the troubled Balkan region that gave the Romans so much trouble.

Moreover, as we shall learn in the following chapters, the emerging confederacy is every bit as much Greek geographically as it will be a legacy of Rome religiously. 275And with this in mind, we have to find the intersection of empires – recognizing that Yahowah is addressing the Macedonian Empire which grew southeast of Greece.

As for Greece, which Rome conquered, the modern nation became sovereign and independent when it seceded from the Ottoman Empire in 1828 and was officially recognized in 1830. And yet, there are portions of the Macedonian realm which meet every condition delineated in the prophecy – including those described in Dany’el 8 (where, in 8:9, it is the homeland of Alexander the Great).

The Romans called ancient Helena “Macedonia” in tribute to Alexander the Great. This region included the entire Greek Peninsula, all of present-day Macedonia (recently renamed the Republic of North Macedonia), and most of Albania, in addition to the western Aegean Islands.

While it may be superfluous, in the 2^nd and 3^rd centuries CE, greater Macedonia was divided into the provinces of Achaea (the southern tip of the Greek Peninsula), Macedonia (northern and eastern Greece, southern Albania, including today’s North Macedonia, and southwestern Bulgaria), Epirus (extreme northwestern Greece), Thrace (southeastern Bulgaria and extreme northwestern Turkey), Sparta (southeastern Peloponnese), and Crete (in the Mediterranean Sea south of Greece and west of Turkey).

Recognizing that modern-day Greece is neither newly conceived, small geographically, insignificant in population, nor immaterial internationally, there are only two candidates left to consider: Albania and North Macedonia. Albania was established after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in Europe following the Balkan Wars, declaring its independence in 1913 as the Principality of Albania. It became the Albanian Republic in 1925, the Albanian Kingdom in 1928, then shifted to the People’s Republic of Albania by 1946, before returning to the 276Republic of Albania in 1991. While it is no doubt small, and clearly searching for its own identity, it is nonetheless part of NATO, suggesting that it isn’t as insignificant as it is confusing. And since it will be one hundred thirteen years old at the time addressed in this prediction, I suspect that’s too senior to qualify. And that leaves us with North Macedonia.

The Republic of Macedonia declared its independence from Yugoslavia and became a sovereign state in 1991. It is tiny, less than ten thousand square miles. Its nominal Gross Domestic Product is just $12 billion. A scant two million people call this landlocked country in the central Balkan peninsula of Southeastern Europe home – a quarter of which are Muslims who want to leave the predominantly Eastern Orthodox nation.

While things are changing rapidly, Macedonia was rejected by the European Union although accepted by NATO. Interestingly enough, its flag and national anthem pay tribute to the sun, Satan’s principal guise. The population provides an interesting blend of Socialist Humanists, Eastern Orthodox Christians, and fundamentalist Muslims – which will likely mirror the mindset and heritage of the Towrahless One.

Additionally, based upon the references to gowy | gentile and yam | sea, this Beast will be a Gentile. So it is pertinent to note that there are less than 200 Jews residing in North Macedonia today.

In compliance with the prophecy, North Macedonia is surrounded by a number of small nations, several of which could easily be amalgamated into it. The options include: Montenegro, Albania, Kosovo, and Serbia. However, since the prophecy reveals that three of the previous Roman principalities would be cut off, we should be looking for easy and perhaps larger prey.

Even a cursory economic evaluation of annual national 277deficits and cumulative debt demonstrates that a time is quickly approaching when the European Union will divest itself of Greece and Italy – making them susceptible to a Macedonian alliance. But don’t forget about Turkey. It has consistently been denied admission into the Eurozone and its economy is in shambles. Therefore, as worldwide recessions turn into depressions, Turkey might readily join such an alliance – in fact, I’d bet on it.

In Dany’el 8:9, after revealing that the Terror of the Time of Trouble will come out of the place from which Alexander descended upon the world, Macedonia, we discover that his influence will expand southward and eastward toward the Promised Land. That is a perfect fit for Greece and Turkey – but could also include Italy if its economy continues to freefall.

And then as we continue to move toward Israel, either Syria or Lebanon would qualify for the third assimilated nation. By this time, based upon Yasha’yah / Isaiah 17, the Syrian government will have fallen to Islamic terrorists and that is already the case with Hezbollah in Lebanon.

If you are looking for the Towrahless One, misidentified by Christians as the “Antichrist,” the prophetic evidence reveals that you’ll find this uniquely duplicitous and verbose statesman among Macedonian politicians. And based on the “lowly and little” reference, I suspect he will be a Christian, at least on his mother’s side, a devotee of the Eastern Orthodox Church and a product of a Socialist Secular education. He will be an anti-Semite and Muslim sympathizer – perhaps even having a Muslim father. I would also expect him to cultivate a following in Greece, Turkey, Syria, and Lebanon, perhaps even Rome, creating an economic alliance that will quickly grow into an economic confederacy – perhaps during the Great Reset – especially as the world maneuvers in reaction to the fall of the Syrian government and the threat of world war.

278And of course, the planet is already in upheaval. The draconian reaction by governments to the Covid-19 virus, depriving the masses of liberty and livelihood, destroyed the world’s economies. Taunting Russia to invade Ukraine, and then arming the resistance while imposing sanctions has further bankrupted the world, creating runaway inflation while leaving nations energy starved and hungry. It also pushed Russia, China, and Iran together – an alliance that will be menacing for the world and especially Israel. Making matters worse, droughts and floods are devastating entire populations, leaving many homeless and restless.

The following statement suggests that the Towrahless One will keep the leaders of the assimilated nations in place but will orchestrate their influence within his alliance. And if true, this next pronouncement should be associated with the previous one.

“I continued to watch (hawah chazah – I kept focused and observant) while (‘ad – until and as) those thrones (dy karse’ – these positions of power) were set in place (ramah – were imposed and completely positioned (piel perfect)).” (Dany’el / God Judges and Vindicates / Daniel 7:9)

And we shall as well. Yahowah is revealing our history, past, present, and future. He does not want any of us to be left in the dark.