Daniel's End-Time Prophecies for Middle East

So, my friends, we're going to start out just with a couple verses. We're not going to read the entire verses, but it goes into the book of Daniel. I've mentioned this for about 12 years now that the book of Daniel will carry you through to the end of the age. Daniel in four places in the book of Daniel, it says it's for the end of the age. Nebuchadnezzar's statue dream, most Christians are familiar with that, Jewish people are familiar with that. Most people believe that was Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, Cyrus of Persia, and Alexander the Great of Macedonia of the Grecian Empire. Daniel 2:28 would disagree with that. Daniel told Nebuchadnezzar that God said, "This is for the latter days." So Nebuchadnezzar's statue dream is for the end of the age, not Nebuchadnezzar, not Cyrus, and not Alexander.

The biblical prophets had a great gift that was given to them by Yahweh. They would prophesy through their day and shortly after, which would be for the end of the age as well. So it's a double fulfillment, if you will. Because Daniel 2:28 says it's for the latter days, the *aḥarit hayamim* in the Hebrew, that means the end. Nebuchadnezzar lived 2500 years ago. So that's not the end of the age. So Daniel 2:28 would disagree with everyone out there who says that those three or four kingdoms came to fruition 2500 years ago, the total fulfillment. We're seeing that right now with Saddam Hussein, the Al-Qaeda, Khamenei, now he's no longer. And now we're seeing Turkey. The third kingdom. We've got to understand what the book of Daniel truly said. So Daniel 2:28 would disagree with anyone who thinks this is for the 2500 years ago with Nebuchadnezzar. It's for the end of the age. And if that is the case, that's what we're seeing right now.

So let's read Daniel 7 and Daniel 8 because it's going to tell you exactly what this empire is going to do. So if you just look at the prophetic understanding of it, just like Daniel said, Babylon first, Medo-Persia, Iran second, Turkey third, not Greece. It would be *Yavan*, which is Turkey, and then those three will be a conglomerate empire for the beast kingdom. So my friends, you have seen that since 2003. You've seen Saddam Hussein of Babylon, the Babylonian Empire. That's where Babylon was, was Iraq. It fell in 2003. So if we're living at the end of the age, and Daniel 2:28 says it's for the end of the age, and Daniel said that the Babylonian Empire will rise again at the end, then you have to put Saddam Hussein there. He was a very powerful guy, a very powerful country over there. That's why America got him out of the way in 2003.

Well, Daniel said the next kingdom would be Persia, Iran, at the end of the age. So, we're just going to focus on those two right now because you've seen Iraq fall in '03. And ever since that time, Iran has been the superpower, regional power over in the Middle East. That should be pretty obvious to anyone who keeps up with geopolitics. Most Americans don't understand this. They think Persia is just some terrorist organization, which they are, but a terrorist organization and they're nothing, kind of like Hamas or Hezbollah. And that is not correct. These are the Persians, the old-time Persians, the people of Persia, for 2500 years ago. So this is not Hamas or Hezbollah or Venezuela or any of these people that I mean, goodness, we can't even beat Hamas and Hezbollah. So again, Iran is Persia in the Bible, and we've got to look at it from the perspective of the book of Daniel and also the other biblical prophets.

So let's go to Daniel 7. Daniel 7 has four kingdoms, just like Daniel 2, that will rise to power at the end of the age. It's the sister chapters. It's the same thing. Just two witnesses will establish the matter. Look what Daniel 7, verse 5 says about Iran, Persia, the bear: "And suddenly another beast, a second like a bear. It was raised up on one side and had three ribs in its mouth. And they said to it, 'Arise and devour much flesh.'" So my friends, we are all familiar where Iran is. I'll show you guys this on our map here. Daniel says that the bear is going to rise and he's going to eat much flesh. That's what Iran's going to do. Whether people like it or not, that's what Daniel 7 says. It's for the end of the age. And that's what you're seeing right now is Iran in the last 23 years. Iran has spread its antennas across the Middle East with terror, with the Houthis, with Hamas. I'll kind of show you where those are if you're not familiar with it. The Houthis are down here in Yemen. Hezbollah is in southern Lebanon, and Hamas is in Gaza. They are proxies of Iran. So they have devoured much flesh. I think we can all agree with that in the last 23 years. Iran's been the big dog over there with terrorism. After Iraq fell in '03, Iran basically had major influence in that country. I mean, goodness, the prime minister Sudani, who just got ousted by the new prime minister, he was Shia. I think they have about, they have a mostly Shia population in Iraq.

But my friends, you can't go against biblical prophecy. I love America. I love the state of Israel. I love the soldiers. I love everybody. The bottom line is, is biblical prophecy is biblical prophecy. And these guys are going against biblical prophecy. Which means that's why you're seeing what you're seeing for the last six months. Is because people think that America can do all these things, and we cannot do these things for many, many reasons. Number one, God's not going to allow America to beat the beast kingdom. That's not what He's going to do. Not America. So we've got to get away from some of this American pride, American ego, American dominance, and all of these things, because Yeshua is going to do this. Jesus is going to do this. So all of my Christian friends, all of my Jewish friends, even though you don't believe in Yeshua, most of you, you have to understand the Jewish Messiah is going to be the Islamist, not any other nation on the face of this earth, including America. I think that has been proven over six months. And you'll only see that go further down the line if America is not careful with this. It will ruin the American empire for good if we're not careful. We'll get more into the statistics of these things that we're seeing that makes it so mind-boggling about what we are going to do.

So my friends, you saw it in Daniel 7. Don't take my word for it. Read the book of Daniel. Daniel says in four chapters that this is for the end of the age, everybody. Daniel 2:28. Daniel 7 is a sequence of kingdoms, four kingdoms, and then the return of the Messiah. He's going to crush them all together, all the Islamists. And then we have Daniel 8, which we're about to read, 17-20, that says this is for the end of the age three times. Daniel 10, which is what you're seeing now with Israel and Iran, the kingdom of Persia. The angel was fighting the kingdom of Persia for 21 days, round one, and then round two happened. And then he says *Yavan*'s coming next. And he says in verse 14, "This is for the *aḥarit hayamim*, the end of the age, the latter days." Four places in Daniel. He says, "This book is for the end, everybody. The kingdoms are for the end." Daniel 12:4, what does it say? "Seal your book, Daniel. Seal it until when?" Nebuchadnezzar's time? After that? No, until the end of the age, the latter days.

So, my friends, these four kingdoms you're seeing right in front of your eyes. And right now, I think it's pretty obvious. You're seeing the Iranian kingdom, the Persian kingdom, that was prophesied by the prophet Daniel. And no one is going to beat that kingdom except for what is mentioned in Daniel 8. So we're going to go through this really quick, just a few verses to let everybody know what's about to go down. Daniel 8, 1-7, it says this right here, excuse me: "In the third year of the reign of King Belshazzar, a vision appeared to me, Daniel, after the one that appeared to me the first time. I saw in the vision, and it so happened while I was looking that I was in Susa, the citadel, which is in the province of Ilam." I'm going through this prophecy for a reason because when we get to the geopolitics, you're going to see some amazing things of what's going on in Ilam right now with oil pipelines and all of these things that are going to go into all of these things with the prophets. So he was in Susa, Ilam. Let me show you where that is so you can get a picture of this. He was right here, my friends. Daniel was in the province of Ilam. And let me show you where that is. That's right here in southwest Iran, you know, right in this area right here. So keep just keep that in mind as we look at the geopolitics about he saw the vision right here. That's where Daniel was.

All right. So as we continue the vision, he was in Susa, the citadel, which is in the province of Ilam. And I saw in the vision I was by the river Ulai. Which basically runs on the borderline of Iraq and Iran. Then I lifted my eyes and I saw there standing beside the river was a ram with two horns. And the two horns were high, but one was higher than the other, and the other, the higher one, came up last. I saw the ram pushing westward, northward, and southward, so that no animal, no kingdom could withstand him, nor was there any that could deliver him from his hand. But he did according to his will and he became great. So just remember that the ram did whatever he wanted to do and he became great because of the authority that God gave them.

Verse 5: "And as I was considering, suddenly a male goat came from the west across the surface of the whole earth without touching the ground. And the goat had a notable horn between its eyes. And then he came to the ram that had two horns, which I had seen standing beside the river, and ran at him with furious power. And I saw him confronting the ram, and he was moved with rage against him. He attacked the ram, broke his two horns, and there was no power in the ram to withstand the goat, but he cast him down to the ground. He trampled him, and there was no one that could deliver the ram from his hand."

So my friends, this is all symbolism that the prophet Daniel gave us. He gave two beasts that were going to rise to power in the Middle East. And we're about to see who he says those are. The ram was going to rise first, and it was going to do its thing north, south, and westward. No kingdom was going to get in its way. It had the authority by God to do what it was going to do. And then suddenly, as it got to its climax of its empire, the goat rises up in the west of the biblical world, not America, the biblical world. And then he came and he crushed the ram, stomped him, trampled him. There was no power in the ram to withstand the goat's hand.

So Daniel tells us at the end of, or we're about to see this, that we're about to see two great powers in the Middle East lock horns for supremacy of the Middle East. So now let's forward and see when this prophecy will happen and who these two players are. In verse 17 of Daniel 8: "So he came near where I stood, and when he came, I was afraid and I fell on my face. But he said to me, 'Daniel, understand, son of man, that the vision refers to the *aḥarit hayamim*, the end of the age, the latter days, not in Nebuchadnezzar's time, not in Cyrus's time, not in Alexander's time.'" Now, as he was speaking with me, I was in a deep sleep with my face to the ground. But he touched me and he stood me upright and he said, "Look, I'm making known to you what shall happen in the latter time of the nation. For at the appointed time, the end shall be."

So again, three times, my friends, Daniel says that the entire vision, not separated, not divided, not do whatever, the entire vision is for the end of the age. Most people put Alexander the Great in this because Alexander crushed Persia. And they put the large horn was, excuse me, Alexander, and then the little horn in the rest of Daniel 8 is Antiochus Epiphanes. So that's what some of the historians will say, and they're just wrong because they're not reading Daniel 8:17-20 at the end of the age, not 2500 years ago, not Alexander the Great. How great he was, it is that's not what Daniel's speaking of. Daniel's speaking of *Yavan*. And we've got to understand this.

So, this is for two kingdoms at the end of the age for supremacy of the Middle East. This will be the transition between Daniel 2 and Daniel 7's four kingdoms, which is the second kingdom to the third kingdom. And we're about to see who Daniel confirms these two empires are. As we look into verse 20: "The ram which you saw having the two horns, they are the kings of Media and Persia. And the male goat is the kingdom of Greece. The large horn that is between its eyes is its first king."

So my friends, he tells you right there, number one, it's for the end of the age. Number two, Persia, Iran, the Medes are the Kurds of today, the Kurdish people are the Medes. And just really think about Persia. Persia is the big boy, the large horn, the bigger horn, the higher horn. Persia, Iran is the superpower that Daniel is speaking of as the ram that was going to go north, west, and south and do what he pleases. No one was going to come against him. And I think we can agree that that's come into play, and we might not have seen the end of this. But as he was considering these things, then the goat comes over there, which is *Yavan*. Greece is a mistranslation. If you go to the Hebrew language, Greece is a mistranslation. The English writers translators put Greece in there because of Alexander the Great. Because everybody thinks this is all history. Daniel is a prophet, my friends, not a historian. Please understand that. He's not a historian. He's a prophet for the end of the age. His prophecies say that, and this one does as well. So this is not about Alexander the Great. This is about the large horn. And in this case, if it continues to go down this road, that would be President Erdogan of Turkey, because *Yavan* is on the western coast of Turkey. Just where Yeshua said Pergamus, Turkey, is where Satan's throne is and where he dwells. Present tense language. I don't care if they move the throne to Berlin or not. The spirit of Satan's throne and where he dwells is in western Turkey, Pergamus, Turkey, Turkey at the church of Pergamus in Revelation 2:12-13. Just take it from what Yeshua says. And then go back to Daniel. Because that's what he was saying about Daniel. Go read this prophet and understand the trajectory of these four kingdoms.

So again, we have at the end of the age, we have Iran that's going to rise up and they're going to go northward, southward, and westward and do their thing. And just like it says, no one was going to get in their way. Let's read it and see what the prophet prophesied. Look at what it says in verse 4: "I saw a ram pushing westward, northward, and southward, so that no animal or kingdom could withstand him, nor was there any that could deliver from his hand. But he did according to his will, and he, Iran, became great." And as I was considering Iran, suddenly Turkey came from the west of the biblical world across the whole surface of the whole biblical earth, not America, without touching the ground. And the goat had a notable horn between its eyes. That's not talking about Donald Trump. It's talking about Erdogan in my opinion, if we're on that consistent level of the prophecy. Then he came to the ram with two horns that had been standing beside the river Ulai in Ilam and ran at him with furious power. Turkey will, and I saw Turkey confronting Iran, and he was moved with rage against him. Attacked Iran, broke his two horns, Media and Persia or Kurds in Iran, and there was no power in the ram to withstand Turkey. Iran, excuse me, but Turkey cast Iran to the ground, trampled him, and there was no one that could deliver Iran from Turkey's hand. And then it says, "This is for the end of the age." And then he tells you who exactly these folks are. But you've got to do your research, my friends. You've got to go back into the Hebrew to understand the translations sometimes in the English are wrong. And in this case, it's very wrong. So, we've got to really understand what's going down. Most geopolitical people, most military commanders, you name it, will tell you Turkey is coming. Just mark it down. Mark it down that Turkey is coming hardcore. And they're going to rule the Middle East, and then turn into the beast kingdom with all these other countries. Please understand this is where that's going. Just read the rest of Daniel 8. I just read you a portion of it to prove to you what's going down.

So now let's look at today. Now that you've read the prophecy, it's for the end of the age. How many Christians are saying this is the end of the age? Most of them. How many Jewish people believe this is the end of the age? Some of them, especially in Israel, they're trying to do their part in that. So we have to realize and understand that most believers and even the Jewish people, even the Islamists, they believe in the seven years as well on their own religion. Everybody's looking for the Jewish Messiah, Yeshua, or the Mahdi. All three religions, Islam, the Mahdi, the Antichrist, what we call him, we're looking for Yeshua. And then I guess the Jewish people are looking for their Jewish Messiah, which is Yeshua. So we've got to understand everybody's mindset is for the end. So read Daniel 8 for the end. And you have seen these four kingdoms of Daniel 2 and 7 come exactly down the road. And when Turkey takes over the Middle East, no one's going to be able to debate this because that's three in a row that Daniel has said was going to come at the end of the age.

So with that being said, if Iran's going to become great and they're going to go northward, southward, and westward, no one, no, I mean, read it for yourself. No one's going to get in their way. Read what Daniel 8:4 says: "pushing northward, southward, and westward. No kingdom or animal could withstand Iran, nor was there any that could deliver from Iran's hand. He did according to his will and he became great." That is the prophet Daniel of the word of God. Everybody, I know the Americans might have a hard time with that, but that is the word of God through the prophet, through the angel Gabriel, that prophesied this. And we've got to get our American pride down. We've got to get our egos down. Israel as well to understand it's just not our time yet. I think that's pretty obvious when you read the Bible. It's not our time yet. Now is the time of repentance. For America and Israel, and Iran and the Middle East and the whole world, because this world, and we're going to get into this, is about to go down to some heavy, heavy stuff. And we're going to get into that. This is not a spirit of fear. This is not any of that. This is to open our eyes and look what's going down. The problem I've got, I'll be honest with you guys, is not the politicians. The problem I've got is the believers and the Jewish people who are blinded, who cannot see anything right now other than politicians. That's the problem that I have with people. And I say that, but at the same time, it's getting very serious. And I see a lot of destruction going on in the Middle East. There's no one that's going to win this. Everybody, there's only degrees of losing. As I've said even before this war started, degrees of losing is what this is for all parties. And if God told Daniel that Iran was going to become great, they're going to become great. And I don't know who didn't think they weren't great. I've been trying to tell everybody who they were over in the Middle East. I've tried to tell people for 12 years, you don't want to go over there and mess with these Islamists, man. You're fighting against biblical prophecy. Do you think God's going to give America the victory over Afghanistan or Iraq or Syria or anybody? No. Because they're in the beast kingdom. Why would He allow America or any foreign nation to take His credit, to take His authority, to take His job on this earth is to redeem the Jewish people? So many people believe America's the eagle, which is, I say this in love because there's some good people who believe that, but they're deceived. And it's really blasphemy when you think about it, because God is the eagle, not a pagan nation that America is right now. Aborting babies, homosexuality, transgender, sexual, you name it. Corrupt government. I mean, just look around at America. You think He's going to give America the victory with this kind of stuff? Of course not. So, we've got to get realistic and not into the reality show of this world. And that's where we are. These worldly leaders, every one of them are leading you one place only, man. One place only. And that is to the very end of the age, which is fine with me. But Christians and Jews that are political can't see this. And they think everything's grand. They don't know what time it is. And they've got to wake up and realize what Daniel has said, what Jeremiah has said, what Moses has said, what Yeshua has said. Goodness, Yeshua said it's going to be rough at the end of the age. Not live your best life. Ain't life grand? No. I mean, that's why people have no clue what's about to happen to this world. And again, I think we're going to get more into it to show people this is no bueno what we're doing over there. It hasn't been no bueno for 25 years. Americans, how's that going for you? $40 trillion in debt and climbing. Climbing. You're about to have a global oil crisis. You haven't seen nothing yet. Give the president and Congress credit for manipulating all this stuff, but you can only manipulate it so much. There's a lot of pain coming to the United States of America, my friends. You might not want to hear that right now, but when it happens, I hope you do remember this because it's going to happen. You know, we're about to pay, like Netanyahu likes to say, a heavy price for what we've done over there because we're out of alignment with the biblical prophets. We're out of alignment with the Lord. Well, we're not, but we're out of alignment with the right understanding of it. He's going to take America out of the way. Why would He do that? Because He wants to deal with the Middle East Himself. He wants to deal with Israel Himself. He wants to take America's protection away from the Middle East. This is not a knock on America. America has been a good ally to most people over there, with supporting them, securing them, Saudi Arabia, Israel, you name it. The brothers, right? Think about it. Jordan, Esau, Ishmael, Arabia, and Isaac or Jacob, whichever one you want to call Israel. But we have supported the brothers over there for decades. We've supported Egypt. We've kind of put everything, I mean, give America credit where credit's due. Now it's different. We're at the end of the age. America, get out and let God deal with the Middle East. And He's going to deal with it. He was not going to have America's protection over the Middle East, if you can receive that. Why would He? He wants to deal with the people because most of the people are unbelievers. Most of the people in Israel are unbelievers. Most of the people in the Middle East, of course, are unbelievers. 500 million Muslims. So, He loves the Middle East. He loves Israel, Jacob. He loves the promised land. He loves Iraq. He loves Iran. He loves Persia. And but He's going to deal with them. He is. So, we've got to really understand what's going down, that no one can do what the Jewish Messiah is going to do. And we think or we don't think we're the Jewish Messiah, the Jewish Messiah. I hope not. But everybody thinks that America is this great eagle that's going to go save the Jewish people. That is absolute idolatry when you think about it. Idolatry. America's not. How is that going, by the way? We have proven we can't protect anybody. And I'm not criticizing America, I'm just saying it's just time to move forward. With the end of the age, and America's going to have to get out, because we have proven we cannot protect the Gulf nations, we cannot protect America, protect Israel, we can't open the Hormuz Strait. What are we going to try now? Won't work either. So, we've got to understand where we are and hopefully the president and hopefully the administration will recognize that somebody will enlighten the president on the biblical prophet Daniel. We've got a lot of Christians up there from what I hear. I don't see that, but they say they're Christians. They've got a lot of Jewish people out there who are observant Jews. Well, let's go to the prophet Daniel and let's educate the Trump and the administration on what the prophet did say, because this will only end badly for America and badly for Israel and ultimately badly for Iran once Yeshua gets, once Turkey gets a hold of them, just like the prophecy says.