A Bible Prophecy Timeline (Part 1) – World Government – (Rerun)

Before we start this podcast, I wanted to announce the release of my new book, The Deformation,

Examining Reformation Theology through the Lens of the Early Church by me, Chris White,

available in Kindle, Paperback, and audiobook. It's not about Bible prophecy,

it's more general theology, but I think it's my most important book yet. Again, it's called The

Deformation by Chris White. Welcome to another multi-week study I am calling a Bible prophecy timeline.

It's available as a video presentation, as well as an audio podcast. I've made a graphic here

with 15 Bible prophecy-related events that will occur either just before or during the 70th

week of Daniel, i.e. the 7-year period in the End Times. It is by no means every event that is

said to happen in the End Times. It's my intention to take each section of this timeline and defend

with Scripture the placement of each event. I believe that the simple act of defending the order

of events is going to help people see things about Bible prophecy that they would not have been

able to see any other way. And I think that if you stick around for the first part today about

world government, you will see what I mean by that statement. A couple notes before we get started,

I've decided not to dumb this study down at all. This study is going to assume that you have a

fairly advanced understanding of Bible prophecy. I've also decided not to worry about explaining

difficult subjects that I've already explained in other places. For example, I know a lot of you

will see that in this timeline, I have placed the rapture after the midpoint, but before the day of

the Lord. This is because I hold to something called the pre-rath rapture. Usually, if I hold to a

view like that, I've explained it in detail in some other place. In this case, I wrote and directed

a feature-length film called Seven Pre-Trib Problems and the pre-rath rapture that you can see

at the website, sevenpre-tribproblems.com. So I won't be spending time in this study defending

that view, but if I do come to something that's a little bit out of the ordinary, I will try to

provide additional scripture and other argumentation as much as I can as we progress. Today, I'm just

going to cover one event on this timeline, which is world government. And while I will be discussing

certain arguments for the existence of a world government in the end times, as well as certain

characteristics it is said to have, one of my main goals today is to justify where I've placed

the world government on the Bible prophecy timeline. You may have noticed that the next event I

have on the timeline is the Antichrist Covenant, which most Bible prophecy students will know is the

very first event in the 70th week of Daniel. I'm going to argue that a world government, specifically

the seventh head of the seven-headed ten horned beast of Daniel 7, Revelation 13 and 17, will exist

before the seven-year period begins. I will argue that we are not told how long this seventh head

will have been in existence before the Antichrist is on the scene. It could be one year or a hundred

years or more. I will further argue that the Antichrist will not be associated with the final

empire's creation. In fact, he seems to be in opposition to it when he comes on the scene. He

eventually, as we will see in part 4, actually takes this world system over and makes it about him

and his worship after the abomination of desolation at the midpoint of the seven-year period.

If these two premises that I hope to demonstrate here are true, namely that the Antichrist comes

on the scene significantly after this oppressive world government is established, say 30 years after

for the sake of argument, and that he will initially be in opposition to that ten-king coalition.

Then, Christians who experience these events will be in danger of seeing the one that defeats

this oppressive and evil empire that is the Antichrist as a kind of savior. This would all be

amplified by the fact that this last empire would be a global government. For example, in the past,

belief that a given government or system was the Antichrist system was limited to a smaller area,

usually the area being oppressed by that system. For example, Christians in Europe who were being

persecuted by the Catholic Church were the ones promoting that the Catholic Church was the Antichrist

system. It wasn't a belief that the whole world had at that time. Same thing with Nero,

Attila the Hun, Ginghis Khan, Napoleon, Hitler, Stalin, all of whom have been proposed as Antichrist

candidates by the populations that they ruled. Though I don't know for sure, I would strongly suspect

that Christians in the Underground Church in China right now have teachings about how the

Communist Party of China is the Antichrist system, and again, you can't blame them.

The difference here is that if the world goes into a global government soon, and that government

is oppressive towards Christians, for the first time the entire Christian population of the globe

will have the same enemy, that is, this oppressive global system, and thus all the Christians in

the world will likely be very excited to hear about the man who will defeat this hated enemy.

But this global government will probably have various elements that the Underground Church,

who is being oppressed by it, will teach each other our aspects of the Antichrist and the

Mark of the Beast. After all, I'm quite sure such a global government would require things like

a digital passport and other things that will prevent buying and selling. But a digital passport

just by itself is not necessarily the Mark of the Beast. It may prevent you from buying and selling,

and I'm certainly not going to get one, but the point is it's not necessarily the Mark of the

Beast. There is a lot of information. It needs to be on your right hand or forehead. It needs to

have the number 666 either on it or in it somehow. That number is associated with a man's name.

It has to be given by the false prophet after the midpoint most likely, which is after a man

is sitting in the temple and declared himself to be God. It's given by a false prophet who does

things like call fire down from heaven in the full view of men, something that I don't think people

would miss. It's given so that you will worship the Antichrist. And this is not a minor part of this.

This is the reason for the Mark of the Beast. It is a declaration that you will worship the Antichrist.

Yes, you get to buy or sell as well, but it's primarily that he causes this image of the beast.

He gives it life. You now have to worship it or be killed by it. That's the context of the Mark of

the Beast. The point is there will be a lot of aspects of this seventh head before the Antichrist

that will seem like the end times. I think that Satan will go out of his way to make sure Christians

believe it is the end times. Add to this that it really will have ten kings or kingdoms as

its main bureaucratic apparatus because it really will be the seventh head of the beast. So

Christians are going to have a lot of ammunition when they're teaching their congregations in these

underground churches that this current system is the Antichrist system. But what I hope to prove

to you later in this presentation is that during the first phase of this world government,

the final seventh head world government, none of the actual things that the Bible warns us about

the Antichrist will have happened yet. The more that Christians at the time believe that the system

itself is the Antichrist or some person within that system that's not the Antichrist is the

Antichrist, even though the Antichrist has not actually shown up yet, the more they will be prey

for the actual Antichrist's savior deception when he does arrive. For those of you thinking that

the Antichrist won't come on the scene as a savior, remember that the first thing he does according

to Daniel 927 is make it covenant with many, which apparently allows for the thing that the Jews

have been praying for for almost 3,000 years to happen, that is starting the daily sacrifices in

Jerusalem, which will continue for three and a half years after that point. That is a very pro-Israel

act, and the ten kings are apparently not very happy with it as they go to war with him after

that point. They seem to attack him, which is an interesting thing. He defeats three of those

ten kings in battle, forcing the others to apparently submit to him. They give their royal

authority to him after that. He reshapes that entire world government into a completely different

system that's based on his literal worship. This happens after his apparent resurrection,

which I would argue happens just before the midpoint, something that I will discuss in another

episode. In my various books like False Christ or Mystery Babylon, which are completely free

online at BibleProphesyText.com, I argue that every single thing that the Antichrist is said to do,

including his sitting in the temple declaring himself to be God at the midpoint and demanding

worship, is an attempt to be seen as the real Messiah. I believe that the Bible is showing us a man

who is very concerned with looking like he is fulfilling all the prophecies that the people in

the first century wanted Jesus to fulfill, like defeat specific enemies and set up a world

government with Jerusalem as its capital. I would submit that if you chart all this out which we

will do in this study, it paints a picture of the Antichrist trying to be seen as a liberator

from world government, or at least one form of world government, which is why I think that the

seventh head is also spoken of as an eighth, but still part of the seventh in Revelation 17.

That is, the geography and bureaucracy didn't change much. It was 10 kings at the start,

and it's 10 kings all the way at the end during Armageddon, as we'll see in a minute.

But at the midpoint, it's changed to a theocracy, and the 10 kings give their ruling authority

completely to the Antichrist, thus making it an eighth, but still part of the seventh.

Don't worry, I will explain a lot of this as we progress, but the point is that if Christians

think that a world government that hates and kills Christians is all that you need to be in

the end times, they need to understand that such a system could be a massive setup to love the

man who liberates them from it and maybe even worship him as Messiah. Beginning with the basics,

first I need to do a quick refresher on the seven headed 10 horned beast and the final empire

in Scripture, and I should say that I've recently changed my view on this issue

back to a more traditional understanding of it. I discussed the reasoning behind this change

in a multi weeks audio study on the seven headed 10 horn beast on my podcast, which I will link

in the description. Basically, I used to think that the beasts in Daniel 7 were contemporaneous,

meaning that they exist at the same time in the end times, which sort of threw off my view of

the seven headed 10 horn beast in Revelation. But I now see this whole issue of the seven headed

10 horn beast much like your average pre-millennial Bible prophecy teacher would, which is that

Satan is described in the book of Revelation and to some degree in Daniel as a seven headed 10 horned

beast. The heads of this beast are sometimes called kingdoms and sometimes kings, but I think it's

clear that we are to understand this as interchangeable since they are used both ways. This symbolism

of the seven heads I think can easily be demonstrated to mean that Satan has tried to control the world,

especially Israel, through massive empires on six previous occasions by John's Day in the book of

Revelation. John says of these heads, five have fallen, one which we presume to be Rome is, and one

is yet to come. I, like many prophecy teachers, understand these heads to be Egypt, Babylon,

Medo-Persia, Greece, Rome, and a revived Roman Empire. I don't really like the term revived

Roman Empire to refer to this final empire, but it is appropriate in at least one sense. I think

you can see a geographical progression from the earliest attempts of Satan to rule the world with

Egypt and follow it up through the six head that is Rome and see that with each empire he controls

a little bit more of the Mediterranean Sea. Until finally with Rome, he controlled the whole sea,

something that has never been duplicated since then. I think the Bible gives credence to this theory

to some extent. For example, in Daniel 7, when speaking of these world empires, it says that they

all come up from the Great Sea, which is a term which always is used to describe the Mediterranean

Sea in Scripture. I also think there's more evidence for this little pet theory of mine,

which I talk about in that podcast, but I won't belabor the point here. One point that I think is

important, but very often overlooked, is that it seems like a kind of prerequisite of being one

of these beast nation heads is that it must control Israel. That's not stated directly,

but it certainly was true of the previous six heads, and it would make sense given the events

that we are told that follow. Another important aspect of this seven-headed ten-horned beast

is that its last head, the one that will be on earth during the end times, will have ten horns

with ten crowns on it. This symbolic imagery is explained as being a reference to ten kings.

This reference to ten kings is why many Bible prophecy teachers, including myself,

understand that the final empire of the beast will be ruled by a group of ten

somethings. This could be kings or kingdoms or maybe even nations in my opinion, but ten

somethings will rule at least Israel, but probably much of the Mediterranean coastline as well

if past is prologue. We'll be looking very closely at these ten kings in this study,

since by following their career, it can tell you quite a lot about the end times timeline.

All right, so let me move on to proving the premises of this study. The first thing is that the

final head of this beast will arrive before the Antichrist. So the ten kings will come before

the Antichrist is even on the scene. Let's first look at Daniel chapter seven, starting in verse

eight. This is when Daniel has a vision about this the head and it's got horns. It says this,

I considered the horns, these ten horns, and behold, there came up from among them another horn.

So when now we get eleven horns, a little horn before which three of the first horns were plucked

up by the roots and behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man and a mouth speaking

great thing. So this is widely understood. This little horn to be a picture of the Antichrist.

Later on in verse 24 or so, the angel begins to interpret this vision that Daniel had about the

beast and the horns and all this other stuff. And it says, as for the ten horns, out of this kingdom,

he's speaking of that final head, which the angels already told him is a kingdom.

Out of that head, ten kings shall arise. And another shall arise after them. He shall be different

than the former ones, and shall put down three kings. So this little horn, who is widely

understood to be a reference to the Antichrist, is said here to come after the ten kings are

established. It says quite clearly. He shall arise after them. It then seems to reiterate that by

using the word former ones, the aromatic word for former or first, and then it says he shall put

down three kings. Even the idea that he's putting down three kings is an argument that he comes

after them. They've already been established to some extent, right? If he's now putting them down.

The three of the ten kings that the Antichrist quote puts down are not destroyed during this conflict.

The word used by the interpreting angel for what the Antichrist does to these three kings means to

subdue or humiliate them. And that is the word that a lot of Bible translations use. I think you

can actually see a picture of this war and then subservience in Daniel 11, but that's a story

for another episode. I think that we can know that these ten kings who necessarily exist before

the Antichrist arises. So before the 70th week of Daniel, or at the very least right at the

beginning of the 70th week of Daniel, they exist as ten units all the way up until the very end

of the 70th week of Daniel. So for that entire seven year period, we can determine where these

ten kings are. For example, in Revelation 17, 12 through 14, it starts to give us clues about this.

It says, and the ten horns that you saw are ten kings who have not yet received royal power,

but they are to receive authority as kings for one hour together with the beast. These are of one

mind, and they hand over their power and authority to the beast, and they will make war on the lamb,

and the lamb will conquer them. For he is Lord of Lord and King of kings, and those with him are

called chosen and faithful. So now we have the angel's interpretation of that vision, which says,

and the ten horns that you saw, and the beast will hate the prostitute, they will make her desolate

and naked, and devour her flesh and burn her with fire. For God has put it into their hearts to

carry out his purpose by being of one mind and handing over their royal power to the beast,

until the words of God are fulfilled, and the woman that you saw is that great city that has

dominion over the kings of the earth. Because the destruction of mystery Babylon, which is

talking about there, is one of the very last events in the book of Revelation chronologically,

we can be sure that these ten kings exist right up to the end of the 70th week of Daniel.

Though it just calls them kings in this verse because of the reference to them going to war

against the lamb, I think it's a pretty sure bet that these are the same ten kings that are part

of the group gathered to go to war with the lamb in Revelation 19 at the Battle of Armageddon,

and I saw the beast and the kings of the earth with their armies gathered to make war against him

who was sitting on the horse and against his army. So if we take for granted that the ten kings

in Daniel 7 are the same ones in Revelation 17, which I think most would agree is quite clear,

then what follows from that premise is, number one, the ten king government exists before the

antichrist comes on the scene. Number two, this government is conquered by the antichrist,

but they will not be destroyed by him. And number three, after this conquest, all ten kings will

give their ruling authority to the antichrist, but they will apparently still control this system to

some extent. The hour that the ten kings are said to rule with the beast is symbolically speaking

of the time after his conquest, which I hope to prove to you during this series is referring to

the three and a half year period after the midpoint when the antichrist declares himself to be

God, turning their world government into a theocracy. This is why the book of Revelation

seems to suggest there are actually two phases to the seventh and final head empire.

Quote, they are also seven kings, five of whom have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come,

and when he does come, he must remain only a little while. As for the beast that was and is not,

it is an eighth, but it belongs to the seven and it goes to destruction. The last empire of Satan

will exist in two distinct phases, distinct enough that they really need to be called a seventh

and an eighth, but in another sense are exactly the same kingdom, geographically, ruled by the same

ten nation bureaucracy throughout its entire life. The first phase is whenever such a ten nation

system develops. It could be soon or not. It could last a long time or not. As far as I can tell,

the Bible is silent on that issue, but it will exist before the seventyth week starts and before

the antichrist comes on the scene. When the antichrist does show up, we of course know he is a man of

war. Revelation 13 says, who is like the beast? Who can make war with him? They worship him in some

sense because of his war-making capability. In any case, he does have military conflict with three

of these ten nations of this world government. He is entirely successful in that conquest.

Just after his successful conquest, he will be killed by someone or something just outside Jerusalem.

He will then appear to resurrect from the dead, after which he will declare his deity in the

temple that was rebuilt three and a half years before that event and demand the worship of the world.

This then begins the theocratic part of his rule in which he has given authority over the saints

to kill them. This is when Jerusalem becomes the capital city of the world and everyone will need

to travel to Jerusalem to worship the image of the beast erected by the false prophet or be killed

by it. Again, it's the same empire with the same Ten King bureaucracy that he just conquered,

but he converts it into a theocracy at the midpoint. I know that's a lot of information and I would

expect you to be very skeptical about those claims at this point, but I will be fleshing that

and many more things out with scripture as we progress. So that's the main point of this first

episode, which is that I believe scripture tells us that the world government comes before the

Antichrist and before the seven-year period even begins. But as you can tell, the main burden I

have here is just to say this could be a big deception from the Antichrist, this sort of false

flag problem reaction solution empire with two phases. The first phase to get Christians to hate it,

to be the epitome of what Christians expect in their sort of newspaper isegesis kind of situation,

where they see a woke communist totalitarian Christian hating Christian censoring empire that's

decadent and awful and all these things and it's just so brutal to Christians. And there's going

to be no shortages of things that we can make be the Antichrist in a system like that. We can make

be the mark of the beast in a system like that or a false prophet. It's going to be a totalitarian

police state. Of course, we're going to find we've found things every democratic president has been

accused as being the Antichrist. So in an actual totalitarian police state, yeah, we're going to

find a way to make it the Antichrist even though it won't be yet. And that is just so dangerous

because of the standard false flag psychological operation that comes with somebody freeing you from

the thing that you were the most scared of and just simply connect that with what you know about

the beginning of the Antichrist empire. He comes as a person who makes it covenant with many,

which we understand to be Israel. We know that probably has something to do with either starting

the building at the temple, but certainly starting the daily sacrifices. If you think the man

that does that for Israel, something that they literally pray every day for and have been doing

so for almost 3,000 years will not be seen as a candidate for the Messiah, then you haven't been

paying attention. But even more to the point, I think you can also see with what we've been looking

at today that if certainly if past is prologue with the heads of the previous empires Babylon,

Meadow Persia Egypt, Meadow Persia Greece and Rome, they all controlled Israel. It was,

Israel was not the master of its own fate during those times. In fact, that may be the single thing

that ties all those empires together. If you're looking for a cohesive argument of what it takes

to be a satanic head empire, it may be that you must control Israel's fate off the top of my head.

I can't think of another time in which Israel was controlled by any one except for those previous

six empires. But what that means is that currently Israel is sovereign. Israel does control its fate.

But if it is controlled by this 10 headed, the final seventh head of this empire, if it's like the

others, it will be like Rome or Babylon. It will control Israel. And that is something that people

aren't really expecting to happen at all. But plug that into the idea that the Antichrist

is making a covenant with Israel. And instead of it being just one mini of many controlled places

that the Tenation thing controls, the Antichrist switches that and makes it the jewel of the whole system.

He makes it the capital of the Tenation system. He rules from it in a theocracy after that. I think

that's when you get the mystery Babylon system. Mystery Babylon sees this moment in history of

sort of validation. She thinks that she's found her king and her husband. She's pictured as a

harlot high priestess that is promoting the worship of the Antichrist to the world. And the world

is made drunk by the fierceness of her fornication. She worships him so fervently that the world is

drawn into it. Okay. All right. A lot of rambling there. I hope I got to the point. This is part one

of a Bible prophecy timeline. Go to the website bible prophecy talk.com for more.