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I do not believe ALL the answers can be found in any human’s finite mind. As sensible as this site is, they totally avoid the subject of the Sixth Seal War. I’m still seeking and studying.

That being said, the Mathematical Precision of Biblical Prophecy and the identification of the Leopard Bear Lion Beast makes better sense of the Scriptures than anything I have ever read. If you haven’t already, please look at all of this.

I had my doubts about the whole Pre Trib rapture/Futurist interpretations for a long time, and now believe it to be totally false.

“I do not believe ALL the answers can be found in any human’s finite mind.”

I don’t either. Thank God we have His inspired word to guide us.

“That being said, the Mathematical Precision of Biblical Prophecy...”

Much if which is superimposed on the text by people juggling numbers.

“...and the identification of the Leopard Bear Lion Beast makes better sense of the Scriptures than anything I have ever read.”

First of all, the Lion, Bear, Leopard, “Terrible Beast” metaphors correspond to the four great world empires that would have significant influence over the Holy Land. The Lion was the Babylonian Empire, the Bear was Persia, the Leopard was Greece, and the “Terrible Beast” was Rome.

Babylon was responsible for the destruction of the first Temple and Jerusalem in 586 BC, when Judea’s people were carried into captivity.

Persia was represented in this particular vision by the Bear, raised up on its side with three ribs in its mouth. These three ribs represented three areas in what we now know as modern day Turkey; regions which Persia conquered in its drive west toward the Mediterranean and Greece. Of significance to the Jews: King Cyrus of Persia issued the decree that allowed the Jews back into their homeland to rebuild the Temple.

The Leopard is Greece that divides into 4 primary kingdoms after Alexander’s death. Two of these battle over Judea for some time: the Ptolemies of Egypt and the Seleucids of Syria. The Seleucid king Antiochus IV Epiphanes sacked Jerusalem and outlawed the practice of Mosaic Law. His reign is covered briefly in Daniel 8 and extensively in both Daniel 11 and 1Maccabees.

Finally, Rome is the great and terrible beast. During the Maccabean Revolt against the Syrian Greeks, Jerusalem sent envoys to Rome to ask the Roman Senate for aid against their enemies. Rome signed a pact with Jerusalem that lasted almost 100 years. When Jerusalem tried to back out of the deal, (and I’m condensing years of history here), Rome sent Pompey to conquer the city and occupy Jerusalem.

During this time of Roman occupation, Tiberius Caesar issues the decree that brings Mary and Joseph to Bethlehem to be counted and taxed. They had a son. You know the rest of the story.

The web of prophecy leading to the birth, death, and resurrection of Messiah in the OT has nothing to do with what people read in the news or see on TV today. Nothing. There is no more singular significant event in the history of the world than the birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, and it was this event about which the thread of OT prophecy revolves. It really is no more complicated than that.