In Islam, the one who gets the title of "Prince" becomes the man, the Caliph, the holder of the scepter to rule the Muslim world.
It is this type of prophecy that reveals the multiple facets in fulfillment where God covers the whole history of His people. This is key. Scripture strictly stated: "The people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary" (Daniel 9:26) was thought to have been Titus.
But to someone who was Muslim like myself, "Prince" in Islam is significant for a Caliph is titled "the prince of the faithful".
And it wasn't Titus who ordered the destruction of the Jewish Temple after all. It was his army, the mob, that, plus the Roman general, Titus, in 70 AD was never called a "prince".
However he is a type of prince, as he does in a way fulfill the verse, for he was adopted by the emperor. But ultimately this "prince" is in regards to the Antichrist.
One needs to re-read a prophetic verse several times to see the multiple facets, eras and historic timeframe it is fulfilled. It is sort of like the Shroud of Turin where we find the face and the skull on one single sheet. The shroud is not simply a 'painting' but a set of information.
God is an amazing author. So when He constructs a prophecy, at face value it sound ridiculous to the scoffer, it is loaded to the wise and it kills multiple beasts with one stone.
In other words “the people [hegemony] of the prince [the Antichrist] that shall come [two millennia or so later]” these will be the ones who will destroy the temple in 70 A.D.
It can legitimately also be read as “the people of the prince [Titus] that shall come. These will be the ones who will destroy the temple."
Both are perfectly legitimate interpretations. One as a warning for God's people at Israel's fall, while the other is a warning for God's people at the Church's fall (the falling away).
It can also be examined like this “the people [hegemony] of the prince [the Antichrist] that shall come [two millennia or so later] to destroy the [Christian] temple", that is, the body of the believer, by defiling it with the mark of the beast. The believer is also a temple. One must read the text from the new perspective, the Church's, as the book of Hebrews had a different plan from Israel's sacrificial system in a temple building to a temple that consumes the bread of sacrifice.
So in other words, Antichrist comes from the same hegemony from the legion which under Titus it destroyed the Temple. This would be Legion X Fretensis. Josephus reveals this army as from “The greatest part of the Roman garrison was raised out of Syria". Syria in ancient times expanded into Asia Minor, Turkey.
In other words, the people of the Antichrist will be the same people who sacked Jerusalem under Titus, namely Turks, Syrians and Arabs and he will be called "the Prince".
And now we have Erdogan who wants to be titled as "Prince" and as a revived Selim I and Suleiman the Conqueror.
The multiple facets of reviewing prophecy is key. Without this key there erupts so many disagreements. So that when John writes of "seven mountains" which are "seven kingdoms" and "ten horns", we find multiple interpretations, none of which completely fit perfectly unless we understand, there are multiple fulfillments.
We had the primitive church looking at ten pagan Roman emperors. In a way they are right. God warns his people all the time. But as a type.
But these prophecies also do fit in other various forms for we have 1. The Egyptian Empire with the first horn 2. The Assyrian Empire with the second horn. 3. The Babylonian Empire with the third horn. 4. The Persian Empire with the fourth horn. 5. The Greek Empire with the 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th horns since after Alexander the Great it was divided to four. John then says and "one is", at his time, this is number 6, the Roman Empire with the 9th horn. The 7th head (mountain) is then what took the mantle from the Roman. All historians would agree this would be the Ottoman Empire which would make Muhammad II as the 10th horn of this model.
This is why when we examine the primitive interpretation pointing 1. Augustus 2. Tiberius 3. Gaius 4. Caligula 5. Claudius, 6. Nero, 7. Titus, 8. Domitian ... but no matter how they shuffled these it never completely fits.
While these are types, the prophecy must fit, like a glove, but this will only happen at the ultimate fulfillment. The prophecy repeats. While no one can draw the final outcome with precision until it happens, what we do know is that there is only one beast (threat) that fits John's "seven mountains [kingdoms]" as well as Daniel's Four Kingdoms, as well as the Two Legs of Daniel's image and the Two Horns of the "lamb with two horns that speaks like a dragon"; all in one beast: the Islamic Caliphate.
No other history fits these prophecies combined except this one.
Let me explain in simple fashion. First of all, whoever persecuted the church throughout history must be the beast (the threat) mentioned in scripture. Nothing in history so perfectly fits like these seven heads and ten crowns. Anyone who disagrees must answer: where else would anyone find a beast that persecuted the woman (the church and the seed of Mary) like these seven Islamic dynasties?
Islam is four main caliphates:
In this image, history gladly shares the Muslim FOUR Dynasties
Islam is also seven caliphates:
Here Muslims gladly share their SEVEN Dynasties. If in doubt, show this to a historian. There are four main caliphates (Rashidun, Umayyad, Abasid and Ottoman) with the other three within this same timeframe (Fatimid, Ayyubid and Al-Mohad) adding to seven caliphates (heads).
The Islamic caliphate also fits the two legs of Daniel for we have the Shiite and the Sunni divide. It fits John's Leopard (Greece/Turkey) and Bear (Persia) in Revelation 13. It is also the one that brought down all kingdoms, the gold (Babylon/Iraq) the silver (Persia) the bronze (Greece) and the Iron (Byzantium, Roman) which Daniel insists that this beast take down all others. Rome never defeated Persia. Rome can never completely fit "the iron", yet it does, in a way.
This one encompasses all. So when John says of the seven headed beast that “five [mountains/empires] have fallen” (Rev 17:10) these are pre-church that pertain to ancient Israel which we mentioned above (1. The Egyptian Empire with the first horn 2. The Assyrian Empire with the second horn. 3. The Babylonian Empire with the third horn. 4. The Persian Empire with the fourth horn. 5. The Greek Empire with the 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th horns).
Then he says “one is” (the sixth, at John’s time) is the Roman, during the primitive church, the 9th horn and diadem. Then we have "the other that is not yet" which will be the seventh. This is the Ottoman Empire with Selim I, the 10th horn with a diadem.
It is here after the fall of this Ottoman Empire, the seventh head which was mortally wounded, where we have a break. When this empire received a mortal wound on its head it fell into the abyss, the earth, and died. This is why we have a break. This is why we have two beasts. The church age suffers two beasts (two massive threats) as clearly described by John; one comes as a “seven headed beast” which its seventh head is wounded to also come again as the second beast (in the end of days) described as “a lamb with two horns” which finally resurrects out of the grave (earth) and is why Erdogan is so fascinated with the dead Ottomans. So here is the prophecy starting with the first beast, the longest threat to God's people:
“And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast [first beast] rise up out of the [Mediterranean] sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten diadems, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy. [denies Father and Son (Trinity), see 1 John 2:22]”
And there was seen another sign in heaven: and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads, and ten horns: and on his head seven diadems (Apocalypse 12:3)
This seven headed (7 caliphates) beast from 1. Rashidun to 7. Ottoman was controlled spiritually by the Arabian harlot city, Mecca and it made war with the church specifically at the Mediterranean region (the Sea): “it was given unto him to make war with the saints,” and “to overcome them” and it ruled “over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations”.
The red dots below presented on the Mediterranean sea are all the battles against the Church. Where were they fought? The Mediterranean sea. When scripture speaks of the “sea” its always the Mediterranean sea.
Each of these red dots is a war or battle between Christians and Muslims.
And Daniel gives us the same kingdoms, but as “Four Beasts” in Daniel chapter 7 arise out of “the Great Sea” (Daniel 7:2) because Islam has four main caliphates. And sure, the Four Beasts were history past for Greece, but they are also future: the Four Muslim Caliphates.
“The Great Sea” is the Mediterranean region, not the entire globe. That with all the literal nations of end-times encompasses only the Middle East and Asia Minor. If the first beast (Babylon), second beast (Medo-Persia) and third beast (Greece) all were out within the “Great Sea” (Mediterranean) then the fourth beast of Daniel 7 could only pertain to the Mediterranean Sea as well and it too has four dynasties.
To make the Antichrist rule the globe, many western interpreters today allegorize “The Great Sea” as “the sea of humanity.” In so doing, we lose the meaning and the intent of the prophecy. This reference to “The Great Sea” cannot be an allegory pertaining to the “sea of humanity” since every verse in the Bible refers to “The Great Sea” as the Mediterranean Sea (see Num 34:6-7, Jos 1:4, Jos 9:1, Jos 15:12, Jos 15:47, Jos 23:4, Ezek 47:10, 15, 19, 20, Ezek 48: 28).
Our analysis becomes crystal clear when we examine John:
“And the beast which was [Greco-Roman], and is not [at John’s time]: the same also is the eighth [the coming Antichrist], and is of the seven [the seventh], and goeth into destruction.” (Revelation 17:11)
So the two beasts John spoke of, one with seven heads, the first one, which finally got a mortal wound, this deadly wound, has to be on its seventh head, the last head, the Ottoman, and then the one which “looks like a lamb” is the eighth, the final one and “is of the seven" as the text strictly mandates.
This is crucial. So what fell in 1924, which was the Ottoman, must revive, most likely after 100 years in 2023-2024. All the biblical text that mention the literal names of nations involving the end-times match this Ottoman geographical composition to exact. If in doubt examine history in light of all nations in Ezekiel, Isaiah, Amos, Joel, Zechariah, Galatians … they all follow this model.
Therefore, understanding that God does not instruct only a select group helps tremendously in understanding these prophecies. Church history has already endured the first beast (which will revive again) as the second beast with two horns encompassing the two legs of Daniel. This is why when one continues reading John then ‘pop’, we have yet another beast, the ends of days beast:
“And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth [from the grave after being wounded to death]; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon and it exercises all the power of the first beast [which went to the grave] before him … whose deadly wound was healed [coming out of the grave of the dead].”
Is Erdogan's actions making sense now? The first beast comes out of “the sea,” which are multitudes of nations, tribes and different tongues within the Mediterranean region then is “swallowed by the earth” (Rev 12:16). This is the same as when the seventh head (Ottoman Caliphate) which was wounded to death and John explicitly tells us “is also the eighth”.
This “also” makes it clear. Its the same empire: the Ottoman.
This is the “seventh,” which is also coming back as the “eighth” and is also “the second beast” resembling “the first beast” and the "four heads" which comes out of “the earth” after it was “swallowed by the earth” having received the deadly wound coming back again with two divisions: Turkey (leopard/Greece/Turkey) and Persia (Iran).
It all fits. Like a glove. I know that this a big load to fathom, but keep in mind “it exercises all the power of the first beast". Scripture several times makes this point.
So it must be the same type of empire.
Some still even today allude to Rome as this beast. But this is impossible. Rome did not expand throughout church history as a persecutor of the church unless the Cathars were the real Christians and we are all confused. For Rome to fit, one must show how it persecuted the saints throughout the ages. This is impossible to do. While some allude to the Cathar wars, these were no saints and no sound Protestant today would agree with their heretical theology (examined here).
It is this model which we followed for two decades and so far, it is happening, perfectly.
What we have been saying for a while now has become obvious to all in the Middle East from Morocco to Israel but not to the West, yet. Elwehda Moroccan newspaper explains:
It seems to some that what is happening in Turkey today is merely a political and ideological rivalry between two opposing fronts, one clinging to the Ataturkian model and the other defending the Erbakan model. But a little bit of reflection suggests that the bets of the model led by Erdogan have roots in the the global organization of the Muslim Brotherhood Founded by Hasan al-Banna [in Egypt], which aims to restore the model of Islamic caliphate. Erdogan's ambition remains not only to establish the authorities in his hands as president of Turkey, but also to legitimize the launching of the series of rebuilding the Islamic caliphate state that has revived in our contemporary history the Muslim Brotherhood based in Turkey.
And the Muslim Brotherhood, which under Erdogan is now ruling the second most powerful army in NATO after the U.S., will be soon heading towards their homeland of Egypt and is why Daniel speaks of the king of the North (Turkey) going towards the king of the south (Egypt).
Any doubting Thomasses please read our previous critics first to see their folly.