Armageddon... a Lamb stood on it and with him 144,000! (Rev. 14:1)

Text: "And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods , and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done. Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all. But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces: and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things. " Daniel 11:36-38 ; "And he shall speak great words against the most High , and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws : and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time." Daniel 7:25 Quote: Day. [...] The names of the days, from the planets and mythological deities, wer...

Text: "And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done. Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all. But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces: and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things . " Daniel 11:36-38 Quote:    Du Pin declares that: "In the first three centuries, yea, and in the beginning of the fourth, images were very scarce among Christians. Towards the end of the fourth century they began, especially in the East, to make pictures and images; and they grew very common in the fifth; they represented in them the conflicts of marty...

Text: "For the ships of Chittim shall come against him: therefore he shall be grieved, and return, and have indignation against the holy covenant: so shall he do; he shall even return, and have intelligence with them that forsake the holy covenant." Daniel 11:30 Quote:    After the death of Alexander—323 B.C.—Cyprus fell to the share of Antigonus, but was wrested from him by Ptolemy, King of Egypt, after a struggle of several years' duration, in which was fought the memorable sea-fight at Salamis; and in the hands of the Ptolemies it remained for nearly two and a half centuries, until the time of Cleopatra's uncle, from whom it was most unjustly seized by the Roman Senate—58 B.C.—who sent Marcus Cato to dispossess the king and make it a Roman province. [...] Green, A. O, Cyprus: a short account of its history and present state , Kilmacolm, Scotland: M. Graham Coltart, 1914, p. 57 . Online Source:   archive.org/details/cypr...

Text: "And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done. Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all. But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces: and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things." Daniel 11:36-38 Quote:    It is interesting to note how often our Church has availed herself of practices which were in common use among pagans, and which owed their origin to their appropriateness for expressing something spiritual by material means. The Church and her clergy are "all things to all men, that they may gain all for Christ," and she has oft...

Text: "And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done. Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all. But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces: and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things." Daniel 11:36-38 Quote: [...] We are told in various ways by Eusebius, 2 that Constantine, in order to recommend the new religion to the heathen, transferred into it the outward ornaments to which they had been accustomed in their own. [...] The use of temples, and these dedicated to particular saints, and ornamented on occasions with branches ...

Text: "And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done. Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all. But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces: and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things." Daniel 11:36-38 Quote: [...] one cannot but recall the words of Eusebius in his book, “Life of Constantine”: “In order to attach to Christianity greater attraction in the eyes of the nobility the priests adopted the outer garments and adornments which were used in pagan cults.” [...] Roerich, Nicholas, Altai--Himalaya: a travel diary, with twenty reproductions ...

Study: Notice the indicators of structure in Daniel 11 . "gold," "silver," and "precious"/"precious things"/"pleasant things" : "And shall also carry captives into Egypt their gods, with their princes, and with their precious [#2532] vessels of silver and of gold ; and he shall continue more years than the king of the north." Daniel 11:8 "But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces: and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold , and silver , and with precious stones, and pleasant things [#2532] ." Daniel 11:38 "But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver , and over all the precious things [#2532] of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps." Daniel 11:43 "join together" and "league" : "And in the end of years they shall join themselves together ...

Text: "For the ships of Chittim shall come against him: therefore he shall be grieved, and return, and have indignation against the holy covenant: so shall he do; he shall even return, and have intelligence with them that forsake the holy covenant." Daniel 11:30 Quote:    After the battle of Issus, 333 B.C., Alexander the Great made himself master of Palestine, Egypt, and the towns on the Mediterranean coast, which included Cyprus. He thought so highly of this latter conquest that he is reported by Arian to have said, "and Cyprus being in our hands, we shall reign absolute sovereign at sea, and an easy way will be laid open for making a descent upon Egypt." On his death the Empire was divided, Egypt falling to the share of Ptolemy, while Asia Minor fell to Antigonus, who thus became possessed of Cyprus.    Ptolemy crossed over to Cyprus with a fleet about 313 B.C., and landed there with so large a force, that he met with no resistance, and app...

Text: "For the ships of Chittim shall come against him: therefore he shall be grieved, and return, and have indignation against the holy covenant: so shall he do; he shall even return, and have intelligence with them that forsake the holy covenant." Daniel 11:30 Quote: [...] 30. ships of Chittim —the Roman ambassadors arriving in Macedonian Grecian vessels (see Note , Jeremiah, 2.10.). Chittim , properly Cyprian , so called from a Phenician colony in Cyprus: then the islands and coasts of the Mediterranean in general. [...] Jamieson, Robert; Fausset, Andrew Robert; Brown, David, A commentary: critical, practical and explanatory, on the Old and New Testaments, with a Bible dictionary, compiled from Dr. Wm. Smith's standard work, a copious index, chronological tables, maps and illustrations , Chicago; New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1880, Old Testament - vol. 2 - Proverbs-Malachi, p. 653 . Online source:   archive.org/details/...