Daniel's Statue Part II

We last left our statue at the destruction of the chest of silver representing the ancient kingdom of Media-Persia). Since I wrote that paper I was watching the movie Charlie Wilson’s War, which depicted the involvement of an American congressman, and ultimately other members of congress to supply weapons to the Mujahedeen to bring down Soviet Helicopters, and destroy Soviet armor. Without knowing some of the details that were revealed in that movie I mentioned that the current great nations of this and the last century by their actions setup for themselves the next level or cycle of divine judgment, our actions come back upon us in unforeseen ways.

The movie has a scene whereby the Maryland congressman Doc Long, who is the Chairman of the United States House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, which controls the funds the Afghanistan fighters need, this congressman is taken to Afghanistan by Charlie Wilson and he is moved by the suffering of the people from Soviet gunships and mines disguised as toys and candy (many little children with missing limbs). He relates to the oppressed people there and while giving a speech mentions that his son was wounded while fighting the communists in Vietnam who were supplied by the Russians.

You can see in the movie the seeds of what the Soviets planted in their joyous opposition to America in Vietnam, now come to fruition with Americans returning the favor. And at the same time you can see the seeds America is then planting in Afghanistan which will eventually sprout and mature and be harvested on Sept 11, 2001. Amazing! While Congressman Doc Long is speaking the people are shouting Allah Akbar, the same cry the 911 Hijackers shouted as they flew the planes into the World Trade Center towers.

And now this Doc Long is the one with the authority to release the funds that bought the weapons that defeated the Russians in Afghanistan. He is actually the only man in the American political system that could pull this trigger. An astounding fulfillment of the law of harvest that God uses to bring judgment, and more particularly in our case it has been an ongoing force in the depiction of the stone cut out of the mountain without hands that we know was released prophetically, yet its physical working is the accumulated and multiplied mistreatment of mankind to one another, metaphorically displayed by the construct of this statue representing the governments of man.

It is remarkable that the greatest cruelty of man to one another is unleashed and multiplied by governments of man, thinking that if we create something so much larger than ourselves that then gives us permission to divest ourselves of morality on an individual level. This is why utopians are the most deadly and dangerous of all human beings. They will not channel their compassion or morality on an individual level, one upon one. To them they must have a vehicle, the State, that will amplify their goodness (they assume they are good) and enforce it upon others in mass. They are unwilling to receive an individual personal morality which only comes by suffering into their own hearts from God, an act that takes a purposeful humility, but they must impose a morality upon others writ large using the projection screen of the State, as if largeness, loudness, and force will finally convince them that they are truly good, truly compassionate. As if outward grandiose displays confirm they are the possessors of an inwardly worked and Godly righteousness.

This is the reverse of morality and the dead end of self-righteousness, the final result of man rejecting an absolute morality from God. History makes it apparent this is a monumental failure, an ever growing and deadly lie, now culminating in divine judgment upon this idol and construct of man. God’s hatred is certainly against this abomination; the violence of the destruction of this statue is inexorable and will not be delayed.

God will lay low Presidents and Kings and put his vessels, no matter how lowly, into positions of authority to see this purpose accomplished. There must be a Holy indignation and weariness with this vast cruelty over the ages. This destruction of human beings by these invented, yet strangely alive beasts of the governance of man. What tortures have they invented? What oppression and slavery have they sponsored? What madness revealed by the depredations upon human beings by mad Emperors and Czars, by Satanically ambitious men and woman driven to rule over others, the inventions of instruments of torture to terrorize the multitudes, the enslavement of others to increase wealth and luxury for the few, what a miserable history we have with only a glimpse of light here and there through the ages.

The first Gulf War began with Air Assaults on January 17th, 1991. On the same day King Olav V of Norway died. King Olav V was the oldest reigning Monarch in the earth. Certainly his death was a signal that now was the time for the head of gold to be crushed, as the head of gold represents our oldest kingdom in Daniel’s statue.

The ground invasion begins on Feb 23, 1991 and ends on Feb 27, 1991. Bush I announces on Feb 27 that the cease fire will begin Feb 28, 1991. Iraq has accepted all U.N. Resolutions. The ground war lasted 5 days. This war sets many records, certainly one of the fastest wars. It also has the approval of every nation on earth except Jordan and Yemen. In a sense practically all the nations in the earth are in agreement with this attack on Saddam’s Iraq, the head of gold, ancient Babylon in our vision.

Now here is where it gets interesting in that Bush I, listens to his advisors and stops short of invading Baghdad and deposing Saddam Hussein. This was done under the excuse that the U.N. mandate did not give permission to depose Saddam, however this is nonsense, we had already invaded Iraq and destroyed their military power, Saddam was the central cause of all this trouble, we did not complete the mission because of Political Correctness, as many, and most importantly, Colin Powel, was worried about world opinion because of the total destruction of Iraqi troops along what was being called the highway of death from Kuwait to Baghdad.

This refusal to conquer Iraq and depose Saddam created terrible problems for Arabs in the south of Iraq, and the Kurds in the north of Iraq, who had believed, and had been told, that America was committed and we had even encouraged them to rebel against Saddam, which they did. But when America stopped and withdrew, instead these people were slaughtered by the thousands. Saddam even drained the swamps in the south (one of the great ecological disasters in history, and where was the worldwide protests?) to persecute the marsh Arabs. One British reporter recounts how Saddam had the people from one Arab village rounded up and laid down on the road and they asphalted over those people while they were still alive.

He also gassed the Kurds in the north and filled his prisons and filled mass graves with political opponents, or anyone that resisted his rule. This is the time of rape rooms, of the children of his opponents tortured and imprisoned (Our marines freed some of these children in the second Gulf War) this can be laid at the feet of Bush I. Damn Kings and Presidents when they obey man, and political correctness instead of God. No wonder that Bush I went from an unheard of 95% approval rating to being defeated by an unknown governor from Arkansas just one year later.

I will recount a few stories of this time for all those that protest that we should not have gone into Iraq in 2003. Saddam had a room created which had a multitude of pipes running in all directions across the top of the room. A naked prisoner who had incurred the wrath of this maniac would be put into this room and in a random manner sulfuric acid would drip from pinholes in these pipes. The unfortunate victim would never know where the next drip was coming from or when. So huddled in this corner or that the poor individual would be tortured for days, when he finally fell asleep in exhaustion, here would come another drip of acid to awaken him in screaming agony.

Saddam’s two sons delighted in feeding those that displeased them feet first into industrial shredders; they liked to put them in feet first as they enjoyed the screaming until the shredder reached vital organs. Saddam’s two sons would also randomly pick up women from the streets of Baghdad and rape whoever they willed; many were killed after these two monsters were finished. One of the ways Saddam used to destroy his enemies is to take any who had a young daughter and have his goons rape the little girl to death right in front of the parents, before he killed the parents. This is darkness nearly incomprehensible to the Western mind. Yet the spoiled children of a materialist West cared nothing for these atrocities, but were enraged by what amounted to three months of fraternity level hazing, except in a few cases, of prisoners taken in battle and incarcerated in Abu Gharib prison by some out of control and unattended American military prison guards of low intelligence and lower morals. And unlike anything in the Islamic world, once the abuse was discovered, America prosecuted and jailed these miscreants.

According to the French academic Dominique Reynié, between January 3 and April 12, 2003, 36 million people across the globe took part in almost 3,000 protests against the Iraq war. This is amazing that a world that cared nothing for a suffering Iraq for decades is now organized and outraged that America and a few allies are going to war to depose one of the most brutal and murderous tyrants of human history. It is evidence that there must be an organizing principle at work here beyond human intelligence, something that is so violently opposed to this course of events that a breathtaking hypocrisy by humanity is hardly noticed.

And later we find the documents in Iraq that the three nations with the most vociferous opposition from their political leaders against this invasion were all enriching themselves via the Oil for Food U.N. orchestrated scam with Saddam Hussein; that being Russia’s Putin, France’s Chirac, and Germany’s Schroeder. What a monumental disgrace, this was the largest financial scam in human history, aided and abetted by Kojo Annan, the son of the General Secretary of the U.N. Kofi Annan.

Papers such as the New York Times that ran over 37 above the fold stories on page one about Abu Gharib could hardly be bothered about that scandal other than to minimize the actors and the nations that were involved. They were too busy being the choral conductor for what later became Bush Derangement Syndrome (BDS). It goes almost beyond belief that the political Left was at this time praising the sophistication of Europe, and the European tradition of appeasement of dictators, while castigating Bush as an unintelligent cowboy.

From these above actions we can see that a great deception is upon mankind and a real fear is shown by the spiritual powers that have ruled the earth. They do not want this completion, the final crushing of the head of Gold of Daniel’s statue. Already one American President’s legacy was destroyed on this rock, and America was led by a venal narcissist for eight years, a scriptural judgment for a nation as the Bible says God places “capricious children” in authority over disobedient nations. You cannot sum up the character of Bill Clinton better. Even if the Left thinks his Presidency was an unprecedented time for America, in God’s view it was part of a judgment. And it is a historical fact that the groundwork for 911 was laid during the Clinton years of treating terrorism as if it is a domestic crime, something to be pursued in the courts.

And it is not a coincidence that another Biblical principle comes into focus with the election of George W. Bush in 2000 in that God brings back the son to finish what was originally commanded to be done by the father. Don’t get me wrong, I am not saying George Bush the father heard from God like prophets of old, yet he had a commissioning to end the rule of Saddam Hussein and complete the cycle of the crushing of the Head of Gold. Any sane human being with the power to end such a terrible tyranny as that of Saddam Hussein and then seemingly by divine fiat given the circumstances, the excuse, and the backing of almost the entire world to then not act upon this is a man unwilling to listen to God in his conscious, or so afraid of public opinion he is rendered impotent and ultimately disobedient to divine influence.

But the purpose of God is not thwarted, not ever in all of history, it can be delayed by the disobedience of man, but God will simply up the anti. So all the circumstances were aligned to bring down Saddam Hussein in 1991, and if George Bush I had done what was divinely commanded the recent history of America would have been different. Instead America is put to sleep for a while. Enjoying the “peace dividend,” and unprecedented prosperity, all is well, can’t be better. Except for the lack of morality of our President and the phony dot com economy which begins to collapse during the last years of the Clinton Presidency, all seems well.

Yet we can now look back and see America is being set up for a fall. We do nothing about our dependence on foreign oil (Read Islamic or Russian controlled oil). We ignore the threat of growing world wide Islamic Jihad, heck that is Israel’s problem. We interfere via Bill Clinton in the election process in Israel to secure a government there that is more willing to negotiate away land for peace, and win back for ourselves a most bitter election in 2000, one that sows the seeds of political hatred that is still in the process of maturing for harvest.

Then comes 911, another window opens for America to execute divine judgment, and Bush II goes through that window, but awkwardly, without the overabundance of favorable circumstances that were presented to his father, that time is past, this will now be a hard task to accomplish, not that Bush II or the military planners thought so at the time. And I think Bush II sowed the seeds of some of the resistance to himself in that he did not emphasize the moral imperative to depose Saddam, instead he and his handlers went the cynical route of appealing to American’s self interest and emphasizing the belief of finding Saddam’s Weapons of Mass Destruction.

Bush would have been better served to emphasize the brutal tyranny of Saddam over his people as the primary reason to depose Saddam. Instead it was all a bet on finding WMD in Iraq. If the moral reasons were emphasized, first it is something that I believe God would honor, as that is what is in God’s heart, to deliver the oppressed, unless I have misread the Bible. Secondly there was an abundance of witnesses and evidence of Saddam’s brutality that could have been paraded to the world and media that would have put them on the defensive, in that how do you argue to NOT free people from torture and oppression? Thirdly, if you do not find WMD, it is not as important, because you did not emphasize this as the primary reason for deposing Saddam.

It is my belief that even if WMD were found, Bush would have still been hated, this is not a hatred based on reason, but upon spiritual deception orchestrated by the spiritual powers (fallen angels) that want to continue to rule humanity.

The invasion of Iraq starts on March 20 2003 and American troops are in Baghdad on May 1, 2003. This invasion phase took 43 days, an amazing coincidence, as the entire Gulf War in 1991 took just 43 days. It is a set piece to remind those that are inquiring that the original purpose of God was for this war to take 43 days. But after the invasion the real suffering and work begins, now it will not be an easy task and this war will extend for years not days.

Thousands of Americans will lose their lives and many thousands will be maimed and wounded, not to mention the tens of thousands of Iraqis that will lose their lives in bombings and mayhem, Moslems, killing Moslems. For it was during the 12 years and 20 days between the end of the first Gulf war and the beginning of the second Gulf or Iraq war that Saddam’s plans for invasion were laid. The training for resistance, the stockpiling of huge supplies of explosives and guns, all coming back to haunt the invading army that would have not suffered even a fraction of this mayhem if Saddam had been taken down when God had commanded this to be done.

If there is any doubt that this was the purpose we can look at the numbers involved. The number 43 is prominent in both wars. 43 days for the totality of the first Iraq war. 43 days for the invasion of Iraq in the second Iraq war. We can see that the time from the end of the first Iraq war to the beginning of the second Iraq war is 12 years and 20 days. These are all significant Biblical numbers according to E.F. Bullinger’s Number in Scripture

The number 12 in scripture concerns governmental perfection. The number 20 relates to expectancy, or a period of waiting. So the 12 years and twenty days between these two wars is concerned with the perfection of divine government, yet there is delay, there is some expectant waiting. This directly relates to the stone cut out of the mountain without hands (which represents the Government or “Kingdom” of God on this earth).

We can see that finally crushing the head of gold is finishing “mystically,” the reign of the government(s) of man and that the governance is switching at that time to God, or I think what might be more exact, that the influence upon the affairs and governance of man will be from a prophetic level. For a while the image of that statue might remain in the consciousness of humanity, but its power is broken, man will be ruled by the prophetic word in the mouths of those given to God; those that have been tried in the fire of God, those that have been humbled by suffering.
The number 43 is the combination of 40 which represents a period of probation, trial, and chastisement—(not judgment, like the number 9, which stands in connection with the punishment of enemies, but the chastisement of sons, and of a covenant people).

This is fascinating because only two nations on the earth are covenant nations, Israel and America. And even more specifically within these two nations are people that have real walks with God and are being chastised as sons.


The number 3 in Bullinger’s words: Three, therefore, stands for that which is solid, real, substantial, complete, and entire. All things that are especially complete are stamped with this number three. God's attributes are three: omniscience, omnipresence, and omnipotence. There are three great divisions completing time--past, present, and future. Three persons, in grammar, express and include all the relationships of mankind. Thought, word, and deed, complete the sum of human capability. Three degrees of comparison complete our knowledge of qualities. The simplest proposition requires three things to complete it; viz., the subject, the predicate, and the copula. Three propositions are necessary to complete the simplest form of argument--the major premise, the minor, and the conclusion.

It would seem this number 43 given such significance in the last act of the crushing of Daniel’s image in the combined meaning of 40 and 3 is the completion of the chastisement and preparation of the sons of God to rule on this earth, not just ideologically or mystically, but in a way that will have a full physical impact upon this earth.

No wonder the forces of Satan have raged at the completion of the destruction of the head of Gold in Daniel’s statue. No wonder the blind and nearly universal deception on the earth and the hatred toward one man (George W. Bush) who was simply an imperfect instrument in accomplishing this task. And coupled with that hatred of the man, the hatred of the principle country that was used to accomplish this task, even by those that have lived in this country and been blessed exceedingly. Can anyone point to any of these people who protest so much whose personal lives have been touched even one iota by the policies of Bush or this nation in pursuing this goal?

Hollywood puts out movie after move depicting anything related to the war on terror or the war in Iraq as either crazed troops or depraved intelligence operatives from America torturing and oppressing wonderful Muslim people, when the truth is that 25 million oppressed people were given the opportunity via American blood and treasure to enjoy the vote even at the risk of their lives, something taken as a given in America, and thought by many on the Left as too onerous a task, unless you can register without ID, or at the DMV, or if you could just simply hit a button on your remote to vote for the next entitlement.

All the actors and directors and producers go from rich to richer, yet they howl as if they are being oppressed by Jack-booted thugs, although they have not lost one personal freedom, nor have they again been attacked by Islamic thugs. Yet the greatest attack on American soil has not produced one positive major American movie depicting the bravery and sacrifice of our troops, or any realistic treatment of Islamic fundamentalism.

Indeed they have taken books that depicted Islamic terrorism, and made movies where the villains become neo-Nazis, or albinos. Hollywood and our own media have given us one of the greatest displays of cowardice in human history. Charles Martel must be turning over in his grave.

Daniel's Statue Part I

2,500 years ago Daniel penned the following interpretation of a vision given to Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon concerning the great gentile Empires of man. Daniel received the vision separately from God, as Nebuchadnezzar demanded that would be the requirement so that he could trust the interpretation. The vision and interpretation was given to Daniel after fasting and prayer by himself and three other captive Israelites of Noble lineage. If he had not received the vision he would have been killed along with all the mystics and wise men of Babylon.

Daniel 2: 31-45

"My king, as you were watching, a colossal statue appeared. That statue, tall and dazzling, was standing in front of you, and its appearance was terrifying. The head of the statue was pure gold, its chest and arms were silver, its stomach and thighs were bronze, its legs were iron, and its feet were partly iron and partly fired clay. As you were watching, a stone broke off without a hand touching it, struck the statue on its feet of iron and fired clay, and crushed them. Then the iron, the fired clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were shattered and became like chaff from the summer threshing floors. The wind carried them away, and not a trace of them could be found. But the stone that struck the statue became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.

This was the dream; now we will tell the king its interpretation. Your Majesty, you are king of kings. The God of heaven has given you sovereignty, power, strength, and glory. Wherever people live—or wild animals, or birds of the air—He has handed them over to you and made you ruler over them all. You are the head of gold.

"After you, there will arise another kingdom, inferior to yours, and then another, a third kingdom, of bronze, which will rule the whole earth. A fourth kingdom will be as strong as iron; for iron crushes and shatters everything, and like iron that smashes, it will crush and smash all the others. You saw the feet and toes, partly of a potter's fired clay and partly of iron—it will be a divided kingdom, though some of the strength of iron will be in it. You saw the iron mixed with clay, and that the toes of the feet were part iron and part fired clay—part of the kingdom will be strong, and part will be brittle. You saw the iron mixed with clay—the peoples will mix with one another but will not hold together, just as iron does not mix with fired clay.

In the days of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, and this kingdom will not be left to another people. It will crush all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, but will itself endure forever. You saw a stone break off from the mountain without a hand touching it, and it crushed the iron, bronze, fired clay, silver, and gold. The great God has told the king what will happen in the future. The dream is true, and its interpretation certain."

Daniel shows us that the head of the statue represents the past; the kingdom of Babylon that existed from 604 BC to 538 BC (Present day Iraq) The Persian Kingdom is actually a dual kingdom of Persia (Iran) and Media (Northeast Iran) which lasts from 538 BC to 323 BC. The Greek empire lasts from 323 BC to about 102 BC. Rome comes to power in 102 BC and according to Daniel’s interpretation; the Roman Empire exists in a divided and weakened form down to our day.

A stone is then cut out of a mountain without hands, signifying this is not a human initiated action, but divinely initiated. And what is a divine occurrence in human events is always a prophetic or spiritual event. It does not mean it is not observed in history, but unlike the empires of Daniel’s vision it is not men with ambition and ego conquering and building kingdoms and empires, it is about God destroying all the cultures and governments of man in preparation for His Kingdom, His government.

Can we see this event taking place in history? The stone striking the feet of the image and crushing them, then the stone growing until it smashes the whole of the statue and replaces the governments of man which are always represented by metals or beasts in the Bible? An apt representation for governments which are something smelted, constructed, and worked into an image by mankind. Also governments, all governments, become rapacious beasts devouring the humanity they always proclaim to liberate or protect.

Note the American government was not a celebration of the governance of man, but was designed by founders far wiser than our leaders today in that they knew government would grow to be a beast, better to divide government into competing and jealous parts to frustrate its ability to take over all aspects of human life. Our last election is to our shame as Americans, because we have lost the knowledge of our founders that government is not our friend, instead over half of Americans now look to human government as a savior, at the very time God is destroying the ability for human government to function, let alone to act as a savior.

An event as prophesied by Daniel must be a major worldwide event, so we look to something that came against the remnants of the Roman Empire far into the days after it became a divided Empire and the feet rest upon the cities of Rome and Constantinople (Present day Istanbul). That event was WWI, which started on June 28, 1914 with the assassination of the Archduke of Austria, Franz Ferdinand, in Sarajevo (Bosnia-Herzegovina). This initiated the destruction of the world order of Europe. It ended the 437 year rule of most of Europe by the Hapsburg dynasty. It ended the 462 year rule of the Moslem Ottoman Empire of the Turks, and immediately following WWI the Russian Czarist system founded by Ivan the Terrible in 1552 was sent crashing down by the communist revolution.

WWI reverberates through all of the 20th and now into the 21st century, like the aftershocks of a great earthquake. All the maps of Europe and the Middle East are redrawn; the conditions for more war are created by the Allies stupid and cruel treatment of Germany following the armistice. The stone has struck, now it just has to grow in size and grind all representation of Daniel’s image to dust.

As we progress up the legs we come to the abdomen of bronze, signifying the philosophies and culture of Greece are next to suffer the destruction from this growing stone cut out of a mountain. WWII begins; it is America that is the premier player in this war, America that prides itself on democracy, that governmental invention of the Greeks. America is a mix of Roman and Greek values, Roman law, Greek culture. The stone keeps grinding, although America seems to emerge from WWII stronger than ever our preeminence is immediately contested by Russian and Chinese communism, and a weakness to confront these threats within by our own government See the story of Algier Hiss The cold war begins, eventually America is weakened culturally, morally, and financially by the demands of the cold war, yet at the same time we take down the Russians and seemingly subdue the aspirations and naked communism of the Chinese by seducing them with a huge market for their goods.

America represents the abdomen of bronze the holder of the Greek culture, the stone now grows until it reaches to the breast of silver. Russia and China enjoyed our distress in Korea and Vietnam, bleeding us by supplying our enemies with weapons and training. Now it is time for us to return the favor, bleeding Russia to the point of collapse by supplying their enemies with weapons and training to thwart their adventure in Afghanistan (along with Iran the greater part of the Persian empire at it’s greatest extent).

In fact the ancient Persian Empire had boundaries that included Libya on the west to all of Afghanistan and Pakistan on the east. It extended down the east coast of Africa to present day Ethiopia, and northwards to encompass all of Turkey and most of Greece.

The Russians invaded Afghanistan in December 25th 1979, and less than a year later Iraq under Saddam Hussein invaded Iran on September 22, 1980, the stone is crushing the chest of silver as the center of the ancient Persian Empire is present day Iran and Afghanistan

Russian forces withdrew from Afghanistan on February 15, 1989. The Russians lost about 15,000 troops in this conflict, but more importantly it bled them of money, respect, and resources at a time when President Reagan was building up the American Military. The Afghanistan conflict contributed in no small way to the final breakup of the Soviet Union, a process that was completed on December 8, 1991

The Iran/Iraq war ended on August 20th 1988, with the loss of over one million Iranian lives and the loss of between two hundred fifty thousand to five hundred thousand Iraqi lives. This was no small conflict, the largest since WWII, and costing billions of dollars. Interesting to note that only Russia and the United States supplied both sides during this war, most other countries supported Iraq exclusively, especially the Arab States, noteworthy is only Israel and North Korea supported Iran exclusively, war makes for strange bedfellows. Henry Kissinger remarked that "it's a pity they [Iran and Iraq] both can't lose."

I will continue in Part II of Daniel’s Statue with the final conflicts of the stone crushing the head of gold. These human conflicts beginning at WWI are all in some way the same war, just various battles. The linkage that produces the next series of battles is amazing as the stupid, greedy and warlike nature of the nations, produces the very conditions that guarantee the next series of battles or wars.

Russia gloats at our bleeding in Vietnam; but soon we will soon gloat at, and cause their bleeding in Afghanistan. Europe gloated at a supine and punished Germany at the end of WWI; but soon the world will pay in blood for crushing their brothers. And does God even now, as He did in ancient times, raise up nations if even for a short time, to punish other nations? Of course, see how communism has been used to help with the destruction of the cultures of man, and apostate Christianity, especially the Eastern orthodox church.

And why are the toes of clay and iron referring to the inability of the peoples to mix? It is speaking of the attempt to combine people in a multi-cultural world, which will ultimately fail. Also a most important result of both WWI and WWII is the creation of the state of Israel, which among other things acts as a prophetic clock setting a time limit to the completion of the destruction of the present order.

Finally, what was the identifiable prophetic event that launched so great a move of history, so complete a destruction of human governance of the preeminence of nations and of all the inheritance of human culture and philosophy? Can we identify this event? Yes, it was the outpouring of the Holy Spirit in the great Welsh Revival of 1904, and the Azusa Street outpourings in 1906 in Los Angeles. These outpourings spread throughout the Anglo-speaking world and beyond.

The Pentecostal movement was a result of those outpourings. Now much of that traditional movement has become ossified and nothing of the fire remains in most of the traditional churches of Pentecostal denominations. However many movements, some known, some obscure, resulted from that time of outpouring. This resulted in many millions of people, receiving the Holy Spirit, and the return of the gifts of the spirit, including healings and miracles, but most importantly the gift of Prophecy, the very gift that the Apostle Paul put above all the other gifts.

A fascinating tie to both the worldly manifestation of this destruction by the stone cut out of mountains without hands, and the prophetic source can be seen in the life of Rees Howells the great intercessor from the Welsh Revival. Eventually Rees founded a Bible College that became so noted in the power of prayer that he and his students were given privileged and secret information of British war plans, in order that they might pray for victory during WWII.

What does that mean to our story? Since the beginning of the 20th century men and women have once again been empowered to speak prophetically in the earth. And we should remember that prophecy is not foretelling the future, it is the empowerment of God in us to CREATE the future. God is not a fortune teller, He is the creator, and He endows us with the power to create our own history, to create our own destiny, and ultimately to create the Kingdom of God on this earth, to which his son shall return to rule with us…as he is Lord of Lords, and King of Kings.

For all these decades there has been obscure groups, churches here and there, prophesying the end of man’s kingdoms and the beginning of God’s kingdom. The rule of the earth will not come from parliaments and congresses, or from the stronghold of tyrants, but it will come from the unknown and the humble, from those that groan within themselves for the righteousness of God to fill the earth; with the insurance that unrighteous and selfish prayers or prophecy will not be answered.

Just as Christ came and was born in a barn, a lowly place, unnoticed, until finally when recognized as someone strange and unique and ultimately powerful, the powers that be conspired to kill Him. But it is said that at His second coming He will not be put to death again. A time comes when His prophets will not be put to death, but they shall slay the beast, and that time is upon us now, we are living in the most incredible time in all of human history, the transition from the rule of man to a prophetic rule by his Word. The earth will be ruled by the faithful prayers and prophecy of men and woman that have no personal axe to grind, have no personal fortune to win, and who do not even have a guarantee they will see the completion of that for which they travail, but the spirit within them moves them to proclaim His rule be established. What do you choose? Do you choose the rule of man, the destruction and pollution of the earth, the killing of the animals, the false hopes, the greed, the lies, and the self-seeking? Or do you choose the righteous yet loving rule of the King of Kings?