~~~ The fourth head ~~~~
Now for the shocker. I know many of you will have trouble with this one. But I know in my heart for sure God has shown me this is the truth. Daniel 7: 7. After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns. Now, here is a new ‘head’ or division of people on earth. This head is very different from any of the others before it. It is dreadful and terrible. It is strong exceedingly. It had great iron teeth. It devoured and brake in pieces and stamped the residue with the feet of it. It was different from all the beasts before it. It had TEN HORNS. So, what head of people fits this description? Only one. Moses. Yes, Moses. The law. The name Moses, is not just the name of the man, but it is used in place of the word, Law. Yes, in Scripture, Moses is synonymous with Law, just as David is used in place of Jesus many times. Joshua is used in place of Jesus many times, and many others. So, even though the man, Moses was himself in grace, his kingdom, over which he was the head, was law. Therefore it is a beast kingdom. Was Law of God? No. God said he never required any of the things under law worship. He declared he hated every bit of that stuff. He hated their Sabbaths, their new moons, their offering incense, their priests, their solemn assemblies, their oblations, and everything else they did, especially the animal sacrifices which are offered by law. So this law kingdom was the iron rule. Those Ten Commandments were the power of this kingdom. By those commandments, people died without mercy. If a child was disobedient to their parents, they were killed. If a wife or husband was unfaithful, they were killed. If a person picked up a stick on the Sabbath, he was killed. Sound like a merciful God? No. It was of the devil. It was a beast kingdom. Heb 10:28 He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses: One of the meanings in Strongs here for horns is power. So those Ten Commandments were the ‘power’ of this kingdom. Do You believe that Jesus taught us the true Word of God? After all God said that He put his words into the mouth of Jesus. Did not Jesus cross the law teachings of Moses? Of course He did. He said, it has been said an eye for an eye (law) and a tooth for a tooth (law), BUT I say unto you, resist not evil, but turn the other cheek. If one takes you to court to sue for your coat, let him have your cloke also. Moses let them divorce for any reason, but Jesus said not so. Jesus broke their weekly Sabbath. See, Jesus was not going by this Law of Moses. He was living by God’s truth, Grace. Now mind you, Jesus never sinned. But he was not bound by law. So this law system was not God’s way. It was man’s way. God told them they had chosen their own way, that of law. Now for an example of how this kingdom devoured men: Nu 26:9 And the sons of Eliab; Nemuel, and Dathan, and Abiram. This is that Dathan and Abiram, which were famous in the congregation, who strove against Moses and against Aaron in the company of Korah, when they strove against the LORD: Nu 26:10 And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died, what time the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men: and they became a sign. They became a sign? See it showed that this kingdom ruled with an iron rod or those iron teeth. If you did wrong under this kingdom, you died without any mercy. They came against Moses, so they died. Powerful Head! Jer 2:30 In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion. (This shows the nature of Adam’s kingdom. They killed their own prophets. This is proven in that Cain killed the prophet, Abel. See that element of the lion kingdom still at work in this fourth kingdom? See that they devoured their own prophets. Yes, this fourth kingdom was full of death. Here is more evidence that this law kingdom of Israel had the elements of those other kingdoms in her: Eze 22:18 Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross: all they are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are even the dross of silver. Here is more proof that this law kingdom of Israel was a beast kingdom. They were not holy nor did they serve the true God: Eze 22:24 Son of man, say unto her, Thou art the land that is not cleansed, nor rained upon in the day of indignation. 22:25 There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof. 22:26 Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they showed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them. 22:27 Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain. 22:28 And her prophets have daubed them with untempered mortar, seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord GOD, when the LORD hath not spoken. Eze 22:29 The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully. Now that is a mighty indictment from God against this kingdom of law, Israel. See that her prophets, priests and her princes, their power or leaders, were all wicked. So it was a beast kingdom. Eze 36:13 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they say unto you, Thou land devourest up men, and hast bereaved thy nations; Dan 7:7 After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns. Dan 7:23 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.
See that this nation of Israel was the one which devoured up men and bereaved nations. See Daniel said this fourth kingdom DEVOURED and brake in pieces. It is clearly identified here as being that law nation of Israel. And there are so many Scriptures proving this, that it would take many books to cover it all. But here is enough proof to any person who can see and understand simple truth. Here is what another prophet said about this nation of Israel: Ho 7:3 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies. Ho 7:4 They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened. Ho 7:7 They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth unto me. Ho 8:13 They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; but the LORD accepteth them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt (Here God brings them to judgment. When He visits their sins or remembers their iniquity, then He cuts them off without any more mercy. So this proves that this law nation of Israel, this fourth kingdom, was left in sin and repented not. If God remembers their sins and visits for this, it shows they were lost or cut off). Ho 8:14 For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples; and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof. See here that God shows that all these things are part of being a beast kingdom: sacrificing flesh for their sacrifices of offerings to God, building temples and fenced cities (law). But God said he would devour their palaces = the big temples. So all of this very clearly identifies this nation of Israel as the fourth beast kingdom which ruled this earth. That law was her power, or those ten horns. She used this power to devour the earth and her own people. She devoured her own prophets, priests, kings and even their widows. Strong is this witness of God AGAINST this fourth beast kingdom, Israel, or law. They are ONE. This next Scripture is the strongest proof and indictment against this fourth kingdom: Ho 13:7 Therefore I will be unto them as a lion: as a leopard by the way will I observe them: Ho 13:8 I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them. Now let me show you by the above two verses the solid PROOF that this nation of Israel is this fourth head on the beast. God told them, I will be unto you as a LION. What is that? The first kingdom under Adam, of course. Then He said, I will observe them as a LEOPARD. What is that? The Third Kingdom of the Beast. Then He said, I will meet them as a BEAR that is bereaved of her whelps. What is that? The second Head under Noah. Now if that does not prove to you that this law nation of Israel, headed up by Moses, is this fourth head Kingdom, I honestly do not know how you could ever learn any truth! He has brought all four kingdoms in right here. He has shown that He will come against them in the spirit of the first three kingdoms. Why? Because He said they had done worse than all the others. If God destroyed that Lion Kingdom, because of their evil, and He destroyed that Bear Kingdom for their sins, and he destroyed the third kingdom because of their sins, then He is certainly going to come against this kingdom, to which He had given His laws and Word and sent them prophets and priest, and yet for all this, they had sinned worse than all the other nations before them.
Jer 16:8 Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting, to sit with them to eat and to drink. 16:9 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place in your eyes, and in your days, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride. 16:10 And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt show this people all these words, and they shall say unto thee, Wherefore hath the LORD pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or what is our sin that we have committed against the LORD our God? Jer 16:11 Then shalt thou say unto them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, saith the LORD, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law; Jer 16:12 And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me: Verse nine is showing the same thing as in Rev. 18-- the destruction of Mystery Babylon, for they are one and the same. This law nation of Israel is that whore against God, Babylon. That is your fourth head. That is what was dreadful and terrible. Why? Because under the law was no mercy. Those iron teeth had no mercy. If you committed a sin, you died without mercy. It cast down every other nation on earth. It devoured all other kingdoms. It brake them in pieces. Yes, under Moses all other nations were devoured and taken into subjection to the Hebrews. Under Joshua, under David, under each king -- that law group ruled this earth and devoured it. What were its ten horns? Of course - what else except those 10 Commandments? Yes. This is the answer. Under those 10 Commandments every person had to live or die. It was their power. It still has people under its iron rule today who were set free by Jesus. Yet they have been brought back under the bondage of those iron teeth.
Adam’s kingdom was the first head over mankind. Noah’s kingdom was the second head. The three sons of Noah along with Abraham make up that third kingdom. Now since this kingdom actually had four head it was a divided kingdom. So to count them, that makes six heads over this beast kingdom of mankind. Now this law kingdom of Israel, Jerusalem, under Moses is that seventh head. This is the seven heads over mankind which Daniel told us about in Daniel 7.
The ‘supposed-to-be scholars’, who went before us, made the mistake of going by what was revealed by Daniel in Dan. 2. Daniel two is not dealing with the same seven heads as the above. This is dealing with the IMAGE OF THE BEAST. Proof? Sure. Dan 2:28 But there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, and maketh known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy bed, are these; Da 2:29 As for thee, O king, thy thoughts came into thy mind upon thy bed, what should come to pass hereafter: and he that revealeth secrets maketh known to thee what shall come to pass. Now that is three times in those two verses where it placed this dream into the latter days, a time yet to come then. See, it said shall come to pass hereafter. This clearly places the fulfillment of this dream into the future from their time. So it is not the seven heads spoken of in chapter seven. Most commentators say that Babylon was the first head. But see, there is no way that could be true, because then it would leave out all of the time man was on earth until then, as being without a head. That is most certainly not true. Then they place the Medes and Persians as the second kingdom. Again this cannot be true. They then say Greece is third and Rome is the fourth kingdom. They did not have the anointing of God teaching them truth. I have solidly proven with many, many scriptures that the first head over mankind was the Son of God, Adam. God did anoint Adam to be the HEAD over this entire earth. He did anoint Noah to be the second head over this entire earth. The others are proven also.
While it is true that Nebuchadnezzar did bear rule over this earth, he was NOT the first head over man. Daniel two is dealing with the IMAGE to this first Beast. It plainly says so. Dan 2:31 Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the form thereof was terrible. 2:32 This image's head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass, 2:33 His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay. The fact that he said this was a great IMAGE, and that this was for a time YET TO BE, proves that it is not the seven kingdoms taught in chapter seven. It was an image of this first kingdom. This means it was only a type of the first kingdom with the seven heads. They were manifested in four different kingdoms and they were each different from the other.
Adam’s kingdom was in a glorified or God-like state. They were the anointed Cherubs of Eze. 28. They lost this God-like power and life at the time of the great flood. Noah’s kingdom was in a dust frame and had lost much of their God-like power. The third kingdom was all of one speech and in harmony until God came and confounded their languages and scattered them over the earth. Then they were divided into four different kingdoms as the Word said that River would divide into four heads after it left Eden. Then Moses’ kingdom was very different from either of those, because it was the first kingdom to have to live under that bondage of LAW. They were the ones who devoured and broke the earth to pieces. They were the one which killed people for disobedience. They were the one which was dreadful and terrible. This is so solidly proven in the Word of God, that I don’t see how anyone could honestly dispute this truth.
Dan2:44 And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever. See that said that in the days of the kings shown in chapter two, God will set up the kingdom of Jesus on earth, which will destroy all those other kingdoms and this kingdom will stand for ever. This one will never end. So it proves that this image in chapter two is still in existence when Jesus returns to this earth to set up his kingdom. He did set it up in the hearts of man at his first coming, but it is still not ruling on this earth. It will someday do away with all those image kingdoms and will remain the one and only kingdom on earth forever.
Jesus was the dividing of time. Yes. Jesus changed the time from B.C. to A. D, OT to NT. He changed the whole way of life on earth. He brought a new way of life. He brought Grace, The very opposite from the law. Law is bondage = iron teeth. The other is Grace = freedom. So, this fourth head, or Moses, ruled until Jesus came. This is why Daniel said there were four kingdoms on earth until the dividing of time. This fourth head ruled until Jesus came and set the world free from that law age. The law came by Moses --- but Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. See a major division again right there between Moses and Jesus. So, Moses or the fourth head had to rule until Jesus came and took over the ruler ship of this earth. On the Day of Pentecost that fourth head ended. At least it was supposed to have ended. But know what? That old desolate head picked right back up and reached out its iron teeth and brought the earth back under its bondage again.
Whom the Son hath set free is free indeed. I will close this portion on the heads and do another one on the image of the beast and the setting up of the kingdom of Jesus on earth.
I hope this message is a blessing to each one who reads it. Just study this and pray and ask God to reveal it to you before you come debating at me. God showed me this. If you do not like it or believe it, just talk to Him about it. Not me. I did not tell myself this. God told me.
By: Jo Smith
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