In Daniel chapters seven and eight, we are given a wonderful prophetic account of the major political powers which God would raise up to dominate the last 120 years of the six thousand years He has given us before Jesus begins to take over the world.

The rise and fall of each of these nations is described. He told us how the fourth power and the little Horn shall be destroyed, but that the three nations which came up first would have their dominion taken away: yet that they would continue as nations into the seventh millennium.

Daniel described Nazi Germany, then Russia, followed by the United States of America. Then he said, "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. I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things" (Dan 7:7,8).

Daniel said he watched until that Little Horn "made war with the saints, and prevailed against them; until [Jesus] came and judgment was given to the saints of the most High; and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom" (Dan. 7:9-22).

In chapter 8, Daniel received a second vision which detailed precisely where the Little Horn was to come from. Afterward the angel told him, "Understand, O son of man: for at the time of the end shall be the vision … And he said, Behold, I will make thee know what shall be in the last end of the indignation: for at the time appointed the end shall be" (Dan. 8:8-19).

The "Beast" with his ten horns has been with us since October 24, 1945. The United Nations charter was signed on June 26, 1945 by representatives of 50 countries; Poland signed on Oct. 15. The charter entered into force on Oct. 24, 1945, and the "The Beast" had been created by the United States of America (Rev. 13:11-18). Then, when the "Twin Towers" fell, the President of the United States moved swiftly to create that "other Little Horn:" the Office Homeland Security.

Approximately four thousand years elapsed between the first man Adam and the last Adam: the Lord from Heaven. The first millennium was Adam’s; the second was Noah’s; the third millennium began with Abraham and ended with Samuel; and the fourth began with the establishment of the Kingdom of Israel and ended about a dozen years after the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Sometime after A.D. 70, the gospel of the kingdom of God was transferred to the Gentiles. For almost two thousand years now, the Gentiles, under the tutelage of the Apostle Paul, have been responsible for the spread of Christianity around the world. Our allotted time will soon be over, and there will be no extension. God has promised the seventh millennium to Jesus Christ and His faithful followers.

In Luke 2:41-52 and 3:1-3,21-33, Luke gave us a pretty clear picture of when the fifth millennium began. It is apparent that Jesus, at 12 years of age, thought that the fifth millennium had begun when He entered the temple and spent a week or so in intense discussion with "the doctors." Tiberius Caesar was given the throne by Augustus at about the same time, and in the fifteenth year of his reign, John the Baptist began His ministry (Encyclopedia Britannica, 1959, Vol. 22, Pg. 176).

The seventh millennium will begin near the beginning of the fall of A.D. 2011. The Spirit of the Lord has revealed many of the details to us, but now the time is upon us when we must quickly find out "the manifold wisdom of God." Very soon now, "The judgment shall sit, and the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High" (Daniel 7:24-27).

Daniel said, "Then I would know the truth of the Fourth Beast (The U. N.), which was diverse from all the others… And of the ten horns that were in his head, and of the other which came up, and before whom three fell; even of that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spake very great things" (Dan. 7:19-20). That beast arose in 1945, and that little horn began its rise in 2001.

The "little horn" is not a nation, but operates by delegated authority (Dan. 8:23-25). It has a mouth which "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. But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end. And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of The Most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey Him. Hitherto is the end of the matter" (Dan. 7:25-28).

From the creation of the United Nations by the U.S.A. in 1945, it has gradually increased in power, and today, its power is increasing at an alarming rate. The Group of Ten and The Group of Seven are its driving force. The "Little Horn," which has now risen, is different from the ten, in that "he shall be mighty, but not by his own power" (Dan. 8:24). In verse 12, He also said, "An host was given to him against the daily sacrifice."

These ten horns on that fourth beast are not kingdoms, in the usual sense. However, for the final "one hour" (forty two years or so) of the existence of that beast, they receive power as kingdoms. The government of the United States of America, and particularly the Office of the Presidency, began to exercise that kind of power in about 1969, at the formation of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), with its broad powers to control both public and private land and resources. Then, in November 1971, the ten wealthiest non-Communist nations went to Rome for a World Financial Summit, emphasizing the fact that they are indeed that beast upon which the "harlot religion" was sitting since 1965/1966 (Rev. 17:3).

Daniel’s second vision on this subject, in chapter 8, is a continuation of the revelation which was presented in chapter seven. Daniel saw a ram which had two horns: pushing westward, and northward, and southward; so that no beasts might stand before him, neither was there any that could deliver out of his hand. The goat came from the west on the face of the whole earth, and touched not the ground: and the goat had a notable horn between his eyes. He ran unto the ram in the fury of his power, and broke his two horns, and he cast him down to the ground and there was none that could deliver the ram out of his hand.

Soon afterward, "the great horn was broken; and for it came up four notable ones toward the four winds of heaven. And out of one of them came forth a little horn, which became exceeding great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the pleasant land" (Dan. 8:3-11, 19).

Verse nineteen clearly shows that the primary intent of the vision was to reveal the source the Little Horn at this end of the age. "There stood before me as the appearance of a man. And he said unto me, Understand, O son of man: for at the time of the end shall be the vision. And he said, Behold, I will make thee know what shall be in the last end of the indignation: for at the time appointed the end shall be.

The world of the twentieth century has already experienced the fulfillment of this vision, including the emergence of the Little Horn. The "ram with two horns" represents the Axis powers of World War II: Germany and Japan. The Axis powers came together in the Tripartite Pact in September of 1940. By the early 1940s, the push was on, and there was no power, it seemed, which could stop it. The total, ignominious defeat of Germany and Japan, at the conclusion of WWII, fulfilled the prophecy of the two horns of the ram.

We are told that "no beasts might stand before (the Ram), neither was there any that could deliver out of his hand." He obviously means any in the eastern hemisphere, because the He Goat, from the West, was able to do so. The United States fought the war on both sides of the world by air and by water.

The notable horn of that goat is a prophetic allegory of the presidency of the United States. The strength of the presidency had become so great by the end of WW II that measures were soon taken to break its power. Just six years after the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the strongest President in U.S. history, the Congress of the United States limited the President to two four-year terms, thus breaking the power of the great horn.

When the power of the presidency was broken, the Executive branch of our government evolved four departments with kingdom-like powers (Dan. 8:22). They are: the Presidency, the National Security Council, the Dept. of Justice, and the Dept. of the Treasury. Each of these "kingdoms" has its own military force, or quasi-military arm. The Presidency controls the U.S. military forces (D.O.D.), the National Security Council has the Central Intelligence Agency (C.I.A.), The Justice Department has the Drug Enforcement Agency (D.E.A.), and The Department of the Treasury has the Department of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (A.T.F.). At least three of these "armies" function on an international basis.

The stage has been set. Before the emergence of that little horn, the prophecy in Matt. 24:12 had to be fulfilled. The Lord said, "Because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold." The phenomenon began to appear in the middle 1950s, and by the late sixties to early seventies, the trend was well trenched. Today, in America, good is called evil, and evil is called good.

Officially, on October 1, 2008, the military force of the Department of Homeland Security joined together with a Canadian regiment to train as a United Nations military force, ostensibly designed to "quell riots in America." It would appear that they plan for something to occur which will cause those riots. When that happens, America will not be facing U.S. National Guard units, but rather U.N. Troops.

One nation under God will quickly be transformed into a nation which has no tolerance for the True God. How shall we escape if we neglect the salvation which the God of Heaven and Earth has given to us. Let us rise up and study to show ourselves approved unto God. It may be that we shall be hid in the day of the Lord’s wrath, the form of which we can already see on the horizon (Zeph. 2:1-3).

It is necessary that we earnestly seek God for wisdom, and begin to apply some common sense to the Bible, so we can find out what we need to do to be ready to go to the wedding and to make the transition from the sixth millennium into the seventh.