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������ Daniel's Fifth Kingdom‑by Dr. Bertrand Comparet
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�������� Daniel's Fifth Kingdom
��������������� by Dr. Bertrand Comparet
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������������������� It is universally recognized that many of the Bible's
greatest prophecies are found in
������������������� the Book of Daniel. Many of these are phrased in such
obscure language that they
������������������� were hard to understand until their fulfillment made
clear their meaning. That is
�� �����������������exactly what God intended: for He had His angel tell
Daniel, "But thou, 0 Daniel,
������������������� shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time
of the end ... for the words
������������������� are closed up and sealed till the time of the end. Many
shall be purified, and made
������������������� white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly; and
none of the wicked shall
������������������� understand; but the wise shall understand" (Daniel 12:
4, 9‑10). However, actual
�� �����������������events which have followed through the centuries have
fulfilled these prophecies
������������������� so unmistakably that their meaning is now clear.
������������������� One of these prophecies is accepted by all churches
that I know of, and they have
������������������� agreed upon its meaning for the first 4/5 of it. Yet this
prophecy so clearly sets
������������������� forth the Anglo‑Saxon Israel doctrines that it is hard to
see how the preachers of
������������������� these churches can be blind to it; and this is an especial
challenge to all preachers
������������������� who deny the truth of the Anglo‑Saxon Israel doctrines:
Follow this with me in your
������������������� Bibles, and then let me hear you deny it.
��������������� ����I refer to Nebuchadnezzar's image, which Daniel
explained as a prophecy sent by
������������������� God. This is all in the second chapter of Daniel, You will
remember that in Babylon,
������������������� King Nebuchadnezzar had a dream of such obvious
importance that it greatly
������������������� troubled him: But on waking, he forgot his dream, so he
could not tell it to his wise
������������������� men, to ask their interpretation. Being a typical Oriental
monarch, he found a quick
���������������� ���solution to this puzzle: We read, "And in the second
year of the reign of
������������������� Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams,
wherewith his spirit was
������������������� troubled, and his sleep broke from him. Then the king
commanded to call the
������������������� magicians, and the astrologers, and the sorcerers, and
the Chaldeans, for to show
������������������� the king his dreams. So they came and stood before the
king. And the king said
������������������� unto them, I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit was
troubled to know the
������������������� dream. Then spoke the Chaldeans to the king in Syriac,
0 king, live forever Tell thy
������������������� servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation.
And the king answered
��� ����������������and said to the Chaldeans, The thing is gone from me: if
ye will not make known
������������������� unto me the dream, with the interpretation thereof, ye
shall be cut in pieces, and
������������������� your houses shall be made a dunghill" (Daniel 2:1‑5).
������������������� This was surely a startlingly unreasonable demand to
make. These were sorcerers,
������������������� old hands at the game of thinking up impressive but
vague answers‑‑vague and
������������������� equivocal enough to let them fit their words into
whatever might happen..an art
������������������� they shared with some of the famous Greek oracles.
But to be required to give an
������������������� answer when you didn't yet know what the question
wasl That was too much to
������������������� expect. They replied, "There is not a man upon the
earth that can show the king's
������������������� matter: therefore, there is no king, lord, nor ruler, that
asked such things of any
������������������� magician, or astrologer or Chaldean. And it is a rare
thing that the king requires,
������������������� and there is none other that can show it before the king,
except the gods, whose
������������������� dwelling is not with flesh. " But this did not pacify the
king, who commanded that
������������������� all the magicians, astrologers and Chaldeans be killed,
because their inability to
������������������� explain his dream exposed them as frauds. Only Daniel
and his Hebrew companions
������������������� escaped this purge, because God gave to Daniel the
power to recount the dream
������������������� itself, as well as to explain it. In Daniel's own words, this
was the dream: "Thou, 0
������������������� king, sawest, and behold a great image. This great
image, whose brightness was
������������������� excellent, stood before thee: and the form thereof was
terrible. This image's head
������������������� was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his
belly and his thighs of brass,
������������������� his legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay."
Then Daniel went on to
������������������� explain to king Nebuchadnezzar the meaning of this
image: "Thou, 0 king, art a king
������������������� of kings: for the God of heaven has given thee a
kingdom, power, and strength,
������������������� and glory. And wherever the children of men dwell, the
beasts of the field and the
������������������� fowls of the heaven has He given into thine hand, and
has made thee ruler over
������������������� them all. Thou art this head of gold. And after thee shall
arise another kingdom
������������������� inferior to thee, and another kingdom of brass, which
shall bear rule over all the
������������������� earth. And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron:
forasmuch as iron breaks in
������������������� pieces and subdues all things: and as iron that breaks
all these, shall it break in
������������������� pieces and bruise. And whereas thou sawest the feet
and toes, part of potter's clay,
������������������� and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided: but there
shall be in it of the
������������������� strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron
mixed with miry clay. And
������������������� as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay,
so the kingdom shall be
������������������� partly strong, and partly broken. And whereas thou
sawest iron mingled with miry
������������������� clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of
men: but they shall not cleave
������������������� one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay"
(Daniel 2: 31‑43).
������������������� As I said, the churches are all in agreement that this
image represents the
������������������� Babylonian Succession of Empires.
������������������� The head was Babylon itself, under Nebuchadnezzar,
who brought it to its pinnacle
������������������� of power and wealth. In its day, it was the most
important empire in the then
������������������� known world: western Asia and the lands fronting on
the Mediterranean Sea. It ruled
�������� �����������the entire Fertile Crescent. from the Persian Gulf even
to Egypt. The next
������������������� succeeding empire of comparable power was that of the
Medes and Persians, who
������������������� conquered Babylon about 536 B.C. The kingdom of
Media was absorbed in the rising
������������������� power of Persia even before the conquest of Babylon.
This Persian Empire
������������������� extended from Northwest India and Afghanistan across
the Fertile Crescent, over
������������������� most of Asia Minor (which constitutes modern Turkey),
down through Syria and
������������������� Palestine, and even included Egypt. This was the
empire represented by the "breast
������������������� and arms of silver" in Nebuchadnezzar's dream image.
It was conquered and
������������������� absorbed into the empire of Alexander "the Great," of
Macedon between the years
������������������ 334 and 331 B.C. Alexander became king of Macedonia
in 336 B.C.; by 332 he had
������������������� conquered Asia Minor (modern Turkey), Syria, Palestine
and Egypt; he conquered
������������������� the Tigris‑Euphrates Valleys in 331, swept over Persia,
Bactria (largely the same as
������������������� modern Afghanistan) and into North India. In ten years,
he had built up an empire
�� �����������������covering all the then known civilized world from Greece
eastward to northern
������������������� India. In 323 B.C. he died in drunken debauchery in
Babylon. His huge but
������������������� short‑lived empire was the "belly and thighs of brass"
in Nebuchadnezzar's
������������������� dream‑image.
������������������� Fourth and last came the great empire of Rome,
represented by the legs of iron.
������������������� The city of Rome was founded in 753 B.C., and the
Roman Republic, which began
������������������� its greatness, was established about 500 B.C. Its empire
began with the conquest of
������������������� Macedonia and Egypt, in 168 B.C. Eventually, the
Roman Empire expanded so that it
������������������� ruled Italy, Spain, Gaul (modern France), Macedonia,
Greece, North Africa and
������������������� Egypt, western Asia Minor, Syria, and Palestine; its
frontiers were: the Atlantic
������������������� Ocean, the Irish Sea, the south border of Scotland, the
North Sea, the River Rhine,
������������������� the Danube River, the Black Sea, the Caucasus
Mountains, Armenia, to the middle of
������������������� ancient Babylonia, the Arabian Desert, the Red Sea,
Nubia and the Sahara Desert,
������������������� and the Moroccan mountains. Its outstanding
characteristic was its harsh and cruel
������������������� treatment of its subject peoples: as Daniel said, "and
the fourth kingdom shall be
������������������� strong as iron: for as much as iron breaks in pieces and
subdues all things: and as
������������������� iron that breaks all these, shall it break in pieces and
bruise." Remember there
������������������� were two legs of iron, and so the Roman Empire split
into the Western, or Roman
������������������� Empire, and the Eastern Empire, often called
"Byzantine."
������������������� Likewise, each of these two was an enforced mixture of
different peoples, having
������������������� nothing in common except that they were ruled by the
Roman Army; and when that
������������������� military force failed, they broke up into their original
fragments. As Daniel had
������������������� said, "As the toes of the feet were part of iron and part
of clay, so the kingdom
������������������� shall be partly strong and partly broken. And whereas
thou sawest iron mixed with
������������������� miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed
of men: but they shall not
������������������� leave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with
clay." Up to this point, all the
������������������� churches are with me 100%. Their preachers all agree
that these are the empires
������������������� which Daniel's prophecy foretold, because they fulfill
that prophecy so perfectly.
������������������� Now we come to the place where most of the churches
don't want to recognize
������������������� Daniel as a prophet. Let's continue with what Daniel
said. After concluding his
������������������� description of the image and its interpretation as these
four successive empires, in
������������������� the very next verse, Daniel 2: 44, he says: "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 forever." Now, let's analyze
this. First of all, let us note
������������������� that this fifth kingdom spoken of by Daniel is not like the
first four: they were the
��������������� ����creations of pagan men; but this fifth kingdom shall be
set up by God Himself.
������������������� When shall it come into existence? "In the days of
these kings"‑‑that is, at some
������������������� time during the existence of the four empires of the
Babylonian order. So, let us
������������������� refresh memory as to their dates. Babylon and its
empire came to an end in 536
������������������� B.C., when it was conquered by the Medo‑Persian
Empire; the Medo‑Persian
������������������� Empire came to an end when it was overrun and
conquered by the armies of
������������������� Alexander the Great, 331 B.C. After his death,
Alexander's empire fell apart into
������������������� four parts, as another prophecy of Daniel's had foretold.
Alexander died in 323 B.C.
������������������� These are the first three empires symbolized by
Nebuchadnezzar's dream‑image;
������������������� this leaves only the fourth and last, Imperial Rome.
������������������� The city of Rome was founded in 753 B.C.; the Republic
was established about 500
������������������� B.C.; expansion into an empire began with the conquest
of Macedonia and Egypt,
������������������� 168 B.C. We need not cover in detail the history of the
Roman Empire: enough to
������������������� note that, just as the dream‑image had two legs, the
Roman Empire was divided
������������������� into eastern and western parts: first by emperor
Diocletian, in 283 A.D., and the
������������������� division became permanent at the death of emperor
Theodosius, 395 A.D. The two
������������������� separate empires, the western generally governed from
Rome and always called
������������������� Roman, and the eastern, governed from Constantinople
(the original name of which
������������������� city had been Byzantium), and generally called the
Byzantine Empire, continued for
������������������� some time after their separation.
������������������� The western, or Roman Empire, fought a losing battle
against the ever‑increasing
������������������� pressure of the invading peoples who were the
Israelites, moving from Scythia into
������������������� their new European homes. The Visigoths were an
Israelite people, largely Christian
������������������� by 350 A.D. They were driven west by the pressure of
the invading Huns; they
������������������� entered the Roman Empire in 376 A.D., scoring a
decisive victory over Roman
������������������� armies in 378, so Rome ceded them certain Roman
territories; they invaded Italy in
������������������� 400 A.D., forced Rome to pay ransom in 408 A.D. That
year Rome withdrew its
������������������� armies from Britain to aid in the defense of Rome; but
to no avail, for in 410 A.D.
������������������� the Visigoths captured and looted the City of Rome
itself; in 412 they moved on
� ������������������into southern France and northern Spain, ruling Spain
until the Moorish conquest in
������������������� 711. In 476 A.D., Odoacer, the general of German
mercenary soldiers in the Roman
������������������� army, rebelled, captured the capital city of the Western
Roman Empire and
������������������� deposed the last emperor, Romulus Augustulus; and
this date, 476 A.D., is accepted
������������������� by historians as marking the end of the Western Roman
Empire.
������������������� Meanwhile, the eastern empire, generally called the
Byzantine Empire with
������������������� Constantinople as its capital, claimed to be ruling even
the Western Roman Empire,
������������������� although this was claim rather than fact except for brief
periods: From 395 A.D.,
������������������� the Western Roman Empire was separate. Enemy
pressures were building up against
������������������� the Eastern, or Byzantine Empire borders, pressures
too strong to be resisted. By
������������������� about 650 A.D., the Moslems had conquered Arabia,
Syria, Palestine, Egypt, North
������������������� Africa and Sicily: The Byzantine Empire was reduced to
Asia Minor and the Balkans.
������������������� Then, in 1074, the Turks captured most of Asia Minor.
Then came enemies from an
������������������� unexpected source: The combined forces of Venice and
the Fourth Crusade
������������������� captured Constantinople in 1204, taking also all the
Balkan territories, and they set
������������������� up the short‑lived Latin Empire of Constantinople. While
the authority of the
������������������� Byzantine Empire was restored in the City of
Constantinople in the 1260s, all the
������������������� Balkan territories were lost: They broke up into many
small independent nations.
��� ����������������(Remember that Daniel said that the toes were part iron
and part clay, and would
������������������� not stick together!) For two centuries more, a mere
shadow of the Byzantine
������������������� Empire continued, consisting of just the City of
Constantinople and its environs,
������������������� until the Turks captured the city in A.D. 1453, ending the
last pretense of the
������������������� existence of this leg of the Roman Empire.
������������������� So the year 1453 marks the end of the four
world‑empires of Nebuchadnezzar's
������������������� dream‑image. Remember now, the words which many
preachers won't face
������������������� because it ruins their doctrines: in Daniel 2: 44, Daniel
said, "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 forever."
We must find God's own
������������������� kingdom in this world, not in some remote future to
which the preachers would
������������������� like to assign it, but NOW: It must have had its
beginning "in the days of these kings"
����������������� ��‑‑and therefore we must study this period which we
have seen, extends from
������������������� Daniel's own time, about 600 B.C. to not later than 1453
A.D.; for that is the period
������������������� in which the kings of the Babylonian succession of
Empires ruled, as we have just
������������������� seen. Why do the preachers like to ignore this verse of
Daniel's prophecy? Because
������������������� there is a great kingdom which was set up within that
period, and which still
������������������� exists, just as God promised through Daniel that it
would. But it is a nation of
������������������� Anglo‑Saxon Israel: And if they recognize this as a
kingdom which the God of
������������������� Heaven set up, they can no longer deny the truth of the
Anglo‑Saxon Israel
������������������� doctrines. So they would rather try to make a liar of
Daniel than to admit that their
������������������� own doctrines are in error and that God has kept His
promises to His people Israel.
������������������� If it shocks you to think that the nations of Anglo‑Saxon
Germanic and Scandinavian
������������������� Israel today are the Kingdom of God, then prepare to be
shocked, for that is just
������������������� what I am about to prove. The Kingdom of God is the
only everlasting kingdom.
������������������� Psalm 22: 27‑28 says, "All the ends of the world shall
remember and turn unto the
������������������� Lord: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship
before Thee. For the
������������������� kingdom is the Lord's: and He is the governor among
the nations." Psalm 145: 13‑14,
������������������� says, "Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and Thy
dominion endureth
������������������� throughout all generations. " Daniel 4: 3 adds, "How
great are His signs, And how
������������������� mighty are His wonders, His kingdom is an everlasting
kingdom, and His dominion is
������������������� from generation to generation. "
������������������� But this Kingdom of God is not just an abstract idea, lost
somewhere among the
������������������� clouds; it is a very real kingdom upon this earth. It has
not been governed as well
������������������� while mere men rule it as it will be when Jesus Christ
returns to be its king;
������������������� nevertheless, it is still the Kingdom of God, here on
earth. Remember how Jesus
������������������� Christ, Himself, in Matthew 21: 43, told the Jewish
usurpers who ruled in Judea,
������������������� "Therefore say I unto you, The Kingdom of God shall be
taken from you, and given
���� ���������������to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof."
������������������� God had repeatedly promised to establish a
kingdom‑God's own kingdom‑‑in this
������������������� world, and place descendants of King David upon the
throne of God's Kingdom. In 1
������������������� Chronicles 17: 11‑12, 14, God's promise to David was, "I
will raise up thy seed after
������������������� thee, which shall be of thy sons, and I will establish his
kingdom. He shall build Me
������������������� a house, and I will establish his throne forever .. I will
settle him in Mine house
������������������� and in My Kingdom forever: and his throne shall be
established forevermore."
������������������� David believed God's promise, for in 1 Chronicles 28:
4‑5, David said, "Howbeit the
������������������� God of Israel chose me before all the house of my
father to be king over Israel
������������������� forever: for He hath chosen Judah to be the ruler; and
of the House of Judah, the
������������������� house of my father; and among the sons of my father
He liked me to make me king
������������������� over all Israel: And of my sons (for the Lord hath given
me many sons) He hath
������������������� chosen Solomon my son to sit upon THE THRONE OF
THE KINGDOM OF the Lord over
������������������� Israel. "
������������������� This is a very real and substantial kingdom on this
earth. In His famous parable of
������������������� the tares sown among the wheat, in Matthew 13: 38, 41,
Jesus Christ said, "The
������������������� field is the world; the good seed are the children of The
Kingdom: but the tares
������������������� are the children of the wicked one. The Son of man shall
send forth His angels, and
������������������� they shall gather OUT OF HIS KINGDOM all things that
offend, and them that do
������������������� iniquity." Certainly the children of Satan, those who
offend and do iniquity, are not
������������������� in Heaven with God, so that they will yet have to be
gathered out of Heaven: but
������������������� they are still here in this world, living here among the
nations of Anglo‑Saxon,
������������������� Germanic and Scandinavian Israel, for you meet them
and have business dealings
������������������� with them every day: So this is the same Kingdom of
God of which Jesus Christ
������������������� spoke.
������������������� The Bible leaves no doubt that, when Jesus Christ
returns to rule the world, He will
������������������� sit upon the throne of this very same kingdom. Isaiah 9:
7, which all churches
�� �����������������recognize is prophesying of Jesus Christ, says, "Of the
increase of His government
������������������� and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of
David and upon his Kingdom,
������������������� to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with
justice from henceforth
������������������� even forever. The zeal of the Lord of Hosts will perform
this." Confirming this, in
������������������� the New Testament we find the same thing in Luke 1:
32‑33, "He shall be great, and
���� ���������������shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God
shall give unto Him the
������������������� throne of his father David: and He shall reign over the
House of Jacob forever;
������������������� and of His kingdom there shall be no end. " But this is
still the same kingdom of
������������������� Israel which God established under King David, a
kingdom of God's saints, who are
������������������� the Children of Israel. Daniel 7: 27 confirms it: "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."
������������������� So now we know these things: (1) the time within which
God will set up the fifth
������������������� great empire, which is "in the days of these kings" of
the Babylonian series of four
������������������� Gentile empires, between 600 B.C. and 1453 A.D.; (2)
that the kingdom which God
������������������� will set up is an everlasting kingdom‑‑and only the
Kingdom of God is everlasting;
������������������� (3) that it is an Israel kingdom, in fulfillment of God's
promises to David and to
������������������� God's chosen people, Israel.
������������������� For a little foundation information, we must go back
even before 1500 B.C. The
������������������� Israelites were then in Egypt. In Genesis 49: 8‑10 the
throne had been promised to
�� �����������������the Tribe of Judah until Jesus Christ takes the throne.
Judah had twin sons, Pharez
������������������� and Zarah; but Pharez was born before Zarah, so Pharez
inherited the right to the
������������������� throne. Ancient writings record that the descendants of
Zarah were very able
������������������� men‑‑even King Solomon being compared to them in
wisdom. Since they could
������������������� never take the throne in Palestine, where their ability
could be used in governing
�������������� �����the people, a large part of the descendants of Zarah left
Egypt even before the
������������������� general exodus, looking for places where their abilities
could be fully used. They
������������������� migrated northward along the east coast of the
Mediterranean Sea, where they
������������������� settled along the coasts of Asia Minor and in parts of
Greece; they founded the city
������������������� of Troy, and also the city of Miletus. It is accepted
British history that after the fall
���������� ���������of Troy, as described in Homer's great poem, the Iliad,
Brutus the Trojan led a party
������������������� of Trojans to the west, and finally landed in Britain
where they founded the city of
������������������� London. The place where he landed is marked by a
monument.
������������������� The city of Miletus became powerful and famous. Its
coins were stamped with the
������������������� lion of Judah. Milesian mercenary troops were hired by
Egypt as border guards. It
������������������� established several colonies, the most important of
which was in Spain. This
������������������� Milesian colony in Spain became powerful, and an
expedition they sent to Ireland
������������������� captured the whole island. Before that time, there were
several tribal kings in
������������������� various parts of Ireland, but the Milesians united them in
one kingdom, Eochaidh
������������������� the Heremon becoming the first king of Ireland,
somewhat before 600 B.C. The
������������������� Milesian kings ruled Ireland until the overthrow of
Roderick O'Conner, the last
������������������� native Irish king, by the invading Anglo‑Norman armies
under King Henry II of
������������������� England, in 1171 A.D. The Irish of today who have
names beginning with "Mc" or "0"
������������������� are descendants of the Milesians.
������������������� In the early centuries of the Christian Era, Ireland was
known as Scotia, and its
������������������� people as Scots. More and more settlements were
made by them on the northern
������������������� part of the island of Great Britain, until by a little after
500 A.D. they founded a
������������������� separate nation, Scotland. For a time, Ireland was called
Scotia Major and Scotland
������������������� Scotia Minor.
����������� ��������Meanwhile, the raids of the fierce Norse and Danish
Vikings on the east coast of
������������������� England had become so terrible, after withdrawal of the
last of the Roman legions
������������������� in 408 A.D., that the Britons invited settlements along
the Channel coast by the
������������������� Jutes, Angles and Saxons‑‑Jutland being a part of
modern Denmark, the Angles
������������������� coming from what is modern Schleswig in Germany,
and the Saxons being part of
������������������� the people who gave their name to Saxony in Germany.
You will recall that before
������������������� the Israelites left Scythia, two of their tribes were
already known as the Angli (the
������������������� Latin form of "Angles") and the Saxons. So by the year
600, we have Ireland,
������������������� Scotland and England settled by Israelite people. Norse
and Danish Vikings also
������������������� settled areas along the English Channel coast. In my
discussion of Historic Proof of
������������������� Israel's Migration, I have mentioned the proof of the
migration of the Israelites from
������������������� Scythia into Northern and Western Europe, so there can
be no doubt that the
������������������� settlers of the British Isles are Israelites.
����������� ��������However, this period did not bring a consolidation of
them into a single kingdom:
������������������� Only Ireland was united under a single king, while the
island of Great Britain was
������������������� broken into many petty kingdoms, always at war with
each other. We must look to
������������������� a later date to find the consolidation into one kingdom.
������������������� It is well‑established history that Norse Vikings raided
the coasts of Gaul (which is
������������������� modern France) for centuries: even capturing and
looting the city of Paris three
������������������� different times. Finally, in 911 A.D., King Charles III of
France ceded the province
������������������� of Normandy, on the Channel coast, to a Viking Chief,
Rollo, who became the first
������������������� Duke of Normandy; this was done on condition that
Rollo would settle large numbers
������������������� of Norsemen there, to form a buffer against further raids
by Viking chiefs. In fact,
������������������� the word "Norman" is really just a form of "Norseman,"
and shows the racial make‑up
������������������� of its population. From Normandy came Duke William of
Normandy, William the
������������������� Conqueror, in the year 1066 A.D., in a successful
invasion of England. His Norman
������������������� followers were Israelite Norsemen, of the same racial
strain as much of the
������������������� population of England.
������������������� William the Conqueror established the English kingdom
which has continued
��� ����������������without a break since the year 1066 A.D. True, there
have been battles between
������������������� competing claimants to the throne: but the successful
contender never was a
������������������� conqueror setting up a new kingdom‑‑he was always a
claimant to the existing
������������������� throne of England. This kingdom has had an unbroken
existence since the year 1066
������������������� A.D. It is well established historical fact that the Kings of
England (and the Queens,
�������������� �����in the two reigns when there was no King), have all
been descendants of King David
������������������� of Israel. Thus, God's promise in Jeremiah 33: 17 that
David shall never lack a
������������������� descendant to sit upon the throne of Israel, has been
fulfilled.
������������������� But let's get back to Daniel and his five kingdoms. All
the churches agree that
������������������� history has proved the four kingdoms represented by
Nebuchadnezzar's image to be
������������������� Babylon, Medo‑Persia, Alexander's empire, and Rome.
Then Daniel goes on to say, in
������������������� Daniel 2: 44, that "IN THE DAYS OF THESE KINGS"‑‑and
in the preceding verses he
������������������� has been careful to mention only FOUR kingdoms, the
last of which we know to be
������������������� the Roman Empire‑‑"in the days of these kings shall the
God of heaven set up a
������������������� kingdom which shall never be destroyed." Daniel never
speaks of the toes or the
������������������� clay in them as kings or kingdoms.
������������������� The continuity of the Throne of David, through Ireland,
Scotland and England, is
������������������� historically established. Now, what about the time of its
establishment as the
������������������� Kingdom of England? As we saw the final end of the
Roman Empire came in the year
������������������� 1453 A.D. But the present Kingdom of England was
established in the year 1066
������������������� A.D., well within what Daniel calls "the days of these
kings."
��������������� ����All the churches are willing to recognize Daniel as an
inspired prophet through the
������������������� interpretation of the vision of the image as representing
the four successive
������������������� world‑empires. "In the days of these kings" the
Kingdom of England was established
������������������� and it became a world‑empire many times greater than
all the previous empires of
������������������� world history. If this is not the kingdom set up by the
God of heaven Himself, as
������������������� Daniel says, then how did God happen to overlook the
most remarkable kingdom in
������������������� all human history? No, this isn't according to the
accepted doctrines of most
������������������� churches; and they would rather reject the word of God
than admit that any of
������������������� their doctrines might be mistaken. It is a bitter pill for
them to swallow, for it
������������������� proves that we who preach the Anglo Saxon identity
message are right: The God of
������������������� heaven DID set up His kingdom "in the days of these
kings."