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Daniel's Fifth Kingdom‑by Dr. Bertrand Comparet
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Daniel's Fifth Kingdom
by Dr. Bertrand Comparet
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."