Daniel's prophecies say four empires, not 5 not 6 not 7, four. At the end of the fourth comes the age of promise. He names the empires. Once you start adding empires or other entities to those four to "adjust" Bible prophecy to fit erroneous teachings. Then you are falsifying Daniels prophecies and making the Word of God of no effect. THE ONLY REASON you need more the four empires or other entities is because the fourth one has been gone for 600 years and the end of this present world as you define it didn't happen. Not a problem with scripture but a problem with your understanding of what was to actually come after that fourth empire ended.
Or as I said to another person:
Its becoming quite clear that Prophesies are not something you have figured out in full yet. The BEASTS are Kingdoms that Conquer/Enslave or Rule Israel, do you grasp that part at least?
There are Four Beasts Kingdoms and the fourth has to different time periods that it rules and thus it has two Beasts. One is Rome and the other is the Little Horn, and end time Beast. You seem to want t look at this fro the Beasts perspective when in reality this is about Israel, the Statue of Dan. 2 is the same. We have four Kingdoms/Beasts over Israel that arise from Nebuchadnezzar's time until Israel is destroyed by Rome, then there is no Israel, she is carried off unto the ends of the world and is no more a nation. Since Conquering/Ruling/Enslaving Israel makes one a Beast Kingdom, you can not have a BEAST whole Israel s not in the land.
The picture we have is of Israels full life-span, which of course does not cover the 70-AD to 1948 era of time. The Beast was Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome and then Israel is no more and thus the Beast dies also, Rome as a BEAST OVER ISRAEL is no more also. There can be NO BEAST with no Israel in the land !! Then in 1948 Israel is reborn, and the European Common Market is reborn in Rome, now it is the European Union, and soon a president from this E.U. will Conquer Jerusalem and the BEAST will be revived as a BEAST OVER ISRAEL. So counting the Little Horn you have five Beasts in Daniel 7. It is pretty clear if you know what you are looking for. The Little Horn, born 2000 years after the Mortal wound, is called a Beast on Dan. 7:11.
In Rev. 13 we see that the Lion, Bear and Leopard are a part of the Seven Headed Beast which tells us it is the same Beasts of Daniel, the Mortal Wound is Rome and the Revived Beast is the Little Horn. So who are the other two heads? What were the Beasts of Daniel again? Kingdoms that Conquered/Enslaved/Ruled Israel. WHO ARE THEY THEN? Well the only other countries that have Conquered/Enslaved Israel are Egypt and Assyria, they did their evils before Nebuchadnezzar so they are the other two Beast Heads. Rev. 13 tells you the Beast has Seven Heads, Rev. 17 gives you the clues how to find the missing two.
Rev. 17:9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The
seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman
sitteth.
{Woman SITS on the Seven Headed Beast}
10 And there are
seven kings: FIVE HAVE FALLEN, and
one is(Rome), and the other is
not yet come (Anti-Christ/Beast); and when he cometh,
he must continue a
short space (Little Horn/Anti-Christ).
The clue is here for all to see, the ONE IS (ROME) is well established so this tells us there were FIVE that had fallen BEFORE ROME. Since a Beast Head is someone who Conquered/Ruled Israel its not that hard to figure out. Babylon, Persia and Greece and Egypt and Assyria. God has told us who they are, we are not just guessing.
Daniel 7 is telling the future from Nebuchadnezzar's timeline, Rev. 13 and 17 is telling the Past of ALL THE BEASTS. No one needs to change anything, you just need to understand God can tell it both ways and its true both ways. The Fourth Kingdom was gone when Israel was GONE....Stop looking at things from the worlds perspective. There can't be a Beast without Israel.
The capitol of the Roman empire was moved to Constantinople in 333 AD. there never ceased to be an emperor on the throne until 1453 when it fell to the Ottoman Turks. Bible prophecy accounts for the FOURTH empire splitting into an eastern and western branch in it's expanded revelation about the FOURTH empire via the lamb with two horns that spoke as a Dragon. (The reason it looked like a lamb was because it claimed Christianity . Spoke like a dragon because it was the official state church of the emperor not of Christ.)
All of this is bogus, its the old RCC is the Beast stuff. The Ottoman Empire never ruled Israel, Israel was NOT a people loving in Israel, the Land is NOT Israel, the PEOPLE ARE !! They were as Dead Men's Bones. They came alive again in 1948. All that Splitting into is bogus, if you understood its all about ISRAEL, you would grasp it.
