Donna Danna (3 Nov 2024)
"REPLY TO EAR -- Ending Hitler's Reign Didn't Fulfill Daniel 2:34-35 & 2:40-45"


In reply to your 10/27 post HITLER_DONNA_27Oct.pdf  yes, I believe in the Jewish Holocaust when 6 million Jews were killed during the reign of Hitler. However, the Lord Jesus, who is the stone, in Daniel 2:34-35 &  2:40-45 did not strike and break the feet and 10 toes of the statue during the lifetime of Hitler and the League of Nations that originally started with 10 nations because Daniel 2:44 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."

Also Daniel 2:34-35 says, "Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces. Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth." The Lord Jesus' kingdom will not fill the whole earth until His return to the Earth when He sets up His physical kingdom on Earth.

The image itself in Daniel 2:34 & Daniel 2:40-45 symbolizes idolatry beginning with the gold head representing the idolatrous worship of the image of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon right on down to the feet and 10 toes representing the idolatrous worship of the image of the beast in Rev. 13 during the time of the 10 toes who are 10 horns(10 kings) until the Lord Jesus' return to the Earth after the 3 1/2 years of the Great Tribulation period. At that time He sets up His physical kingdom on Earth, and there is no more idolatrous worship.

The Lord Jesus set up His spiritual kingdom after He was resurrected from the dead in 32 or 33 AD. long before the League of Nations was ever formed and long before Hitler came to power.  So these 10 kings or rulers have to be around when the Lord Jesus returns and sets up His physical kingdom on Earth and reigns for 1,000 years which means the feet and 10 toes in Daniel 2:40-45 are the 10 horns of Dan. 7:7 which are the same 10 horns in Rev. 13:1 & 17:12 which will be destroyed upon the Lord Jesus' return.  

And although you believe Daniel 7:11 refers to Hitler's body being burned in a fire after he committed suicide, I believe that it refers to the beast (a beast-like man) being thrown alive into the lake of fire (Rev. 19:20) along with the False Prophet where their bodies are destroyed, but not their spirit which is tormented forever (Rev. 20:10). Antiochus Epiphanes died in 164 BC of worms so Daniel 7:11 does not apply to him.

Antiochus Epiphanes set up an abomination of desolation in the Jewish temple in Jerusalem by building an altar to Zeus and sacrificed a pig on it which is considered unclean in the Jewish religion, and image of himself was also placed there.   Hitler did not set up an abomination of desolation in the Jewish temple, but the image of the beast (Little Horn) who is the 1st beast of Revelation will be set up in the Jewish temple according to Matthew 24:15, Mark 13:14 & Rev. 13:14-15 that all men will worship except those whose names are written in the book of life, and that abomination was spoken of in Daniel 11:31 & 12:31.

Also Hitler and his armies did not devour the whole earth and neither did Antiochus Epiphanes and his armies so neither one can be the Little Horn of Daniel 7:23 which does the following:

Daniel 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."

It is the Little Horn as the  beast of Rev. 13 and the armies of his kingdom that make war with the saints all over the Earth  and overcome them by killing them if they don't worship his image according to Rev. 13:7-8, "And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world."

After the 3 1/2 year reign by the Little Horn and his prevailing against the saints after which time the saints possess the kingdom, I am referring to the physical kingdom that will be physically ruled by the Lord Jesus Christ during His 1,000 year reign on Earth because He will be here on Earth.  When a person is born again, they enter the spiritual kingdom of God, but they won't possess the physical kingdom of God until they are in their immortal body and the Lord Jesus sets up His physical kingdom on Earth and rules over the entire Earth for 1,000 years.

Although the word "antichrist" is not mentioned in the book of Revelation, it is mentioned by the apostle John in 1 John 2:18 so they are expecting antichrist and that he shall come.

1 John 2:18, "Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time."

I believe that the Little Horn of Daniel is a beast-like ruler over the kingdom of the beast in Rev. 13 while you believe the beast is not a man but a kingdom because "beast" is a neuter noun for the Greek word "therion" and it is not a masculine noun according to Abarim's Interlinear Greek New Testament at Free online Greek New Testament, interlinear, parsed and per word translation

However, "beast" is also shown as a neuter noun at  G2342 - thērion - Strong's Greek Lexicon (kjv) and the meaning of "therion" is an animal; a wild animal, wild beast, beast: properly, Mark 1:13Acts 10:12 Rec.Acts 11:628:4fHebrews 12:20; [James 3:7]; Revelation 6:8; in Revelation 11:7 and Revelation 13-20, under the figurative of a 'beast' is depicted Antichrist, both his person and his kingdom and power, (see ἀντίχριστος); metaphorically, a brutal, bestial man, savage, ferocious,"

Below is Abarim's Interlinear New Testament for Rev.13:2 which shows "the ability of him" and "the throne of him."  The gender is masculine for "of him" in both cases  and not neuter. Notice the broken lines in the squares around the words "of him" showing that these 2 sets of words are masculine.

"And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as [the feet] of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority."
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feet
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of it
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as
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of bear
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the
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mouth
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of it
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as
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mouth
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of lion
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it gave
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snake
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the
δυναμιν
ability
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of him
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throne
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authority
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great
The word αυτου is a form of the 3rd person personal pronoun marked similar below. This form's case is genitive (which usually indicates "of"), its number is single, and its gender is neuter.
The word αυτω is a form of the 3rd person personal pronoun marked similar below. This form's case is dative (which usually indicates "to"), its number is single, and its gender is neuter.
The word αυτου is a form of the 3rd person personal pronoun marked similar below. This form's case is genitive (which usually indicates "of"), its number is single, and its gender is masculine.
I believe the Little Horn of Daniel may come from the Shiites of Iran who is the 1st beast of Rev. who is a crown prince (the Little Horn) who arises to become a king (Horn) or a ruler over the world and that the False Prophet is the Pope who is the religious leader who is the 2nd beast of Rev. 13 who enforces the mark of the beast while you think that a religious leader from the Shiites is the 2nd beast of Rev. 13 who enforces the mark of the beast and the beast of Revelation is not a man but a kingdom while I believe the beast is both a man and a kingdom just like the 4 beasts in Daniel 7:17 & & 7:23 who were both kings with kingdoms.