Pieces of the ancient Middle East are described in Scripture, forecasted by the Biblical prophets, and are the basis for forming the end time picture of unfulfilled prophecy today. Traditional Christian interpretation of the same has been to place the focus on a European common market or some sort of global world government which would dominate the picture at the end of this present age. Closer investigation and a more precise study of the Bible’s view reveals otherwise.
There are seven kingdoms defined in the scope of prophecy presented in the Scriptures and all of them are Middle Eastern based, both those of the past and the ones that will exist in the future. These are human dominions ruled over by human king positions and influenced by Satan and his agents who are all fallen angelics. Five of them are historical and succeeded one another in an unbroken change of political power and authority. These began shortly after the flood and all were centered in the northern sector of the Asian Middle East.
This type of human self government apart from the Lord began when humans began to build cities which eventually became the cores of the kingdoms that were developed. The first geographical outline of the northern Middle East presented in Scripture related to empire building was the land of Magog and his brothers with the next four including the Akkadian/Assyrian, the neo-Babylonian, the Medo-Persian, and the northern Greek. These are the five “fallen” according to the prophetic Scriptures.
Each succeeded one another with different human rulers over the same central location in the Middle East and each came and went with some difference in geographical coverage as they grew and then diminished to some extent as they were conquered by the next. The inhabitants in these kingdoms were primarily the same with different governing conquers and they still remain the same for the most part today. Human migrations out of the Middle East have formed other nations around the globe today, but the scope of Bible prophecy is focused upon the same initial area of human development and is for the time of the end. The later inclusion of the nation of Israel in the Middle East and the relationships with these first five human kingdoms are the subject of both O.T. and N.T. visions of the Bible prophets. Israel’s return to the land after centuries of exile is predicted by the visions of the prophets and the stage is being set up today for the Lord’s return and dealings with Israel and the nations of our time.
The scope of Bible prophecy is limited primarily to the Middle East and Israel. The time frame of events recorded is also unique and does not include the last 2,000+ years of human history, but only the era of the first five human kingdoms, which ended just before the first century, and the next two that will exist there at the time of the end. These two future kingdoms will be different, but will develop in the same area of the northern Middle East. The first will be a smaller kingdom, the sixth, and it will then be expanded into the larger seventh divided kingdom which will include ten separate, but confederated kingdoms. Each will have its own human ruler and the ten kingdoms will be ruled over by Satan’s beast who will be the same as Daniel’s little horn. This human ruler will be incarnated by the beast of Revelation from the abyss. This beast is a fallen angelic who has ruled for Satan over the five kingdoms of the past and will rule again over the next two at the time of the end.
Today’s current turmoil and instability in the Middle East will eventually produce the setting for these last two kingdoms to emerge. It is the little horn, human king of the northern Middle East, of Daniel’s visions of the end time who will form the sixth smaller kingdom in the area of the ancient land of Magog and his brothers who first ruled there. This area today would include the Middle Eastern countries of Lebanon, Syria, and northern Iraq. He will overthrow and replace the leaders of these three countries. Then seven other primary countries of the Middle East will be added to his confederacy to form his seventh divided kingdom which will include ten other leaders and their dominions that will follow him. These will be the pieces of the ancient Middle East that will form and set the stage for the time of the end.
There are seven kingdoms defined in the scope of prophecy presented in the Scriptures and all of them are Middle Eastern based, both those of the past and the ones that will exist in the future. These are human dominions ruled over by human king positions and influenced by Satan and his agents who are all fallen angelics. Five of them are historical and succeeded one another in an unbroken change of political power and authority. These began shortly after the flood and all were centered in the northern sector of the Asian Middle East.
This type of human self government apart from the Lord began when humans began to build cities which eventually became the cores of the kingdoms that were developed. The first geographical outline of the northern Middle East presented in Scripture related to empire building was the land of Magog and his brothers with the next four including the Akkadian/Assyrian, the neo-Babylonian, the Medo-Persian, and the northern Greek. These are the five “fallen” according to the prophetic Scriptures.
Each succeeded one another with different human rulers over the same central location in the Middle East and each came and went with some difference in geographical coverage as they grew and then diminished to some extent as they were conquered by the next. The inhabitants in these kingdoms were primarily the same with different governing conquers and they still remain the same for the most part today. Human migrations out of the Middle East have formed other nations around the globe today, but the scope of Bible prophecy is focused upon the same initial area of human development and is for the time of the end. The later inclusion of the nation of Israel in the Middle East and the relationships with these first five human kingdoms are the subject of both O.T. and N.T. visions of the Bible prophets. Israel’s return to the land after centuries of exile is predicted by the visions of the prophets and the stage is being set up today for the Lord’s return and dealings with Israel and the nations of our time.
The scope of Bible prophecy is limited primarily to the Middle East and Israel. The time frame of events recorded is also unique and does not include the last 2,000+ years of human history, but only the era of the first five human kingdoms, which ended just before the first century, and the next two that will exist there at the time of the end. These two future kingdoms will be different, but will develop in the same area of the northern Middle East. The first will be a smaller kingdom, the sixth, and it will then be expanded into the larger seventh divided kingdom which will include ten separate, but confederated kingdoms. Each will have its own human ruler and the ten kingdoms will be ruled over by Satan’s beast who will be the same as Daniel’s little horn. This human ruler will be incarnated by the beast of Revelation from the abyss. This beast is a fallen angelic who has ruled for Satan over the five kingdoms of the past and will rule again over the next two at the time of the end.
Today’s current turmoil and instability in the Middle East will eventually produce the setting for these last two kingdoms to emerge. It is the little horn, human king of the northern Middle East, of Daniel’s visions of the end time who will form the sixth smaller kingdom in the area of the ancient land of Magog and his brothers who first ruled there. This area today would include the Middle Eastern countries of Lebanon, Syria, and northern Iraq. He will overthrow and replace the leaders of these three countries. Then seven other primary countries of the Middle East will be added to his confederacy to form his seventh divided kingdom which will include ten other leaders and their dominions that will follow him. These will be the pieces of the ancient Middle East that will form and set the stage for the time of the end.
