A Beast
according to Daniel? What do Babylon, Persia, Greece, and Rome have in common? The temple. The first was destroyed by Babylon. Persia helped build the second. Greece desecrated the second which was destroyed by Rome. Are there any other candidates? Islam’s Dome of the Rock is preventing the third. What else can Daniel tell us?
A City
with all the characteristics of Babylon the Great. It had many waters, it is a mystery, it had seven hills, it is fallen, it had trade, and it can be found no more at all. No other city had all these characteristics. Only Constantinople.
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A Treasure Hunt
one clue leads to another. One thousand years leads to Constantinople and Babylon the Great which leads to 666. Next step is to identify the ten horns and the seven heads. The numbers are trustworthy and need no interpretation. Let’s see what fits with “ten”, the next number.
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A Mystery
and that is just one of the characteristics of Babylon the Great. It had many waters, it is a mystery, it had seven hills, it is fallen, it had trade, and it can be found no more at all. No other city had all these characteristics. Only Constantinople. A great city.
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A Big Number
and a literal interpretation is where to start. There is only one where they reigned with Christ. The Byzantine Empire and it comes with Constantinople, its capital, which is a perfect fit for Babylon the Great. If the big pieces fit, it won’t be hard to get the little ones to fit.
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A Holy Place
spoken of by Jesus. The Dome of the Rock is now in the holy place and it is just one of the three possibilities for the abomination of desolation you will find in Wikipedia. The other two are Antiochus IV Epiphanes in 167 BC and Titus in 70 AD. All three involve the Temple in some way. The destruction of the first Temple by Babylon should be added to this to suggest what makes a beast a beast. The Temple?
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A Summary
of historical events that seem to fit. The thousand years is the Byzantine Empire and Constantinople its capital is Babylon the Great. The seven heads are the seven dynasties of the Roman Empire and the ten horns are the ten Islamic dynasties. Big pieces that fit.
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A Connection
with a thousand years. Numbers connect chapters 17 and 20. Constantinople, the capital of a Christian empire that lasted one thousand years, has seven hills, seven Roman Empire dynasties, and ten Islamic dynasties. Constantinople also has many other characteristics of Babylon the Great. Another fit.
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A Temple
will make. Daniel 7 has four beasts. There are so many to choose from so how did he come up with these? How did the interpreters identify them? Jesus gives us a great clue by mentioning the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel. If you Google ‘abomination of desolation’, Wikipedia shows three possibilities; Antiochus IV Epiphanes in 167 BC, Titus in 70 AD, and Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan in 691 AD. The only missing one is Babylon and the first Temple. So we have Babylon destroying the first Temple, Greece desecrating the second, Rome destroying the second, and Islam preventing the third. It fits.
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A City
that connects all the pieces. Constantinople has it all. A thousand years, a seven headed beast that was, a ten horned beast that was yet to come, an attack in the year 666, and all the characteristics of Babylon the Great.
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