Seven Empires

The Future

A Word About Prophecy

Long ago Israelite prophets caught glimpses of God's plan for the world. Their eyes pierced the future and saw tragedy and triumph. They recorded their perceptions in Scripture. We are privileged and responsible to judge their visions fairly. Skeptics flatly deny divine communication, but a cynical attitude is as perilous as mindless superstition. Day by day billions of humans communicate with precision, even about the future. How? Through strange noises. Air expelled from the lungs stimulates vocal-cords in the throat. Then teeth, tongue, lips and nasal passages shape these funny grunts and wheezes into profound messages, including plans for the future.

Seven Central Prophecies

Such being the case, we should not immediately scoff at dreams or visions as the way in which God revealed His plan for the world. Since many books have been written that explore the details of biblical prophecy, this atlas will be limited to prophecies which, in view of the maps of this site, need to be considered in a different light. But before we look at what lies ahead we will review the scope of biblical prophecy, that it applies directly to the Middle East. Following that, seven passages of prophecy will be examined, seven which have a special connection with the final empire of the Middle East just before the appearing of God's Kingdom. Additional prophetic material will support the seven.

Symbols in Prophecy

In several passages we will find curious, easy-to-remember symbols. But there is no reason to dismiss symbolic prophecy as pious imagination. Modern science and precision technology came into being through odd symbols. For example, electronic diagrams contain hundreds of strange figures to speak of real components and equipment of the modern computer age. God has done exactly the same kind of symbolic representation in His plan for the future.

The Promised Land, the People of Israel, and Islam
Vs a revived Roman Empire in Prophecy

These seven passages reveal the importance of the Promised Land, and people of Israel, as well as the world of Islam, in the final stages of God's plan for humanity. We will see the Muslim Middle East cast in a prominent prophetic role at the end of this age. This is unlike the general view of the Jewish Talmud with its "four kingdoms," and differs from what many modern Christian prophecy teachers have taught about the European Community as a "revived Roman Empire." We will see in the following chapters of Seven Empires that prophecies that have been interpreted in the past as a "revived Roman Empire" actually point to the Islamic Middle East. In the final analysis God beckons all mankind to turn from selfish desires and seek Him for His everlasting mercy.

God's Eternal Kingdom is Soon to Come

With one voice these seven passages also declare an unmistakable message, that God knows the affliction of His humble servants, even during the final cataclysms of this age. Since the beginning, suffering has befallen those who seek God. But no faithful servant will be forgotten when the kingdoms of this world become the kingdoms of God, and His King, the Messiah.

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