In Daniel Chapter 2, it is the second year of Nebuchadnezzar's reign in Babylon and he has a dream that he refuses to tell his wise men, only asking them to give him the dream and THEN interpret it. None can do this. It was normally the custom that the ruler would tell of a dream he had and then the wise men would give an interpretation, but this was something new and perhaps even a bit cruel to the minds of those "wise" men the king had always turned to. This, however, makes

Constantine's Parents Before we can move into the fifth head of the beast, we need to take a little time to get to know someone who had a huge influence on bringing Christianity out of persecution, popularizing it, and also merging pagan rituals to fit into its practices. This man was known as Constantine the Great, born as early as 272 A.D. (reports vary as to the actual date of his birth) to an innkeeper's daughter by the name of Helena. His father was a general in the Roma

This new beast is different...that's the best that can be said for it. In Daniel chapter 7, we go from seeing animals that we recognize, even if a bit fanciful: a lion with eagle's wings, a bear, a leopard with four heads and four wings, to a beast that can't even be given a label of something recognizable. It had iron teeth, and was terrible and strong, and had 10 horns. This brings to mind something very violent, and make no bones about it, Rome was a violent nation, with g

I would like to break things down about the Beast from Revelation 13, which is the same as the statue in Daniel 2:32-33 and Daniel chapter 7 in order to better understand what the heads of the beast represent so that it does not seem so frightening. Each head represents a period of time when a nation or major world power turned its back on God and then was defeated. I will be going through one by one and addressing each head as described in Revelation 13 and compare it (when