The End of the Anglo-Saxon Age and the Coming of the Anti-Christ: A New Look at the End Times - Daniel's 70Th Week (Revelation)

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Contents

Foreword

Chapter 1    Earth’s Age Since Creation According To The Bible

Chapter 2    The Days Of Creation And The Millennia

Chapter 3    Signs In Heaven—The Zodiac

Chapter 4    England’s Christian Heritage

Chapter 5    America’s Christian Heritage

Chapter 6    The Uniting Of The Sticks (Judah + Joseph = Israel)

Chapter 7    The Throne Of David

Chapter 8    America’s Warning

Chapter 9    Rebirth Of The Fig Tree

Chapter 10    Destruction Of The Kings Of The North And The South

Chapter 11    Tyre And Her Prince

Chapter 12    The Four Beasts Of Daniel 7

Chapter 13    The Feasts Of The Lord

Chapter 14    More Signs In Heaven

Chapter 15    The Days Of Noah

Chapter 16    Hidden Prophecies In The Psalms

Chapter 17    The Supreme Court Separates Church (Christianity) And State

Chapter 18    The Blessings Of God

Chapter 19    The Further Blessings Of God

Chapter 20    Summation

Biography Of Richard Gentry, M.d.

Bibliography

Though the cause of evil prosper, yet tis Truth alone tis strong

Though its portion be the scaffold, and upon the throne be wrong.

Yet that scaffold sways the future and behind the dim unknown

Standeth God within the shadow keeping watch above His own.

—James Russell Lowell

James Russell Lowell (1819- 1891) was once asked by a French historian and diplomat, How long will the American Republic endure? Lowell replied, As long as the ideas of the men who founded it continue dominant. (Federer 2000, 402-403)

FOREWORD

The Anglo-Saxon Age began about a quarter of a millennium ago, when the Judeo-Christian God raised up Great Britain to become the world’s reigning superpower. When Britain forgot the source of her blessings, choosing the time and chance of evolution rather than the certainty of God’s provision, she lost her empire. God then raised up America to replace Britain. However, America has now likewise forgotten the source of her blessings, and soon God will likewise forget her. I believe the Anglo-Saxons are the lost tribes of Joseph—Ephraim and Manasseh—who were given the blessings of the Judeo-Christian God. These blessings were poured out, first on Britain and then on America, at the end of the sixth millennium after creation, analogous to the creation of man at the end of the sixth day of creation.

As the nineteenth century was the British century and the twentieth century the American, I conclude that God has delivered for both nations. However, both have now been reduced to …everyone did what was right in his own eyes, the end of the last verse and the theme of the book of Judges. We do what we think is right rather than what God has defined as right and wrong, good and evil. We are our own gods. If this is the correct interpretation, America must soon cease to be the hyperpower of the world, and then the Anglo-Saxons of Britain, America, and the lost tribes with their spouses must return to Israel. It is my further belief that the ending of this age will usher in the final, or seventieth, week of Daniel, the seven biblical years of 360 days/year per Daniel 9:27. The four horsemen of Revelation will soon begin their ride, and just before then, Jesus Christ will return to rapture His church.

In the first half of Daniel’s final week, Islam (the kingdom of the south) is destroyed in four phases with Russia (the kingdom of the north) also destroyed in the fourth and final phase per Ezekiel 38 and 39. This leaves the Antichrist’s kingdom of the west (the European Union) and the kingdoms of the east (at least China and India). Then the Antichrist begins the great tribulation, and after 1,260 days, Christ returns to destroy His enemies. After the book of Judges came Saul followed by David. In our day, it will be Antichrist and then the victorious Christ to begin His millennium.

CHAPTER 1

EARTH’S AGE SINCE CREATION

ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE

I would like to begin with my view of the time span God has given man. Scientists estimate that the Earth is about 4.5 billion years old (Taylor 1991). I believe the Bible clearly teaches that from the time of the creation of man on the sixth day to the return of Christ, there will be about 6,000 years. My calculations are mostly taken from the Bible, although I do have some additional conjectures of my own. I reject Darwin’s theory of evolution and the vast ages of the Earth because I do not believe the scientific evidence supports it.

Sedimentation

In 1993, Steven A. Austin created a video titled Mount St. Helens: Explosive Evidence for Catastrophe, which challenged the idea of vast geologic ages. In the same light, in the 1990s, Guy Berthault put out a video titled Experiments in Sedimentation, which likewise challenged the geologic assumptions dating back at least to the 1830s. Berthault added sediment to a current of water and produced multiple layers of sedimentary material. It was fascinating to watch the layers form on top of one another.

I used to think that each layer of sediment represented a year. When I drove down a superhighway, I would see thousands of layers or more of sediment off to the side. I presumed this represented thousands of years of Earth’s history. When I became a Christian, I wondered how this could fit into the Bible, as there were many more than 6,000 layers in some areas, with each layer supposedly representing a year. Berthault’s experiments answered that question for me. Most likely, all those layers were caused by the worldwide flood or some other geologic catastrophe, but mostly they were from the flood of Noah’s time. The results of Berthault’s experiments were published by the French Academy of Science in 1986 and 1988. In 1993, the results of further experiments were published (along with those of Pierre Julien) by the Geologic Society of France.

Dinosaurs

Job 40:15–24 describes a large land animal that is said by many to be an elephant, a hippopotamus, or a rhinoceros. However, in Job 40:17, behemoth "moves his tail like a cedar" (tree). The three large land animals that are usually mentioned as being behemoth have switches for tails, not cedars. I believe that behemoth was a dinosaur.

The flood probably ended the age of dinosaurs, although juvenile dinosaurs were on the ark. They persisted for some time thereafter. They were called dragons.

The Theory of Evolution

As for Darwin’s theory of evolution, where are the transitional forms? Are the missing links still missing, 154 years after the publication of On the Origin of Species? In 1977 (118 years after the publication of On the Origin of Species), Stephen Jay Gould wrote, The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as the trade secret of paleontology (Gould, 1977).

This book, however, is not meant to be a discussion of science, but rather a study of history and the Bible.

Assigning the year 1656 AC for the flood presumes that the sons noted in the chart were born precisely on their fathers’ birthdays. Perhaps it would be more accurate statistically to add a half year for each generation, but it seems to me that having each son born on his father’s birthday is a small thing for the God of the universe to arrange.

In the last few years, the curious translation of the names of the first ten men from Adam to Noah, as noted in the chart above, has produced a message from God (Missler and Eastman 2003).

Two years after the flood, Shem begat Arphaxad (Genesis 11:10). I presume this is from its beginning.

If we begin with 1656 AC as the year of the flood and add the 222 years that span the generation between Shem and Nahor, we arrive at 1878 AC, the year that Terah, Abraham’s father, was born.

Genesis 11:26: Now Terah lived seventy years, and begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Were these three sons triplets, with 1948 AC representing the birth of Abram? After all, the nation of Israel was refounded in 1948 AD. But to continue, Genesis 11:32: So the days of Terah were two hundred and five years, and Terah died in Haran. (Haran, the city, was named for Terah’s son Haran.) In Genesis 12:4 we learn, "And Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran. In Acts 7:4, Stephen says, Then he [Abraham] came out of the land of the Chaldeans and dwelt in Haran. And from there, when his father was dead, He [God] moved him to this land in which you now dwell." I take all of this to mean that Abram was neither a triplet nor the eldest son. He was born when Terah was 130 years old (205 − 75 = 130).

2008 AC—A New Beginning

Numbers have meaning in the Bible. The Hebrew numerical system (unlike ours, which is based on ten) was based on seven, which means complete from Genesis 2:2: And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. Six is the number of man, meaning not quite complete. Man was created at the end of the sixth day per Genesis 1:27, 31. Boaz sent Naomi through Ruth six ephahs of barley, a code that he would not rest until he had completed his work. After a week of seven years, the eighth begins—the new beginning. There were eight people on the ark to begin the earth anew after the great deluge. According to Genesis 17:12, a male child is to be circumcised on the eighth day. Could it be that in the eighth year of the third millennium (that millennium counted from the birth of Terah in 1878 AC + Terah’s being 130 years old when Abram born = 2008 AC), God began a new period of history? I believe 2008 AC was the year of Abram’s birth, with the eighth year of the third millennium chosen to indicate that God had started anew.

According to resource material added to the New Geneva Study Bible, 473, Solomon reigned in Israel as king from 970 to 930 BC. Consider 1 Kings 6:1: And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the Lord.

The fourth year of Solomon’s reign was about 966 BC. If we accept the Geneva Bible’s 480th year’" in 1 Kings 6:1 above and add to it the 966 BC for Solomon’s reign, then we must conclude that the year of the Exodus was about 1446 BC.

Now consider Exodus 12:40-41. "Now the sojourn of the children of Israel who lived in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years. And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years —on that very same day" [14 Nisan, Passover]—"it came to pass that all the armies of the Lord went out from the land of Egypt." I originally thought this meant the length of time the children of Israel had been in Egypt. (Genesis 47:28: And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years [with 413 years to go?]. So the length of Jacob’s life was one hundred and forty-seven years.) However, the Septuagint translation of the Old Testament from Hebrew to Greek, which was finished about 270 BC, translates Exodus 12:40 as Israel sojourning in Egypt and Canaan. If this is the correct translation, then what is the event that happened 430 years earlier on the fourteenth of Nisan that would become Passover, circa 1446 BC?

On to Galatians 3:16–17: Now to Abraham and his Seed were the promises made. He does not say, And to seeds, as of many, but as of one. "And to your Seed," who is Christ. And this I say, that the law, which was four hundred and thirty years later, cannot annul the covenant that was confirmed before by God in Christ, that it should make the promise of no effect.

The crucifixion of Christ was 1,500 years in the future. The event noted 430 years earlier was Isaac (Abraham’s seed, who represented Christ) being placed on the altar in Genesis 22, when God confirmed His covenant with Abraham. I suspect this was done on Nisan 14 on the Hebrew calendar. So the date of Passover was 430 years later (Exodus 12:41, on that very same day), and the law that was 430 years later refers to the Ten Commandments.

Other verses of interest:

Genesis 15:13–16: Then He [God] said to Abram: "Know certainly that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs [Note: I presume this refers to Canaan and Egypt], and will serve them, and they will afflict them four hundred years. And also the nation whom they serve I will judge; afterward they shall come out with great possessions. Now as for you, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried at a good old age. But in the fourth generation, they shall return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete."

If they were in Egypt 430 years, then it seems strange to me they would return in the fourth generation. Remember Genesis 50:22: "So Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he and his father’s household. And Joseph lived one hundred and ten years. Joseph saw Ephraim’s children to the third generation." Per Genesis 41:46–53, Ephraim and Manasseh were born to Joseph during the seven years of plenty while he was thirty to thirty-seven. Ephraim was between seventy-three and seventy-nine when Joseph died, yet Joseph saw the third generation of Ephraim before he died. And Genesis 15:13 just noted above says they will return in the fourth generation. It seems unlikely to me the Israelites were in Egypt the full 430 years.

Is the 400 years of Genesis 15:13 a generalization? Is it like saying America has been around 200 years? If the Declaration of Independence was 1776, and this year is 2014, then actually it is 238 years, with 200 just rounding it off. I presume so.

Acts 7:6 (The martyr Stephen’s address) "But God spoke in this way: that his descendants would dwell in a foreign land [Note: Again I presume this refers to Canaan and Egypt], and they would bring them into bondage and oppress them four hundred years." Again I presume this is an approximation.

Exodus- 14 Nisan, 1446 BC + 430 years = Isaac on altar, 14 Nisan, 1876 BC

Now, if Abram was born in 2008 AC (After Creation) and if Isaac was born when Abraham was 100 years of age per Genesis 21:5, then Isaac was born in 2108 AC (After Creation).

To roughly connect AC (After Creation) and BC (Before Christ), one only needs to know the age of Isaac on the altar. This has been presumed to be as old as thirty-three (when Christ died on the cross), or thirty (when a priest could minister in the temple), or twenty-five (per first-century AD historian Josephus). I had expected him to be much younger, but at least five (because he carried the wood to the altar per Genesis 22:6, just as Christ carried His wooden cross to Golgotha—the same location), but I have been unable to find Isaac’s age when he was placed on the altar. I don’t think the age is given in the Bible.

I personally believe the date of creation is somewhere between 4017 BC and 3989 BC. By Jewish custom, a boy becomes a man at age thirteen when he is bar mitzvahed. If this custom dates to Isaac on the altar, the numbers truly become interesting.

However, let us presume Isaac was sixteen, not because I believe it, but because it is easier to conceptualize beginning with 4000 BC than 3997 BC

In other words, the triune God has roughly divided the first 6,000 years of Earth’s history into three roughly equal portions: creation, Israel, and the church. Each of the pieces approximates 2,000 years or forty Jubilees. The fiftieth year was the Jubilee year in Israel’s time system (Leviticus 25:8–17). The Jubilee was a time of great rejoicing in Israel. Each period of 2,000 years had a miracle birth near its beginning: 1. God breathed life into Adam per Genesis 2:7 on the sixth day and created Eve from his side, miracle births of sorts. 2. The miracle birth of Isaac in 2108 AC when Sarah was beyond childbearing per Genesis 18:11, beginning 108 years into the second period. 3. The virgin birth of Christ, when God became man.

Each 2,000-year period also had a specific sacrifice after the miracle near its beginning. 1. After the fall of Adam and Eve, animals were sacrificed to provide them with skins to cover their nakedness per Genesis 3:21, the first blood atonement. Per Genesis 4:1–5, Adam and Eve’s first two children were Cain, a tiller of the ground, and Abel, a keeper of sheep. Cain brought an offering of the fruit of the ground; Abel, the firstborne of his flock and their fat. The Lord respected Abel’s offering, but not Cain’s. Superficially, God seems unjust as they both offered what they produced. In Hebrews 9:22 … without the shedding of blood there is no remission (of sins). Of course, this is the New Testament. The sacrificial system was codified when Israel came out of Egypt, and the patriarchs had offered sacrifices long before. But sacrifices went back much further. There were pairs of unclean animals and seven of each clean animal on the ark per Genesis 7:2–3. Noah and his family were not permitted to eat meat until they came off the ark per Genesis 9:3. Hence, clean meant the animal could be sacrificed to God. Likely this knowledge went back to when God provided Adam and Eve animal skins for clothing. At that time God explained the shedding of blood to the first couple. An innocent animal had to die for their sins. Hence, Cain flagrantly disobeyed God. He chose his own way. And the Lord did not respect his offering because Cain, like his parents, chose to disobey. 2. After Isaac was offered on the altar, a ram was provided by God and offered in Isaac’s place per Genesis 22:13. 3. After Christ was born by virgin birth, He was sacrificed in the crucifixion in the Gospels.

I believe the seventieth week of Daniel per Daniel 9:27 will begin at the end of about 6,000 years. At the end of this final week, Christ will return to destroy His enemies and begin His millennial reign. Does the Bible support this view? I believe it does.

Psalm 90:4 says, "For a thousand years in Your sight are like yesterday when it is past, and like a watch in the night." Old Testament

This is confirmed per 2 Peter 3:8 But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. New Testament

I have been told that the fact that these verses mean a large period of time is nothing to the Lord, even if it’s millions or billions of years. Perhaps, but what if the Lord means precisely what He says, with a thousand years being like (yester)day, like a day, and confirmed in 2 Peter 3:8? If so, He is talking about a week of seven days with each day 1,000 years. The Sabbath of this week would be Christ’s millennial reign. In between the 6,000 years and Christ’s millennium would be Daniel’s final week of seven years of 360 days per year, per Daniel 9:27.

Revelation 20:4: And they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. In Revelation 20, the millennium of 1,000 years is referred to six times.

Now on to Hebrews 3:7–19:

Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: "Today, if you will hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of trial in the wilderness, where your fathers tested Me, tried Me, and saw My works forty years. Therefore I was angry with that generation, and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart, and they have not known My ways.’ So I swore in My wrath, ‘They shall not enter My rest.’ Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God; but exhort one another daily, while it is called Today, lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end, while it is said: Today, if you will hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion."

For who, having heard, rebelled? Indeed, was it not all who came out of Egypt, led by Moses? Now with whom was He angry forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the wilderness? And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who did not obey? So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

Hebrews 4:1–11:

Therefore, since a promise remains of entering His rest, let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it. For indeed the gospel was preached to us as well as to them; but the word which they heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard it. For we who have believed do enter that rest, as He has said: "So I swore in My wrath, ‘They shall not enter My rest,’" although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. For He has spoken in a certain place of the seventh day in this way: "And God rested on the seventh day from all His works; and again in this place: They shall not enter My rest." [Are the seventh day and My rest references to His millennial reign? I believe they are!] Since therefore it remains that some must enter it, and those to whom it was first preached did not enter because of disobedience, again He designates a certain day, saying in David, "Today, after such a long time, as it has been said: Today, if you will hear His voice, do not harden your hearts." For if Joshua had given them rest, then He would not afterward have spoken of another day. There remains therefore a rest for the people of God. For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His. Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience.

It appears from the above Scriptures that Christ’s millennium is the Sabbath of the biblical week of a thousand years per day. Does the above mean that God has broken history (HIS story) into three very unequal parts? After all, the Lord does like the number three, as evidenced by the Trinity.

Is there any other evidence to confirm the above projections? Try Matthew’s parable of the ten virgins in the twenty-fifth chapter. When did the cry arise that the bridegroom was coming? According to verse 25:6, it arose at midnight. Also remember that per Psalm 90:4, A thousand years are like yesterday [like a day] to the Lord, yea like a watch in the night. Matthew 14:25 says, Jesus walked on the Sea of Galilee during the fourth watch, and a note says this was between 3:00 and 6:00 AM in my New Geneva Study Bible, 1529, note 14:25. Midnight would be the end of the second watch and the beginning of the third, or comparably the end of the second thousand years and the beginning of the third, i.e., the present time if dated from His birth.

Luke 13:32: And He [Jesus] said to them, Go, tell that fox [Herod], ‘Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I shall be perfected.’" I had always understood this to refer to His resurrection. Does it have a double meaning? Does it also refer to the beginning of the third millennium after His birth as His millennial reign?

Genesis 2:16–17: And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die. Genesis 5:5: So all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years; and he died.

The spiritual connection with God died as soon as Adam ate the forbidden fruit, but his body died in less than 1,000 years, or a day to the Lord, per 2 Peter 3:8 and Psalm 90:4.

Matthew 17:1: Now after six days, Jesus took Peter, James, and John his brother, led them up on a high mountain by themselves…"

There Christ was transfigured, and Moses and Elijah also appeared. Does this refer to after six days or 6,000 years, Christ appears to rapture His church, followed by the appearance of the two witnesses of Revelation 11, Elijah and Moses? I believe so. Also see Mark 9:2–4.

Hebrews 1:1: "God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days, spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds…" Is Paul here referring to the last days, the last 2,000 years of history (HIS story), the church age, before He returns? I believe so.

It is interesting to compare dates on the two wisest men who ever lived, Christ (the wisest) and Solomon (the second wisest).

There is no year zero. The year 1 AD follows 1 BC. The significant events in Solomon’s and Christ’s lives are separated by about one thousand years though not precisely, but very close. The Exodus began about 1446 BC, with the order to rebuild the city of Jerusalem after the Babylonian captivity outlined in Nehemiah 2:1 occurring in 445 BC, again about 1,000 years later.

Charlemagne was crowned by the pope as the Holy Roman emperor of France in 800 AD. This act cemented France’s identity as a Christian nation. After the atheistic French Revolution of 1789,