The Beast That Was, and Is Not, and yet Is

By Melvin Winfrey

This book is my translation of the Bibles prophecy as well as how it ties into todays events. It breaks down a couple of books within the Bible. You dont have to be a priest or a pastor or attend a Bible school to have a better understanding of the word of God. You can read this book and follow along with your Bible. All you need is time and a clear mind. Follow along, read, and prepare for whats coming in the future.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Jun 19, 2009
• ISBN: 9781438998794

Melvin Winfrey

Melvin is a unique male that loves to read the word of God.  He spends most of his time reading his Bible in the mornings and in the evenings.  His focus and commitment is  to help people understand the word of God. He believes that God blessed him with the gift of teaching, and hopes that he can inspire others to become eager to learn God's word.

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Contents

Foreword

Daniel 7

Daniel 8

Daniel 12

Revelation 13

FOREWORD

I was born in a small town in Louisiana. My father and mother were Baptist. They went to a Baptist church, but they did not learn anything according to the word of God. So I came out of the Baptist church and started to attend different churches. I found one I really liked—a Pentecostal church. I then started to read the Bible carefully. It was then that I realized that these churches, including the Pentecostal churches, were teaching doctrine that wasn’t true. I then started to listen to preachers on the radio and continued to read my Bible. I realized the preachers, teachers, and prophets on the radio air were teaching false doctrines, too. All of these were factors led me to write this book. I thought I would be able to help someone to use and understand the Bible. However, with God’s help, I hope to deliver the truth to the people. For my help cometh from God.

This book took me years to write. I started out just listening to the radio and the news on television. I then started taking notes and following along in the Bible. Before you know it, I was addicted to reading the Bible. I was more interested than ever before. At first, it was like looking at a bunch of loose pieces to the puzzle, but once I got started, it got easier and easier. I enjoy reading the Bible, and I hope that you are able to follow along and understand it, too. I think God has blessed me with enough wisdom to share and help others learn also. I repeat myself constantly just like the Bible. Constant repetition will help you learn and understand. I hope you enjoy reading this book. May God bless you.

DANIEL 7

I n the Bible, Daniel 7:1 reads, In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon, Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream, and told the sum of the matters.

Now, rightly dividing the word of truth where it says, Daniel had a dream, we look to Numbers 12:6 and Amos 3:7 for further clarification. Numbers tells a story of a time when Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because he married an Ethiopian woman. As punishment, God put upon Miriam leprosy, and she became white as snow. The Lord says, And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream. (Num. 12:6). This is what the Lord did with Daniel. When the Lord speaks, his words are true.

Amos 3:7 offers further enlightenment: Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets. This passage is saying that before God does something, he tells his servants—the prophets—before he punishes the people, a nation, or a city. God will tell the prophets because his secret is with the righteous. It is just like in the first Babylon when God sent the prophets Jeremiah and Ezekiel to warn the people what would come to pass if they did not repent, that judgment would come upon them if they did not stop doing evil.

And so it will be at the end time. God will send two witnesses to warn his people to stop sinning. In the New Testament, God sent the prophets by two or three, instead of one like in the Old Testament. Some of the present-day lying prophets and men still believe God sends prophets by one, like he did in the Old Testament, but that is not true. The New Testament, the word of God says, Let the prophets speak two or three, and let the other judge (1 Cor. 14:29). Jesus also sent his disciples out by two.

False prophets have spread so many falsehoods that no truth is found in churches anymore. They have the truth mixed up with lies, and they are filled with corruption. The church people have left God. But the truth can be found in the word of God.

Let us turn back to the scriptures, specifically where it says in Daniel 7:1, visions of his head upon his bed. Further explanation of this phrase can be found in Daniel 2:28: But there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, and maketh known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy bed, are these. This passage shows that God makes known to his servants, the prophets, thy dream and the visions of thy head upon thy bed,.

Now, if we continue to Daniel 7:2, it reads, Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea. The four winds of the heaven means war and the scattering of people. God’s people will be scattered in all the nations because they have sinned against God. He will scatter the power of the holy people. The four winds of the heaven are the four great beasts, and these four great beasts will fight upon the earth and make war with the saints. These four beasts, these four kings, will make war with the nations. War causes famines and pestilences and earthquakes. But that’s all God’s doing because people have sinned against him. People have to be punished because they have not repented.

The four winds are mentioned also in the book of Zechariah: Ho, ho, come forth, and flee from the land of the north, saith the LORD: for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heaven, saith the LORD (Zech. 2:6). God scatters his people in to all the nations around the world.

The books of Deuteronomy, Ezekiel, and Leviticus also further elaboration on the scattering of people. In Deuteronomy, it reads, And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone. (Deut. 28:64). Leviticus 26:33 says, And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate and your cities waste. In Ezekiel, it reads, And all his fugitives with all his bands shall fall by the sword, and they that remain shall be scattered toward all winds: and ye shall know that I the LORD have spoken it (Ezek 17:21). These passages show that God scatters his people because they have sinned against him. This is what is starting to happen today. Wars are starting to occur, and the true Christians shall be persecuted. This is what happened to God’s people in the first Babylon.

Now let us return to the book of Daniel. Daniel 7:3 reads, And four great beast came up from the sea, diverse one from another. The waters represent people in the earth, therefore it means that the four great beasts that came up from the sea, came out of the earth, from the people. The beasts did not exercise their power at the same time, except the third beast. The third beast had four rulers, four kingdoms. It these kingdoms are probably Germany, the bear, the mouth of the lion, and the Vatican—the false prophet. However, the false prophet will pluck up the leopard, the bear, and the lion. I will speak more about the third beast and its four rulers later.

The second part of Daniel’s vision—came up from the sea, diverse one from another.—is also mirrored in book of Revelation. Revelation 13:1 reads, And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of the blasphemy. In this passage, John saw a beast rise up out of the sea. The beast he saw encompasses all four beasts in Daniel 7:2–7. The passage also includes the ten horns, the ten kings, and the little horn (the false prophet) that occurs in Daniel, but we will address that later.

Let’s move on to Daniel 7:4. It reads, The first was like a lion, and had eagle’s wings; I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man’s heart was given to it. To further clarify the description of the first beast (a lion with an eagle’s wings) and how it applies to events in the modern day, we turn to the books of Deuteronomy, 2 Samuel, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Habakkuk. For the rest of the verses not mentioned below, you may read on your own.

Deuteronomy 28:49 reads, The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth, a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;. If we apply this passage to modern day events, we can see that the United States is the eagle, and it came from far to the Iraq people. So these modern day events are God’s doing: to punish people for their sins. God said, And I will punish the world for their evil and he said evil shall go forth from nation to nation.

Second Samuel 1:23 says, "Saul and Jonathan were lovely and