Rome is Daniel’s Fourth Beast
The Pagan gods the Same
Ishtar and her Counterparts
Ishtar and her Counterparts
Ishtar in Babylonia was Ashtoreth in Israel, Astarte in Canaan and Carthage, Isis in Egypt, Aphrodite in Greece, Ostara in Norway, and Eastre in Saxony (The Sixth Seal, 313-325, pg. 43).
“Ishtar, or Istar, the name of the chief goddess of Babylonia and Assyria, the counterpart of the Phoenician Astarte.”
“Ishtar,” The Encyclopaedia Britannica, Vol. 14, p. 870.
“Ashtoreth: The name of the supreme goddess of Canaan and the female counterpart of Baal. The name and cult of the goddess were derived from Babylonia, where Ishtar represented the evening and morning stars … From Babylonia the worship of the goddess was carried to the Semites of the West … The cult of the Greek Aphrodite in Cyprus was borrowed from that of Ashtoreth … ”
“Ashtoreth,” International Standard Bible Encyclopedia.
“Within many forms of Wicca the goddess has come to be considered as a universal deity … In this guise she is the ‘Queen of Heaven’, similar to Isis; she also encompasses and conceives all life, much like Gaia. Much like Isis … she is held to be the summation of all other goddesses, who represent her different names and aspects across the different cultures.”
“Goddess,” Wikipedia.
Frigga is identified as the Norse ‘queen of heaven’ by H. A. Guerber, Myths of Northern Lands, p. 51.
“The Saxon goddess Eastre, or Ostara, goddess of spring, whose name has survived in the English word Easter, is also identical with Frigga, for she too is considered goddess of the earth, or rather of Nature’s resurrection after the long death of winter. This gracious goddess was so deeply loved by the old Teutons, that even after Christianity had been introduced they still retained a pleasant recollection of her, utterly refused to have her degraded to the rank of a demon, like many of their other divinities, and transferred her name to their great Christian feast. It had long been customary to celebrate this day by the exchange of presents of colored eggs, for the egg is the type of the beginning of life; so the early Christians continued to observe this rule, declaring however, that the egg is also symbolical of the resurrection.”
H. A. Guerber, Myths of Northern Lands, pp. 57-58.
The Pagan gods the Same
The pagan gods of all the peoples were essentially the same, for the peoples had taken the pagan system with them upon leaving Babel (The Sixth Seal, 313-325, pg. 43).
For the proof and citations from sources, please see Christine Miller, The Babylon Connection.
Jacob Bryant, A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology, Vol. 1, “An Account of the gods of Greece; To shew that they were all originally one god, the Sun,” pp. 381-396.
Bryant capitalizes “gods” and “god” in his book, but I cannot bear to place a capital letter on this word unless it is referring to Yehovah Elohiym, Creator of heaven and earth.
Rome is Daniel’s Fourth Beast
We must remember that the Roman Empire is the terrible fourth beast that Daniel saw, which the little stone (the Lamb who was slain) struck in its feet and toppled (Dan. 2:24-45 and Dan. 7). (The Sixth Seal: 313-325 AD, pg. 37).
Daniel’s interpretation and Nebuchadnezzar’s dream of a colossal statue is found in Dan 2.
Daniel’s vision of the four beasts is found in Dan 7:
7 After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth; it devoured and broke in pieces, and stamped the residue with its feet; and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.
8 I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another horn, a little one, before which three of the first horns were plucked up by the roots; and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great things.Dan 7:7-8, Jewish Publication Society Bible, 1917.
“The world power in its totality appears as a colossal human form: Babylon the head of gold, Medo-Persia the breast and two arms of silver, Græco-Macedonia the belly and two thighs of brass, and Rome, with its Germano-Slavonic offshoots, the legs of iron and feet of iron and clay, the fourth still existing.”
Jamieson, Faussett, and Brown’s Commentary on Daniel 2:31.
“Whereas the three former kingdoms were designated respectively, as a lion, bear, and leopard, no particular beast is specified as the image of the fourth; for Rome is so terrible as to be not describable by any one, but combines in itself all that we can imagine inexpressibly fierce in all beasts. Hence thrice (Da 7:7, 19, 23) it is repeated, that the fourth was ‘diverse from all’ the others.”
Jamieson, Faussett, and Brown’s Commentary on Daniel 7:7.