THE ANTICHRIST'S EMPIRE OPTIONAL REPORT PART 1

“Out of Russia…will emerge that new and magical religion about which I have so often told you.  It will be the product of the great and imminent Approach which will take place between humanity and the Hierarchy. From these two centers of spiritual force, in which the light whichever shineth in and from the East will irradiate the West, the whole world will be flooded with the radiance of the Sun of Righteousness”.

Alice Bailey and Djwhal Khul

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A Note About My Sources: This research report is written from a Christian perspective. However, I supplement the Bible prophecy-related information provided in this optional report with information I’ve gleaned from critiquing statements the spiritual forces of evil have given to their human messengers in hopes their plans can be exposed.  For background on some non-biblical sources I reference and more about why I think we can glean some information from them click this link.  However, if you just want to rely solely on the inerrancy of the Bible you can read a Bible prophecy exclusive version of this report at the following link

Introduction

A report of mine entitled “The Prophecy of Adolf Hitler” showed that the fourth beast in Daniel 7 and the beast from the Sea in Revelation 13 are the same entity.  Both represent the 8th Empire of Satan and the empire of Antichrist.  This empire will consist of ten kingdoms led by rulers who will transfer their authority to Antichrist: 

o   Rev 17:12  And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
o   Rev 17:13  These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.
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o   Rev 17:17  For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.
 

This empire will be unlike any other.  It is characterized by its sheer power and by its ability to dominate the earth.

o   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 brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.
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o   Dan 7:23  Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.
 

The purpose of this report is to identify which ten kingdoms will be a part of the Antichrist’s empire.  However, before we can identify which countries belong in his empire we must distinguish between “nations” and kingdoms”

 

Nations vs. Kingdoms

Genesis 10 provides us with the Table of Nations, which is a list of the descendants of the three sons of Noah.  Every descendant listed formed their own nation, and according to Genesis 10:32 “were the families of the sons of Noah, by their generations, in their nations. And from these the nations were divided in the earth after the flood”.  

At the end of each section describing the descendents of each of Noah’s sons the text makes where each descendent initially established their nation. For instance, Genesis 10:6-10:19 lists the sons of Ham and describes where these nations established their borders:

o   Gen 10:6  And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.
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o   Gen 10:19  And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha.
o   Gen 10:20  These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.

 

Each nation described in Genesis did not remain in the same geographic location where it initiated.  Nations moved to different locations through time as the Lord determines where each nation lives and when they will they live there: 

o   Act 17:26  And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
 

A nation is not exactly the same as a kingdom.  For example, Christ distinguishes a nation from a kingdom:  

o   Mat 24:7  For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
 

Kingdoms are political entities whereas nations are “people groups” rather than ethnic groups.  Kingdoms are a temporary phenomenon that can be destroyed whenever the Lord decides it is time.  For instance, the Third Reich was destroyed only after being in existence for twelve years.  In contrast, nations generally are not temporary because races tend to endure for thousands of years.  For instance, the Jews are the descendants of Canaan, and have managed to survive despite numerous attempts to exterminate them. 

The First Three Kingdoms

Each kingdom that Antichrist shall eventually control will already have its own boundaries and rulers established before he rises to power.  However, once these kingdoms’ respective boundaries and rulers are established, Antichrist will “humble”/overthrow three of these rulers.

o   Dan 7:20  And of the ten horns that were in his head, and of the other which came up, and before whom three fell; even of that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spake very great things, whose look was more stout than his fellows.
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o   Dan 7:24  And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.
 

Ezekiel identifies the first three kingdoms that Antichrist will control after he overthrows the first three kings:  

o Eze 38:2  Son of man, set your face against Gog, the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, and prophesy against him.
o Eze 38:3  And say, So says the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I am against you, O Gog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal.[1]
 

Meshech and Tubal are found in Table of Nations as sons of Japheth while Rosh is a different matter.   Since nations/people groups move throughout time we must not focus on where nations were located during Biblical times but where they are located today. 

 

Tubal

It was popular in the 1980s to classify Tubal as part of Russia because the thought of the Soviet Union allying with Antichrist complied with most people’s suspicions of the superpower.  The main support behind the Tubal is part of Russia argument was that there is a river in Siberia called Tobolsk, which sounded like Tubal.  However, this argument is unconvincing because with this line of reasoning the two towers in England named after Gog and Magog would have to be considered the Biblical Land of Magog.  Also there is no historical evidence that a people group with a name that resembled Tubal migrated all the way to Siberia.  Over time popular support for the Tubal is part of Russia argument has eroded and only a handful of people still believe in it today.   

 

Josephus explained that “Thobel founded the Thobelites, who are now called Iberes”.[i]  The ancient Iberes did not live in Spain, but in what is today the Republic of Georgia.  The Georgian people are direct descendents of the ancient Iberians, so present-day Georgia is biblical Tubal. 

Meshech

Like with Tubal, it was popular in the 1980s to classify Meshech as part of Russia because it seemed to make sense with everyone’s suspicions of the Soviet Union.  The Meshech-Russia theory was built on a flimsily premise that the name for the city of Moscow was directly derived from Meshech.  Scholars studied this connection and proved that it was linguistically impossible.[ii]  Others who still want to prove that Meshech was Russia cite rabbinic speculation and correspondence.  Sources such as these are dubious because they are secondary sources based on a misconception of where Meshech is. 

 

Josephus tells us that Meshech became the Mosocheni (Moschi) who at the time lived in Cappadocia.  However, Pliny locates the Moscheni in southern Armenia.[iii]   Regardless of where the Moscheni were located in 1st Century AD it is apparent that these people eventually migrated northward. The Georgians called the Armenians the Somekhi, which Harvard Professor James R. Russell claims “may preserve the old name of the Mushki– the proto-Armenians' Cappadocian cousins”.[iv]

Rosh

Some argue that Rosh is not one of Antichrist’s ten kingdoms since is not listed in the Table of Nations and that Ezekiel 38:2 and 3 describes Gog as the “‘chief prince’ of Meshech and Tubal”.  Even though Rosh is not listed in the Table of Nations it does not mean that it cannot be one of the ten kingdoms.  For instance, Persia is not listed in the Table of Nations, yet it will be one of the ten kingdoms of Antichrist’s empire (Persia will be discussed later in this paper).  C.F. Keil, a Biblical scholar and Hebrew language expert, dismisses the argument that Ezekiel 38:2 and 3 describes Gog as the “‘chief prince’ of Meshech and Tubal”: 

It is true that Ewald follows Aquila, the Targum, and Jerome, and connects רֹאשׁ with נְשִׂיא as an appellative in the sense of princeps capitis, chief prince. But the argument used in support of this explanation, namely, that there is no people of the name of Rosh mentioned either in the Old Testament or by Josephus, is a very weak one; whilst, on the other hand, the appellative rendering, though possible, no doubt, after the analogy of הַכֹּהֵן רֹאשׁ in 1Ch_27:5, is by no means probable, for the simple reason that the נְשִׂיא occurs again in Eze_38:3 and Eze_39:1, and in such repetitions circumstantial titles are generally abbreviated. The Byzantine and Arabic writers frequently mention a people called  ̔Ρῶς, Arab. Ru=s, dwelling in the country of the Taurus, and reckoned among the Scythian tribes (for the passages, see Ges. Thesaurus, p. 1253), so that there is no reason to question the existence of a people known by the name of Rosh…[v]

 

Many people claim that “Rosh” is Russia because they sound alike.  Although I think that Russia is Rosh, I do not think that this argument is viable.  There is no easy way to demonstrate that Russia is Rosh using direct historical evidence.  However, I think there is a way to demonstrate that Rosh is Russia using indirect historical evidence.

 

The Land of Magog

Ezekiel 38:2 makes it clear that Antichrist will originate from the land of (the people group) Magog.  Since Antichrist is a futuristic individual the only way he can originate from the land of Magog is for him to be based at the people group’s future location.  We cannot say that the “land of Magog” defines a fixed geographic location like the “land of Israel” since is “Magog” the name of a (mobile) people group-not the name of a geographic location.  Next I will reveal who were Magogites and where we can find their descendants today.   

 

Josephus tells us that the Magogites were the Scythians, who used the swastika to decorate many objects.[vi]  The Scythians were a nomadic people who traveled throughout the Eurasian steppes and periodically invaded/terrorized foreign lands.  The Scythians once lived in a land called Scythia which extended throughout Europe and Asia, and at one time may had a population up to 500,000 people.[vii]  The Scythians thrived until 4th Century B.C. when the civilization inexplicably collapsed.  Researcher Nadezhda Gavrilyuk admits “we simply don’t know what happened (…) Scythia may have just collapsed from internal pressures, like the Soviet Union”.[viii]  After the decline of Scythia, the Scythians, according to Strabo, “moved westward to the region of the Danube’s mouth” while others “migrated south to Crimea”.[ix]  The Scythians that migrated to the Danube were later defeated by the Romans while most of the Scythians that lived in the Crimea were killed in 108B.C. when the kingdom of Pontus attacked.[x]  In the following centuries after the Scythians were displaced, the Huns, Mongols, Slavs, Vikings, and Goths occupied the land that the Scythians once controlled.[xi] 

 

The displacement of the Scythians and the subsequent foreign occupation of their land did not prevent scholars from locating their descendants.  “Scholars say a remnant of the Scythians endures in the 700,000 Ossetians, whose homeland today is a two-part enclave straddling the Caucasus Mountains, North Ossetia[2], the larger part, lies within Russia, while South Ossetia intrudes into Georgia”.[xii]  The Ossetians claim that they are direct descendants of the Alans, who were known as the Royal Scythians.  They still practice many of the traditions and rituals of their Scythian ancestors, including the sacrificing of horses.

Joseph Stalin

An Antichrist-type figure rising from either North or South Ossetia is not unprecedented when you consider one major, historical figure.  Leon Trotsky noted that Joseph Stalin, one of the most infamous leaders in Russian history, was half Ossetian on his father’s side.[xiii]  Stalin was a Georgian native like most Ossetians since they had no homeland to call their own.  However, Stalin, in one of his first acts since he rose to power in April 1922, took land from Georgia to create North and South Ossetia and made them separate political entities.  Soon Stalin decimated the Russian Orthodox Church, ordered the execution of its priests, and ordered for the destruction of all religious images.  He replaced the religious void in the Soviet Union by establishing himself as god and received worship from the people who bought into his Cult of Personality.  

Like Adolf Hitler, Stalin felt no remorse when a life was lost, especially when it got him closer to his goal.  In fact, Stalen often personally decided who should or should not be included on death lists he had his men send him virtually everyday during the height of his terror against the Soviet people.[3]  Sometimes Stalin was disappointed with the number of names on the list, so he wrote instructions on the “disappointing” list requesting that more names get added next time.  Regardless of who was listed, according to historian Anton Antonov-Ovseyenko, Stalin’s death quota had to be filled no matter whom was listed: “Just like the production quota for timber, the quota for extermination was over-fulfilled especially among the country’s elite.  That was absolutely typical for Stalin’s type of terror”.[xiv]  Throughout his reign, Stalin authorized the deportations of entire ethnic groups from their lands, including the Chechens and Ingush.  However, Stalin left the Ossetians alone and actually expanded North Ossetia’s territory at the expense of the Chechens and Ingush.  In 1953 Stalin made plans to exterminate all the Jews in the Soviet Union, but died suddenly just a couple of weeks before these plans were to be executed.  Minutes before Stalin died witnesses at his side saw something that they would never forget.  Here is one account from Stalin’s daughter Svetlana:   

“He suddenly opened his eyes and cast a glance over everyone in the room.  It was a terrible glance and something incompressible and awesome happened.  He suddenly lifted his left hand as though he were pointing to something above and bringing down a curse on all of us.  The next moment after a final effort the spirit wrenched itself free from the flesh”.[xv] 

Antichrist does not need to have an Ossetian heritage because Ezekiel 38 does not say that Antichrist is a Magogite as some argue.  In fact, none of the potential individuals who could be Antichrist were a descendent of the Scythians.     

 

Why Russia

In the previous two sections I have demonstrated that Antichrist is likely going to originate from either North or South Ossetia.  It also seems clear that Antichrist is going to be a major world leader at the time of his emergence.  If Rosh is not a kingdom and the third kingdom is “the Land of Magog” then how can Antichrist be a major power broker if he is backed by the combined strength of Ossetia, Georgia, and Armenia?  In order for Antichrist to be a true global power broker he will need to have access to Russia’s military and natural resources.  Therefore, Russia/Rosh must be his third kingdom (and not the Land of Magog) because Antichrist needs to have the military and natural resources necessary to make political/economic deals with other kingdoms and to conquer other kingdoms.      

 

I believe there is a reason why Ezekiel 38:2 distinguishes between “Gog, from the land of Magog” and “the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal”.  Currently, North Ossetia is a part of Russia and South Ossetia is under Russian control.  I believe South Ossetia will eventually reunite with North Ossetia as a part of Russia.  Eventually, North and South Ossetia will reunite and we will have the land of Magog within the borders of Russia (Rosh).  Therefore, I think that the Antichrist, like Stalin, will rise from obscurity from the Caucasus and rule Russia.  This scenario fits very well with the Antichrist’s description in Daniel 7:8.  Antichrist will begin as a small leader (a little horn) and will rise to prominence by seizing power.

 

Non-Biblical Confirmation

The amazing thing is that the notion that the Antichrist will emerge from Russia is not only supported by the Bible, but is also supported by the little-known statements made by the highest-level mouthpieces and representatives of the forces of darkness.  For instance, Benjamin Creme, the official spokesmen of Maitreya [4] (a spiritual being that is considered by New Age followers to be the "Christ" and a spiritual being that meets John’s description of the spirit of Antichrist) mentioned that an Ascended Master (a spiritual being mentioned by Paul in Ephesians 6:12 as the “spiritual wickedness in high places”) named Djwhal Khul revealed in a written work that the New World Religion will arise out of Russia: “The Master Djwhal Khul has written that the New World Religion will emerge out of Russia.  As people from the various existing world religions fit themselves for the experience of initiation, they will go to the Mystery Schools, where they will be prepared for this great experience, the most sacred aspects of the New World Religion”.[xvi]

 

The written work where Djwhal Khul revealed this stunning piece of information is a book he co-authored with New Age author Alice Bailey called the Destiny of Nations.  In a section about the outlook for Russia, Bailey and Djwhal Khul stated that the New World (New Age) Religion will emerge from Russia and will be linked with the appearance of the spiritual hierarchy (Satan's fallen angels described in Ephesians 6:12) on the world stage and the appearance of the Antichrist (Sun of Righteousness in this passage).

“Out of Russia … will emerge that new and magical religion about which I have so often told you.  It will be the product of the great and imminent Approach which will take place between humanity and the Hierarchy. From these two centers of spiritual force, in which the light whichever shineth in and from the East will irradiate the West, the whole world will be flooded with the radiance of the Sun of Righteousness”.[xvii] 

Bailey and Djwhal Khul went further to reveal that the New Age Religion will emerge from Russia through the efforts of a vitally important man.  They equate a “vital Russian exponent of the true religion” (or a crucial Russian promoter of the New Age Religion) to the man who Russians have long been waiting for and the man who fulfills a very old prophecy. 

“I am not here referring to the imposition of any political ideology, but to the appearance of a great and spiritual religion which will justify the crucifixion of a great nation and which will demonstrate itself and be focused in a great and spiritual Light which will be held aloft by a vital Russian exponent of true religion - that man for whom many Russians have been looking and who will be the justification of a most ancient prophecy”.[xviii]

 

I suspect that the ancient prophecy that this man that Bailey and Djwhal Khul referred to is the prophecy given in Daniel 11:35-45, which is a prophecy about the rise of Antichrist.  The particular bible verse that I think reflects what Bailey and Djwhal Khul are alluding to is Daniel 11:38.  Daniel 11:38 reveals that the Antichrist will honor the “god of forces” or a god that his ancestors were unfamiliar with. 

o   Dan 11:38  But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces: and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
 

The “god of forces” is Satan.  According to Christian Media Research, Hebrew for the term “god of forces” can be translated to mean “the energy deity or the power gods”.[xix]  This translation of the Hebrew fits the New Age usage of the term “god of forces”.  Christian Media Research reports that New Agers and others actually consider God to be a force: 

"In the occultic oriented mystery religious traditions, we find a system of belief known under a variety of names including Pantheism, Spiritism, Theosophy, Freemasonry, and a host of others. Essentially, this worldview claims that God is not a personality as much as a phenomenon. The central idea is expressed in various Eastern religious systems as well as in Gnosticism and even Western philosophy. This doctrine claims that God is a force that is comprised of equal components of good and evil".[xx]

 

An example of this is the New Age book, The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ.  The author of this book notes that a person may become one with the “spirit of the god of force” if they accept the New Age god:  "In the infinite One manifest we note the attributes of Force, Intelligence and Love, and a person may be in full accord with one of these attributes and not with the others. One may enter fully into the spirit of the God of Force..." [xxi] Therefore, since the god of the New Age is Satan, the “god of forces” must be Satan.

 

Russians historically have an affinity for a strong man to rule over them.  Russians tolerate Czars, revere brutal Soviet dictators like Lenin and Stalin, and support strong central governments in the Post-Soviet era.   Today Russians yearn for a strong man who will bring Russia back in a global power that it once was under the days of Stalin.  Antichrist is a man that perfectly fits the bill as he described in Daniel 8:23 as a ruthless leader:  

o   Dan 8:23  And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up.
 

Therefore, in addition to revealing that the New Age Religion will rise up from Russian, Bailey and Djwhal Khul revealed that the man who will do it will be the Antichrist, the man who fulfills prophecy and the hopes of the Russian people for a strong leader.      

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