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"When therefore you shall see
the abomination of desolation,
as spoken of by Daniel the prophet
standing in the holy place,
let him who reads understand."
Welcome to Revelation Unraveled.
I'm your host William Tapley
also known as the Third Eagle of the Apocalypse
and the Co Prophet
of the End Times.
This is part three
in my series in which I am unsealing
the abomination of desolation
as spoken of by Daniel the prophet.
And we found out in the first two parts,
that there are actually four
abominations of desolation
and each abomination refers to a different group.
They affect four different groups
in different ways.
And we saw that in chapters ten and twelve,
it is the Catholics,
who are affected first.
And on this program, I want to look at the holy martyrs,
because they are affected last.
And we find them in chapter eight
of the great prophet Daniel.
First let's review
where we find these four groups
who will reign with Jesus during the millennium in the book of Revelation.
Now, we've already seen
where Jesus describes them in Matthew twenty four
and where Daniel describes them
in chapter number twelve.
And in the book of Revelation, chapters six through twenty one
which are the end time chapters,
John uses the term "blessed"
four times, and each time he is referring to one of these four groups.
Let's look at chapter fourteen, verse thirteen.
"Blessed are the dead
who die in the Lord."
Now, of course,
that refers to the martyrs
which is the subject of this program.
Revelation sixteen, verse fifteen,
"Blessed is he that watches
and keeps his garments."
And that refers to the protected Catholics.
Watching, in this case means praying the Rosary.
The garment that they wear, refers to Mary's scapular.
And in chapter nineteen, verse nine, we find the
raptured Protestants.
"Blessed are those
who are called
to the marriage supper
of the Lamb" and,
chapter twenty, verse six,
"Blessed and holy is he that has part in the first resurrection."
Now this group refers to the converted Jews.
"On such the second death has no power,
but they shall be priests
of God and of Christ
and shall reign with him
a thousand years."
Now, when John says
they will be priests of God and Christ,
God and Christ refers to
both the Old Testament
and the New Testament.
So now, we come to Daniel chapter number eight,
which is a prophecy
of how the
abomination of desolation will affect the holy martyrs.
And we are going to find that once again
Daniel says that it is Mary's rosary
which will defeat the antiChrist.
And he reveals this through the hidden structure,
in very much the same way as he did
in chapters ten and twelve.
This is how the angel told Daniel to seal up his prophecies until the end times.
Now, in chapters ten and twelve,
we found that the chief protagonist was the false prophet,
and that's because it affected the Catholics
and that abomination of desolation comes first.
Now, this abomination of desolation, which affects the holy martyrs, comes last,
approximately six months
after the false prophet
takes over the Catholic church.
So, how do we know that
Daniel is talking about the martyrs
in chapter number eight?
Let's take a look at
verse number twenty five:
"And in the abundance of all things,
he shall kill many."
So, the antiChrist is described here by Daniel
as a killer.
And in verse twenty four:
"and he shall destroy the mighty and the people of the saints."
Now, the antiChrist is described in many places in scripture
as the man of sin, as the lawless one,
but I can't think of any other place
where he is actually described as a killer.
And that's why I believe,
in chapter number eight,
the antiChrist is the abomination of desolation.
In chapter number eight,
Daniel writes more about the antiChrist
than he does in any of his other chapters.
That's why I believe that for the holy martyrs, the abomination of desolation
will be the antiChrist.
Just as we found out that in chapters ten and twelve,
for the protected Catholics,
the abomination of desolation would be the false prophet.
Here in chapter number eight,
Daniel writes about the antiChrist in almost one third of the verses,
starting in verse number nine.
"And out of one of them came forth a little horn,
and it became great
against the south and against the east and against the strength."
Now, I believe this indicates the
general geographical area that the antiChrist will come from
and I believe that is western Turkey,
probably Istanbul
but also possibly,
Pergamum. Now, verse number ten,
"And it was magnified even to the strength of heaven."
Now the strength of heaven would be Jesus.
"And it threw down of the strength, and of the stars, and trod upon them."
Now, the stars would be the clergy.
And this refers to the trodding down of the Catholic church as we also see
in Revelation chapter number eleven, verse eleven:
"and it was magnified even to the prince of the strength",
that would be Jesus.
"And it took away from him the continual sacrifice".
The continual sacrifice is the holy Eucharist.
And I don't believe that changes for the martyrs.
"And cast down the place of his sanctuary". That would be the church.
Verse twelve: "And strength was given him
against the continual sacrifice, because of sins,
and truth shall be cast down on the ground,
and he shall do, and shall prosper."
Now, I will explain in a few minutes why I have
continual sacrifice and strength underlined.
Of course, we should really not be surprised that the antiChrist
will cause many of us to suffer martyrdom.
Jesus Himself told us,
that no servant is greater than his master.
And Jesus died a
horrible death on the cross
through crucifixion.
Why should we be any better than our Lord and master?
And, whereas Daniel tells us that Mary's rosary will defeat the antiChrist,
that does not guarantee that we will not die at the hands of the antiChrist.
Now Daniel tells us that Mary's rosary will be ultimately victorious
in chapter number eight,
in very much the same way as he did in chapters number ten and twelve,
and that is through a chiasmus structure.
This is the hidden structure
that the angel tells Daniel to seal up his prophecies until the end times.
Now, in chapter number eight,
there are twenty seven verses which is an odd number.
Therefore, to split the chapter
exactly in half,
you will have to put thirteen verses on one side,
thirteen verses on the other,
and a bridge verse, which is verse number fourteen,
right in the middle.
In other words, verses one through thirteen are on the left,
verses fifteen through twenty seven in reverse order
are on the right,
and the bridge verse, number fourteen,
I show here, at the bottom middle.
Let's take a look at how
Daniel verifies that this is the correct way
to read and understand
the abomination of desolation as described in chapter number eight.
Now here,
Daniel organizes his chiasmus in a slightly different fashion.
In chapters ten and twelve,
he indicated a relationship between verses,
by repeating the subject matter.
Here in verse number eight,
Daniel repeats a certain word or phrase.
For example,
we know verse number one
is related to verse twenty seven because
he repeats the word "vision" once.
And we know that verse number two is related to verse number twenty six
because he repeats
the same word "vision" twice.
So this particular combination occurs only
when you set up these verses in this particular chiasmus.
And we see a similar pattern in the last three verses,
on each side of this chiasmus,
and not that the words repeat from one side to the other,
but there are three words that repeat within these last three verses.
In this case, verse eleven, twelve and thirteen,
all contain the words, "continual sacrifice"
And nowhere else in chapter number eight
is that phrase found.
And in verses seventeen, sixteen and fifteen,
the word is "vision",
which is repeated on all three of these verses,
the same word that is found in the first two verses and the last two verses
of this chiasmus.
And now let's take a look at this
hinge verse or bridge verse and that is verse number fourteen because it is
extremely important.
And that's why it is located in this
particular position.
Starting in verse thirteen,
"and I heard one of the saints speaking,
and one saint said to another,
I know not to whom
that was speaking,
"how long shall be the vision
concerning the continual sacrifice,
and the sin of the desolation that is made,
and the sanctuary and the strength be trodden under foot?"
Now, this time
the continual sacrifice taken away
and the strength trodden under foot
refers to
when the holy martyrs have to take notice.
And in verse number fourteen, "And he said unto him,
unto evening and morning twenty three hundred days
and the sanctuary shall be cleansed."
Now, this twenty three hundred
evening and mornings
actually works out to eleven hundred and fifty days,
which is the shortest time given in
all of the chapters which refer to the abomination of desolation.
And, of course, again this is a symbolic number.
It's not meant to be exact.
Notice this number twenty three.
We know that this is the number of the antiChrist, because
two before three or over three
is the fraction two thirds
and it yields the decimal point 666.
So now we are going to look at the hidden structure
of Daniel chapter number eight.
And this is how he sealed up the prophecy.
And the prophecy tells us
that the abomination of desolation
for the holy martyrs will be the antiChrist, but
the antiChrist will be defeated by Mary's rosary.
Now, I've already pointed out the
first and the last
verses which mark off the chiasmus and also
the middle verses, three on this side
and three on this side.
Notice again that
antiChrist fraction,
the two over three,
the two over three.
And of course we know
two thirds yields the decimal point 666.
Now, this is not a strict chiasmus.
In a strict chiasmus, there is perfect balance.
But as we go through these verses you will see that is not the case.
Now, the first two verses are an introduction,
and then there is a section
which describes a war between the goat and the ram.
And I won't go into that on this program.
That is simply a retelling of the same battle we see in the book of Revelation
between the *** of Babylon and the scarlet beast.
The two horns on the ram symbolize Britain and America,
the single horn on the goat symbolizes Russia.
And as we know, decadent capitalism will be defeated by communism
in World War 3.
Following these six verses, notice that number,
there are five verses,
which is Mary's rosary number,
which describe the antiChrist
And then there is a concluding verse, verse number fourteen which is the
bridge verse.
And on this side we see the same set,
but not quite.
We have the opening five verses, which correspond to these five verses,
and then there are three verses wherein the angel explains the ram/goat war,
three verses where the angel explains the antiChrist and two concluding verses.
Now, strictly speaking this is not a true chiasmus,
because if it were, these verses would be reversed,
and Daniel would put the
verses explaining the antiChrist first,
and those explaining the ram/goat war last.
And so the overall pattern of Daniel Chapter number eight
should be fairly obvious.
These lines of demarcation mark off
where Daniel changes the subject.
And, of course, it's fairly obvious that
six verses are followed by five verses on each side. Six verses
followed by five verses.
And of course,
once again that indicates that the antiChrist, whose number is six,
will be defeated by Mary whose number is five.
That is the same prophecy we find Jesus gives in the Olivet Discourse.
That is the same prophecy that Ezekiel gives in his chapter number twenty nine.
So, for all of you who are on the fence,
you can get a free rosary on the internet. Just google "free rosary".
There are many videos on YouTube that explain how to pray the rosary.
It would be much wiser
for you to learn how to defeat the antiChrist
before he comes on the scene,
because it will be very horrible after he comes on the scene.
It will be very difficult for you to take up the weapons which Jesus wants
you to use against the prince of darkness.
And as always, I do offer a free copy of my book Revelation Unraveled.
If you are interested, you can write to the address you see on your screen or
send me a private message to my YouTube channel.