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The Book of Daniel is important in Jewish Eschatology. It contains End Times prophecies and the famous story of the disconnected hand writing on the wall: “MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN”. The Babylonian king asks Daniel for an interpretation of these words, Daniel explains to him that it means that his kingdom will fall and be divided. Nowadays when people say “the writing’s on the wall” to mean that something bad is bound to happen, the origins of the saying are in this story.The Book of Daniel speaks of Four Empires and Four Beasts in verses 2 and 7, the Four Beasts also representing some kingdoms which are to exist on earth. Some Jewish sources hold these to be: the Babylonian Empire, the Medo-Persian Empire, the Greek Empire and the Roman Empire. This seems rather strange, as if history ends with the Roman Empire. One might rather suggest that the last empire is the Colonial Empires and the American one under which we live today, which we might regard as simply evolutions of the same principle, and the vision of the Four Beasts seems to suggest that:
“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.” (Daniel 7:7)
We live in a time which is not like any time before it, due to our vastly more advanced technology, the colonial empires were also different from those before as they ruled a much greater proportion of the planet. We also quite clearly live in some kind of End Times, a situation of absolute spiritual and ethical degeneration. This situation is mentioned in Hindu prophecy, the symptoms being described here: https://vanisource.org/wiki/SB_12.2:_The_Symptoms_of_Kali-yuga, and similar ideas can be found in the Book of Revelation and in Islamic eschatology.
The Hindu Prophecy of Kali Yuga states that it will last for 432,000 years. The previous ages were said to have lasted twice, three times, and four times this period, making a total of 4,320,000 years. Now it gets interesting to analyse this number of 432,000. In Hinduism and Buddhism the number 108 is very sacred. It is the number of beads on a “Japa” (known by the Tibetans as “Mala”), used to count prayer or mantra recitations. Four times 108 is 432.
Herein perhaps lays the meaning of the 432,000 year figure for Kali Yuga. Four rounds of Japa, that is to say four cycles of time under different empires, under different systems of oppression. If we are in the times of the last beast of Daniel we can say that the USA is “The Great Beast”. We can also expect that Kalki Avatar (or “The Second Coming of Christ”, or “The Madhi”) will be soon arriving to restore the Golden Age and bring about justice on this planet.
CHANT DOWN BABYLON