We are currently looking very closely at the prophetic characteristics of the history where the papacy returns to the throne of the earth as the eighth head, that is of the seven heads. We are doing so, in order to carefully identify the prophetic characteristics of the history when the eighth president, that is of the seven presidents, fulfills the formation of the image of the papal beast. We have begun our considerations of these truths with Mount Carmel and Herod’s birthday. Both sacred illustrations represent the soon-coming Sunday law in the United States, which is also represented in verse forty-one of Daniel chapter eleven.

Kwa sasa tunachunguza kwa makini sana sifa za kinabii za historia ambapo upapa unarejea katika kiti cha enzi cha ulimwengu kama kichwa cha nane, ambacho ni miongoni mwa vile vichwa saba. Tunafanya hivyo ili kutambua kwa uangalifu sifa za kinabii za historia wakati rais wa nane, aliye miongoni mwa wale marais saba, anapotimiza uundaji wa picha ya mnyama wa kipapa. Tumeanza kuzingatia kweli hizi tukianzia Mlima Karmeli na siku ya kuzaliwa ya Herode. Mifano hii miwili takatifu inawakilisha sheria ya Jumapili inayokuja hivi karibuni nchini Marekani, ambayo pia imewakilishwa katika aya ya arobaini na moja ya sura ya kumi na moja ya Danieli.

He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon. Daniel 11:41.

Naye ataingia pia katika nchi tukufu, na mataifa mengi yataangushwa; lakini hawa wataponyoka mkononi mwake, yaani Edomu, na Moabu, na wakuu wa wana wa Amoni. Danieli 11:41.

The counterfeit king of the north enters the glorious land in the verse. The glorious land in the history of ancient Israel was the land of Judah, and it was represented as a land flowing with milk and honey, and for this reason, among others, it was glorious. It was glorious because Christ chose its capital city Jerusalem, as the place of His temple, and the city where he chose to place His name.

Mfalme bandia wa kaskazini anaingia katika nchi tukufu katika aya hiyo. Nchi tukufu katika historia ya Israeli ya kale ilikuwa nchi ya Yuda, na ilionyeshwa kama nchi inayotiririka maziwa na asali, na kwa sababu hii, miongoni mwa sababu nyingine, ilikuwa tukufu. Ilikuwa tukufu kwa sababu Kristo alichagua mji mkuu wake Yerusalemu kuwa mahali pa hekalu lake, na mji ambamo alichagua kuliweka jina lake.

Since the day that I brought forth my people out of the land of Egypt I chose no city among all the tribes of Israel to build an house in, that my name might be there; neither chose I any man to be a ruler over my people Israel: But I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have chosen David to be over my people Israel. 2 Chronicles 6:5, 6.

Tangu siku nilipowatoa watu wangu kutoka nchi ya Misri sikuchagua mji wowote miongoni mwa makabila yote ya Israeli ili kuujengea nyumba, ili jina langu liwe humo; wala sikumchagua mtu yeyote awe mtawala juu ya watu wangu Israeli; bali nimemchagua Yerusalemu ili jina langu liwe humo; nami nimemchagua Daudi awe juu ya watu wangu Israeli. 2 Mambo ya Nyakati 6:5, 6.

The literal land of Judah was the glorious land for literal ancient Israel, and the United States is the spiritual land of Judah, the glorious land for spiritual modern Israel.

Ardhi halisi ya Yuda ilikuwa ardhi tukufu kwa Israeli ya kale halisi, na Marekani ni ardhi ya kiroho ya Yuda, ardhi tukufu kwa Israeli ya kisasa ya kiroho.

“When the land which the Lord provided as an asylum for His people, that they might worship Him according to the dictates of their own consciences, the land over which for long years the shield of Omnipotence has been spread, the land which God has favored by making it the depository of the pure religion of Christ,—when that land shall, through its legislators, abjure the principles of Protestantism, and give countenance to Romish apostasy in tampering with God’s law,—it is then that the final work of the man of sin will be revealed.” Signs of the Times, June 12, 1893.

"Wakati nchi ambayo Bwana aliitoa kama kimbilio kwa watu Wake, ili wamuabudu kulingana na mwongozo wa dhamiri zao wenyewe, nchi ambayo kwa miaka mingi ngao ya Uweza Wake imetandazwa juu yake, nchi ambayo Mungu ameipendelea kwa kuifanya mahali pa kuhifadhi dini safi ya Kristo,—wakati nchi hiyo, kupitia watunga sheria wake, itakapokataa kanuni za Uprotestanti, na kuupa kibali uasi wa Kirumi katika kuipotosha sheria ya Mungu,—ndipo kazi ya mwisho ya yule mtu wa dhambi itakapofunuliwa." Signs of the Times, 12 Juni, 1893.

After the counterfeit king of the north conquered the king of the south (the former Soviet Union), in verse forty, in 1989, it then conquers the glorious land (the United States). In verse forty-one the word “countries” is a supplied word, and is not fully accurate, for at the Sunday law, the “many” who are overthrown are a class of people who knew the distinction between the seventh-day Sabbath and the day of the sun, before the Sunday law arrived.

Baada ya mfalme bandia wa kaskazini kumshinda mfalme wa kusini (Muungano wa Kisovieti wa zamani), katika mstari wa arobaini, mwaka 1989, kisha anaiteka nchi ya utukufu (Marekani). Katika mstari wa arobaini na moja, neno "nchi" ni neno lililoongezwa, na si sahihi kabisa, kwa kuwa wakati wa sheria ya Jumapili, wale "wengi" wanaoangushwa ni kundi la watu waliojua tofauti kati ya Sabato ya siku ya saba na siku ya jua, kabla ya kuwasili kwa sheria ya Jumapili.

“The change of the Sabbath is the sign or mark of the authority of the Roman church. Those who, understanding the claims of the fourth commandment, choose to observe the false Sabbath in the place of the true, are thereby paying homage to that power by which alone it is commanded. The mark of the beast is the papal Sabbath, which has been accepted by the world in the place of the day of God’s appointment.

Mabadiliko ya Sabato ni ishara au alama ya mamlaka ya kanisa la Roma. Wale ambao, wakiwa wameelewa madai ya amri ya nne, huchagua kuitunza Sabato ya uongo badala ya ile ya kweli, kwa kufanya hivyo wanatoa heshima kwa mamlaka ile ambayo peke yake imeamuru Sabato hiyo. Alama ya mnyama ni Sabato ya kipapa, ambayo imekubaliwa na ulimwengu badala ya siku iliyowekwa na Mungu.

“But the time to receive the mark of the beast, as designated in prophecy, has not yet come. The testing time has not yet come. There are true Christians in every church, not excepting the Roman Catholic communion. None are condemned until they have had the light and have seen the obligation of the fourth commandment. But when the decree shall go forth enforcing the counterfeit Sabbath, and when the loud cry of the third angel shall warn men against the worship of the beast and his image, the line will be clearly drawn between the false and the true. Then those who still continue in transgression will receive the mark of the beast in their foreheads or in their hands.

Lakini wakati wa kupokea alama ya mnyama, kama ilivyoainishwa katika unabii, bado haujafika. Wakati wa jaribu bado haujafika. Kuna Wakristo wa kweli katika kila kanisa, hata katika Kanisa Katoliki la Roma. Hakuna anayehukumiwa hadi awe amepata nuru na ameona wajibu wa amri ya nne. Lakini amri itakapotolewa ya kulazimisha Sabato bandia, na sauti kuu ya malaika wa tatu itakapowaonya wanadamu dhidi ya kuabudu mnyama na sanamu yake, mstari utawekwa wazi kati ya uongo na ukweli. Kisha wale ambao bado wanaendelea katika uvunjaji wa sheria watapokea alama ya mnyama katika vipaji vya nyuso zao au katika mikono yao.

“With rapid steps we are approaching this period. When Protestant churches shall unite with the secular power to sustain a false religion, for opposing which their ancestors endured the fiercest persecution, then will the papal Sabbath be enforced by the combined authority of church and state. There will be a national apostasy, which will end only in national ruin.” Bible Training School, February 2, 1913.

Kwa mwendo wa haraka tunakaribia kipindi hiki. Wakati makanisa ya Kiprotestanti yataungana na mamlaka ya kilimwengu ili kudumisha dini ya uongo, ambayo, kwa kuipinga, mababu zao walistahimili mateso makali mno, ndipo Sabato ya Kipapa itakalazimishwa na mamlaka ya pamoja ya kanisa na dola. Kutakuwa na uasi wa kitaifa, ambao utaishia tu katika uharibifu wa kitaifa. Shule ya Mafunzo ya Biblia, Februari 2, 1913.

The class of “many” who are overthrown at the soon-coming Sunday law, are those who will be held accountable to the light of the Sabbath, which is the light that is given for that time, which is a turning point, and a crisis in the history of both the church and the nations. That class is the church of Laodicean Adventism that has reached their conclusion of wandering in the wilderness of rebellion. It is there that they are spewed out of the mouth of the Lord for eternity. Laodicean Adventism are those who were called unto the light of the third angel, either at the first Kadesh in the history of 1844, unto 1863, or at the second Kadesh in the history of 2001, unto the Sunday law.

Kundi la “wengi” watakaoangushwa wakati wa sheria ya Jumapili ijayo hivi karibuni, ni wale watakaowajibishwa kwa nuru ya Sabato, ambayo ni nuru iliyotolewa kwa wakati huo, na ambayo ni hatua ya mgeuko na mgogoro katika historia ya kanisa pamoja na mataifa. Kundi hilo ndilo kanisa la Waadventista wa Laodikia lililofikia tamati ya kutangatanga katika jangwa la uasi. Hapo ndipo wanapotapikwa kutoka kinywani mwa Bwana milele. Waadventista wa Laodikia ni wale walioitwa kwenye nuru ya malaika wa tatu, ama katika Kadeshi ya kwanza katika historia ya 1844 hadi 1863, au katika Kadeshi ya pili katika historia ya 2001 hadi sheria ya Jumapili.

And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless. Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. For many are called, but few are chosen. Matthew 22:12–14.

Akamuambia, Rafiki, umeingiaje hapa huna vazi la arusi? Naye akakosa la kujibu. Ndipo mfalme akawaambia watumishi, Mfungeni mikono na miguu, mchukueni, mkamtupa katika giza la nje; huko kutakuwa na kilio na kusaga meno. Kwa maana wengi wameitwa, bali wachache wamechaguliwa. Mathayo 22:12-14.

The voice of the third angel, either in 1844, or 2001, was a call unto the wedding. The “many” that are overthrown at the Sunday law, are the “many” who rejected the wedding garment of Christ’s righteousness, and instead become part of the marriage party of the ten kings unto the whore of Rome. For that marriage, a person can keep their own garments, for all they need to take away their reproach is to be called by the surname of the whore that reigns over the ten kings.

Sauti ya malaika wa tatu, iwe mwaka 1844 au 2001, ilikuwa mwito wa kwenda kwenye harusi. "Wengi" wanaoanguka wakati wa sheria ya Jumapili, ndio "wengi" waliokataa vazi la harusi la haki ya Kristo, na badala yake wanakuwa sehemu ya sherehe ya ndoa ya wafalme kumi na kahaba wa Roma. Kwa ndoa hiyo, mtu anaweza kubaki na mavazi yake mwenyewe, kwa kuwa yote wanayohitaji ili kuondoa aibu yao ni kuitwa kwa jina la ukoo la yule kahaba anayewatawala wale wafalme kumi.

And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach. Isaiah 4:1.

Na siku ile wanawake saba watamshika mtu mmoja, wakisema, Tutakula mkate wetu wenyewe, na kuvaa mavazi yetu wenyewe; ila tuitwe kwa jina lako, ili kuondoa aibu yetu. Isaya 4:1.

They failed the first dietary test, for they chose to eat their own bread, instead of the bread of heaven. They failed the second test where they were to glorify God by manifesting His character, but they chose instead to wear their own garments. They failed the third litmus test, for they manifested the name (character) of the beast, for they chose to reject the name (character) of Christ. The purpose that Nimrod built a city (state), and a tower (church), in the first mention of Babylon, was that he might make himself a name.

Walishindwa jaribio la kwanza la lishe, kwa maana walichagua kula mkate wao wenyewe, badala ya mkate wa mbinguni. Walishindwa jaribio la pili ambapo walipaswa kumtukuza Mungu kwa kuudhihirisha tabia Yake, lakini badala yake walichagua kuvaa mavazi yao wenyewe. Walishindwa kipimo tosha cha tatu, kwa kuwa walidhihirisha jina (tabia) la mnyama, maana walichagua kulikataa jina (tabia) la Kristo. Kusudi ambalo Nimrod alijenga mji (dola), na mnara (kanisa), katika kutajwa kwa kwanza kwa Babeli, lilikuwa ili ajifanyie jina.

And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. Genesis 11:4.

Wakasema, Haya, tujijengee mji na mnara, na kilele chake kifike mbinguni; nasi tujifanyie jina, tusije tukatawanyika katika uso wa nchi yote. Mwanzo 11:4.

Name is a symbol of character, and the prophetic character of the eighth beast, that is of the seven, is the twofold nature of the combination of Church (tower) and State (city). In the crisis of the last days men will separate into two classes.

Jina ni ishara ya tabia, na tabia ya kinabii ya mnyama wa nane, ambaye ni wa wale saba, ni asili ya namna mbili ya muungano wa Kanisa (mnara) na Serikali (mji). Katika mgogoro wa siku za mwisho watu watagawanyika katika makundi mawili.

“There can be only two classes. Each party is distinctly stamped, either with the seal of the living God, or with the mark of the beast or his image. Each son and daughter of Adam chooses either Christ or Barabbas as his general. And all who place themselves on the side of the disloyal are standing under Satan’s black banner, and are charged with rejecting and despitefully using Christ. They are charged with deliberately crucifying the Lord of life and glory.” Review and Herald, January 30, 1900.

Kunaweza kuwa na makundi mawili tu. Kila upande umewekewa chapa kwa dhahiri, ama kwa muhuri wa Mungu aliye hai, au kwa alama ya mnyama au sanamu yake. Kila mwana na binti wa Adamu humchagua ama Kristo au Baraba awe jemadari wake. Na wote wanaojiweka upande wa waasi wamesimama chini ya bendera nyeusi ya Shetani, na wanashtakiwa kwa kumkataa na kumtendea Kristo kwa dharau. Wanashtakiwa kwa kumsulubisha kwa makusudi Bwana wa uzima na utukufu. Review and Herald, 30 Januari 1900.

One class will represent the image of the beast, and the other class will represent the image of Christ. One will be wearing Christ’s wedding garment, and the other class will be wearing “their own apparel.” One class will be eating the heavenly diet, and the other will be eating their “own bread.” The class that eats their own bread, and retains their own apparel, represent the “many” who were called by the voice of the third angel, and they are the “many” who are overthrown at the soon-coming Sunday law. Their attempt to redeem their lost condition when their characters are manifested at the crisis of the Sunday law is the false hope that if they can accept the name of the whore of Rome, that doing so will take away their “reproach.”

Darasa moja litawakilisha mfano wa mnyama, na darasa lingine litawakilisha mfano wa Kristo. Moja litakuwa limevaa vazi la arusi la Kristo, na darasa lingine litakuwa limevaa "mavazi yao wenyewe." Darasa moja litakuwa likila chakula cha mbinguni, na lingine litakuwa likila "mkate wao wenyewe." Darasa linalokula mkate wao wenyewe, na kubakiza mavazi yao wenyewe, linawakilisha "wengi" walioitwa kwa sauti ya malaika wa tatu, na hao ndio "wengi" wanaoangushwa wakati sheria ya Jumapili itakapowekwa karibuni. Juhudi zao za kuikomboa hali yao iliyopotea wakati tabia zao zinapodhihirishwa katika mgogoro wa sheria ya Jumapili ni tumaini la uongo kwamba wakikubali jina la kahaba wa Roma, kufanya hivyo kutaondoa "aibu" yao.

At that time, the few who are chosen are lifted up as the ensign of the one hundred and forty-four thousand, and there is then another group in verse forty-one who then “escape” the hand of the counterfeit king of the north. The Hebrew word translated as “escape,” in verse forty-one, means to escape as if by slipperiness, and the definition conveys the idea of holding a bar of soap in the water, and due to the slipperiness of the soap, it slips out of your hand. The primary element of the definition of the word, when it is employed in the Hebrew language is that whatever it is that escapes, is something that had, prior to the escape, been under the control of whatever it escapes from.

Wakati huo, wachache waliochaguliwa huinuliwa kama bendera ya wale mia arobaini na nne elfu, na kisha kuna kundi lingine katika mstari wa arobaini na moja ambalo “huponyoka” mkononi mwa mfalme bandia wa kaskazini. Neno la Kiebrania lililotafsiriwa kama “kuponyoka,” katika mstari wa arobaini na moja, humaanisha kuponyoka kana kwamba kwa utelezi, na ufafanuzi wake unawasilisha wazo la kushika kipande cha sabuni majini, na kwa sababu ya utelezi wa sabuni, kinateleza kutoka mkononi mwako. Kipengele cha msingi cha ufafanuzi wa neno hilo, linapotumika katika lugha ya Kiebrania, ni kwamba chochote kinachoponyoka ni kitu ambacho, kabla ya kuponyoka, kilikuwa chini ya udhibiti wa kile ambacho kinakiepuka.

In verse forty-one, the threefold union of the dragon, the beast and false prophet is accomplished.

Katika aya ya arobaini na moja, muungano wa mara tatu kati ya joka, mnyama na nabii wa uongo unakamilika.

“The Protestants of the United States will be foremost in stretching their hands across the gulf to grasp the hand of Spiritualism; they will reach over the abyss to clasp hands with the Roman power; and under the influence of this threefold union, this country will follow in the steps of Rome in trampling on the rights of conscience.” The Great Controversy, 588.

"Waprotestanti wa Marekani watakuwa wa kwanza kunyoosha mikono yao kuvuka pengo ili kushika mkono wa Uspiritizimu; watanyoosha mikono yao juu ya shimo refu ili kushikana mikono na mamlaka ya Kirumi; na chini ya ushawishi wa muungano huu wa pande tatu, nchi hii itafuata nyayo za Roma katika kukanyaga haki za dhamiri." Pambano Kuu, 588.

When the United States joins hands with the United Nations, and the papacy at the Sunday law, there is a group of people who have previously been in the hand of the papacy, who then “escape” from the counterfeit king of the north’s hand. Those people were previously held in the grasp of the papal power. Those people are represented at Herod’s birthday party by John the Baptist, who was then in the captivity of the Roman dungeons, awaiting death or deliverance. The class of people who escape the captivity of the papacy at the Sunday law, are represented by three tribes, and thus symbolize the threefold makeup of modern Babylon.

Wakati Marekani itakaposhikana mikono na Umoja wa Mataifa, na upapa, katika sheria ya Jumapili, kunakuwa na kundi la watu ambao hapo awali walikuwa mikononi mwa upapa, na ambao kisha “huponyoka” kutoka katika mkono wa mfalme bandia wa kaskazini. Watu hao hapo awali walishikiliwa chini ya udhibiti wa mamlaka ya upapa. Watu hao wanaakilishwa katika karamu ya siku ya kuzaliwa ya Herode na Yohana Mbatizaji, ambaye wakati huo alikuwa kifungoni katika mazimuni ya Warumi, akisubiri kifo au ukombozi. Darasa la watu wanaoepuka utumwa wa upapa wakati wa sheria ya Jumapili linaakilishwa na makabila matatu, na hivyo kuashiria muundo wa mara tatu wa Babeli ya kisasa.

At that very time, the second voice of Revelation chapter eighteen, calls those people to flee out of Babylon, that they not partake of her judgments that are then to begin. That second voice, is the voice of Christ, but it represents the voice of the one hundred and forty-four thousand who are then proclaiming the third angels’ message with a loud voice. When those who escape the hand (a symbol of submission), they escape the hand of the counterfeit king of the north, and they then find the hand of the true king of the north.

Wakati huo huo, sauti ya pili ya Ufunuo sura ya kumi na nane inawaita watu hao wakimbie kutoka Babeli, ili wasishiriki katika hukumu zake zitakazoanza wakati huo. Sauti hiyo ya pili ni sauti ya Kristo, lakini inawakilisha sauti ya wale mia moja arobaini na nne elfu ambao wakati huo wanatangaza ujumbe wa malaika wa tatu kwa sauti kuu. Wale wanaoukwepa mkono (ishara ya kujisalimisha), huukwepa mkono wa mfalme bandia wa kaskazini, kisha huupata mkono wa mfalme wa kweli wa kaskazini.

At Mount Carmel the prophets of Baal were slain, and as the masculine false deity they represent the State, and the prophets of Ashtaroth represent the Church. Elijah slew the prophets of Baal, thus identifying the end of the sixth kingdom, though the religion of apostate Protestantism as represented by Salome, was still represented. Salome, Apostate Protestantism, as Salome, seduces Herod, and the ten kings agree to enter into a Church and State alliance with the eighth head, that was of the seven heads. Salome is the one who the incestuous Herod lusts after in his heart.

Kwenye Mlima Karmeli manabii wa Baali waliuawa; na kwa kuwa mungu wao wa uongo ni wa kiume (Baali), wao wanawakilisha Dola, ilhali manabii wa Ashtaroth wanawakilisha Kanisa. Eliya aliwaua manabii wa Baali, hivyo akibainisha mwisho wa ufalme wa sita, ijapokuwa dini ya Uprotestanti uliopotoka, ilivyowakilishwa na Salome, bado ilikuwa ikiwakilishwa. Salome, yaani Uprotestanti uliopotoka, kama Salome, anamvutia Herode kimapenzi, na wafalme kumi wanakubaliana kuingia katika muungano wa Kanisa na Dola pamoja na kichwa cha nane, ambacho kilikuwa cha mojawapo ya vichwa saba. Salome ndiye ambaye Herode mwenye zinaa ya kindugu anatamani moyoni mwake.

But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. Matthew 5:28.

Lakini nawaambia ninyi, kwamba yeyote amtazamaye mwanamke kwa kumtamani, tayari amezini naye moyoni mwake. Mathayo 5:28.

Herod’s incestuous lust in his heart, joined their flesh together in his heart, and he therefore became one with Salome.

Tamaa ya insesti ya Herode moyoni mwake iliwafanya wawe mwili mmoja moyoni mwake, na hivyo akawa mwili mmoja na Salome.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. Genesis 2:24.

Kwa sababu hiyo mtu atamwacha baba yake na mama yake, naye ataambatana na mkewe; nao watakuwa mwili mmoja. Mwanzo 2:24.

At Herod’s birthday party, Herod and Salome became united, and Herod, who was typified by Ahab, is the head of the ten kings of the northern kingdom. At the soon coming Sunday law, the sixth kingdom of the earth beast ends when the horns that had become one horn representing the combination of the horns of Church and State (the image of the beast), is slain by Elijah. Salome then seduces Herod, becomes one with him, and convinces him to give half his kingdom (the world-wide State) to her mother (the world-wide Church). Salome has then taken control of Ahab and his ten tribes, for the ten kings all agree with each other.

Katika karamu ya siku ya kuzaliwa ya Herode, Herode na Salome waliungana, na Herode, ambaye alifananishwa na Ahabu, ndiye kichwa cha wafalme kumi wa ufalme wa kaskazini. Wakati wa sheria ya Jumapili inayokuja hivi karibuni, ufalme wa sita wa mnyama wa nchi unakoma pale ile pembe moja—iliyotokana na kuungana kwa pembe za Kanisa na Serikali (sanamu ya yule mnyama)—inapouawa na Eliya. Kisha Salome anamrubuni Herode, anaungana naye kuwa kitu kimoja, na kumshawishi ampe mama yake (Kanisa la ulimwengu mzima) nusu ya ufalme wake (Serikali ya ulimwengu mzima). Hivyo Salome amechukua udhibiti wa Ahabu na makabila yake kumi, kwa kuwa wafalme kumi wote wanakubaliana wao kwa wao.

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. These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast. Revelation 17:12, 13.

Na zile pembe kumi ulizoziona ndizo wafalme kumi, ambao bado hawajapokea ufalme; lakini watapokea mamlaka kama wafalme kwa muda wa saa moja pamoja na yule mnyama. Hawa wana nia moja, nao watampa yule mnyama mamlaka yao na nguvu zao. Ufunuo 17:12, 13.

The beast they give their power and strength unto is the beast that the whore rides upon. The beast represents the character of the image, which is the combination of Church and State, with the woman (Church) in control of the relationship, for it is a Latin marriage, where the surname is the name of the wife, and where the woman rules over the man, in rebellion against the true marriage relationship.

Mnyama wanayempa mamlaka na nguvu zao ndiye mnyama ambaye kahaba amempanda. Mnyama huyo anawakilisha tabia ya ile picha, ambayo ni muungano wa Kanisa na Serikali, ambapo mwanamke (Kanisa) ndiye anayedhibiti uhusiano, kwa maana ni ndoa ya Kilatini, ambako jina la ukoo ni jina la mke, na ambapo mwanamke anatawala juu ya mwanamume, katika uasi dhidi ya uhusiano wa kweli wa ndoa.

Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. Genesis 3:16.

Akamwambia mwanamke, Nitazidisha sana uchungu wako na kuzaa kwako; kwa uchungu utazaa watoto; na tamaa yako itakuwa kwa mumeo, naye atakutawala. Mwanzo 3:16.

The ten kings are of one mind, and one heart.

Wafalme kumi ni wa nia moja na moyo mmoja.

“Revelation 17:13–14 quoted. ‘These have one mind.’ There will be a universal bond of union, one great harmony, a confederacy of Satan’s forces. ‘And shall give their power and strength unto the beast.’ Thus is manifested the same arbitrary, oppressive power against religious liberty, freedom to worship God according to the dictates of conscience, as was manifested by the papacy, when in the past it persecuted those who dared to refuse to conform with the religious rites and ceremonies of Romanism.

Ufunuo 17:13-14 imenukuliwa. ‘Hawa wana nia moja.’ Kutakuwa na mshikamano wa ulimwengu wote, maelewano makuu, muungano wa majeshi ya Shetani. ‘Nao watampa yule mnyama mamlaka yao na nguvu zao.’ Hivyo ndivyo inavyodhihirika ile ile mamlaka ya kiholela na ya kukandamiza dhidi ya uhuru wa kidini, uhuru wa kumwabudu Mungu kulingana na miongozo ya dhamiri, kama ilivyodhihirishwa na Upapa, hapo zamani ulipowatesa wale waliothubutu kukataa kufuata taratibu na sherehe za kidini za Ukatoliki wa Kirumi.

“In the warfare to be waged in the last days there will be united, in opposition to God’s people, all the corrupt powers that have apostatized from allegiance to the law of Jehovah. In this warfare the Sabbath of the fourth commandment will be the great point at issue; for in the Sabbath commandment the great Law-giver identifies Himself as the Creator of the heavens and the earth.” The Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary, 983.

"Katika vita vitakavyopiganwa katika siku za mwisho, nguvu zote potovu zilizoacha utii kwa sheria ya Yehova zitaungana kupinga watu wa Mungu. Katika vita hivi, Sabato ya amri ya nne itakuwa kiini kikuu cha mzozo; kwa maana katika amri ya Sabato, Mtoa Sheria Mkuu anajitambulisha kuwa Muumba wa mbingu na nchi." Maelezo ya Biblia ya Waadventista Wasabato, 983.

The ten kings, whose leader is Ahab, or Herod, have been seduced by Salome, the daughter of Herodias. The United Nations, who at the Sunday law is seduced by Salome, the false religion of apostate Protestantism, and who was formerly the sixth kingdom of Bible prophecy, takes control of the kingdom of ten kings, who all agree to give half their kingdom unto the religion of Catholicism. They make this unanimous decision, for all the kings were seduced by Salome’s seductive dance. They agree to place their united strength into the work of killing those represented by John the Baptist.

Wafalme kumi, ambao kiongozi wao ni Ahabu, au Herode, wameshawishiwa na Salome, binti wa Herodia. Umoja wa Mataifa, ambao katika sheria ya Jumapili unashawishiwa na Salome, dini ya uongo ya Uprotestanti mkengeufu, na ambao hapo awali ulikuwa ufalme wa sita katika unabii wa Biblia, unachukua udhibiti wa utawala wa wafalme kumi, ambao wote wanakubaliana kutoa nusu ya ufalme wao kwa dini ya Ukatoliki. Wanafanya uamuzi huu kwa kauli moja, kwa kuwa wafalme wote walishawishiwa na ngoma ya kishawishi ya Salome. Wanakubaliana kuweka nguvu zao kwa umoja katika kazi ya kuwaua wale wanaowakilishwa na Yohana Mbatizaji.

The beast (the United Nations) is governed by a premier king (the daughter of Jezebel). Jezebel had directed her daughter to initiate the adulterous and incestuous relationship with Herod and the other kings, for she is the mother of harlots. She is the pimp of her own daughter. Herod, Ahab and the United Nations were seduced by the false prophet, who is the United States. The United States, ceases to be the sixth kingdom when the prophets of Baal were slain, and the prophets of Ashtaroth (Salome) immediately become the governing power of the seventh kingdom, as it duplicates in the world, what it just accomplished in the United States.

Mnyama (Umoja wa Mataifa) unatawaliwa na mfalme mkuu (binti wa Yezebeli). Yezebeli alikuwa amemwelekeza binti yake aanzishe uhusiano wa uzinzi na wa kujamiiana kindugu na Herode na wafalme wengine, kwa kuwa yeye ni mama wa makahaba. Yeye ndiye dalali wa ukahaba wa binti yake mwenyewe. Herode, Ahabu na Umoja wa Mataifa walishawishiwa na nabii wa uongo, ambaye ni Marekani. Marekani huacha kuwa ufalme wa sita wakati manabii wa Baali waliuawa, na manabii wa Ashtaroth (Salome) mara moja wanakuwa nguvu tawala ya ufalme wa saba, inaporudia duniani kile ilichokamilisha hivi punde nchini Marekani.

The beast is the kings who are in a relationship with the whore’s daughter, and the whore is the woman that rules over the beast. Jesus illustrates the end of a thing, with the beginning of a thing. Just as Revelation chapter seventeen’s illustration of eight kingdoms unsealed the eight kingdoms of Daniel chapter two, the beast and the woman that rides upon the beast unseals another prophetic truth, that is based upon the first representing the last.

Mnyama ni wale wafalme walio katika uhusiano na binti wa kahaba, na yule kahaba ni mwanamke anayemtawala mnyama. Yesu anaonyesha mwisho wa jambo kupitia mwanzo wa jambo. Kama vile taswira ya falme nane katika Ufunuo sura ya kumi na saba ilivyofunua falme nane za Danieli sura ya pili, mnyama na mwanamke anayempanda hufunua ukweli mwingine wa kinabii, unaotegemea kanuni kwamba la kwanza linawakilisha la mwisho.

Revelation chapter seventeen is the last reference to the kingdoms of Bible prophecy, and therefore demands that Daniel chapter two, which is the first reference to the kingdoms of Bible prophecy, of prophetic necessity must also represent eight kingdoms, of which the eighth kingdom was of the seven. So too, the judgment of the woman and the beast she rides upon in chapter seventeen, must be represented in the first judgment of the whore in 1798.

Ufunuo sura ya kumi na saba ndilo rejeo la mwisho kuhusu falme za unabii wa Biblia, na kwa hiyo linadai kwamba Danieli sura ya pili, ambayo ndiyo rejeo la kwanza kuhusu falme za unabii wa Biblia, kwa ulazima wa kinabii pia lazima iwakilishe falme nane, ambamo ule ufalme wa nane ulitokana na zile saba. Vivyo hivyo, hukumu ya mwanamke na yule mnyama anayempanda katika sura ya kumi na saba, lazima iwakilishwe katika hukumu ya kwanza ya kahaba mnamo mwaka 1798.

The angel informed John at the opening of chapter seventeen, that he was going to show the judgment of the great whore and of the beast she rides upon. The first time the whore was judged has been correctly understood as 1798 when the papacy received its deadly wound, and the time of the end arrived. Yet when a “time of the end” is represented in prophetic history there are always two waymarks symbolized by people. The birth of Aaron and his brother Moses was the time of the end in that history. Those two waymarks typified the birth of John the Baptist, and sixth months later his cousin Jesus, thus marking the time of the end for that history. At the end of the seventy-year captivity, which typifies the time of the end in 1798, Darius and his nephew Cyrus are the two waymarks of the time of the end. Together, they typify Reagan and Bush the first, in the time of the end of 1989.

Malaika alimwambia Yohana mwanzoni mwa sura ya kumi na saba kwamba angeonyesha hukumu ya kahaba mkuu na ya mnyama ambaye amempanda. Mara ya kwanza kahaba alihukumiwa imeeleweka kwa usahihi kwamba ilikuwa mwaka 1798, wakati upapa ulipopokea jeraha lake la mauti, na wakati wa mwisho ukawadia. Hata hivyo, “wakati wa mwisho” unapowakilishwa katika historia ya kinabii, daima kuna alama mbili za njia zinazowakilishwa na watu. Kuzaliwa kwa Haruni na ndugu yake Musa kulikuwa wakati wa mwisho katika historia hiyo. Alama hizo mbili za njia ziliashiria kwa mfano kuzaliwa kwa Yohana Mbatizaji, na baada ya miezi sita binamu wake Yesu, hivyo zikiweka alama ya wakati wa mwisho wa historia hiyo. Mwishoni mwa uteka wa miaka sabini, unaoashiria kwa mfano wakati wa mwisho mnamo 1798, Dario na mpwa wake Koresh ni alama mbili za njia za wakati wa mwisho. Pamoja, wanaashiria kwa mfano Reagan na Bush wa kwanza, katika wakati wa mwisho wa 1989.

1798, which was the time of the end when the book of Daniel was unsealed in Millerite history, identified the prophetic death of the political element of the beast of Catholicism. Napoleon’s general Berthier walked right into the Vatican, arrested the pope and ended the political authority of the beast of Catholicism. A year later, in 1799, the woman who had ridden that beast through the centuries, represented by the pope, died in captivity. The judgment of the whore, includes the judgment upon the beast she employed to govern the nations. Revelation chapter seventeen identifies both the judgment of the beast, and also the whore who rules over and rides upon the beast.

Mwaka 1798, ambao ulikuwa wakati wa mwisho ambapo kitabu cha Danieli kilifunguliwa muhuri wake katika historia ya Wamileraiti, uliashiria kifo cha kinabii cha kipengele cha kisiasa cha mnyama wa Ukatoliki. Jenerali wa Napoleon, Berthier, aliingia moja kwa moja ndani ya Vatikani, akamkamata Papa na akakomesha mamlaka ya kisiasa ya mnyama wa Ukatoliki. Mwaka mmoja baadaye, 1799, yule mwanamke ambaye alikuwa amempanda mnyama huyo kwa karne nyingi, aliyeakilishwa na Papa, alikufa akiwa kifungoni. Hukumu ya yule kahaba inajumuisha hukumu juu ya mnyama aliyemtumia kutawala mataifa. Ufunuo sura ya kumi na saba inabainisha hukumu ya mnyama, na pia yule kahaba anayetawala juu ya mnyama na kumpanda.

“The world is filled with storm and war and variance. Yet under one head—the papal power—the people will unite to oppose God in the person of His witnesses.” Testimonies, volume 7, 182.

Ulimwengu umejaa dhoruba, vita na mfarakano. Hata hivyo, chini ya kichwa kimoja—mamlaka ya upapa—watu wataungana kumpinga Mungu kwa kuwapinga mashahidi Wake. Ushuhuda, juzuu ya 7, 182.

The eighth head, that is of the seven, is the papal power that reigns over the beast that is made up of ten kings who are governed by the daughter of the whore who rides upon the beast. The elements of the eighth kingdom, that is of the seven must be seen in the eighth and last president, who is of the seven presidents, when the image of the beast is formed within the United States. The combination of the apostate horns of Republicanism and Protestantism must have a “head” that rules over the image of the beast, and that ruler will be a dictator extraordinaire.

Kichwa cha nane, ambacho ni cha wale saba, ni mamlaka ya kipapa inayotawala juu ya mnyama anayejumuisha wafalme kumi, wanaotawaliwa na binti wa yule kahaba anayempanda mnyama. Vipengele vya ufalme wa nane, yaani wa wale saba, lazima vionekane katika rais wa nane na wa mwisho, ambaye ni wa wale marais saba, wakati sanamu ya mnyama inapoundwa ndani ya Marekani. Mchanganyiko wa pembe zilizopotoka za mfumo wa jamhuri na Uprotestanti lazima uwe na "kichwa" kinachotawala juu ya sanamu ya mnyama, na mtawala huyo atakuwa dikteta wa kupindukia.

We will continue this study in the next article.

Tutaendelea na utafiti huu katika makala ijayo.

A Song or Psalm of Asaph. Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God. For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head. They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones. They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance. For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee: The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes; Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre; Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot. Selah. Psalms 83:1–8.

Wimbo au Zaburi ya Asafu. Ee Mungu, usikae kimya; Ee Mungu, usinyamaze, wala usitulie. Kwa maana tazama, adui zako wanafanya ghasia; na wanaokuchukia wameinua kichwa. Wamefanya hila juu ya watu wako, na kushauriana juu ya walio chini ya hifadhi yako. Wamesema, Njoni, tuwakate mbali wasiwe taifa; ili jina la Israeli lisikumbukwe tena. Kwa maana wameshauriana kwa moyo mmoja; wamefanya agano kinyume chako: Hema za Edomu, na Waishmaeli; wa Moabu, na Wahagari; Gebali, na Amoni, na Amaleki; Wafilisti pamoja na wenyeji wa Tiro; Ashuru naye amejiunga nao; wamewasaidia wana wa Lutu. Sela. Zaburi 83:1-8.