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Man was created in God's image.

"Male and female created He them."

Dominion of Earth was given to Adam.

God did not give man dominion over his fellow-men.

Slavery is not God's design for men.

God designed a government in which every man would be a sovereign --

governed in harmony with the Supreme Ruler of the universe, Whose law is love.

Love fulfills
God's law.

Adam’s disobedience forfeited his life and dominion over earth.

Our Lord’s death purchased man and his dominion.

Israel was typical of the promised kingdom.

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The typical kingdom of Israel was overthrown...

until Christ, the rightful heir, claims it.

Since A.D. 70 Israel has been scattered among all nations.

The Arch of Titus, Rome, Italy

The Arch of Titus, on which the Jewish menorah taken from the Temple in Jerusalem is depicted, commemorates Titus’ capture of Jerusalem in 70 A.D.

All other kingdoms are styled the "Kingdoms of this World."

"...Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled."
Luke 21:24

Fallen man has proven his inability to govern himself.

Satan misrepresented God’s character and blinded men to the truth.

When the Gentile Times expire, Satan will be bound and overthrown.

God gave the world empires permission to rule.

Daniel's Four Universal Kingdoms

Daniel explained the dream, saying:

"Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the form thereof was terrible.

"This image's head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass, his legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay.

" Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces.

"Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver and the gold broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing- floors;

"And the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them; and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.

"This is the dream, and we will tell the interpretation thereof before the king.

"Thou, O king, art a king of kings: for the God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory.

[There the Gentile kingdoms, or powers that be, were ordained of God.]

"And wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven hath he given into thine hand, and hath made thee ruler over them all. Thou art this head of gold.

"And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee [silver], and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth.

"And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things; and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise.

"And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potter's clay and part of iron, the kingdom shall be mixed; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron: forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with the miry clay.

"And as the toes of the feet were part of iron and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly brittle."

The stone cut out of a mountain represents the kingdom of God...

The hand that smote the governments will heal the people.

Nebuchadnezzar’s dream represents the world’s viewpoint.

Emperor Diocletian (245-313 A.D.)

Daniel’s dream represents God’s viewpoint.

Daniel says:

"I saw in my vision by night, and behold the four winds of heaven strove upon the great sea. And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another.

"The first was like
a lion and had eagle's wings;
...and behold another beast, a second, like a bear;.
..and lo another, like a leopard....

"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 7:2-7

Four Great Beasts

Lion =
Babylon

Bear =
Medo-Persia

Leopard =
Greece

4th Beast =
Rome

The "Dreadful Beast"

The three horns of the Roman Empire

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The "Little Horn"

The Beast and the Little Horn are gradually destroyed.

The Beast will be slain by the rising of the masses in the Day of the Lord.

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Great swelling words of the Little Horn.

The fourth empire
will go into utter destruction symbolized by the lake of fire.
Revelation 19:20

The Fifth Universal Empire (the Kingdom of God) is to be an everlasting dominion.

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"For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet."
I Corinthians 15:25

"Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth,
as it is in heaven." Matthew 6:10

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God’s kingdom is to be inaugurated before the kingdoms of this world fall.

Satan’s power has not been absolute.

Emperor Hirohito

Benito Mussolini

Mankind’s governments try to promote justice.

Where justice has been ignored, revolutions have resulted.

Joseph Stalin

Satan has operated through the weaknesses and depraved tastes of rulers.

Vladimir Lenin

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Adolf Hitler
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The increase of knowledge and spirit of independence are curtailing Satan’s influence.

Preparation for the time of general public enlightenment.

Knowledge brings an awakening of self-respect and a realization of rights.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Rosa Parks

Man’s extremity -- God’s opportunity.

"Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God."
Ephesians 2:19

After the death of the Apostles, preaching of the coming kingdom of God was unpopular.

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The Pope crowning Charlemagne

Next, the nominal church, uniting with governments of earth, claimed that the reign of Christ had come.

Children of God were distracted from the promised heavenly kingdom.

Kingdoms of this world are not Christlike.

Make friends with God’s Anointed Son.

Kissing the Pope's toe -- an erroneous application of "kiss the Son" [God's Anointed Son].
Rulers of earth are to repent to avoid God's anger.