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Man was created in God's image.

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"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.

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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.

Arch of Titus

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.

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

God gave
the world empires permission to rule.

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

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...

Nebuchadnezzar’s Prophetic Dream.
of the Four Universal Empires

Gold Head	= Babylon
Silver Arms & Breast	= Medo- Persia
Brass Belly & Thighs	= Greece
Iron Legs	= Rome
Stone	= God's Kingdom

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 = Bear = Leopard = 4th Beast =
Babylon Medo-Persia Greece 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.