Greece Rising
What does the Winter Olympics have to do with the return of Jesus?
This week the XXII Winter Olympics come to a close. The Winter Olympics were first played in 1924. Before that figure skating and ice hockey had been part of the 1920 Summer Olympics. These events proved popular so the need for a separate Winter Olympics was created for sports that were impossible to play in the summer like Nordic Skiing. That is why there have been eight more Summer Olympics than Winter Olympics.
The Summer Olympics have been going since 1896 under the auspices of the IOC (International Olympic Committee). Before that there were various games titled as Olympics that were internal to a single country or region of a country until Evangelos Zappas, a Greek multi-millionaire, hosted the first multinational Olympics in Athens, Greece in 1859. There were competitors from Greece and the Ottoman Empire at those games. He then built the first modern Olympic stadium in Athens, the Panatheniac Stadium, where the multinational Olympics were again hosted in 1870 and 1875. The first international Olympics were then held in the same stadium in 1896 after being refurbished by another Greek multi-millionaire named George Averoff. The stadium was refurbished according to the plan of a Greek architect named Anastasios Metaxas. The first president of the IOC was another Greek named Demetrius Vikelas. It was changes to the format of the Olympics that the Greeks made during the intercalary (out of normal sequence) Olympics at Athens in 1912 that saved the Olympics from extinction. This format is still used today. Athens again hosted the 2004 Olympics in the Panatheniac Stadium after handily beating out all other competitors. After all, the Olympics are a Greek thing.
It should be no surprise that the Greeks were so prominent in bringing the Olympics to the world. They had previous hosted the Olympics for more than a thousand years (775 BC to 394 AD) before the Olympics were outlawed by the Roman Emperor Theodosius I. The Olympic format was imitated across the Roman Empire and even as far east outside of the Roman Empire as northern India which had been part of the former Greek Empire. Olympic style games were even held in Caesarea in modern Israel where Herod the Great began the Olympic traditions of recognizing the top three finishers in each competition and giving out bronze, silver and gold medals to them. The return of the Olympics is just one sign of Greece rising.
Still after being gone for a thousand years, the Olympics rose back to life. They are not the only Greek thing that has done so.
Greek architecture has been revived in government facilities and schools across the world. Greek foods like Greek yogurt, baklava, feta cheese and gyros are now in cities everywhere today while until about twenty years ago they were mostly confined to Greece as they had been for more than a thousand years. Greek ideas like athletic competitions and theater productions have taken center stage over the last few centuries after being banned in Europe for over a thousand years. The studies of mathematics, science and history that the Greeks developed so rapidly have once again came into rapid development over the last few centuries after more than a thousand years of stagnation. It seems that suddenly Greece culture is back in style. This is more evidence of Greece rising.
Greece itself has returned as independent country. Greece had not been its own country from when the Romans finished conquering it in 27 BC until it gained its independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1832 AD. Now, it is a pivotal member of the European Union and what happens there is at the center of world attention. Greece simply has much more prestige and influence than its population of less than 11 million would seem to warrant. Greek political systems like democracy have become the norm in much of the world. On the political stage we are seeing the beginnings of Greece rising.
Myths from the religion of the ancient Greeks are taught public schools in America and the world. Heroes from ancient Greek religious myths like Hercules and Atlantis have been made into children movies. Amazons, Titans and other ancient Greek religious figures have been the focus of everything from graphic novels (comic books) to adult movies that are marketed towards college age adults. Greek organizations like fraternities and sororities are now found on about every college (also a Greek idea) campus in the world after being banned for more than a thousand years. All of this has contributed to a Greek world view where things like homosexuality, that the Romans and others called Greek love, and pornography are normal. Gay marriage and the like is evidence of Greece rising.
In many churches and denominations the Jewish Man of Truth (Yah'shua aka Yeshua aka Jesus aka Mashiach aka Messiah aka Christ) has been replaced with a Greek counterfeit. The Man of Truth that is found in the pages of the Renewed Covenant (B'rit Chadashah aka the New Testament) is nothing like this Greek counterfeit in character or morality. The de facto major religion of many places in the United States is a religion that is based on Greek philosophies instead of the sound doctrine written in the Book of Truth (the Bible). This shift in religion comes from Greece rising.
Greece is the only country besides Israel to ever returned into existence after disappearing into history. Greece was lost to antiquity like Israel except a much smaller percentage of Greeks were scattered among the nations than the Jews and Greek never became a dead language like Hebrew. Yet Greece along with its ancient ideas have returned and they just seem to get greater every year. After Greece and it ideas were gone for over a thousand years who could have predicted Greece rising?
Actually the Father of Truth (Yahoveh aka Yahweh aka God aka The Lord) wrote about Greece rising to prominence a second time in the Book of Truth before Greece ever rose to prominence the first time.
To understand this we have to start with the beginnings of Greece that are recorded in the Book of Truth and go from there.
The best place to start is in the very beginning with who the Greeks came from. The Greeks came from Javan, the son of Japheth, the son of Noah (Genesis 10:1-2). The ethnic groups that the four sons of Javan started settled the isles and coastal areas of the ancient world near the other sons of Japheth - basically the islands and coasts of most of the Mediterranean Sea and the entire coast of the Black Sea (Genesis 10:3). (In fact in modern Greece you are never more than 50 miles from the Mediterranean Sea.) Javan had four sons who started four ethnic groups that are closely related by both genetics and history - Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim (aka Chittim) and Dodanim (aka Rodanim) (1 Chronicles 1:7).
Javan is recognized universally as the originator of the Greeks. Ionia, the coastal region in modern west central Turkey, as well as the Ionian islands to west of the mainland of modern Greece, and the Ionian Sea that sits between Greece and southern Italy are named after Javan whom the Greeks called Ion. (In transliterated Hebrew letters, Javan is "YVN". There is no Y or V in Greek. The Y in Hebrew can indicate an I sound just like in English. The V can indicate an O sound. There are no true vowels in ancient Hebrew. So "YVN" transliterated into Greek became "Ion".) Ion (Javan) and his nation originally settled in Ionia (literally "land of Javan") and then spread out from there. Zeus, the chief god of the ancient Greeks, was originally called Ion (Javan). Ion and other similar language appropriate variations of Javan like Yavan are the names of the Greeks in all ancient records and even as far from away as India and China. This is because the Greeks are often composed of the ethnic groups that came from Javan and his four sons.
The most prominent one was the oldest son named Elishah. It is the fields of Elishah (the Elysian fields) that ancient Greeks believed that righteous would go to when they died. The oldest rites of the ancient Greek religion are the mysteries of Elishah (the Elysian mysteries). Elishah has many rivers and other features named for him thoughout the coastal areas of Greece stretching from the Peloponnese to Athens that were first settled by his descendants. They then spread out from there to the rest of Greece and beyond. In fact, the Greek word for Greece is "Ellas" - which means Elishah.
The ethnic group started by Elishah originally settled along the coast of modern northwest Turkey. They were originally refered to the Aeolis (another transliteration of Elishah) and founded the Aegeans as an offshoot. They spread from the entire coast around the Aegean Sea, down to the Peloponnese, and up into much of the coast of the Black Sea by sailing and starting colonies. They eventually started colonies all along the coast of southern half of Italy, the Mediterranean coast of France, Spain and northern Africa in an area that was called Magna Graecia (Greater Greece) by the Romans.
The ethnic group started by Tarshish originally settled along the coast of modern southern central Turkey and is whom Tarsus is named after where Paul (Shaul aka Saul) was born (Acts 21:39). (Although Cilicia is named after the Celts who came from Gomer who later took over the area.) The people of Tarshish then sailed and colonized along the coast eventually starting another nation also called Tarshish in modern southern Spain and one called Iberia along the eastern end of the Black Sea. The Iberians were also eventually largely displaced and relocated to Spain, Portugal and the Mediterranean coast of France causing the peninsula that contains Spain, Portugal and France to be known as the Iberian Peninsula.
The ethnic group started by Kittim (Chittim) originally settled in Cyprus off the coast of modern southern Turkey. They too took to sea and started colonies in the eastern most region of modern Greece known as Macedonia and the coast of northwest Italy. They migrated inland more than the other descendants of Javan to eventually occupy most of non-coastal Italy, the modern country of Macedonia (which means "land of the mountain Greeks" in ancient Greek), Romania and the like. In fact, Kittim is the name for both Cyprus and Italy in many ancient documents.
The ethnic group started by Dodanim (Rodanim) originally settled along the coast of modern southwest Turkey. They were also known as the Doris or Dorians. Dodanim means leaders and that is what they are. They soon began colonizing Rhodes, the Dodanese (named after Dodanim) Islands and the other islands of the Aegean, including those south of the mainland of Greece. They eventually settled the island of Crete where writing was first invented. It was people that went from Pheonice, on the western tip of Crete, to the coast of modern Lebanon who were known as the Phoenicians (literally "people from Pheonice") who brought to the world the first alphabet. They also formed the Minoan civilization which was the first link in the chain of European and Western Civilization. They created the first style of Greek architecture known as the Doric style. They spread from Crete to the northern Peloponnese, and modern northwest Greece. They then spread like other sons of Javan by sailing and creating colonies to be the first people to occupy the entire coast of the Adriatic Sea. At the same time they also were the first people to settle along the coast of southern France. In all of these places they created towns and named rivers after Dodanim (Rodanim).
The people of Javan have had great influence upon the people of his brothers who are generally referred to as white people (1 Chronicles 1:5). Most of the people of his brothers originally settled near his people in modern Turkey between Mount Ararat and the Mediterranean coast except for the people of Madai who went east instead.
The people of Magog, Meshech (for who Moscow is named), and Tubal (Tobolsk the ancient capital of Siberia (modern Russia east of the Ural Mountains) and the Tobol River that it sits on are both named for Tubal) later moved north and settled Russia along with many of the countries of the former Soviet Union and most of the countries that border Russia on the west. They have remained in close contact with the Greeks to this day and have always been influenced greatly by the Greeks. Even their alphabet that was featured prominently in the opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics were created for them based on the Greek alphabet by a Greek missionary named Cyril for whom it is named after.
The people of Tiras were originally called Thiras by the Greeks and later Thrace by others. They were noted as having golden to reddish hair and fair skin in ancient times. They spread out to the area of Thrace (the part of modern Turkey that in the continent of Europe), then north to the area near the Baltic sea (modern Denmark) then across the Baltic Sea to modern Norway and Sweden. This is why Denmark is considered part of Scandinavia even though it is not on the Scandinavian Peninsula. They lost close contact with the Greeks until modern times so they were less influenced by them.
The people of Gomer spread out to the rest of Europe that was left including northern France, Britain, Ireland and Germany. The people of Gomer were called Galatians by the ancient Greeks which literally means "milk white skin". The Greeks have had more influence on them than any of the other people groups. Iona, the sacred isle of the Celts in the middle of the Irish Sea, is named after Javan.
Their alphabets are based on the Latin alphabet, which was itself based on the Greek alphabet. Their civilizations, often referred to collectively as Western Civilization, is based on Greek ideas like the arts and sciences, athletic competitions, recording history for the sake of history, and the like. They trace the start of their civilization to the Minoan civilization. They were the ones that were the first to begin reviving ancient Greek ideas like democracy. They were the ones that made it possible for the modern Olympics to become a truly international event. They were the ones that have been been the greatest assistance in Greece rising.
The people of Madai originally settled east of Mount Ararat instead of west like their brothers and included the Aryans for whom modern Iran is named after. They settled the interior of Asia as the name of Madai (literally "middle lands") suggests. They include the ancient Yuezhi (whose red haired, white skinned mummies have been found in China) that originally settled in north central China until they were pushed to the west by the Han Chinese. After that they formed the Kushan Empire that went from modern Kazakhstan to modern northern India.
Before the Greeks rose up the Persians rose up. The Persian Empire was ruled by the kings of two people groups - the Persians (who came from Elam) and the Media (literally "land of Madai") (Daniel 8:20).
Greece rising first began to be revealed to Nebuchadnezzar before the Persian Empire came into existence. The great empire that would conquer the civilized world that was represented by the brass in the statue was the bronze (similar to brass) clad warriors that came when Greece was rising the first time (Daniel 2:39).
Greece rising the first time was told to Daniel the Prophet of Truth before Greece ever overran the Persian Empire. Greece was first as seen a leopard with four wings and four heads indicating both incredible speed and four simultaneous rulers (Daniel 7:6). This came to pass with Alexander the Great and his four generals.
Greece is next seen as a male goat with a single large horn between his eyes that moved exceedingly fast and destroyed a two horned ram (Daniel 8:5-7). This goat was Greece and the single large horn was Alexander the Great who overthrew the Persian Empire in just three years time (Daniel 8:21). Alexander the Great was the mighty king of Greece that suddenly stood up against the attacking Persian Empire and took it over (Daniel 11:2-3). This was the beginning of Greece rising the first time.
The single large horn that represented Alexander the Great was then suddenly broken and replaced by four horns that went different directions (Daniel 8:9). When he died suddenly his empire was split into four smaller empires by his four generals, one to west that was centered in modern Greece, one to the north that was centered in modern Turkey, one to the east that was centered in modern Syria and stretched to northern modern India, and one in the south that was centered in modern Egypt (Daniel 8:22). By the time that the 40 year long war over who was going to rule ended with this division into four smaller empires the son of Alexander the Great and all other possible heirs were all dead so that his empire did not pass to any of them (Daniel 11:4). This was the aftermath of Greece rising the first time.
Two of those kingdoms, the one centered in Syria to the north of Jerusalem and the one centered in Egypt to the south of Jerusalem then continued to fight with each other over Israel until the Romans (Kittim aka Chittim) came (Daniel 11:5-35). This was the end of Greece rising the first time.
The story of Greece rising the first time before the Man of Truth came to Earth the first time was told in the Book of Truth at the beginning of the Persian Empire more than one hundred years before it ever began to play out in history. However, the story of Greece in the Book of Truth does not end there. It tells of Greece rising a second time shortly before the Man of Truth returns to Earth the second time.
In the same statue that showed Greece rising the first time there is a foreshadowing of Greece rising a second time. The feet of iron and clay are ten tyrants (another Greek idea) who try to work together in a democratic fashion but cannot because they are tyrants just as happened with the four generals of Alexander the Great (Daniel 2:41-43). Greece rising a second time is shown in the vision of the he goat as well. In the end of days a king like Alexander the Great, the Man of Lies (Antichrist aka The Beast) who is powered by the Father of Lies (HaShatan aka Satan aka The Devil), shall arise to revive the Greek Empire (Daniel 8:23-24). This revived Greek Empire will mirror the Greek Empire that Daniel saw. At the time of the end the Man of Lies will go forth and conquer the same area as the Greek Empire but again the country of modern Jordan will mostly escape his grasp (Daniel 11:36-44). Just as Daniel saw a leopard that represented Greece rising the first time so also John (Yochanon) saw a beast with the body of leopard that represents Greece rising a second time in the form of another Empire that covers the same territory as the Greek Empire (Revelation 13:1-3). The Man of Lies will issue his commands from his capital in Babylon (where Alexander the Great died) as represented by the mouth of a lion (which symbolized the Babylonian Empire in the dream with the four winged leopard). The Man of Lies will move people into action with an absolute law based on a religion system like the Persian Empire did as represented by the feet of the bear (which symbolized the Persian Empire in the dream with the four winged leopard). Currently, Islamic law is used to moved the people of Iran into action and it could very well be the same law that will be used to do so in the revived Greek Empire. It will be the aftermath of Greece rising a second time.
Greece rising the second time will end with the return of the Man of Truth. His Kingdom will be sent from Heaven by the Father of Truth to destroy this revived Greek Empire (Daniel 2:44-45). The Man of Truth will destroy the Man of Lies without even raising his hand to do so just as Alexander the Great died from a sudden illness (Daniel 8:25). Though the Man of Lies will set up a place for people to worship him on the Temple Mount like Antiochus Epiphanes (the ruler of the Greek mini-empire north of Jerusalem) had done no one will be able to save him from the Man of Truth (Daniel 11:45). The people of Israel will rise up to defeat the revived Greek Empire when the Man of Truth returns (Zechariah 9:12-16)! The Children of Truth (those who obey the Father of Truth because they love Him) will come with the Man of Truth from Heaven to bring an end to the revived Greek Empire (Revelation 19:11-21)! It will be the final end of Greece rising a second time.
When the Man of Truth comes he will not destroy everyone who is of the people of the Empires that have came before the revived Greek Empire but only take away their ability to rule other nations by force (Daniel 7:9-14). The Greeks and all people shall be taught how to live in peace with each other and how to worship the Father of Truth by the children of Israel (Isaiah 66:18-21).
Before the Man of Truth can return to Earth from Heaven with the Children of Truth to deliver Israel from the revived Greek Empire the Children of Truth must first be gathered to him in Heaven. The Man of Truth will soon meet with the Children of Truth in the air (1 Thessalonians 4:16-18). The Man of Lies who will revive the Greek Empire cannot be revealed until they are removed from the Earth (2 Thessalonians 2:6-10).
The Olympics are one of the many signs of Greece rising in preparation for the revival of the Greek Empire. So the Winter Olympics are a sign of Greece rising which announces that the Man of Truth will soon return to meet the Children of Truth in the air.
Of course, it does not help you to know this unless you have come into the House of Truth. Anyone can come into the House of Truth by submitting to the Man of Truth in total surrender because they believe that the Father of Truth raised him from the dead (Romans 10:8-10). The Man of Truth loves the Greeks as much as the Jews because He will save all that come into the House of Truth (Romans 10:11-13).
Come into the House of Truth.
This week the XXII Winter Olympics come to a close. The Winter Olympics were first played in 1924. Before that figure skating and ice hockey had been part of the 1920 Summer Olympics. These events proved popular so the need for a separate Winter Olympics was created for sports that were impossible to play in the summer like Nordic Skiing. That is why there have been eight more Summer Olympics than Winter Olympics.
The Summer Olympics have been going since 1896 under the auspices of the IOC (International Olympic Committee). Before that there were various games titled as Olympics that were internal to a single country or region of a country until Evangelos Zappas, a Greek multi-millionaire, hosted the first multinational Olympics in Athens, Greece in 1859. There were competitors from Greece and the Ottoman Empire at those games. He then built the first modern Olympic stadium in Athens, the Panatheniac Stadium, where the multinational Olympics were again hosted in 1870 and 1875. The first international Olympics were then held in the same stadium in 1896 after being refurbished by another Greek multi-millionaire named George Averoff. The stadium was refurbished according to the plan of a Greek architect named Anastasios Metaxas. The first president of the IOC was another Greek named Demetrius Vikelas. It was changes to the format of the Olympics that the Greeks made during the intercalary (out of normal sequence) Olympics at Athens in 1912 that saved the Olympics from extinction. This format is still used today. Athens again hosted the 2004 Olympics in the Panatheniac Stadium after handily beating out all other competitors. After all, the Olympics are a Greek thing.
It should be no surprise that the Greeks were so prominent in bringing the Olympics to the world. They had previous hosted the Olympics for more than a thousand years (775 BC to 394 AD) before the Olympics were outlawed by the Roman Emperor Theodosius I. The Olympic format was imitated across the Roman Empire and even as far east outside of the Roman Empire as northern India which had been part of the former Greek Empire. Olympic style games were even held in Caesarea in modern Israel where Herod the Great began the Olympic traditions of recognizing the top three finishers in each competition and giving out bronze, silver and gold medals to them. The return of the Olympics is just one sign of Greece rising.
Still after being gone for a thousand years, the Olympics rose back to life. They are not the only Greek thing that has done so.
Greek architecture has been revived in government facilities and schools across the world. Greek foods like Greek yogurt, baklava, feta cheese and gyros are now in cities everywhere today while until about twenty years ago they were mostly confined to Greece as they had been for more than a thousand years. Greek ideas like athletic competitions and theater productions have taken center stage over the last few centuries after being banned in Europe for over a thousand years. The studies of mathematics, science and history that the Greeks developed so rapidly have once again came into rapid development over the last few centuries after more than a thousand years of stagnation. It seems that suddenly Greece culture is back in style. This is more evidence of Greece rising.
Greece itself has returned as independent country. Greece had not been its own country from when the Romans finished conquering it in 27 BC until it gained its independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1832 AD. Now, it is a pivotal member of the European Union and what happens there is at the center of world attention. Greece simply has much more prestige and influence than its population of less than 11 million would seem to warrant. Greek political systems like democracy have become the norm in much of the world. On the political stage we are seeing the beginnings of Greece rising.
Myths from the religion of the ancient Greeks are taught public schools in America and the world. Heroes from ancient Greek religious myths like Hercules and Atlantis have been made into children movies. Amazons, Titans and other ancient Greek religious figures have been the focus of everything from graphic novels (comic books) to adult movies that are marketed towards college age adults. Greek organizations like fraternities and sororities are now found on about every college (also a Greek idea) campus in the world after being banned for more than a thousand years. All of this has contributed to a Greek world view where things like homosexuality, that the Romans and others called Greek love, and pornography are normal. Gay marriage and the like is evidence of Greece rising.
In many churches and denominations the Jewish Man of Truth (Yah'shua aka Yeshua aka Jesus aka Mashiach aka Messiah aka Christ) has been replaced with a Greek counterfeit. The Man of Truth that is found in the pages of the Renewed Covenant (B'rit Chadashah aka the New Testament) is nothing like this Greek counterfeit in character or morality. The de facto major religion of many places in the United States is a religion that is based on Greek philosophies instead of the sound doctrine written in the Book of Truth (the Bible). This shift in religion comes from Greece rising.
Greece is the only country besides Israel to ever returned into existence after disappearing into history. Greece was lost to antiquity like Israel except a much smaller percentage of Greeks were scattered among the nations than the Jews and Greek never became a dead language like Hebrew. Yet Greece along with its ancient ideas have returned and they just seem to get greater every year. After Greece and it ideas were gone for over a thousand years who could have predicted Greece rising?
Actually the Father of Truth (Yahoveh aka Yahweh aka God aka The Lord) wrote about Greece rising to prominence a second time in the Book of Truth before Greece ever rose to prominence the first time.
To understand this we have to start with the beginnings of Greece that are recorded in the Book of Truth and go from there.
The best place to start is in the very beginning with who the Greeks came from. The Greeks came from Javan, the son of Japheth, the son of Noah (Genesis 10:1-2). The ethnic groups that the four sons of Javan started settled the isles and coastal areas of the ancient world near the other sons of Japheth - basically the islands and coasts of most of the Mediterranean Sea and the entire coast of the Black Sea (Genesis 10:3). (In fact in modern Greece you are never more than 50 miles from the Mediterranean Sea.) Javan had four sons who started four ethnic groups that are closely related by both genetics and history - Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim (aka Chittim) and Dodanim (aka Rodanim) (1 Chronicles 1:7).
Javan is recognized universally as the originator of the Greeks. Ionia, the coastal region in modern west central Turkey, as well as the Ionian islands to west of the mainland of modern Greece, and the Ionian Sea that sits between Greece and southern Italy are named after Javan whom the Greeks called Ion. (In transliterated Hebrew letters, Javan is "YVN". There is no Y or V in Greek. The Y in Hebrew can indicate an I sound just like in English. The V can indicate an O sound. There are no true vowels in ancient Hebrew. So "YVN" transliterated into Greek became "Ion".) Ion (Javan) and his nation originally settled in Ionia (literally "land of Javan") and then spread out from there. Zeus, the chief god of the ancient Greeks, was originally called Ion (Javan). Ion and other similar language appropriate variations of Javan like Yavan are the names of the Greeks in all ancient records and even as far from away as India and China. This is because the Greeks are often composed of the ethnic groups that came from Javan and his four sons.
The most prominent one was the oldest son named Elishah. It is the fields of Elishah (the Elysian fields) that ancient Greeks believed that righteous would go to when they died. The oldest rites of the ancient Greek religion are the mysteries of Elishah (the Elysian mysteries). Elishah has many rivers and other features named for him thoughout the coastal areas of Greece stretching from the Peloponnese to Athens that were first settled by his descendants. They then spread out from there to the rest of Greece and beyond. In fact, the Greek word for Greece is "Ellas" - which means Elishah.
The ethnic group started by Elishah originally settled along the coast of modern northwest Turkey. They were originally refered to the Aeolis (another transliteration of Elishah) and founded the Aegeans as an offshoot. They spread from the entire coast around the Aegean Sea, down to the Peloponnese, and up into much of the coast of the Black Sea by sailing and starting colonies. They eventually started colonies all along the coast of southern half of Italy, the Mediterranean coast of France, Spain and northern Africa in an area that was called Magna Graecia (Greater Greece) by the Romans.
The ethnic group started by Tarshish originally settled along the coast of modern southern central Turkey and is whom Tarsus is named after where Paul (Shaul aka Saul) was born (Acts 21:39). (Although Cilicia is named after the Celts who came from Gomer who later took over the area.) The people of Tarshish then sailed and colonized along the coast eventually starting another nation also called Tarshish in modern southern Spain and one called Iberia along the eastern end of the Black Sea. The Iberians were also eventually largely displaced and relocated to Spain, Portugal and the Mediterranean coast of France causing the peninsula that contains Spain, Portugal and France to be known as the Iberian Peninsula.
The ethnic group started by Kittim (Chittim) originally settled in Cyprus off the coast of modern southern Turkey. They too took to sea and started colonies in the eastern most region of modern Greece known as Macedonia and the coast of northwest Italy. They migrated inland more than the other descendants of Javan to eventually occupy most of non-coastal Italy, the modern country of Macedonia (which means "land of the mountain Greeks" in ancient Greek), Romania and the like. In fact, Kittim is the name for both Cyprus and Italy in many ancient documents.
The ethnic group started by Dodanim (Rodanim) originally settled along the coast of modern southwest Turkey. They were also known as the Doris or Dorians. Dodanim means leaders and that is what they are. They soon began colonizing Rhodes, the Dodanese (named after Dodanim) Islands and the other islands of the Aegean, including those south of the mainland of Greece. They eventually settled the island of Crete where writing was first invented. It was people that went from Pheonice, on the western tip of Crete, to the coast of modern Lebanon who were known as the Phoenicians (literally "people from Pheonice") who brought to the world the first alphabet. They also formed the Minoan civilization which was the first link in the chain of European and Western Civilization. They created the first style of Greek architecture known as the Doric style. They spread from Crete to the northern Peloponnese, and modern northwest Greece. They then spread like other sons of Javan by sailing and creating colonies to be the first people to occupy the entire coast of the Adriatic Sea. At the same time they also were the first people to settle along the coast of southern France. In all of these places they created towns and named rivers after Dodanim (Rodanim).
The people of Javan have had great influence upon the people of his brothers who are generally referred to as white people (1 Chronicles 1:5). Most of the people of his brothers originally settled near his people in modern Turkey between Mount Ararat and the Mediterranean coast except for the people of Madai who went east instead.
The people of Magog, Meshech (for who Moscow is named), and Tubal (Tobolsk the ancient capital of Siberia (modern Russia east of the Ural Mountains) and the Tobol River that it sits on are both named for Tubal) later moved north and settled Russia along with many of the countries of the former Soviet Union and most of the countries that border Russia on the west. They have remained in close contact with the Greeks to this day and have always been influenced greatly by the Greeks. Even their alphabet that was featured prominently in the opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics were created for them based on the Greek alphabet by a Greek missionary named Cyril for whom it is named after.
The people of Tiras were originally called Thiras by the Greeks and later Thrace by others. They were noted as having golden to reddish hair and fair skin in ancient times. They spread out to the area of Thrace (the part of modern Turkey that in the continent of Europe), then north to the area near the Baltic sea (modern Denmark) then across the Baltic Sea to modern Norway and Sweden. This is why Denmark is considered part of Scandinavia even though it is not on the Scandinavian Peninsula. They lost close contact with the Greeks until modern times so they were less influenced by them.
The people of Gomer spread out to the rest of Europe that was left including northern France, Britain, Ireland and Germany. The people of Gomer were called Galatians by the ancient Greeks which literally means "milk white skin". The Greeks have had more influence on them than any of the other people groups. Iona, the sacred isle of the Celts in the middle of the Irish Sea, is named after Javan.
Their alphabets are based on the Latin alphabet, which was itself based on the Greek alphabet. Their civilizations, often referred to collectively as Western Civilization, is based on Greek ideas like the arts and sciences, athletic competitions, recording history for the sake of history, and the like. They trace the start of their civilization to the Minoan civilization. They were the ones that were the first to begin reviving ancient Greek ideas like democracy. They were the ones that made it possible for the modern Olympics to become a truly international event. They were the ones that have been been the greatest assistance in Greece rising.
The people of Madai originally settled east of Mount Ararat instead of west like their brothers and included the Aryans for whom modern Iran is named after. They settled the interior of Asia as the name of Madai (literally "middle lands") suggests. They include the ancient Yuezhi (whose red haired, white skinned mummies have been found in China) that originally settled in north central China until they were pushed to the west by the Han Chinese. After that they formed the Kushan Empire that went from modern Kazakhstan to modern northern India.
Before the Greeks rose up the Persians rose up. The Persian Empire was ruled by the kings of two people groups - the Persians (who came from Elam) and the Media (literally "land of Madai") (Daniel 8:20).
Greece rising first began to be revealed to Nebuchadnezzar before the Persian Empire came into existence. The great empire that would conquer the civilized world that was represented by the brass in the statue was the bronze (similar to brass) clad warriors that came when Greece was rising the first time (Daniel 2:39).
Greece rising the first time was told to Daniel the Prophet of Truth before Greece ever overran the Persian Empire. Greece was first as seen a leopard with four wings and four heads indicating both incredible speed and four simultaneous rulers (Daniel 7:6). This came to pass with Alexander the Great and his four generals.
Greece is next seen as a male goat with a single large horn between his eyes that moved exceedingly fast and destroyed a two horned ram (Daniel 8:5-7). This goat was Greece and the single large horn was Alexander the Great who overthrew the Persian Empire in just three years time (Daniel 8:21). Alexander the Great was the mighty king of Greece that suddenly stood up against the attacking Persian Empire and took it over (Daniel 11:2-3). This was the beginning of Greece rising the first time.
The single large horn that represented Alexander the Great was then suddenly broken and replaced by four horns that went different directions (Daniel 8:9). When he died suddenly his empire was split into four smaller empires by his four generals, one to west that was centered in modern Greece, one to the north that was centered in modern Turkey, one to the east that was centered in modern Syria and stretched to northern modern India, and one in the south that was centered in modern Egypt (Daniel 8:22). By the time that the 40 year long war over who was going to rule ended with this division into four smaller empires the son of Alexander the Great and all other possible heirs were all dead so that his empire did not pass to any of them (Daniel 11:4). This was the aftermath of Greece rising the first time.
Two of those kingdoms, the one centered in Syria to the north of Jerusalem and the one centered in Egypt to the south of Jerusalem then continued to fight with each other over Israel until the Romans (Kittim aka Chittim) came (Daniel 11:5-35). This was the end of Greece rising the first time.
The story of Greece rising the first time before the Man of Truth came to Earth the first time was told in the Book of Truth at the beginning of the Persian Empire more than one hundred years before it ever began to play out in history. However, the story of Greece in the Book of Truth does not end there. It tells of Greece rising a second time shortly before the Man of Truth returns to Earth the second time.
In the same statue that showed Greece rising the first time there is a foreshadowing of Greece rising a second time. The feet of iron and clay are ten tyrants (another Greek idea) who try to work together in a democratic fashion but cannot because they are tyrants just as happened with the four generals of Alexander the Great (Daniel 2:41-43). Greece rising a second time is shown in the vision of the he goat as well. In the end of days a king like Alexander the Great, the Man of Lies (Antichrist aka The Beast) who is powered by the Father of Lies (HaShatan aka Satan aka The Devil), shall arise to revive the Greek Empire (Daniel 8:23-24). This revived Greek Empire will mirror the Greek Empire that Daniel saw. At the time of the end the Man of Lies will go forth and conquer the same area as the Greek Empire but again the country of modern Jordan will mostly escape his grasp (Daniel 11:36-44). Just as Daniel saw a leopard that represented Greece rising the first time so also John (Yochanon) saw a beast with the body of leopard that represents Greece rising a second time in the form of another Empire that covers the same territory as the Greek Empire (Revelation 13:1-3). The Man of Lies will issue his commands from his capital in Babylon (where Alexander the Great died) as represented by the mouth of a lion (which symbolized the Babylonian Empire in the dream with the four winged leopard). The Man of Lies will move people into action with an absolute law based on a religion system like the Persian Empire did as represented by the feet of the bear (which symbolized the Persian Empire in the dream with the four winged leopard). Currently, Islamic law is used to moved the people of Iran into action and it could very well be the same law that will be used to do so in the revived Greek Empire. It will be the aftermath of Greece rising a second time.
Greece rising the second time will end with the return of the Man of Truth. His Kingdom will be sent from Heaven by the Father of Truth to destroy this revived Greek Empire (Daniel 2:44-45). The Man of Truth will destroy the Man of Lies without even raising his hand to do so just as Alexander the Great died from a sudden illness (Daniel 8:25). Though the Man of Lies will set up a place for people to worship him on the Temple Mount like Antiochus Epiphanes (the ruler of the Greek mini-empire north of Jerusalem) had done no one will be able to save him from the Man of Truth (Daniel 11:45). The people of Israel will rise up to defeat the revived Greek Empire when the Man of Truth returns (Zechariah 9:12-16)! The Children of Truth (those who obey the Father of Truth because they love Him) will come with the Man of Truth from Heaven to bring an end to the revived Greek Empire (Revelation 19:11-21)! It will be the final end of Greece rising a second time.
When the Man of Truth comes he will not destroy everyone who is of the people of the Empires that have came before the revived Greek Empire but only take away their ability to rule other nations by force (Daniel 7:9-14). The Greeks and all people shall be taught how to live in peace with each other and how to worship the Father of Truth by the children of Israel (Isaiah 66:18-21).
Before the Man of Truth can return to Earth from Heaven with the Children of Truth to deliver Israel from the revived Greek Empire the Children of Truth must first be gathered to him in Heaven. The Man of Truth will soon meet with the Children of Truth in the air (1 Thessalonians 4:16-18). The Man of Lies who will revive the Greek Empire cannot be revealed until they are removed from the Earth (2 Thessalonians 2:6-10).
The Olympics are one of the many signs of Greece rising in preparation for the revival of the Greek Empire. So the Winter Olympics are a sign of Greece rising which announces that the Man of Truth will soon return to meet the Children of Truth in the air.
Of course, it does not help you to know this unless you have come into the House of Truth. Anyone can come into the House of Truth by submitting to the Man of Truth in total surrender because they believe that the Father of Truth raised him from the dead (Romans 10:8-10). The Man of Truth loves the Greeks as much as the Jews because He will save all that come into the House of Truth (Romans 10:11-13).
Come into the House of Truth.
Labels: End Times, Greece, History, Olympics, Rapture, Second Coming, Tribulation
posted by The House Of Truth @ February 23, 2014
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