DaVinci Code – DECIPHERING THE ANTICHRIST –
Dan Brown’s Hidden Agenda
By
Doug Krieger
Opus Dei’s Silas performs the dastardly deed by murdering the curator of the Louver, knowing full-well his mission’s alleged agenda: To conceal Jesus’ human vulnerabilities by protecting his divinity. The mystery of “The Code” affirms the preposterous notion that for two thousand years the love child of Jesus, if ever exposed, could shake the bastions of Christendom and blow the myth of Jesus’ humanity, terminating mankind’s need for spiritual rebirth. Alas! We live in a terrestrial nightmare concealed by apostolic fabrications—fabrications which evolved and grew into secret societies dedicated to the perpetuation of THE myth.
Dan Brown’s Robert Langdon (played by Tom Hanks), and the legacy of Mary Magdalene’s progeny, Sophie Neveu (played by Audrey Tautou), is a serpentine
tale where the forces of evil, headed by Sir Leigh Teabing (played by Ian McKellen) are hell-bent on deciphering and exposing the code of
codes which inevitably, if disclosed, will shatter Christianity’s invincibility and the supposed myth of the God-Man, Jesus of Nazareth: The Son of Man is he alone; no Godhood does he abide. Thus, the hypostatic union of Jesus Christ (God-Messiah), and man (Son of Man) in one person, is abolished!
Christianity’s vast conspiracy—which on the one hand preserves the virgin birth, while on the other hand conceals the ultimate man-child—is, according the Brown-Howard axis keeps hope alive, through pious lies and distortions . . . yet, what’s really at stake is the RIGHTFUL HEIR TO THE THRONE OF DAVID, or, shall we say, the SECOND COMING OF CHRIST, the ultimate SON OF DAVID through the Solomonic bloodlines that the likes of Barbara Aho and her conspiratorial trajectories contemplate—more of this later.
WHAT A TANGLED WEB WE WEAVE -
Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when once we threaten to deceive!
Following Ron Howard’s film is like discovering Mt. Everest in the midst of a raging Iraqi sandstorm! Who are the “good guys” and just who are the “bad guys?”
Jesus’ bloodline weaves its circuitous route through Magdalene’s escorts who sequester her and Jesus’ love child to the shores of the Roman province of Gaul (today’s France) shortly after Jesus’ crucifixion. Here, and ultimately, the descendants of Jesus’ royal bloodline (the Merovingians) are united with Charlemagne the Great’s Carolingian linage—maintaining the Messianic royal linage of King David whose Davidic Covenant demands an extension in perpetuity.
“But King Solomon shall be blessed, and the throne of David shall be established before the Lord forever.” (I Kings 2:45).
From the Merovingian-Carolingian linage—the Magdalene-Jesus bloodline and its secrets were protected by none other than the clandestine Knights Templar of Crusader fame and the complications of the Free Masons (who allegedly date back to the building of the Tower of Babel).
Alas! The HOLY GRAIL is naught but the womb of the shameless prostitute, Magdalene—for it is she, not John the Beloved, whose “V” (symbol of the womb) separates to the left side of Jesus, facing Da Vinci’s last supper; with Jesus as the inverted “V” representing the male.
The suppression of Magdalene’s outrage by a triumphant Church at the Council of Nicaea (325 AD)—determined to keep Christianity’s embarrassment obscure from the masses—led to the bishops’ declaration: “Jesus is truly God and truly Man!” Notwithstanding, the Gnostics and the heresy of Arius had clearly infiltrated Christendom with their fallacious gospels . . . but “they were only telling the truth” . . . so Brown would lead us to believe!
We are led by Brown and shown by Howard, how those supposedly valiant for the truth keep the Jesus-Mary Magdalene bloodline surreptitiously obscured from a militant Roman Catholicism; and, those who stumble into these enigmatic discoveries (like Langdon), are today’s LDVs (Leonardo Da Vinces) who either keep the truth of the coded message alive, or literally preserve the royal lineage (in this case, Robert Langdon initially and inadvertently protects the lovely Sophie Neveu—the descendent of the Jesus-Magdalene union).
Hidden behind the subtle smile of Da Vinci’s Madonna and his mystical message of the Last Supper are veiled realities of a greater truth. Those like Da Vinci, who are the protectors of the truth, seek—like the Knight’s Templar of ‘ole—to conceal the true meaning behind Holy Blood, Holy Grail! However, it is up to devotees like Opus Dei’s Bishop Aringarosa in Brown’s novel who must extinguish the literal bloodline conceived in Magdalene’s womb; destroy the mysteries of the codes; and, assure the divinity of Christ as the God-Man—all the while assuring Rome’s religious supremacy.
Thus, to decode what Truth Sayers like Leonardo Da Vinci attempt to disclose to the world—through art and literature—leads to an ultimate connection with the Priory of Sion (Prieuré de Sion (French), usually rendered in English translation as Priory of Sion or Priory of Zion), This pales into insignificance any and all “French Connections”—for the Throne of David is embodied within the confines of this late ‘50s subterfuge. The “outcropping” of Magdalene’s bloodline is the nexus of Catholic and Jewish conspiracies—for it is NOT the expose of Christ’s humanity and his tryst with Magdalene and subsequent charade of the divinity of Jesus Christ which is at stake here: But Dan Brown’s sequel that is at stake: The Coming Antichrist!
DAN BROWN’S COMING ANTICHRIST
Dan Brown’s allusions to the Priory of Sion, and ipso facto to Rennes-le-Château, as the wealthy Abbé Bérenger Saunièr and Pierre Plantard—the alleged Grand Master of those secret societies who protect the direct descendants of the Merovingian Kings—is such a farce, that to afford any historic credibility to the claims of such only validates that those who refuse to learn the lessons of history are bound to reinvent them to their own liking . . . as the www.Priory-of-Sion.com so succinctly exposes . . . alas, there is something far more sinister beneath the initial conspiracies introduced in Dan Brown’s convolutions, but first, the historical revisionism of Pierre Plantard et al:
”Bérenger Saunière’s ‘wealth’ is a myth that first originated during the mid-1950s. Saunière’s entire estate was only valued at 18,000 Francs by the Credit Foncier de France in 1913 when Saunière had asked it for a loan because by that time he did not have enough money to even buy food.
“This was not the first time that Abbé Saunière had asked for a loan in order to eat. Abbé Saunière lived in poverty for most of his life except for the period between 1896-1905 and we have the relevant paperwork to prove it – Abbé Saunière lived from the selling of masses during the years 1896-1905 and the paperwork for that exists as well.
“Monsignor Billard, Abbé Saunière's Bishop, was far wealthier - he inherited over a million Francs in 1891 from a rich widow and he too, lived from selling masses and, like Abbé Saunière, was eventually to become suspended from his sacerdotal duties over allegations relating to financial impropriety within the Church.
“Pierre Plantard was a lifelong charlatan and confidence trickster – his 1937-1954 activities involving confidence trickery, anti-Semitic and anti-Masonic activities are provided in File Ga P7 which is available for public inspection at the Paris Prefecture of Police, 9 Boulevard du Palais, 75195 Paris (Monsieur Claude Charlot, is the Director of Museum Archives of the Bureau of Associations at the Paris Prefecture of Police, for written enquiries).
“References to Pierre Plantard’s criminal convictions are available for public inspection at the Sub-Prefecture of Saint Julien-en-Genevois, 4 Avenue de Geneve, 74164 Saint Julien-en-Genevois, Haute-Savoie (Monsieur Serge Champanhet, is the Secretary General of the Sub-Prefecture, for written enquiries – the letter dated 8 June 1956 by the Mayor of Annemasse to the Sub Prefect contained in File Number KM 94550 which holds the 1956 Priory of Sion Registration Documents must be cited in the written enquiry).
“Pierre Plantard’s Judicial Archives are held in the Tribunal de Grand Instance de Thonon-les-Bains. But these unfortunately are not available for public inspection due to the French Privacy Law.
“Pierre Plantard got into serious trouble in 1993 with Judge Thierry Jean-Pierre because he claimed that Roger Patrice Pelat was a ‘Grand Master of the Priory of Sion’ - and the Judge was heading an investigation into Pelat’s activities that involved financial improprieties - it was following this incident in September 1993 that Plantard ceased his Priory of Sion activities and lived out the rest of his life in isolation.” (Paul Smith, Rennes-le-Château and the Bérenger Saunière Affair Chronology)
Brown has managed to ascribe purposeful and/or inadvertent credibility to the thesis of one, Barbara Aho of Watch Unto Prayer Ministries (Florida). What Brown has accomplished by the success of his best-selling novel (and he is the first to admit that “the code” it is only a fictitious accounting), followed up by Ron Howard’s blockbuster, is to set the stage for the future Antichrist—Antichrist of European origins (no wonder then that the Europeans are so mesmerized by both the novel and the film). Brown, worse yet, has either intentionally (with ample deniability) or inadvertently (with literary license), opened the floodgates of ANTISEMITISM and given new life to the tenets of Aho’s conspiratorial network: THE ANTICHRIST IS A CRYPTO-CATHOLIC JEW!
BARBARA AHO’s ANTI-SEMITIC ANTICHRIST
In our article entitled THE ANTICHRIST IS NOT A JEW, Part II (BARBARA AHO’S MORIVINGIAN ANTICHRIST FROM THE LOST TRIBE OF DAN) we covered the research of Aho and discovered that Aho’s fabrications are riddled with anti-Semitic undertones—where the Antichrist is carried through Solomonic bloodlines until the Antichrist rises to ascend the throne of a revived Roman Empire. Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code and Ron Howard’s dramatization of it obscures the final destination and the anti-Semitic thesis of Aho!
Brown manages to capture the ESSENCE of the six-pointed Star of David, however, through Da Vinci’s triangles which are secretly superimposed upon the painting of the Last Supper, as well as elaborately inscribed within the architecture of both the Free Masons (dollar bill and pyramid) as well as the Louver itself-although the five-pointed Pentagram (a “Satanic symbol”) is used. Alas! The Magen David is naught but the symbol of the male (inverted “Δ”) and female (“V”)—Jesus and Mary Magdalene’s love child: Whence cometh the Antichrist! From European soil, no less!
This revived European-Roman-Empire Antichrist is precisely where Dan Brown’s next sequel is heading—a virtual carbon copy of Aho’s thesis. We’re not saying that Brown plagiarized Aho or vise-a-versa; however, the similarities are glaring—but again, these “theories” have been around for decades! The slight variation in Brown v. the Board of Aho’s Conspiracies is Opus Dei. Brown has the conservative Catholic cultists linked (so it appears) in extinguishing the Merovingian bloodline and its mysteries to affirm Catholic supremacy and ipso facto the “God-Man myth,” whereas Aho acclaims Opus Dei’s founder, Jose Maria Escriva Balaguer, is the protector of the ultimate Antichrist (the Man Child of the union of Jesus and Mary Magdalene). However, Saint Escriva is a crypto-Catholic (progeny of converted Jews (Marrano) forced to accept Christianity under Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand in 1492+, hence the ascription: CRYPTO-CATHOLIC) whose personal Prelature with the Holy See gives its organization singular status among all Roman Catholic orders (i.e., its bishopric is not limited by location—it has international jurisdiction); thence, Saint Escriva falls into Aho’s conspiracy as the Jewish-crypto-Catholic Antichrist—THE BLACK POPE (although, in the end, the Jesuits somehow hold this dubious honor—for they too, according to Aho, are crypto-Catholics!).
Many, if not most, of Brown’s fantasies parallel those of Aho’s—but why are we convinced that Brown’s sequel will mirror the triangulations of Barbara Aho? Because it is altogether predicated upon Aho’s “crypto-Catholic-Jewish Antichrist” who is destined to lead the nations of Europe to Armageddon.
Frankly—Brown has one pot full of “plot-lines” (let alone “bloodlines”) to navigate if he continues down this primrose path to conspiratorial oblivion—listen to Aho’s own words . . . and try to figure out if she’s just saying this “stuff” or really believes it herself (I think she does!):
“According to Holy Blood, Holy Grail, Ormus evolved into the Order of the Prieuré de Sion of the Rosy Cross: ‘One is intended to see in Ormus the origins of the so-called Rose-Croix, or Rosicrucians. And in 1188 the Prieuré de Sion is said to have adopted a second subtitle in addition to Ormus. It is said to have called itself L’Ordre de la Rose-Croix Veritas... Ormus...[was] the name allegedly adopted by the Prieuré de Sion between 1188 and 1307.’ - 31:123,185
“Charles Nodier, Grand Master of the Prieuré de Sion from 1801-1884, averred that this secret order presided over a global network of secret societies: ‘There are a great many secret societies in operation, Nodier declares. But there is one, he adds, that takes precedence over all others, that in fact presides over all others. According to Nodier this ‘supreme’ secret society is called the Philadelphes. At the same time, however, he speaks of ‘the oath which forbids me to make them known under their social name.’ Nevertheless there is a hint of Sion...’ (31:152)
“In 1099, the Merovingian Jews in collusion with Pope Urban II, also a Merovingian, launched the First Crusade. An article titled The Merovingian Infiltration of the Christian World Through Monasticism confirms what we have long suspected, that Urban was not the first Merovingian pope, but the 6th in a succession of French Merovingian popes beginning in 999 A.D.”
Aho goes on to quote such luminaries as Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas who apparently in their text, The Second Messiah, go out of their way to proclaim the original Knights Templar not only wanted to rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem in accordance with Ezekiel’s predictions, but sought to deposit the “Holy Grail” (along with other “discovered” artifacts) at this newly-reconstituted prophetic temple, thus, proving that the Merovingian claims to a “divine dynasty” were actually true.
And, how could this be? Aho’s answer: Knight and Lomas “identify the Merovingian families which conspired with the Merovingian pope—truly a Jewish fifth column within the Catholic Church—to recapture the Holy Land.” (The Merovingian Dynasty – Satanic Bloodline of the Antichrist and False Prophet, Barbara Aho, www.watch.pair.com or Watch Unto Prayer Ministries) . . . now, the charades of Knight and Lomas:
“The picture that was emerging was of a group of European noble families, descended from the Jewish lines of David and Aaron, who had escaped from Jerusalem shortly before, or possible (sic) even just after, the fall of the Temple. They had passed down the knowledge of the artifacts concealed within the Temple to a chosen son...of each family. Some of the families involved were the Counts of Champagne, Lords of Gisors, Lords of Payen, Counts of Fontaine, Counts of Anjou, de Bouillon, St. Clairs of Roslin, Brienne, Joinville, Chaumont, St Clair de Gisor, St Clair de Neg and the Hapsburgs...
“By 1095, the members of the Rex Deus families group were almost certainly fully Christianized, yet each of them must have had at least one male member who held the traditional history of their high-born Jewish roots close to his heart. No doubt they saw themselves as ‘super-Christians’, descendants of the very first Church, and privy to the greatest secret this side of heaven. They were a silent elite — ‘the kings of God’.
“Indeed, the history books record that [Pope Urban II’s] leadership marked the papacy’s assumption of the leadership of Western Christendom...
“If the Rex Deus group did exist, it is easy to see how the First Crusade provided these families with a ‘God-given’ opportunity to return to their Holy Temple to recover the treasure that was their birthright - and it would be done at exactly the same time that the Jewish writer of the Gospel of John the Divine had predicted! The Rex Deus families were at the forefront of the First, and every Crusade. Medieval scholars have long wondered why it should be that the same families drove all of the Crusades for their entire duration, and now we had a possible answer.
“Once the Christian armies had secured Jerusalem, the non-Rex Deus leaders were quickly removed and the families infiltrated the Jerusalem monarchy and the Church, to ensure that they would not be blocked in the holy endeavor of the ‘Kings of God’ to regain what their ancestors had left for them...
“...in 1114...[the Rex Deus group] told Baldwin [King of Jerusalem] that they wanted to post a small contingent of knights in Jerusalem to carry out some exploratory digging under the pretext of being...guardians of the highways for pilgrims... Unfortunately, the king was not persuaded... In 1118, Baldwin I died at the age of sixty (presumably of natural causes) and his cousin was rapidly crowned King Baldwin II of Jerusalem. Within weeks, nine French knights were camped on the site of Herod’s stables... The world was told their mission was to save the Christian pilgrims from the evil Muslim bandits, but their true mission was to locate and rescue the scrolls and treasures of the Jerusalem Church.” (96:79-83)
Thus, Aho’s credible search for Holy Blood – Holy Grail – with the help of Knight and Lomas (along with Henry Lincoln), transfigures the Merovingian-Carolingian dynasties into the original bloodlines of ancient Jews who became the Rex Deus, infecting even the Crusader Kings of Jerusalem, Baldwin I and II, and, of course, the “Merovingian Popes!”
Ah! What a tangled web we weave . . . .
WHY ALERT THE BODY OF CHRIST TO THE NONSENSICAL CONSPIRACIES OF BROWN AND AHO?
Why? Because it is just this kind of wrong-thinking and idiocy that concocted the likes of Mein Kampf, the amplification of Madame Blavatsky’s Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, and the death of Six Million Jews—let along the evolutionary racial superiorities (speaking of bloodlines) of National Socialism: Capitalism’s Dark Side!
Listen up: Fascism’s breeding ground is Corptocracy run amok! It is altogether fertile soil for conspiratorial theories which lend themselves—in order to justify the accumulation of inordinate wealth to the few—to such despicable effronteries.
Aho and Brown have little idea that they are playing with fire—or maybe they do! Whatever the case—they are plowing the soils of discontent and conspiracy that will one day reap the whirlwind and bring about their worst fears and conjectures as they set the scene for the final ANTICHRIST.
But, this still does not answer the WHY? Once again, the Aho-Brown Axis of Distortion—though Brown innocently knows his repetitions of Aho’s deliberations are fantasyland—centers upon a Euro-Centric Antichrist.
We cannot dismiss this contrivance as an innocent deflection—it has a purposeful (perhaps unbeknownst to Brown, Aho, or for that matter, Constance Cumbey and her Javier Solano EU-Antichrist). Notwithstanding, we will not allow a “pass” to those Premillenarian Euro-Centric and secular allies (like Brown) nor the hoopla stirring amongst European capitals—that with all this smoke, there’s bound to be some fire (i.e., Antichrist will arise from Europe, shrouded in Brown-Aho-Cumbey-Euro-Centric conspiracies).
ANTICHRIST IS THE LEADER OF THE WEST—THE LEADER OF THE WEST IS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (DUH!)
Hollywood’s intrusion—and for that matter, Dan Brown, Barbara Aho, Constance Cumbey, Ron Howard, Tom Hanks, Tim LaHaye-Hal Lindsey, along with virtually the whole Euro-Centric Premillenarian Revived Euro-Roman Empire eschatologists (excluding a few Brits), etc.—reveals that every last one of them are AMERICANS! And, oddly enough—they’ve got the Europeans eating out of their conspiratorial hands!
Now, think of it—isn’t it fascinatingly strange that the religio-political environment of America would concoct such a farce right about now? Not really? If I were to launch a D-Day invasion of Europe right about now (oddly enough June 6, 2006 is right around the corner) I would launch a major distraction so that Field Marshal Erwin Rommel’s panzer divisions would abide at Caen—which is precisely what happened.
Simply put: “Lest Satan should take advantage of us; for we are not ignorant of his devices” (II Corinthians 2:11).
Myths have a way of sinking into the psyche of a people, a nation—witness the Aryan myth and what happened to Hitler’s Germany! Does history repeat itself? Come on now—to deny otherwise is the height of ignorance or secular enlightenment and the pride that goes with it!
These are not a bunch of superficial Americans bantering about century-old Euro-conspiracies for readership and money (although that’s in view here as well)—no, no, no—they know full-well that Europeans are altogether predisposed to such jargon and charade—no wonder more Italians flocked to The Da Vinci Code than any other film ever released in Italy—right in front of the Holy See! And, tragically, they validate American suspicions of harboring the final Antichrist; indeed, the Americans are “at it again!” There’s nothing like a good offense to counter a faulty defense.
To ascribe eschatological credibility to the Euro-Centric Antichrist is preposterous, deceptive, ludicrous, and altogether ingenuous of the Americans. The most influential Roman Catholic nation on the planet is America (and that’s not a stupid, arrogant American speaking here). The fact that nigh 70 million American Roman Catholics is disproportionate in so far as their numbers go is blatant religious fact! That influence swells when one considers the militancy of their Evangelical social allies—thereby catapulting the figures to nigh 220 million, since nearly 50% of the American population claims to be “born-again” or evangelical).
Am I proposing an “American religious conspiracy” – PRECISELY! Most conspiracy participants have no idea they are part and parcel of such grandiose schemes—neither does this religious conspiracy. Most certainly, they utterly have no idea that what they are concealing is the true source from whence the Antichrist shall spring!
What is of interest here is the American secular-Hollywood-oriented “community” which has inadvertently hitched itself (because unbeknownst to them they have been infected by “American culture” as well—whatever that is) to this religious conspiracy; thereby, perpetuating the allusion that America is not the 11th Horn—the final outcropping of the Latter Days’ Antichrist (Daniel 7:7-8) . . . (pardon the insertions of my commentary):
“After this I saw in the night visions, and behold, a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, exceedingly strong. It had huge iron teeth; it was devouring, breaking in pieces, and trampling the residue with its feet. It was different from all the beasts (Note: Including Alexander the Great and the Grecian Empire of Daniel 7:6—for those who conjecture that this “fourth beast” is the extension of Alexander’s Empire) that were before it, and it had ten horns (Note: These are the same “ten horns” mentioned in Revelation 12:3; 13:1—the same “ten horns” who give ultimate authority to the 11th Horn, the Beast in Revelation 17:13—the same who “will give their power and authority to the beast”). I was considering the horns, and there was another horn, a little (i.e., as in “younger”) one, coming up among them, before whom three of the first horns were plucked out by the roots (Note: Some affirm these to be colonial England, France, and Spain—all of whom colonized the United States of America, but were uprooted to give place to the 11th Horn—both a Kingdom with a King). And there, in the horn, were eyes like the eyes of a man (Note: Proving the immediacy and personification of the ultimate Antichrist), and a mouth speaking pompous words (Lit. “great things” – an allusion to “Babylon the Great”).
A better read on the origins of Antichrist is not found in the writings of Dan Brown, Constance Cumbey, Tim LaHaye, Hal Lindsey nor, especially those of Barbara Aho—but in the present releases of both Kevin Phillips (American Theocracy) and former Secretary of Sate, Madeleine Albright (The Mighty & The Almighty). It is here in the hegemonic “soils” of Americana and her aspirations to be that “City set on a Hill which cannot be hid” that we find the false premise and erroneous theses of Aho-Brown/Howard-Cumbey-LaHaye-Lindsay et al are utterly exposed for what they are: A BEWITCHING BREW OF FALSEHOOD AND IRRELEVANT LIES AND CONSPIRATORIAL DISPERSIONS! (And, NO, I do not apologize for the severity of these remarks because it’s blatantly true!)
If I were to warn the citizens of Kingman, AZ, that Hoover Dam has just burst (akin to NBC’s Apocalypse 10.5 recently aired in May, 2006) I would not do so in tones approaching sanity—NO! I would be beside myself in alerting all Kingman’s citizens to flee!
The popularity of turn-of-the-century Euro-Centric Antichrist eschatology and associated new-age conspiracies is tantamount to reassuring the citizens of Kingman that all is well—knowing full-well that Hoover Dam has burst and the Kingmanites are about to be destroyed by a fifty-foot wall of boiling water!
At least the redo of THE OMEN 666 (from The Omen, 1976) has gotten it right—i.e., the Antichrist is of American origin. I guess you just can’t keep the truth from Hollywood . . . and, maybe, just maybe, the American people are not as dumb or as smart as the Europeans think we are!
“I, Daniel, was grieved in my spirit within my body, and the visions of my head troubled me. I came near to one of those who stood by, and asked him the truth of all this. So he told me and made known to me the interpretation of these things: Those great beasts, which are four, are four kings which arise out of the earth (Note: Not only individuals but also kingdoms—all decidedly “Western” in their evolution of authority and jurisdiction.). ‘But the saints of the Most High shall receive the kingdom, and possess the kingdom forever, even forever and ever.’ Then I wished to know the truth about the fourth beast, which was different from all the others, exceedingly dreadful, with its teeth of iron and its nails of bronze, which devoured, broke in pieces, and trampled the residue with its feet; and the ten horns that were on its head, and the other horn which came up (Note: Juxtaposed to the ten horns is the 11th horn—make no doubt about this distinction!), before which three fell, namely that horn which had eyes and a mouth which spoke pompous words (i.e., The ANTICHRIST), whose appearance was greater than his fellows (i.e., if you would, FELLOW EUROPEANS), I was watching; and the same horn was making war against the saints, and prevailing against them, until the Ancient of Days came, and a judgment was made in favor of the saints of the Most High, and the time came for the saints to possess the kingdom . . . .
“The fourth beast shall be a fourth kingdom on earth (i.e., The Ancient Roman Empire), which shall be different from all other kingdoms (including that of Alexander the Great’s Grecian Empire), and shall devour the whole earth, trample it and break it in pieces. The ten horns are ten kings who shall arise from this kingdom (Note: Hence, the notion that the Revived Roman Empire is the source of Antichrist—and it is, but ACROSS THE POND!), AND ANOTHER SHALL RISE AFTER THEM (obviously, my emphasis—just in case you don’t get the drift—and “double drift” – this “one” is not just a King—but possesses a KINGDOM as well); he shall be different from the first ones, and shall subdue three kings. He shall speak pompous words against the Most High, shall persecute the saints of the Most High, and shall intend to change times and law, then the saints shall be given into his hand for a time and times and half a time (Note: This is the last half of the Great Tribulation spoken of in Revelation 11: 2 and 11:7-10 and confirms the final half of Daniel’s 70th Week—the persecution of BOTH Israel and the Church, the Two Witnesses of the Almighty upon the earth—and, no again, I do not apologize by committing the finality of God’s witnesses to their appropriate and Biblical foundations!) . . .
“But the court shall be seated, and they shall take away his dominion (i.e., the dominion of the 11th Horn, the Antichrist), to consume and destroy it forever, then the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people, the saints of the Most High. His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey Him. This is the end of the account” (Daniel 7:23-28)
No wonder then we hear this glorious proclamation as a result of Babylon the Great’s judgment and the demise of Antichrist immediately preceding the verdict of the heavenly court upon the Beast:
“Then the seventh angel sounded: And there were loud voices in heaven, saying, ‘The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever!’” (Revelation 11:15 – to the end of the chapter—vs. 16-19).
Dear friend and foe—THIS is the ultimate legacy of Antichrist—THIS is not fantasy, nor a fabrication of Dan Brown; and, most certainly, this IS an affront to the Euro-Centric Antichrist afflicting scores of well-meaning, but wholly deceived brethren (Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox—especially the evangelicals amongst them).
The BOOK OF BOOKS is NOT a series of dislocated, disjointed, randomly arranged metaphors, literary jewels, and meaningless symbols which fuel today’s conspiratorial rage! As much as Brown & Co. wish to (intentionally or unintentionally) disguise and obfuscate the true origins of Antichrist and/or popularize the convoluted conspiracies of Barbara Aho et al (socio-religious fertilizer for Brown’s sequel: ANTICHRIST: THE LOVE-CHILD OF JESUS-MAGDALENE), their hypotheses are severely skewed, unbiblical, and flat-out falsehoods.
Furthermore, they are exceedingly dangerous—because an already ill-prepared world has focused their attention “elsewhere!” Normandy is where the action is—not Caen! Oddly enough, and I don’t mean to sound conspiratorial, but peculiar timing it is that this year’s commemoration of D-Day occurs on 6-6-06—666!
