Unleashing the Beast

T HE K INGDOM OF THE B EAST / 31

Europe and the EU, and not enough on the fact that these Islamic nations make up part of the old Roman territory. They neglect to note that Islam wants to rule the entire Mediterranean and extend the Islamic crescent into all of Europe. The Muslims' goal is not just to build mosques, but to eventually convert the people in these countries to the religion of Islam. When we examine the geographical regions of the past prophetic empires and the region where the antichrist will rule, we see that Islam controls these nations, with the exception of Greece, Italy and Israel. The prophet Daniel predicted that when the Antichrist comes to power, he will subdue three kings (Daniel 7:24). Hippolytus and other early church fathers saw these three kings are Egypt, Libya and Ethiopia: In those times, then he shall arise and meet them. And when he has overmastered three horns out of the ten in the array of war, and has rooted out, vis., Egypt, Libya, and Ethiopia, and has got their spoil and trappings... he will begin to be lifted up in heart, to exalt himself against God as master of the whole world (Hippolytus, Treatise on Christ and Antichrist). Apparently, Hippolytus was referring to Daniel's prophecies that the Antichrist would uproot three kings in Northern Africa. Daniel speaks of three nations the Antichrist will invade and control: