WILL HISTORY REPEAT ITSELF? Will Ukraine be Putin’s downfall?
March 1st, 2022. My son asked me on the phone if I had gotten anything about Putin and the situation in Ukraine. Well I did not, but the question made me think. The next morning I felt prompted to look up scriptures in Daniel chapter 11. I knew that Putin was not the Antichrist and that there had to be a change of leadership in Russia, before the Antichrist could come to power. I knew that verse 21 was concerning the Antichrist, so I started reading backwards. Then verse 19 seemed clear to me and that it was applicable to Putin and the Ukraine. See what you think? Putin is now the main leader of Russia, but did he overstep himself to get into this war with Ukraine? Page 1
We know that history repeats itself: A century ago in Germany, Kaiser Wilhelm II overstepped himself with WW1. Wilhelm fled and we had a weak stand-in government, the Weimar Republic, which faced hyperinflation and this paved the way for the strong warlike leader, Hitler, to rise to power. We find a similar pattern in the French Revolution. After King Louis XVI went to the guillotine in 1793, France had the brutal leadership of Robespierre, followed by ‘Le Directoire’, which paved the way for the strong warlike leader Napoleon to rise to power in 1799. How does this apply to Russia’s situation? A prophecy in the book of Daniel (chapter 11:19-23), written 2½ thousand years ago, says that a leader “will stumble and fall, and not be found.” - Does this refer to Putin? Page 2
The complete verse says: “Then he shall turn his face toward the fort of his own land: but he shall stumble and fall, and not be found.” Is Ukraine that strong ‘fort’ that Putin ‘turned’ against as he considered it to be ‘of his own land’ and part of the former USSR?
The Ukrainians are ready to defend their fort and country. Does the invasion of Ukraine become Putin’s downfall and his end? If so, then things are heating up from a Biblical perspective. Next we get a Raiser of Taxes The following verse Daniel says, “Then shall stand up in his estate a raiser of taxes in the glory of the kingdom: but within few days he shall be destroyed, neither in anger, nor in battle.” Next we will see a political leader who tries to save the economy and hyperinflation of Russia by raising high taxes, but the TAX-man won’t last long. Page 3