What does Columbus Day and Christopher Columbus have to do with Bible Prophecy? First of all the bible teaches that in the days when Jesus Christ returns to earth, it will be the descendants of the Roman Empire that will be ruling the earth. How do we know that? Daniel 9:26 "and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary". The city referred to here is Jerusalem. When was it destroyed? In 70 A.D. Who destroyed it? The Roman Empire.
The "prince that shall come" refers to the coming antichrist. Since it was "his people" that destroyed Jerusalem then this "prince" must arise from the Roman Empire. What does this have to do with Columbus Day and Christopher Columbus? First of all, the only empire that has conquered the nations successfully throughout history is the Roman Empire. Keep in mind that Europeans are Roman Empire descendants which makes the United States an extension of the Roman Empire since it was founded by Europeans. Great Britain colonized Africa, Hong Kong, and Australia. Canada was colonized by the French. South America was taken by Spain. All countries which were once part of the Roman Empire. In each case, the lands were taken by force. Christopher Columbus was from Spain which is in Europe which was the Roman Empire.
This 4th beast is the Roman Empire and this Empire is the only one that has put colonies in and settled in all four corners of the globe. Was Christopher Columbus an adventurer who discovered America or was his actions more in line with the "exceeding dreadful" beast of Daniel 7:19. What really happened when Christopher Columbus came to America?
The event is fraught with misinformation. Let us start with the voyage itself. Contrary to the myth the weather was quite good and the Pinta, Nina and Santa Maria had clear sailing. This is confirmed by Columbus’ own journal. Second, the ships themselves were fully suited for their purposes and hardly the small tiny ships that we have been led to believe. Third, the voyage only took one month not two and the crew was not on the verge of near mutiny but were simply getting on each others' nerves. The Columbus biographer Samuel Eliot Morison confirms this. Upon arriving the natives went out to meet Columbus. They were friendly and gregarious. How did Columbus react? Well he said, "I could conquer them with fifty men and govern them as I please." So he kidnapped several of them and took them back to Spain where they met the queen. This was enough, along with the promise of gold, to finance another voyage by Columbus.
When Columbus returned he demanded gold. To ensure cooperation those who refused or committed a minor offense had their nose and ears cut off. His men demanded their women for sexual purposes and raped them. Finally, the Arawaks had enough and resisted. This turned into an outright slaughter by Columbus. He turned his attack dogs loose who ripped the resisters apart. Finding no gold he captured about 1,500 natives, took them from their families and set off to Spain where 500 of them would die along the way. Now Columbus brought the name of God into the picture, "In the name of Holy Trinity, we can send from here all the slaves and brazil-wood which could be sold." Columbus acted in a manner that was more devil like than God like. How often are atrocities performed in the name of God? This is simply Satan working to deceive people.
But the worst was yet to come and Columbus instituted a reign of terror. He demanded that the natives pay the crown a tribute. Those who did not had their hands cut off. Pedro de Cordoro wrote back to the King about what was happening and said, "As a result of the sufferings and hard labor they have endured, the Indians choose and have chosen suicide." He went on to say that, rather than give birth, women killed themselves and their newborn infants. The men of Columbus brought with them diseases as well. This was an ecological disaster that caused the death of over 3,000,000 Arawaks in the course of fifty years. To fill the vacancy left by this, Columbus brought slaves from Africa. So, Columbus was directly responsible for the introduction of the slave trade to the New World. This was the start of capitalism. The Catholic Church backed this genocide and European rule replaced a Utopia. These are the thoughts of Sir Thomas More who challenged European hierarchy with the examples of the native Americans.
Christopher Columbus was an ungodly man who behaved more like the antichrist than an adventurer who wanted to prove to the "queen" that the world was round. Yet the United States honors this man with a holiday each year. The USA screams for Bin Laden's head (and rightly so) while at the same time having a national holiday for a terrorist. Ironic isn't it?
Interesting enough, Columbus seems to have understood Bible Prophecy very well. He published "The Book of Prophecies". From PBS' "Frontline":
Christopher Columbus is often viewed as the hard headed navigator, a kind of modern man breaking with the past. But if we look at the history of Columbus and some of his writings, particularly his letters and in the Book of Prophecies that he put together, we can see that Columbus thought of himself very much in terms of the apocalyptic tradition. And he felt that his voyages of discovery were ushering in a millennial age, an age of a Last World Emperor, a Spanish Last World Emperor, who would recapture the holy apocalyptic city of Jerusalem and initiate a messianic period. And he had studied prophecies very, very carefully as he put together this Book of Prophecies, in order to sell his programme to Ferdinand and Isabella. And it's not that he was using this. He believed it. And he felt that they should believe it as well. ...
He was not an original apocalypticist. His Book of Prophecies is a compilation of a whole range of prophesies, texts from the Old and the New Testament, along with more current prophesies. What he's trying to do is to create a kind of handbook of prophesies that he can use in his attempts to get new funding from Ferdinand and Isabella. One of the prophesies that he fastens upon is a prophecy of a coming last emperor who will reconquer Jerusalem, who is very specifically a Spanish ruler. And we know that he ascribes this prophecy to Joachim of Fiore, but Joachim didn't write it. It ... was actually a Spanish prophecy from the early 14th century. But Joachim's reputation as the medieval prophet was so large that of course many later prophesies and visions were ascribed to him in pseudonymous fashion.
How does Jerusalem begin to figure into Columbus' discovery of the New World?
Well, Columbus felt that he was able to go around the world to get to Jerusalem, and that going around the world to get to Jerusalem would allow and facilitate the conquest of Jerusalem by a Spanish Last World Emperor. The way to Jerusalem had been blocked by the Turks and others. But the gold that he felt he would discover in the Indies was the money that would be needed to mount the military expedition that would reconquer Jerusalem and, as I said, issue in a universal messianic rule in which Christianity would triumph under the leadership of a Spanish last monarch. ...
So, Columbus' goal was to appoint a One World Leader to reign from Jerusalem under a "messianic-like" rule.
Can all of this explain the American Empire (which goes against many of the Founding Father's views) and the push for a New World Order?
G-20: Shaping a new world order
