Kingdom Come

Julius Caesar is seen as the main example of Caesarism, a form of political rule led by a charismatic strongman 

1. whose rule is based upon a cult of personality,
2. whose rationale is the need to rule by force during a period of widespread unrest,
3. founding a government ruled by a military regime
4. and establishing a new social order, by violent means.

Napoleon Bonaparte and Benito Mussolini frankly defined themselves as Caesarists. 

President Trump also fits this portrait.

1. a vile / deceitful person with a strongman personality who obtained the kingdom by flatteries.
   • The Trump campaign strategy was straightforward: eschew the mainstream press, focusing instead on appealing to young men and disaffected minority voters with high-profile appearances on popular non-political podcasts, bolstered by influencers that have displaced the traditional media among those voters.
2. the prince of the covenant / promising to restore peace during a time of widespread unrest.
   • A major plank of Trump’s presidential campaign was that he would end wars and bring about world peace during a second White House term.
3. after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully:
   • how a democracy becomes an authoritarian police state – The five key ingredients: lies, corruption, idiocy, loyalty, and most important, a blanket of sedating propaganda swaddling the first four and protecting the administration from any remote hint of democratic consequences or accountability.
4. for he shall…enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province
   • In just 100 days, Donald Trump has managed to drag the U.S. economy — once the envy of the world — to the brink of crisis with widespread fear among voters, plummeting consumer confidence, and a shaken global reputation. 
5. and [then] he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches.
   • He claims immigrants are the problem and, using violent means, is establishing a new social order comprised of White Christians.
6. he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many
   • During his campaign President Donald Trump spoke with certainty about ending Russia’s war in Ukraine in the first 24 hours of his new administration and finding lasting peace from the devastating 18-month conflict in Gaza, but instead both conflicts have only worsened.

There are other significant matches to the biblical prophecy and historical templates.

Without a doubt, the three years that the French emperor spent conquering Egypt and launching attacks into Ottoman Palestine changed the region forever. 

Napoleon’s campaign in Egypt was marked by key events like the battle of the Pyramids, but Napoleon’s forces also defeated superior Ottoman forces in the Galilee, in battles near Mount Tabor (near Nazareth) and on the Jordan River. Napoleon’s campaigns in Egypt and Syria are recognized as the beginning of the modern period in Middle Eastern history. 

Under Mussolini’s leadership, Fascist Italy sought to increase its influence in the Middle East by befriending the Islamic world. Grandiose plans that were prepared in the summer of 1940 for Fascist territorial expansion in Africa and the Middle East.

Daniel’s prophetic details match up item by item by each of their victorious claimants for the fourth empire – first the British who conquered Napoleon and took economic, political and military control of most of the Middle East, then the Americans which took over the British empire after WWII.