Typicy Antichrist

[Ps. 118:12] They compassed me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the LORD I will destroy them. Two symbols are used in this verse which typify the antichrist – bees and thorns. Midrash described the bees as typical of that final war when G-d gathers all the nations of the world and brings them against Jerusalem. The symbol of the bees was first used in the riddle of Samson the Danite in Jug. 14:14. His bees made honey in the carcass of a lion. Prophetically, they are believed to represent the tribe of Dan killing the Lion of Judah, then producing a utopian world government, represented by the honey. Rabbis considered the possibility that the lost tribe of Dan might produce the antichrist. Could his symbol be the bee? An example, Joseph Smith, founder of the Morman Church had a group of bodyguards who called themselves ‘Danites.’ When the state of Utah was founded, the Mormon state adopted the honeybee as its symbol The historic tie goes back to the Spartans of Southern Greece and their cousins, the Trojans. Honey was used as a sacrifice to their idols. Furthermore, Flavius Josephus recorded a letter from the king of the Spartans to the High Priest in Jerusalem claiming descent from the ‘stock of Abraham.’ Could the Spartan king have been a Danite? According to Homer’s ILIAD, the first Spartan king was named DAN-aus. He came by boat from Phoenicia with his fifty daughters who were called DAN-ades. They invented the cult of the mother goddess known as Diana! The people loved their king so much they called themselves DAN-aans before they were called Spartans. History records that they wore their hair long as a symbol of their magical power – just like Samson. The first Trojan was Dar-DAN-us (another use of Dan) who built the city of Troy along the Dar-Dan-elle waterway leading from the Aegean Sea to the Black Sea. Such uses of the words Dan may be clues to tracing the lost tribe. In the year A.D. 448, a Frankish king named Merovee claimed descent from the Trojans and wore his lair long as a symbol of magical power. His symbolic bees were retrieved from the tomb of his son in 1653. Those three hundred bees became the motif of Napoleon’s reign. They belonged to the Habsburg Dynasty, who were of Merovingian descent. This famous family provided the emperors of the Holy Roman Empire for five hundred years. In fact, all European royalty are cousins. The thorns take us back to a parable given by Jotham, son of Gideon in Jud. 9:8-15. His wicked brother, Abimelech, became king in Israel and killed almost all of Gideon’s seventy sons. Only Jotham escaped to stand before the elders of Israel on Mount Gerizim where he comparled Abimelech to a bramble bush of thorns. The story is a phophetic scenario of he future dictator who will seek the extermination of all Jews. When Micah described the future day of G-d’s visitation, He wrote in Micah 7:4; the best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity. The wicked thorn hedge will attempt to enslave the world. Perhaps that is why Y’Shua was made to wear a humiliating crown of thorns on the day of His crucifixion. The true Messiah was rejected as an antichrist!