Rome, the fourth beast, was divided between East and West. But the division did not end with the distinction of and separation between Rome and New Rome or the second Rome. Another division occurred that caused another city to rise up with the name of "Rome." It was called the "Third Rome." It is a major city of history and worldly influence. The division is mentioned in the book of Revelation in such an obscure way that it has been hidden from the eyes of the world to this time, but must now be revealed. With its revealing, people should be shocked. But even a dreadful fear will come upon some, for there are terrible consequences that are soon to be brought upon this earth and prophesied disasters that will decimate whole populations in the very near future.

The three divisions of the city of Rome are going to fall at the hands of the Lamb of Elohim and His wrath that is going to be poured out on His enemies. But before their fall, grievous destruction is going to come upon a people who are the unsuspecting, unbelieving and disobedient descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (Israel). That destruction is even now beginning to take place.

The third and final division of the city of Rome is found in your history books and encyclopedias, but has not been focused on in the history of the West, for the third and final division occurred in the East and the West simply has not considered the importance of this distinction of the "Third Rome." But it MUST be considered, because that city called the "Third Rome" has been a city of fear and terror to the western world for some years now. That city is MOSCOW, Russia. Moscow, Russia, became the Third Rome, the habitation of Esau, Edom, Amalek, Seir and Tyre.

The book of Revelation says, "And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done. And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great. And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before YAHWEH, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath,"16:17-19.

To look at these verses it appears as if the great earthquake divided the great city into three parts, but the result of the earthquake is that the city FELL (v. 19). The point that is being made here is that the great city (Rome) had become divided into three parts (Rome, Constantinople [New Rome or the second Rome] and Moscow (the third Rome). These three cities had become the great ruling cities of the nations. Nations in Greek is "ethnon" having essentially the same meaning as "goyim" in the Hebrew. "Goyim," in the Hebrew is variously translated as nations, heathen or gentiles. In other words, this great city, Rome, which had divided into three cities, Rome, Constantinople and Moscow, had become the cities of the great paganistic, heathenistic, gentile religions. Such has certainly been the case. Rome was the headquarters for the western Latinized version of Christianity, Constantinople had become the headquarters for the eastern Greek Orthodox version of Christianity, and Moscow became the headquarters for the Russian Orthodox version of Christianity. They were, thus, the cities of the nations, the pagans, the heathen, the gentiles.

Another interesting thing about Constantinople is that when the Ottoman Turks took it in 1453, overthrowing the Tsar and his government, it was renamed Istanbul and became one of the most important and strategic cities of Islam. It remains such today.

When the seventh angel pours out his vial upon the earth, the great city, Rome, which had become divided into three great cities of Gentile worship, Rome, Constantinople (Istanbul) and Moscow, will fall.

Albert Pike, a 33° Mason, confessed that the Knight’s Templar, founders of the Masons, took an oath between the hands of the Patriarch of Constantinople. Furthermore, he states that this See was always secretly or openly hostile to that of Rome from the time of Photius (Morals And Dogma, p. 815).

He further confesses, "The avowed object of the Templars was to protect the Christians who came to visit the Holy Places: their secret object was the re-building of the Temple of Solomon on the model prophesied by Ezekiel.

This re-building, formally predicted by the Judaizing Mystics of the earlier ages, had become the secret dream of the Patriarchs of the Orient. The Temple of Solomon, rebuilt and consecrated to the Catholic worship would become, in effect, the Metropolis of the Universe; the East would prevail over the West, and the Patriarchs of Constantinople would possess themselves of the Papal power." (p.p. 815-816).

Constantine’s establishment of Constantinople as New Rome, the headquarters of the Roman Empire under the office and power of the Tsar or C’zar, in effect, divided the empire between East and West. This brings to light the prophetic fulfillment of Dan. chapters 2, 7 and 8, as well as Isa. 51:9; which says, "Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of YAHWEH; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?"

Of course, we know that the dragon is that old serpent called the Devil and Satan which deceiveth the whole world (Rev. 12:9). But what does the rest of this prophecy mean?

The word "cut" also means "to divide." "Rahab," according to Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance, is an epithet of Egypt and means to be insolent, proud, embolden, strong, etc.

YAHshua proclaimed, "Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand: and if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself; how shall then his kingdom stand?" Mt. 12:25-26. YAHWEH has caused Satan’s (who is insolent, proud, emboldened [in rebellion against YAHWEH], strong, etc.) kingdom and his cities, in these last days, to be divided against themselves so that his kingdom cannot stand. The last kingdom, represented by the Roman beast kingdom has not only been divided into three great cities, but has been divided geographically between East and West. The eastern portion of the empire continues to openly and secretly attempt to prevail over the western portion, while the western portion seeks its own domination and control over the East. This division is a cultural, political and religious division.

There is an attempt to heal this division between the parties involved in these last days, but, as Daniel prophesied, there will be great strength in this final conclave as there is strength in iron, but it will also be very fragile because of the clay, and even as iron is not mixed with clay, neither will the kingdom cleave together, but it will be broken. (Dan. 2:41-43). What an apt description of our world today and the United Nations (which [the UN] is simply an organization formed by the despotic rich of this world to re-establish the world under one authoritative Romanized system).

The on-going problems in Yugoslavia should bring attention to this bitter division. The Serbs are followers of the Eastern Orthodox faith and have not only support from the Greek Orthodox Church and Istanbul (Constantinople), but also from Russia (Moscow) and the Russian Orthodox Church. Russian soldiers have even been reported to have enlisted in the Serbian army in order to fight with them. The Croats are of the Roman Catholic faith and have their support from that church in Rome. The Bosnians are of the Moslem faith who receive support from all Moslems, which includes those from Istanbul.

These three faiths are all divided one against the other, but at times two of the weaker ones will combine to fight against the stronger, to wit, the Croats and Moslems will combine against the Serbs at times and vice versa.

Two world wars have been generated from this area and there is a danger of a third more ominous outbreak of world war if peace is not achieved.

Remember that Constantine was a Serb? Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, etc. are all parts of the former Yugoslavia, but Yugoslavia is/was itself part of a greater area called the Balkans. As stated previously, it was from this area of the world that the last two world wars have begun their deadly role in human history. There is significance concerning this along with the designated name. There is also significance concerning the modern day troubles that have broken out in that general area which is feared will touch off another round of world war which will be more devastating in its scope than has ever been in recorded history. A trace into the very name is quite revealing.

What we want to show you now is the derivation of the name "Balkan" which goes back into history that is so ancient it is traced all the way back to the book of Genesis and has great significance even for our modern day world and Biblical prophecy. We must go to Mackey’s Revised Encyclopedia Of Freemasonry to get the historic significance.

"TUBAL CAIN. Of Tubal Cain, the sacred writings, as well as the Masonic legends, give us but scanty information. All that we hear of him in the Book of Genesis is that he was the son of Lamech and Zillah, and was ‘an instructor of every artificer in brass and iron.’ The Hebrew original does not justify the common version, for vjl, lotesh, does not mean ‘an instructor,’ but ‘a sharpener’—one who whets or sharpens instruments. Hence Doctor Raphall translates the passage as one ‘who sharpened various tools in copper and iron.’ The authorized version has, however, almost indelibly impressed the character of Tubal Cain as the FATHER of Artificers; and it is in this sense that he has been introduced from a very early period into the legendary history of Freemasonry.

"The first Masonic reference to Tubal Cain is found in the Legend of the Craft, where he is called the Founder of Smith-Craft, an explanation agreeing closely with modern biblical scholarship which designates him as the ‘Founder of the Gild of Smiths or Metal Workers.’ We cite this part of the legend from the Dowland Manuscript simply because of its more modern orthography; but the story is substantially the same in all the old manuscript Constitutions. In that manuscript we find the following account of Tubal Cain:

"Before Noah’s flood there was a man called Lamech, as it is written in the Bible, in the fourth chapter of Genesis; and this Lamech had two wives, the one named Ada and the other named Zilla; by his first wife, Ada, he got two sons, the one Jubal, and the other Jabal; and by the other wife he got a son and a daughter. And these four children founded the beginning of all the sciences in the world. The elder son, Jabal, founded the science of geometry, and he carried flocks of sheep and lambs into the fields, and first built houses of stone and wood, as it is noted in the chapter above named. And his brother Jubal founded the science of music and songs of the tongue, the harp and organ. And the third brother, Tubal Cain, founded smith-craft, of gold, silver, copper, iron and steel, and the daughter founded the art of weaving. And these children knew well that God would take vengeance for sin, either by fire or water, wherefore they wrote the sciences that they had found, on two pillars that they might be found after Noah’s flood. The one pillar was marble, for that would not burn with fire; and the other was clepped laterns, and would not drown in noe water.

"Similar to this an old Rabbinical tradition, which asserts that Jubal, who was the inventor of writing as well as of music, having heard Adam say that the universe would be twice destroyed, once by fire and once by water, inquired which catastrophe would first occur; but Adam refusing to inform him, he inscribed the system of music which he had invented upon two pillars of stone and brick. A more modern Masonic tradition ascribes the construction of these pillars to Enoch. To this account of Tubal Cain must be added the additional particulars, recorded by Josephus, that he exceeded all men in strength, and was renowned for his warlike achievements.

"The only other account of the proto-metallurgist that we meet with in any ancient author is that which is contained in the celebrated fragment of Sanconiatho, who refers to him under the name of Chrysor, which is evidently, as Bochart affirms, a corruption of the Hebrew chores ur, a worker in fire, that is, a smith. Sanconiatho was a Phenician author, who is supposed to have flourished before the Trojan war, probably as Sir William Drummond suggests, about the time when Gideon was Judge of Israel, and who collected the different accounts and traditions of the origin of the world which were extant at the period in which he served, which, translated into Greek by Philo Byblius, was inserted by Eusebius in his Praeparatio Evangelica, and has thus been handed down to the present day. That portion of the history by Sanconiatho, which refers to Tubal Cain, is contained in the following words:

"A long time after the generation of Hypsoranios, the inventors of hunting and fishing, Agreas and Alieas, were born: after whom the people were called hunters and fishers, and from whom sprang two brothers, who discovered iron, and the manner of working it. One of these two, called Chrysor, was skilled in eloquence, and composed verses and prophecies. He was the same with Hephaistos, and invented fishing-hooks, bait for taking fish, cordage and rafts, and was the first of all mankind who had navigated. He was therefore worshipped as a god after his death, and was called diamichios. It is said that these brothers were the first who contrived partition walls of brick.

Hephaistos, it will be observed, is the Greek of the god who was called by the Romans Vulcan. Hence the remark of Sanconiatho, and the apparent similarity of names as well as occupations, have led some writers of the last, and even of the present, century to derive from Vulcan from Tubal Cain by a process not very devious and therefore familiar to etymologists. By the omission in Tubal Cain of the initial T, which is the phenician article, and its valueless vowel, we get Balcan, which, by the interchangeable nature of B and V, is easily transformed to Vulcan.

"That Tubal Cain,’ says Bishop Edw. Stillingfleet (Origines Sacrae, or a Rational Account of the Christian faith as to the Truth and Divine Authority of the Scriptures and the Matters therein contained, 1662, page 292), ‘gave first occasion to the name and worship of Vulcan, hath been very probably conceived, both from the very great affinity of the names, and that Tubal Cain is expressly mentioned to be an instructor of every artificer in brass and iron, and as near relation as Apollo had to Vulcan, Jubal had to Tubal Cain, who was the inventor of music, or the father of all such as handle the harp and organ, which the Greeks attribute to Apollo.’

"Vossius, in his treatise De Idolatria (book i, chapter 36), makes this derivation of Vulcan from Tubal Cain. But Bryant, in his Analysis of Ancient Mythology (volume i, page 139), denies the etymology and says that among the Egyptians and Babylonians, Vulcan was equivalent to Horus or Osiris, symbols of the sun. He traces the name to the words Baal Cahen, Holy Bel, or Sacred Lord. Bryant’s etymology may be adopted, however, without any interference with the identity of Vulcan and Tubal Cain. He who discovered the uses of fire, may well, in the corruptions of idolatry, have typified the solar orb, the source of all heat.

"It might seem that Tubal is an attribute compounded of the definite particle T and the word Baal, signifying Lord. Tubal Cain would then signify the Lord Cain. Again, dhu or du, in Arabic, signifies Lord, and we trace the same signification of this affix in its various interchangeable forms of Du, Tu, and Di, in many Semitic words. But the question of the identical origin of Tubal Cain and Vulcan has at length been settled by the researches of comparative philologists. Tubal Cain is Semitic in origin, and Vulcan is Aryan. The latter may be traced to the Sanskrit ulka, meaning a firebrand, from which we get also the Latin fulgar and fulmen, names of lightning.

"...The modern English Freemasons, and through them the French, have derived Tubal Cain from the Hebrew tebel, meaning earth and kanah to acquire possession, and, with little respect for the grammatical rules of the Hebrew language, interpret it, as meaning worldly possessions.

"In the Hemming lectures, now the authorized English system, we find that the answer to the question, ‘What does Tubal Cain denote?’ is "Worldly possessions.’ And Delaunay, in his Thuilleur (page 17), denies the reference to the proto-smith, and says: ‘If we reflect on the meaning of the two Hebrew words, we will easily recognize in their connection the secret with of the hierophant, of the Templar, of the Freemason, and of every mystical sect, to govern the world in accordance with its own principles and its own laws.’ It is fortunate, we think, that the true meaning of the words will authorize no such interpretation. The fact is, that even if Tubal Cain were derived from tebel and kanah, the precise rules of Hebrew construction would forbid affixing to their union any such meaning as ‘worldly possessions.’ Such an interpretation of it in the French and English systems was, therefore, in Doctor Mackey’s opinion, a very forced and inaccurate one.

"The use of Tubal Cain as a significant word in the Masonic instructions is derived from the Legend of the Craft, by which the name was made familiar to the Operative and then to the Speculative Freemasons; and it refers not symbolically, but historically to his Scriptural and traditional reputation as an artificer. If he symbolized anything, it would be labor; and a Freemason’s labor is to acquire truth, and not worldly possessions. The English and French interpretation has never been introduced into the United States." (volume 2, pp. 1059-1060)

I apologize for the length of this excerpt, but everything that is said is important for us to utilize in order to come to the understanding of the transition from Tubal Cain to Balcan (Balkan) to Vulcan, the fire god of the Romans.
To be Continued……JH

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