Originally composed of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, BRICS has doubled in size with new members: Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, comprising nearly half of the world's population and 30% of the global economy. Thirty more countries are lining up to join.
From DC Daily Journal.
Doubled? From 5 to 10?
1) Brazil,
2) Russia,
3) India,
4) China,
5) South Africa
6) Egypt,
7) Ethiopia,
8) Iran,
9) Saudi Arabia,
10) United Arab Emirates
There are two Bible references on ten kings, and I'm not withholding the Haydock comments.
And the ten horns of the same kingdom, shall be ten kings: and another shall rise up after them, and he shall be mightier than the former, and he shall bring down three kings.
[Daniel 7:24]
Ver. 24. Mightier. Chaldean again, "unlike." Antiochus the great had lost many provinces: but his son was the most implacable enemy of God's people. He subdued them, Egypt and Armenia; or his three competitors, ver. 8
Which refers to:
Ver. 8. Little horn. This is commonly understood of antichrist. It may also be applied to that great persecutor, Antiochus Epiphanes, as a figure of antichrist. (Challoner)
He was the youngest son of Antiochus the great, and was a hostage of Rome. While he was returning, his elder brother died, and Epiphanes excluded his son Philometor, of Egypt, and the usurper Heliodorus. He also defeated three, Philometor, on the south; Artaxias, king of Armenia, on the east; and the strength, or God's people, ver 24., and chap. viii. 9.
Man. He gained several at first, by his affability.
Things: blasphemy, 1 Machabees i. 23, 43. (Calmet)
And the ten horns which thou sawest, are ten kings, who have not yet received a kingdom, but shall receive power as kings one hour after the beast.
[Apocalypse (Revelation) 17:12]
Ver. 12. The ten horns, or ten kings, which thou sawest, as yet have received no kingdom, but shall receive power as kings one hour after the beast; or, as it is in the Greek, with the beast. According to the common interpretation, this must be referred to ten, or many kings, who are different from all the wicked kings that had been, and who should follow and live at the same time with the beast, by which here seems to be signified antichrist. Or, if by these ten kings we understand all the wicked kings, who were to come after St. John wrote, to the end of the world, they had not yet kingdoms, but the kingdoms which they should have, and all their vain happiness, would be very short, and at the same time they would be under the beast, and subject to him. (Witham)
Ten horns. These denote ten kings or ten powers; namely, Goths, Huns, Alans, Vandals, Saxons, Burgundians, Franks, Heruli, Suevi, &c., the chief of the Barbarians that invaded the Roman empire in the fifth century.
They shall receive power as kings, one hour after the beast; that is, they will serve under their own leaders, to assist pagan Rome a little against its enemies; and their one design is afterwards to take the fruitful provinces of Rome to themselves, which we know they did. (Pastorini)
Ten kings. Ten lesser kingdoms, enemies also of the Church of Christ; which nevertheless shall be made instruments of the justice of God, for the punishment of Babylon. Some understand this of the Goths, Vandals, Huns, and other barbarous nations that destroyed the empire of Rome. (Challoner)
PS, it can be noted there was a time, between 81 and 86, that EU also had ten members: 1 January 1981 – Greece becomes the 10th country to join; Member countries: 1) Federal Republic of Germany, 2) France, 3) Italy, 4) Netherlands, 5) Belgium, 6) Luxembourg, 7) Denmark, 8) Ireland, 9) United Kingdom; New Member countries: 10) Greece. However, this was not followed by a mightier one bringing down three of them.
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