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Psalms
109:15-31 Let them be
continually before the LORD, That He may cut off the memory of them from the
earth; Because he did not remember to show mercy, But persecuted the poor and
needy man, That he might even slay the broken in heart. As he loved cursing, so
let it come to him; As he did not delight in blessing, so let it be far from
him. As he clothed himself with cursing as with his garment, So let it enter
his body like water, And like oil into his bones. Let it be to him like the
garment which covers him, And for a belt with which he girds himself continually.
Let this be the LORD's reward to my accusers,
And to those who speak evil against my person. But You, O GOD the Lord, Deal
with me for Your name's sake; Because Your mercy is good, deliver me. For I am poor and needy, And my heart is wounded within me. I am gone
like a shadow when it lengthens; I am shaken off like a locust. My knees are
weak through fasting, And my flesh is feeble from lack of fatness. I also have
become a reproach to them; When
they look at me, they shake their heads. Help me, O LORD my God! Oh, save me
according to Your mercy, That they may know that this is Your hand— That
You, LORD, have done it! Let them curse, but You bless; When they arise, let
them be ashamed, But let Your servant rejoice. Let my accusers be clothed with
shame, And let them cover themselves with their own disgrace as with a mantle.
I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; Yes, I will praise Him among the
multitude. For He shall stand at the right hand of the poor, To save him from those who condemn him.
Father God I
ask that you be with each and every one of us this next week. Keep us all safe,
healthy, and in good cheer. Help us to place our faith in you totally for all
things in our life. In Jesus name we pray, Amen!
Revelation 13:10-18 NKJV
In
this lesson we will be introduced to One World Order of Worship and Economics.
I have to ask the question, how far off is one world economics with the state
of many countries presently?
This
was a tough lesson for me. With all the beasts mentioned I even got confused
and had to eliminate one page and start over. I do hope I have been able
explain this book so that one can understand it better. Revelation is a
difficult book of the Bible to understand.
10 He who leads into captivity shall go into
captivity; he who kills with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is
the patience and the faith of the saints.
He
who leads into captivity shall go into captivity; This phrase is simply stating that the
Antichrist will end up in captivity, Hell. Those in Hell are referred to as
being in captivity in the Bible. All that follow the Antichrist, or are led by
the Antichrist, will end up in Hell, because he will be deceiving them into
believing he is the Messiah. Deuteronomy 28:41 You shall beget sons and daughters, but they
shall not be yours; for they shall go into captivity. Ephesians
4:8 Therefore He says: "WHEN HE ASCENDED ON HIGH, HE LED CAPTIVITY
CAPTIVE, AND GAVE GIFTS TO MEN." God
will place a delusion over these people, they will believe the lies of the
Antichrist, and will fight for his cause. 2 Thessalonians 2:11 And for
this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the
lie.
He
who kills with the sword must be killed with the sword; This is telling us that those that
follow the Antichrist and go out and wage war with Israel will perish and go
into captivity. If they kill they will be killed and will suffer in Hell for
eternity.
Here
is the patience and the faith of the saints; This phrase of this verse is addressing the true
believers now. John is first telling us what is going to happen to those that
don’t believe with their hearts and now he is telling us what is going to
happen to God’s Saints. Those that believe during this time of the Tribulation
are encouraged to stay faithful and have patience knowing the reward will be
eternal life in Heaven. They will go through great trials and persecution, but
they must persevere to the end. There is no doubt that God’s Saints will be
tortured in an attempt to get them to deny Jesus, or to proclaim the Antichrist
is god. Some will die as a result of this persecution.
11 Then I saw another beast coming up out of the
earth, and he had two horns like a lamb and spoke like a dragon.
Then
I saw another beast coming up out of the earth; This is another beast that is similar
to the first beast the Antichrist. This beast rises up from the earth meaning
the people, just like the word sea is used. Many try to make the word “earth”
into something spiritual, as well as the word “sea” in Verse 1, but they both come
from the same source, masses of people. This is Satan’s version of the trinity;
Satan, the Antichrist, and the False Prophet. Satan wants to be God, the
Antichrist sets out to replace Christ; and the False Prophet attempts to imitate
the Holy Spirit. Of course, the comparison is revolting, but this is Satan’s plan.
This beast is identified
as the false prophet in Revelation 16:13 and Revelation 19:20 also. Revelation 16:13 And I saw
three unclean spirits like frogs coming
out of the mouth of the dragon, out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the
mouth of the false prophet. Revelation 19:20
Then the beast was captured, and with him the false prophet who worked signs in
his presence, by which he deceived those who received the mark of the beast and
those who worshiped his image. These two were cast alive into the lake of fire
burning with brimstone.
So putting all these names
together to help understand and keep these figures strait we have god the
father (referred to as Satan and/or dragon), god the son (referred to as Antichrist,
wounded beast, and beast), and god the spirit (referred to as false prophet and
beast). A trinity of these characters is a frightening thought, isn’t it? Satan
is always deceiving people and he uses miracles to get the job done as we will
see in the upcoming verses. Satan replicates our God’s ways because he knows
and sees the results of God’s work through Jesus and the Holy Spirit. When the
Antichrist rises up, the captive beast will be set free to assist the
Antichrist by means of miracles along with many other things. Just as God had a
plan to execute when Jesus walked this earth, Satan has a plan to execute when
the Antichrist walks this earth. The Holy Spirit was with Jesus, spoke through
Jesus, and performed miracles through Jesus. The second beast will be trying to
replicate the Holy Spirit through the Antichrist, because he gets his power
from Satan.
He
had two horns like a lamb; Here
this man is referred to as a lamb, but a lamb with horns. A male lamb has horns
but covered with hair and in order to see the horns, one must part the hair. In
scripture a lamb always signifies Jesus, but here it signifies the smooth
talking, kind, gentle, loving man, which he will be starting out. The phony act
of this man is all part of a plan of cunningness, deceptiveness, lies, false
claims, etc. to win the hearts of people especially Israel.
Spoke
like a dragon; This
beast will speak as if he had the Devil in him which he will because Satan will
be whispering in his ear what to say, when to say it, and how to say it.
12 And he exercises all the authority of the first
beast in his presence, and causes the earth and those who dwell in it to
worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
And
he exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence; The power of this beast comes from
Satan and not from the Antichrist. The false prophet exercises his power in the
presence of the Antichrist to glorify him and not himself.
Causes
the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast; By the False Prophet exercising his
power in the presence of the Antichrist, however that will be, it will cause
the people of the earth to think very highly of the Antichrist and as a result
worship him. As stated we don’t really know how this will happen, but it will.
Whose
deadly wound was healed; As
explained last week in verse 13:3 the Antichrist will also get his power from a
fallen angel that will be release and this is what this phrase is referring to.
This fallen angel is locked away until the Antichrist emerges and then he will
be set free. By him being set free his wound is healed. The book of Daniel
talks about this fallen angel, which is the same fallen angel that assisted
Alexander the Great in his Grecian take over. Daniel 8:18-25 NLT While he was speaking, I fainted and lay
there with my face to the ground. But Gabriel roused me with a touch and helped
me to my feet. 19
Then he said, "I am here to tell you what will happen later in the time of
wrath. What you have seen pertains to the very end of time. 20 The
two-horned ram represents the kings of Media and Persia. 21 The shaggy
male goat represents the king of Greece, and the large horn between his eyes
represents the first king of the Greek Empire.
22 The four prominent horns that
replaced the one large horn show that the Greek Empire will break into four
kingdoms, but none as great as the first.
23 "At the end of their rule, when their sin
is at its height, a fierce king, a master of intrigue, will rise to power. 24 He will
become very strong, but not by his own power. He will cause a shocking amount
of destruction and succeed in everything he does. He will destroy powerful
leaders and devastate the holy people. 25 He will be a master of deception and will become
arrogant; he will destroy many without warning. He will even take on the Prince
of princes in battle, but he will be broken, though not by human power.
13 He performs great signs, so that he even makes
fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men.
This beast will have power
to perform great signs and miracles to deceive people. This fire will be in the
form of lightning and what will it do, we don’t know for sure. Could it consume
a sacrifice like in Old Testament times? Could it consume people like lightning
struck down two of Aaron’s son’s? However this happens it will be to deceive
people.
Revelation 13:14 And he deceives those who dwell on the earth—by
those signs which he was granted to do in the sight of the beast, telling those
who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who was wounded by the
sword and lived.
And
he deceives those who dwell on the earth—by those signs which he was granted to
do in the sight of the beast;
As stated above the False Prophet will do these signs in ways to promote and
glorify the Antichrist to the world. Base on the last part of this verse, it
could be that the False Prophet will be doing these things while the Antichrist
is recovering from his wound.
Telling
those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who was wounded by
the sword and lived; Here
he is telling those on earth to build an image of the beast, the Antichrist.
The last part of this
verse is telling us that the Antichrist will be injured somehow, so severe that
he died or should have died, but is brought back to life. Maybe it is through
this miracle that this beast promotes and uplifts the Antichrist in the minds
of the people that he is indestructible and therefore promoted as the messiah?
Whatever it is it will be grand in the eyes of people and they will believe.
15 He was granted power to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image
of the beast should both speak and cause as many as would not worship the image
of the beast to be killed.
This False Prophet will be
empowered to give breath and speech to the image that will be made. How can
this be? Satan has many demon spirits at his disposal and through them it will
appear that the image is alive and speaks. It will be by deception because
Satan is a master at deception. God is the only one that can give life and all
Satan can do is emulate life through his magic. Everyone has seen science
fiction movies where a native tribe in the jungle has an image that speaks and
has breath, but as the movie progresses the trickery is uncovered. This is how
a breathing talking image will be made possible.
This image of the
Antichrist will condemn those to death that will not worship the image. People
will probably be brought in front of the image and when they refuse to worship,
the image will sentence them to death.
This is how the one world
order of worship will come about. There will be no other religion, only the
worship of the image of the Antichrist.
16 He causes all, both small and great, rich and
poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their
foreheads,
Starting with this verse
we see one world economics coming into being. It won’t be just for a particular
class of people, but for all people. This mark I’ve mentioned before and it
could be some type of tattoo, microchip, or something that can only be view by
some type of scanner. We don’t really know, but I lean toward a microchip being
implanted beneath the skin on the back of the hand or on the forehead.
17 and that no one may buy or sell except one who
has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
This verse tells us that a
person will have to have this mark in order to buy or sell anything. This mark
identifies those that belong to the beast, meaning Satan. Anyone taking on the
mark is stating that they will follow the Antichrist anywhere including Hell.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding
calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666.
This wisdom spoken of here
is God’s wisdom. All are warned by this verse that if they take on the mark of
the beast, then they are following man. The number 666 represents man and not
God, or Heaven, or religion, or dispensation, but man. This man cannot give
eternal life, only eternal death in the lake of fire.
Colossians 1:16 For by Him all things were created
that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether
thrones or dominions or principalities or powers.
All things were created through Him
and for Him.
Romans 3:23 for all have sinned and fall short of
the glory of God,
Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our
Lord.
John 3:3 Jesus answered and said to him, Most assuredly, I say to you,
unless one is born again, he
cannot see the kingdom of God."
Sinners
Prayer; Pray this, and if you believe it with your heart, Jesus will save you!
“Lord Jesus I know I am a sinner. I confess my sins to you; I am sorry for my
sins; I repent (Meaning, desiring to turn from a sinful lifestyle.) of all my
sins, and I am asking for your forgiveness of all of my sins. I believe that only you can forgive sin. I commit my life to you and ask you to come
into my heart, direct, and take charge of my life. I believe that you died to set me free from my
sinful lifestyle and you rose from the dead to give me eternal life, and right
now you are seated at the Right Hand of God Almighty. I believe you are the Son
of God; the only Way, the only Truth, the only Life, and my Savior.” I believe this and have faith you will make a
new person out of me, by sending the Holy Spirit to dwell in my heart and lead
me in a new life. In Jesus name I pray Amen.”
(John 3:16,17; Romans 3:23; 6:23; 5:8; 10:9-13; Ephesians 2:8-10; 1
John 5:11-14; 1:6-10) (Sin: Rom.
1:22-32; Gal. 5:19-21; Eph. 5:3-7)
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