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Hi. From Bremerton, it's Monday night. We're gonna be studying Revelation chapter 13 tonight. We're gonna open with prayer, and please be in prayer for Sally, for James, Cora, and Esther. Sally's sick with cancer, stage four. If the lord doesn't do a miracle, she's going to be with him pretty soon and James is there. He's exhausted. Cora's spending the night there several nights. She's exhausted. And and Esther's exhausted. They've been the three caregivers staying with Sally, you know, twenty four seven and we just saw him yesterday and they just look really, really, really tired, you know. So, let's pray. Father, we come before you and we lift up James and Sally. First of all, we pray for Sally, a miracle of healing on her body, lord. Pray that you would have mercy upon her, lord and you're do according to your perfect wills how we pray, Lord. Not our will, but your will be done. And we we pray for what we believe to be the highest good for us. Is that you'd heal our friend? But according to your will and what's best for Sally, maybe that she go home to be with you, Lord. But we just pray you comfort James and Cora and Auntie Esther and just help them as they're the caregivers. Give the doctors, nurses wisdom. And bless Kelly. Help her to continue to improve and get better. And Doctor Richard and Mike Goodson to bless him. Keep him healthy. And just continue to pour your holy spirit upon us. Lord, be with Karen Waller. Help her with her health challenges. And bless this night lord in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Alright. Thanks, Rob. Revelation chapter 13 And Lord, we again, we lift up Sally. Haven't heard from James. So Lord, we just pray your perfect will be done. Comfort them, your peace, and steadfast understanding. Give the doctors, nurses wisdom, and just be with them. Lord, bless them. And, Lord, we committed into your hands. Revelation 13, please be our teacher. Please open the scriptures to us, heavenly father, and help instruct us, lead and guide us the way we should go, Lord. Guide us with your word, guide us with your eye, guide us by your spirit. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Alright. Chapter 13 is the middle. It's still in that middle portion of the tribulation period. So twelve hundred and ninety twelve hundred and sixty days in, three and a half years, forty two months in, we reached the midpoint. One of the things in the midpoint was chapter 11, the two witnesses are executed and and resurrected, ascended up into heaven. And we saw chapter 12 last week. Also, some of it pertaining to the end when the when devil at the midpoint and then twelve sixty forward and the return of Christ, but also at the midpoint, the antichrist antagonism is hatred toward the nation of Israel and chasing them as they get three and a half years being preserved in the area of Jordan. So that's that's in the mid midsection of the tribulation period. And then chapter 13, the middle section. So we we we're introduced to a couple beasts here. We're introduced to the Antichrist and also the false prophet, and we have what's called the unholy trinity. The dragon here, the devil Lucifer sees himself as god the father. The antichrist means in place of Jesus Christ. So he he's a counterfeit second person of the trinity. Then we're also going to be introduced to the false prophet in this chapter who is going to bear witness of the Antichrist which is the role of the Holy Spirit. So, you have the unholy trinity starting at verse 11. So, here we go and I stood upon the sand of the sea and saw a beast rise about of the sea having seven heads and 10 horns and upon his horns 10 crowns and upon his heads the name of blasphemy And so we've got a beast coming out of the sea. The sea represents all the Gentiles and all, and this is one of the passages, one of the reasons that people do not believe the Antichrist is gonna be a Jew. That he's gonna be a Gentile. And so he's coming out of the sea. The origin is out of the sea. And he rose about of the sea, the sea of the world, let's say, having seven heads and 10 horns. And so this beast, as we're gonna see here, is twofold. One is a person, but two is an empire. So we're gonna have the rebirth of the Roman Empire, which would be the fourth nation. So you have global dominant global world powers from Daniel chapter two and Daniel seven. We've got the Babylonian Empire, and then it was subdued by the Medo Persian Empire. Persia, that's Iran today, And the Medes of the Kurds still happening. So the Medo Persian was Cyrus and Darius. And then we had the Third World Empire, which was Alexander the Great, the Grecian Empire. And then after that, we had the Roman Empire. And the Roman Empire, some say, has never ended. So that's the fourth world empire. And then you have the fifth world empire, which is gonna be the rebirth of the Roman Empire. And so you got the fourth, the fifth, coming up to seven, the the rebirth Roman Empire, what global empire, then you got the 10 toes, that'll be the sixth one, then you have the seventh one, which is the Antichrist one. So some look at it that way. Seven seven types of imperial like Rome is an imperial form of government and so with these kings and then we got the 10 horns. The 10 horns tie us in back in chapter seven also with the 10 toes of Daniel two, ten horns of Daniel seven, and then here we have the horns and the and the the and the crowns and so we're going to see in chapter 17 and that means the the crowns and the kings. So the 10 kings, the world divided into the 10 regions, and and this is the beast that sits upon that global system at the end of the age. He's gonna come on the scene according to Daniel seven twenty three as a world government somehow. The world's gonna morph into world government. And then from that world government, it's gonna be divided into 10 regions. Seven twenty four. Daniel seven twenty four. And those 10 regions be run by 10 kings, so there's where it's imperial. And and then at the midpoint, the Antichrist is gonna go in the temple, declare himself to be God, demand to be worshipped as God, and that's in chapter 13 here. And in that, he topples he topples three of the 10. He becomes the eight according to Daniel seven verse eight. And and then he becomes there's 11 with him there, and then he's topples three and he becomes the eight. And so that's another form of government, which is the second half, which is run by just him rather than the 10 the 10 run going on. So I know none of that's making any sense. You guys are so quiet. And upon his head, the name of blasphemy. So again, I have to repeat this. When we mention the beast here, we're mentioning the beast antichrist, but we're also mentioning the beast as in the beast empire that he's representing. So you're gonna you're gonna it's gonna mean both here for a little bit here. And the beast which I saw was like a leopard. So this is tying in with the beast as a empire. So if we go to we see the leopard, which would be the Greeks because they they conquered very quickly with Alexander the Great. And then you got the bear, which is the Medo Persia, and they were just brute, big force. And then before that, the first world empire was the Babylonians, and they were a lion with wings. And so turn to just so you believe me, turn to Daniel chapter seven. Here we go. So Daniel chapter seven verse verse three. And the four beasts came up from the sea, diverse from one another. The first was like a lion and had eagle's wings. That's the Babylonian empire. And I beheld its wings and it plucked up and it was lifted up and the earth and made stand upon its feet as a man, and a man's heart was given to it. So Nebuchadnezzar, the image of of Nebuchadnezzar and all. And behold another beast, so you have another world empire, Gentile world empire in the times of the Gentiles, Another beast, the second like at a bear. So this is the Medo Persian Empire, May, and it had an army of 2,500,000 soldiers, so the brute force of of that. And he had three ribs in his mouth of it, and they say that this is that Persia defeated Ethiopia, Libya, and and Turkey, and those are the three ribs in its mouth that he came when he came arise and devour the flesh of Libya, Babylon, and Egypt, excuse me. And after this, I beheld and low another one like a leopard. So this Alexander the Great, which had upon its back four wings of a fowl, the beast also of four heads, and a dominion was given to it. And so Alexander the Great, when he died at 32, a young age, he his kingdom was divided between four of his generals. And then later, we've got the and after this, I saw in the night vision behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible and strong and exceedingly. And it had great iron teeth and devoured and broken pieces and stamped the residue with its feet. And it was diverse from all the other beasts that were before it, and it had 10 horns. So we're inclined to say this fourth one would be Rome, but it's actually telescoping the rebirth of the Roman Empire where this this empire is gonna have 10 horns or 10 kings there, but it'd be extremely powerful. And I considered the horns, and behold, there came up among them. So you have these 10 kings, 10 horns here, 10 toes in Daniel two. And if you don't understand me, can get Billy Crone's new book. Right? The Trump Paradox, and he lists this. Alright? We've been saying it for quite a couple of years. You guys already got this down. But it's so fascinating to watch it all of a sudden be the number one best seller out there among the Christians, you know. Alright. I could have been a contender. I consider the horns and behold, there came up among them another little horns. So little horns, the antichrist. So you got the 10 horns, and then so picture the world in a one world global government, and it becomes divided into 10 regions. So it's a one world government, new world order, possibly. Daniel seven twenty three. Look there. 23. Thus saith the the fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon the earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down and break it in pieces. That's the new world order, the one world global government that's that's coming. And the 10 horns so the next form of governments can be divided into 10 horns, the one spoken of Daniel two, ten toes. And the 10 horns out of this so out of that one world government, they're gonna be divided into 10 regions, 10 horns. So you're gonna have removal of the East West system that we have now, the power divided East West, it's gonna be global. The power's gonna be one world. And shall rise another, shall rise after them, and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings and he shall speak great words against the most high and shall wear out the saints of the most high and so he's gonna be a boaster. This antichrist can be a boaster, huge boaster saying blasphemy against the lord and going after god's people. Going after those that love the most high. And and to change the times and the law and shall be given into his hand until a time a time and a dividing of a time. So his reign is he's gonna sign the peace treaty, Daniel nine twenty six and twenty seven, and that starts the tribulation period. Then the he emerges as the abomination of desolation at the midpoint, and he goes into the temple going to the second lesson in two and declares his altar to be god. Tema has to be worshiped as god, and the Jews eyes are open, and they flee to Jordan, Southern Jordan. And and then the remaining three and a half years time, time and a half time, he wants to be worshiped as God. Alright. So so he's got a big mouth, so now we go back to Revelation 13. Now when you're studying the book of Revelation, you gotta use the entire Bible to interpret the book Revelation. It's the last book written, and John wrote it right around '95 right around '95 and on the island of Patmos. And so when you what we just did where we went into Daniel seven, it's so that we can understand what's being said in chapter 13. And right now what we're looking at 13, we're trying to interpret these three, the beast, the leopard, the bear, and the lion, and it's in reverse order. Right? Because in in Daniel two, first world empire starts out as the Babylonians, Medes in the middle, and then the Greeks, and then the Romans. But here, he's got it reversed in verse two. It's the leopard, which would be Greece, the bear, which would be Medo Persia, and the lion, which would be Babylon. Alright. Study to show yourself approved unto god, workmen that need not to be ashamed, rightly divided in the word of truth. I'm giving you a secret. If you're ever gonna teach the book of Revelation, if you're ever gonna talk to people about studying the book of Revelation, they're gonna say to you, oh, it's allegorical. It's symbolic. Nobody can understand that. Right? And they'll even quote you and tell you that their pastors, you know, have never taught it, won't teach it, and it's too hard to understand. And then you have the Preterist view, those that do teach it, and they're teaching that all of it happened in seventy AD. It's all past tense. It's all already happened. We're looking at it as its future. But the Preterist or the guys that are a replacement theology people, they look at it in their eschatology as it all of it already happened in seventy AD when Titus surround the city of Jerusalem destroyed it. It's all past tense. So you and I are looking at it in the present tense like, hey, the rapture could happen right now. And, boy, Israel might get, you know, invaded. When's Ezekiel 38? When's Ezekiel 39? Is Elam true? Is Elam a territory of Persia? Did that that already happened in the past according to Amir and some others? Or according to Bill Salas and some of the other prophecy experts right now, doctor Bill Salas, it could be Jeremiah 49 right now where it's just a regime change. You like that? You like the regime change? Right now, it says in Jeremiah 49 that just the king would be removed. Ain't that fascinating? So some say, Jeremiah 49 is happening right now and others say, no. That was in the past. I don't know who to believe. Alright. So what I'm trying trying to get you to do is use the Bible to interpret the Bible. And when it comes to book of Revelation, just let everyone you know, hey, you gotta study the whole Bible to understand the book of Revelation. When we study the book of Revelation, we're in Zechariah. You know, we're we're in all of the Old Testament books. We're in the book of Genesis. We're all over the place and and that's the problem. Here's another problem. The churches today don't teach the Old Testament. No. No Old Testament. Can you think of a church around here besides the Calvary Chapel that teaches out of the Old Testament? No. From Genesis to Revelation? If it has to do with money. Well, what I'm saying is is that no wonder you can't study the book of Revelation. You don't even study the Old Testament. Mhmm. And without the Old Testament, you can't understand the New Testament. Right? Right. Right. You need the Old Testament to understand the new. And so I just like studying the Bible. This is fascinating. I know I could have said, these 10 crowns, they represent gifts that you're gonna get when you get to the Bema Seat judgment. I could've said that. None of you would've been able to say anything about it. I'm I'm allegorizing it. I'm just gonna I'm gonna make it a symbol. It's a symbol. The 10 crowns, that's on your diadem. And once you start going down that road, interpreting symbolically or allegorically when it's not, when it when it's literal, sometimes it is symbolic. So, the lion is symbolic of Babylon, right? The leopard symbolic of Greece but we had to get that from the very source back in Daniel seven when the lord told us what represented those nations. Right? And so in Revelation 13, he doesn't give them information, but in in the book of Daniel, get there. So I'm so blessed to have you guys as students of the Bible and those of you on Facebook, but you are a rare group. You are a very small group of people. I don't know what people are doing tonight, but but you're studying the Bible. So in the beast which I saw was like a leopard out of out of his feet were like like the feet of a bear, and his mouth was like the mouth of a lion. So the this kingdom that's coming with the antichrist kingdom, the one world kingdom, is gonna have features of the Babylonians, gonna have characteristics of the Medes and the Persians, gonna have characteristics of the Alexander the Great is what he's saying, and power in his throne and great authority and I saw one of his heads as though it were wounded. So, this verse is alluding to the assassination of the beast, the antichrist. So, he's there's an assassination upon him and turn to Zechariah eleven seventeen. I told you we're going to be in the Old Testament. Zechariah eleven seventeen. What are the idol shepherd? Antichrist. Antichrist. What are the idol shepherd? That leaveth the flock. The sword shall be upon his arm and upon his right eye. His arm shall be completely dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened. So some look at it as he's wounded and appears to be dead, but then, you know, comes back. But when we look at this verse verse three, and we tie it into seventeen eleven. Go to seventeen eleven. And the beast that was so notice the tense here. The beast that was and is not, so he was and then he is not. He died, and even he is. He's the eighth. Remember we saw in Daniel seven eight, the little horn, the eighth? He's the eighth and is of the seven and goeth into perdition. And so his kingdom comes out of the previous seven global empires, and he goes into perdition and that he's the devil, but there's a picture there or a description of he had a counterfeit resurrection. So I saw on one of his heads as though it were wounded to death, and this deadly wound was was healed, and all the world wondered at the beast. So he died. It could have been when he was battling the other three countries that he subdued, and and somehow somebody got to him and tried to assassinate him, and they thought he was or he was he was dead, but raised up. And so a miracle is happening. So, again, a counterfeit trinity. The dragon is the counterfeit god the father. The antichrist, the first beast, the counterfeit, Jesus Christ, and the false prophet, the counterfeit holy spirit. And so you have the devil being the counterfeit, the counterfeit trinity, and a counterfeit resurrection. We're also gonna see in this in this here where when you get the mark of the beast you're not getting the mark of the beast. Right? Nope. Okay. When they get the mark of the beast, the earth dwellers, again, the devil is counterfeiting god putting the seal upon your life. You being sealed with the holy spirit as we study in Ephesians chapter one. Right? We're sealed by the Holy Spirit. When we look at in in Revelation chapter seven, the 144,000 that were sealed on their foreheads. You see that? That's the authentic. That's the real god put in a seal. Well, the counterfeiter, the counterfeit, you know, god the father, he's gonna put a seal on everybody in his kingdom. And that seal is a counterfeit seal. It's the mark of the beast on your right hand or your forehead. Right? Simply counterfeit. And when we get over there, there's some fascinating things I learned today about that. So alright. So he's wounded, and in all the world he's getting really popular. All the world's looking at him. I mean, he's dead. The two witnesses, they were dead in the street three and a half days, and then boom, they stood up and they ascended up. Well, we're gonna we're gonna do that one better. He's he's wounded and he's dead. He's resurrected. And they worship the dragon. So here we come to the counterfeit god the father. The dragon's the devil, and the devil inspires Genesis three fifteen, the seed of the woman. And and so it counterfeit god the son and then as we said, the the false prophet. So, the name Antichrist, he's the seed of Satan in Genesis three fifteen. He's the little horn of Daniel seven eight. He's the king of fierce countenance in Daniel eight twenty three. He's the prince that shall come, Daniel nine twenty six. He's the desolator, Daniel nine twenty seven. He's the willful king of Daniel eleven thirty six. He's the man of sin. Second Thessalonians two verse three. He's the son of perdition. Second Thessalonians two verse three. He's the lawless one. Second Thessalonians two verse eight. He's the antichrist, first John two twenty two. He's the beast of Revelation 11 verse seven and a Revelation 13 verse one where we're at. He's Daniel twelve eleven and Matthew twenty four fifteen. He's the abomination that makes desolation, right? So, that's the guy we're talking about. He's a counterfeit Jesus Christ in place of Jesus Christ and it says, and they worship the dragon. So, when we look at the second Thessalonians two and it says, because they rejected the truth of who Jesus is cause Jesus said in Matthew five verse 43, he said, I've come in my father's name and you, the nation of Israel, you receive me not. Another shall come in his own name and him you will receive. Speaking of the antichrist. This antichrist is coming and everybody's, you know, coming after him and not just he he's gonna demand to be worshiped. So he goes into the temple. He goes into the holy of holies. He declares himself to be god at the midpoint of the tribulation period. The eyes of the Jews are open. We were duped. Right? 3.5 earlier. And they've got to flee from him because he's angry at them. And and he goes in there, declares himself to be God, and demands to be worshipped as God. So, again, in this chapter, we're gonna see the image of the beast. We're gonna see the mark and that image of the beast is gonna be put in the tribulation temple into the holy of holies. Okay? And that's the abomination that made desolation. Alright? So and they worshiped the dragon, and that's what the devil wants. The devil wants worship. You and I, we are and we're made for worship. We're made to worship God. We're not to worship any graven images. We're not to worship anything except the true living God. So God has established human government, but but when human government crosses the line and thinks that it's God, we say, no. I'll obey the true and living God. Right? And the devil always always wants, if he can, he wants to have a form of government where the people have to worship that government. And so they they have a god complex, basically. So they worship the dragon who gave power under the beast. So this power is it's a limited power. The power of our god is he's omnipotent. He's all powerful. He's omniscient. He's all knowing, and he's omnipresent. He's everywhere. The devil does not have those characteristics because he's a fallen angel. But he's able to give authority, not the dunamis dynamic power, but more of an authority under the beast. And they worshiped the beast saying, is like the beast? Who is able to make war with him? Now God told the children of Israel in Deuteronomy chapter nine verse two that there would be some people on the planet named the Anakim. President Trump's letting us know about these aliens right now. Ain't that weird? And we got we got Purim going on. We got Queen Esther saving the day and Haman dying. Right? And the Donald, you know, doing it, man. Board of peace, the whole thing. Lot of crazy stuff going on. Well, in the tribulation period, you ain't seen nothing yet how crazy it's gonna be. Sorcery, alcohol, enormous amount of occult activity, and people aren't gonna know which end is up. But in Deuteronomy nine verse two, God told the children of Israel before the time of Joshua and them going into the land. This is this is with Moses in Deuteronomy. He's letting them know there's a time future that you guys are gonna go into the land that I'm gonna lead you in and you're gonna face giants. You're gonna face the Anakim. Who wants to read Deuteronomy nine verse two? I'll do it. Alrighty. Okay. Veron nine verse two. A people great and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom thou knowest and of whom thou hast heard say, who can stand before the children of Anak? And so the what are they saying here? Who can who is able to make war with him? So the children of Israel, when they faced the Philistines, there's a giant named Goliath, and God sent out a little shepherd boy with a slingshot to slay the people's champion. Who can make war with the Antichrist? Nobody thinks, you know, anybody's gonna be able to subdue them. And God said, You know? I had a little shepherd boy named David with a slingshot take out the Anakim. Yeah. His offspring of the Anakim. Goliath's the giant. Right? And who's able to make war with him? And there was given unto him and an important thing to remember here is David knew in first Samuel 17 that the battle belonged to the Lord. When it thinks in terms of the Anakim, when the children of Israel went over the 12 spies to spy out the land later when they for forty years, they went in a circle. Finally finally or excuse me. They they they had to spend forty years going in a circle because of the unbelief. They came back with the 10 unbelieving spies. So they're ready to go and take the land. 12 spies go in. Two came back with a good report, Caleb and Joshua. But the other 10 said there's giants in the land, walled villages. We're not gonna be able to do anything against them. And it says that that unbelief permeated the hearts of the rest of the people, and then they began to rebel against God and rebel against Moses and, you know, wanna wanna go back to Egypt and stuff. And and so the world is gonna rebel against God, the apostasy, and we, god's people, need to remember that the battle belongs to the lord. It belongs to the lord. That's what David knew, but the people in of the 12 spies at the time of Joshua, they apparently didn't didn't listen to Deuteronomy nine verse two because God told them prophetically ahead of time that when you meet up with the Anakin, you know, don't worry about it. I got it. So there was given unto him a mouth. Remember back in Daniel seven verse eight, the little horn had a big mouth. They called him big mouth. And, boy, I can think of some politicians who got a big mouth today. And and there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies. So you're it's gonna be in vogue as it is today to say anything you want against Jesus Christ. To say anything you want against the true and living God. These are blasphemies and great things and blasphemies against true and living God. So when they reject the truth in second Thessalonians two, they have the world, then god says because they rejected the truth that he is going to give them over to a strong delusion that they would believe the lie. Part of the lie is, first and foremost, you're gonna believe in the tribulation period that the antichrist is god. You're gonna believe that's a lie, but you're gonna believe that lie. Those of you that are in the earth dwellers. Right? The other part of the lie is the people themselves are gonna buy into the lie of the devil that you can be as gods. And that's the lie that the globalist presently are spreading, Jared Kushner and others saying that and you all know Harari, guys like this, saying that as I look up ahead, they're they're not gonna die. They're gonna take their soul and put it into some sort of machine and and live forever or whatever. But the the lie of the wicked one that you won't die, and that's what's gonna be appealing to the people, but it's gonna be blasphemous towards God. And power was given unto him to continue forty and two months. How long is that? Twelve sixty days? Three hundred. Forty two months? Three and a half years. Three and a half years. Yeah. Or a time, a time, and a half a time. Right? Okay. And he opened his mouth and blasphemy against god. So that's the abomination of desolation. That's second Thessalonians two. That's going in the temple declaring self to go be God and demand to be worshiped as God. That's blasphemy. And and he's he's unafraid against god to blaspheme his name and his tabernacle and them that dwell in heaven. So he's he's knows it's reaching up to heaven. He hates god's people. He hates the Jews. He hates the Christians. He hates the tribulation saints. He's a hater, and he's a liar and a murderer from the beginning in John eight. And it was given unto him to make war with the saints and to overcome them and power was given power was given him over all kindreds and tongues and nations. So, here he has a governmental power and this governmental power when we're looking at Revelation 17, we're going to see that the beast for the first three and a half years, beast is is the government. He rode or he allowed the church to ride let's see. The woman rides the beast. The church is going to ride the back of the beast during the first seven and half. And at the midpoint, when he declared himself to be god, the antichrist, individually, he's going to destroy that apostate church, the the one that was operative for the first three and a half, the one world religious system, and he's gonna change it into worshiping him, that he's God. It's gonna be a Luciferian change for the last three and a half years. So the first three and a half, they're gonna have a pseudo Christianity, a pseudo, a false as Rob and I were talking today, everybody in Hollywood, everybody everywhere is saying they're Christians now. They're putting together the one robe religious systems, what they're doing. They're gonna put together the house of Abraham, and it doesn't matter if you're a Mormon, a Catholic, a Jew, anything. All of it's okay. And so inclusion, you include everybody and every religion into this one world religion. And so the problem with that is we teach concerning the exclusivity of Jesus Christ because he said, am the way, the truth, and the life. No man come but the father but through me. So this this leader, he's he's gonna have complete governmental control. He's gonna go after, as we said, the Revelation six and seven, the tribulation saints. He's gonna go after the nation of Israel, the elect of Matthew 24, and the woman of Revelation 12. And so it's given on him make war with the saints and to overcome them and power was given him over all kindreds, tongues, and nations. So, this kingdom isn't just a regional kingdom. It's a global kingdom over all countries, over all nations, no matter what the ethnic group, whatever he's the little g god of the world, so to speak. And and then verse eight, he's going to take control of the religious part of the world. And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him. Whose names are not written in the book of life of the lamb slain from the foundation of the world. Is your name in the lamb's book of life? Amen. That's all that matters. Right? So all of the unbelievers, all of them are gonna worship him. Not gonna have people like today on the fence. And yet, really, there is no on the fence. You either believe him or you don't. You either are gathering with them or you're scattering abroad. You're either for them or you're against them. There's no in betweeners. It's you're either for them or you're against them. And this can be real clear in the tribulation period because it's gonna cost people their lives to say no to the global system and and to refuse to worship the beast. So all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him whose names are not written in the book of life of the lamb slain from the foundation of the world. So he he already knew when he made you. He already knew from the foundation of this world that the first Adam would blow it, and that he would have to come to redeem us. So as creator, but also as redeemer, the lamb slain from the foundation of the world. Right? Mhmm. And so he had a plan. So when was Satan made? Before the foundation of the earth? So the rebellion, the first rebellion was Isaiah 14, the devil and one third of the angels that rebelled against God. Right? And we're told in Job that the angels, the holy angels were looking at the worlds as God was creating the world in six days. Right? Yeah. Yeah. Before the foundation of the earth. Before the foundation of the earth. So Jesus is lamb slain before. So it could be that with the rebellion of the angels, he's already planning to make human beings, already fashioning Adam from the dust of the ground. Like, it's not gonna be a planet of angels. It'll be a planet of people. And then he is these angels are gonna try and learn and get to know God too. And what are you doing? What are you doing? Why are you why are you becoming a man? Why are you so vulnerable? You know all that. And so a mystery once had now revealed the church, a lot of things to learn, but but a lamb slain from the foundation of the world. God's plan. His eternal plan to save you and I, to love on you and I, and knowing that we would sin and that he would have to punish his own son. So God's gift, God's love, you know, unto us. If any man have an ear, let us let him hear. And this is what Jesus kept saying to the seven churches in chapter two and three. If any man have an ear to ear, let him hear what the spirit is saying to the churches. Do you have spiritual ears? Do you have spiritual eyes? Or can you only see in the natural? A lot of the church services today are geared toward the natural. They're geared towards people's sensory. They make it sensory to appeal to their get the ooze and the ahs and to entertain and weep and cry and all the different emotions and the natural side of man. And we wanna enter into the spirit. God wants people to worship him in spirit and in truth. And so there's a whole lot of worshipers, whole lot of people that are religious, and they're gonna worship the devil. And you and I have the opportunity to to know and to worship the true living God. So if any man have an ear to hear, let him hear. God loves you. God loves you. If any man have an ear to hear, let him hear. God loves you. He that leads into captivity shall go into captivity. So they're gonna be under attack and those that make slaves of them, they're gonna become slaves. You're going to reap what you sow. He that kills with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints and so, god's letting the saints, those in Revelation chapter six and seven, sitting beneath the the throne of god saying, how long, oh lord? How long? You know, they're wanting god to judge the wicked. They're wanting god to judge those that slew him and here he's reminding them again the faithful remnant. These these that are gonna go through the tribulation period. Here is that patience and the faith of the saints. Vengeance is mine. I'll repay, saith the lord. They're not gonna get away with anything. And I beheld another beast. So here we come to the false prophet, the third person of the unholy trinity, and watch what his function is. So I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth. So the other one came out of the sea, that government, a Gentile, and the and the leader, a Gentile. And here is it speaks of his humanity. It's not from heaven, but came up out of the earth. And he had two horns like a lamb, and he spoke like a dragon. So he's got this this authority, and he's a real smooth Jesus is the lamb slain before the foundation of earth. Right? This guy's coming as a lamb in one in one aspect. But in contrast, he's coming like a dragon. So he's gonna talk like a lamb, and people are gonna think he's so nice, but he's gonna do like a dragon. His nature is that of a dragon, that of the devil. And, so he's gonna develop a really big church. People are gonna really like this guy. He's gonna be really popular. And so he's like a lamb, and he spoke like a dragon. So he's got the authority, and Jesus warned us in Matthew seven. They're gonna come to you as wolves in sheep's clothing. So be careful. Be not deceived. Take heed that no man deceive you. There can be huge amount of deception going on with these guys. And he exercises all the power of the first beast before him and causes the earth and them who dwell on it to worship the first beast whose deadly wound was healed. So the job of the Holy Spirit is not to bear witness of himself but to bear witness of Jesus. And so this unholy trinity, again, counterfeit, his job is to bear witness and get people to worship the Antichrist as God. That's what he's gonna do. He's a promoter in this unholy trinity. So he exercised all the power of the first beasts performed, so he's got this authority, the false prophet, the authority, and and causes the earth and them who dwell on it to worship the first beast whose deadly wound was healed. So again, alluding to the resurrection, the execution resurrection of the Antichrist. And and he doeth great wonders so that maketh fire come down. So now he's counterfeiting Elijah and the two witnesses, their ability to call down fire from heaven. So again, another counterfeit role here. And he's a performance guy in Revelation sixteen thirteen, Revelation nineteen twenty, and Revelation 20 verse 10 mentions the false prophet. And the abode of the false prophet and the antichrist are the lake of fire. And the dragon what happens to the dragon? Bound. Bound for a thousand years. Right? Yeah. Revelation 20 verse four. And then he's loose for a short season, and then he winds up in the lake of fire where the beast and the false prophet are. Yeah. And all the wicked dead that appeared before God at the great white throne judgment. Alright. And he doeth great wonders so that he makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men. So you're gonna be mesmerized when they tell you that there's, you know, aliens, UFOs. You and I are thinking, guy, they're talking about the demons. They're talking about the fallen angels that are making themselves more aware to people. You know? And but the people on the on the Earth here, when they see a guy able to call down fire from heaven, when they see a guy's assassinated and comes back up, you know, thereafter, you know, like resurrected or whatever, so they're they're they're being mesmerized. They're being seduced. The whole sorcery that's taking place and the pharmakia with the drugs and all, you know, all that all that moved in, we have technology called Operation Blue Beam. And apparently, Operation Blue Beam, we can we can send out into the sky there something that looks like a spaceship. People will look up there and think, but it's it's project blue beam. We have the ability to do that, to put those pixels up. Nowadays, they're doing little stuff with drones when you're at the fairs and ball games and stuff. They write stuff in the sky. Alright. So he deceives them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast, saying to them that dwell on the earth that they should make an image to the beast that had wound by a sword and did live. So this image under the beast is gonna be commemorating his his death and resurrection. And So the abomination of desolation, the false prophet is promoting that the people worship the beast and the antichrist, and he's doing miracles to try and authenticate and prove to people you know, that this is deity. They're promoting their deity. And and then you should make an image. So Nebuchadnezzar, his image, ninety foot tall, you know, in Daniel chapter two. And is there an image of president Trump yet? A golden image? I think he wants one. I think they want one in Gaza too. I would be really, really hesitant to ever be a part of anything like that, let me tell you. The characteristic of the devil, the number one characteristic of the devil is pride. Right? That's a downfall. Right? And he has power to give life under the image. So there's He makes an image to the beast, and he had wound by a sword and did live. And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. Alright. Artificial intelligence, transhumanism, someone that's part human and part computer machine, whatever. Right? So this image of the beast, I've asked Rob and I've asked Mark Dinsmore, and I've asked you guys. I've said this to you before. Can the devil indwell or possess a robot or a computer system? Mhmm. An inanimate object? Or do these unembodied spirits when they come out of the demons at Gadara? Why is it they wanna go into the pigs? And why do they wanna be inside of some body, you know, not just be unembodied spirits? I don't know. But I don't know what the trickery here is, what the technology is gonna be at this point or the satanic operation, the occult. I don't really study the cult and, you know, the Bible doesn't give us a real whole lot of information on the power of the devil until this chapter here. Right? We're seeing some stuff that's kinda godlike. You know? Some believe that everything that the devil does that's being described here was trickery like a like a magician, like Janis and Jambres before the pharaoh and Moses with his rod. The things that Moses did were actual miracles from god. The things that Janis and Jambres did, Satan couldn't give them the power to duplicate what Moses was doing. So, what they did is they had to use deception which like a magician. You know, they have to elements the sorcerer wants the the secret to the trick about how he can lay hands on people and, you know, and they receive the baptism of the spirit. Right? He thinks make some real money from that. He thinks there's a trick there. So musicians pay big money, not musicians. Magicians. Magicians. Illusionists. Big money to have another magician sell them a trick, sell them a delusion, sell them something that they can implement to deceit people. And so some say that's the what the devil's doing, but others say, no. God's giving him an extended authority to actually have the power to do these things. So we know the devil cannot create. Only God can create. So I'm not I don't have this all figured out on how you get this image of the beast. So my thinking is is they're messing with your DNA. They're messing with your genome. They're messing with the CRISPR machine. They're trying to it could be something that looks like a real animal, like a living thing. The return of the Nephilim. I don't know. Or it can be a combination of the two or the three, human, hybrid, and machine. You know, there's so many variations that that we're watching. And I could go back to Disneyland and just listen to Abe Lincoln talk, you know. That would be fine with me. I I could be that sophisticated. But the technology is really increasing. So the governmental system run by run by AI and the beast system being put in place right now do you guys have any ideas? Will the devil be able to possess, indwell, incarnate the image of the beast that's in the temple, in the holy of holies? Is he gonna try and go that far? Can he go that far? I think he'll use technology. Possibly. He has the power. But it now is that real life or is it is it so you've got an image. Now that image of the beast, like I'm saying this, is it like a pig? Is it like in the CRISPR machine or the genome where they make some sort of a half man, you know, half whatever image? Or is it a statue? Is it a AI combination thereof? I mean I don't think it matters. Does it matter? Okay. We could write a book on it, you know, if we figure this out. But a lot a lot of people speculate about this. What is the image of the beast? How does he bring life to it? Is it can the devil possess? There's a lot of people say that the present AI system, a lot of the guys that are writing it and help getting it going, they're afraid of it. They're saying it's got a demonic component to it. Could be the algorithms the way it was programmed, or they think it's got a a mind of itself. It's gonna reach singularity where they outthink human beings. So that's the buzz going around. So when I ask the question, well, is is that true? Do you think it can be demonically possessed? The beast system? And then this is the image of it, and he's able to speak to you if you go in the room there, talk to you. And so that they worship the image of the beast should be should be killed. And it causes all both small and great, rich and poor, free and enslaved to receive a mark in their right hand or in their foreheads. So I can see images of the beast all over the world. And every time you see it, you gotta salute or do something to show your worship or your allegiance, you know, and then I see a specific image, an idol that's put into the holy of holies that's, you know, spoken of here. And and then now he causes all both small and great, rich and poor, free and enslaved, which should be everybody. Right? Even the billionaires gotta do this. To receive a mark, so counterfeit seal, counterfeit mark, 144,000 have a mark. And look at chapter 14 there, the first verse. The 144,000 having his father's name written in their forehead. You know? And we saw it first back in chapter seven. And so they've gotta receive a mark in their right hand or in their foreheads, and even the secular people understand this. There's commercials of people swiping their heads, you know, at the bank and stuff. And now it's your phone, and some cultures, some places, they wanna put a smaller than a grain of rice, you know, beneath the skin. And so that would be your mark. Your dogs, a lot of your dogs and cats, your animals have marks. They have chips. They've been chipped, if you will. Your car so they don't get stolen or chipped, or if they do get sold, you relocate it. And to receive a mark in their right hands or in their foreheads. And there's been guys that have studied that, that if it is a chip and it's got a lithium battery or a different type of battery just beneath the surface, you know, where are the strongest changes of body temperature so that that battery can be recharged. And so the right hand of the forehead apparently some some say there's a reason for it on the right hand and on the forehead. I don't know if that's true or not. Lot of stuff you read about. So Mark and name a number here. So the one world economic system that's coming, right? The only thing they need is one thing. One thing. Real ID. All they need is for every single citizen to have a real ID. And that's what this is. This is the real ID. Everybody's gonna have the same number. You're not gonna have, like, a credit card. You've got a credit card. When we talk about a digital system, yeah, there's a digital system but this system is you have to have 666 on your right hand of your forehead. That's your number. You see what I mean? Oh, shit. Yeah. Well, a lot of the guys in the military, people have asked me these questions a lot if they had to take an ID like that. Is that the mark of the beast? No. Not until it's tied in with worship. When it's tied in with work, now I'm not gonna chance it. You know? I'd say no to the COVID shot. Anything going in my body, you know? But you guys in the military, you guys already get a lot of shots. You get a lot of everything. You get anthrax if you're not careful, you know? And so he's he's so, yeah, doctor Jeremiah, people that have already had it, people get worried sometimes, but not until it's tied in with the worship of the beast. Pastor, you know that the military in all military bases during COVID, we've already been beta tested on how that system will work because we couldn't go on to base without having our temperature checked. And our temperature was checked on our right hand or our forehead. Oh, okay. That was the only two places you get checked. Well, you had to put your right hand in, a sensor, or your forehead. So people were being conditioned to already do that just to go to work. That's great. But is there something to it physiologically that the right hand of the foreheads were the best? Well, it's saying it's it's it's the most most prominent area. You can rest your hand in your forehead. Yeah. It's very obvious. But we were all conditioned to do that. Wouldn't let you in without you doing that. And just wipe your forehead. Yeah. Alright. And that no man might buy or sell except he had the mark of the of the name of the beast or the number of his name. So you gotta have the mark and or the name of the beast or the number of his of his name. So there's a play on words here. Six six six, the Hebrew language is has a numerical value for each letter. So people speculate, but six six six is the numerical number of the Antichrist, and that's everyone's gonna have his name on them. And by having that, it'll be tied in with your real ID. So maybe they're gonna have a biometric thing of you, which you look like, whatever. But you're gonna have six six six on your right hand of your forehead and and or his name. So the name Yeshua, the numerical Hebrew numerical value for that is 749. For Yeshua, which is the Hebrew Joshua form of the Greek Jesus. Right? And so Messiah, Yeshua, his numerical value is 749 with the Hebrew language. 666, the only one I know is 666 right now is Jared Kushner. He purchased the building in New York, and the address is 666, a huge office building. And he's perpetually gonna be a member of the board of peace. Right? And I've never said that I think there's somebody that's the antichrist. Is the antichrist still living today? Is he living today? Is he alive right now? Who is he? Who is he? It's a secret. It's mine. We don't know. Right? Now I've I've heard really good pastors speculate about who they think it is. And then person dies and time goes on, well, it wasn't that guy. But right now, the I don't know who what are the names? Do some people think president Trump's the antichrist? They might say something like that. Is he developing the beast system? Yeah. He's helping the beast. Get that system together. The name of the beast, the number of his name. Here is here is wisdom. Let him that has understanding count the number of the beast for it is the number of a man, and as the number is 600 threescore and six. So six six six. And I guess Balaam's name means six six six. Kathy never calls me Balaam. Just his his counterpart. So any other thoughts or ideas you have on the mark of the beast, things you've thought about, this image, this statue? Let's turn to second Thessalonians chapter two to freshen our memory of what the apostle Paul in his description of this. Let no man deceive you by any means for that day, the day of the lord, the tribulation period, shall not come except there come the fallen away first. The fallen away is the rebellion, the apostasy of those who believe the rebellion of the planet. The day of the lord is a time of rebellion. The whole planet is gonna be rebelling against God. But there could be innumerable multitude of people that don't rebel against God, that get saved by rejecting the mark of the beast. So that day shall not come except there come the falling away first. And that man of sin, there's our antichrist, be revealed the son of perdition, means damnation, who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God. We saw his blasphemies in chapter 13, right? Or that is worship so that he, as god, sits in the temple. So, the temple is the temple getting ready to be built right now, Bernie? Yep. It's fixing to be built, right? So if we see the day of the Lord, the tribulation period, if we see the implements, the things that are necessary for that to start happening, Jesus said, when you see these things begin to pass, then look up for your redemption draws nigh. So the rapture of the church is gonna proceed that. And so there's gonna be a temple there and worship so that he that sits in the temple, so he's going into the holy of holies there, showing himself that he is god. So he's there, the abomination of desolation. And then in Daniel chapter 12, it says there's a blessing for those that make it to the 1,200 day. So the return of the Lord's on the December, but there's a thirty day period of time where they're cleansing the temple, getting rid of this abomination that makes desolation. So the abomination of desolation is in two parts. Number one is the antichrist, a person that goes into the temple and declare himself to be god. And stage two is the image of the beast that makes abomination. That's in the holy of holies, and that's where they keep the image of the beast there, the blasphemy of it. Alright. So so he's worshiped as god, sits in the temple of god, showing himself that he is god. Remember, Enoch, that when I was yet with you, I told you these things, and now you know what restrains that he might be revealed in this time. So it's in the masculine, and that which restrains is the work of the Holy Spirit through the church that's presently here. Right? The Holy Spirit's holding back the evil, holding back the Antichrist from coming on. Right? For the mystery of iniquity does already work, only he who now hindereth will continue to hinder until it be taken out of the way. So this is speaking of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit's role in the church when the church is raptured, but the Holy Spirit will still be here during the tribulation period and during the millennium. It's just that work of restraining you and I as the light of the world, the city that sat on the hill. You and I is being salt and light. The Holy Spirit working through the church restrains evil. Maybe maybe not as good as we should, but once we're out of here, they're gonna realize, oh, there's nobody telling us what we're doing is wrong. There's no more John the Baptist left. They've all been killed for telling the truth and taken home. To hinder and tell you to be taken out of the way. And then shall that wicked one be revealed so the antichrist can be revealed after the rapture sometime after the signing of that peace treaty, and he's gonna be revealed. Then shall that wicked one be revealed whom the Lord shall consume? So he's gonna go in the temple, and he's gonna reveal himself. The Jews' eyes are gonna be opened, and twelve hundred and sixty days later, the Lord Jesus can return at Basra, and he's gonna destroy. We're gonna see this here. And then shall that wicked be revealed whom the lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming. So the sword of his mouth, the spirit of his mouth, and just the Shekinah glory of his coming. Even him who's coming after the working of Satan, with all power and signs and lying wonders, so the beast and the false prophet, all those miracles, lying signs and wonders. And the when it says here lion's signs and wonders, that makes me lean toward its deception. But as Eddie pointed out, he gives life. So what's that mean? How did he figure out how to so I would look at like in the book of Job where he's on a leash and the he has he has power but limited power that god allows for him to pull off his deception. But he it's like our politicians think they have the power of kings, unlimited autocratic power. But they don't, do they? They have what's called what? And they're chained to what? Constitution. That they're supposed to be. The the devil would like to have complete power of god, you know, and yet he's a fallen angel. He's on a leash, and he has whatever whatever comes into your life has to first go through the providential filter of God. The devil needs permission. And and if God allows it, he says he's gonna work it together. All things work together for good. So, we gotta suck it up, buttercup, right? Suck it up. And so even him who's coming after working of Satan with all power, signs, and lying wonders, and with all deceitfulness of unrighteous them that perish because they receive not the love of the truth. You love the truth? Amen. In Romans chapter one, they suppress the truth. They suppress the truth of creation, the god haters, and then god gave them over men with men, women with women. That's the epitome of rebellion against god. You're rebelling against his design as a designer, right? In all deceivleness of righteous them that perish because they receive not the love of the truth that they may be saved. And for this cause, God shall give them strong delusion that they should believe the lie. They're gonna believe that the antichrist is God. They're gonna believe as he carries on with his gospel message that you're never gonna die as he told Eve. You shall not die. Right? That they all might be judged who believe not the truth, but have pleasure in unrighteousness. They actually have pleasure in unrighteousness. They throw a party when the two witnesses are executed. So, alright. Let's pray. Father, thank you for the time that we could spend. Revelation 13. Lord, we thank you that as we scratch the surface, just barely lord that it just wet our appetites to continue to be students of prophecy. One third of the word but students in the entire Bible all the way through the law, Psalms, prophets, it's all it's all good lord and we thank you that the volume of the book speaks of your son. Assert the scriptures, Jesus said, and them ye think ye have eternal life, and they are they which testify of me. I thank you, Lord. It's all about Jesus. In your name, we pray. Amen.
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Calvary Chapel Bremerton - Home Bible Study
Listen to Rick Beaudry, Pastor of Calvary Chapel Bremerton, lead our home Bible Study session in worship and teaching the Word of God. Be edified and built up in your faith with solid Bible teaching. New episodes released on Tuesdays in the Pacific Standard Timezone.
