At the beginning of Revelation 13 we are told of a beast that
represents a kingdom and that kingdoms leader, who will be antichrist. Well
there is also another beast represented here, it is important that we read
through prophecy carefully it can be tricky with all the symbols that GOD uses.
It is not easy to decipher these symbols but it can be done. The reason for
these symbols is that GOD is trying to describe future events to John who is
living in a not so modern time. The events that GOD is trying to describe to
John or for our children or us. GOD has to use symbols that John would
recognize in order for John to be able to explain things that have not yet been
developed. This is why it is important that we teach or children Prophecy in
case we are not around, so that they will understand what is going on around
them as things are developing rapidly i.e. moving closer to the mark of the
beast, one world government, we see antichrist all over the place, a war that
will kill 1/3 of man…and so forth.
All right lets roll!
World
Spiritual Leader?
Lets move on to
Revelation 13
11And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and
he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. 12And
he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth
the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose
deadly wound was healed.
13And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from
heaven on the earth in the sight of men, 14And deceiveth 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, which had the wound by a
sword, and did live.
Lets take a moment to look at how different this second beast is
from the first. He has 2 horns, looks like a lamb, and speaks like a dragon.
This is a paradox here. It looks like a lamb, who do we know from scripture
that the lamb is? Jesus right. In scripture the lamb is almost always used as a
symbol of meekness if I may use this analogy. Something harmless and loving?
There were many sacrifices using a lamb. Remember what John said when JESUS
showed up on the banks of the Jordan River “behold the LAMB of GOD that takes away the sin of the
world”.
Now verse 11 also says he spoke like a dragon. So what does the dragon represent, usually it represents satan. An account of this is just one chapter prior to this.
Revelation 13
9And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the
Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the
earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
Now remember what chapter 2 of Revelation
13 says
2And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet
were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the
dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
So we have this beast that looks like a
lamb but talks like a dragon. Looks like JESUS CHRIST talks like the devil. Now
this is the most interesting passage because the Bible says that he exercises
all the power of the first beast before him. That one world government beast,
governmental system such as united nations or nations that have merge together
such as the European union that will claim some sort of control over the Earth,
scripture says it will tread down the whole earth.
One Theory- is because there are nations on the
earth now that use the symbols that the Bible talks about in this chapter,
chapter 13 of Revelations and Daniel Chapter 7. I am not going to deep into
this. To get a better idea of what I am talking about read The Beast of Daniel and Revelations at www.nbapu.com Understanding
Revelations
Daniel 7:4 says: "The first was
like a lion
Great Britain's official animal symbol is the lion. An article appearing in the
Indianapolis Star on January 4, 1980, was entitled, "After the
British Lion, the Russian Bear." On some of Britain's flags, there has been
the image of the lion. It is common to see Britain referred to as the lion in
news articles and in political cartoons. In Webster's Third New
International Dictionary under "lion," it states that the lion is
the symbol of Great Britain.
This nation symbolized by a bear is
Russia. It is common knowledge that Russia's symbol is the bear. An article in
the Indianapolis Star, which was previously referred to, clearly
illustrates this. On the covers of Time magazine on October 27, 1980,
and on May 21, 1984, a bear was pictured to represent the nation of Russia.
Daniel
7:4 says: "The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings: I beheld till
the wings thereof were plucked
It is extremely interesting that
the lion had "eagle's wings." A major nation today has the eagle for
its national symbol. To identify that nation, we need to look only on the
reverse side of the United States' one-dollar-bill. There you will see the
great seal of the United States, which is the eagle. A radio commercial which
was used to sell United States savings bonds during the Vietnam War era said,
"Go with the eagle-- the red, white, and blue eagle. Buy United States
savings bonds!" On the cover of Time magazine, October 27, 1980, an
eagle was used to represent the United States
The next prediction for our time,
after the lion, bear, and eagle, is the leopard. It was said about the leopard
that "...dominion was given to it." Which nation, in the last 100
years, has had dominion in world affairs? It can't be the United States because
she is the eagle. This can't refer to Russia because she's the bear. There is a
nation, which has been the aggressor in the last three major wars on earth: the
Franco-German War of 1870, the Great War (World War I), and World War II. That
nation is Germany.
Notice in Daniel 7:6 that the LEOPARD had
"four heads." The other three beasts (nations) of Daniel 7 had only
one head each. In Bible prophecy, a beast always represents a nation along with
its ruler. Multiple heads on a beast represent the number of times that
particular nation will rise and fall. Thus, the four heads of the leopard
spoken of in Daniel 7:6 represent Germany's First Reich, Second Reich, Third
Reich (Hitler's regime), and the Fourth Reich, which is now rising. A prominent
United States politician has referred to the present restoration of power to
West Germany as the Fourth Reich (George W. Ball, "Three and a Half
Superpowers to Rule the World," Life, March 29, 1968, page 81).
This Fourth Reich will reach its full power within the framework of the new
European Union.
he
exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and
them which dwell therein to worship the first beast,
So this beast
is going to use his influence to get the world to give over it’s allegiance,
it’s rights, and it’s religion, to the first beast one world government and or
leader. To worship this system and or person. Some type of partnership between
the two.
Revelation 13
13And he doeth great wonders, so that he
maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, 14And deceiveth 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, which had the wound by a
sword, and did live.
Great wonders make fire come down from heaven. With the technology
we have today could someone manipulate certain activities to do this, use magic
to deceive, maybe literally pull fire down from heaven; this would certainly
deceive those who don’t know their GOD. Doing miracles these two are going to
solve a lot of the worlds problems, make a lot of people happy create a false
since of security. Remember the phrase “Fatten them up for the kill”.
People are going to be saying he is doing miracles, so this must
be from GOD, yes it is true that GOD does do miracles unbelievable miracles,
but not all miracles are from GOD or necessarily good for you. It all depends
on where your heart is. Are you doing this for your glory or are you doing this
for GODS glory? Remember the scripture…20Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. 21Not
every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of
heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. 22Many
will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name?
and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many
wonderful works? 23And then will I profess unto them, I never
knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity, Matthew 7
So we see here that JESUS will consider
these two people workers of iniquity.
Miracle
An event that appears inexplicable by the laws of nature and so is held to be supernatural in origin or an act of God: “Miracles are spontaneous, they cannot be summoned, but come of themselves”
One that excites admiring awe.
What was the first thing that JESUS told
his disciples in Mathew 24 when they asked what will be the sign of thy coming
and the end of the world. Jesus
answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
People in JESUS time, some attempted to worship John the Baptist,
he said no no, it’s him (JESUS) you are to worship not me. Nothing has changed
in thousands of years you still have people worshiping everything from toad
frogs to air, “whatever makes you feel good do it”
Lets look at Rev 19, Rev 19 makes this a no brainier proving that
this will be a false prophet that will deceive the world and cause all to
worship this antichrist and to receive a mark in order to participate in the
antichrist economy.
Revelation 19
19And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their
armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and
against his army. 20And the beast was taken, and with him the
false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them
that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image.
These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
Revelation 13
14And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those
miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast
Revelation 19
20And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that
wrought miracles before him
Same description, no doubts here we are talking about a false
prophet someone who will present himself to be as GOD but really is of satan.
Notice both of their destinies are the same These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with
brimstone. This happens at the second coming of
JESUS CHRIST.
Two different leaders, one controls the worlds government system,
the other will control a world religious system. Both will intertwine together
but will not come to a full agreement to each other.
Many people
believe that the false prophet is Elijah, the scripture is Malachi 4:5-6, many people are going to actually see this spiritual
leader casting his influence to the antichrist they are going to believe the
anti Christ is the messiah and they are going to assume the false prophet is
Elijah, there is a prophecy that says Elijah will come before that great and
terrible day of the LORD.
Malachi 4
5Behold, I will send you Elijah the
prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD: 6And
he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the
children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.
This became a
major doctrine in Jewish religion of course, the Jewish people use to say to
their Turkish emperors Elijah will come through that eastern gate of the
Temple. He is going to introduce the messiah and he will over throw your rule
and establish the kingdom of GOD. The Turkish emperor said oh no he won’t so he
sends his masons down and they plastered the eastern gate shut. It’s been
plastered shut now for 400 or 500 hundred years. It sits there today still
sealed. No one goes in no one comes out. All because the Jewish people said our
Elijah would come through that gate one of these days and over throw you. Now
even the Jews were wrong because the Bible doesn’t say anything about that. Jesus
Christ entered the eastern gate to the city on Palm Sunday, one week before the
resurrection. Jesus Christ will again enter the eastern gate of the city at his
second coming. The glory of god returns to the millennial temple because of the
presence of Jesus Christ. Jesus. Christ has come to rule his kingdom. He will
be king of kings and lord of lords. Read Eze 43:6-12 the throne of the king
the lord says that he will dwell in the midst of his people forever. Remember
that the glory of GOD left his people because of sin and idolatry. GOD’S presence
cannot dwell where there is sin. In the millennial kingdom, the Jews will be
born again. Their sins will be forgiven. Therefore, Christ’s presence will be
with them forever. He will never leave their presence again.
Now something else that the Jewish people believe about Elijah.
Every Passover they set out on the Seder table what is called the Elijah cup. A
Jewish father will send his children to the door to see if Elijah is coming,
every Passover. They leave a place for Elijah for when he returns he will have
a place at their table.
Here is the big question, was John the Baptist Elijah? Luke
chapter 1:13-17 we have a prophecy of John the Baptist.
Luke 1
So John will
come in the spirit and power of Elijah. Now for Elijah Malachi 4 states that
Elijah has to come before the great and terrible day of the lord, and yet the
people said to JESUS you are claiming to be the Messiah, if you’re the messiah
then were is Elijah. Lets read what JESUS said about Elijah
Matthew 17
10 And His disciples asked Him, "Why then do
the scribes say that (11) Elijah must come first?"
11 And He answered and said, "Elijah is coming
and will restore all things;
12 but I say to you that Elijah already came, and
they did not recognize him, but did to him whatever they wished. So also (12) the Son of Man is going to suffer at
their hands."
13 Then the disciples understood that He had spoken
to them about John the Baptist.
Matthew 11
14 "And if you are
willing to accept it, John himself is (13) Elijah who was to come.
15 "(14) He who has ears to hear, let him
hear.
Plan language Elijah has come already, John
the Baptist came in the spirit and power of Elijah. Elijah has come!
Now moving on, some people teach that there is an evil Pope
coming. I will never forget when my wife’s mother died who was catholic. We all
gathered at the house after the funeral and the priest was there and I had
always heard the rumor that Catholics believe that one day an evil pope will
come. So I asked the priest if there was any truth to this rumor. He said yes
we do believe that there is going to be an evil pope one day. We talked a
little further about prophecy and he said to me that he would be surprised if
life as we no it went on past another 100 yrs. meaning the return of JESUS
CHRIST.
These same people also teach that this evil pope will call himself
peter the second, you know when popes are elected they don’t keep their given
name. They choose a name in which they are known by, many have chosen pope john
as a matter of fact 23 have, 6 have chosen Paul, 12 have chosen pious and so
forth. None have dare touched peter. He being so revered as the first pope,
this is not taught any ware in the Bible, there is no historical record of
this.
Are we saying
here that the pope is the 2nd beast the false prophet, he is # uno #
1 on our list of candidates but are we definitely sure, we cannot say. What we
do know to watch for is a spiritual leader and what we call a global leader
creates an alliance of some sort.
Revelation
13
15And 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.
16And he causeth all, both small and great, rich
and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their
foreheads:
17And that no man might buy or sell, save he that
had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding
count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is
Six hundred threescore and six.
O.K. what we are
dealing with here is the rain of the antichrist, satan ruling through man. So
what is this program really going to look like? It’s going to be a one world
governmental system, it’s going to have a global spirituality attached to it
because the leaders of our world now are saying will never truly unify the
world and solve the worlds problems unless we do it religiously or spiritually.
You know you don’t even have to be religious anymore to be spiritual there is a
lot of people that talk about spirituality that don’t even believe in GOD. So
never the less there is going to be some kind of religious ethic that people
are going to have to subscribe to.
The Bibles says
that this false prophet will cause all to worship this first beast. He will use
his influence and say follow this man. We see this go on today, here of leaders
flying to the Vatican to get the approval of the pope. We see Government
leaders always looking to get endorsements from religious leaders.
Then there is
going to come a rule that if you don’t take a number of this beast you are not
going to be able to buy or sell. You cannot own your own business, you cannot
grocery shop, how will you get gas, how will you get your children in school,
now you have become an unfit parent we may have to take your kids from you
because you cannot provide for them. People talk about stress now, can you
imagine when you are presented with this choice, because that’s what it’s going
to be, a choice, take the number loose your life, in some cases literally. Now
if you have been keeping track of the technology that is coming out today were
you can put a chip under your skin and have a scanner scan over it and money be
taken out of your bank account to pay for your purchase or medical information,
have your iris scanned to pay for your meals. We are moving closer and closer
to a cashless society. Having this mark doesn’t necessarily mean we will be in
a cashless society it just says we will need this mark in order to participate
in the economy. All this technology assigns a number to you, you will be known
by that number.
The definition of 666
5516 chi xi stigma khee xee stig'-ma
the 22nd, 14th and an obsolete letter (4742 as a cross) of the Greek alphabet
(intermediate between the 5th and 6th), used as numbers; denoting respectively
600, 60 and 6; 666 as a numeral:--six hundred threescore and six
4742 stigma stig'-mah from a primary
stizo (to "stick", i.e. prick); a mark incised or punched (for
recognition of ownership), i.e. (figuratively) scar of service:--mark.
RFID Chips
Radio frequency identification, or RFID, is a generic term for
technologies that use radio waves to automatically identify people or objects.
There are several methods of identification, but the most common is to store a
serial number that identifies a person or object, and perhaps other
information, on a microchip that is attached to an antenna (the chip and the
antenna together are called an RFID transponder or an RFID tag). The antenna
enables the chip to transmit the identification information to a reader. The
reader converts the radio waves reflected back from the RFID tag into digital
information that can then be passed on to computers that can make use of it
The process of
surgically implanting an RFID chip is fairly simple. The standard location of
the microchip implant is in the triceps area between the elbow and the shoulder
of the right arm. The brief outpatient procedure lasts just a few minutes and
involves only mild anesthetics, which is followed by a quick painless insertion
of the chip. Once inserted, using a syringe-like device, the chip cannot be
seen by the naked eye.
BBC News Wire
Tuesday, 8 July, 2003
Pupils at a school in Sunderland will be using an eye scanning
security system, when their new £14m building opens in September.
The
scanners will be used at the new Venerable Bede Church of England Aided School.
The
technology will be used on pupils buying meals in the school canteen, and also
in the library when children want to take out books.
It
will secretly pick out poorer pupils who are entitled to free meals from those
who have to pay, who will be charged in a separate account.
Ed
Yates, head teacher of the 900-pupil school, said trained technicians will be
able to scan up to 12 students per minute during lunchtime.
We hope this has helped in your Understanding of Revelations.