Revelation 13 MirrorWord Bible Study

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Alright, Revelations 13. We're gonna figure out who the Antichrist is. I always like to say in when John it talks about we know we're in the end times because many Antichrists have gone from our number. The first Antichrist are the Pharisees because when Christ showed up, they were anti-Him. So the Antichrist spirit has been there the whole time and is still here today. Anyway, so this is a tough chapter, and I don't claim to know everything, and that's okay, but we're gonna take a crack at it and just see what we come up with. Tons of commentary, it's all great stuff. Obviously, I've got what have I got 11 pages printed off here, so it's there's no way. So I went through it, I'm just gonna skim it. Uh, what I think is important for tonight. But anyway, so we're starting chapter one. Verse one. Verse one, excuse me. Chapter 13, verse one. As I stood, this is John now, as I stood upon the sands of the seashore. And I think that's interesting that he starts off by saying sands of the seashore, which makes me think of Abraham's prophecy uh that he would be the father, if he could count his descendants, it'd be more than the sands of the sea, right? So he doesn't have to say this. He could have said, I'm just looking over the sea. But he says, I stood upon the sands of the seashore. I saw a ferocious beast emerging out of the waters. At the time of Jesus walking, the fourth beast is, of course, Rome. But to me, the beast is it's coming out of the people. This is a mindset that's always been there, that's coming out of the people. Emerging out of the waters, the waters is people. It had ten horns, ten is significant in ancient times for totality and completeness of power, and seven heads, which is the seven is perfection, divine, the divineness, heads, and every horn was wrapped in a royal diadem. And of course, you know, the diadem is a crown, a rule, pomp, and pride, something that's made legitimate. And written upon its head were slanderous, blasphemous names. And of course, I'm just gonna read the first part, the first sentence only in the commentary tonight, and it says, Have you ever wondered, and I have said this years ago, and I'm sure millions of people have, have you ever wondered why the name of Jesus, not Buddha, not Muhammad, or Elvis Presley or any other influential name in history or modern times, is a name that is most commonly used as a swear word. But the other interesting thing to me, I just had to look up the word blasphemous blasphemous again, and it says, and it says defying God's righteous place right place, rightful place, or lack of respect. And you know, I was thinking to myself, you know, because you remember the whole fight here is image and likeness. It's the tree of the knowledge of good and evil versus the tree of grace, the I am tree, Christ and the new covenant, right? That's what we're taught. Ultimately, that's what this is all about. And for us to think that we have anything to do with our salvation, to me, is a lack of respect for God.

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Selah, calmly think about that. And in religion, we're taught that Jesus has his part, he's the savior of the world, but we have our part by doing this, this, this, this, this, this, this. We're told, you know, we can do nothing, come to the altar, accept Jesus, he forgives your sins. And then they tell you everything you have to do to keep your salvation, which actually makes you your savior. Even confessing your sins to get right with God is making you your savior. Confessing Jesus Christ as the Lord and having that option makes you your own God. So I just want to say that because now we have three forces going on here. We got a trinity going on here. We have the dragon, which is invisible. Remember, in the last chapter, the dragon was thrown out of the heavenlies and it went down to the earth. And we have the beast, and then we're gonna have a false prophet. We got three of them. So, anyway, now these are descriptions. John's really good at this in the Gospel of John, and here. This is a description to give you an idea what something invisible looks like, or something, yeah, kind of invisible, although, yeah, something invisible through something described physically. Here it is. This why you know remember, it's a ferocious beast. Something ferocious, man, just devours things. Remember? I'll just say it, I'll say in a second here. It's ferocious, so that means it tears things apart. It's scary. This wild animal, it says a wild enemy looked like a leopard, and the powerful paws of a bear and the mouth of a lion. Now, I decided to look up all this stuff, and it said the leopard is fast, deadly at its conquest. It's quick. The paw of the bear, the bear is known for brute strength, and the lion, the mouth of the lion, authority, destruction, and domination. So he's describing the beast. You know, it's interesting. One of the gifts of the spirit that maybe we don't think about a lot is the discerning of spirits. Where something's coming from. And he says, and the dragon, remember that I think the dragon is an invisible force here, gave its assumed power to the beast, also its throne and great authority. Now, I believe the beast is the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and the religious work of condemnation, both working in religion and in society, manifesting in people. Although the fourth beast is Rome in Daniel, and Rome is ruling Israel at the time, and through his hine on Patmos. So that's my take on it here. And remember in 1 Peter 5, 8 it says, beware of the lion, the enemy is like a roaring lion seen whom he may devour. Isn't that interesting, scripture? And over in John it says, the 10th chapter, it says, the devil comes only to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that you might have life, life more abundantly. See, there's a contrast going on here. We're talking about the spirit, the the ministry of con the ministry of condemnation. We're talking about the world way of thinking, which is the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. If I do this, God loves me. If I do this, he doesn't love me, and I'm condemned and feel guilty and bad, and I have separation mentality. There's no union. Alright. And then the commentary in two says the satanos system is what empowers religion. Satanos, the condemnation system, the system of guilt and condemnation. Satanos means uh accusation. And remember Jesus, remember the Satan attempted Jesus? If you're the Son of God, do this. It's an accusation. If trying to get him to do something so then he can accuse. And try to get you to not be who you really are. Now think about it. We are not our actions. We are who, and I say this all the time, we are who God says we are. I was thinking about a family, a family has one brother who is doesn't do well. It's caused all kinds of problems, but he still has the family name. He's still an inheritor. Isn't that amazing? We are because we were birthed in the kingdom. That's why we're inheritors. Not because of what we did, because of who we are. One of the heads appeared to be slain. This is miraculously revived and was restored to health again. The entire human race was mesmerized by this. Now, I was thinking about the entire human race today. I was thinking probably in their thinking, the surrounding people, because you know, hey, there's no internet, there's no uh, you know, nothing. You don't know how big the world is. You didn't know there's an Americas. But anyway, and I think I think I'm not and I'm thinking, I'm not thinking that there's like this alternate system with the slain. I'm thinking they're talking about Jesus because he was miraculously revived, but you can still believe in Jesus and believe a bunch of nonsense. I know I did it. Now, the commentary, first verse says, Oh, hold it. The entire human race is mesmerized by this. Here, the Christian religion, this is, is represented by the same multi-headed beast mimicking the slain and resurrected lamb. Down here, I love this at the end, at the very bottom, last uh four lines of the commentary. Maybe it's not the last four lines, I gotta see. No, right before it says it was Hosea, but it says, There's no saving power or relevance in a death, in a death and resurrection belief, this is that fails to see mankind's co-inclusion in the same event. In other words, if you and I were included, it's really a waste of time, isn't it? In the mind and belief of God, an inseparable association exists, where together with Jesus, mankind died, and then the same human race was co-revived and co-raised. Say I died with Christ. I've been co-revived and co-raised. I was included in the death, in God's in the mystical mind of God. All human beings were. But we can set that aside, and I don't know if you ever went to church for a long time. Well, I did, and I saw the death and resurrection of Jesus and kind of believed in it, but I didn't see myself included in it. Did you? Alright. They all worshipped both the dragon, this invisible force, who gave the power to the beast as well as the beast itself, convinced that it had no equal and that it was invisible. Now remember, it's pr it looks it's perfect, it's got the absolute power, both both religious and physical, right? And so then the commentary the dragon is the source system of accusation, illusion, deception. What is the power of the beast? Is a message that you do not measure up. Remember in Hebrews 4 12, the message spoken Christ, just a message that transfigures life, is also a message that's a counter message. One of separation, one that you're a sinner, one that you're not good enough, one that you don't measure up, one that you don't look as good as that person, you don't you're not smart as that person. This competition thing. The dragon is the source of the system of accusation empowering the beast or people or a nation, probably people, of the religion of performance and self-effort with this inevitable fruit of judgment and condemnation. The beast was given a loud, boastful, blasphemous mouth for the duration of 42 months. Now, 42 months is a duration of Jesus' ministry. And down here it says the symbolic period is the duration of the sojourn of the woman in the wilderness, Mary and G Mary, Jesus, and Joseph going to Egypt. So the duration of the prophecy of the two witnesses, which is the culmination of the law and the prophets, and the three and a half years in Jesus' ministry from his baptism to his crucifixion. So what if he's talking about the nation and the religion that's coming against Jesus at the same time that he's walking in the earth? I'm not sure that's the case, but down here it says in verse 6 this is interesting. Remember, remember now, the dragon was thrown out of the heavenly spirit, so it cannot access the one who sits on the throne. Where is Jesus dwelling? On the earth, in the incarnation. It says it hurled its accusations in God's face. Well, it doesn't have access to the the one who sits on the throne anymore. In the last chapter, it was thrown out. But whose face does he have access to? This is trying to give Jesus. Is he God? Yes. It hurls its accusations in God's face. Did they call Jesus a demon? He has a demon. He's a false prophet. I mean, look at all the things they said about him. He cast out demons by the power of demons. It hurled its accusations. That's the power of the beast. That's the power of the dragon. It's a message of accusation. It's the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, which still exists. It's actually in the Bible. While the blaspheming his name, his name is Yahweh Elohim rescued, or Yahweh rescued, or salvation. Blaspheming His name, not giving him the due credit he deserves as Savior of the world. And blaspheming his name and tabernacle. His tabernacle is his physical body. I will tear this temple down in three days and raise it up regarding his flesh and those who are dwelling in the heavenlies. Very interesting here. The word, the commentary, the words pros, ton, well, I'm not gonna read it. The accuser to now now faces God's image and likeness incarnate in human form. Isn't that interesting? The accuser to now face God's image and likeness, incarnate in human form in the in the body of Jesus. There was no trace of accusation present in the heavenlies, having been thoroughly expelled from any further presence, relevance in the heavenly sphere. He was thrown out. He's thrown to the earth, son of God, who is fully God and fully man, is walking, and he's hurling accusations. He's trying to deceive him. He's saying this, if you're the son of God, that's the temptation. Trying to get his deny his sonship. And I've said this before. If you ever walk by somebody begging or something for money and you didn't do it and you felt guilty, or you did something that was bad, and you get those little thoughts, if you were a good Christian, you wouldn't have done that. If you're a good Christian, you would have given that guy some money. Right? But like I said, I like to give everybody an upgrade. Really, I mean, yeah, I suppose we're Christians, but we're sons and daughters. If you're a good son, you wouldn't have done that. That's the same. Getting the idea was to get Jesus to deny his sonship. 40 days before that, cloud opened up, dove came down and said, This is my beloved son, in whom I'm well pleased. And and this the ministry of accusation is getting you to focus on what you've done and what you haven't done to get you to deny your own sonship, your own image and likeness. That's that is this is the message. This is the message of the dragon perpetrated through the beast, face to face with Jesus in the flesh for three and a half years. Incarnate human life is now the target. The incarnate human life is now the target in every blasphemous utterance of this beast who takes its authority from I love this Mr. Accusation himself, Satan. In other words, get your Colossians 1-1 or Colossians 3-1. Set your mind on those things that are above and not the things on the earth. Those are the people dwelling in the heavenlies. It's a Christ-mindedness. Alright. Are we should we keep on going? And it was given, and this is the beast from the dragon was given. And I still I personally think it's people. It's something invisible manifesting in people. And it looks like to me, in Rome, of course, is that beast that was walking, that was in control of Israel at the time, which is probably significant. But obviously they weren't coming against Jesus, it was a Pharisee. So I mean there's this accusation going on. And the Pharisees were, remember, even John John and Jesus said, You brood of vipers. And why do you call them Brutovers? Because they were pointing to the tree of the knowledge, good and evil. They're pointing to the law system, which is the modern tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Adam didn't eat an apple. He ate a belief system. And your belief system becomes incarnate in your body. There are some guys that came over here and believed that they were martyrs. They get 21 versions and jumped on a plane, hijacked it, and flipped it into a couple of towers. That's a belief system that became incarnate in their body. The eight of the knowledge. It was actually false. And it was given the mission from the dragon to wage war against those who have discovered their wholeness in Christ in order to what? Conquer them and to dominate what? The entire spectrum of people groups. Every tribe, tongue, and nation. First, to dominate the people that find their wholeness in Christ. And then, of course, if you read down the commentary, it talks about, you know, back in uh is it seven or five, that there's all kinds of every tribe nation has come to Jesus and come to God, the throne of God with the white robes on and all that. And you can read that yourself. So, in other words, this doesn't work because God did a work without our permission, because he's not dumb. He's waiting for our permission, we'd get nothing done. You've heard me say it, I'm gonna say it again. The word gospel means good news. If it doesn't sound like good news, it's not the gospel, and it depends on you and me, it's not good news. God doesn't depend on us because we are not dependable and he's not stupid. He depends on himself. The plan was to engage, verse 8, was to engage the entire earthbound population. Now you got the people that are finding their wholeness in Christ, and now the plan was to engage the entire earthbound population of the planet to worship the beast. The counterfeit slain risen lamb. This would endorse the idea of the religious system that there were individuals since the fall of the cosmos whose names were not included in the slain Lamb's Book of Life. You know, it's funny because people's Lamb's Book of Life talks about this in the commentary, like Calvinism. Those were not found. They were either there or not there before. In other words, those were not found in the Lamb's Book of Life. In other words, it was already written, which is nonsense. So other texts have a different. He says, not found, because the religious system has those who are in and those who are out. And I said this to my aunt today, and I'll say it again. Jesus Christ, everybody knows him as the savior of the world that's a believer. And if he didn't save the world, then he's not the savior of the world. Ooh. Ooh. It says, confess your mouth and believe in your heart. You'll be saved and righteous. And then in Philippians it says, Every knee shall bow and tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. Now, you can look around and deny that, but God believes it. And like in Romans it says, even if nobody else believes it, God does. I think God is right all the time. Anyway, I'm just gonna skip over this. I'm gonna go right to where did it talk about? Lamb is the book of life, because of course that's something that everybody wants to hear about. Oh, here. The very end of the commentary, the last, the last uh like paragraph. The book of life. This language is taken from the custom of registering the names of persons in a list. Roll a catalog. Now listen to this. In Jewish tradition, there was a prevailing fear that your name might be blotted out of the book of life if your behavior didn't please God. In other words, it depends on you. Here, the suggestion is that some names were not even written in the lesbigal life to begin with. This idea obviously boosts the Calvinistic deception of election. That if you were not chosen, you were doomed. Which is ridiculous. Contradiction to the entire context and conclusion of the gospel. Remember in John 15, 16, you did not meet choose me, but I chose you, and you go and bear fruit, your fruit would remain. Who did he choose? I think he chose everybody. Even we'll go back to the scripture in Romans 3 23, it says, All shall all fall short of the glory of God. As a what? Free gift by Jesus Christ. Romans 5. Because of one man's fall and condemnation, everybody fell. Because of one man's act of righteousness, righteousness, everybody became righteous. Can God bestow righteousness on everybody? I guess he's got that authority, but Paul says he did. Alright. Verse 9. I'm doing pretty good. Now listen up with your inner ears. I love the inner ear, the spiritual ear. The Christ's mind in this ear, the ear of the spirit, not your physical ears. Your discerning inner mind, your inner ear, understanding the spiritual things. Now, I was confused by this next verse. But here is something for those who have discovered their wholeness in me to patiently ponder and proceed by faith. That would be us. Being taken captive by the spear and killed by the sword made death a doorway into the very domain in which mankind was held captive. I have to admit, it doesn't make sense to me. It would make sense to me if it said the very domain that came out of the very domain which mankind was held captive. But in other versions it says, for those who captivate people will go into captivity. Those who kill people will go into will be killed themselves. So maybe it's saying the people that are doing this are in that domain. So but I'm gonna leave that one alone because I don't it it didn't make sense to me. Okay, and I read the I did read the commentary about you know uh Judas coming out with a military co uh military uh Roman military cohort with 600 soldiers, but you guys can read that and maybe you guys can give some insight into that for me in the commentary or in the discussion. I'd love to hear it. Just so you're aware, I learned a lot in the commentary or the discussions in the small groups, and sometimes I think I wish I'd do the recording later. I could use all some of that material because it's so good from you guys. Because you, I mean, I know God is popping off little revelations and everybody watching this at the same time. That's what makes it so beautiful. Okay, 11. Now listen, he says, then I saw another similar ferocious beast. Wow, I saw another similar ferocious beast rising up, not from the sea, of the earth, earth-minded. Now listen this, it had two horns and resembled a what young lamb. It resembled a young lamb, yet it had a dragon's voice. In other words, it had the voice of religion and condemnation, but it looked like a gentle little lamb. Gotta flip over here. So I really, Matthew, the seventh chapter, just thought that really goes well. Let's see here. For wide is the gate and spacious and broad is the way that leads away to destruction, and many are those who enter through it. But the gate is narrow, and the way is straightened and compressed, that leads away to life, and fear those who find it. Many, you know, because many people, if you read this in Christendom, people go, Oh, I'm on the narrow path because I accepted Jesus Christ as Lord. And I used to believe that. And then one day the Lord said to me, If you're believing, you know what does the scripture say in 2 Corinthians 3 verse 6? It says, The letter kills. The Spirit brings life. If I'm believing the letter, I'm on the I'm on the path of destruction. If I'm trying to earn my salvation in any way and be, and you know, let's face it, if you're trying to do something to be good to get credit from God, that's self-righteousness, by the way. Uh you and I are righteous by faith. We God is our savior. He's our savior yesterday. Right now, he's my savior. I am not my savior, and tomorrow, he's my savior. I'm never my savior. For me to go in to be some become my savior, and I've tried to become my savior, it didn't go very well. And that's after I knew him, and I think that's blasphemous if you think about it. It's resurping God's role, it's disrespectful to say that I can do something that only he can do. But you know, but we've been taught all this stuff. So my point is we have these, we have this teaching. And I think what he's talking about here, we have a young lamb. Now we got the Christian church, and Paul, what is he doing? He's fighting the Judaizers. Look at Acts the 15th chapter. All the time. He says, all these people are going up from the Jewish Christian believing church, the way they called it, Telantia. And what are they doing? They're trying to get the believers, the Gentile people, to get circumcised, to get them to obey the Sabbath and bring all the laws of Moses. And it says that. When Paul and is it Paul and Titus? I don't think it was Silas. It was probably Barnabas. Went to Jerusalem to bring their message. About circumcision and all that stuff. And there's Pharisees that believed, he said, they must obey the law of Moses. Ha! We got a little bit of like little sheep that are really ravenous wolves. And it says this, okay. Beware of false prophets. Who come to you dressed as sheep, but inside they are devouring wolves. Wow. When I saw another similar ferocious beast, I don't think a wolf would qualify for that. Rising up out of the earth, it had two horns and resembled a young lamb. Yet it had a dragon's voice. Isn't that interesting? And in the commentary, he says the counterfeit trinity emerges, the one mirroring the other, the dragon, the beast, and now the false prophet or the lung lamb. The dragon accuser, the seven-headed sea monster of religion, and its leading role player, the head that was slain but became alive again, which is really the Christian religion. Well, yeah, Jesus was died and he was raised from the dead. But you know, but here's all the steps you gotta do. Here's my here's the ten steps to a the better marriage. I was going, that's ten steps too many for me. One step to a better marriage, too many steps for me. I mean, I just I mean, just why do you just let God transform you? If you got a problem, say you Lord, I got a problem, you gotta change me. Because I can't change myself. I learned that right away. You know when you when you come out of a lifestyle like I had, I was a mess. I wasn't like the good boy, even though I am a physician today. That's because of my conversion in 1983. But I but I I I was a mess. I couldn't change me. I learned that really quick. I still can't change me. If I have a problem, I say, Lord, yeah, change me. It's your problem, not mine. Because I can't do it. Doesn't mean I don't try, because I do. But my point is, have a real change, God's gotta do it. Okay. Let's see. The head that was slain became alive again. And now here the dragon clothed in lambs disguise, later called the false prophet. Okay? Someone who's religious, who's speaking a message that's really grabs our soul, but ultimately has a lot of work underneath it. And I don't know how many times I went to church, I get going. I mean, I I haven't been to church in I mean so long, it's unbelievable. But my I listen, it was like they start with a great message, this and this and this and this, and then now if you do this, that's where they lost me. Now I used to think to myself, I wasn't that radical, but I mean, rather I wasn't radical enough to do this, but I wanted to raise my hand and said, Well, first of all, you can't do that, and I can't do that. So, where does that leave us? You can talk about it, all these things that we need to do. Like if you just spend an hour a day in the Bible, then all your problems are gonna go away. Yeah, tried it about a week, and then the eighth day I don't have time to do it, and then I feel guilty, right? Everybody that happened to anybody or just me? I mean, come on. And plus, I tell people, you know, they say, How, how you I can tell you exactly every day how how long I spent in the word. Should I tell you? 24 hours because I'm in the word and the word is in me. I'm in 24-hour sync with Jesus. The word's in me and I'm in him. I'm 24 hours a day in the word, whether I pick up my Bible or not. Anyway, even though I stop and take a little laugh break. It's probably if you looked in the bulletin, it's time for our laugh break now. Anyway, even though, verse 12, even though it would it had the appearance of the lamb, it operated under the same authority as the previous beast. Under the watchful eye of the dragon, it had the same old dragon in a lamb. In other words, it looked like the real deal, and the message was smooth like a snake, like a serpent. But yeah. I mean, think about Eve was deceived. Adam wasn't deceived, by the way. He just jumped in. But she was tricked. So that had to be a smooth message, didn't it? It had to be one that looks so good. And it's Galatians 3. Wow, was it a message to changing, or was it the works of the law? Now that you've got all this stuff, you heard a message and the Holy Spirit poured out and you saw signs and wonders and miracles, and you're all jacked up, now you're gonna reach perfection in the flesh. That's the message! It was already going on right after Paul showed up. And it's been going on ever since. It's one of my passions, obviously. Oh, let's just hear that. Get to that in a second. Where am I here? All right, it's a dragon, dragon in a lamb's disguise. Okay, continuing in verse uh 12. The mission was to engage, engage the earthbound dwell dwellers, in other words, people that think earthly, to worship the counterfeit, the slaughtered animal that was restored to life out of death, which is hey, let's get them to worship Jesus. That's not a problem. That's okay. But let's get them to think, try to work it and do the Old Testament, make it Jesus, make it Judaism 2.0. Let's just, this, it's just a it's just an upgrade to Judaism. That's what we have, and that's what he's talking about here. No, no, no. This is a brand new covenant. Hebrews 8, it says, It will not be like the covenant that I gave your forefathers in the wilderness. Nothing like it. That's amazing, because what religion we have is just like it. Alright. Verse 13. It had the power to mesmerise the masses with great signs, even fire falling from the sky, deceiving the earth dwellers, dazzling them with their magic. Willist Willist, sounds like a word from the King James, Willis operating like a puppet on a string under the watchful eye of the beast. False prophet. Got the little the Muppet Show. The instruction was for the earth dwellers to make an idle image of the lamb who was slain with the knife and then revive it again. Make an idle image. And I just was interested, let's see here. In uh Matthew 7 21, it says, Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who has does the will of the Father. Well, where did I get? I jumped on there. Let's see here. And remember, what's fruit is peace, love, joy, patience, kindness, self-control. And it's something the Holy Spirit bubbles up. What's other what's other fruit? There's no fruit. Remember the law or the tree of the knowledge of good and evil kills and it produces thorns and thistles. Where is it? Oh. Okay, verse 22. Sorry, that's what I was looking for. Many will say to me on that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in your name and driven out demons in your name and done mighty works in your name? Haven't we done that? Mm-hmm. And then I will say to them openly, I never knew you. Depart from me, you who act wickedly, disregarding my commandments. That's just the amplified. Which is basically, and you say, Oh, he's saying, I never knew you. He's saying, I don't know you. Just like when your kid, I think what he means there in that scripture is like when your kid does something and they do something so odd for them, and you go, I don't even know you! You're not acting like yourself. I think that's some of this, okay? Anyway, verse 15. The lamb-like beast resembling the typical counterfeit performance-based Christian religion. That's interesting, isn't it? The lamb-like beast resembling the typical counterfeit performance-based Christian religion gave its, and this is man-made mirror, image breath, and a voice to speak and threaten to kill all who would not worship the image. In other words, us imitating other men instead of us understanding that we're mirroring Jesus Christ, like in Corinthians 3.18, as we behold, as in the mirror. We're being transfigured in that same old image. He's the He is the very image and likeness of God, and so are we. And we are the glory of God. We look at Him for not to try to be like Him, He demonstrates who we really are. That's the faith of God. God believes you're an image bearer. He doesn't believe you're gonna be one. He believes you're his child. He believes you're pretty good looking. Says gave it a man-made mirror image breath and a voice to speak and threaten to kill all who would not worship the image. And that's probably the earthly dwelling. But anyway, I've I don't have a total explanation for that one. Its mission was to mirror imprint, listen this, its character, that's the 666, by the way, its character upon everyone's hand and minds in order to what manipulate what they think and do. Hand, mind, think, hand do. Down here, so what is the mark of the beast all about? The Greek word translate, mark is the word charagama, and this is closely related to the word character from character, a tool used to engrave an express image inscription, either the character of the father, I am, or the character of the distorted mindship, uh, I the I am not will influence our actions because it was because it is what engages our thoughts and foreheads. Remember, Jesus said, He said, Do you pay taxes? And he said, or show me a coin. And he says, Whose inscription is it? It's Caesar, his image. He says, Give what's Caesar, give back to Caesar what's Caesar's, and give God what's God's. Since Caesar was the image bearer on that coin, but you're the image bearer for God. So in other words, it's image. Believe, and Adam lost, he didn't lose his image in like this, but in his mind he did. He was still an image bearer, he always was an image bearer. God still believed the same about him, he didn't believe the same about himself. The intent was clear to control the world markets by manipulating people's minds and behavior, what? With the same idea of original sin. What's the original sin? He ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil that distorted his mind. In other words, he tried to be who he already was. He was already an image bearer. But the serpent said, if you do this and God, you'll be like God. Be like God. He already was. And if you don't do that, you can't be like God. And of course, then he started to work at the program. And you've heard me say this a million times. All of a sudden, he was being condemned by Ophus, by the accuser. He changed his mind that he was no longer an image bearer and that God was all mad at him, which he wasn't, because God is love, and he hid in shame. And then, of course, he changed. Since he changed his thoughts about himself, he made God in his image and likeness, made God like a man like he thought, and now God's the mean ogre that he handed down to us. And that and that that thinking is prevailing in religion and atheism and political governments. It's all over the place. That's the truth. With his typical symptoms. I love this. Original sins with his typical symptoms. And that goes back to like you know uh Romans 7 talks to the virus about you know that the law causes the sin principle to come up. And Paul talks about that. I'm not gonna go into it tonight. I'm not def he says, I'm not defined by my being, I'm defined by my doing. That's the issue. That's the control of the markers and manipulate people's minds and behavior. I am not defined by my being, I'm defined by my doing. Say I am not defined by my doing, I'm defined by my being. A image bearer, a son and daughter of God. I am therefore I need to achieve this and buy that to endorse me. I gotta have this, I gotta drive this car, I gotta look like this, I gotta have this handbag. Because everybody has because I gotta look good, right? Failure and sin consciousness would be the currency of the entire religious industry. Say it again. Failure and sin consciousness would be the currency of the entire religious industry. No one could buy or sell without being identified by the character. Now, character, it's an interesting word because if I'm an image bearer and I believe I'm an image bearer of the father, I have character that goes along with that. And if I believe the fall of my side, I have character, I bear thorns and thistles, which is not good stuff. And that's that's uh you can go over to the uh Romans the first chapter, starting on the 18th, 19th verse till the end, Galatians 5. Talks about it. No one can buy or sell without being identified by the character, name, and number, code, password of the idol, the beast. The make-believe slain and raised to life lamb with the dragon's voice. In other words, it looks like the real thing, but it's got the dragon's voice. It's Judaism 2.0. It's not, even though they say it's a new and everlasting covenant, it is it's not taught the new and everlasting covenant. Romans 8 talks about the covenant. Basically, everybody will know me. I write my laws and your hearts and mine, so they're just part of you, and your sins don't remember no more. That's it. It has nothing to do with us, it has all has to do with God. It's all God's He doesn't say if you do this, he says, This is what I've done, and this is the way it is. You're a new creation. Say I am a new creation. Not gonna be, I am. I don't care if you're making mistakes, you're still a new creation. 18. This riddle demands solving, but now put your mind to it. Here's the clue: calculate the number of the beasts and see how it points directly to the number of mankind. It is the trinity of sixes. Six, six, six, three, sixes. In Greek geometry, Jesus in Greek is expressed by the Trinity of Eights, 888, which means new beginnings. The numerical value of human life is six. Man-made religion is a mindset dominated by knowing oneself and others according to the flesh. The Trinity of Sixes is the mark of the counterfeit trinity that is defeated in the unfolding of the triumphal lamb. 666, you got the you have the beast, the false prophet, and you have the and ultimately you have the uh the dragon, and they and you have a character. It's the exp it's your expression. The expression of who you are because of what you believe. Anyway, so if you're looking for somebody to come down and stamp you so you can't eat or drink and you're gonna starve to death, then you gotta start an uh underground food thing, which I used to believe, and all this other stuff, it's nonsense. This is stuff that's going on already back then. I mean, think about it. The apostle Paul goes to Galatians, preaches this gospel, the Holy Spirit pours out, and then the Judaizers, people that believe in Jesus, lambs or wolves in sheep's clothing, have the dragon voice, comes and starts to slap them back on back under Judaism again. And the letter only can kill, and the spirit can only bring life. The spirit can't kill. The spirit can only bring life. And the letter can only kill, it cannot bring life.