WEBVTT 00:00:07.679 --> 00:00:11.759 You're listening to the road with Pastor Teacher Steve Holt. 00:00:12.320 --> 00:00:13.439 Well, here's the question. 00:00:13.599 --> 00:00:16.000 Everybody always asks, What is my name? 00:00:16.239 --> 00:00:17.600 In the Book of Life? 00:00:17.920 --> 00:00:19.199 Am I in the book of life? 00:00:19.280 --> 00:00:21.600 If you've received Christ, your name is in the book of life. 00:00:21.760 --> 00:00:25.440 If you've not received Christ, yet your name's not yet in the book of life. 00:00:26.000 --> 00:00:27.839 Give your heart. 00:00:28.559 --> 00:00:29.679 Be all in. 00:00:30.160 --> 00:00:31.600 Be wholehearted. 00:00:31.839 --> 00:00:34.000 Become a disciple of Jesus. 00:00:34.159 --> 00:00:36.079 Not just a Jesus follower. 00:00:36.399 --> 00:00:38.079 Not just a believer. 00:00:38.960 --> 00:00:44.880 But an all-in, burn the boat, wholehearted disciple of Jesus. 00:00:44.960 --> 00:00:46.399 It's the only way to happiness. 00:00:46.719 --> 00:00:48.079 It's the only way to happiness. 00:00:48.159 --> 00:00:49.359 It's the only way to joy. 00:00:50.079 --> 00:00:54.799 Today, Pastor Steve continues his series on the book of Revelation. 00:00:55.119 --> 00:01:00.640 At The Road, our vision is to raise up wholehearted disciples of Jesus Christ. 00:01:00.880 --> 00:01:05.200 For more information on The Road, visit theroad.org. 00:01:05.439 --> 00:01:10.560 We hope you are encouraged by today's message from Pastor Teacher Steve Holt. 00:01:13.599 --> 00:01:17.760 38% of Americans believe we're living in the last days. 00:01:18.560 --> 00:01:25.680 57% of Americans believe that the prophecies in the book of Revelation will come true. 00:01:26.000 --> 00:01:39.680 So despite what you're hearing on the media, and for you that are in college, despite what you're hearing from your professors on the university level, over half of the country still believes in the book, still believes it's the inerrant, infallible word of God. 00:01:39.840 --> 00:01:47.599 In some way, shape, or form, they wouldn't say it that way, but they know there's something very, very powerful and special about this book. 00:01:47.760 --> 00:01:52.239 And I would encourage you guys on the high school campuses and the college campuses, carry your Bible. 00:01:52.480 --> 00:01:53.840 Just carry your Bible. 00:01:54.079 --> 00:01:54.959 Put it in your bag. 00:01:55.120 --> 00:01:55.680 Have it around. 00:01:55.840 --> 00:01:56.480 Lay it around. 00:01:56.560 --> 00:01:57.519 Let people see it. 00:01:57.680 --> 00:02:00.239 Let them know that you're a Jesus disciple. 00:02:00.480 --> 00:02:03.920 So Revelation 13 is about two beasts. 00:02:04.239 --> 00:02:05.120 Two beasts. 00:02:05.280 --> 00:02:07.040 One is the Antichrist. 00:02:07.120 --> 00:02:10.719 We talked about this last week, and the other is a false prophet. 00:02:10.879 --> 00:02:16.159 What we're going to see is sort of a the rest of Revelation, it's going to be good news and bad news. 00:02:16.319 --> 00:02:32.639 We're going to see God allowing the enemy to rise up with greater demonic power across the globe, but we're also going to see word-rooted, spirit-alive churches also being raised up by the Spirit of God with more power. 00:02:32.879 --> 00:02:39.919 You're going to see people getting healed today that were not getting healed 40 years ago. 00:02:40.159 --> 00:02:44.000 You are going to see people getting set free from addictions immediately. 00:02:44.159 --> 00:02:52.639 I met a guy two weeks ago who talked about this addiction that he had had in his life, and God touched him, and he was set free in about 48 hours. 00:02:52.719 --> 00:02:53.840 And he never went back to it. 00:02:54.000 --> 00:02:55.039 It's been 25 years. 00:02:55.280 --> 00:02:56.560 That's pretty exciting. 00:02:56.800 --> 00:03:00.639 And we're seeing these things happen that we were not seeing in the past. 00:03:00.719 --> 00:03:03.439 We're seeing praise and worship across the globe. 00:03:03.599 --> 00:03:06.560 That's more spirit-anointed than we've ever seen before. 00:03:06.719 --> 00:03:08.000 We're seeing prayer meetings. 00:03:08.080 --> 00:03:10.479 We got the Act School right over here. 00:03:10.719 --> 00:03:14.400 I mean, that's the reason you're so beautiful in worship, it's because you do it all the time, right? 00:03:14.560 --> 00:03:17.039 I mean, you're doing it before and in the presence of the Lord. 00:03:17.120 --> 00:03:20.240 And Marcus is one of the leaders of that ministry. 00:03:20.479 --> 00:03:23.280 And so that was not happening 20 years ago. 00:03:23.439 --> 00:03:25.439 So there's just all these things happening. 00:03:25.599 --> 00:03:28.240 So Satan's not going to win. 00:03:28.639 --> 00:03:30.000 Jesus is going to win. 00:03:30.159 --> 00:03:33.280 But we're going to see this unholy trinity. 00:03:33.680 --> 00:03:54.560 Kind of an old unholy trinity of Satan and this antichrist and this false prophet that actually God is going to use to bring even people in the last, last, last days who are going to get saved because they're going to know that it's not of the Lord. 00:03:54.719 --> 00:03:56.719 Now we mentioned last week, again, anti. 00:03:57.280 --> 00:03:59.680 Anti does not mean against. 00:03:59.919 --> 00:04:02.719 That tends to be the way we think of anti in English. 00:04:02.800 --> 00:04:05.840 It does not mean against, it means instead of. 00:04:06.080 --> 00:04:23.600 So the Antichrist will be a Messiah-like figure that will come on the scene doing signs and wonders, doing powerful stuff, a tremendous orator, with the ability to synergize and unite all the nations of the world. 00:04:23.759 --> 00:04:27.040 And so he will be like a Christ, like a Messiah. 00:04:27.120 --> 00:04:31.040 It doesn't mean anti, even though he is, it means that he's going to be like. 00:04:31.199 --> 00:04:32.560 So let's look at Revelation 13. 00:04:32.639 --> 00:04:35.920 I'll go through really quick what we covered before. 00:04:36.240 --> 00:04:46.480 Then I stood on the sand of the sea, and I saw a beast rising up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his horns ten crowns, and on his heads a blasphemous name. 00:04:46.720 --> 00:04:49.759 Now the beast which I saw was like a leopard. 00:04:50.000 --> 00:04:55.120 His feet were like the feet of a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a lion. 00:04:55.279 --> 00:04:57.839 The dragon gave him his power. 00:04:58.000 --> 00:05:02.720 So in Revelation 12, we talk about the dragon being Satan, his throne and great authority. 00:05:02.800 --> 00:05:04.560 Here was the first mark we talked about last week. 00:05:04.639 --> 00:05:08.399 You can go online, you can listen to it later or watch it. 00:05:08.720 --> 00:05:12.639 First mark, one world leader with satanic power. 00:05:12.879 --> 00:05:16.399 A one world leader with satanic power. 00:05:16.560 --> 00:05:21.040 So Satan is empowering this leader, and he's going to come out of the sea. 00:05:21.199 --> 00:05:28.720 And again, I explained it last week, two weeks ago, this sea are the nations we believe around the Mediterranean. 00:05:28.879 --> 00:05:37.519 So we believe that somewhere in that area of the Middle East, this one world leader, this satanically empowered individual, will come forth. 00:05:37.759 --> 00:05:47.519 And I saw one of his heads as if it had been mortally wounded, and his deadly wound was healed, and all the world marveled and followed the beast. 00:05:47.680 --> 00:05:48.480 Second mark. 00:05:48.720 --> 00:05:51.759 A mortal head wound supernaturally healed. 00:05:52.000 --> 00:05:55.279 A mortal head wound supernaturally healed. 00:05:55.439 --> 00:06:00.240 Three times in this chapter, it speaks of this head wound, this wound where he's healed. 00:06:00.319 --> 00:06:07.680 It's almost like the only way I can think of it is the whole, I mean CNN will be there, Fox will be there, MBC, MSNBC, and he'll rise from the dead. 00:06:07.839 --> 00:06:08.480 That's what I think. 00:06:08.639 --> 00:06:21.519 I think it'll look like he's dead, it looks like he's been killed, and then he will somehow supernaturally come back to life, and that will set him with an equity over all other world leaders. 00:06:22.160 --> 00:06:26.000 So they worship the dragon who gave authority to the beast. 00:06:26.160 --> 00:06:29.920 And they worship the beast, saying, Who is like the beast? 00:06:30.160 --> 00:06:32.800 Who is able to make war with him? 00:06:33.120 --> 00:06:34.079 Third mark. 00:06:34.399 --> 00:06:37.360 The world will worship this leader. 00:06:37.600 --> 00:06:39.360 So the whole world will worship him. 00:06:39.519 --> 00:06:41.600 And I shared last week about Iran. 00:06:41.759 --> 00:06:52.160 And they're in their belief in the hidden Imam, a Messiah-like figure of Shia Islam that will rise up, and it's uncanny. 00:06:52.319 --> 00:06:56.319 And again, I talked more about it two weeks ago, so you can listen to it. 00:06:56.480 --> 00:06:58.240 It's called the 12th Imam. 00:06:58.399 --> 00:06:59.759 It's the hidden Imam. 00:06:59.839 --> 00:07:03.839 The 12er sect of Shia Islam is in Iran. 00:07:04.160 --> 00:07:17.839 And they believe that there will be cataclysm, there will be chaos on the earth, and this Islamic, Shia Islamic world leader will rise up in the midst of that. 00:07:18.079 --> 00:07:21.360 If you want more details, you can listen to that talk. 00:07:22.160 --> 00:07:23.279 Verse 5. 00:07:23.519 --> 00:07:30.560 And he was given a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies, and he was given authority to continue for 42 months. 00:07:30.639 --> 00:07:32.399 I really like this verse. 00:07:32.800 --> 00:07:34.720 I really like this verse. 00:07:35.040 --> 00:07:43.360 Then he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God to blaspheme his name, his tabernacle, and those who dwell in heaven. 00:07:43.519 --> 00:07:44.560 There's a lot we could say here. 00:07:44.720 --> 00:07:55.920 One thing we know is if it appears that the temple, as it were, the tabernacle will be rebuilt on the Temple Mount in Israel, where we see the mosque of Ammar right now. 00:07:56.160 --> 00:07:57.199 That will be rebuilt. 00:08:00.480 --> 00:08:01.920 But here's the fourth mark. 00:08:02.160 --> 00:08:08.800 A great orator, a great orator who will speak blasphemies against God. 00:08:09.040 --> 00:08:13.600 A great orator who will speak blasphemies against God. 00:08:13.839 --> 00:08:15.519 Now you say, Why does he like that? 00:08:15.600 --> 00:08:16.240 I mean, what's he like? 00:08:16.639 --> 00:08:18.639 I like it's 42 months. 00:08:18.959 --> 00:08:24.079 It's not 43, it's not 42 and a half. 00:08:24.879 --> 00:08:26.079 I mean, that's pretty cool. 00:08:26.160 --> 00:08:32.320 You can, I mean, if if we're still alive, I mean, I think we're gonna be raptured, we're gonna be out of here, but let's just say I'm wrong. 00:08:32.720 --> 00:08:35.840 Which my wife will tell you is frequent. 00:08:36.159 --> 00:08:44.639 But let's say I'm wrong on that, is that, you know, there's a limit to what God is gonna allow the enemy to do. 00:08:44.799 --> 00:08:46.879 And then this guy, it's over. 00:08:47.200 --> 00:08:48.240 It's over. 00:08:49.519 --> 00:08:50.480 He wins. 00:08:51.120 --> 00:08:55.840 The king of kings and the lord of lords becomes the king of kings and the lord of lords on the earth too. 00:08:56.000 --> 00:09:01.200 He's moving in power through his church, but he's only got 42 months. 00:09:01.840 --> 00:09:04.000 So it's a really bad week. 00:09:04.399 --> 00:09:06.559 And you go, well, he's on 27. 00:09:07.200 --> 00:09:09.200 It's only like 15 more. 00:09:10.000 --> 00:09:12.399 He doesn't know that, but we know that. 00:09:12.720 --> 00:09:17.279 Because we have the intelligence report from God called the Book of Revelation. 00:09:17.600 --> 00:09:18.320 Giving us God. 00:09:18.559 --> 00:09:19.120 Why is it here? 00:09:19.200 --> 00:09:24.879 Why do we have the book as the last book in all of the Bible except as an intelligence report? 00:09:25.039 --> 00:09:26.960 I'm giving you a briefing. 00:09:28.879 --> 00:09:32.080 I'm a colonel in the Lord's army. 00:09:33.600 --> 00:09:37.679 I can't say I'm a general, but I'm a colonel in the Lord's army. 00:09:37.840 --> 00:09:39.840 And hey, I'm giving you a briefing report. 00:09:40.080 --> 00:09:41.679 This is the way it's gonna happen, gang. 00:09:41.840 --> 00:09:42.879 Isn't that exciting? 00:09:43.120 --> 00:09:44.240 42 months. 00:09:44.399 --> 00:09:45.519 That's all he's got. 00:09:45.759 --> 00:09:49.200 But he's gonna begin to speak blasphemies. 00:09:49.519 --> 00:09:51.279 Blasphemies against God. 00:09:52.080 --> 00:10:01.120 And it was granted to him to make war with the saints and to overcome them. 00:10:01.519 --> 00:10:05.759 God is gonna let him actually overcome the saints. 00:10:06.080 --> 00:10:11.679 And authority was given to him over every tribe, tongue, and nation. 00:10:12.240 --> 00:10:13.519 Fifth mark. 00:10:13.919 --> 00:10:16.639 He will make war on the church. 00:10:16.960 --> 00:10:19.360 He will make war on the church. 00:10:19.519 --> 00:10:22.240 He will control all the governments of the world. 00:10:22.559 --> 00:10:24.000 He will come against the church. 00:10:24.159 --> 00:10:25.919 He will overcome the church. 00:10:27.600 --> 00:10:30.960 And and you better get ready, folks. 00:10:31.600 --> 00:10:33.039 I mean get ready. 00:10:33.840 --> 00:10:37.759 Because right now, when this comes, it'll cost us our head. 00:10:37.919 --> 00:10:40.240 Right now, it just costs you your heart. 00:10:40.639 --> 00:10:42.320 So come to Jesus if you don't know him. 00:10:42.480 --> 00:10:44.720 But there's going to be a war against the church. 00:10:44.799 --> 00:10:45.679 And don't you feel it? 00:10:45.840 --> 00:10:48.720 There's some of this already beginning across the globe. 00:10:49.039 --> 00:10:51.440 Especially powerful churches, especially churches. 00:10:52.000 --> 00:10:58.799 I mean, listen, the government doesn't care about weak, anemic, divided churches. 00:10:59.360 --> 00:11:00.240 They don't care. 00:11:00.399 --> 00:11:06.799 That's why every time you have around, you know, right around Easter, or right around Christmas, the guys they interview, it's just amazing to me. 00:11:07.039 --> 00:11:09.279 I've been reading Newsweek and Time since ad nausea. 00:11:09.360 --> 00:11:10.320 I mean, it was always in my house. 00:11:10.399 --> 00:11:10.879 I've always had it. 00:11:11.120 --> 00:11:13.120 My dad sends me Time magazine. 00:11:13.200 --> 00:11:19.600 So I read Time and I read these different periodicals and listen to the news from time to time and stuff like that. 00:11:19.919 --> 00:11:22.399 It's amazing in Newsweek, Time, and U.S. 00:11:22.399 --> 00:11:23.679 News and World Report, Magazine. 00:11:24.080 --> 00:11:26.799 They always interview people like, who is this guy? 00:11:27.200 --> 00:11:28.399 This is Dr. 00:11:28.960 --> 00:11:32.000 Larry Jones from Princeton. 00:11:32.399 --> 00:11:35.200 Well, I feel it's like, I don't care what you feel. 00:11:35.279 --> 00:11:36.720 You're so out of touch. 00:11:36.960 --> 00:11:39.200 I mean, nobody even knows who you are. 00:11:39.440 --> 00:11:43.039 I mean, seriously, the mainline media of which only 2% go to church. 00:11:43.120 --> 00:11:43.600 Did you know that? 00:11:43.679 --> 00:11:45.600 Out of the mainline media, only 2% go to church. 00:11:45.679 --> 00:11:46.639 They don't know anything. 00:11:46.799 --> 00:11:48.159 So they don't understand. 00:11:48.320 --> 00:11:56.720 I mean, they, seriously, they probably know more, well, they know a lot about organic food, but they don't know anything about what's happening in the church. 00:11:56.799 --> 00:12:00.720 And so they do these interviews, people none of us have ever heard of, none of them have ever passed it a church. 00:12:00.799 --> 00:12:06.000 They've never grown anything except their stomach because they're sitting in an ivory tower studying all the time. 00:12:06.240 --> 00:12:06.559 Okay? 00:12:06.960 --> 00:12:09.120 And so and so we don't listen to them. 00:12:09.360 --> 00:12:19.440 The reality is what God's doing and where people have fear is a church that's actually making Jesus great in their cities. 00:12:19.600 --> 00:12:21.759 That's what the Springs Initiative is all about. 00:12:21.919 --> 00:12:28.559 We're making Jesus great by going into the poor sections of town and we're going to paint those houses and we're going to fix up those yards. 00:12:28.720 --> 00:12:30.480 We're going to help and we're going to love those people. 00:12:30.639 --> 00:12:48.720 I was sitting at the National Day of Prayer between an Hispanic county supervisor and then the head of the Hispanic churches of Colorado Springs, and then across from him was the head of the National Day of Prayer, who's Hispanic, who's his boss. 00:12:49.440 --> 00:12:56.480 And I just had a blast talking to these guys about what's happening in the Hispanic community, the Latino community. 00:12:56.559 --> 00:13:01.840 This guy that I was sitting next to has got a church downtown, he was, figure this one out. 00:13:02.159 --> 00:13:05.679 He was born in New York and he grew up in Puerto Rico. 00:13:05.919 --> 00:13:08.159 And I said, that's so weird, man. 00:13:08.320 --> 00:13:10.000 And then he explained it to me. 00:13:10.240 --> 00:13:16.720 He said he's got six nationalities in his church of about 150 from all over Latin America and stuff. 00:13:16.960 --> 00:13:24.320 So God's bringing people to us to reach for Christ, and we get the privilege of being a part of that. 00:13:24.480 --> 00:13:25.759 Let's make a difference. 00:13:26.000 --> 00:13:28.000 Let's make Jesus great. 00:13:28.720 --> 00:13:29.919 Verse 8. 00:13:30.320 --> 00:13:40.480 All who dwell in the earth will worship him whose names have not been written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. 00:13:41.200 --> 00:13:43.679 Well, here's the question everybody always asks. 00:13:43.840 --> 00:13:47.279 Well, is my name in the book of life? 00:13:47.600 --> 00:13:48.799 Am I in the book of life? 00:13:48.960 --> 00:13:51.200 If you've received Christ, your name is in the book of life. 00:13:51.360 --> 00:13:55.039 If you've not received Christ yet, your name's not yet in the book of life. 00:13:55.279 --> 00:13:59.600 So before we take communion today, make it right. 00:14:00.320 --> 00:14:08.639 Give your heart, be all in, be wholehearted, become a disciple of Jesus. 00:14:08.799 --> 00:14:19.440 Not just a Jesus follower, not just a believer, but an all-in, burn the boats, wholehearted disciple of Jesus. 00:14:19.519 --> 00:14:21.039 It's the only way to happiness. 00:14:21.279 --> 00:14:22.639 It's the only way to happiness. 00:14:22.799 --> 00:14:24.320 It's the only way to joy. 00:14:24.799 --> 00:14:27.519 If anyone has an ear to hear, let him hear. 00:14:28.639 --> 00:14:32.000 So most of you in this room, does everybody hear about two ears? 00:14:32.399 --> 00:14:35.360 So if you hear with two ears, let him hear. 00:14:35.600 --> 00:14:38.960 He who leads into captivity shall go into captivity. 00:14:39.200 --> 00:14:42.879 He who kills with the sword must be killed with the sword. 00:14:43.200 --> 00:14:48.480 Here is the patience and the faith of the saints. 00:14:49.039 --> 00:14:55.840 So, men and women, we must be ready also for battle. 00:14:56.000 --> 00:14:57.600 We must be ready for hardship. 00:14:57.759 --> 00:14:59.039 We must be ready for difficult. 00:14:59.360 --> 00:15:00.799 Suffering's coming our way. 00:15:01.039 --> 00:15:03.120 Suffering is coming our way. 00:15:03.519 --> 00:15:06.159 And I'm not talking about just the end times and all that. 00:15:06.799 --> 00:15:08.159 I mean, that's life. 00:15:08.960 --> 00:15:09.919 That's the course. 00:15:10.159 --> 00:15:12.080 That's the course that we're in. 00:15:12.399 --> 00:15:17.679 That suffering's a part of this life, and it's the patience of the saints. 00:15:17.919 --> 00:15:27.600 It's the endurance of the saints through the word of God and through the power of the Holy Spirit that we are able to continually have joy. 00:15:28.639 --> 00:15:29.600 We can continue. 00:15:29.679 --> 00:15:31.519 That's what I love about Philippians. 00:15:31.759 --> 00:15:36.000 If you're feeling really down this week, just read Philippians. 00:15:36.080 --> 00:15:39.200 It'll take you 15 minutes to read the entire book. 00:15:39.600 --> 00:15:41.120 Just four short chapters. 00:15:41.279 --> 00:15:44.559 Read it and just circle every time you see joy. 00:15:44.799 --> 00:15:45.200 Joy. 00:15:45.360 --> 00:15:46.000 Joy, joy. 00:15:46.080 --> 00:15:48.559 I'll just let you know there's 14 of them in my translation. 00:15:48.960 --> 00:15:50.240 Maybe you have a better translation. 00:15:50.320 --> 00:15:50.799 It's more. 00:15:51.039 --> 00:15:52.399 But it's about 14. 00:15:53.120 --> 00:15:54.559 He's in prison. 00:15:55.679 --> 00:15:57.120 He's in prison. 00:15:57.919 --> 00:16:01.120 He's gotten the shaft from the church, even, he says. 00:16:01.360 --> 00:16:05.279 Even from other believers, Paul has gotten the shaft. 00:16:05.519 --> 00:16:07.679 Anybody here gotten a shaft from the church before? 00:16:08.799 --> 00:16:09.120 Man. 00:16:09.600 --> 00:16:12.639 Raise your hand if you've ever gotten the shaft from a church. 00:16:13.120 --> 00:16:18.559 Man, the rest of you are living in an awesome world that I don't know of. 00:16:18.799 --> 00:16:19.120 Okay? 00:16:20.799 --> 00:16:23.919 But but he had gotten Paul. 00:16:24.960 --> 00:16:26.960 Paul! Apostle Paul. 00:16:27.600 --> 00:16:29.679 He's one of the capital A guys. 00:16:30.240 --> 00:16:36.000 I mean, I believe there's a lot of small A apostles all over the world today who are planting churches and going for it. 00:16:36.080 --> 00:16:39.600 I call them small A apostles, but he was Capital A. 00:16:40.399 --> 00:16:42.480 He's Capital A Apostle. 00:16:42.799 --> 00:16:50.720 He wrote a large part of the Bible, and he got the shaft from the church, and he said, I count it all joy. 00:16:51.600 --> 00:16:53.519 I count it all joy. 00:16:54.080 --> 00:16:55.919 That's what you're gonna do. 00:16:56.720 --> 00:17:00.159 You keep hanging around us, you're gonna count it all joy. 00:17:00.799 --> 00:17:02.879 Because welcome to the party. 00:17:03.039 --> 00:17:16.319 The party's tough, the party's hard, but if we have each other, and if we have Jesus, I mean he starts off the book of Philippians saying, I pray with joy, and I can't wait to have fellowship with you, and he's in chains. 00:17:17.440 --> 00:17:20.480 That's the heart of a whole-hearted disciple. 00:17:20.640 --> 00:17:24.000 Here's one who understands that he wins, Jesus wins. 00:17:24.720 --> 00:17:28.000 And then I saw another beast, verse 11, coming up out of the earth. 00:17:28.079 --> 00:17:37.279 This is now gonna be this second beast in Revelation 13 that is what I'm gonna call this false prophet or this false spiritualist. 00:17:37.440 --> 00:17:41.599 Kind of a spiritualist for this one world leader leader. 00:17:41.759 --> 00:17:44.880 And he had two horns, like a lamb. 00:17:46.000 --> 00:17:56.640 So I think he's gonna come kind of tentatively, gently, maybe even kind of kindly, like a lamb. 00:17:56.880 --> 00:17:57.839 Two horns like a lamb. 00:17:58.000 --> 00:18:09.519 Here's what's interesting about the the use of the of the well, the metaphor of what is being seen metaphorically by John in the vision of the apocalypse is it's two horns. 00:18:09.599 --> 00:18:14.160 He makes note of two, he didn't say like a lamb, he says two horns like a lamb. 00:18:14.319 --> 00:18:23.440 And horns always represent authority, and so there's something to the two horns, but he spoke like a dragon. 00:18:23.839 --> 00:18:25.920 So he spoke like Satan. 00:18:26.160 --> 00:18:39.920 And he exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence, and he causes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast whose deadly wound was healed. 00:18:40.160 --> 00:18:41.279 The sixth mark. 00:18:41.759 --> 00:18:46.960 A false prophet will arise as an enforcer for the beast. 00:18:47.200 --> 00:18:55.440 A false prophet or a false spiritualist will arise as an enforcer for the beast. 00:18:55.599 --> 00:18:56.720 So we're talking about two leaders. 00:18:56.880 --> 00:18:57.920 First, the Antichrist. 00:18:58.000 --> 00:18:59.039 I believe he's political. 00:18:59.200 --> 00:19:02.799 Again, you need to go back and listen to the first message, but I believe he's a political leader. 00:19:03.039 --> 00:19:12.400 I believe that this prophet, this spiritualist, is a religious leader, and that's what I believe the two horns are. 00:19:12.559 --> 00:19:18.079 I believe the two horns of the Lamb will be political and religious power. 00:19:18.799 --> 00:19:22.319 Political and religious power. 00:19:23.680 --> 00:19:33.119 So people don't want a spiritual messiah who forgives them of their sins. 00:19:33.440 --> 00:19:34.799 Most people don't. 00:19:35.200 --> 00:19:39.920 What they actually want is how can you get more money in my pocket? 00:19:40.400 --> 00:19:46.160 Most people would rather have an economic messiah than a spiritual messiah. 00:19:46.319 --> 00:19:58.160 This guy will come, but the Antichrist in the political realm, and I believe this false spiritualist, this false prophet being more on the religious end, and they will come together in synergy. 00:19:58.319 --> 00:19:59.200 Really interesting. 00:19:59.440 --> 00:20:13.519 I was talking to at the National Day of Prayer, I was talking to someone, we were having a pretty intriguing conversation, and he said, Do you know, have you seen the recent statistics on where America's at uh is related to leadership? 00:20:13.680 --> 00:20:14.799 And I said, No. 00:20:15.279 --> 00:20:31.599 And he said, they've actually I believe Pastor Choco brought it out too, but we had a conversation about later, that 65% of Americans would rather have someone who has good political ideas than care anything about their character. 00:20:32.000 --> 00:20:41.200 Character doesn't matter from that perspective of those in the vast mass of people anymore. 00:20:41.599 --> 00:20:45.759 And evidence of the last few elections we've had. 00:20:46.160 --> 00:20:48.240 So that's that's a setup. 00:20:48.480 --> 00:20:57.519 That's a setup for a type of leader of which his character is not going to be analyzed, but it's going to be more his policies that are analyzed. 00:20:57.680 --> 00:21:07.119 And so this two-horned lamb is this false prophet that rises up in the religious and political system. 00:21:07.279 --> 00:21:19.359 Revelation 12, 9 says this the great dragon was cast out, the serpent of old, called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world. 00:21:19.680 --> 00:21:27.920 So this will be a deception on a worldwide level, and he will be an enforcer for the Antichrist. 00:21:28.160 --> 00:21:40.720 Now, I started talking about this a little bit last week, but some believe, and it actually comes out of Shia Islam also with the hidden Imam, the Twelver sect, that this leader will be Jewish. 00:21:41.039 --> 00:21:42.480 Really interesting. 00:21:42.720 --> 00:21:58.960 It's actually not mainstream, it's actually on the edges of the mainstream in relation to the Antichrist that he could be Jewish and that he will actually be key to bringing Islam, Christianity, and Judaism into one world. 00:21:59.119 --> 00:21:59.599 One world. 00:22:00.160 --> 00:22:01.599 Religious order. 00:22:02.799 --> 00:22:10.960 He performs great signs so that he even makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men. 00:22:11.680 --> 00:22:14.400 Reminds us of someone, Elijah. 00:22:14.720 --> 00:22:17.759 He will be an Elijah-like prophetic figure. 00:22:18.000 --> 00:22:25.680 And he deceives those who dwell on the earth by those signs which he was, I like this, I've underlined it in my Bible, was granted to do. 00:22:26.960 --> 00:22:29.519 He can only do what he's granted to do. 00:22:30.079 --> 00:22:37.119 In the sight of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who was wounded by the sword and lives. 00:22:37.279 --> 00:22:41.440 That's a third time it speaks of the wound in the Antichrist. 00:22:41.680 --> 00:22:54.160 Verse 15, he was granted power to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak and cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed. 00:22:54.400 --> 00:23:03.200 Seventh mark, great signs and wonders granted to the beast and the false prophet. 00:23:05.279 --> 00:23:08.400 So this false prophet can do signs and wonders. 00:23:08.640 --> 00:23:11.119 The Antichrist can do signs and wonders. 00:23:11.440 --> 00:23:13.920 Satan can do signs and wonders. 00:23:14.079 --> 00:23:16.960 2 Thessalonians 2, where we talk about the restrainer. 00:23:17.279 --> 00:23:28.960 So the restrainer has been lifted, as it talks about in 2 Thessalonians, and the church has been taken out, and the Holy Spirit has been taken out. 00:23:29.759 --> 00:23:32.799 A democratic republic government taken out. 00:23:32.960 --> 00:23:34.480 There's no restrainer to evil. 00:23:34.640 --> 00:23:37.119 There's absolutely no restrainer to evil. 00:23:37.759 --> 00:23:41.359 Now I talked about where's the United States and all this two weeks ago. 00:23:41.440 --> 00:23:54.079 Again, you'll have to go back and listen to why I believe the United States is not mentioned anywhere in the book of Revelation and why I think basically our country will not be the world power that it once was during this time. 00:23:54.240 --> 00:23:55.839 But you can listen to that. 00:23:57.519 --> 00:24:01.119 So can you imagine a world leader that can do signs and wonders? 00:24:01.359 --> 00:24:05.759 That he can call down, he can call down fire from heaven. 00:24:06.079 --> 00:24:07.599 It reminds me of Moses. 00:24:08.000 --> 00:24:12.400 So Moses meets Pharaoh, and Moses does a sign and a wonder. 00:24:12.799 --> 00:24:13.839 Remember what happened? 00:24:14.079 --> 00:24:17.119 Pharaoh does a sign and a wonder through his magicians. 00:24:17.200 --> 00:24:19.759 And on and on and on and on. 00:24:20.079 --> 00:24:29.279 And when I was in Okinawa so many years ago, and we'd go out to show the Jesus film on the islands around the South China Sea, the stories we heard were interesting. 00:24:29.519 --> 00:24:39.839 The stories of snake bites by the Habu, which is one of the most deadly snakes in the world, and the Habu comes, it's very similar to a cotton mouth in the south. 00:24:40.000 --> 00:24:43.680 It would come and it and it strikes you, and then it rips the skin. 00:24:43.839 --> 00:24:45.519 So it strikes and rips the skin. 00:24:45.599 --> 00:24:53.519 And stories of the Utah, which were the priestesses on the islands, that would put their hands on the wound and it would be miraculously healed. 00:24:53.759 --> 00:24:55.440 And people would go to the Utah. 00:24:55.599 --> 00:25:00.319 And the Utah was one that we had to deal with when we go in to show the Jesus film. 00:25:00.799 --> 00:25:09.519 And I don't have time to go into all the stories, but the power encounters were interesting. 00:25:09.680 --> 00:25:10.960 And I didn't know much then. 00:25:11.039 --> 00:25:14.240 I was just learning about all the stuff about the power of the Holy Spirit myself. 00:25:14.480 --> 00:25:22.720 But we saw some stuff that would make the hair stand up on the back of your neck because Satan was alive and well on many of those islands. 00:25:22.960 --> 00:25:24.799 And then we show the Jesus film. 00:25:25.200 --> 00:25:28.799 By the way, a truth encounter always wins a power encounter. 00:25:29.440 --> 00:25:31.759 A truth encounter always wins a power encounter. 00:25:31.920 --> 00:25:34.000 Well, see, I don't want to deal with demons and stuff. 00:25:34.079 --> 00:25:35.359 I don't deal with don't. 00:25:35.920 --> 00:25:37.519 You don't have to right now. 00:25:37.839 --> 00:25:40.240 Just keep living truth. 00:25:40.480 --> 00:25:42.480 Just keep speaking truth. 00:25:42.720 --> 00:25:45.200 Just keep proclaiming truth. 00:25:45.359 --> 00:25:47.359 And power encounters are happening. 00:25:47.519 --> 00:25:50.160 You don't even know it, but that's what sets people free. 00:25:50.400 --> 00:25:51.680 And that's what Jesus did. 00:25:51.759 --> 00:25:57.839 And sometimes, sometimes, you actually have to have a one-on-one power encounter. 00:25:58.160 --> 00:26:01.279 And they talk and stuff. 00:26:01.680 --> 00:26:04.319 By the way, Jesus never met a demon in life. 00:26:05.839 --> 00:26:11.119 So if you if you encounter one, cast it out. 00:26:12.079 --> 00:26:13.920 Get out in the name of Jesus. 00:26:14.240 --> 00:26:15.839 Watch what'll happen. 00:26:16.400 --> 00:26:19.200 Then tell him to really be quiet and not make a scene. 00:26:20.720 --> 00:26:25.039 Years ago I had this guy come up to me and man, this guy was so demonized. 00:26:25.279 --> 00:26:28.160 And uh he said some stuff, and I said, you know what? 00:26:28.240 --> 00:26:31.359 I'm gonna cast out your demons in about five minutes. 00:26:31.680 --> 00:26:35.759 Um, so I just want to say, heads up, all demons in there, heads up. 00:26:36.160 --> 00:26:37.279 I'm a coming. 00:26:37.839 --> 00:26:46.960 You're not gonna scream, you're not gonna fall on the floor, you're not gonna foam at the mouth, you're not gonna act like, you know, a jerk, you're gonna make this guy look like a jerk. 00:26:47.039 --> 00:26:48.400 We're just gonna cast you out. 00:26:48.640 --> 00:26:50.480 And the guy said, okay. 00:26:51.920 --> 00:26:52.960 And so we cast it out. 00:26:53.119 --> 00:26:54.240 Dude was set free, man. 00:26:54.400 --> 00:26:56.000 Took like three minutes. 00:26:59.839 --> 00:27:09.119 So as we move toward the latter days, God's gonna use many of you in supernatural ways that are gonna be like, I mean, God wants to use me that way? 00:27:09.279 --> 00:27:09.839 Yes. 00:27:10.160 --> 00:27:17.599 It's gonna be exciting because he loves you and he digs like making himself maybe glorified. 00:27:18.000 --> 00:27:24.000 He likes being sort of king of kings and lord of lords, and he's gonna actually start doing it on a level that we've never seen before. 00:27:24.880 --> 00:27:42.799 He causes all, both great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, that no one may buy or sell except ones who have the mark or the name of the beast or the number of his name. 00:27:43.119 --> 00:27:44.000 Here is wisdom. 00:27:44.160 --> 00:27:45.759 So here's the briefing. 00:27:46.400 --> 00:27:49.920 Here, in May, this year. 00:27:50.160 --> 00:27:51.039 Heads up. 00:27:51.279 --> 00:27:52.559 Here's wisdom. 00:27:52.880 --> 00:27:57.519 Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man. 00:27:57.680 --> 00:28:00.400 His number is 666. 00:28:01.039 --> 00:28:02.079 Eighth mark. 00:28:02.319 --> 00:28:05.920 Everyone on the earth will receive a mark of the beast. 00:28:06.079 --> 00:28:09.440 Everyone on the earth at that time will receive a mark of the beast, those who worship the beast. 00:28:09.519 --> 00:28:16.079 Now, it's saying those who receive the mark, not everybody will receive a mark, but those who are following the beast will receive a mark. 00:28:16.240 --> 00:28:23.599 And I remember I gave this, I gave this talk years ago, and a guy came and said, He said, Pastor Steve, look at my visa card. 00:28:24.400 --> 00:28:27.279 And the last three digits were 666. 00:28:27.680 --> 00:28:31.359 And I said, I knew we'd find out who the Antichrist was. 00:28:33.200 --> 00:28:34.480 He says, That's not funny. 00:28:34.559 --> 00:28:35.519 I said, I know. 00:28:40.160 --> 00:28:47.519 So in Deuteronomy, those who are followers of Yahweh were given a mark. 00:28:47.759 --> 00:28:50.000 They were told to mark their foreheads. 00:28:50.240 --> 00:28:56.480 They were told to mark themselves with the phylactery on their on their wrist and on their forehead. 00:28:56.799 --> 00:28:59.440