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SPEAKER_02: So, Revelation 13 is where we're at.
SPEAKER_02: We'll dive straight into it so that we can get things going and make it home at a decent time.
SPEAKER_02: Revelation 13, the purpose and overall theme of this chapter introduces two of the most significant figures of all of end time prophecy.
SPEAKER_02: We're going to see the beast from the sea and the beast from the earth.
SPEAKER_02: And these two individuals will hang on just a second.
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SPEAKER_02: Hey, life's too short not to laugh at the expense of others.
SPEAKER_02: Uh so Revelation 13.
SPEAKER_02: That's where we're at.
SPEAKER_02: We're gonna be introduced to the beast from the sea and the beast from the earth.
SPEAKER_02: These two individuals become the primary instruments through which Satan is going to attempt to establish a counterfeit kingdom on the earth.
SPEAKER_02: Revelation 12, last week, we talked about how it revealed the dragon identified as Satan.
SPEAKER_02: And now, in this chapter, we're going to see how Satan's two chief agents are going to appear on the scene.
SPEAKER_02: One is going to be a political ruler who dominates the world.
SPEAKER_02: And contrary to popular opinion, that's not going to be Donald Trump.
SPEAKER_02: The other is a religious leader who directs worship toward that ruler, the political ruler.
SPEAKER_02: Together, these two are going to form a satanic version of God's kingdom.
SPEAKER_02: The mockery continues in that.
SPEAKER_02: This chapter is going to demonstrate how Satan continues in these failed attempts to counterfeit the word of God.
SPEAKER_02: And I say failed because overall he loses and has already lost.
SPEAKER_02: It's written.
SPEAKER_02: But of course, we do know that some people unfortunately do follow the enemy.
SPEAKER_02: A key theme to this chapter is that Satan cannot create, but obviously he can imitate.
SPEAKER_02: Revelation 13 reveals Satan's counterfeit kingdom, the counterfeit Christ, the counterfeit prophet, counterfeit worship, and a counterfeit mark.
SPEAKER_02: So verse 1.
SPEAKER_02: And he stood on the sand of the seashore, and I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads, and on his horns were ten diadems, and on his head were blasphemous names.
SPEAKER_02: So John now shifts his attention from heaven to the earth.
SPEAKER_02: And standing on the shore, he sees this beast that is coming out of the sea.
SPEAKER_02: If we look in scripture, the sea can often symbolize chaos or turmoil or unrest.
SPEAKER_02: It can even symbolize a rebellious humanity.
SPEAKER_02: Throughout the Old Testament, the sea is something that is frequently a representation of forces that opposes God's order.
SPEAKER_02: For example, we remember when the disciples are told to get in the boat and go to the other side.
SPEAKER_02: We know that this the Sea of Galilee, although it's not technically a sea, it's just a massive lake, but it functions like a sea, which is just crazy to think about.
SPEAKER_02: And if you've never been before, it truly is landlord, so it's not a sea.
SPEAKER_02: But it is a significantly large body of water.
SPEAKER_02: And because of where it is and how the wind hits and how storms come, it actually uh the function of it is just like you would be out in the middle of the sea.
SPEAKER_02: So it really is a when you when you hear the terminology Sea of Galilee, you know, you think, well, it's got to be out in the ocean, whatever.
SPEAKER_02: Then when you learn that it's not, you're like, boy, they mislabeled that.
SPEAKER_02: But when you see how it functions, you go, wow, they labeled that correctly.
SPEAKER_02: We also see that in um scripture, how uh in throughout the Old Testament we see different representations of the water and how that can be used and all these the sea as a symbol in Psalm 89 and 9 says, you rule the swelling of the sea.
SPEAKER_02: In Isaiah 57 and 20, it says, the wicked are like the tossing sea.
SPEAKER_02: So this beast is going to emerge from a world that is often characterized by instability, rebellion, and spiritual darkness.
SPEAKER_02: And by the way, in the United States, we have this um, we have a challenge sometimes when we get to talking about things that we can't always put into an accurate description.
SPEAKER_02: For example, if I were to mention water spirits, most American Christians are gonna be like, that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard of.
SPEAKER_02: And that's just ridiculous.
SPEAKER_02: There can be no such of a water spirit.
SPEAKER_02: What's interesting is if you go outside of the United States, an overwhelming majority of nations will actually acknowledge water spirits because their writings have all these different types of creatures and different beings and all this.
SPEAKER_02: Their mythology incorporates it, and uh it's something that even many nations will actually worship in false idols and idolatry.
SPEAKER_02: So it's interesting because when we talk about the water, we have such an American mindset that we only think that things are, you know, we just go on cruises and you know the water's awesome, and every once in a while don't swim too deep because there might be a shark or a well or whatever.
SPEAKER_02: But the water is a very, it can be a very troublesome area.
SPEAKER_02: The, like uh, for example, we have Disney fied mermaids, right?
SPEAKER_02: But if you study and do the history of mermaids, you're gonna find out that more than likely what was being seen is a demonic creature that lured people in.
SPEAKER_02: But what's interesting is that story becomes an Odyssey.
SPEAKER_02: And the Odyssey becomes the sirens, the sirens becomes the little mermaid.
SPEAKER_02: And we all come through this, but if you go back and trace it all, there's actually a very spiritual side of all this.
SPEAKER_02: So I'm saying this to say because when we Americanize anything that can come out of the ocean, we have a tendency to think more in the terms of free willy than we do a beast coming out of the out of the sea.
SPEAKER_02: You know, we're all excited and look how cute everything is.
SPEAKER_02: But for the majority of the world, when we talk about something emerging this dark and this deceptive, most of the world is like, yeah, I can see that.
SPEAKER_02: Where a lot of times as Americans, we're like, yeah, that he's just using some kind of analogy of something.
SPEAKER_02: So let's look at the beast and exactly what it could be.
SPEAKER_02: The Greek word actually refers to a wild animal.
SPEAKER_02: The Greek also refers to a very dangerous creature, and something that is savage and destructive.
SPEAKER_02: So if the Greek word for this is a wild animal, dangerous, savage, and destructive, it ought to throw a red flag that this thing is definitely dangerous.
SPEAKER_02: It's not cute.
SPEAKER_02: The kingdom of this world ultimately produces leaders who reflect humanity's rebellion against God.
SPEAKER_02: But now we're seeing this beast, and by the way, seven heads and ten horns.
SPEAKER_02: And those heads and those horns have ten crowns, and also blasphemous names.
SPEAKER_02: It's interesting because this is very closely related to the dragon in Revelation 12.
SPEAKER_02: Now, out of that though, is there anything that reminds you or feels very similar to this description aside from the dragon?
SPEAKER_02: Did somebody say something?
SPEAKER_02: Leviathan?
SPEAKER_02: I like that line of thinking.
SPEAKER_02: Now let's think even a little bit more on the authoritative rule.
SPEAKER_02: Let's think about crowns, and let's think about names that are written.
SPEAKER_02: What is this potentially?
SPEAKER_02: Why does why does why does this verse say blasphemous names?
SPEAKER_02: Something to think about.
SPEAKER_02: We'll get there in just a minute, but kind of keep that in your mind.
SPEAKER_02: The beast is getting the authority from Satan.
SPEAKER_02: There's obviously some kind of shared purpose, some kind of shared authority, and some kind of shared rebellion.
SPEAKER_02: We know, or we're going to find out, that this beast is going to be the chief representation of Satan on the earth.
SPEAKER_02: Now, the ten horns likely represent the ten kings or kingdoms that unite under the beast authority.
SPEAKER_02: Does that ring a bell to anybody's mind?
SPEAKER_02: We've heard about ten kings and ten kingdoms before.
SPEAKER_02: Anybody remember another book in the Old Testament?
SPEAKER_02: The book of Daniel, where ten horns represent ten kings arising from the final world empires.
SPEAKER_02: This is specifically Daniel chapter 7.
SPEAKER_02: Now, the blasphemous names, which is very, very interesting to think about, because the beast is going to openly mock God.
SPEAKER_02: If a name is going to be blasphemous, who's going to be blasphemous against?
SPEAKER_02: It's not going to be blasphemous against you and I, but it is the Lord.
SPEAKER_02: Which means the beast is going to probably be definitely marked by pride, self-exaltation, and of course, blasphemy.
SPEAKER_02: This beast is going to seek worship that belongs only to God and seeks to replace God.
SPEAKER_02: Therefore, this beast is the Antichrist.
SPEAKER_02: And because this beast is the Antichrist, it also means it's anti-God.
SPEAKER_02: Now, how do we know that this is the Antichrist?
SPEAKER_02: We'll get into this a lot more, of course, but a big clue to this is going back to the blasphemous names written on the beast.
SPEAKER_02: If we remember, of course, we're not there yet in its fullness, we'll get a bigger picture of this, but it was highlighted early in the book of Revelation.
SPEAKER_02: Jesus has written on him King of Kings and Lord of Lords.
SPEAKER_02: So this is a direct mockery, a direct false representation for what Christ is portrayed to be, now the beast is saying, I'm the same thing, but of course these neighbors are going to be blasphemous.
SPEAKER_02: The sad thing is most of civilization will not recognize it as blasphemous because many will worship, but you know, we'll get there too.
SPEAKER_02: The Antichrist's ultimate goal is not simply opposition to God, but it is substitution for God.
SPEAKER_02: So here's where things are going to get really interesting going forward.
SPEAKER_02: This is not an alternate version that is going to be given to the world.
SPEAKER_02: It's not like the Antichrist and the false prophet are eventually going to reveal themselves and they're going to be, hey, we think we're the better choice.
SPEAKER_02: It is a complete setup to say it is I, not him.
SPEAKER_02: It's not another version, it is a complete replacement of that.
SPEAKER_02: Which is even scary to think about because there's so many people that buy into a concept of this called replacement theology, which is interesting that that's the terminology that it is, because that's exactly what the Antichrist and the false prophet is.
SPEAKER_02: This is the replacement of God.
SPEAKER_02: So who's the Antichrist?
SPEAKER_02: Although Revelation never directly uses the title Antichrist, this beast is commonly identified and um figuratively described elsewhere in the scripture that we can narrow this down and say that this beast is 100% the Antichrist.
SPEAKER_02: Although we're not going to see that verbatim.
SPEAKER_02: Maybe you have a translation of the Bible, maybe it says that.
SPEAKER_02: I don't know.
SPEAKER_02: Most of them, to my remembrance, would say probably the message probably says the Antichrist.
SPEAKER_02: I really don't know.
SPEAKER_02: There may be another one out there, I don't know.
SPEAKER_02: But other biblical titles in Daniel 7 and 8, we get the little horn.
SPEAKER_02: In Daniel 8 and 23, we get the king of fierce countenance.
SPEAKER_02: In Daniel 9, 26, we get the prince who is to come.
SPEAKER_02: In Daniel 11, 36, the willful king.
SPEAKER_02: And 2 Thessalonians 2 and 3, the man of lawlessness and the son of destruction.
SPEAKER_02: So what does the terminology anti-Christ actually mean?
SPEAKER_02: Well, the prefix anti can mean against Christ or instead of Christ.
SPEAKER_02: And the crazy thing about it is both definitions fit.
SPEAKER_02: This is someone who is definitely going to be anti-Messiah.
SPEAKER_02: But it's not enough to be anti, they have to be instead of.
SPEAKER_02: Obviously, yeah, evil to a degree, but we have to remember when the Antichrist truly appears on the scene in the beginning, he's not evil.
SPEAKER_02: When the Antichrist truly appears on the scene, very smooth talking, which that alone rules out Trump.
SPEAKER_02: I mean, if we just go on that one.
SPEAKER_02: Not a very smooth talker, very plain, blunt talker, but not a smooth talker in that sense.
SPEAKER_02: And I'm leaving that in the podcast.
SPEAKER_02: So y'all can email Steve at summitchurchtn.com.
SPEAKER_02: But eventually there will be this revelation, of course, that there is an evil desire of the Antichrist.
SPEAKER_02: But we have to make sure that we don't get this image of just something that is so gory and dark and so on and so forth.
SPEAKER_02: Because, first of all, let's go all the way back to Lucifer.
SPEAKER_02: Remember, the beasts from the earth and beasts of the sea, the representative, representative agents of Satan.
SPEAKER_02: Okay, Satan before Satan was Satan, he was Lucifer.
SPEAKER_02: And as Lucifer, he is a very beautiful creation.
SPEAKER_02: He's not the horns with the pitch tail and the pitchfork, and not really, pointed tail, sorry.
SPEAKER_02: Pointed tail and the pitchfork.
SPEAKER_02: That's not what Satan looks like.
SPEAKER_02: Satan comes, matter of fact, scripture says, comes as an angel of light.
SPEAKER_02: So Satan's not this big boogeyman, and the Antichrist is not going to be the same thing either.
SPEAKER_02: Matter of fact, when we study Scripture, the Antichrist is going to appear very charismatic, intelligent, very successful.
SPEAKER_02: And let me define successful there for a second.
SPEAKER_02: We're not only talking about financially successful.
SPEAKER_02: We're talking about successful, bigger than anything, successful politically.
SPEAKER_02: Yes, business-wise or relationship-wise or negotiating-wise, but we have to keep in mind that a major glaring point of the beast from the sea, the Antichrist, is this is going to be a very key political figure.
SPEAKER_02: It's going to be very persuasive and appealing.
SPEAKER_02: And again, we can sit here, and I know there's people that will say, and I keep throwing Trump because that's whatever president we have, whoever's next, is going to get called the Antichrist as well.
SPEAKER_02: You know, I could be funny here and say, you know, before Trump, Joe Biden was the Antichrist.
SPEAKER_02: He just didn't remember it.
SPEAKER_02: And uh, but it'll come on.
SPEAKER_02: That was funny.
SPEAKER_02: I mean, come on.
SPEAKER_02: That was funny.
SPEAKER_02: No, listen, everybody goes back and says every president of the United States is.
SPEAKER_02: And it's just like, come on.
SPEAKER_02: First of all, let's go back to Trump just for a second.
SPEAKER_02: Yes, he's charismatic.
SPEAKER_02: Yes, he is successful, but we also know that there's an overwhelming majority that is not going to view this guy as being intelligent.
SPEAKER_02: And there's going to be an overwhelming majority that's not going to say that he's appealing.
SPEAKER_02: So we have to remember these things because the people that are going to fall for the antichrist is going to willingly agree with these things.
SPEAKER_02: And the people right now that are anti-President Trump right now, they're saying this stuff is not going to be.
SPEAKER_02: So that alone, just that alone, ought to throw a flag up and go, okay, it can't be him.
SPEAKER_02: Now, let's take out everything else the Bible says.
SPEAKER_02: That should be enough, but then let's take everything the Bible does say, and we can obviously figure out it's not him.
SPEAKER_02: The Antichrist will prevent him, present himself as humanity's answer.
SPEAKER_02: Now I say that, and everybody goes back, well, that's Trump.
SPEAKER_02: Okay.
SPEAKER_02: You know, you can say that he definitely has that confidence slash arrogance.
SPEAKER_02: Sure.
SPEAKER_02: But again, there's more requirements.
SPEAKER_02: The deception of the beast, the Antichrist, is powerful because he appears to offer what people desire.
SPEAKER_02: Apart from God.
SPEAKER_02: And the greatest deception often resembles the truth.
SPEAKER_02: The Antichrist will not initially appear as a monster, but as a counterfeit savior.
SPEAKER_02: Which here again, you're going to have the anti-Trumpers say, Well, that's Trump in and of itself.
SPEAKER_02: He appears as a savior.
SPEAKER_02: And I say you're not paying attention.
SPEAKER_02: Because, I mean, even Trump himself says, I hope that I'm doing enough to get to heaven.
SPEAKER_02: If he thought himself to be the savior, he would just say, I'm going no matter what.
SPEAKER_02: Verse 2.
SPEAKER_02: And the beast which I saw was like a leopard, and his feet were like those of a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a lion, and the dragon gave him his power and his throne and great authority.
SPEAKER_02: So now let's imagine what John just describes here.
SPEAKER_02: Leopard, feet of a bear, mouth of a lion.
SPEAKER_02: Have you ever read that description anywhere in the Bible before?
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
SPEAKER_02: Daniel chapter 7.
SPEAKER_02: And Daniel, we know the lion represents Babylon.
SPEAKER_02: The bear represents Medo-Persia.
SPEAKER_02: And the leopard, Greece.
SPEAKER_02: All of these represent these former world empires.
SPEAKER_02: So what does this mean?
SPEAKER_02: Well, it means that the final kingdom is going to possess the authority of Babylon, the power of Persia, the speed of Greece, and the brutality of Rome.
SPEAKER_02: The final world system gathers together the worst elements of all of human government throughout history.
SPEAKER_02: Which again, we're seeing some of this unfold right now to a degree, not where we're at as far as the timeline of this.
SPEAKER_02: But right now we're dealing with a nation called Iran.
SPEAKER_02: But Iran are not Iranians, they're Persians.
SPEAKER_02: That is that region.
SPEAKER_02: And how's that going for us?
SPEAKER_02: Negotiations is a little tense.
SPEAKER_02: And once you think we get something negotiated, what happens?
SPEAKER_02: You know, they're, geez, this is a lot of fun dealing with them, right?
SPEAKER_02: Well, there's a whole big purpose of all that.
SPEAKER_02: John declares that the dragon gave him his power and his throne and great authority.
SPEAKER_02: So we have to remember something.
SPEAKER_02: The Antichrist is not being empowered by the Holy Spirit.
SPEAKER_02: The Antichrist is being empowered by Satan.
SPEAKER_02: Whereas you and I, we're empowered by Holy Spirit.
SPEAKER_02: The Antichrist authority is ultimately satanic in origin, though it's still subject to the sovereignty of God, which is just wild to think about.
SPEAKER_02: Verse 3, and I saw one of his heads as if it had been slain in his fatal wound as it was healed, and the whole earth was amazed and followed after the beast.
SPEAKER_02: All right, before we go anywhere, what did that just tell you?
SPEAKER_02: A resurrection from what?
SPEAKER_02: The beast is going to be executed and it's going to rise from the dead.
SPEAKER_02: How many know someone in the history of time that was executed and rose from the dead?
SPEAKER_02: This is again, this is there's this purpose behind all this.
SPEAKER_02: Many believe that this is going to be one of the most influential moments.
SPEAKER_02: And how could it not be?
SPEAKER_02: How could it not be this charmer, this schmoozer of a politician all the sudden is, I mean, we've all seen the video of John F.
SPEAKER_02: Kennedy when he was executed, he was assassinated.
SPEAKER_02: Imagine seeing that in today's time, and all of a sudden, a couple days later, they're walking around.
SPEAKER_02: That would be something kind of wild, right?
SPEAKER_02: Well, people are going to fall for that, and they're going to be smoozed over with that.
SPEAKER_02: What's interesting about it is the two witnesses go through the same thing.
SPEAKER_02: But what they're doing is a thorn in the flesh of those that are in sin versus this guy is going to be like, see, it was meant for me to be able to be here and all this.
SPEAKER_02: Throughout Revelation, Satan is repeatedly copying everything that God does.
SPEAKER_02: Counterfeit Christ, counterfeit prophet, counterfeit resurrection, counterfeit worship, and we're eventually going to be reminded of the counterfeit mark.
SPEAKER_02: Satan imitates God's work because imitation is his greatest tool of deception.
SPEAKER_02: One of the things that we have to remember, and this is hard, and I get it at times, it's definitely hard, but we have to remember this.
SPEAKER_02: There is nothing, not one thing, not in the history of the created time, nor in our destined futures.
SPEAKER_02: There is nothing that Satan can or has ever created.
SPEAKER_02: He does not have a creative ability.
SPEAKER_02: He cannot create.
SPEAKER_02: Why?
SPEAKER_02: Because Satan doesn't create sons or daughters, but Satan can manipulate that and convince you that you are an orphan.
SPEAKER_02: And Satan doesn't create orphans, but the manipulated version of sonship is orphan.
SPEAKER_02: So there's manipulation behind all this, but it's so much easier to point it out after the fact than it is during the act.
SPEAKER_02: Verse 4, and they worship the dragon because he gave his authority to the beast, and they worship the beast, saying, Who is like the beast and who is able to wage war with him?
SPEAKER_02: It's like what a statement.
SPEAKER_02: I read this verse every time, and I have kind of like a, I don't know, like a just mentality of like, uh God.
SPEAKER_02: I mean, let's start there.
SPEAKER_02: But it's it's like as if they've never heard of anything or seen this before.
SPEAKER_02: Now, to us, that's hard to imagine, but here's the reality.
SPEAKER_02: There's still a large population on the earth that's never heard the name of Jesus.
SPEAKER_02: We can't comprehend that.
SPEAKER_02: Um I listened to a podcast a lot out of Alabama, and um the the main host, he said him and his wife were visiting their kids in New York City.
SPEAKER_02: And said when they were visiting their kids, the son and the daughter-in-law are actors.
SPEAKER_02: So they were up visiting, and they'd went to some kind of play that they were in, and then they went to somewhere in Times Square, if I'm not mistaken, it was somewhere near that or in Times Square.
SPEAKER_02: And his wife just got to talking to some younger people, probably in their 20s, and she starts witnessing to them, and three people in particular, and all three had never even heard the name of Jesus, had never heard the gospel preached, and right there the wife led two of the three to the Lord.
SPEAKER_02: Now that's just hard for us to imagine.
SPEAKER_02: How can you have not ever heard that before?
SPEAKER_02: But it's possible.
SPEAKER_02: It just legitimately is possible.
SPEAKER_02: And that's in the United States.
SPEAKER_02: Think of all these other countries that, you know, we think everything is connected by Wi-Fi, but there's still a lot of regions that have never even had Wi-Fi, much less a cell phone tower in that.
SPEAKER_02: And that's just hard to imagine, but it is.
SPEAKER_02: Throughout history, Satan has always desired to be worshipped.
SPEAKER_02: He sought worship from Jesus in Matthew 4 and 9.
SPEAKER_02: All these things I will give you if you fall down and worship me.
SPEAKER_02: Now the world is giving him what he has always desired.
SPEAKER_02: So why do the people follow him?
SPEAKER_02: Well, he appears invincible, obviously successful, and obviously powerful.
SPEAKER_02: And it is a reminder how easy it is for humanity to mistake power for truth.
SPEAKER_02: But if you don't think it's possible, just look on social media and see how popular a lot of ministries are.
SPEAKER_02: And they appear to be powerful, but they're not presenting you with the truth.
SPEAKER_02: Many people will follow the beast because they are captivated.
SPEAKER_02: And that's it.
SPEAKER_02: Verse 5 through 6.
SPEAKER_02: And there was given to him a mouth speaking arrogant words and blasphemies, and authority to act for 42 months was given to him, and he opened his mouth in blasphemies against God to blaspheme his name and his tabernacle, that is those who dwell in heaven.
SPEAKER_02: Okay, here we go.
SPEAKER_02: Now we're getting another time reference again.
SPEAKER_02: How long is the 42 months?
SPEAKER_02: Three and a half years.
SPEAKER_02: Now we're getting an understanding that the Antichrist is definitely going to be revealed, but in a bigger way of being revealed, the Antichrist is being worshipped.
SPEAKER_02: And that's a big red flag.
SPEAKER_02: Because what happens is we know that in the first half of the three and a half years, the beast isn't revealed.
SPEAKER_02: But there's this person that is, for lack of better words, has all the characteristics and is making its waves and negotiating peace deals and all this stuff.
SPEAKER_02: But at this moment, after they're executed, after they're resurrected, and the worshiping starts, we get the time frame that this is only going to last for three and a half years.
SPEAKER_02: So now we're also getting in this chapter a reference point.
SPEAKER_02: So the Antichrist is going to be acknowledged or revealed somewhere in the halfway point of the seven-year tribulation or Daniel's 70th week, right?
SPEAKER_02: So we're kind of getting this in.
SPEAKER_02: And again, this is where it gets, you know, chapter 12, 13, and 14, timeline-wise, is extremely challenging.
SPEAKER_02: And I'm going to admit that wholeheartedly.
SPEAKER_02: It is very, very difficult because the chapters go from this point to way over here to back over here to here and there.
SPEAKER_02: But we have to go along with what is being said right here, and that pulls us back to a direct reference.
SPEAKER_02: So the beast receives its authority, 1,260 days, 42 months.
SPEAKER_02: And this speech is filled.
SPEAKER_02: I love how the New American says this.
SPEAKER_02: He was speaking arrogant words.
SPEAKER_02: I love that.
SPEAKER_02: Now, you may not think that that could be possible, but just think right now how many people openly mock and criticize Christianity.
SPEAKER_02: And this is a drop in the bucket compared to how intensified this is going to get once this guy gets things rolling.
SPEAKER_02: Notice, though, in these verses, the phrase that it was given to him.
SPEAKER_02: Even the Antichrist operates only within the limits that is established by God.
SPEAKER_02: The Antichrist may appear unstoppable, but he remains under God's authority.
SPEAKER_02: That's why we can't lose hope in all this.
SPEAKER_02: No earthly ruler possesses authority independent of God.
SPEAKER_02: It's why the scripture says all kings are subject to him.
SPEAKER_02: It doesn't matter president, vice president, king, pope, queen, prime minister, they all submit to him.
SPEAKER_02: Verse 7 through 8.
SPEAKER_02: And it was given to him to make war with the saints and to overcome them in authority over every tribe and people, given tongue and nation, was given to him, and all who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written in front, written from the foundation of the world in the book of life, and the Lamb who was slain.
SPEAKER_02: What's the beast granted authority for?
SPEAKER_02: To make war with the saints.
SPEAKER_02: Now, let me just kind of put something right here and just chew on this because I'm not trying to argue, debate one way or the other.
SPEAKER_02: But we do talk about throughout this whole whole course, we've talked about how people will say that, you know, pre-trib here, mid-trib here, we'll eventually get into post-trib rapture.
SPEAKER_02: You got people that said the rapture is not ever going to happen until, you know, everything, nothing, it's never going to happen, so on and so forth.
SPEAKER_02: Those that would be pre-trib have a bit of a challenge here.
SPEAKER_02: Those that are mid-trib or post-trib, this is where they kind of hang their hat on a lot of times.
SPEAKER_02: It's not the only thing, but obviously it's a major thing.
SPEAKER_02: The Antichrist is going to make war with who?
SPEAKER_02: The saints.
SPEAKER_02: So if the bride of Christ is not here, what saints are we talking about?
SPEAKER_02: And of course, will people be born again during tribulation?
SPEAKER_02: Yes.
SPEAKER_02: We know this.
SPEAKER_02: We talk about this nearly every single week.
SPEAKER_02: There will be people, there'll be multiple raptures, there'll be martyrs, those will happen.
SPEAKER_02: So in some ways, you can say that the rapture hasn't happened because they would have to be a large number of saints.
SPEAKER_02: However, you can also say that there was a pre-trib rapture, and these saints are the saints that came after that, which could still be a significant amount of people.
SPEAKER_02: So it's one of those things that I don't think you can 100% say one way or the other.
SPEAKER_02: I think the thing you can say 100% is there's going to be some saints here, and Satan, through the Antichrist, is going to make war with them.
SPEAKER_02: The number of those saints and what that looks like, I don't think you can 100% say.
SPEAKER_02: But that's just my opinion.
SPEAKER_02: So take that for what it is on that.
SPEAKER_02: Obviously, this is going to become a very dark point in the history of mankind.
SPEAKER_02: Does the beast defeat the saints?
SPEAKER_02: Physically, yes.
SPEAKER_02: Spiritually, no.
SPEAKER_02: The beast obviously is going to take lives.
SPEAKER_02: But you can't destroy what doesn't belong to you.
SPEAKER_02: The book of life is mentioned.
SPEAKER_02: Those who worship the beast, but then there's those who are written in the book of life and of the lamb who has been slain.
SPEAKER_02: The distinction is very clear.
SPEAKER_02: The redeemed belong to the Lamb.
SPEAKER_02: John describes it as the lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
SPEAKER_02: Who is that lamb?
SPEAKER_02: Jesus Christ.
SPEAKER_02: This is re-emphasizing God's eternal plan.
SPEAKER_02: Before creation, redemption was planned.
SPEAKER_02: Before creation, the cross was known.
SPEAKER_02: Before creation, salvation was already prepared.
SPEAKER_02: It's why it's always fun.
SPEAKER_02: I've done it before, if you'll remember.
SPEAKER_02: I love it.
SPEAKER_02: I love having fun at people's expense.
SPEAKER_02: Sorry, it's a flaw of mine.
SPEAKER_02: But I love to say when was Jesus Christ crucified?
SPEAKER_02: Most people try to put 0 A.D., 33 A.D., 33 years old, and the scripture says he was slain before the foundation of the earth.
SPEAKER_02: It's just a little fun, I know, I get it, but it's fun for me, nevertheless.
SPEAKER_02: I enjoy it.
SPEAKER_02: God's plan was never an afterthought.
SPEAKER_02: He didn't create man and woman, put them in the garden, then the serpent came in, and then God was like, oh no, what shall I do now?
SPEAKER_02: Before man was ever created, he already had a plan.
SPEAKER_02: Which is just wild because the great question that many have is why did God create man if he knew man was going to fail or man was going to sin?
SPEAKER_02: You know, truthfully, the answer is because he had a plan.
SPEAKER_02: I mean, that's just the truth of the answer.
SPEAKER_02: Whatever Satan was going to try to do, it was never going to topple God's plan.
SPEAKER_02: Yes, humanity falls.
SPEAKER_02: Yes, redemption is necessary.
SPEAKER_02: But Christ was and did come, and he's coming again.
SPEAKER_02: Verse 9 through 10.
SPEAKER_02: If anyone has an ear, let him hear.
SPEAKER_02: If anyone is destined for captivity, to captivity he goes.
SPEAKER_02: If anyone kills with the sword, with the sword he must be killed.
SPEAKER_02: Here is the perseverance and the faith of the saints.
SPEAKER_02: That's interesting because all of a sudden, this is the first time in a long time we've heard if anyone has an ear, let him hear.
SPEAKER_02: As believers, they're called to patience, they're called to faithfulness, and of course, endurance.
SPEAKER_02: Of course, those who persecute God's people is ultimately going to face God's judgment.
SPEAKER_02: We know this.
SPEAKER_02: God sees every act and he remembers every injustice.
SPEAKER_02: God's justice is going to prevail.
SPEAKER_02: It's just going to come in a way that we're probably not all going to be excited about, especially if you're here during that time and you're probably being brutally executed.
SPEAKER_02: You're not going to be like, yay me.
SPEAKER_02: Just being honest.
SPEAKER_02: We complain when someone says something about us on Facebook or Instagram or X or TikTok or whatever.
SPEAKER_02: Or if nobody gave us credit for something.
SPEAKER_02: And we're talking about real stuff here.
SPEAKER_02: Verse 11.
SPEAKER_02: And I saw another beast coming out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spoke as a dragon.
SPEAKER_02: Good grief.
SPEAKER_02: If it doesn't get any worse, here comes this Joker.
SPEAKER_02: You know, here's another beast.
SPEAKER_02: But this one appears harmless.
SPEAKER_02: Why does it appear harmless?
SPEAKER_02: Like a lamb.
SPEAKER_02: So what does it mean?
SPEAKER_02: Outwardly, he appears gentle, but inwardly, obviously, he speaks as a dragon.
SPEAKER_02: He speaks like Satan.
SPEAKER_02: Revelation identifies him later.
SPEAKER_02: We'll get to this in later chapters, but he will be known as the false prophet.
SPEAKER_02: Of course, we see a trinity here the dragon, a counterfeit father, the beast, a counterfeit Christ, and the false prophet, a counterfeit Holy Spirit.
SPEAKER_02: Verse 12 through 15.
SPEAKER_02: And he exercised all the authority.
SPEAKER_02: Of the first beast in his presence, and he makes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship first, the worship the first beast whose fatal wound was healed.
SPEAKER_02: And he performs great signs, so that even he makes fire come down out of heaven to the earth in the presence of men, and he deceives those who dwell on the earth because of the signs which was given to him to perform in the presence of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who had the wound of the sword and has come to life.
SPEAKER_02: And there was given to him to give breath to the image, to the beast, that the image of the beast might even speak and cause as many as do not worship the image of the beast to be killed.
SPEAKER_02: It kind of gets a little tongue-tied there because it's like there's going to be this image and worship and this.
SPEAKER_02: If you don't do this, you're going to do that.
SPEAKER_02: So let's kind of break it down just really quickly.
SPEAKER_02: First of all, the false prophet's main assignment is to make sure that it draws attention to the beast, which is the Antichrist.
SPEAKER_02: Make the world worship the Antichrist.
SPEAKER_02: There's going to be a line of signs and wonders.
SPEAKER_02: He performs great signs and miracles and fire from heaven.
SPEAKER_02: And all these things will appear as God, but it's deceiving humanity.
SPEAKER_02: We have to remember that miracles alone do not prove divine authority.
SPEAKER_02: But my gosh, do people still fall for it today?
SPEAKER_02: Believers must evaluate doctrine, truth, and whether or not it lines up with Scripture.
SPEAKER_02: You can't just bank it off, or they got the ability to heal, or they got the ability to do creative works and miracles and all that.
SPEAKER_02: That's not enough.
SPEAKER_02: That's great, that's awesome, but that is not what passes the test.
SPEAKER_02: The false prophet then creates an image.
SPEAKER_02: Here's what's wild.
SPEAKER_02: That image is going to appear to speak and function supernaturally.
SPEAKER_02: Now, time out here.
SPEAKER_02: Okay?
SPEAKER_02: And I'm not making fun of a religion.
SPEAKER_02: Just stay with me just for a second.
SPEAKER_02: I said this way back in the beginning.
SPEAKER_02: I am of the opinion.
SPEAKER_02: No one has to agree with me on this.
SPEAKER_02: I am of the opinion of, I think the Antichrist is going to come out of the nation of Islam.
SPEAKER_02: And I'm of the opinion that the false prophet is going to come out of Catholicism.
SPEAKER_02: Now, I want you to just think about something just for a second.
SPEAKER_02: And I'm not picking, will there be Catholics that are truly born again and go to heaven?
SPEAKER_02: Of course.
SPEAKER_02: Absolutely, 100%.
SPEAKER_02: Truly born again.
SPEAKER_02: So I'm not saying that Catholicism across the board is evil.
SPEAKER_02: I'm just saying that there are some very interesting things that we can look at.
SPEAKER_02: For example, we know that in Catholicism, images, statues are a major, I'm going to use this word, I know there's probably a better word, but a playing factor in Catholicism.
SPEAKER_02: And many of those images or statues have had supernatural signs of life coming from them.
SPEAKER_02: From weeping blood to weeping tears and so on and so forth.
SPEAKER_02: So I'm not trying to validate my opinion in this.
SPEAKER_02: I'm just saying I often think about those things and think this would be really easy for a Pope to say that this is happening.
SPEAKER_02: Because even to this day, that is a big deal in Catholicism.
SPEAKER_02: It's a massive, massive, massive deal.
SPEAKER_02: Of course, we also know we have to remember that a major thing for us to remember is make no graven images.
SPEAKER_02: That's kind of a big thing to God.
SPEAKER_02: And here's the false prophet doing what?
SPEAKER_02: Making a graven image.
SPEAKER_02: And not only that, this thing is going to represent the Antichrist and speaks and functions supernaturally.
SPEAKER_02: Now, here's the crazy thing about it.
SPEAKER_02: Can we make an image look like it's speaking?
SPEAKER_02: We can with technology today.
SPEAKER_02: Now, I'm sure in the 1800s that would have been so far of a far-fetched idea, but man, it's technology-wise today, it's pretty scary.
SPEAKER_02: So it's not as far-fetched as it once was.
SPEAKER_02: And, you know, we do a lot with images and all that stuff with, you know, 4D, 7D, whatever that.
SPEAKER_02: But I mean, who's to say that uh, well, I'll go back.
SPEAKER_02: Let me, is anybody, it's been a long time, but in 1996, I was in Caesar's Palace Hotel.
SPEAKER_02: In Caesar's Palace Hotel in Las Vegas, they have all the like the Roman gods and all that statues and everything.
SPEAKER_02: Well, they look like concrete statues, but they're not concrete because the statues moved and their mouth opened and they spoke.
SPEAKER_02: But they looked just like the real thing.
SPEAKER_02: But if you went up and touched it, if you could do it and not get arrested, you found out it wasn't concrete.
SPEAKER_02: But from a distance, it looked like the real thing.
SPEAKER_02: That was in 1996.
SPEAKER_02: You know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_02: And not that I'm trying to over-spiritualize anything, but the the real okay, we know that demons obviously they need a host, need a body, right?
SPEAKER_02: We know that Jesus cast them into pigs and so on and so forth.
SPEAKER_02: But I mean, could something that is made out of concrete or something come to life demonically?
SPEAKER_02: I mean, I don't want to discredit that because it happened in Ghostbusters.
SPEAKER_02: This, by the way, reminds us of Daniel 9 and 27, Matthew 24 and 15, and 2 Thessalonians 2 and 4.
SPEAKER_02: The Antichrist demands worship in the place of belonging to God.
SPEAKER_02: 16 through 17, and he causes the small and the great and the rich and the poor and the free men and the slaves to be given a mark on their right hand and on their forehead.
SPEAKER_02: And he provides that no one should be able to buy or sell except the one who has the mark, either the name of the beast or the number of his name.
SPEAKER_02: Okay.
SPEAKER_02: Now, d do y'all see a word there that jumps out and catches your attention by the way.
SPEAKER_02: We have this tendency, at least in this nation, to say that slavery is not not happening.
SPEAKER_02: Slavery is happening even to this day.
SPEAKER_02: Right now, it is through sex trafficking.
SPEAKER_02: There are more sexually trafficked children, male and female, and men and women as sexual slaves in and around the world than all of the history of slavery from Egypt to different nations all the way to African Americans.
SPEAKER_02: There is now today more than ever.
SPEAKER_02: It tells us that wickedness is around.
SPEAKER_02: And it's obviously going to be around.
SPEAKER_02: But then what happens here?
SPEAKER_02: They're given a mark.
SPEAKER_02: Now, we'll get into this a little bit more next week, but I want to go ahead and say this because there's this constant fear.
SPEAKER_02: People have this fear all the time.
SPEAKER_02: Oh my gosh, am I going to accidentally get in the mark of the beast?
SPEAKER_02: Because if you just read it right here, it says, you know, rich, poor, small, great, men, free men, slaves, they are given the mark on their right hand or on their forehead.
SPEAKER_02: No one can buy, no one can sell, no one can get this unless you have the mark.
SPEAKER_02: What happens if I accidentally get the mark?
SPEAKER_02: I've heard people, you've possibly heard people say that forever.
SPEAKER_02: When the barcode first came out, that was the mark of the beast.
SPEAKER_02: Then when the computers came out, that was the mark of the beast.
SPEAKER_02: Cell phones, that was the mark of the beast.
SPEAKER_02: Y2K, that was going to be the mark of the beast.
SPEAKER_02: You're not going to accidentally get the mark of the beast.
SPEAKER_02: It's not going to happen that way.
SPEAKER_02: You're not going to go in the hospital and they say, oh, we got to inject you with something, and then they come in and go, oh, whoops, we gave you the mark of the beast and you didn't know it.
SPEAKER_02: No, you're going to know and make a conscious decision on whether or not to get the mark of the beast.
SPEAKER_02: For what reason?
SPEAKER_02: To buy and sell.
SPEAKER_02: That's it.
SPEAKER_02: That's what it's about.
SPEAKER_02: To buy and sell food, gas, electricity, whatever the case may be, all economics of the world, you will be able to know that you're getting this in order to be involved economically.
SPEAKER_02: Now, of course, everybody wants to know what the mark is and so on and so forth.
SPEAKER_02: Are you ready?
SPEAKER_02: We're going to reveal it tonight.
SPEAKER_02: I don't know.
SPEAKER_02: We don't know exactly what it is.
SPEAKER_02: Well, then, you know, everybody's going to say, well, isn't it the number 666?
SPEAKER_02: Will we get the number 666?
SPEAKER_02: I don't think it's that simple.
SPEAKER_02: That's just my opinion.
SPEAKER_02: 666 is a numerical number for the name.
SPEAKER_02: It's not the mark itself.
SPEAKER_02: Does that make sense?
SPEAKER_02: So that we understand that?
SPEAKER_02: Verse 18.
SPEAKER_02: Then I got to show you these three slides and we'll go to QA.
SPEAKER_02: Here is wisdom.
SPEAKER_02: Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for the number is that of a man, and his number is 666.
SPEAKER_02: Now, obviously it's the number of man, it falls short of perfection.
SPEAKER_02: Seven represents complete or perfect.
SPEAKER_02: Six obviously is going to fall short of that.
SPEAKER_02: But we understand that this is going to be associated with the name of the Antichrist also because of the correlation of the representation of the beast, Satan, the false prophet.
SPEAKER_02: You could individually I've seen people argue that six is representation of the Antichrist, six is a representation of the false prophet, and six is a representation of Satan.
SPEAKER_02: I've heard all of that before.
SPEAKER_02: And honestly, it's one of those things that I don't know that we'll fully have the complete answer for.
SPEAKER_02: There's some good guesses along the way.
SPEAKER_02: What I'm going to say is you can't get hung up on the number.
SPEAKER_02: Because if you get hung up on the number, you're going to make a theology out of something that doesn't deserve a theology in the first place.
SPEAKER_02: It's just making a reference, John's making a reference about humanity, about the Antichrist, and how you can identify it to that degree.
SPEAKER_02: Or we, you know, I know we jokingly, we humanity is strange in a lot of ways because, you know, we don't, we have hotels and buildings that don't have a 13th floor, which, by the way, has a 13th floor.
SPEAKER_02: It's just renumbered.
SPEAKER_02: You know, you don't, there's no gap in the building.
SPEAKER_02: And it's like, oh, there's no 13th floor, and everybody hates the 13th floor, the number 13th, and so on and so forth.
SPEAKER_02: It's not, and it is funny because if you ever go to the store and you get back$6.66, you're like, just give me back$6.50, that'll be enough.
SPEAKER_02: You can't walk away with that kind of fear over that.
SPEAKER_02: It's it is a marker of an identity, but it does not mean it is the mark of the beast.
SPEAKER_02: So, in one of my favorite, favorite sayings of all time, lighten up, Francis.
SPEAKER_02: I mean, it's it's not worth getting all bent out of shape over that.
SPEAKER_02: So let's talk about the um the images that you have.
SPEAKER_02: If I can get that first image, I did print these off for y'all because I think these are very, very important to look at.
SPEAKER_02: If I can get that first image on the screen.
SPEAKER_02: All right.
SPEAKER_02: Overall, this is Revelation as a whole, Revelation 13.
SPEAKER_02: This is everything that is being introduced in this chapter.
SPEAKER_02: We get the Mark, we get the dragon, we get the first beast, we get the false prophet, all these things that are happening.
SPEAKER_02: And I put this together so you can have that.
SPEAKER_02: That kind of gives you a nutshell version of what chapter 13 is about.
SPEAKER_02: And I also want you to know this because if you only read this chapter, it looks pretty horrendous.
SPEAKER_02: And honestly, it looks like this, this, and this wins.
SPEAKER_02: It looked, if you just read this chapter alone, it looks devastating, which is crazy considering the chapter that we read before.
SPEAKER_02: Remember how victorious Revelation 12 was?
SPEAKER_02: And it's like, yay, God.
SPEAKER_02: And then all of a sudden it's like, oh God.
SPEAKER_02: Now, it's important because Revelation 13 should never be read alone.
SPEAKER_02: Revelation 13 actually should always be read before teen.
SPEAKER_02: But my opinion is I believe 11, 12, 13, and 14 are very, very critical because of the structure of it.
SPEAKER_02: But there's so many people they get hung up on stuff.
SPEAKER_02: You will, this scene, this image here, you'll need it for next week, and you'll understand why when we get into chapter 14.
SPEAKER_02: But what we got is we understand what is happening in this side of things.
SPEAKER_02: You have the tribulation period, the great tribulation, the end of the age.
SPEAKER_02: Once we get into 14, you're going to see some information on this now.
SPEAKER_02: What's interesting about 13 is all this stuff is happening beforehand.
SPEAKER_02: But we know that when the beast from the sea, which is the Antichrist, is executed and resurrected, we know then he only has three and a half years left.
SPEAKER_02: So again, this is one of those chapters that you get a prelude, but then all of a sudden you get a point of reference, in which is we get into the middle of the tribulation period.
SPEAKER_02: So we get a before, we get a middle, 14 is going to give us into the end of that.
SPEAKER_02: And once we get 14, 13 will actually even make more sense.
SPEAKER_02: Does that kind of make sense what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_02: It's going to, I know it sounds strange, but this is where we get in trouble.
SPEAKER_02: If you ever just read this, the entire book of Revelation now seems very scary if you only read chapter 13.
SPEAKER_02: But isn't it interesting?
SPEAKER_02: We're here at 13, and this is the only chapter that seems like we lose.
SPEAKER_02: We've had 12 chapters where it's been victorious, and now we come to chapter 13 where it feels it feels like we lose, and yet when you talk about the book of Revelation, everybody's terrified of it.
SPEAKER_02: How does one chapter get to dictate a whole book?
SPEAKER_02: Because if you don't read the beginning and you don't read the end, and you only take it out of context, it does look like we lose.
SPEAKER_02: Now the final image.
SPEAKER_02: Now, this sheet right here you got is why it's so important.
SPEAKER_02: We said this in the beginning, a long time ago, in order to understand the book of Revelation, you got to first know the book of Daniel.
SPEAKER_02: Now, we have seen in this chapter alone every single reference, and you have this because it's going to be so important for you to see, can be traced back to the book of Daniel.
SPEAKER_02: Revelation 13 is a, for lack of a better word, a revelation of what Daniel was so much talking about.
SPEAKER_02: Now, this is why this is important.
SPEAKER_02: We're going to see, you see the chapters Daniel 7, Daniel 8, Daniel 11, and Daniel 3, right?
SPEAKER_02: Now, we get the beast, we get the ten horns, we get the blasphemy, the leopard, the bear, the lion, all these things.
SPEAKER_02: We get the timeline, we get the domination, all that stuff.
SPEAKER_02: But there's something missing.
SPEAKER_02: Because if we read Daniel, the book of Daniel, Daniel also talked about that all these things were coming for world domination, right?
SPEAKER_02: But there would be this rock that came and took out all that world domination, and that rock would be a kingdom that would never know no end.
SPEAKER_02: Y'all remember that in Daniel?
SPEAKER_02: And that kingdom, of course, is going to represent and represents Jesus Christ.
SPEAKER_02: So here's something to keep in mind.
SPEAKER_02: If Revelation 13 can be an exact revelation of what Daniel was saying, what are we missing?
SPEAKER_02: Jesus, the rock, we're missing that.
SPEAKER_02: Which ought to tell you where we're going.
SPEAKER_02: It's why you can't take things so out of context.
SPEAKER_02: But I promise you, so many people they have read Revelation 13, and it's like doom, gloom, despair, and agony on me.
SPEAKER_02: And I want to scream a lot of times.
SPEAKER_02: How can you see the doom when you know the end of the story from the beginning of the story?
SPEAKER_02: That's what's so great about having a relationship with God.
SPEAKER_02: Are the things that happen in Revelation 13 bad?
SPEAKER_02: Of course.
SPEAKER_02: Of course they're bad.
SPEAKER_02: But it's also like Paul, and I'm going to say it in a different way than Paul says, but what are you going to do?
SPEAKER_02: Threaten me with death?
SPEAKER_02: I mean, do I want to die?
SPEAKER_02: No.
SPEAKER_02: Do I want to be mawed to death by a lion or ripped apart by a bear or mutilated by mankind?
SPEAKER_02: No, I don't want to go that way.
SPEAKER_02: Why?
SPEAKER_02: I don't like pain.
SPEAKER_02: You know, I don't like that at all.
SPEAKER_02: But what are you going to do?
SPEAKER_02: Threaten me to kill me and I take my last breath, and now I'm in the presence of God.
SPEAKER_02: I mean, oh death, where is I sting?
SPEAKER_02: And that's the thing we have to keep in mind.
SPEAKER_02: Any questions?
SPEAKER_02: We got, he's coming right there with the.
SPEAKER_03: You were talking about how people like take 666 and go crazy with the number stuff.
SPEAKER_03: My favorite one, because you know he's been dead for decades now, is that it was Ronald Reagan because there was six letters in each of his names, Ronald Wilson Reagan.
SPEAKER_03: So he was the Antichrist just because he had six letters in each of his three names.
SPEAKER_02: I I did not think he was, I thought he was going somewhere else.
SPEAKER_02: I I remember hearing that.
SPEAKER_02: I thought the two funniest ones I've ever heard is um, oh my gosh, uh Jimmy Hoffa.
SPEAKER_02: Because they've never found the body, you know, and it's like, oh my gosh, come on.
SPEAKER_02: And the other one is always, you'll always get Adolf Hitler in there.
SPEAKER_02: And I've heard Adolf Hitler because of the obsession that he had with numerology.
SPEAKER_02: And Adolf Hitler was obsessed with numerology, but Adolf Hitler was not the Antichrist, but he definitely was an Antichrist in the sense that he had the Antichrist spirit in him.
SPEAKER_02: But it it it and trust I I get it.
SPEAKER_02: I mean, I I I do to a degree.
SPEAKER_02: I do.
SPEAKER_02: I get it.
SPEAKER_02: It is unnerving sometimes to see the number.
SPEAKER_02: But the only reason it's unnerving to see the number is because we've been taught to fear the number.
SPEAKER_02: Can I just tell you this?
SPEAKER_02: It's just a number.
SPEAKER_02: You're not going to trip up and accidentally get the mark of the beast.
SPEAKER_02: That is such a common taught thing.
SPEAKER_02: Anybody raised in the North?
SPEAKER_02: Anyone?
SPEAKER_02: Y'all were?
SPEAKER_02: Was it common in the North to fear the mark of the beast that you were going to?
SPEAKER_02: I'm curious about it because in the South, I mean, that was like a big thing.
SPEAKER_02: Is I can remember adults talking and like, man, I don't know about this barcode.
SPEAKER_02: And then when the whole credit card machine came out, oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_02: I can remember people talking about that, but they got over it quick because they could buy stuff.
SPEAKER_02: You know, but when you're taught to fear something, most of the time you're taught to fear it because of ignorance.
SPEAKER_02: It's just the truth of it.
SPEAKER_02: I could go a lot more in depth.
SPEAKER_02: I'm not going to because of the time and so on and so forth about 666.
SPEAKER_02: And it's just, at the end of the day, it's just not worth it to be honest about it.
SPEAKER_02: Because I want you to hear you're not gonna, oops, oh, it happened.
SPEAKER_02: You know, uh, some people believe it's a chip, some people believe it's a tattoo, some people, you know, um, I don't know.
SPEAKER_02: I mean a what now?
SPEAKER_02: A vaccine.
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, well, of course, that was real big a few years ago.
SPEAKER_02: I remember that making a big, big turn.
SPEAKER_02: Um, there's some kind of uh monster energy logo.
SPEAKER_02: Oh, yes, I forgot about that.
SPEAKER_02: You put it your microphone, you have the microphone in your hand.
SPEAKER_02: Please use it.
SPEAKER_04: Sorry, yeah.
SPEAKER_04: The monster energy logo, they take the the slashes and they cut it up, and it's uh sit the number six in Hebrew, one of those slashes.
SPEAKER_04: So they say that that's 666, and if you get the monster energy tattoo, you're gonna go to hell because Satan.
SPEAKER_02: And by the way, everybody drinks monster, you're going to hell.
SPEAKER_02: Uh which I guess it also means if you like Coke, you're going to hell because Coca-Cola owns monster energy.
SPEAKER_02: So there's that.
SPEAKER_02: You know, this is what gets so funny about all this stuff.
SPEAKER_02: I'll say this, we'll get out of here.
SPEAKER_02: This is what's so funny about all this stuff to me.
SPEAKER_02: It's so trivial because people's like, well, I wouldn't support any of that stuff and everything.
SPEAKER_02: And it's like, you do realize that, I mean, whether or not you, for example, there's people who say, I'm not going to put my money to support certain groups in this nation.
SPEAKER_02: Well, do you have an iPhone?
SPEAKER_02: Because your money's going there.
SPEAKER_02: And by the way, do you pay taxes?
SPEAKER_02: Your money's going there, whether you like it or not.
SPEAKER_02: You're connected in some way, somehow.
SPEAKER_02: You can't get away from the majority of this stuff, which is so frustrating.
SPEAKER_02: I was listening to a podcast today, and a lady calls in and she goes, What would happen if we all decided not to pay our taxes for a year?
SPEAKER_02: See how the government likes that.
SPEAKER_02: They would be broke.
SPEAKER_02: Well, yeah, that's a great idea.
SPEAKER_02: But first of all, let's get everybody on the same page.
SPEAKER_02: That's going to be a challenge.
SPEAKER_02: Number two, you don't pay your taxes, guess what you get?
SPEAKER_02: You get a trip from the IRS straight to federal penitentiary.
SPEAKER_02: If you don't get a big fine and all that, and so on and so forth.
SPEAKER_02: And, you know, I mean, it's like, oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_02: And just to think, all this started because we threw tea in the harbor.
SPEAKER_02: Boy, they'd be ashamed of us today.
SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna have to cut that out of the podcast.
SPEAKER_02: But nevertheless, don't fear it's going to get better next week.
SPEAKER_02: It is.
SPEAKER_02: This is just a blimp, and there'll be some things along the way too that will be kind of traumatizing to a degree, but the Antichrist is limited.
SPEAKER_02: We're talking about three and a half years.
SPEAKER_02: Let's see, this is July 2026.
SPEAKER_02: Okay, six years ago.
SPEAKER_02: We were still in the throes of that year, right?
SPEAKER_02: Pandemic year and all that.
SPEAKER_02: That was six years ago.
SPEAKER_02: It's that quick.
SPEAKER_02: It's not that big of a in the big grand scheme of things, it's not that big.
SPEAKER_02: What time period that he truly, truly has in that latter part.
SPEAKER_02: So, any no other questions?
SPEAKER_02: Everybody's good?
SPEAKER_02: Okay, I I thought so.
SPEAKER_02: Let's make sure.
SPEAKER_01: When you started, you were singing Father Abraham had many signs.
SPEAKER_01: Right?
SPEAKER_02: You didn't have to repeat that in the microphone.
SPEAKER_01: You can take it out.
SPEAKER_01: I'm good.
SPEAKER_01: This whole thing might need to go out.
SPEAKER_01: But I was just wondering about Hagar and Ishmael, and when you said it's coming out of Islam, are we still dealing with the promise versus doing it on your own?
SPEAKER_02: Boy, this is a really, really good question.
SPEAKER_02: So um knowing the story here, Abraham was promised the son, right?
SPEAKER_02: The promise was not simply to Abraham, it was to Abraham and Sarah.
SPEAKER_02: Okay, so it's it's never just Abraham, even though uh the Quran will remove that and say it was only Abraham.
SPEAKER_02: Um the Torah, which is the first five books of the Bible and the Hebrew, it will say Abraham and Sarai, and then it'll say, or Abram, Sarai, and then some Abraham, Sarah in modern translations.
SPEAKER_02: But um the issue at hand, of course, was Sarah said, Go sleep with my handmaiden.
SPEAKER_02: Abraham wanted to make his wife happy and obeyed her, and I I've still never understood that, by the way.
SPEAKER_02: That still just baffles my mind, to be honest.
SPEAKER_02: But he does, and he has a son.
SPEAKER_02: And here's the crazy thing about it Abraham, I think if you read the scripture, I think you can actually see that Abraham actually cared for the boy.
SPEAKER_02: But the problem was, imagine this Sarah didn't like her anymore.
SPEAKER_02: And I don't think it was solely because that the handmaiden had now been with Sarah's husband.
SPEAKER_02: I think it's she had the child.
SPEAKER_02: And so Abraham literally had to remove them.
SPEAKER_02: And so now that's how we get Islam.
SPEAKER_02: So Islam comes from that lineage, the Ishmaelites, which the Ishmaelites would be the slave traders who would one day come and pick Joseph up.
SPEAKER_02: When Joseph's brother abused him and threw him in the pit and he was sold into slavery, he was actually sold into the Ishmaelites.
SPEAKER_02: So, interesting enough, some of the earliest beginnings of slave owners were Ishmaelites, which is interesting because if you look how Islam treats women, that pattern hasn't necessarily gone away.
SPEAKER_02: So now we see a big picture of how there's still this battle.
SPEAKER_02: Islam says it is the real thing.
SPEAKER_02: Christianity and Judaism will argue over the real thing, but it all goes back to Isaac and Ishmael.
SPEAKER_02: Who is the promise?
SPEAKER_02: For Islam, it's it's Abraham and his first son, Ishmael.
SPEAKER_02: For Judaism and for Christians, it is Abraham and Isaac.
SPEAKER_02: That's the lineage of that.
SPEAKER_02: I do lean towards that this is still the battle.
SPEAKER_02: Um it's why once we get a little bit more, we'll get a little bit more insight going forward, the political power that the Antichrist has is not simply political speech.
SPEAKER_02: It's not that you're looking at someone who is just a politician.
SPEAKER_02: What we're going to see about the Antichrist is they live and die by the sword.
SPEAKER_02: What you'll see eventually is the Antichrist is known to behead people.
SPEAKER_02: Part of the political power that they use is a military force.
SPEAKER_02: In that military force, they literally behead people.
SPEAKER_02: Well, there is only one group of people in the entire world that beheads people.
SPEAKER_02: And that's Islam.
SPEAKER_02: And I'm not saying that all Muslims are evil.
SPEAKER_02: That's not what I'm saying at all.
SPEAKER_02: Can Muslims be born again?
SPEAKER_02: Yes, they can renounce Islam and they can be born again.
SPEAKER_02: Usually how it's happening is not by a conversation.
SPEAKER_02: Most Islam that are converting to Christianity through the sun is they're having like real encounters with Jesus.
SPEAKER_02: Like I know a Muslim firsthand that I met and had a great conversation, and he's changed his whole identity.
SPEAKER_02: He had to, because he was an actual terrorist.
SPEAKER_02: And he was in Egypt on a um on a mission, and they were in the middle of the desert, and he all of a sudden he sees this man walking towards them.
SPEAKER_02: And the man walks right up to him and calls him by name, and he goes, How do you even know my name?
SPEAKER_02: And the man to him says, Well, my name is Jesus, and I'm here to tell you.
SPEAKER_02: And he has this encounter with Jesus.
SPEAKER_02: Now, some people would say, a dream, a vision, whatever.
SPEAKER_02: I can tell you this that man had to flee, renounced Islam, was born again, and the entire time that I was around this man, the entire time he worshiped, he does nothing but just ball.
SPEAKER_02: I'm talking about tears falling down his face.
SPEAKER_02: Because he has an encounter.
SPEAKER_02: So there are Muslims that have an encounter with Jesus.
SPEAKER_02: Most of the time it's coming through dreams and visions and actual, I believe, wholeheartedly, either an angel or Jesus can appear unto them.
SPEAKER_02: And that's how it's happening.
SPEAKER_02: But I do believe it goes all the way back to that.
SPEAKER_02: It goes back to that because if you look at everything that Satan, even Lucifer, tried to do, it's always been about birthright.
SPEAKER_02: Always.
SPEAKER_02: Always, always, always been about birthright.
SPEAKER_02: It's still a hang up.
SPEAKER_02: It's always been a hang up.
SPEAKER_02: We'll continue being a hang-up.
SPEAKER_02: And it's why everything is the counterfeit of what Satan is doing in that.
SPEAKER_02: Again, there's a lot of people that think that the Pope is going to be the Antichrist and someone else would be a false prophet, whatever.
SPEAKER_02: The beast is more about war than they are politics, even though politically they will be dominant.
SPEAKER_02: And I'm not I'm not implying that gosh, I just went blank on his last name.
SPEAKER_02: Mom Donnie in New York.
SPEAKER_02: But he is one heck of a smooth talker.
SPEAKER_02: And it is why he got elected.
SPEAKER_02: And you think, well, you know, how do?
SPEAKER_02: And they're anti-LGBTQ, but this guy's putting people in office that are LGBTQ.
SPEAKER_02: It's just like, it's like, what are you doing?
SPEAKER_02: And it for me, when I'm looking at that, I'm like, oh, this is a foreshadow of an antichrist.
SPEAKER_02: Because they have to peer unto all things, unto all people.
SPEAKER_02: But there's a deeper, darker agenda.
SPEAKER_02: And Madame is definitely got a deeper, darker agenda if you just pay attention to what he's doing.
SPEAKER_02: And that's for just most people are not paying attention because a smooth talker can get you with a forky tongue.
SPEAKER_02: But you got to go back to the whole thing with the Antichrist is about war and the beheading of that.
SPEAKER_02: And like I said, to this day, Islam, there are Muslims that are beheading Christians, unfortunately, every single day on this earth at this moment in time, right now.
SPEAKER_02: It's happening right now.
SPEAKER_02: The news does not cover it, but it's happening right now.
SPEAKER_02: And one of the biggest places it's happening right now is in Africa, which is just wild to think about, but it's happening majorly big time there.
SPEAKER_02: We think more like Egypt and Saudi Arabia and all that.
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it can happen there some, but it's happening more in um in Africa right now.
SPEAKER_02: It's just the numbers are staggering.
SPEAKER_02: And Nigeria, for example, is deeply, deeply, deeply disturbing.
SPEAKER_02: But the news won't even pay attention to it.
SPEAKER_02: The amount of Christians that are being executed in Nigeria by Muslims is astronomical numbers.
SPEAKER_02: But it's not newsworthy.