"Y estuve en el mar del mar y vi a un bestia que se levantó del mar, con siete caballos y diez huesos; y en sus huesos, diez huesos; y en sus caballos, el nombre de la blasfemia.
Y el bestia que vi fue como un hueso, y sus pies eran como los pies de un perro, y su boca como la boca de un león; y el dragón le dio su poder y su silla en gran autoridad.
Y vi a uno de sus caballos, como lo eran, heridos hasta la muerte, y su herida fue curada. Y todo el mundo perdió por el bestia.
Y les dijeron al dragón, que le dio su poder a la bestia. Y les dijeron al bestia, diciendo, ¿cuál era el de la bestia? ¿Quién fue capaz de hacer guerra con él?
Le dieron a él una boca hablando de grandes cosas y blasfemias. Y el poder le dieron a él a continuar 40 y 2 meses.
Y abrió su boca y blasfemía contra Dios, blasfemía su nombre y su tabernáculo y a los que desnudan en el cielo.
Le dieron a él a hacer guerra con los santos y a superarlos. Y el poder le dieron a él por todas las tiendas y canciones y naciones.
Y todos los que desnudan en el cielo se va a obedecer a él, cuyos nombres no están escrito en el libro de la vida de la silla de la fundación del mundo.
Si algún hombre tiene un oído, déjalo escuchar.
Aquel que se liderara en la captividad se va a ir a la captividad.
Aquel que se matara con la espada debe ser matado con la espada.
Aquí está la paciencia y la fe de los santos.
Ahora, se guarda otro bestia que viene de la tierra.
Y él tenía dos hornas como una silla, y él cagó como un dragón.
Y exerceza todo el poder del primer bestia antes de él, y causa a la tierra y a los que desnudan en él para obedecer al primer bestia,
su herida muerta, y hace gran maravilla, y hace que un fuego llegue del cielo a la tierra en el lugar de los hombres,
y decepcia a los que desnudan en la tierra, por medio de esas maravillas que tenía poder hacer en el lugar del bestia,
diciendo a los que desnudan en la tierra, que deberían hacer una imagen al bestia, que tuvo la herida de una espada y vivió.
Tiene poder dar vida a la imagen del bestia, la imagen del bestia debería hablar,
y causar que muchos que no sanen la imagen del bestia deberían ser asesinados.
Y causan a todos, los más pequeños y grandes, los más ricos y pobres, los más libres, a recibir una marca en la mano derecha o en sus caballos.
Y que nadie podría comprar o vender, excepto él que tuvo la marca con el nombre del bestia o con el número de su nombre.
Aquí está su sabiduría, déjalo que lo entienda y cuente el número del bestia, porque es el número de un hombre.
Y su número es 600-3-6.
Le agradezco a Dios, gracias por esta iglesia, y por nuestros pastores que pidieron que te bendicen la preaching ahora,
y continúe a bendicir nuestra iglesia, y en el nombre de Jesucristo, amén.
Ok, estamos en Revelación 13 esta mañana, y mirad los Bibles en el versículo 16,
y dice, "Y causó a todos, pequeños y grandes, ricos y pobres, y libres, a recibir un marco en la mano derecha o en sus paredes,
y que ningún hombre podría comprar o vender, salvo él que tuviera el marco, o el nombre del bestia, o el número de su nombre.
Aquí está su sabiduría, déjate que él que tuviera el entendimiento, cuente el número del bestia,
porque el número de un hombre y su número es 603,6".
El tema de mi sermon este mañana es el marco del bestia, el marco del bestia.
El marco del bestia es un concepto que vemos ilustrado aquí en la revelación del capítulo 13
y se refiere a un momento en el futuro en el que todo el mundo será sujeto a una moneda de un mundo.
Y la Biblia nos dice aquí que ningún hombre puede comprar, no puede comprar, no puede vender
a menos que tengan el marco en la mano derecha o en sus caballos.
Los cristianos por cientos de años han especulado, ¿qué se refiere a esto?
¿Cómo se puede llevar esto?
¿Es esto un tatuaje?
¿Es esto un código de barra que va a ir en la frente o en la mano derecha?
Pero ahora, considerando la tecnología que está disponible para nosotros,
no es más que una idea de cómo se puede y se podrá llevar esto.
Hace muchos años, hay Walletmore introduciendo el chip RFID que puede ser implantado en la mano derecha.
Si vas a una tienda y "boop", puedes hacer tus compras.
Y, claro, incluso antes de eso, tienes tus cartas de pago,
y ahora tienes a Apple que puedes simplemente guiar tu botella o tu teléfono para hacer tus compras.
Amazon One es otro que utiliza Biometrics
y reza una tarjeta de pago de usuarios para charlarlos para servicios.
Y así, pueden ir a las tiendas, como Amazon Go, ahora mismo.
Puedes ir a Whole Foods, ciertas Whole Foods, y conseguir tus coches,
conseguir tus equipos, y hay una pequeña máquina ahí,
y vas a caminar tu pago sobre ella, la charlas y ahí vas.
Esto no es algo que es un fairy tale, no es una teoría de conspiración.
Esto realmente existe ahora mismo.
Otra de las cosas que hay que pensar es Neuralink.
Por supuesto, sabemos que Neuralink, por Elon Musk,
él es el que vino con esto,
es la interfaz de computador del cerebro,
usado para restaurar la autonomía a personas que han sido handicapadas.
Y así que esto es un implante que va en el cerebro.
Y ahora mismo están proponiendo esto como algo que va a ayudar a las personas
que han sido handicapadas, que han estado en accidentes,
que no tienen control sobre sus cuerpos.
Se pueden asistir a ellos. Pero, por supuesto, después de todo,
podrás ver tu playlist favorita allí y ver tu Netflix favorito.
De alguna manera integrarán esos tipos de servicios a través de eso.
El punto que estoy haciendo aquí es que la tecnología ya está aquí,
ya está disponible, y en realidad cientos y cientos de personas
ya están usando esto ahora mismo.
Y no estoy diciendo que es el marco del beast ahora mismo.
Estoy diciendo que la tecnología del marco del beast
ya está disponible hoy en 2024.
Así que cuando John está poniendo esto en el libro de la revelación,
muchas personas piensan, "Oh, hombre, en el libro de la revelación 13,
el anticristo presenta el marco del beast,
esta nueva tecnología, y entonces las personas se obligan a tomarlo".
Pero no, eso es 100% incorrecto.
Y en realidad, lo que creo que está sucediendo aquí es que el marco del beast
es simplemente integrado en un mundo ya existente y bien aceptado.
¿Lo entiendes? La tecnología ya está allí.
Así que esto ya está disponible durante su tiempo.
Las personas ya lo están abriendo.
Y así que esto no es algo que simplemente lo presenta.
Y luego las personas son como, "Oh, no lo estoy tomando, no lo voy a hacer".
No, es más como que ya está normalizado.
Y lo que me lleva a mi siguiente punto a través de la introducción.
Y es decir, ¿cómo puede que el mundo falla por ello?
¿Cómo puede que el mundo falla por el marco del bestia
y lo tome con la mano derecha o en sus caballos?
Bueno, te voy a dar tres razones por lo que esto sucedería.
La razón número uno es por los cristianos que llaman "Wolf".
Entonces, ¿qué significa eso?
Bueno, lo has oído, lo he oído, lo has visto en las redes sociales.
Lo he visto en las redes sociales.
Un montón de cristianos, como se llaman, siempre diciendo que el mundo está a punto de terminar.
Y es como, Trump es el anticristo.
Él recibió una herida de delirio en la cabeza.
Ya sabes, él fue corto en el ojo, ¿de acuerdo?
Ya sabes, oh man, ya sabes, el marco de los bestias es la vacuna.
Y así, tienes todos estos videos que van viral,
que tienen millones y millones de vistas.
Y piensas a ti mismo, bueno, eso es dumbo, no creo que sea eso.
Sí, pero hay gente ahí que lo hacen.
Ellos compran a la gente, ellos realmente lo creen.
Y así, cuando tienes a cristianos que están constantemente diciendo,
oh, Jesús está volviendo y ponen un día para él.
Y está volviendo a marzo 24, o lo que sea.
Y esto es el marco del bestia.
Esto es el antichrist.
Esto es lo que sea.
Y eso no sucede.
Bueno, entonces las personas comienzan a perder confianza en la Biblia.
Y comienzan a ver la Biblia como simplemente un fairy tale.
Un fable que no tiene que ser confiado.
Y que los cristianos son un par de madres.
Pero aquí la cosa es que no es necesariamente...
La Biblia es verdad, la Biblia es correcta.
No es necesariamente eso.
Es el hecho de que las personas no saben lo que están hablando cuando hablan de la Biblia.
Y así que están constantemente llorando al wolf.
Y si están constantemente dando estas falsas flagas de la profecía final,
y nunca se vuelve.
El mundo va a decir que es una broma.
¿Dónde está la promesa de que llegue?
Desde que el fallo falló, todas las cosas continúan desde el principio de la creación.
Oh, ustedes siempre han dicho que esto es el antichrist.
Ustedes siempre han dicho que esto es la marca del beast.
Ustedes siempre han dicho que Jesús está volviendo.
Y eso nunca ocurre.
Así que la gente simplemente toma a la creación como una broma
por causa de estos pseudo cristianos
que constantemente ponen estas falsas lágrimas.
Esa es la razón número uno.
La razón número dos es porque la tecnología ya está normalizada por entonces.
Así que si tienes la tecnología "New World Order",
hoy las personas están como "Oh, esto es "New World Order", esto es para los padres".
No lo toques, no lo toques.
Pero ¿sabes qué?
Después de un tiempo, una vez que está introducido,
una vez que las personas empiezan a usarlo
para ver que nada pasa, porque nada va a pasar hasta "Revelación 13",
entonces van a estar como "oh, ok, la tecnología no es tan mala".
O sea, te garantizo que las personas en este edificio ahora mismo
eran muy líricas de usar la ID de su cara en sus teléfonos y Apple
y están como "oh, man, van a saber dónde estoy",
ya saben dónde están.
Pero ahora, es como que tú solo lo usas y no piensas ni dos veces sobre ello.
Tecnologías que tú estabas muy líricas de 5, 10 años atrás,
ahora no puedes vivir sin ellas.
Lo que estoy diciendo es que la tecnología ha sido normalizada
y seguirá siendo normalizada.
Especialmente cuando veas que la población lo usa.
No hay nada que se asuste de.
Y es como, ok, dame el chip.
O sea, déjame tenerlo en mi cabeza.
He estado preguntando cómo funciona o lo que sea.
Entonces, la primera razón es que los cristianos llenen al wolfo.
La segunda es que la tecnología es normalizada.
La tercera es que una generación antigua se morirá.
Y una nueva generación, escuchemos esto, estará nacida en un sistema ya establecido.
Así que esta generación, que es muy libre de la tecnología,
todos van a morir, ¿de acuerdo?
No van a estar aquí por mucho tiempo.
Así que las personas que siempre dicen "Oh, hombre, este es el final del mundo,
Jesús viene", todo este tipo de cosas.
Esta generación irá a morir, finalmente.
Una nueva generación irá a arriesgar
y van a ser nacidas en un sistema en el que la tecnología ya ha permeado.
Las miles de personas en el mundo ya lo usan.
Y van a mirar la historia de personas como nosotros y pensar que estas personas son locas.
Dijen que lo que estamos usando ahora es como el marco de los bestias,
y aquí estamos, nacimos en este sistema.
Es una vida mejorada.
Se ha hecho la vida mucho más fácil de vivir.
Es más conveniente.
Y así que lo que tienen aquí es, en esencial,
sistemas being put in place and it takes time, right?
So Christians would cry wolf. Technology is normalized.
Old generations die out.
New generations are born into the system.
They don't question it. It's just part of their life, okay?
This is how the world can fall for the mark of the beast.
Now, let me also say this is that when we talk about the mark of the beast,
we're referring to an element that's part of what we would commonly refer to
as the New World Order, okay?
And I know this is a great Sunday morning service here, you know,
but hey, you need to learn this, hey man, this is in the Bible.
The New World Order, and the New World Order is comprised of three specific elements
that the Bible highlights here in Revelation 13,
which is number one, the one world government,
number two, the one world religion,
and number three, what we're going to talk about specifically this morning,
is the one world financial system.
Now, before we talk about the mark of the beast,
let's talk about the beast himself, okay?
So you're in Revelation chapter 13, we're going to go a little deep this morning,
and so make sure you have your Bibles open, you're going to the references if you need help,
someone next to you, if you can help people navigate through their Bibles
so they can see the verses themselves.
Look at verse number one here, it says,
"And I stood upon the sand of the sea," this is referring to John,
"and I saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns,
and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his head the name of blasphemy.
And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear,
and his mouth as the mouth of a lion, and the dragon gave him his power and his seat and great authority.
So the vision that the apostle John is seeing here is he sees this beast come out of the sea
and it has seven heads, upon these particular seven heads there are seven horns with crowns upon them.
And this particular beast is essentially amalgamation of various animals.
He says there is one like a leopard or it's like a leopard, a bear and a lion and then it describes the dragon which is who?
Satan who is giving this particular beast his power, his seat, his great authority.
Now what does this represent?
Well the beast represents both the man of prediction that we would call the antichrist
but it also represents the empire that he will govern.
And the reason that's important to note is because today people will look at a passage like this
and say well no this is only referring to the empire, it's only referring to the system.
The antichrist is just a symbol.
The antichrist is not a real person.
He's not going to be a real individual that rises up in the end times.
He just symbolically represents the system of the New World Order.
And they're only half way right because the beast represents the system, the empire,
but it also represents the person as well.
And don't be deceived, the Antichrist is and will be a real person.
Now hold your place there in Revelation 13 and go to Daniel chapter 7 if you would.
Daniel chapter 7.
And I want to show you that in the Bible when God often addresses a particular nation,
he addresses the nation while simultaneously addressing the ruler of that nation,
the king of that nation, the person who reigns over that particular nation.
And he often kind of talks about them as one.
Look at Daniel chapter 7 if you would.
Verse number 1.
It says here in the first year of Belshazzar, king of Babylon, Daniel 7 verse 1.
Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed.
Then he wrote the dream and told the sum of the matters.
Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night and behold the four winds of the heaven
strove upon the great sea.
I want you to notice this in verse three.
And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another.
Now that should ring a bell because in Revelation 13 we just heard that the beast comes up out of the sea, right?
Well, here in Daniel seven, it's essentially the same imagery.
The difference being instead of one beast, it's four different beasts coming up out of the sea.
He says in verse four, the first was like a lion and had eagle's wings.
"I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked and it was lifted from the earth and made to stand upon the feet as a man and a man's heart was given to it."
Now, what we're going to see here is that Daniel is talking about world empires, but he's also addressing a specific person.
And if we were to look at this verse and conjecture who is he referring to, it's pretty obvious that he's talking about Babylon.
How so? Well, because of the fact that if you've read the book of Daniel, you know that the king of Babylon is Nebuchadnezzar.
Nebuchadnezzar was a man who was lifted up with pride. And what did God do? He abased him by giving him a heart of a beast.
He cursed him to the point where he fled into the wilderness and basically behaved like an animal for seven years.
Eating grass like an ox, allowing his hair to grow out as eagle's feathers, the Bible says.
And essentially God removed his sanity for seven years to humble him.
And eventually at the end of those seven years, he was restored back to his position by God.
He gave glory to God. This is what Daniel 7 and verse 4 is talking about.
It's that lion, the king of the jungle, who has the eagle's wings because his hair grew as eagle's feathers.
And it says towards the latter end of verse 4, made to stand upon the feet of a man and a man's heart was given to it.
Why is that significant? Because after the seven years, the heart of a beast is removed from him.
And his sanity, the man's heart is given to him once again, he's reinstated to his former position.
Look at verse number 5, and behold another beast, a second like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side,
and it had three ribs in the mouth of it, between the teeth of it, and they said thus unto it, arise devour much flesh.
Now this is referring to the Medo-Persian Empire, which succeeded the Babylonians.
And the reason we know that is because of the fact that it's raised up on one side,
due to the fact that the Medo-Persian Empire was stronger on the Persian side
rather than on the meat.
Look at verse 6, after this I beheld a low another, like a leopard,
which had upon the back of the four wings of a fowl.
The beast had also four heads, and dominion was given to it.
Now we know based upon history that this is referring to the Grecian Empire.
And more specifically, it's addressing Alexander the Great.
How do we know that?
Well, because of the fact that it says that it has four wings of a fowl,
and the beast also has four heads.
Now why is that significant?
Well, if you know anything about history, Alexander the Great, his reign was very short lived.
He died at a very young age, and because of that he had no successor.
Therefore, his kingdom was split into four and given to his commanders.
Two of which ended up being some of the most famous, the Seleucid Empire and the Ptolemy Empire.
That's what this is referring to.
So when it addresses or talks about the four wings and the four heads,
it's referring to those four separate empires that came from the Grecian Empire.
Look at verse seven.
This is referring to the Roman Empire, which came after the Grecian Empire.
And I don't necessarily have to expound upon that.
You can see that historically that that's the case.
Now, very important. Look at verse 17, if you would.
Because going back to the point that we're talking about empires,
but we're also talking about the rulers of those empires.
Here's the proof, verse 17.
So even in Daniel's day, the vision that's being given,
he's describing a particular empire,
but he's also addressing the person who's ruling over that empire.
So it should be no surprise that in Revelation 13,
when the beast is mentioned coming up out of the sea,
yeah, it's referring to that New World Order,
but it's also referring to the Antichrist of that New World Order.
And that's important to note because we don't want to think
that the Antichrist is just a symbolic figure.
Well, it's just a system, it's not really a person
that's going to come up in the End Times.
No, there's absolutely going to be one man,
the man of perdition that rises up in the end of the world,
that rules over the world.
This is clearly talked about, distinctly described in the Bible.
Now, go back to Revelation 13, if you would.
Revelation 13, so the beast coming out of the sea
represents the empire, but it also represents the man.
Look at verse 3 of Revelation 13.
"And I saw one of his heads," one of whose heads?
The beast heads, "as it were wounded to death,
"and his deadly wound was healed,
"and all the world wondered after the beast."
Now, this is not prophetic about Trump, okay?
I got to say it because people are putting that on social media.
I've seen this multiple times.
A deadly wound is a wound that makes you dead.
That's what a deadly wound is, you understand?
Clipping the ear is not a deadly wound.
But, you know, people just...
And then you have other people who are like,
"Well, it happened at minute marker 6/11."
So if you go to Ephesians 6/11, it's like...
I'm not joking, and it gets like millions of views, millions of likes,
but it kind of shows you how detached Christians are from the Bible,
where they're willing to just interpret the Bible however they want.
And they look at us and be like, "Well, you cherry pick.
You took the whole vineyard, though, and just took it completely out of context."
Look at verse 4.
"So one of his heads, one of the beast heads,
receives a deadly wound to the head, the deadly wound is healed."
Verse 4, "And they worshiped the dragon, which gave power unto the beast,
and they worshiped the beast, saying, 'Who is like unto the beast?
Who is able to make war with him?'"
A person, right?
"And there was given unto him a mouth, speaking great things in blasphemies,
and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months,
and he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God,
to blaspheme his name and his tabernacle, and them that dwell therein."
So the point that I'm making here regarding these verses
is that the beast represents the empire,
but it also represents the person himself,
as noted by the fact that it describes him as him.
He. He will do these things.
This is going to happen to him.
Now, when the Bible says that a mouth is given to him
to speak great things in blasphemies,
it says towards, in verse number six,
he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God,
to blaspheme his name,
we know this is referring to a person,
because 2 Thessalonians chapter 2,
when talking about end times in the Antichrist,
tells us, "Let no man deceive you by any means,
for that day," referring to the second coming of Christ,
"shall not come, except to come a falling away first,
and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition,"
listen to this, "who opposeth and exalteth himself
above all that is called God, or that is worshiped,
so that he, as God, sitteth in the temple of God,
proclaiming himself to be God."
What is that? Blasphemies against God, you understand?
So this takes place in the midst of the week,
I'm not going to go over the timeline,
but this is referring to the fact that
he will go into this third temple
that will exist in the end times,
and it's at that point that he's going to claim
that he is God.
Now you say, "Well, why will he do that?"
Well, because he's been killed,
and then he comes back to life.
And so there's only one man who's been killed
and comes back to life three days later,
and that's the Lord Jesus Christ.
It's because he's God.
So he is seeking to imitate
that very same resurrection
in order to deceive the nations into thinking
that he is deity, that he is God.
So that is the proof that he "is God"
that he comes back to life.
Now, his resurrection is not based upon God
him taking his life back or God giving him life.
It's because he's possessed by the devil.
Now, a lot of times people ask this question,
"Well, how can the beast be the Antichrist?"
If it says that the beast, one of his heads is wounded
and that head is referring to the Antichrist,
but it says one of the heads of the beast is wounded.
How can that be?
How can he be both the beast and also one of the heads
that's on the beast, right?
Well, go with me if you would to Revelation 17, excuse me.
Hold your place there in Chapter 13.
And let me just briefly answer this question.
We're going to look at Revelation 17 in just a bit.
The beast initially is made up of a coalition of kings.
So when we think of the beast,
obviously it's referring to the Antichrist,
but in its initial stages of that system,
it's actually made up of a coalition of about ten kings,
including the Antichrist himself.
These are men who are essentially kind of working together
for a better world and for world peace or whatever.
That's how it actually starts.
And then at the end,
those ten kings end up giving up their power to the Antichrist,
at which point the inception of the New World Order takes place.
If you look at Revelation 17 in verse 3,
if you ever want to do a deep dive on Babylon,
Revelation 17 and 18 are the quintessential chapters on that.
And look at verse 3, it says,
"So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness,
and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet-colored beast."
Now who or what is the scarlet-colored beast?
It's referring to the beast that we saw in Revelation 13,
the beast coming up out of the sea.
It says, "Full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns."
So this is referring to the fact that Babylon,
mystery Babylon the Great,
is sitting upon this particular beast,
and I don't have time to develop this,
but it's essentially referring to the spirit of Babylon
that has ridden the expedition of conquest.
But we're not going to get into that.
Look at verse 9.
We're going to look at the one world government first.
It says here in verse 9,
"And here is the mind which hath wisdom.
The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sitteth.
There are seven kings, five are fallen,
one is, and the other is not yet come,
and when he is come, he must continue a short space."
So let me just put the cookie on the bottom shelf here
of what this is referring to.
You have the beast coming out of the sea,
and it has seven heads.
Revelation 17 tells us that those seven heads
represent seven kings.
And it says that of those seven kings,
five no longer exist.
One is currently existing in John's day,
and then one is yet to come in the future
from John's perspective.
Now, who are those five kingdoms
that are no longer in existence?
Well, history tells us
that five of the greatest world empires
would be what?
Egyptian, Assyrian, Babylonian,
Medo-Persian, Grecian,
and then he says what?
One is referring to the Roman Empire
because the Roman Empire was in existence
during John's day.
So five no longer exist.
The Roman Empire was existing at that time.
And then he says one is yet to come.
And it's possible that we are in that time right now
of a particular empire that comes before
the last empire which is the New World Order.
So there's this interlude empire
between the Roman Empire
and the New World Order Empire.
Everyone following me here?
Look what it says in verse 11.
And the beast that was and is not,
now what does that mean?
It's referring to the fact that
this man was alive and then he was killed.
Is not means he died.
It says the beast that was and is not,
even he is the eighth and is of the seven
and goeth into perdition.
So it's essentially telling us that
the Antichrist will rule the very last empire
that this world will know.
And I want you to notice that in verse 10
it says that the seventh empire
must continue a short space.
Meaning that that particular empire
is very short lived.
Most empires throughout history
last for a really long time, right?
Hundreds of years, I mean the Roman Empire lasted
for hundreds and hundreds of years.
Whereas the empire that comes before the New World Order
is very short lived.
Who knows, I don't know, like 400 years or something like that.
Who knows?
But it's not an empire that exists for a very long time.
It eventually dissipates and makes way for the New World Order.
Which, by the way, doesn't last long either.
It actually only lasts for three and a half years.
Look at verse 13.
I'm sorry, verse 12.
It says, "In the ten horns, which thou sawest, are ten kings,
which have received no kingdom as yet,
but receive power as kings one hour with the beast."
Now, again, seven heads represent those seven empires,
five of which no longer exist.
One currently exists in John's day.
One will exist in the future in respect to where John is.
And then he says those seven heads have ten horns and ten crowns
representing the ten kings that will exist in the end times.
These are the ten kings or the ten horns that we see in Revelation 13.
And it says here that they haven't received a kingdom as of yet,
meaning that they're all kind of sharing authority over the world.
And it says that they receive power as kings one hour with the beast,
meaning that it's not a long time that they're ruling.
Verse 13 says, "These have one mind and shall give their power and strength unto the beast."
This is referring to the one world government.
Because if you have ten kings of different sovereign nations and they come together and say,
"Well, let's just give our authority and power to the Antichrist,"
at that point you have one ruler, one dictator over the entire world.
Now you ask yourself, what would cause these ten kings to just relinquish their authority to the Antichrist?
Like, "Hey, yeah, just rule over my nation. Yeah, you take my nation."
And they all just kind of give up their power to him after ruling together,
"We're in this together," and all of a sudden they're just like, "No, you take over."
What would happen, what would cause them to just relinquish their power?
Well, here's what it would be, the fact that he died and came back to life.
So when he dies, he comes back to life, they're like, "Whoa, this guy is the real deal.
You should rule over all the nations."
Now, I want to mention this just briefly, and that is that you've got to keep in mind that
what the Antichrist is seeking to do in the end times is to emulate what Jesus Christ will do in the millennial reign.
Because when Jesus Christ, he comes to set up his millennial reign, he is the dictator of this world, amen?
He is the benevolent dictator of this world, you know, and he rules over the nations.
And so the Antichrist is seeking to copy that, to imitate that via his New World Order, okay?
So here we see that one world government, the ten kings giving their power unto the beast,
at which point he is the god of this world, he is the superpower, he rules over all of it.
This is the inception of the New World Order.
So the New World Order doesn't exist during the tribulation, okay?
It comes into existence after he dies and comes back to life, proclaims himself to be god,
the ten kings give up their power, and at that point it's his world empire.
It is the eighth empire that is of the seven.
Does that make sense to everyone?
Go back to Revelation chapter 13 if you would.
Revelation chapter 13.
This morning you're going to learn some Bible, amen?
Some Bible prophecy.
Last week it was all about God's will and practical things,
but now you've got to learn some doctrine, okay?
Look at verse seven of Revelation 13.
"And it was given unto him to make war with the saints,
and to overcome them."
We'll revisit that in just a bit.
"And power was given him over all kindreds and tongues of nations."
So that's a reiteration of what we see in Revelation 17,
that one world government.
Because power, meaning authority, is given to him
over all the nations, kindreds, over all the languages,
over all peoples of this world is what it's referring to.
And it's all contingent upon the fact that he died
and came back to life.
So his rule over the world is very much short lived,
only lasting for what it says forty and two months.
How long is forty and two months?
Three and a half years.
It's a very quick empire to say the least.
But it's interesting, is it not?
That it says that his rule only lasts for three and a half years?
Because the ministry of Jesus Christ lasted for what?
Three and a half years.
Ending at his what?
At his death.
Whereas the Antichrist order lasts for three and a half years beginning at his resurrection.
Does that make sense to everyone?
So they relinquish their power to the Antichrist because of the fact that he dies and comes back to life.
And it's no longer a coalition of kings.
Now it's one ruler, the world under one system, that new world order.
So that's the one world government.
Now go back up to verse number three.
So we see the one world government.
Now let's look at the one world religion.
And by the way, when it comes to the one world government,
we see systems in place today that are trying to be put into place,
should I say, pushing towards a one world government, right?
And so those beginning stages are being implemented
and being flirted with and played with today
because that system needs to be put in place for when the Antichrist comes.
Look at verse three.
"And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death
and his deadly wound was healed, and all the world wondered after the beast."
Skip down to verse eight.
"And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him,
whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb
slain from the foundation of the world."
Now people have this misconception,
Christians, mainstream Christianity specifically,
and they think, well, you know, we got to be careful though,
because if the Antichrist shows up, we make sure we don't worship him
and don't be deceived by him.
But the only ones who are going to worship the Antichrist
are those whose names are not written in the Lamb's Book of Life.
What is that talking about?
It's just another way of saying those who are not saved.
And so you have people today that know all types of conspiracies,
know all the agendas that the government is putting forth,
but if they're not saved, they will be deceived by the Antichrist.
It doesn't matter how knowledgeable you are
of all of the evils and the iniquities of this world,
about the Rothschilds,
you know about every single conspiracy that exists out there,
you will be gullible to the deception of the Antichrist if you're not saved.
Because people wonder like, "Man, what do we do?
You know, what if the Antichrist comes?"
Well, here's what you can do is get saved.
Let me say this, if you're in here this morning
and you're not 100% sure that if you die today that you'd go to heaven,
you can get that settled today.
Because the Bible says that all you have to do...
The Bible says that today is the day of salvation,
now is the appointed time.
The Bible says to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ
and thou shalt be saved.
That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus
and believe in thine heart that God hath raised them from the dead,
thou shalt be saved.
For what the heart man believeth unto righteousness
but with the mouth confession is made into salvation.
Verse 13 of Romans 10 says,
"For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved."
You don't have to repent of your sins to be saved,
because no one's been able to repent of their sins to be saved.
You don't have to keep God's commandments to be saved,
because no one can keep God's commandments to be saved.
The Bible says therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith,
listen to this, without the deeds of the law.
The only man that has ever existed who can ever keep all of God's commandments perfectly
is the Lord Jesus Christ, and he did.
And this is why salvation relies upon the righteousness of Jesus Christ being given to us.
Not by our own righteousness, you're trying to keep God's commandments,
it's basically saying you're trying to earn salvation by your righteousness.
But the Bible says that the only way we can enter heaven is by the blood of Jesus Christ,
i.e. referring to the righteousness of Jesus.
It has to be given to us by faith, we cannot pay for it.
It's already paid for, it has to be received by faith as a gift.
"For by grace are you saved through faith, and that not of yourselves it is the gift of God,
not of works that any man should boast."
And so, you could be a novice at the Bible, a novice of End Times Bible Prophecy,
a novice of the doctrines of the Bible, but hold on a second,
if you're saved, you will not be deceived by the Antichrist.
Fact. Why? Because you have the Spirit of God living within you,
and according to the Bible, only those whose names are not written in the Book of Life will worship the Antichrist.
That's what the Bible says, okay?
So we see here that all that dwell upon the earth shall worship Him.
Does it say force to worship Him? No.
Does it say that they're coaxed into worship? No, they want to worship the Antichrist.
A lot of people have this misconception as well about the mark of the beast and say,
"Oh man, they're going to force this on people."
No, people are going to be asking for it. They're going to embrace it. They're going to want it, okay?
So all that dwell upon the earth shall worship Him.
What is this highlighting? The one world religion.
Where all religions come together, Hinduism, Buddhism, Catholicism, you know, all different sects of Christianity,
all different types of mysticism, all Islam, no matter what religion there is, they're all going to eventually come together,
unite as one to worship the antichrist.
And let me just say this, he's not going to call himself the antichrist, obviously.
He's probably just going to call himself the Christ, okay?
Look at verse 11. It says, "And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon."
Now, keep in mind that in Revelation 13, two different beasts are mentioned here, okay?
The first beast is the one that receives the deadly wound to the head, his deadly wound is healed.
This is commonly referred to as the Antichrist.
But then another beast comes out, and he doesn't come out of the sea, he comes out of the earth.
And it says that he has two horns like a lamb, but he speaks as a dragon.
And this is referring to the false prophet of the Antichrist, essentially his forerunner.
Now, why is this man here?
Well, again, if the Antichrist is seeking to imitate Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ also had a forerunner, which is John the Baptist, who essentially led people to Christ.
He said, "Behold, the Lamb of God, who should take away the sins of the world."
He's pointing people to the Lord Jesus Christ.
Well, in like manner, the false prophet will also do the same.
But I want you to notice the description that is giving of this false prophet.
It says he has two horns like a lamb.
Well, that is very indicative of what? Christianity, because Jesus Christ is the Lamb of God.
So, what it's telling us here is that he has the appearance of a religious leader.
He has the appearance of possibly even a Christian leader.
However, when he opens his mouth, he speaks as a dragon.
What does that mean? He speaks like the devil.
The doctrines that are coming out of his mouth are devilish, okay?
And we don't know exactly who this is, but, you know, the more I read the Bible,
the more I hate Catholicism, the more I think it's probably the Pope.
Because Catholicism is often confused with Biblical Christianity.
It's often passed off as Biblical Christianity,
but really what it is, it's a bastardization of Christianity.
And the Pope would fit this bill perfectly because of the fact that he has two horns like a lamb,
but when you actually hear him preach or teach, he speaks as a dragon, okay?
And, of course, the Pope has a lot of influence in this world.
You know, there's 1.5 billion Catholics in this world, and, you know, ever since he said, "For Chaguini," you know, more people like him.
And so, look at verse 12, "And he," referring to that second beast, "exercised all the power of the first beast before him,
and causeth the earth and them that dwell therein to worship the first beast whose deadly wound was healed."
Now, I do want to mention this is that, you know, the Pope refers to himself as the vicar of Christ.
What is the vicar of Christ? It's the representative of Christ.
So this would also fit that bill perfectly because he represents the antichrist who will claim to be the Christ, okay?
So he's exercising his power, he has supernatural capabilities, and he causes people on the earth to worship the first beast.
Now, hold your place there and go to 2 Thessalonians chapter 2, 2 Thessalonians chapter number 2.
So we saw first and foremost the beast, then the antichrist, we see the one world government, now we're looking at the one world religion.
Look at what it says in 2 Thessalonians chapter 2 and verse number 3.
"Let no man deceive you by any means, for that day shall not come."
I want you to notice this, "except there come a falling away verse."
Now, what is that referring to, falling away?
Well, falling away literally means apostasy, transgressing the doctrines of Christ.
It's when someone who masquerades as a believer, as a Christian, ends up just believing blasphemous things about Christ or about Christ's religion.
And it says there's going to come a time when there is a falling away first and then the Antichrist shall be revealed.
And obviously, when we look around us today, there's a lot of apostasy going on.
You know, Methodist churches have apostasized, Presbyterian churches are apostasizing.
You see rainbow flags on all these churches.
You see all this damnable heresy that's being preached.
You see female pastors, false modern versions of the Bible.
Just blasphemous things about the deity of Jesus Christ are being fomented from the pulpits of America,
of churches that claim to be Christian.
So it's kind of being already normalized today when it comes to apostasy.
And the Bible says that in the latter, the Spirit speaketh expressly,
that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils.
The Bible tells us this is going to happen.
The closer we get to the second coming of Christ, the more crazy doctrines we're going to hear.
And why? Why is that?
Well, because it needs to be normalized.
False doctrine needs to be normalized in order for mainstream Christianity in the end times
to buy into the antichrist being Jesus.
You understand what I'm saying?
And this is why we make such a big deal when false doctrine is being preached
and why we preach against it, because they are essentially helping the New World Order in its one world religion.
You know, you have Christians out there, like for example, and I'm using that term loosely by the way, Christians.
You know, you have people like Steven Furtick, who literally said, "I am God."
And it's not like the following service, everyone just leaves his church.
You know, they actually believe whatever he's saying.
And I thought to myself, that's funny that he said that because the only other guy who says that is the antichrist.
Proclaiming himself to be God.
He said, "Are you serious? There wasn't any other person who said he was God."
Well, you know, you do have Satan, Lucifer, who wanted to be like the most high.
But the fact that people are still going to his church in spite of the fact that he said, "I am God,"
shows you that we are already entering into the beginning, if not intermediate stages,
of falling away apostasy leading up to the New World Order.
He also said that Jesus broke the law.
I mean, that is a blasphemous statement to claim that Jesus Christ broke the law,
because the Bible says that sin, listen to this, is the transgression of the law.
So if you're saying that Jesus broke the law for love, I don't care what he did it for,
you're basically saying that Jesus sinned, and if Jesus sinned, he's no longer Christ, he cannot save us.
But you know, people are like, they're just loving him, eating it with fork and spoon.
Why? Because they have turned their ears from the truth, have been turned into fables,
they have itching ears, they heap to themselves, teachers having itching ears,
they don't want to hear what the truth says, and they rejoice in lies.
So if we're already seeing this today, where people can literally sit in a church service,
hear preaching that is blasphemous, contrary to the doctrines of Christ, contrary to what the Bible says,
and people are just like, amening it, folks, it should come as no surprise that in the end times,
when that dude calls himself God, people are going to be like, he's going to say I am God,
they're going to be like, see Stephen, he's God, not you, but your heart was in the right place though.
That's what the falling away means. So apostasy, heresy, damnable heresy, has permeated society today
and will continue to permeate in order to, what's the word I'm looking for,
desensitize churches in hearing false doctrine.
You know, people could just sit in the service and just be like,
not even care about some of the most wicked, blasphemous things being said about the Godhead,
and they can remain in that church.
Well, folks, it should come as no surprise that people are going to do this globally one day
when the Antichrist says that he is God.
And obviously, he's not just going to say it,
he's going to propose himself via his miracles, his pseudo-resurrection.
You know, the false prophet will call down fire as well.
He will have supernatural capabilities.
And so the deception will be very keen, it will be very strong,
and this is why people end up believing it.
So we see that there.
Now go back to, go to verse 11 of Revelation 13, if you would.
So we see apostasy today, but then again, there's going to be a global apostasy
where everyone is just believing this lie.
And this is how you know it's a very powerful deception
when Islam and Christianity, so-called, join hands together,
when they put aside their differences.
When all the religions of the world put aside their differences,
join together singing Kumbaya as they're on the way to split hell wide open.
That's a strong deception right there.
You understand what I'm saying?
And you know what? You're like, well, isn't that the goal though, pastor?
Isn't the goal, you know, world peace?
The goal is world peace through Christ, not through anything else.
Doctrine divides, my friend. The Bible calls doctrine a sword.
And in fact, Jesus said, "I came not to bring peace."
Put that in a Hobby Lobby. Put that in a...
"I came not to bring peace, but a sword."
In other words, He is seeking to divide people
to create a division between those who want the truth
and those who don't want the truth.
And so, God is very much interested in division.
Don't listen to these non-denom preachers out there
with their milquetoast sermons causing you to believe
that, "Oh, that's mean-spirited. That's not what God wants."
Well, that's not what the Bible says.
The Bible says He does want division.
Because He wants people to have a bias towards truth
and to reject that which is false, okay?
All right, so we see the one-world government, one-world religion,
and lastly, we're going to look at the one-world currency,
what we would describe as the mark of the beast,
representing a one-world currency.
But it also represents a submission to a one-world religion,
because the only way you can actually get the mark of the beast
is if you worship the beast.
It's not like you get a subscription to a company.
It's not like, "Well, you know, get this free trial for a week.
Try it for a month."
No, the main condition, the only condition,
is that you have to worship the Antichrist
and then you can get it, okay?
Look at verse 11.
It says, "I beheld another beast coming out of the earth.
He had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon."
Let's skip down a little bit.
Look at verse 13, "And he doeth great wonders,
so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth
in the sight of men."
And let me just interject here quickly,
just to give you just a fun fact.
And that is, during this time, according to the Bible,
there will be two witnesses from the Old Testament
that are brought back in real time
during this particular timeframe here.
And I believe it's referring to Elijah and Moses.
And according to the Book of Revelation,
they will also be performing supernatural miracles,
such as calling down fire from heaven.
They're able to actually breathe fire
and consume anyone who tries to stop them
as they're preaching.
They're able to stop the rain
and turn the water into blood.
You know, just things like that, you know.
Just kind of create chaos in this world.
So it's no wonder that the Antichrist
and his false prophet will also seek to do the same.
Because now you have a competition
of who's the real one, you understand?
And so they are this pseudo two witnesses,
and then you have Elijah and Moses
as being the legitimate witnesses,
and they're both performing these exploits.
You say, well, how are people going to know
which one is not?
Well, do you remember when Moses and Aaron went before Pharaoh
and Pharaoh pulled out his magicians,
which the New Testament refers to as Janus and Jambres?
They were able to copy some of the miracles,
but they were only able to go so far
to the point where they ended up saying,
this is the finger of God.
And so the same will take place in the end times,
outside of the scope of the sermon, but food for thought.
Look at verse number 14.
It says, "And deceiveeth them that dwell in the earth
by means of those miracles,
which he had power to do in the sight of the beast,
saying to them that dwell in the earth,
that they should make an image to the beast,
which had the wound by a sword and did live."
Now this is important, because the miracles
that the false prophet is going to be able to perform,
they're real miracles.
Calling fire from heaven is like a real deal.
So why is that important?
Well, because you have Christians today that base
their beliefs off of signs and wonders.
Dreams. Why a dream?
What if you see something manifest
or something like that?
What the Bible teaches us is that we need to
base our beliefs off of the Bible.
Because at the end of the day, even if there's like a
legitimate supernatural occurrence,
but it has a message contrary
to the Bible, then we reject
that and go with what the Bible says.
We walk by faith and not by sight. And the Bible
says that a wicked, listen to this,
a wicked and adulterous generation
seeketh after a sign.
That's what Jesus said. Like if you're looking
for a specific miracle,
a supernatural occurrence,
to validate your beliefs,
Jesus said you are that wicked and
adulterous generation. You're that sensual
generation, okay? And that
needs to be repeated because sometimes people put
too much faith in their dreams. When in actuality
you just had too many onions on your burger
the night before. You had Taco Bell
the night before.
You know, and then you're just like
having all these, you know,
fever dreams or whatever.
You know, certain foods can just give you weird dreams.
But you know, people base off,
you know, base their beliefs,
base what decisions to make.
You know, "Hey, I dreamt about you. Be careful driving today."
or something, you know.
I feel like someone was going to happen to you.
I mean, dreams are dreams. They're just, you know, your brain
going through files
and such, you know.
You know, why don't you stop watching,
you know, forensic files before you go to sleep
and shows about
people getting murdered and maybe you won't have
those dreams or something, you know.
What I'm saying is that, you know, if you have people today
their faith or their decisions off of
signs and wonders, how much more when the
sign and wonder is just right
before your eyes, you know, they're going to
buy into a hook, line and sinker because it's very
convincing, okay.
And that's why it says that if it were
possible, he's going to be able to deceive
the very elect. It's not saying that he will, it's just
if it were possible because the deception
will be so strong. So he
creates this image of the beast known as
the abomination of desolation
and verse 15 it says, "And he had power to give life
unto the image of the beast, that the image
of the beast should both speak and cause
that as many as would not worship the image
of the beast should be killed," the Bible
says. So this image is set up
and this is going to be in Jerusalem
because that is the headquarters of the
Antichrist because the Antichrist will be
a Jew. I hate to break it to you, some of you
Zionists out there, but that's what the Bible,
you know, they're still waiting for their Messiah.
He's not going to be an Islamist or
something or a Muslim. Muslims didn't even exist during
this time, you know, and if he's claiming
to be the Christ, he's called the Antichrist.
He's not called the Anti-Imam,
called the Antichrist.
Okay. And so he creates this image.
He wants people to worship it.
So what does the Mark of the Beast represent?
It represents that one world currency.
It represents the fact that they have to worship
an image in order to get it.
But let me also say this, it represents a seal
of eternal damnation.
Meaning any person who gets the mark
during that time, they're toast, they're done.
They can no longer be saved thereafter.
And you say, well, can Christians,
because this is the most common question
that people ask, okay, can Christians
take the mark of the beast? And the answer is
absolutely not. If they're saved.
And if you believe on the Lord Jesus
Christ, you're saved. And you're saved
eternally. Because aside from the fact that
salvation is a gift, guess what? It's also eternal.
Meaning you can never lose your
salvation for any reason whatsoever.
And in fact, Jesus literally said,
"I will in no wise
cast out." It's not a phrase
that we would commonly use today, but no wise
means for any reason whatsoever.
Okay? And it's eternal. You know, eternal
means it has no end. It's a gift, meaning
you don't have to pay for it. And the Bible tells us
in whom ye also trusted, after that
ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation,
in whom also after that ye
believed, ye were sealed
with the Holy Spirit of promise,
which is the earnest of our inheritance, until the redemption
of the purchased possession, until the
praise of his glory. Meaning that once you get saved,
the Holy Spirit comes to live within you, and he stays
within you. He is sealed, and in fact it
says unto the day of redemption.
It doesn't say unto the day of damnation,
or unto the day that you lose your salvation,
or unto the day you disobey God,
or unto the day you no longer walk with God.
It says unto the day of redemption, meaning
he is with you to the very end.
And the Bible says in Romans 8 that nothing
can separate us from the love of God.
He says, "nor things present," listen to this,
"nor things to come."
So whatever future sins you commit, not even
the future sins you can commit, can keep you
from the love of God because He'll love you
with an everlasting love, the Bible says.
You can't lose it for any reason.
However, you know, there's people
that when this comes they're not saved
and maybe they think that they're Christians
but they bought into a false gospel.
They're going to take the mark of the beast.
Why? Because they don't know their Bibles,
they don't even know that they're saved
and they will be deceived. So the mark of the beast
actually represents damnation
because as I said before, the
Antichrist is seeking to copy what Jesus
Christ does. What does Jesus Christ do?
Well, if you are hungry,
eat of the bread of life, right?
If you're thirsty, drink
of the cup of water representing what?
Salvation, believing on Jesus. Well,
no man might buy or sell save he that had
the mark. And once you believe on Jesus Christ,
you're sealed, just as once you
take the mark of the beast, because you
believe on the Antichrist, you're sealed.
You're sealed unto damnation, okay?
Now go back to 2 Thessalonians,
I should have had you stayed there, but go back to
2 Thessalonians 2, verse 8.
It's good stuff this morning, right? Are you learning something?
Are you learning something? Look at verse 8
of 2 Thessalonians chapter 2.
It says, "And then shall that wicked
be revealed," capital W referring to
the Antichrist, "whom the Lord shall
consume with the spirit of his mouth, and he shall
destroy with the brightness of his coming." This is
referring to the end of his reign
at the battle of Armageddon. This is how Jesus
Christ destroys the Antichrist. Verse
9 says, "Even him, whose coming
is after the working of Satan, the
dragon, which gave him his power, with all
power and signs and lying wonders,
and with all deceivableness
of unrighteousness, and then that perish,
because they received not the love of the
truth, that they might be saved.
And for this cause, God shall send
them strong delusion
that they should believe a lie,
that they all might be damned
who believe not the truth,
but have pleasure in
unrighteousness," the Bible says.
So the Bible tells us that the reason
why people will worship
the Antichrist is because
God allows them to have that strong
delusion that He is God.
So a lot of people in this world during this time
will be damned to hell via
the Mark of the Beast.
Go to Revelation, go back to Revelation
if you would, and go to Revelation chapter 14.
Revelation chapter 14.
So people are thinking, "Well, the Mark of the Beast
is so I can eat and so I can drink."
Yeah, you'll drink of the cup of the wrath
of God is what you're going to drink.
Verse 9 of Revelation 14.
Let me give you another interjection here.
And that is that hell is not a separation from God.
So how do you know?
Because here it says that people are being tormented
before the presence of the Lamb.
Because the omnipresence of God is everywhere.
He can see people in hell.
If you make your bed in hell, He's there.
If you ascend up into heaven, He is there.
No one can really run from the Spirit of God.
He sees all things at all times.
It says in verse 11, "And the smoke of their torment
ascendeth up forever and ever."
Let me do another interjection here.
And that is that this teaching of
annihilationism is a false doctrine.
This teaching that says, "Well, once you die,
you just burn up and cease to exist."
No, it says here that they're
tormented forever and ever.
It doesn't sound like you just black out
and no longer exist. It says the smoke
of your torment, you're just like
a slow cooker.
It's like God smoking meat is what he's doing
because the smoke of their torment
ascendeth up forever and ever. And look what it says,
"And they have no rest day or night."
So when does this blackout happen,
you know? "Who worship the beast
and his image, and whosoever receiveth
the mark of his name."
Go to Revelation 16, Revelation
16 if you would, Revelation chapter
16, and look at verse number one.
It says, "And I heard a great voice
out of the temple, saying to the seven angels,
'Go your ways, and pour out the vials
of the wrath of God upon the earth.'
And the first went and poured out his vial upon the earth,
and there fell a noisome and
grievous sore upon the man
which had the mark of the beast,
and upon them which worshiped
his image. The point that I'm making here
is that God's wrath is
directed towards those
who have the mark of the beast.
And if you get nothing, get this,
you can rest your head on your
pillow tonight with comfort
knowing that if this happens in our lifetime
you're not going to fall prey to this.
If you're saved. But if you're not saved
get saved today so that
if it does happen in our lifetime
you're not falling prey to the
deception of Satan. You say, well
explain to us then why is it
that they're implementing this. Well I mentioned that
it is for a one world currency.
It is given to those who worship the beast.
It's given to damn people
eternally once they take it.
But here is the primary reason why
the Antichrist institutes
the mark of the beast. And this is very
important and applies to you
and to me if it happens in our lifetime.
It's primary objective
is to find Christians
so that they can be executed.
That is the main reason
why the mark of the beast
is being instituted. It's not to feed the poor.
It's not to give you convenience.
Why? Because the Bible says that he goes to make
war with the saints
and to overcome them. And if Christians
are a minority in this
world, he has to construe
some way, some plan to
find them. How is he going to find them?
Via the mark of the beast because only
those who worship the beast can take it.
Therefore those who cannot take it
because they worship the Lord Jesus Christ
can be easily weeded out.
Now go to Revelation 6 and I'm pretty much
done here. Go to Revelation 6
because this is important to note
that the transitional period
between the 7th and 8th
Empire in context of
the mark of the beast, you've got to
wonder how is it that he just introduces
this and just creates
this one world currency. There's a lot
of currencies out in the world that are pretty popular.
I mean the dollar is pretty popular, so is the euro.
I think it's over like 20 countries or something like that.
But this is like over all nations
and tongues. So how does he
do that quote unquote overnight?
Is the question, right? Well, it's
commenced under the cloak of the solution
to the beginning of sorrows.
So what are you referring to? Well, look at
verse number one of Revelation 6. This is
what's commonly referred to as the four horsemen
of the apocalypse.
The first four seals, he says, I saw when
the lamb opened one of the seals and I heard
as it were the noise of thunder and
one of the four beasts saying come and see
and I saw behold a white horse and
he that sat on him had a bow and a crown
was given unto him and he went forth conquering and to conquer.
This is the Antichrist. How do we know that?
Because he's imitating Jesus Christ
who also comes on a white horse in Revelation
19. He says in verse 3 and when he had
opened the second seal I heard the second beast say come and see
and there went out another horse that
was red and power was given to him
that sat there on to take peace from the earth
and that they should kill one another and
there was given unto him a great sword. This is referring to
wars and rumors of wars. Verse 5 says
and when he had opened the third seal
I heard the third beast say come and see and I beheld
a little black horse and he that sat on
him had a pair of balances in his
hand and I heard a voice in the midst of the four
beast say a measure of wheat for
a penny and three measures of barley
for a penny and see thou hurt
not the oil and the wine.
This is referring to pestilence
and famine. So if you have
pestilence and famine which is
a result of the
wars and rumors of wars
you have this global crisis
of people not eating, inflation
goes up because it says there
that a measure of wheat
is for a penny and three measures of barley for
a penny and see thou hurt not the oil
and the wine is referring to just an increase of
inflation to the point where people can't
afford just the basics of their necessities.
Because of the wars,
the famines, pestilences,
things of that nature.
So this is actually taking place for about
three and a half years. You can destroy
an economy like that in three and a half years.
And let's just say
like a famine can just do that in three and a half years.
How about you add to that disease?
You add to that war
which adds more disease.
So you have all of these
catastrophic events
taking place within a span of three and a half years.
The world is just in
shambles. It's in disarray.
So then, what
does the Antichrist do? He uses
the first four seals as a
springboard to introduce
the New World Order.
And this is something what leaders do,
world leaders do, is that they create
the problem so they can bring the solution.
They create
the famine to create the
food. They create the
disease to bring you the vaccine.
They're the ones who are constructing
the problem
so that they say, "Hey, don't worry.
We got you." You know what?
The economy is completely destroyed.
All the economies of the world are destroyed.
Everything is in disarray, but you know what?
We're going to hit a reset button. The great reset
is going to be instituted
and we're going to start from the ground up.
And you know what? We got you
Amazon One.
By the way, why is it called Amazon One?
Amazon One World Order?
So you have this
being instituted under the cloak
of a crisis. Well, then
people, of course, are going to want to receive it.
They're starving. They're hungry.
Their homes are destroyed.
There's disease. There's pestilence.
People do some of the craziest stuff
when they're going through a financial
and health crisis. And you know what?
It should come as no surprise that the government would do that
to you because just think about COVID. Think about 9/11.
What the government did during 9/11.
Look at everything that changed after 9/11.
Look at everything that changed after COVID.
So it should come as no surprise that
when these things take place,
the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, it's
just right picking for the Antichrist to introduce
his system. You understand what I'm saying?
So then this crusade is carried out
between the Fourth and
Fifth Seal, because the Fourth Seal is death,
but then in the Fifth Seal, all of a sudden
Christians are in heaven because they've been killed.
It's like, whoa, hold on a second, we're missing
something here. How did he go from
wars, famines, pestilences,
and now Christians are just
being killed? How is that? Well, between the
Fourth and the Fifth Seal is where
the Mark of the Beast is introduced,
it's instituted, and then Christians
are being killed and being put to death.
Okay? Now, here's the last thing
I want to mention, and that is
that, you know, what we see here
is an institution of that one world currency,
and, you know, people often focus
on the wrong thing when it comes to the Mark of the Beast.
Because their focus is, oh,
they're trying to control what we're doing right now.
Oh, what they're trying to do is just create
a one world system. No, actually what they're trying
to do is create a system that can
weed out believers. Because the greatest
enemy of Satan, the greatest enemy of the
Antichrist, is not conservatives.
They're not Republicans.
They're not political leaders who claim to be Christian.
It's hard to break it to you. This is a
fundamental Baptist church, so this should be
a non-controversial thing to say.
You know what the greatest enemy is?
It's Christians. Because he goes to make war
with the saints, not war with the Republicans,
not war with the
conservatives, not war
with the libertarians. He's making
war with the saints. He literally
just wants to wipe out that small percentage
of the population from off the face of the planet
in the book of Revelation. And not for
political reasons either. It's for literally
being God's people.
Because he hates the Lord, he hates
the Lord Jesus Christ, he hates Christians.
And so, you know,
it's okay to see the
technology that's being put in place and view
what are the implications of
that, what are the consequences to it. But just
keep in mind that the reason all of this is
being put forth is so
Satan, the Antichrist,
can destroy the Kingdom of God
via destroying Christians.
And obviously not every Christian is going to die
during this time. A lot of them will die
and based upon
the Biblical evidence, the ones who are
going to die are the ones who are not ready.
The ones who will stay alive
and God will permit to stay alive are those who are serving
God. You're like, well,
what should we do? Should we vote in the right person
to protect us? No, get saved
and serve God. The greatest insurance
and repellent against the
works of evil is serving the Lord
Jesus Christ. Walking with God,
serving Christ, winning
souls to Christ, reading the
Bible, keeping spiritual
things as the primary
thing that you do in your life and let
all the other stuff be as dung to you because
it doesn't work. You know, people think, well,
we just got to vote in the right person. Folks, everyone's
going to vote in the Antichrist. What are you saying?
You think voting in the right person is going to
fix all of the problems of this world?
Read the book of Revelation. Politics will be against you.
And in fact, there will be a day, mark it down.
I might be dead by then, but mark it down.
There will be a day when Democrat and Republican will come together.
In fact, based upon what the Bible says.
I don't see that happening. I do because I've read the Bible.
And here's the thing. Let me just remind you,
and I'll finish with this. Think about how they
describe these two parties. A left wing and a right wing.
Both part of the same animal, though.
You said what animal? The dragon. Let's pray.
Father, we thank you so much for your word.
And thank you for the warnings of the Bible.
We're so thankful for salvation.
Because of the fact that it does so much for us in the sense of it gives us eternal life.
It brings us joy, Lord. It gives us purpose to our life.
But really it also safeguards us from just the deceptions of this world.
It gives us an opportunity to be able to read the Bible and understand it.
The deep truths thereof, Lord.
I pray God that you'd bless us and help us to continue to study the word of God.
And never have the spirit of fear upon us, Lord.
But rather, may we be vigilant.
May we be awake spiritually to the Bible, to prayer, to the service of God.
And help us to be bold, Lord.
And whether it happens in our lifetime or not.
Lord, may we continue to serve you all the days of our life.
Whether it comes tomorrow, whether it comes in three years or not.
Lord, may we continue to serve you.
May our church honor you.
And may you bless us for it, Lord.
We love you, we thank you, pray this in Jesus' name, amen.