- Good evening everyone, welcome to Steadfast Baptist Church.
You can all find your seats, we're going to get started.
Grab a hymnal and start off in song number 14,
kneel at the cross, 14, the cross, four.
Great singing ever, go ahead and bow your heads
for the word of God.
Father, Lord, thank you for this day.
Thank you for bringing us all together.
Thank you for Pastor Shelley and his family.
God, we ask that you bless this service.
Fill Pastor Shelley with your Holy Spirit.
Bring us all into an edifying spirit, Lord God,
in Jesus' name I pray.
Next up, we're gonna do song number 19, page is over.
There is a, song number 19, there is a fountain.
So if you're coming to St. Vas Baptist Church,
if you didn't already get a bulletin,
slip to your hand real quick,
bishops can come by and get you guys a bulletin.
The front, we have our Bible memory passage,
working on Proverbs 31, we're on verse 21.
The inside, we have our service and soul winning times,
our church stats.
On the right, we have the list of expecting ladies,
as well as our prayer list.
And so, we like to go over that.
On Wednesday nights, we're continuing to pray
for Brother Hall for his leg, Ms. Negera for her health.
We've been praying for the Cooley stepdad.
There's a cancer surgery,
and I don't know exactly how that went.
We need to follow up.
But so, we're praying for Brother Oz, his brother.
We've been praying for the name's grandmother.
We're praying for the Carlson's mother, Rebecca's health.
Ms. Faith also has a friend,
Kamra, who we've been praying for her cancer treatment.
Praying for the Spurgeon's dad, his health.
For the Nichols job, for the Weathers.
Ms. Emma, I think that she's here in the flesh.
So, praise the Lord for that, that's great.
And then also, we've been praying
for Ms. Lori May's health as well.
So, we'll just say a quick word of prayer
for everyone that was listed here.
Thank you Heavenly Father so much for this church
and for all these ladies who are expecting.
I pray they be with them during their pregnancies.
Also, we have several family members
and friends who are suffering with illness.
I pray, if it's possible,
that you could just give them a speedy recovery.
Please just give them health.
I pray that while they're going through this difficulty,
you'd give them peace and comfort
through their pain and their suffering.
I pray that you'd also just help our church family
that needs a job or needs favor,
and that you'd also give us boldness
to give the gospel to our family and friends
that are needing it, those who we're praying for.
I pray you just soften their hearts,
and I pray that you just keep using this church,
and in Jesus' name we pray, amen.
On the back, upcoming events.
Our preaching class is Saturday at 2 p.m.,
and then there is a announcement about Verde Baptist Church,
one of our friends in Sacramento, California,
is having a youth rally.
It is geared for teenagers,
and we even have a poster that they graciously sent to us,
and we put it up on the wall in the hallway,
so if you want more details,
that's a great way to check it out.
And then also down below,
we have the congratulations to the Glosso family
on the birth of John Christian,
who was born on the 11th at 318 a.m.,
nine pounds, 14 ounces, and 21 inches long.
Congratulations to them.
That's great, and thank you so much
to all of you celebrating Valentine's with us today,
'cause Revelation 13 is definitely all about Valentine's.
So, we'll go ahead and sing Psalm 146.
Psalm 146.
All right, Psalm 146 in your white handouts.
Singing at this time,
while the offering plates are being passed around,
please turn in your Bibles to Revelation 13,
Revelation chapter 13.
- Revelation chapter 13.
We'll read the entire chapter,
as is our custom starting in verse one.
The Bible reads,
and I stood upon the sand of the sea
and saw a beast rise up out of the sea,
having seven heads and ten horns,
and upon his horns ten crowns,
and upon his heads 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 seed and great authority.
And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death,
and his deadly wound was healed,
and all the world wandered after the beast.
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?
And there was given unto him a mouth
speaking great things and 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 in them that dwell in heaven.
And it was given unto him to make war with the saints and to overcome them,
and power was given him over all kindreds and tongues and nations.
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.
If any man have an ear, let him hear.
He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity;
he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword.
Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.
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.
And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him,
and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein
to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire
come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,
and deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles
which he had power to do in the sight of the beast,
saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast,
which had the wound by a sword and did live.
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.
And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond,
to receive a mark in their right hand or in their foreheads,
and that no man might buy or sell save he that had the mark,
or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Here is wisdom, let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast,
for it is the number of a man, and his number is six hundred three score and six.
Let's pray. Father in heaven, we thank you for Revelation chapter 13, and I pray Lord
that you would prepare us for what is to come in the end times, and that you would just
enable us Lord to pay close attention to the preaching tonight, so that we can be equipped
Lord to face that which is coming in the future.
We love you in Jesus name I pray, amen.
Amen. We're here in Revelation chapter 13, and the previous chapter was a lot of symbolism
talking about the dragon and talking about his war with the woman.
And the previous chapter I explained how I believe that the woman represents mankind
as a whole.
And the Bible is really explicit that the red dragon is the devil.
He's described as Satan, the devil, many different descriptors.
And the Bible makes it clear that the devil does not succeed in killing the woman and
destroying the woman so at some point he decides to make war with the remnant of her seed,
which the Bible describes.
And that's what it said in verse 17 and chapter 12, just that previous verse, it had talked
about how the dragon was wroth and he's going to make war with the remnant of her seed.
And then specifically it tells us who that is.
It's those who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
Now to be saved all you have to do is have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
The Bible's really clear those who overcome are those who believe in Jesus Christ.
But let's also be real, who are the people that do keep the commandments?
It's the people who are saved, right?
So when it is talking about the group of people on the earth that actually do keep the commandments
of Jesus Christ and actually care what the Bible says, it's of course going to come from
those who are the saved, those who are the Christians, those who are the believers.
This is kind of, you know, mimicked in Matthew 25 when the Bible kind of elaborates on how
Jesus Christ looks at a lot of people and they were the ones who visited people in prison
and gave drinks of water and clothed people and he's like, "Who did that, you know, unto
you?"
And he's like, "Well, you've done it on the least of these, my brethren.
You've done it unto me."
And those are the people that go to heaven and the people that never did it, they go
to hell.
Some people would misunderstand that to say, "Oh, you have to do works to be saved."
No, it's just the people that are saved are the ones that end up doing the works, okay?
So the ones that were actually saved are typically and really the ones who follow God's commandments
and do the works of Jesus Christ.
Of course, our church teaches and we emphasize when we give the gospel that you could technically
do nothing and still make it to heaven, but that's not our recommendation plan.
That's not what we really advertise as something as a good option, and I don't really know
anybody that's like that.
Of course, I've given the gospel to people and I don't know where they're at today.
I don't know what they're doing for God, but the vast majority of people that I know that
are saved are doing something for God, are trying to follow His commandments, and those
are the people that the devil's targeting and wants to destroy and wants to kill are
those who have that testimony.
Those are the ones who keep the commandments of God.
Look at verse 1, "And I stood upon the sand of the sea and saw a beast rise up out of
the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his
heads the name of blasphemy."
Now, we've been talking about a few different characters.
We have the woman, which is mankind.
Then we have the remnant of her seed, which is believers.
Then we have the red dragon, which is the devil.
Now the Bible's introducing us to another creature, a beast.
The Bible describes this beast as having seven heads and ten horns.
This is what's really interesting.
It says the name of blasphemy.
That's not necessarily clear exactly what that name is, but to me, it indicates that
it would be a name of God.
Now, of course, God has a lot of names, so I wouldn't necessarily know exactly how to
narrow that down, but to me, for it to be described as a name of blasphemy, then it
would need to be a real name of God.
Because when we think about it, if someone said, "Hey, you just blasphemed," what does
it even mean to blaspheme?
It means to use God's name in vain, right?
If someone were to say, use the word God or use the word Jesus Christ in a derogatory
manner to kind of use their name to express an expletive or anger or wrath or just to
use it in a profane manner, we call that blasphemy.
But you know, we don't really call it blasphemy if you use Joe Biden's name.
If you say, "Let's go, Brandon," that's not blaspheming.
I know there's a lot of people online that think that that's somehow blasphemy, but you
know it's not blasphemy to use Joe Biden's name as a cuss word, okay?
Or to use Allah or something else, you know, it's not necessarily blaspheming to use a
false God or Joe Biden or whatever, that's not blasphemy.
You know, some people still get offended by that and that's a different sermon for a different
day.
But when we talk about blasphemy itself, we're talking about using God's name in vain.
We're talking about profaning the name of the Lord.
Which what would be blasphemous when someone takes a title or a name of God and applies
it to themselves?
This is really common in the Catholic Church, where they take on the name Father.
And Jesus Christ made it abundantly clear that you're not supposed to call any man Father.
You have one Father which is in heaven, that's God the Father, the Heavenly Father, and that's
His title.
So for someone to take upon a title of God to themselves would be a form of blasphemy.
So I believe when it's talking about this beast, this beast is going to attribute to
himself a name of God.
And it makes sense because when you think about it, even the devil himself kind of has
this attitude.
In Isaiah chapter 14, verse 14, the Bible says that the devil wants to be like the most
high.
So everything about the devil is trying to mimic or imitate God, and of course he would
love to have God's names because God, in my estimation, probably the most similar word
to understand this would be the word ruler.
The word God in essence kind of means ruler, and the Bible talks about God being the God
of gods.
So if you're the most high, if you're the king of kings, if you're the God of gods,
of course the devil would love to have that title of what?
God, because it signifies being the ultimate leader, the ultimate ruler, the one that has
supreme authority.
That is a title that the devil would love to hold upon himself.
And of course his minion, the Antichrist, which is really being described here, is going
to attribute that title unto himself.
And what's really interesting about this chapter is since we kind of see the devil trying
to emulate God and trying to be like God, in this chapter we kind of have a fake trinity.
And it's really interesting how you kind of have a fake trinity in the Bible where you
have the red dragon and then you have another beast which is the Antichrist.
And when you kind of think about it, the dragon or the devil is not something that we really
see.
It's not someone that we really experience.
He's kind of in that spirit realm.
Whereas the Antichrist, the beast, is a man.
And he will be experienced and seen.
And that kind of is similar to how we have God the Father in the spirit realm, in heaven,
someone that we don't necessarily, we can't really see with our eyes and he's invisible
in a sense.
And then we have Jesus Christ who was the man and he was on earth.
And of course Jesus Christ was God.
And so this antichrist wants to be God.
The devil is going to want to be God.
And so they're trying to kind of emulate who God is through this fake trinity where you
have the red dragon, you have the antichrist and later we're going to talk about the false
prophet.
So you have this unholy trinity.
You have these three who are just kind of mimicking, you know, the Father, Son and Holy
Spirit and their attempt to ultimately just blaspheme the God of the Bible.
Now, if we keep reading, it says in verse 2, "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 we see that this particular beast is given a couple descriptions here, leopard, bear,
lion.
This is very symbolic and it's kind of referenced from Daniel chapter number seven.
So keep your finger, let's go to Daniel chapter seven for just a moment and let's just kind
of compare and look at a few verses here.
But also what's noted is that this particular beast gets his power, seat, and authority
from the dragon, which is a couple things that are interesting.
If the devil is kind of mocking, you know, the real Trinity and the real God of the Bible,
it's the father who gave the son his, what, power, seat, and authority.
So in a similar way, the devil's kind of still doing the same thing with his antichrist.
And of course, it makes sense, he's trying to mimic what?
Christ.
He's antichrist.
He's in place of Christ.
So he's trying to be the real Christ even though he's the fake Christ.
So a lot of the things that actually happened with Jesus are probably going to be mirrored
and copied with this antichrist.
You know the Bible talks about in the book of Daniel how the antichrist is not going
to have a desire for women.
So that makes sense considering the fact that Jesus Christ wasn't dating, he didn't get
a wife.
I know a lot of liars would like to say it was Mary Magdalene or something like that,
but that's a lie.
Okay, Jesus didn't have a romantic or an intimate relationship while on this earth.
He was celibate.
He was basically abstained from that particular aspect of life.
And so similarly, I believe the Antichrist will probably kind of share in that type of
a lifestyle where he's not pursuing any kind of a relationship.
He's not pursuing women.
He's not getting married.
So anytime someone brings up an Antichrist figure to me that's married or has been with
a lot of women, I'm just saying, "Sorry, it's not that guy."
Because the Bible describes an Antichrist as being someone who does not desire women.
And of course, it wouldn't really fit the model of kind of mimicking and trying to copy
Jesus and what he was like.
So of course, not everything is going to be the exact same.
Jesus Christ came as a lowly servant and was basically a blessing and preached the truth,
whereas the son of perdition is going to come as a great warrior and essentially conquer
the earth.
And so there is going to be some stark contrast between the two, but at the same time, there's
going to be a little bit of a deceit from the devil trying to mimic some of the aspects
of who Jesus Christ is.
Now in Daniel chapter seven, it's interesting because if you think about it, in Daniel,
it's 12 chapters and the first six are kind of very similar.
They're kind of like a story and they just have a particular flow to them.
They seem more historical.
And then right in the midpoint of Daniel, it switches and it becomes like really symbolic.
And then you get all these different visions.
And it's kind of interesting how like we're in the book of Revelation and the first half
is basically a particular style.
And then right in the middle, it switches to a bunch of symbolism again.
And that symbolism seems to kind of match, like Daniel seven kind of matches with Daniel
chapter number 12 and 13, how they kind of have the same type of aspects and the really
parallel passages in a lot of way, bringing up the same events.
So that's kind of interesting how they're laid out in a very similar fashion.
Now in Daniel chapter seven, verse 19, the Bible says, "Then I would know the truth of
the fourth beast, which was diverse from all the others exceeding dreadful, whose teeth
were of iron, and his nails of brass which devoured, break in pieces and stamp the residue
with his feet, and of the ten horns that were in his head, and of the other which came up,
and before whom three fell, even of that horn that had eyes and a mouth that spake very
great things, whose look was more stout than his fellows."
So this first portion is reminiscent of what we read in verse number one, where it talks
about essentially those ten horns, and you have, again, it's giving a little more description
here, but it talks about an additional horn, and of this additional horn, notice it says
it spake very great things, meaning it's, you know, the word great just could simply
mean very lofty, very high.
So what I believe is being mentioned here is that name of blasphemy, where he's essentially
speaking great things in the sense that I am God or I am the most high or I'm the Lord
Almighty or I'm Jehovah or some, some form of just basically taking upon himself the
name of God.
You know, like Stephen Furtick who literally preached and said that he's God Almighty.
So you know, that's a, that's a form of blasphemy when someone says that.
And especially if they're being serious, especially if they're really trying to present themselves
as God on earth or something, that is a bizarre thing.
If you, if you skip down to verse 23, it says, "Thus he said the fourth beast shall be the
fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms and shall devour
the whole earth and shall tread it down and break it in pieces.
And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise and another shall
rise after them.
And he shall be diverse from the first and he shall subdue three kings.
And he shall speak great words against the most high and shall wear out the saints of
the most high and think to change times and laws and they shall be given into his hand
until a time and times and the dividing of time.
So when we talk about this particular beast and these ten horns, the Bible gives us a
lot of information about this.
It tells us that there are actually ten kings.
And so in the end times there is going to be ten kings that are essentially going to
give their power unto this anti-Christ beast and he's that little horn.
And that little horn is going to eventually declare himself God.
In the process of him conquering the world and essentially setting himself up as a one
world ruler, he's apparently going to subdue three of these particular kings.
We don't know exactly what that looks like or what that means.
But also once he comes into full power, once he comes into essentially a worldwide domination,
essentially he has the entire world conquered, he's going to have that for, according to
the text, a time and times and the dividing of time.
So essentially he has a throne in a sense for three and a half years.
I believe what it's trying to allude to is the idea of you have the whore that the beast
is associated with.
And whatever kingdom that's ruling the world at that particular time is where this antichrist
is going to come from.
And I believe that if it was to happen in our lifetime, it's very likely it's America.
And just to give you some kind of an idea to understand these concepts better.
So just assuming it was America that is potentially the nation that rules over all the other nations,
someone is going to basically become a military leader of that particular country and is going
to go forth and conquer for about three and a half years approximately.
And in this three and a half years, he's going to literally conquer the world is what the
text is saying.
At some point in the middle of this particular series of conquering, he's going to have
conquered everything, but he's going to then die.
He's going to be killed with a deadly wound.
The Bible says a sword.
Then once he comes back to life after three days, he's then going to declare himself
God.
Well, at that point, I believe the transition is made that he's no longer just a general
or the president or something of this particular nation.
Now he's basically, I'm the king and I'm not even just the king of this nation.
I'm the king of every nation that I've just conquered, I am the king of the world.
And so you kind of get what's described as the kingdom of the beast.
And his kingdom is a kingdom that lasts 42 months.
So that first three and a half years doesn't really count as him being the dominant leader
because he's just going and conquering and doing the work.
And it's basically now it's set up and now he's ruling.
Now he's the king.
Now the authority is given unto him and he's basically in charge.
And in some way, those other ten kings, the Bible kind of describes them as maybe not
even really being kings.
They like become kings through this particular situation.
But three of them kind of lose out on the deal or die or something happens.
So this is kind of what's being described.
I think it's really interesting too, if you think about it, we're in the middle or just
a little bit past the middle of the book of Daniel.
Book of Revelation, we're at the middle or just a little bit past the middle of the book
of Revelation.
And then the events that we're talking about are right at the middle of Daniel's 70th week
or a little bit past.
So it's interesting how the events that we're really talking about fall exactly kind of
at the middle and a little past of the book of Daniel, a little of the middle of Revelation
and past of the book of Revelation.
And in the timeline that we're talking about, they fall right in the middle and then a little
bit past as far as what we're really talking about.
So that's really interesting.
Maybe it helps you.
I don't think that was an accident, but even if it was, that might just help you remember
some of these timelines about how they kind of just fit with the text.
Now go to Revelation chapter 17, go to Revelation chapter 17.
Of course, in the book of Daniel, there's a lot of dual fulfillment.
So a lot of the things in the book of Daniel also perhaps pertain to 70 AD and other things.
But it's very clear that much of Daniel is also dealing with the future coming anti-Christ
and these 10 kings and particularly this little horn that's going to speak the ultimate blasphemies.
Jesus Christ alluded to this in Matthew 24, the abomination of desolation, where essentially
it's going to stand in the holy place saying that it's God.
What's kind of also interesting though is it says that he has the name of blasphemy,
but then we're going to read here in a minute where it talks about how he also blasphemes
God.
So, you know, I don't know exactly how to interpret that, but this is just, this is
my opinion, is that most likely he will take upon himself some title of God, maybe even
a couple titles of God, but he might also then disparage a couple titles of God.
So perhaps he will take upon himself like the name of God or God Almighty or Jehovah,
but maybe he'll disparage the name of Jesus, like he'll basically attack the name of Jesus
specifically because he is ultimately the Antichrist, okay?
And if you think about it, what is that spirit of the Jew, that spirit of the Antichrist?
They hate the name of Jesus.
Now they embrace God, they embrace Jehovah, they embrace Elohim, they embrace God Almighty,
they embrace many titles and many names of God, but you know what they really despise
is the name of Jesus Christ.
And that's also a name of God, okay?
And so, you know, they probably, most likely, this is my interpretation, my opinion, is
that this Antichrist figure will probably embrace, you know, a lot of these names of God, but
will reject the name of Jesus Christ.
I could be wrong on that, that's just kind of my way of trying to understand those verses
or kind of make them make sense, but that's just one possibility.
The Bible says in Revelation 17 verse 7, "And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou
marvel?
I will tell thee the mystery of the woman and of the beast that carrieth her, which
hath the seven heads and ten horns."
So again, there's this beast that has what?
The seven heads and ten horns, as we've been talking about, "The beast that thou sawest
was and is not, and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit and go into perdition.
And they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of
life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not,
and yet is."
Now that's really interesting language.
And the Bible's talking about this particular beast at some point will die.
That's where you're getting this context of the beast that was and is not, but notice
this "and yet is" somehow.
So it's like, this guy was alive, then he died, went to hell, and then he somehow is
yet still here.
And that's similar language about how Jesus Christ describes himself, who was and is and
is to come.
The Almighty, Jesus Christ says in Revelation 118, the Bible says, "I am he that liveth
and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore."
So Jesus Christ, at some point, was dead.
At some point, the antichrist is not, also alluding the idea of being dead.
Both were in hell, you know, and that's consistent.
When someone is, quote, "dead," their location is hell.
Now, of course, there is multiple applications of the word dead.
The Bible says that the body is, without the spirit, is dead.
So, of course, in a sense, Lazarus was dead, and in another sense, Lazarus was sleeping.
Why?
Because Lazarus was in heaven, okay?
There's a sense where Abraham's dead, but there's also a sense that Abraham's alive
because Abraham's in heaven, so he's never died.
There's a sense where we're all going to shed this physical body, but we're never going
to taste of death, okay?
But then the people that you just are dead, and then you're just saying, like, they have
the state of being of being dead, many times is alluding to just those who are in hell
specifically, okay?
And really, I think there's only three, there's only three people that get out of hell.
Jesus Christ, the son of perdition, the antichrist, and the devil.
Those are the only three, maybe someone could correct me, but those are the only three that
I notice that ever come out of hell.
Everyone else is locked in until the great white throne judgment, okay?
So somehow by some miracle, you know, the Lord Jesus Christ rose again from the dead.
We have this antichrist is allowed to ascend out of the bottomless pit.
That's what it says here in verse eight.
And then also at some point, the devil's loosed out of hell.
This is after the millennial rain.
This is when he comes and deceives the nations for the battle of Gog and Magog.
Okay.
So those are the only three that I am aware of.
And according to the text, it says in verse number nine, and here's the mind which hath
wisdom the seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sitteth.
And there are seven kings, five are fallen, one is and the other is not yet come.
And when he cometh, he must continue a short space.
So you know, there's a lot here and you know, some of this is kind of a, you can't really
learn it all in 50 minutes or an hour and a half or anything like that.
But just to give you just some really my opinions on these topics without going too deep, I
believe that the seven kings represent seven kingdoms and there really was a king to attach
to these particular kingdoms, but it's basically the seven major worldwide kingdoms that are
mentioned in the scripture.
You have the Assyrian kingdom, you have the Egyptian kingdom, then essentially you kind
of get into Daniel's four kingdoms that he mentions, where you have the Babylonian or
Chaldean, however you want to word that.
Then you have the Medo-Persian, then you have the Grecian, then you have the Roman, okay?
If we think about it, that would be five, Rome would be the one that is, and then there's
one that's yet to come.
That would be the seventh, okay?
That's what I believe that the text is alluding to here.
And again, it's also saying when that seven comes, it's a short time, which is because
it's only 42 months.
But a lot of these other kingdoms were long, long periods of time, decades and hundreds
of years even.
I mean, the Roman Empire was a long time.
The Greek Empire was a long time.
These things weren't just 42 months or something.
So in comparison to these other worldwide kingdoms, he's saying this other one's basically
just like a blip on the radar.
It's super short period of time.
Reason why is because it's designed for one thing, killing all of humanity, and it's really
effective at it.
So God can't allow that system to just keep going forever.
It says in verse 11, "And the beast that was and is not, even he is the eighth and is
of the seven, and goeth into perdition."
Now again, I think what the Bible's alluding to here is the fact that the seventh is the
antichrist, but the eighth is the antichrist re- you know, brought to life with the devil
inhabiting it.
So that's where you kind of get the eighth, because the seventh is the eighth.
It's basically just kind of alluding to these differences.
So it's almost like America in charge as the seventh, and then the antichrist in charge
as the eighth, and he's of the seventh.
That's basically what it's trying to say there.
And we'll go into 17 in a little more detail when we actually get to it, but some of this
is really related.
It says in verse 12, "And the ten horns, which thou sawest with ten kings, which have received
no kingdom as yet, but received power as kings one hour with the beast.
These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast."
So again, what's kind of alluded here is how it's like ten maybe very powerful individuals,
but they're not a supreme leader or president of any country.
And maybe through the warfare of essentially the Antichrist is going to go through and
just conquer large sections of the earth, those places are going to be decimated, not
really having maybe even a formal government.
And what's going to happen is ten people are appointed.
So we appoint, you know, maybe he goes through Europe or something, I don't know.
So just large countries, maybe like Germany or Poland or some of these areas just get
just massacred again and they don't really have any kind of leadership.
And then he's just like appointing, hey, this person's the king of Germany now and this
person's whatever.
And it's basically just for one hour.
And then once all these people have been appointed and they're on the stage, they're saying,
you know what, we've all decided that we don't even want to be the king of this nation.
We're just going to actually let him be the leader of the whole world.
We've decided we're done with the nation's thing.
We're just literally.
So they like get appointed just for one hour, just to then give all their power back onto
this particular antichrist.
So you have kind of 10 figureheads, 10 puppets put in very short space, an hour.
I don't know if it's a literal hour or just kind of alluding to like a short period of
time, but essentially just a short period of time.
And then they all then give their power unto this particular figurehead, the antichrist.
It says these have one mind, yet there's still 10 persons, interesting, and shall give their
power and strength unto the beast.
These shall make war with the lamb and the lamb shall overcome them, for he is Lord of
lords and King of kings.
And they that are with him are called and chosen and faithful.
So I don't want to spend any more time in Revelation 17, go back to Revelation 13.
But I just wanted to show you some of the parallels here so we get a better idea of
what we're talking about when we talk about the ten horns, or we're talking about these
seven heads, and we're talking about this particular beast.
And this particular beast is the Antichrist as we know him.
And this Antichrist is going to die, come back to life, declare himself God, perform
the abomination of desolation, cause the daily sacrifice to cease, because he's saying
like I'm the real Messiah, and essentially is going to make war with the remnant of the
woman's seed, which is Christians.
Christians are going to be the main target at this particular time period.
Of course, why?
Because they, we love Jesus.
So that's again another reason why I kind of assume or believe that they're going to
probably hate the name of Jesus.
You know, we love the name of Jesus.
We love Jesus.
They're going to probably hate that name and say you got to accept this particular person.
Now, if we read in verse number three, it says this, "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."
So notice he somehow gets a wound to his head and then he is miraculously healed.
Verse four, "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?'"
So notice they're worshiping two different things.
They worshiped the dragon which gave power unto the beast and they worshiped the beast.
So really I would just say it seems like it's most likely just saying they're worshiping
the devil.
And that's not even that far-fetched considering the halftime show and the Grammys and everything
else going on in the world today.
I mean there is like almost just open satanic worship at this point in time.
It wouldn't even shock me or surprise me that at this point in time people are just openly
worshiping the devil, openly worshiping Satan, openly worshiping the dragon.
And you know is it going to be symbolic or is it going to be literal?
I don't know.
I think it's probably one of those though.
It's probably going to be like a literal image of a dragon and they're just worshiping the
dragon saying like hey this dragon's giving him power or they even know that this dragon
literally is Satan and they're just worshiping Satan and saying you know they're praising
him.
There's a lot of TV shows that have come out recently kind of making Satan seem like the
good guy.
Lucifer was a show that came on and then I think my wife showed me there was some like
trailer for some other TV show.
It's escaping me but it's like there's some new show where it's like Satan and Lilith
are like the good characters and it's like their love story to like save humanity or
something like that against the patriarchy I think is essentially like it's a really
it was a really bizarre trailer.
I can't remember where I saw it.
I don't really want to see it again but it was it was really bizarre but I'm just thinking
like man this world is just getting so much more satanic than I've ever seen in my life
for sure or has really even been described to me in the past hundred years or so it seems
like things are really escalating in just open worship of the devil which could be a
sign that we are drawing nearer to the end I don't know but it does appear that they're
worshiping the devil and the worshiping this antichrist and they kind of assume like well
how in the world could anybody defeat these people I mean if you can kill him and then
he comes back to life well what else you know uh oh it's like a real video game where you
have you know infinite lives or something they're they're really nervous now right
verse 5 and there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies notice
this from what we read in Daniel speaking great things and saying speaking great things
and blasphemies and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months so we see
that consistent timeline again the forty two months for the time times and dividing of
time verse 6 and he opened his mouth and blasphemy against God to blaspheme his name and his
tabernacle and them that dwell in heaven so in some ways he's going to speak negatively
about God but at the same time he has the name of blasphemy so that's why I was saying
like in my mind perhaps the reconciliation here is that he's attributing some titles
of God to himself but then maybe he's blaspheming Jesus or certain names of God and so that's
why there's kind of this distinction of him doing both verse 7 and it was given unto him
to make war with the saints and overcome them and power was given him over all kindreds
and tongues and nations 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 this is a very interesting verse and I want to spend a little bit of time on this
verse but first of all it does make it clear that the kingdom of this beast is a worldwide
kingdom now to what level everyone is subject or how excited everybody is is debatable when
we read verse eight I think there's a lot of ways this could be interpreted so I don't
want to get really dogmatic but I'll give you my opinion on this verse okay first of
all it's saying everybody's going to be worshipping but then it gives a qualifier whose names
are not written in the book of life of the lamb slain from the foundation of the world
now to me that qualifier makes it sound like for sure it's not saying every single person's
worshipping him first of all I would think it's immediately obvious that those of us
that are saved are not okay and again this is parallel with Daniel chapter number two
where you have the image set up in the plane of Dura that is to be worshipped and bowed
down to and Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego do not bow down under that statue and they're
even delivered from death they're delivered from destruction and Jesus Christ appears
with them to me that gives a symbol of what the rapture that gives me a symbol of the
rapture and Daniel 2 is definitely a picture of the end times notice the people that get
raptured saved and delivered are the ones that stood up for Christ are the ones that
stood up for God and actually stood against the Antichrist at that time so I believe that's
another parallel to the idea of you know let's not be cowards in the end times because yeah
some of us might die as martyrs and I don't want to say that that couldn't happen but
at the at the end of the day the people that get raptured are most likely the ones that
were brave and and stood up and were willing to you know still make a difference in the
end times but we kind of have this description here that's lengthy whose names are not written
in the book of life of the lamb slain from the foundation of the world now some people
make a big deal about this first of all you know I'm not going to establish my core doctrines
on prepositional phrases that could be interpreted multiple ways okay I'm going to base all my
clear doctrine on clear statements you know things that talk about how you can never lose
your salvation you know sometimes people take this passage and teach they can lose your
salvation or they teach Calvinism or they teach all kinds of weird stuff and it's like
this verse in context has nothing to do with people being saved going to heaven or teaching
Calvinism so like you know if we're going to establish doctrines we want to make sure
they're in a particular context you know when we're trying to study salvation you know John
chapter 3 is Jesus Christ explaining in the flesh to Nicodemus how someone can go to heaven
and enter the kingdom of heaven that seems like a pretty realistic passage to get doctrine
related to eternal life and how to go to heaven how to be saved you know when we look at Acts
chapter 16 you know there's a guy that's afraid of dying and going to hell and he's literally
begging to apostles to tell him how to be saved from going to hell that seems like good
passage to ask like how do we end up getting saved you know Romans chapter number 10 the
apostle Paul is trying to describe his desire for the children of Israel to get saved and
go to heaven and then he has this long dissertation on exactly how to get saved and what that
looks like and the process of calling upon the name of the Lord and having faith in your
heart that's a really good passage to get for salvation.
Revelation chapter 13 is not a great place to figure out how to go to heaven like if
you're just to take the general context it's like what is this mostly about it's mostly
about an antichrist killing Christians you know that that's the essence of this particular
chapter why in the world would I then take that to get doctrine on salvation right?
But this could be interpreted a couple ways let's just talk about how this verse or this
particular phrase could be interpreted it says whose names are not written in the book
of life so that's clear their names are not written in the book of life of the lamb slain
from the foundation of the world.
Now the question is this phrase from the foundation of the world is this being applied to the
idea of when they were written or is it being applied to the lamb slain and of course I
personally believe it is applying to the lamb slain but let's just for sake of argument
let's just say it was applying to the first part then that would just mean essentially
that there are certain people that are reprobate that God knew were going to be reprobate and
their names are just literally never written down if that was true that doesn't change
any doctrine that I have it still doesn't make me a Calvinist because I don't really
care I don't really care that Joe Biden's name was never written down potentially like
that doesn't really bother me and it wouldn't really bother me if it's like hey I just never
even wrote Judas's name down it's like okay does that what would that change even if that
was completely true like that wouldn't change now again that's not what my interpretation
of this passage is but I'm just saying even if it was it's still I have no problem with
that now let's say the flip side if it's saying that we're talking about the Lamb slain from
the foundation of the world that would mean that their their names are not written down
as of right now currently why are their names not written down because they've been blotted
out and the Bible mentions a couple different places where names can get blotted out now
I want to take a minute to focus on this for a second okay because it's not mentioned that
much we read it in verse in chapter 17 already too the exact same phrasing so let's go to
a couple other places in the Bible go to Revelation chapter 3 for a moment go to Revelation chapter
3 it's a Bible study so you know and this is something that gets brought up a lot you
know as kind of like this gotcha or people get confused on the book of life or false
teachers love to bring this up because it's not really clear and of course false teachers
always love to bring up things that are not really clear because then they can kind of
twist things to their own destruction but they twist things in the minds of all kinds
of people.
So when we talk about the book of life it's mentioned a lot of places.
Revelation chapter 3 look at verse number 5 the bible says this, "He that overcometh
the same shall be clothed in white raiment and I will not blot out his name out of the
book of life but I will confess his name before my father and before his angels."
Here's a proof text that you can never lose your salvation.
Hey when you start studying the book of life it actually makes it seem like you can't lose
your salvation since it's really clear that hey when you believe in Jesus Christ and you
get saved Jesus says I'll never blot your name out and it's really important that your
name is in there because when you go to Revelation chapter 21 which we'll get in a minute you
know the people that go to the lake of fire are the ones who are not written down okay
so it's really important to be written down okay written down in glory there's a song
about that all right go to Exodus 32 I just want to go to a lot of places here let's just
kind of look them up Exodus chapter 32 now again it's not it's not real explicit on how
these things work my view would be that it's likely that every person when they're born
or or maybe when they're conceived more likely when they're conceived their names just get
written in the book of life and it's kind of just represent the fact that they're alive
it kind of seems pretty pretty simple right the book of life person's alive right the
person's been given life okay and so every single person that's ever been conceived is
in the is their name was written in the book of life okay and then over time your name
can either stay there forever or it could get blotted out that's basically the only
two things that can happen and that blotting out could happen one of two ways either a
you die without getting saved and I believe your name just then gets blotted out right
at that moment or B you become a reprobate while you're still alive and your name gets
blotted out before you even physically die now Moses kind of alludes to this in Exodus
32 look at verse 32 yet now if thou wilt forgive their sin it doesn't say sinno and
if not blot me I pray thee out of thy book which thou hast written so according to the
Bible he's saying you know hey forgive these people or blot my name out of the book which
thou hast written but you know that's kind of a foolish statement because Moses already
saved his name can't get blotted out but notice he's kind of alluding to the idea of his name
being blotted out of the book and I think that it's kind of reminiscent of how Jesus
Christ died and through his shed blood you know our names are not going to be blotted
out and so that's kind of what's the essence here even though it's kind of said in an awkward
way look at verse 33 and the Lord said unto Moses whosoever has sinned against me him
will I blot out of my book notice what gets you blotted out of the book of life sin so
that's why I would allude to the idea of when you die a sinner if you die in your sins well
now your name gets blotted out of the Lamb's book of life okay go back to Revelation and
go to Revelation chapter 20 for a moment go to Revelation chapter 20 and look I can totally
understand when you read that verse how you kind of think that that phrase of from the
foundation of the world is applied to the timeline of when they are written this kind
of sounds like that but it is possible that it could be alluding to the Lamb as well and
I think that's really what it's trying to allude to when you compare with other verses
so sometimes you know we don't want to necessarily pick interpretations based on what sounds
the best we want to make sure that it jives with scripture the best like what fits the
doctrine of the rest of scripture the best that's the most likely interpretation when
we look at a particular passage now in Revelation chapter 20 verse 12 the Bible says and I saw
the dead small and great stand before God and the books were opened and another book
was opened which is the book of life and the dead were judged out of those things which
were written in the books according to their works now again I believe that what's it's
trying to say here is that essentially like the Bible is opened in heaven and then another
book which is called the book of life was also opened and here's the thing when your
name's not in the book of life well then you get judged by this book and when your name
is in the book of life well then we don't we don't have to deal with this book we don't
have to deal with Genesis and Exodus and Leviticus and Numbers Deuteronomy and isn't it funny
those of us that are saved we love Genesis and Exodus and Leviticus and Numbers Deuteronomy
and the unsaved hate those books because they're going to be judged by them Leviticus 2013
is going to be brought up a lot okay and they're going to be judged according to their works
and you know what I have no problem with that verse you know I have no problem with any
of the verses in the Old Testament because frankly speaking I've been saved I've been
delivered by the blood of the lamb and I my name is written in the book of life now look
at verse 15 and who sir was not found written in the book of life was cast in lake of fire
you know the only reason I'm going to heaven is not because I did anything good it's because
my name's in the book of life that's it that's the only reason and it only took one sin to
get your name out of the book of life that's why it's silly to think like well if you're
a pentegrist you can go to heaven yeah but you already sinned like even if you were perfect
from now on you've already sinned so therefore if your name's not in the book you're done
I mean the bible says even if you made one lie you wouldn't be saved you wouldn't go
to heaven that's why it's important to realize that salvation is a free gift by faith in
Jesus Christ and it's only what he did for us now look at chapter 22 and look at verse
19 chapter 22 and verse 19 if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this
prophecy God shall take away his part out of the book of life so again here's another
allusion to God taking someone's name out of the book of life through I believe the
process of blotting essentially he's just blotting out their name and just blotting
them out of this book now they're not capable of ever being redeemed or ever being saved
okay and that's pretty clear now I want to go to a few more passages go to Hebrews chapter
number four go to Hebrews chapter four because you'd say well I don't think that this makes
sense how could the lamb be slain from the foundation of the world because if my interpretation
is right then we have to also understand how the lamb could be slain from the foundation
of the world because that's what the text said if you really believe that then how could
that even make sense because didn't he die two thousand years ago wasn't the earth already
four thousand years in the process before the lamb was slain how does that even work
well i want to show you a couple other verses because if if our doctrines true we can probably
find other passages in scripture that would explain these things or allude to these things
or give us some understanding of these things now in hebrews chapter four it's talking
about the sabbath specifically and i'm not going to give you the whole context here but
look at verse number three for we which have believed do enter into rest as he said as
i've sworn in my wrath if they shall enter into my rest although the works were finished
from the foundation of the world notice what the bible in chapter four it's talking about
this the creation event it's talking about that seventh day and it's how it it's a picture of
the sabbath and that seventh day was the day of rest and rest signifies or indicates salvation
itself and of course it's salvation for us because we rest from our works none of our
works saved us only jesus christ's works saved us so we rest from ours and receive his salvation
and when you get saved you're like entering into his rest in a sense but another way that this is
applied is the of us literally going to heaven there's a thing none of us have been to heaven
if any of you have been to heaven you can leave right now okay and go back right people that have
been to heaven are weird okay they're at a pentecostal church but we haven't been to heaven
so in a sense we haven't entered into that rest yet okay we're still here and we'll work till jesus
comes we'll work we're not resting we're working okay and we work until jesus comes that's what
we're doing so there's a there's another aspect of this and that's really what hebrews 4 is about
hebrews 4 is about working hard until you get into heaven okay just like the children of israel were
supposed to be faithful in the wilderness until they got into the promised land but what did they
do they didn't really believe they didn't really have faith and so they didn't enter in the
promised land why did they not enter the promised land because of not having faith why do people
not go to heaven because they didn't have faith here's another aspect of that is they lost out
on the rewards of that particular entering into the promised land because in a sense they were
also saved like you have to understand the wilderness pictures salvation from a lot of
different angles in another sense they were already saved because they had the Passover lamb and they
went through the Red Sea so it also pictures people who are saved but then they don't have faith
through the Christian life and then they don't end up getting rewards in heaven and that's really the
heart of Hebrews chapter number four. Hebrews is all about rewards and enduring under the end
and essentially being blessed by God this side of heaven and the next and the children of Israel
were an example of what not to do consistently so the children of Israel didn't have faith didn't
enter into that rest notice what it says in verse three for we which have believed do enter into
rest we if you believed you're going to heaven case closed period but he also says this the works
are finished with the foundation of the world think about it this way how can someone who is
in the old testament how could Moses and the children of Israel go to heaven based on the
death of Jesus Christ if Jesus hasn't even been born yet because in a sense it already happened
in a way he's the lamb slain from the foundation of the world although the works were already
finished according to the text before the foundation of the world so that's why people
when they died they didn't go to a holding tank called Abraham's bosom and have to wait for Jesus
Christ to show up and then take him into heaven no no no no the works were already finished from
the beginning no no no Abraham and Isaac and Jacob were in heaven and you know Abraham rejoiced to see
Jesus's day when he was incarnated and the word became flesh and he came down from heaven and
was basically becoming a man and of course they also rejoiced that the death, burial, and resurrection
of the Lord Jesus Christ sure but they weren't hanging out in paradise next to hell in the center
that's a bizarre doctrine okay not true so it's just in a sense and I can't understand it because
I'm a human in some way all the works were finished from the foundation of the world so I believe
that's a that's another passage alluding to the idea of how Jesus Christ is the lamb slain from
the foundation of the world how the gospel was essentially applying at all times notice this look
at verse one it's important let us therefore fear lest the promise being left us of entering into
his rest any of you should seem to come short of it the word seems important because number one
we're going to go to heaven but it's like being an unfaithful christian could make it seem like you
came short of that you kind of did something wrong here but notice this is verse two for unto us
was the gospel preached as well as unto them what why are you preaching the gospel to people when
it hasn't even happened because the works are finished with the foundation of the world okay
so the gospel is as certain as anything i mean think about it you wouldn't want to place money
or make bets on things that you're not certain of right you don't you don't know the future
you can't always know what's going to happen for sure but it's like how do they know the
gospel is going to happen exactly how it's supposed to happen because the works already
finished from the foundation of the world because god can't lie and and of course there's other
aspects of this that somehow make that true go over to first peter chapter one go to first peter
chapter one somehow jesus christ is the lamb slain from the foundation of the world and you know that
also makes it abundantly clear that everything that's happened is not an afterthought you know
jesus wasn't like hoping that the Israelites are going to work out and then the Gentiles are like
second-rate citizens or plan b or you know i was planning on being married to you forever but i got
divorced and you're my you know you're my ex you're my next option right like well i didn't really
want to be married to you i want to be married to her forever but since we're divorced i guess
well you know you can be my second choice you know you're the woman that i would have picked if she
had never existed or something like that's not how it is no he already picked us it was already
ordained it was already decided he already wanted us okay everything was already chosen look at first
peter chapter 1 verse 20 who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world but was
manifest in these last times for you now who was manifest verse 19 but with the precious blood of
christ as of a lamb without blemish and without spot who verily was foreordained before the
foundation of the world so before creation ever happened the gospel of jesus christ was already
decided it what is ordained choose determine hit the gospel of jesus christ was already picked
before the foundation of the world before adam and eve even sinned the gospel of jesus christ was
already determined was already decided you know everything according to clausians one was created
for his glory for jesus christ's glory he is the one that gets all of the preeminence everything
was created by him and for him is what the bible says it's all about jesus christ everything is
about jesus christ okay and so you know it's all about the word of god i mean everything is just
pointing to him it's about him he gets all the honor and glory and especially for our salvation
so go back if you would to revelation chapter 13 i believe again verse 8 even if you took the
alternative you know interpretation of that particular verse doesn't bother me it doesn't
really change anything but i just don't really believe that i believe that this application here
from the foundation of the world is just applying to the lamb slain that jesus christ is the lamb
slain from the foundation of the world the book is his and those names are not written because
they got blotted out at some point so then what does this verse mean it's saying those who are
reprobate those who are twice dead according to the bible are going to be the ones worshiping the
antichrist okay the bible talks about people being twice dead why because their name was blotted out
of the book of life okay they're not only dead spiritually then their name was blotted out they
have no hope they have no possibility and that's not a my personal opinion that people can be
reprobate god literally threatened in the book of revelation that if you took things out of the bible
he could literally take your name out of the book of life okay i think anybody that believes the
bible has to believe in the reprobate doctrine now again where we have disagreement is who's a
reprobate okay and can we always be certain every single time no but the bible gives us a
few indications people take the mark of the beast that's i mean you're you're done i mean you are
one of those people you know and they always say like uh how do you know someone's a reprobate
because they took the mark of the beast okay here's another way is the blasphemy of the holy ghost
and then another way that someone was a reprobate according to the bible as far as a manifestation
to us like we could see it is them being a sodomite and you know a lot of people get mad
at us about this doctrine but won't it be interesting when one day every single faggot takes
the mark of the beast and then we'll be like told you and all the fags that said they're christian
they take the mark too and then they're just like man that pastor Anderson was right you know that
sodomite deception was you know that was a banger movie you know it's like yeah of course but you
know right now we believe it by faith one day it'll be by sight we'll just see it you'll see the
reprobation and it's saying notice this this is what i think is the emphasis of chapter verse 8
because some people are saying this just saying everybody's worshiping the antichrist no because
we're not and i even think there's a lot of people on the earth that probably aren't and maybe even
people that won't even get saved or not but all the people that are never going to get saved
every single reprobate will worship the antichrist so i think what it's trying to say is just every
single reprobate is on board joe biden on board the jews on board sodomites on board hollywood
on board and boy it seems like hollywood is of one of a chord these days when it comes to the
grammys and everything else about how much they love worshiping the devil already i mean it doesn't
seem like a giant stretch for me to imagine the hollywood celebrities of america worshiping the
devil when they're already doing it at the grammys folks i mean could that not be a sign to you
that we might be close to the end times as when all the people that we think are reprobates are
already worshiping the devil and then the bible tells us hey there's going to be a group of people
that are going to worship the antichrist they're going to worship the devil and who are they who
are these people the people whose names are not written in the book of life meaning they've been
blotted out already meaning that they're reprobate already and then it's a coincidence that all the
people that we think are reprobate just happen to already do that huh i mean you go to one of these
lgbt pride parades what do they they have baphomet and they have devil signs and they say that they
go to the the temple of satan and they're satan worshipers i mean they omit it i mean of the
people that are satan worshipers it's pretty much almost the exact same group as who we've described
as being reprobate and then people get mad at us for believing that doctrine but it's like but do
you believe the bible because the bible already told us the people that are reprobate are going
to worship the devil and worship the antichrist they're just showing you what they're like already
when it's not even as manifest when the devil isn't even coming and showing himself with mighty
signs and wonders and all this different stuff i mean when it's that escalated they're all going
to be locked in right on the program getting that mark so excited they're going to be his minions
his minions will be the reprobates of this earth and that's why it makes sense when we look at
you know the gospels where jesus christ is describing how in the end times there's going
to be tears amongst the wheat and now god wants to let them grow up together why because there's
got to be some kind of a reprobate army to basically fulfill this prophecy and to allow
for the antichrist to have his minions you know if we just eliminated reprobates like the bible
tells us to and like we should through the proper channels and through capital punishment
the antichrist wouldn't have much of a force he wouldn't really have anybody so it's like almost
god is just kind of allowing there to be just this explosion of reprobates in the end times
to fulfill these scriptures and to be this particular reprobate army that is going to have
so to some degree we get mad about the explosion of reprobates that are happening in our society
but it's almost like that could be indicative of an end times you know prophecy that's coming true
and it would make sense why we're seeing i mean we are seeing an explosion of reprobates
in our culture and in our world and of course where is the explosion of reprobates coming from
america babalon i mean a lot of these things are fitting together you know and those of us that
are watching and paying attention to the bible i'm just saying a lot of these things are kind
of coming true look at verse 9 if any man have an ear let him hear he that leaded them to captivity
shall go into captivity he that killed with a sword must be killed with a sword here is the
patience and the faith of the saints so this is really the the what you have to take away from the
chapter we need to have a lot of patience and faith in this period of time because it's going
to be a dark time going to be an evil time going to be a very destructive force that's why Jesus
Christ has to come very soon after this point otherwise we all would be destroyed and the whole
world would be destroyed it says in verse number 11 I beheld another beast coming up out of the
earth and he had two horns like a lamb and he spake as a dragon this is what we call the false
prophet the bible talks about the beast and the false prophet the false prophet notice he has two
horns like a lamb a lot of people think of an antichrist as being this really like demonic like
evil type personality but the bible is using this to describe he's going to seem like a savior he's
going to seem like a good guy he's going to seem like a helper he's going to present himself as a
lamb as someone who's gentle as someone who's nice as someone who wants to do good okay and this is
what the devil often does is him and his minions and his ministers they transforms themselves into
ministers of light and angels of light that's what they try to do to win people over and i want to
give i want to just kind of go through this really quickly and then just give one final thought it's
just a crazy thought okay but the bible says this in verse number 12 and he exercises all the power
of the first beast before him and cause of the earth and then that dwell therein to worship the
first beast whose deadly wound was healed notice it's using a lot of pronouns so it's difficult
to follow but if you pay attention it keeps bringing up the false prophet the false prophet
is the one that has power it's the false prophet that is causing the earth to worship the antichrist
okay verse 13 and he meaning the false prophet do with great wonders so that he make a fire come
down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men verse 14 and deceive at them that dwell in the
earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast saying to
them that dwell on the earth that they should make an image to the beast which had the wound by a
sword and to live so the false prophet is got two horns like a lamb so he presents himself as a good
guy but he causes everybody to worship the antichrist he's calling fire down from heaven he's
the one doing miracles he's the one that's giving life under the image of the beast look verse 15
and he had power to give life under 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 and he
causes all both small and great rich and poor free and bond to receive a mark in their right hand or
their foreheads and that no man might buy or sell save he that had the mark or the name of the beast
or the number of his name here's wisdom let him that hath understanding count the number of the
beast for it is the number of a man and his number is 600 three score and six so a couple things
number one obviously satanic number is 666 yet it says here that you have to get something you
have to get in verse number 17 the name of the beast or the number of his name so his name isn't
666 he has a particular name and you have to get his name okay now i don't know how to interpret
all of this and we probably won't know until it happens one option for the false prophet is that
he's doing all these things by supernatural means and i think there is great reason to believe that
that's true i probably lean towards that being very likely but i want to hypothesize what if this was
through human means through like technology in a sense and and think about what's happening he's
causing people to worship this particular you know anti-christ he's the false prophet so the
most important aspect of his ministry is what preaching speaking communicating to the world
he's kind of the voice of the world in a sense okay so you have a voice of the world that's
causing fire to come down from heaven he's creating images and then giving life under these images
and then he has the ability or the infrastructure to cause some kind of a mark to stop or control
spending and i'm just gonna be honest like it sounds like elon musk and i'm not saying that it
is elon musk but i'm just saying it kind of sounds like him because think about it this way he has
bought a recent application called twitter and he now calls it x and this thing is a one world
voice where he can literally communicate a message to everybody like that and when he communicates
messages most people pay attention hear retweet i mean he has an amplified voice if you think
about it he has that amplification on what he is going to say additionally with his starlink
satellites they're putting these literally everywhere as a complete hive over the entire
earth who's to say that he wouldn't have some technology in there to call some fire down from
heaven with these satellite systems that he's creating and building and i mean they're shooting
up satellites all the time they literally want to create an entire hive over the entire earth
and it's supposedly to give internet to everybody through starlink well you know what's another
important thing that the bible would have when it talks about how the whole world is paying
attention to the two dead bodies which are laying in jerusalem how in the world can literally every
single person on the earth see those two bodies because there's a lot of people that don't have
internet or that kind of stuff in the jungle but you know what through starlink and through elon
musk he is going to literally be able to provide internet to every square inch of this planet
that is their goal and even decent internet okay not only that uh he's giving life onto an image
i mean when you talk about ai and you talk about the robotics and a lot of these things that these
people are creating i mean they're obsessed with this kind of stuff he has recently created
something called neuralink where he's in he and they've successfully implanted a chip into a
guy's brain okay i don't know if you know this also elon musk used to be a part owner or creator
of paypal which is basically you know taking over the world i don't know if you understand how paypal
works but through stripe they kind of like purchase stripe i mean almost every payment
processing that goes on goes through stripe and it goes through stripe api like he already
domed that particular market is dominated by a handful of players already as far as electronic
means if you turned off physical currency like hey they're already in control of a lot of the
digital currency and the way that money is going but i do believe when this particular
event happens and we're causing everybody notice this all both small and great rich and poor free
and bond to receive a mark on the right hand on their foreheads that means to me that they
literally have control of the world's economy because if you are super super rich you can say
like why a lot of gold and stuff or i have bitcoin you know everybody thinks like bitcoin is going to
save them from something it's a ponzi scheme folks okay but they think that this stuff is
going to preserve them no even the richest guy in the world is not preserved even the richest guy
has to get a mark or he can't buy or sell his gold still doesn't mean anything for him that's
what it's saying but you know that infrastructure does not exist today it's getting closer and
closer but it does not exist today so i don't believe we're in the end times in the next five
years or so or 10 years like it's very unlikely because a lot of things i think still have to
happen here's another thing that's interesting about elon musk okay he had a he had he has a
lot of children but he had one particular child with a with a lady named grimes okay and grimes
is like one of the most satanic singers in the world okay she has a song called genesis where
she's like dancing with a snake in the garden okay and then she has another video where she's like
this fallen angel with blood all over well basically they wanted to have a child and kind
of like they decided to have a child before they had a child and they want to like experiment with
this child in a particular way now when this child was born just a few years ago his name is x ash
a 12 okay and it's like this weird combination of like letters and symbols or something and they
want to raise this child in a gender neutral environment is what they've decided okay that's
is it any coincidence that they name a child x and that's what they call him and then he has a
platform called x and they're raising this child as a human experiment and this child is going to
be raised with the with the guy who has unlimited money is developing chips that are planted in
people's bodies controls the voice of this world like i'm just saying a lot of that stuff is creepy
folks now maybe maybe i'm just like off in lala land i'm just telling you there's a lot of weird
stuff going on with that okay and it would not even surprise me and this is what i thought was
funny someone's already written an article before this kid was born and said i think that this kid
might be the anti-christ it's just like and it wasn't even a believer it was like you know some
like jew or something in uh hollywood or something like newsweek article or something but they like
literally said like here's the potential here's the options for this kid this kid's either going
to be like jesus or he's going to be like the anti-christ or something it was like before he
was even born and i'm just thinking like well you know there's a lot of weird stuff you know associated
with this type of individual and it would make sense that someone like this could not it could
very easily not be this person but it makes sense that an anti-christ could be someone that they're
raised in an environment where you know they're around the global elites that are interested in
a lot of this you know pseudoscience apparently elon musk and this uh grimes are super interested
in climate change she just self-described as the demon of climate change so like what in the world
i mean these people are you know weird i and i know a lot of people like elon musk but i mean
the guy has like dressed up as baphomet literally you know for you know parties and all this kind
of stuff and uh the guy is really interested in being the savior of humanity i don't know if you
listen to elon musk talk he always constantly talks about how he just loves humanity so much
sounds like a lamb but is he really a dragon you know i don't know you know again if i had an
opportunity i would try to give elon musk the gospel and i give him the benefit of the doubt
like i'm not i'm not trying to like attack the person but i am saying this there's a lot of
weird stuff going on in the world that we live in and we should be keep constantly paying attention
and watching and it could be that in our lifetime these things come to pass and you know maybe
it's not unrealistic to me if this ash this ex-kid i think is like two or three ended up being the
anti-christ by age 30 35 that's enough time for all these things to come to play and you know
daddy elon with his ex program is that his false prophet who knows you know i don't know you know
it's another thing that's weird this grimes lady she refuses for her son to call her mom she's like
i don't i don't want that title and it's like why do you not want that title right is it because
you think this offspring is somehow like you know i mean again it's just it's just weird it's like
this kid's gonna be raised thinking he has no mom like oh because why because i'm god or something
i mean there's this the narrative surrounding this is just bizarre okay that's just one theory
i can be totally wrong a lot of people think the false prophet is the pope i work with a catholic
and he handed me a book and i was like i don't want to want to read it and i asked him about
it and he's just like yeah that book tells us that the pope is the is the false prophet and
i was like you're catholic you know okay i mean hey the catholic pope at least you know presents
himself as a lamb and he's really speaks like a dragon you know could be a completely different
person but i just i i don't think it's an you know it could be a non-political or a non-religious
figure is what i'm trying to say because think about it if the pope got up and said something
nobody really cares but for some reason when elon speaks everybody's paying attention it's like a
worldwide message everybody's noticing and they think he's just so smart like everybody's just
talking about how smart he is and how brilliant and he has all these good ideas so it seems like
someone who's charismatic enough that if the antichrist presented himself and he's pointing
to that person a lot of people would jump on board or you know kind of follow that particular lead
and you know i i don't know what's going to happen exactly but i just want to be prepared for it and
we should be prepared for all kinds of possibilities and i'm willing to change my mind on anything that
i've said you know that's just my opinion or the hypotheticals but for sure there's an antichrist
coming for sure he's going to declare himself god and for sure you know he's going to cause
people to take a mark and you know those of us that are saved we're not going to take it we're
not going to worship it's going to be a dark time but i want to be like Shadrach Meshach and Abednego
that have patience and faith and are waiting for our coming savior let's close and pray
prayer thank you heavenly father so much for giving us knowledge and wisdom through the scripture
i pray that as these days approach if they happen in our lifetime that you would give us the wisdom
to discern them they'd help help us to figure them out and that you'd give us boldness and strength
to you know avoid these evils and that we would be willing to get more people saved in the last
moments and if possible if it happens in our lifetime that many of us would be raptured
and i just thank you for all you give us in jesus name we pray amen for our last song we'll be
turning to song number 374 send the light song 374 send the light song 374 send the light
singing everybody you are all dismissed