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Alright, on our front cover we have our verse of the week. It says,
Seek ye the Lord while he may be found. Call ye upon him
while he is near. Isaiah chapter 55 verse 6. Very
excellent scripture there. And our service times are Sunday morning
10 30 a.m. Sunday evening is 3 30 p.m. And tonight we're going to wrap
up the series, the pictures of the antichrist with
the actual antichrist. The series culminating in
this final sermon about it, actually talking about
him, the actual person himself, who will be
the antichrist. And we don't know what his name is going to be, he's just called the antichrist
for now. But anyway, so I'll be wrapping that series up tonight.
Next Sunday I'll begin Exodus chapter number 1
and we're going to go through Exodus on Sunday nights. And then
let's see, our Thursday Bible study is going to be
we'll be back in 1 Peter chapter 2 at 6 30 p.m. this Thursday.
Our sowing times are listed below. We had sowing today, did anybody get anybody saved?
Okay, that was a rough neighborhood. The first door that we knocked
we didn't even get to knock it and the lady's like, get out of here.
It's like, okay. She's like, I'm sick, get out of here.
And I was like, well that's really nice. And she said,
well pound it, coming over and pounding on our door and I'm like, we hadn't even pounded on our door yet.
So anyway, she was a railer, she was a false accuser.
Anyway, so, but let's see.
Praise report, you can see all the totals, the church
stats there, the salvations, the baptisms and the attendance.
And so last week we had 95 in church, I think this morning we had 51
in church. So we got picked up, the stomach bug and some other
sicknesses are starting to go around, so we are
going back to fist bumps and virtual handshakes
and things like that. Now obviously, if you want to still shake people's hand, you can do that if you
want, but just wash your hands before you touch your eyes, your ears or your mouth, alright?
So, but you know, I mean germs float in the air, so you can
still get sick. I know there's people that don't believe that there's such a thing as germs, but there really
is, okay? So that's like flatter stupidity.
So, that's a sermon for another time. Anyway,
our salvations for the trip to Yakima was 19.
We ended up with 5 on the last day, I think 9 the day before that, but
it was a pretty rough area compared to what we're normally used to when we go
over there, which is total, just people jumping in the boat to be saved
and so it wasn't quite like that. We definitely got our
workouts in for the week. All that good food was hopefully
burned off just in the solenoid walking around. I think I averaged like
6 miles a day or 7 miles a day or something like that walking.
So, anyway, that's pretty good, but I mean
still people got saved, so praise God for that and I hope you all had a good time, you know
getting some good food and there's a lot of fellowship and
fun. The pool was still open, so that was nice.
The next thing coming up after that is October 8th, we're going to have Amy's baby shower,
Miss Amy. It'll be at 11 o'clock here at the building. She's registered at
Amazon. Please let Miss Alejandra know if you're planning on coming. October 22nd
is our annual trip to Busy Farms pumpkin patch. It's 11 a.m.
So if you show up at 11 a.m., I'll be standing there at the gate
with your ticket to get in and there's all kinds of fun things
to do at the pumpkin patch. Most of us have all been there before
and anybody's welcome to come. It's free, you don't have to pay to get
in or anything. The only thing you'll have to pay for is your own food, so
if you're a cheapskate, then just eat something before you go in there.
Or if you just can't afford it, just eat before you get in there.
If you're going, I do need you to sign up. There's a
form to sign up for in the WhatsApp group, but if you're not in the WhatsApp group and you want to
go, then please let me know and we'll put your name in there for you.
Then Pastor Mendez will be preaching for us the next day, which is
the 23rd at 1030 in the morning, so he'll be here all day and the day
before also. And October 28th through 30th
we've changed where we're going to do all that, and I was going to preach in Seattle and all
that stuff, and I do still want to do that, but I just felt like it'd be
a lot to do, and especially now since we can go to Canada again.
So we're going to have a special service at our church in
Surrey, and it's going to
be a special service weekend actually, so Pastor Jared Pazarski
from Hold Fast Baptist Church will be preaching for us at 10 AM. We'll have a lunch
at 12, and then that'll be provided by the church.
Then I'll be preaching at 1.30 PM. We're also taking everybody out to dinner
on Friday night, so if you go and you're there on Friday
we're going to go to a fish and chip place. It's an all-you-can-eat fish and chips
place. It's pretty good. Fish and chips are kind of a specialty
up there just because it's like, I don't know, it's just something that they're good at doing.
There's a lot of other different types of foods up there, but I don't,
if it moves and crawls, then I'm not, you know,
can't do that. But anyway, so we'll be eating at an all-you-can-eat
fish and chips place, so anybody that goes up there, you're obviously welcome to join us at that
restaurant, and we'll have more details about that later, but that's Friday night.
Saturday, like I said, Pastor Pazarski will be
preaching, lunch will be provided, and then I'll be preaching at 1.30.
Then Brother Jim Weeb's going to be up there from Sound Doctrine Baptist Fellowship,
and he's out of Winkler, Manitoba, Canada.
Way over there, way over there. Anyway,
I can't do my, I've got to get my Manitoba accent down here.
But anyway, he's going to be preaching at the Sunday morning service,
so on Sunday. I'm going to be flying home on Saturday, Pastor Pazarski's going to be flying
home Saturday, but Brother Weeb is going to be staying there,
he's going to be preaching the AM service, so if you wanted to make a weekend out of it, it's going to be a good weekend.
There'll be some soul winning, I'm sure, attached to all this, so I just don't have
those things ironed out with Brother Weeb yet, but I'm excited about being
up there, I'm excited about the weekend, and it's exciting that we can go back to Canada
with no restrictions, no masks. See, the people that held
out, you know, that didn't want to take the mark, no I'm just kidding.
See, eventually they're going to cave. They want our business.
You know, they thrive off American tourism too, and they want
us spending our dollars up there, so
they finally had to just cave and give it up, so
I'm glad for that. And then, let's see, October 30th we have the chili cook-off,
that's the next day after that Saturday, so we're going to have a chili
potluck dinner. No competition,
and you're welcome to make spicy or not spicy chili, but
we just need to mark it, and then we're going to have a service afterwards for men's
preaching night, which we haven't done in quite a long time, so I'm hoping
that a lot of guys are going to be preaching for that and sign up for that, and
November, it's not on here, but November 6th is daylight savings time where
you'll fall back one hour, November 22nd is going to be our
Thursday service is going to be changed to a Tuesday, our midweek service will be on
a Tuesday, and we're going to have a service, and then a pie
social afterwards, so that way, you know, you don't have to run right out the door and go
put your turkey in or whatever, and so we'll just try to make it easy, we're not
doing a potluck this year, we're doing the pie social next year after this, we'll do the potluck
again, so anyway, all this other stuff is all pretty elementary,
but, you know, the Family Integrated Church, of course, and
please utilize those rooms for your convenience.
Let's see, pretty much everything, you guys all know this stuff,
but you can see the tithes and offerings that came in and all that stuff,
if you're 100% sure, if you're not 100% sure that you're
saved, please come to me or one of the ushers
after the service, we'd be happy to show you what the Bible says it takes to go to heaven, and
if you need to be baptized, we can also take care of those needs. Also, I think
that's all I have for announcements, let's sing another song, and then we'll receive
the offerings.
The blue book, right? You said green, but the blue book.
Blue book.
520.
Page 520, we're marching to
Zion. Come, we love
the Lord, and let our joys be known,
join in a song with sweet accord,
and thus around the throne, and thus
around the throne, we're marching
to Zion, beautiful, beautiful
Zion, we're marching upward to Zion,
the beautiful city of God.
Let those refused to
sing and never knew are gone,
but children of the heavenly king,
but children of the heavenly king, may speak
their joys abroad, may speak their joys
abroad. We're marching to
Zion, beautiful, beautiful
Zion, we're marching upward to Zion,
the beautiful city of God.
The hill of Zion yields
a thousand sacred sweets,
before we reach the heavenly fields,
before we reach the heavenly fields, or walk
the golden streets, or walk the golden
streets. We're marching to Zion,
beautiful, beautiful Zion,
we're marching upward to Zion,
the beautiful city of God. Then let
all our songs abound, and every
tear be dried. We're marching through
Emmanuel's ground, we're marching through
Emmanuel's ground, to fairer worlds on high,
to fairer worlds on high.
We're marching to Zion,
beautiful, beautiful Zion, we're marching
upward to Zion, the beautiful
city of God.
Pray for us.
Lord, thank you so much for today.
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Turn your Bibles to Revelation chapter 13.
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Revelation chapter 13. If you don't have a Bible,
raise your hand and one of the ushers will bring you one.
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Revelation chapter 13, the Bible reads in 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.
And the beast which I saw was like unto a leper, 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. 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. And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the
beast, and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast, and 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 and blasphemed against God, to blaspheme his name,
and his tabernacle, and 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 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 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 exercised 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.
Hear his 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 threescore
and six. Brother Alex, will you pray for us?
Amen. Alright, like I said in the
announcements, this is the final sermon in my series, and you know,
maybe I went too far with it, but there's a lot of pictures of the Antichrist
and so that was the series title is the pictures of the Antichrist, and now it's going to be
like I said, culminating into this last sermon, so it's part
seven of the series, but it is the Antichrist, so we've seen a lot of pictures
of the Antichrist, and I probably didn't find them all, or
you know, maybe there was some I missed, and maybe there's
you know, like I just did one save person, it was Solomon, I just figured
that, you know, he does have some definite pictures
of it just because of the fact that he went bad when he was at once
good, and then there were some other things like about the six hundred threescore
and six directly connecting him in that way, so
but tonight we're going to learn about the man here, let's look at verse number eighteen
in Revelation thirteen it says, 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 threescore
and six, let's pray, Heavenly Father we thank you Lord so much
for the scriptures Lord, and that there's things to come that we have not
yet seen, I pray you'd help us to have wisdom, help us to have understanding
in the times that we're heading into, I just pray Lord
that you would just help us to keep things in perspective Lord, and not
to try to just pin the tail on anybody that we think seems like they're the Antichrist
but Lord that we would look at the Bible and let that be our source for wisdom
and knowledge, and that we would apply those things in Jesus' name we pray, Amen
so here's wisdom, let him that hath understanding count the number
of the beast, for it is the number of a man, so the Bible is saying here that the Antichrist is a man
alright, and we've already seen where he's empowered by Satan, he's
filled, he's possessed by Satan himself
and so Satan is basically controlling this man at a certain point but before
that he's already bad, he's already a reprobate
but once Satan possesses him then Satan's gonna use him to do whatever he wants him to do
and it says it's the number of a man, his number is six hundred threescore
and six, a lot of people have wondered about this mystery
for a long time, and it says here's wisdom, let him that hath understanding
but some of the things in the book of Revelation are things we might not completely
a hundred percent understand until that time is drawing near
but people have added and tried to do numerology, people thought Ronald Reagan
was the Antichrist, and of course he's not, people thought that JFK
was the Antichrist because he had the deadly wound in his head, but he did not live
Hitler really seemed like he
could have been, I mean if you're living in those times you're probably thinking well this is possible
this could be the person, but we always have to test everything
and prove everything by what the Bible says, so John F. Kennedy
didn't rise from the dead, he's not the Antichrist, so he just died
and that was it, so let's flip over and look at some other scriptures
here, let's look at 1 John 2 verse 18
there is a multitude of Antichrist
even in the world today, and the Apostle John wrote about this
in 1 John 2 verse 18, look what it says, little children, it is the last time
and you have heard that Antichrist shall come
even now are there many Antichrists
whereby we know that it is the last time, so
see the Apostle John 2000 years ago is saying it's the last time, we are
in the last days, make no mistake about that, we are just not in the
final 70th week of Daniel, and I've explained that
before, I'm not going to explain it in this sermon, but there's
and it's saying right here there already is Antichrists in the world, there's already
people that have left and they were pretenders, and Judas was a
pretender, and he's a type of, he was an Antichrist, but he wasn't the
Antichrist, so you see how it says as you've heard there
that Antichrist shall come, but it's saying that there's other Antichrists
but the Antichrist, the one that's supposed to come has not
come yet, and look at verse 19 it says
they went out from us, who's they, well
it would be the Antichrists, okay, they went out from us, but they
were not of us, for if they had been of us, they would no doubt
have continued with us, but they went out that they might
be made manifest, that they were not all of us, so
the Bible is saying there's people that will come in, and will think
that they're one of us, but then they leave in such a way where
it's like hey, if they really were of us, they would have stayed with
us, now I'm not saying you can't go to other churches or anything like that, it's not what it's saying
but you can see the difference between someone that leaves
and all they do is just spend the rest of their life
their miserable, pathetic life
just trying to attack churches, attack the Bible
in cases like churches of ours, we have
there's all kinds of rejects that have all bound together in one
big super reject sect
and it doesn't matter what they believed before, what their pet doctrine was before
whether it was the flat earth, or whether they thought
the apostles weren't saved before, until after the resurrection
just weird stuff like that, or there's just all manner of weird
things that these people believed, and like one
I could think of right now was super anti-mask
obviously we're all anti-mask, but this person was just over the top with it
and then he's buddies with a person that was too
afraid to even have a church service at their house, so I mean there's just all
kinds of weirdos out there that have bound together
but they go out from us, and that shows that they were not
of us, and they're attacking, you know, obviously
just going so far as to just stalking people
online, and you know, trying to take
over other people's churches, just all kinds
of weird stuff I've seen just in the last six years of being in the ministry
really strange stuff, but it's very obvious the difference between someone who just
quits church because maybe this isn't just their cup of tea or whatever
those people just go and they never come back and we never hear from them again
but then you have the other flavor that goes and then that's all they do
it's their life's mission, they eat, drink, sleep, new IFB
we're so far in their head, they can't do anything else besides focus on
a church that they used to go to, and then they'll just act like it's just
some kind of thing that's, you know, it's my duty to stop this
evil cult, it's like well why don't you stop some other evil cults that are actually doing something
we're not a cult, we're a Bible believing church
sorry you couldn't cut the mustard, sorry you're a reprobate
so there are people that will go out from us and they are anti-Christ
that's what the Bible says, they went out from us, but they were not
of us, for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued
with us, but they went out that it might be made manifest
shown that they were not all of us, so there are many
anti-Christ and many that pictured the anti-Christ
and in this series I've just shown the different people that picture in certain ways
maybe not everything was an exact picture, but a lot of these pictures
are just culminating, so like it's basically like you can take a piece
of all these people and then that's what this guy encapsulates
totally, so there's many anti-Christ
and so the fulfillment of all these
is this picture, of all these pictures is the anti-Christ
himself, so I preached about Nebuchadnezzar, I preached a whole
sermon about him, how he pictures the anti-Christ, was he the anti-Christ?
No he wasn't the anti-Christ, was Alexander the Great the anti-Christ?
No he wasn't the anti-Christ, was Antiochus Epiphanes the anti-Christ?
He pictured the anti-Christ and we didn't even talk about him, he's not really in the Bible
but he's talked about in the book of Daniel basically
but he was not the anti-Christ, it wasn't Caligula
excuse me, Nero
or Titus, it wasn't Muhammad, it wasn't Hannibal
it wasn't Genghis Khan, it wasn't Rasputin, it wasn't Lenin
it's not Vladimir Putin, it's not Barack Obama
it's not Joe Biden, I mean that would be a
confused anti-Christ there, but it's not Hitler
it's not Mussolini, it wasn't Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, any of these people
none of those people, they were anti-Christ
but they weren't the anti-Christ, so the anti-Christ
is going to come, so look at 1 John, you're already in 1 John, look at verse 22
it says, who is a liar, but he that denieth that Jesus is
the Christ, he is anti-Christ, that denieth the Father
and the Son, so you know people that would deny Jesus
they are anti-Christ, and it's a spirit that also
is moving in this earth, an anti-Christ spirit, just like the people
that were rude to us and we hadn't even knocked on the door, Sean just said hi
he was being nice, and then it's like ahhhh
there's just an animosity against churches, a hatred towards the things
of God that's really getting worse, now look at 1 John
4.1, 1 John 4.1
there's a page over in your Bible that says, Beloved, believe not every spirit
but try the spirits whether they are of God, because many false prophets
are gone out into the world, don't just listen to anybody
on the radio, don't just watch every recommended video
on YouTube, you know these people, there's a lot of people out there
and they're famous and yeah they've got millions of views on their sermons or whatever, you know why? Because the world
loves their own, the world loves what another worldly person
is going to teach them, they're going to heap to themselves these teachers
having itching ears and they're going to love false prophets
it says, Hereby know you the spirit of God, every spirit that
confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God, and every spirit
that confesseth not that Jesus is come in the flesh is not
of God, and this is that spirit of anti-Christ
whereof you have heard that it should come and even now already
is in the world, so it's talking about the spirit of anti-Christ, there's a spirit
there's manifold different types of spirits
in this world, and a spirit, you know people say, well they believe in ghosts or whatever
you probably saw some ghosts, fake ghosts hanging up there, number one you can't see ghosts
but, so it kind of
is weird that they have something manifesting as if it's a ghost
but you know we have the Holy Ghost, you know the Holy Spirit
it's another, you know, ghost and spirit mean the same thing
but there's all different manners of spirits out there, and there's spirits out there that are
wicked, and there's obviously the fallen angels that are wicked
you have the spirits of different people that are wicked, but you also have the
spirit of anti-Christ, and these are people that don't
confess Christ, they don't really believe in Christ
and as a matter of fact they work against him, so one way
of saying anti-Christ it means against Christ, right, but it also means in the place of
Christ, there's people that want to replace Christ with a fake Christ
or with someone that they feel like is their savior
I was talking to this guy in Yakima and he was talking to me about
how Buddha was just this nice guy, and you know he isn't even
really the founder of a religion, he was just a normal guy that just like attained to
these high levels of spirituality, and I said, oh yeah, I said
well then why are people making statues of him and worshipping them and putting
offerings on there, because people revere him as a god, that's
why, you don't give offerings to a little statue of a fat little bald
guy if you don't believe he's some sort
of deity or something, they can say they don't believe that all they want
but that is what they believe and they want to get to achieve nirvana or whatever
which is not the rock man, but I'm talking about
basically what nirvana is, is that you've achieved this highest level
as after you've come back as many different things
and once you've come, once you've gotten so holy and spiritual
then you cease to exist, that's not a kind of religion that I want to
follow, that's just, that's sending people to hell
that's what it is, all these other religions in the world are sending
people to hell, that's why it says that we need to test the spirits, we need to test
there's prophets, there's false prophets, there's false prophets that say that they believe in Christ
but what are they saying? What comes out
of their heart is eventually going to come out and when they start saying
things like, you've got to repent of all your sins, you've got to be baptized to be saved
are you living in holiness, you're not really saved and all
this kind of stuff, we've got to watch out for that because that spirit of
antichrist can creep into our lives, we don't want that to happen
it says here of God little children have overcome them because
greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world
it's talking about God, if you're one of God's children
you have the spirit of God in you and
other people have the spirit of antichrist but we have
the spirit of God in us and the spirit of
this antichrist, these devils
or the devil himself, God's spirit is greater
than those spirits and this is a verse we would say, you cannot be
possessed by a devil if you have the Holy Spirit inside you because greater is that
Holy Spirit than any other spirit around so
people, they start thinking well I can be possessed and no you can't
not if you're saved, if you're truly saved you cannot be possessed by a devil, you might be able to
be vexed by one because you're allowing a bunch of garbage into your life that you shouldn't
have in your life but as far, you know, Saul was
vexed by a devil and David had to come play some
godly songs for him, some nice psalms for him to
relax and get some peace from because he was vexed by this devil
so but he wasn't possessed, so it says
look at verse 5, they are of the world
therefore they speak, excuse me, therefore speak they
are of the world and the world heareth them, that's what I was just talking about
is that these types of people, these wicked spirits, this
antichrist spirit, you know, these devils, they're in the world
and they speak the things of the world
and the world heareth them, so you got people in all kinds of
churches, I mean you even got Hollywood stars, like I'll see like suggested
videos of Denzel Washington giving some speech about God but you know what, Denzel
Washington's not saved, Matthew McConaughey, he's not
saved, he's not teaching or preaching the truth
but they say they believe in God, don't they, but so in
reality they believe in a workspace salvation, they are not saved
and they're just, people are following them, you know, like as if
they're a cult of personality, so it says
verse 6, we are of God, he that knoweth God
heareth us, he that is not of God heareth not us, whereby we
know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error, so
you know, if people are listening to what the Bible says and they're hearing
what the Bible says, then we know that that person is of the truth
I mean at least we have a very good shot of knowing that, but
if they won't hear what the Bible says, if they refuse to hear what the Bible
says, and I'm not saying in all instances, but like
they're saying, yeah, aliens created the world, like no
the Bible says that God created the world in six days and he rested on the seventh, nope
I just believe that it was aliens, I still believe in God though, they are not
of the spirit of God, why can't they hear the words of God, why can't they understand
because they're not of God, turn to 2 John chapter 1 verse 7
2 John chapter 1 verse 7, it says
for many deceivers are entered into the world
who confess not that Jesus has come in the flesh, this is a deceiver
and an anti-Christ, so we don't want to be
wrapped up or involved with anybody that would be of this anti-Christ
way, this is a deceiver
there's many deceivers, there's many wicked people out there that are trying to turn people
to anything but what the truth is, they work for the devil
I mean, they're children of Belial, the Bible says
they're children of Belial, the Bible has this term children of Belial
children of the devil for a reason, because
it's helping us to identify who's right and who's wrong
who's wicked and who's not, but look at Daniel chapter 7 verse 24
we're going to get more into the anti-Christ here
but you know we ought to be aware that there is a spirit of anti-Christ and that spirit is getting
stronger in this world, isn't it, more people are against
Christ or there's more religions that would love to replace Christ
there's leaders, why do leaders of these cults always say I'm Jesus
they end up saying that they're Jesus, don't they, because they're
a deceiver and an anti-Christ, they're not normal
Tyler Doka saying that he is God is not
of God, he crept into our movement
and he went to like sowing things, he was working with Pastor Anderson
on like some kind of website where all the preaching
now we have all the preaching, amen, but
we have allthepreaching.com and what is the other one?
So there's some good stuff, but we don't need Tyler Doka
we don't need someone that says that they are Jesus
that's so weird, how could you just come up with this
thing saying you're Jesus, first he was flat earth and then
now I mean, now he's Jesus, but we didn't know it the whole time
but apparently he's the Lord and Savior, wicked
that's the spirit of anti-Christ, Daniel chapter 7 verse 24
look what it says, now Daniel the prophet prophesied
of this man, it says, and the ten horns out of the kingdom are ten
kings that shall arise, 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
that's three and a half years for those that don't know what that means
but that's what it's talking about, so this person is the one that's going to come forth
and those ten kings he's going to rule and reign with for forty-two
months, that's three and a half years, ok, and so
he's going to be able to speak great words against the most high, it's not talking about
good words, but he's going to speak great things, he's going to speak
blasphemies against God and so he
is the anti-Christ, that's in Daniel chapter 7 verse 25
now Revelation chapter 11 verse 7, let's turn over to Revelation chapter 11
verse 7, so one of the things about him is he's going to
he's going to appear like a lamb, he's going to seem like he's a great guy
but in reality what he's saying is really
wicked, so this is how we'll know the difference between him
and somebody that's speaking the truth, when he starts saying
things against the most high, when he starts saying things about God the Father
when he starts speaking against his saints, when he starts speaking against Jesus
Christ himself, we're going to pretty much know that he's the anti-Christ
or at least an anti-Christ at that point, Revelation 11
7 says, and when they shall have furnished their testimony
or finished their testimony, not furnished, the beast that
ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them and shall
overcome them and kill them, this is talking about the two witnesses
who come to Jerusalem and they preach against him
and he doesn't like it, but it says that he's going to come out of the bottomless pit
make war against them and shall overcome them and kill them
so now turn back to Revelation chapter 13
verse 1 in our main text here
so Revelation 13 says, and I stood upon the
sand of the sea 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 heads
the name of blasphemy, so obviously this connects with Daniel chapter 7
what we just read and then verse 2 says, 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 he's, the anti-Christ, these different kingdoms
are represented by these apex predators
and in this kingdom, specifically
the dragon, which is also an apex predator
right, but we just don't see dragons, you know, we see little ones
we see the Komodo dragon, but I doubt it's going to be a Komodo, you know, it's talking about a Komodo dragon
but anyway, there were things that were really big that were called dragons
and we call, you know, people call them dinosaurs now, but obviously was a
apex predator and it seems like the
biggest apex predator out of that group, but
because the leviathan was talking about the leviathan, he's a fire-breathing
dragon, okay, and he's pretty tough, only God can
defeat the leviathan, right, and look at verse 13
oh wait, sorry, it says the dragon gave him power and his seat and great
authority, so he's literally, you know, Satan is the prince
of the air, right, the prince of the air and he is
you know, he's basically the god of this world, okay, so
he is the small g god of this world, and yes he does have
a lot of power, yes he does have a lot of, he
can give his things over to whoever he wants, he
tested Christ this way by, you know, in the temptation of the wilderness
offered him all the kingdoms of the world if he would just bow down and worship him
so, but anyway, he gave him his seat and
great authority, so this guy is accepting what
Christ refused and rejected, so remember
that the anti-Christ is also going to come and try to appear to
be Christ, so he's going to try to probably fulfill a lot of things
he's also going to probably mimic a lot of things, the devil likes to mimic
the things that God does but distort them at the same time, now look at verse 3
it says and I saw one of the heads as it were wounded to death
and his deadly wound was healed and all the world wondered after
the beast, so apparently this man, the beast, after he
gets the power of Satan, he's going
or, excuse me, he's given all this authority but when he gets
this power, when he starts to come to power, he's going
to have a deadly wound that is healed, the Bible also talks
about a wound in his head, it also talks about how his
right eye is darkened in Zechariah and things like that, but
he's going to be killed and it says that his deadly wound
is healed, so a deadly wound means a wound that kills you, doesn't it?
So he's going to die and it says and the world wondered after the beast
when he's healed and rises up, they're going to see him
and then they're going to wander after him, so and look at verse 4
it says and they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto
the beast and they worshipped the beast saying who is like unto
the beast who is able to make war with him?
So, you know, it's kind of like Jesus
did these things while he was on the earth and then people
worshipped God the Father because of the things that Jesus did, but he's also doing something
similar where he rises from the dead
just like, you know, it's a fake rising from the dead as far as
like someone that, you know, Jesus died, he rose from the dead to save us
from our sins, this guy is not trying to save us from our sins, he's trying to kill
everybody he can and drag as many people to hell with him as he can.
So, and so because people see this
resurrection happening with the Antichrist, it says
that they wandered after the beast and then in verse 4 and they worshipped the dragon which gave power
unto the beast and they worshipped the beast, so they didn't just worship the dragon but they also
worshipped the beast. So, and people worshipped Jesus Christ too, so you see
how he likes to mimic things, the devil, and but
in this case it's going to be the whole world wandering after him and not just
a few disciples and a few people, the few people that are saved. So it's saying
who is like unto the beast and who is able to make war with him?
And at that time there's not going to be anybody that is able to make war
with him. And there was given him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies
and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.
So here it is again, you know we read it in Daniel chapter
7, now this is kind of just, it's
given us a little more clarity on it. So he's going to
get killed, then he's going to walk, I'll get to that later, but he's going to
walk into the temple and declare himself to be God and he's going to be able to speak all these
you know, he's going to be a good speech writer. He's probably
you know, he's got the devil speaking through him so he's probably going to be just really eloquent
a really great speaker like Hitler or
some of these people that are just great orators and
so look at verse 6, it says, and he opened his mouth in blasphemy against
God to blaspheme his name and his tabernacle
and them that dwell in heaven. So it gives us
a little more insight on what he's going to be saying, he's going to be
blaspheming God and then he's going to be blaspheming his name
and his tabernacle, that's where he lives
which is heaven, and them that dwell in heaven, who's that?
That's us and the angels, right? I'm sure they hate the other angels
because they didn't go along with the rebellion, but
you know, when I was in Yakima, we were driving
behind this car and you know how they have those black and white
stickers that say only God on them, have you ever seen those before anybody?
They say only God, this person said only
dog, but it was the same exact design, that's blasphemy
you know, they're mocking something where someone's
saying only God, you know, and then saying only
dog, so what are they saying, they worship dogs?
Yeah, there's a lot of people that worship dogs, it's really strange
it's really strange that you know, they'll have my dogs or my kids
my furry babies or whatever, it's just like
that's just wrong, it's wicked, you're worshipping the creature
more than the creator who's blessed forever, amen?
Verse 7, and it was given unto him to make war with the saints and to overcome
them, that's what it also said in Daniel chapter 7, and power was given
him over all kindreds and tongues and nations, so
he has the power of the, you know, he's the ruler of the whole world at this
point, so he's like, you know, Leonardo DiCaprio on the
Titanic or whatever, I'm the king of the world, you know, that's what he, you know, but
he's going to get thrown off the boat eventually, right, so
he is going to be the most powerful
king in the world, he's going to be the most powerful ruler in the world
but his kingdom's only going to last for 42 months, but he's going to do a lot
of damage, he's going to bring forth the worst tribulation
against the saints that ever has been or ever will be
and it says, 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, so all that dwell
upon the earth are going to worship him, they're going to follow him, he's their
boss, he's not only a king, but he's also a spiritual leader, but then of
course he'll have the false prophet helping him
and, you know, doing also miracles and kind of just promoting
him, kind of like how John the Baptist promoted Christ
this false prophet is going to promote the Antichrist
and so skip down to verse 16, it says
and he causeth all, both small and great, doesn't matter what your status
in this world is, whether you're poor, rich, small, big
rich or poor, free or bond, to receive a
mark in their right hand or in their foreheads
so the King James says a mark in
their right hand and a mark in their foreheads, that's not
necessarily just a surface mark, it could be a mark that you can't see, but I
doubt that that's true, it's probably some kind of a mark that you can see, but it's probably got some kind of
technology embedded in it, you know, I mean nowadays
there's already precursors to all this stuff, you know, people freaked out when credit cards
came out and they're like, well that's a way to track me or whatever, and then now credit
cards have a chip on it and all you have to do is just like go doop, right
and you just put it on the machine and it just takes your money, well what do you hold it
what hand is your dominant hand?
It's your right hand, isn't it? For most people, now you've got some left handed
people out there, they're not saved, no I'm just kidding, I'm just kidding, I'm just kidding
so but the right hand is representing, you know what?
The fact that you have something on your right hand, so and I'm not
saying it is the mark of the beast, obviously I don't believe that that's true, but it is
a precursor of the mark of the beast, I work for a place
called Anjanomoto Frozen Foods
and they make like the boxed Chinese food, you know what I mean, if you go to
Costco and you get like orange chicken or fried rice, that's probably what it's
going to be is that kind of, from that place, but they made it where
you had to put, I think you had to put your hand on like a scanner
to clock in and like at first I was like
I don't know if I can work here, but you know I realized that
obviously that's not the mark of the beast, but it is the technology
of the future mark of the beast, it is the technology, you can't deny
that that's true and even with the COVID stuff, like what do they
ultimately, basically they kind of tried to make it seem like
well you can't go here, you can't buy or sell
unless you have, you know, your COVID vaccine.
But again, I'm not saying that that's the mark of the beast, I'm not off in
la-la land, you know, just that's all I think about, that's
all I talk about or whatever, but it is a picture
of the fact that if you don't have something, you don't have this mark
you're not going to buy or sell, you're not going to work anywhere, they try to fire people
from their jobs if they refuse to take it, and then when you walk into the hospital
or any workplace, they started putting this policy in place where
you know, they have a little skin gun that takes your temperature, right?
And you're not walking in that building unless they scan your temperature,
where do they scan your temperature at? Right here. So
I mean, are they working
it up to this? Absolutely. When the
towers got hit, they've been trying to implement this Real ID
Act that passed back in 2000, I want to say it was 2004
but maybe it was 2003, I'm not exactly sure when it was, but the Real
ID Act was passed under George Bush, and because there's been so much
pushback for that, they still have not completely implemented
Real ID because a lot of people know that this Real ID
is a picture of, you know, the mark of the beast or whatever.
So these things are pictures though, but at some point
there will be a time where we have to do, we'd have to worship the beast
or worship the statue that he puts in the temple
and if we don't do that we're going to be killed.
So obviously they're not going to say, well you just can't work here. They'll be like,
why didn't you take the mark of the beast? Get him! Kill them!
Whatever. This Amber Alert system, it's
a good thing, but when it's turned against the Christians it's probably not going to be a good
thing. Christian Alert. Stephen Bogman.
He's on the loose, this is his car, it says
Stephen B. whatever on the back of it.
I mean, they're going to have systems in place to track
us and it's like, well how can we escape from that? How can we run for the hills?
When it says to run, how are we going to be able to run?
Well, God's going to have to protect us.
How are we going to go through all this persecution?
Well, if you seek to save your life you're going to lose it, but if you lose your life
for the Lord's sake then you keep it.
He's probably going to allow people to live or just not to be seen.
I don't know how it's going to work, but I know that there will be people
when he comes back that are still alive. Because the verse says
they that are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord.
So there's obviously going to be people that are saved that are alive
and remain and they're saved.
Now look at what it says in verse 17.
The Antichrist sets up this marked system where you
have to have these things or you can't work, you can't eat,
you can't do any of these things without being in that system.
So imagine a world that's so bad that every single
system or
authoritative institution
yeah, police, firefighters, anybody, they all work
for the government, right? Imagine them all just being flat out
reprobates. I've got to go to the hospital, I got shot
at because I didn't take the mark of the...
It's going to be crazy. It's going to be a crazy thing.
Just make sure you have a first aid kit with you and maybe a little bit of training
here and there. But it says that no man
might buy or sell save he that he had the mark
or the name of the beast or the number of his name. So you have to
have the mark or the name of the beast or the
number of his name. So you'll have to have what, 666?
That's what the number of his name is, isn't that what it said?
So or the name of the beast
and then or the mark. So there's three things you can have that will let you slide.
Verse 18, here's wisdom.
Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast, for as the number of a man his number is
six hundred threescore and six. So 666.
So that is the number of the man. Again
people try to figure out who he is. They try to pin the tail on the Antichrist.
But I would submit to you that he probably is going to come out of
obscurity. That's what I personally think. I think he's just going to come out of nowhere.
He's going to rise to the ranks. Because didn't Jesus come from nowhere?
I mean people, they were saying, there's no way
he came from Nazareth. What good thing comes out of Galilee?
But they didn't know he was born in Bethlehem.
So I figure it's probably, if he's copying, if he's using that same
recipe, he's going to come from obscurity. Where did Adolf Hitler come from?
He was like just a simple,
I think he actually was in mental institutions a few times or something like that or he was just like
in maybe boarding houses or something? I don't know. It's been a while since I
studied that stuff. But I do know that he was a painter. He wasn't like a
rich guy. And then he like rose to
power through what? His valor on the military field.
He was like one of those runners that run to the different trenches.
And it was a really dangerous job that people, there was just zero life expectancy
pretty much. And he made it out. He was wounded a few times and then he
made it out and rose in the ranks of the military
and then he just rose in, I mean the guy could talk. He could speak.
He was a really great orator. People just got
mesmerized by the guy. So that's kind of what I think the Antichrist is
probably going to be like. He's going to be somebody like that that starts off small
and then becomes greater and greater as he gains power.
Turn to 2 Thessalonians chapter 2 verse 3.
...
Somebody wants to
honk? It's the Antichrist. No, I'm just kidding. Alright, 2 Thessalonians
2, 3. Look what it says. Let no man deceive you by any means
for that day shall not come, except there be
there come a falling away first. So the falling away has to happen
first and the man of sin be revealed the son
of perdition. So the Bible calls him the man of sin.
The Bible calls him the son of perdition. Remember Judas shared that name with him
the son of perdition. And verse 4 who opposeth and exalteth
himself above all that is called God or that is worshipped
so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God showing
himself that he is God. The Antichrist is going to come back
he's going to get killed, he's going to come back to life, he's going to go into
that temple, the temple that has not been built yet by the way
and so that's another thing that has to happen first.
But anyway, so he's going to come back and he's going to
sit and exalt himself in that temple. It says
he as God sitteth in the temple of God
showing himself that he is God. So he's going to go in and he's going to say I'm God
the Jews are going to be like uhhh we backed the wrong horse.
So when Christ came
the first time they rejected him but now they want to receive him as their Messiah but then
when he says that he's God, see when people said that Jesus was God or when Jesus said I am
the son of God, what did they do? They turned against him and hated him on to murder him.
So the same thing is going to happen now but it's going to be too late for the Jews and then
you know but what the Bible does say is that they should run for the
hills and I'll get to that here in a minute but it says
and this is Paul speaking, he said remember ye not when I was
yet with you I told you these things and now
you know that what withholdeth that he might be revealed
in his time. For the mystery of iniquity doth already work
only he who now letteth will let until he be taken
out of the way. And then
shall that wicked be revealed. What's that wicked? Well that's
the antichrist, that's what he's talking about. Whom the Lord shall consume
with the spirit of his mouth and shall destroy with the brightness
of his coming. Even him whose coming is after the working
of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders.
So this man has, he's coming after the working of Satan
and he has all power of Satan and signs and lying
wonders. So again he's pretending
to be Christ, he's pretending to be the Messiah but he really
is just the antichrist and it says and with all deceivableness
of unrighteousness in them that perish because they
receive not the love of the truth that they might be saved. You see there's
going to come a time when it's going to be too late for people.
This is what he's talking about. He's like in them that
perish with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish.
You know whosoever believeth in them should not perish
but have everlasting life. He's talking about the unsaved, he's talking about
these people that are you know obviously
once you take the mark of the beast you can no longer be saved. There's no coming
back from that and so that's what he's going to do. We just read about that
and it says because they receive not the love
of the truth that they might be saved. See a lot of people today
got offered salvation today and nobody accepted that free gift
did they? Instead they told us to leave or they just
politely said no or whatever but none
of them received the love of the truth. So what's going to happen
you know to them? Well if they're here when the antichrist comes
you know he's going to deceive them also. So all
these people are just deceiving and being deceived and it says for this
cause God shall send them strong delusion that they should believe
a lie. See there's going to be this strong delusion and
they're going to believe a lie because you know they refuse the love
of the truth. See when you refuse God, when you reject God, when you just say you know what
I don't need God, you know I got to work on my yard today, the Seahawks
game is on, that's more important. You know those people
that rejected the love of God they're going to be sorry one day that they did that.
It says that they all might be damned who believed
not the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
They're like Pastor Thompson that's really, you said damned. Yeah because they're
damned to hell. You're like well I can't believe the apostle
Paul would talk like that. Maybe you just need to read the Bible.
Let me introduce you to something called the Bible.
You know people, you go to churches, these fun centers,
these community churches, they're not going to preach this stuff.
They're not going to preach to you that it says that they all might be damned
who believed not the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness. Those verses don't
get read very often folks. And if they do it's probably out of an NIV
or an NASB or an HIV or LGBTQ
or whatever kind of version of the Bible of the month
club that they read but you know what the Bible says the word damned.
It says damnation because that's what it is. Turn to
Daniel chapter 11. Daniel chapter number 11.
So I believe in the Daniel chapter 11 it is also
it's talking about things that happened with the Greek empire and
other empires and things like that. I believe it is talking about Antiochus Epiphanes
who was some guy that offered a pig on the
at the temple what in the holiest of the
holies and the Greeks had basically kind of Hellenized
everything and I mean Hellen like H-E-L-E-N but
Hellenistic you know there's something that came from the Greeks and
you know after the Medes and Persians the Greeks kind of just
took over the world and like pretty much everybody you know they always say it's all Greek
to me. Well there used to be a time when people all spoke Greek because they
taught Greek to everybody. The New Testament Scriptures are written in Greek.
But this guy Antiochus Epiphanes he you know
was trying to take over. They had kind of
captured Jerusalem and then I'm just trying to remember the story
but basically this guy was really evil. He personifies the Antichrist. He
makes a sacrifice of a pig on the altar and of course you know
under the Jewish that's like one of the worst things you could do is
sacrifice some kind of a cow and desecrate the temple or have Gentiles even
go into the temple. But I also believe
that it talks about the Antichrist in this chapter. This is one of the hardest chapters
in the whole Bible because there's a lot of stuff that probably we don't understand because of historical
context but also because a lot of what I believe is
the battle plan of how the Antichrist gains power and I think
that it's there for us and we might not understand until
those things start to happen or whatever but I believe that
you know it's definitely talking about the Antichrist
and some of it's not just a historical perspective. It's stuff that transcends
just that time period. It goes into the end times. I'll show you
why I believe that. Look at verse 36.
Tell the indignation be accomplished for that is determined
shall be done. So doesn't that sound like the Antichrist
to you? It does doesn't it? Look at verse 37.
Neither shall he regard the god of his fathers
nor the desire of women nor
regard any god for he shall magnify himself
above all. So
basically what you have here is this term the god
of his fathers. He shall not regard the god of his fathers
nor the desire of women. Now this could
mean two different things. This could mean well I personally believe that it means
that he's probably a Jew or identifies as a Jew because this
term I'll prove that to you here in just a second. This is what I personally
believe. Now people can disagree with me if you want to
but I feel like this is what the scriptures are teaching and I'm not
going to be super 100% dogmatic on all this stuff because we
see through a glass darkly. But to me what it is
saying is that he's a Jew and that he
doesn't desire women. So I don't know if that makes him a fag.
I don't know if that makes him a queer. It could just mean that he's just some kind of
he's like a eunuch or whatever that doesn't need to
have relations with women or he's a queer, one of the two.
So but here's the thing, Jesus didn't have, I mean Jesus was
tempted in all points like we are yet without sin but I'm sure
that he liked girls, you know, not little
women, okay let me rephrase that. As far as like he thought
that they were beautiful or whatever but he didn't have to, you know,
get married or perform any acts like that. He was without sin
and not that it would have been a sin for him to get married but he was just celibate, alright.
So wouldn't it make sense that the Antichrist
appears to be celibate also? So
he either appears to be celibate or he's a queer. And the reason why I think he might be a queer
and this is just my reasoning is that why is all this
queer stuff happening in our world today?
Why is it that? Why is that so prominent?
Why is that the big deal? And like you see these pictures of Baphomet
or whatever, this horned god, this goat or whatever
and it has male parts and it has female parts. Why is that?
Well because God wants people to be, I mean not God but the God of this world,
Satan wants people to be confused as possible and anything
that can take them to hell he's willing to let them believe but
it says he has, it says, nor the desire of women
nor regard any god for he shall magnify himself
above all. He is so proud and so haughty that
he doesn't regard anything else. It's just him.
It's all about him. Look at verse 38, but in his estate
shall he honor the god of forces
and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he
honor with gold and silver and with precious stones
and pleasant things. So this antichrist who's the father that
he's promoting a god of forces
Satan is the one that's energizing him. People are worshiping Satan so somehow it's
tied to that but it says that he'll honor the god of forces.
Isn't that funny how that's kind of a big
push in this world right now is used, you know, Star Wars
and they're even bringing all the queer stuff into their shows too
Star Wars let the force be with you, you know, God is just all
around us and he's just being that we can tap into
and, you know, you could be a Jedi Knight too if you allow the force to work
through you or whatever but also you have Hinduism, you have
Buddhism, that's all, you know, you have all this new world
new age garbage that's going on
in our world also and, you know, that's what pagans believe too.
Right? I mean paganism, I'm going to preach about that very soon
but paganism kind of is just like this one in nature type of
thing, you know, and that's kind of what Star Wars teaches
in a way, you know, that's what all this stuff is, you know, that we're all just one
with Mother Earth and, you know, all this other garbage, right?
That's why they're trying to get all the natives of all these cultures to go back to their dirt
worshiping false idols and false beliefs, right?
So, you know, the colonizers came and ruined it, we were having a great
old time until then. No, God came and smoked you and then he allowed
some of your culture to be saved by believing on the Lord Jesus Christ
and he fixed you and pulled you out of the dung hill that you're already in and if it wasn't for
Christ being preached to you, that nation would have fallen and been
destroyed just like the Aztecs were destroyed, just like, you know, just all these different
kinds of nations, you know, have been destroyed. Why? Because, you know,
they weren't reached by Christ and when Christ reached them, you know,
maybe God will thin the herd and then allowed some to be saved and
there was a remnant saved. But you can't just go around sacrificing
people in fires and eating them and then think that you're
going to be on, you know, that that's some kind of good part of your culture.
They don't teach that part anymore, do they? Or do they? I don't know.
But a lot of cultures around the world are going back to their old cultures and
then acting like that's something good and look, keep your culture if there's good things in it.
I have no problem with that. But where it's wicked and where it's against
God and where it's just an affront to the
greatness of God and it's breaking God's commandments,
obviously eating other people goes beyond the pale, doesn't it?
But there's all cultures around the world did that. The Celtic's did that. The Germanic
tribes did that. All of them did that. But then Christ came and, you know,
people just started to get more civilized. But anyway, I went off on a tangent
on that but I just, you know, that kind of stuff irritates me. Turn to Deuteronomy 26
verse 7. Deuteronomy 26 verse 7.
Now the term, his fathers knew not. The God
of his fathers. Why is it saying it like that? And again,
this is, you know, I guess this is a hard opinion that I have.
I believe that this is true. I believe that it's saying that to us in that way
because it says that in the Bible multiple times about
in other situations. Right?
So Deuteronomy 26 verse 7 says, and when we cried unto the Lord God
of our fathers, the Lord heard our voice and looked on
our affliction and our labor and our oppression. So
who's this, it's talking about the Lord God of our fathers. Who's it talking about? God.
The real God. Okay? 1 Chronicles chapter 12
verse 17. I'm just going to show you three examples
really quickly. 1 Chronicles chapter 12 verse 17, it says,
And David went out to meet them and answered and said unto them, If you become
peaceably unto me to help me, my heart shall be knit unto you.
But if you become to betray me to mine enemies,
seeing there is no wrong in my hands, the God of our fathers
looked thereon and rebuked it. Who's speaking here? It's King David, right? Who was
speaking before? Moses. The Lord God of our fathers.
That's a term that's used throughout the Bible multiple times. Acts chapter 22
verse 14 in the New Testament. Acts chapter 22
verse 14 in the New Testament says,
And he said, The God of our fathers
hath chosen thee, that thou shouldest know his will, and see that just
one, and shouldest hear the voice of his mouth. So why do I
think that when Daniel's talking about the Antichrist and it's saying that he
won't regard the God of his fathers and he, you know,
and a God whom his fathers knew not, that's a term
that's repeated throughout the whole Bible talking about the nation of Israel, the children of Israel,
God's people. So, you know, he's going to be,
I believe he's going to be, or identify as a Jew, he's going to say
it says that, you know, it's a God whose fathers knew not, right? So
and again, Jesus was a virgin, died a virgin,
but the Antichrist, like I said, will either be, he's either a queer
or he's truly celibate to mimic Christ.
Okay? Those are the two options. And like Jesus,
again, he'll be a Jew, but of the end times Babylon,
which is the revived Roman Empire. I believe he'll rise to power
and he'll be some sort of American president at some point or some kind of
military general of some sort or something. This is my opinion, okay?
And then I believe that he will take power
as a Jew in this country though, because he's using the whore,
he's using the whore to get to the ends of what he wants, right?
Which is ultimately to be the ruler of the whole world.
So turn to Daniel chapter 9 verse 26.
Why do I believe that? Daniel 9 26.
And this might mess with our theology a little bit, but I mean,
I'm just going to read you what the Bible says. I mean,
you know, whatever the Bible says, that's what we should believe, right?
So Daniel 9 26 says, and after threescore and two weeks
shall Messiah be cut off, talking about the real Messiah, Jesus Christ,
but not for himself, and the people of the prince
that shall come, that shall come shall destroy the city
of the sanctuary, and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto
the end of the war desolations are determined.
So obviously the temple gets destroyed in
70 A.D. as a fact of history, okay? This is what
Daniel's talking about. He's talking about when the Roman Empire comes
and destroys the temple, destroys everything, you know,
just destroys the whole city to where you can't even recognize
the city anymore, but it says the people of the prince.
So if the prince is of this people, who's that people that destroyed it? It's the Romans.
So that's why I think that, that's why I believe that.
It says the people of the prince shall come, shall
destroy the city and the sanctuary, and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and
unto the end of the war desolations are determined. So that is talking about the fall in 70
A.D., but again, it's still naming where the prince comes from. Who's the
prince? It's the Antichrist, okay? Daniel 9.27
says, and he shall confirm a covenant with many for one week,
and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifices
and the oblations to cease, and for the overspreading
of abominations he shall make it desolate, even unto the consummation
and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
Well, what is this talking about? Well, that one week is
Daniel's 70th week. So in the midst of the week, what happens?
The sacrifice ceases, the Antichrist goes in, he says
I'm God, and he sets up the abomination of desolation
with the help of the false prophet, and that
abomination of desolation can speak, and
it seems to be like it's alive or something, maybe it's some kind of crazy technology.
Who knows? But it can cause people to be put to death
that refuse to take the mark or worship the beast, and so on and so forth.
So, but it says he shall make it desolate, even unto the consummation and determined
shall be poured upon the desolate. So in that
week period, there's going to be a covenant that's
formed for one week. It doesn't say it's Israel. I know everybody says this is
Israel. It doesn't say that, but I think a lot of people believe that it is
because, you know, in order for
a temple to be built in that area, there has to be some sort of a covenant
that comes to pass. Why do you think it's always in the news, the Palestinians
and the Jews? And, you know, you guys might not see that as much anymore, but when there was this thing called
newspapers, which there still is, but most people don't read newspapers anymore
except for older folks and, you know,
subscriptions everybody has online. Everybody has their phone that can get through every story.
So if that's not something you're interested in, it's not going to pop up on your phone. They are listening to you.
But anyway, so the Palestinians
and the Israel conflict and all these other Middle Eastern cities
you know, everybody's against Israel. They hate them.
And in order for, you know, the temple, what's on the supposed
temple mount, we don't even know if that's really the temple mount or not, but there's that big
mosque on there, the Dome of the Rock. And so that's the big
stumbling block to getting this thing built, but
you know, some people think that the temple is actually lower down where the springs of
Gihon were and, you know, whatever. Maybe that's the way that they
get the temple built without having something to do, but the Bible says here that he shall confirm
and it's talking about the prince that shall come, he shall confirm a covenant with
many for one week. And in the midst of the week, he's going to betray them
basically is what's going to happen and he's going to renege on his
his covenant. So, of course he will.
He's a covenant breaker. So anyway, let's turn to
Genesis chapter 49 verse 16. Hopefully that makes sense to you,
but that's kind of the timeline, so in the midst of that 70th
week of Daniel, which is the, just think of it this way, the final seven
years of human history as we know it. The final
seven years of human history as we know it. I know people say the tribulation,
but the whole thing isn't the tribulation, so it's not the right terminology.
And we might say it because it's been repeated so many times to us
and sometimes it's hard to get those things out of your brain when
we've even taught false doctrine. But Genesis 49
verse 16 is very interesting and I'm not even saying that this is
necessarily true, but this is what people say about the Antichrist. They say that
Dan is actually going to be the
tribe that he comes from. So, I don't know, but here's what it says in Dan.
I like the way Pastor Anderson broke it down in his sermon about Dan.
There's two different Dans, two different locations and whatnot,
but so there's two different types of people. The people that were good in Dan
and then obviously there's ones that were really wicked and they were idolaters and
they were until the days of the king. So,
Abraham is blessing his sons. Here's what he says.
Dan shall judge his people as one of the tribes of Israel. Dan shall be a serpent
by the way, an adder in the path that biteth the horse heel
so that the rider shall fall backward. So, a serpent
by the way. You know, the way is usually explained, you know, the way of righteousness,
the way of truth or whatever, but it says that he's a serpent, so
and he's biting horses and whatnot and then that next verse says
I have waited for thy salvation, O Lord. So, I mean, some people
kind of think that it's possible that it's talking about heat. This is talking about the Antichrist
or something. I'm not sure that that's true. I don't really, I think that that's
a stretch a little bit, but I wanted to just at least say it and
mention it. Now, it's really funny because when I started
writing the sermon, I just typed in like
what are some of the attributes of the Antichrist so I could just really quickly, I was writing
my sermon in the car, so I just wanted to bullet point some of the things that are
very well known about him, but I came across
this Encyclopedia Britannica, like
it's a, you know, obviously you know what the Encyclopedia Britannica is, right?
It's like a volume of encyclopedias, but now they have it all online because nobody reads books
anymore. Well, I mean, some people do, but not a lot. But anyway, I just, you know,
some of these things I disagree with, obviously, and I'll show you, I'll tell you where I do disagree with
it, but some of the things that they came up with are pretty spot on, and some
of the things are things that I do believe, so I just wanted to read some of the things from the article.
So it says, rather than the tribe of Judah and in Babylon,
not Bethlehem like Christ, Antichrist will grow up in obscurity
and bring, begin his open ministry at age 30. I don't know where they're getting
that from, but it makes sense that that would be the case.
Gaining followers by giving signs and performing miracles like
Christ did, and the signs and miracles once more are
polar opposites of Christ because Antichrist's supposed miracles will only be tricks.
Now, I don't know, I don't think they're only going to be tricks. I think they're going to, you know, if someone rises
from the dead, that means that they have a little bit of dark magic on their
side or whatever. So, here's another thing that says, Antichrist's
triumphant reign, never clearly distinguished from the
start of his ministry, will last for three and a half years like Christ.
Antichrist will come to Jerusalem, but the, as the opposite
of Christ, he will be enthusiastically hailed and revered by the Jews.
So, we believe that too, or at least I do. During the reign
he built, he will rebuild the temple and sit on the throne of Solomon in
sacrilegious and hideous inversion of just priesthood and just kingship.
So, I mean, he's going to sit there, but it's not going to be prolonged,
or at least it's not going to be as what the Jews think he's going to be,
but I believe he will sit on Solomon. It's interesting it says the throne of Solomon.
Why the throne of Solomon? Anyway, he will convert the rulers of the earth
to his cause and persecute Christians dreadfully. All those
who resist his wiles will be tortured and as Jesus prophesied
in Matthew chapter 24. Let's turn to Matthew chapter 24 and let's look at what happens
to people that refuse to take the mark of the beast and what he says
to warn us about that. So,
it says in Matthew 24 verse 15, it says, when he therefore shall
see the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet,
stand in the holy place, whoso readeth let him understand,
then let them which be in Judea flee into the mountains,
let him which is on the housetop not come down to take out anything out of his house,
neither let him which is in the field return back
to take his clothes. Kind of like Lot's wife. Remember Lot's wife? They were supposed to not
turn back. Matthew 24, 19, and woe unto them that are with child and them that give suck
in those days, but pray ye that your flight be not in winter, neither on the Sabbath day,
for then shall be great tribulation, such as was not
since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever
shall be. And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh
be saved, but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.
Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there, believe it
not. So, here's the warning. You know, once you see the abomination
of desolation, that's when you're supposed to run, that's when you're supposed to hide. It's not before
that. Okay? So, a lot of people want to build these bunkers and do
all this stuff, and it's like, that's not biblical. God wants us in the world,
but being not of the world and winning souls until the end.
So, then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ,
or there, believe it not. So, there's going to be all this trickery going on
like saying, hey, the Christians, you know, there's a
haven out there. Jesus is already there. He's just waiting for you to come, and then like when you get
there, you're going to get killed. So, don't believe him. He's warning us. Don't
believe that stuff. So, and then it says, for there shall arise
false Christs and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders, and so much
that if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. But you know what?
It's not possible to deceive the very elect. People that are saved are not
going to get fooled by this. It says, behold, I have told you before, wherefore
if they shall say unto you, behold, he is in the desert, go not forth. Behold,
he is in secret chambers, believe it not. So, this is a warning
to us as to what's going to happen to people
that are, you know, that are tricked into this. There's probably going to be people that aren't saved
that haven't taken the mark of the beast, and they're going to go and get fooled by this and killed.
So, now, it also, in that Encyclopedia Britannica
article, it says, the two great prophets Enoch and Elijah,
I agree with that, who never
died, but were spirited away to the earthly paradise,
will arrive to preach against the tyrant and comfort
the elect, but Antichrist will slay them. So, the Bible does say that the Antichrist
is going to kill the two witnesses, and you know, Enoch and Elijah
are the only two prophets that haven't died. Anyway, let's move on. At the end of the allotted
three and a half years, however, Antichrist will be destroyed by the power of Christ, whereupon
after a brief interval, there will come the last judgment
and the end of the world. So, I agree. I mean, surprisingly enough,
Encyclopedia Britannica has some pretty good information. I mean, they're not right
about everything, obviously, but I thought it was pretty interesting. I was just
looking for some bullet points that I could just copy and paste, you know,
and put the scriptures in there for myself, but you know, that was pretty good. So, anyway,
let's go to Revelation 19. I've got to hurry up here. Revelation
19, I want to just charge to the end of this and be done with this series.
Alright. So, what's going to happen next? Well,
there's going to be the wrath of God that's poured out. We talked about that
this morning, and Revelation 19
is when Jesus comes back near the end of the seven years, okay? He's already
raptured out the believers. All the people that were alive and remained
were caught up, and we're all going to come back with Jesus
and go for one more showdown. They're
coming to Jerusalem to fight against the Lord and against his Christ.
So, look at verse 19 in Revelation 19. It says,
And I saw a beast and the kings of the earth, and their armies gathered together to make
war with him that sat on the horse and against his army.
And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought
miracles before him with which he deceived them that had received the
mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both
were cast alive into the lake of fire, burning with brimstone.
Pretty anti-climactic, isn't it? I mean, they come and
they're just like, yeah! You know, they're pounding their shields or whatever they're doing, acting
like they're all tough, and then they're just like, and it says, and they were taken.
Just flicked them into hell or whatever. They didn't last
very long. You know what? Because they're dealing with God Almighty,
okay? Jesus is God Almighty in the flesh, right?
Verse 21, it says, And the remnant that were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the
horse, which sword proceeded out of their mouth, and all the fowls were filled
with their flesh. See, where the body is, you know,
the eagles are going to be gathered together there too, right? So the remnant
of the slain with the sword of him that sat upon
the horse, so the sword proceeds out of his mouth.
So Jesus Christ isn't fighting with like a steel sword, necessarily.
It says the sword that proceeds out of his mouth.
He's the word of God. It's the double, it's the two-edged sword
that is sharper than any two-edged sword. So, I mean,
to me, I think, well, he could just say die, and all those people just instantly drop dead.
And then he's like, come on, birds! Come and get it!
And then the birds just come. You know, it's a pretty gruesome
scene. But, you know, that's what they deserve, right?
So now, then, of course, this is the Antichrist,
but turn over to Revelation 20, verse 7. There's going to be
another rebellion that happens, okay?
Another rebellion that happens, and there will be more Antichrists
with this rebellion. But the Antichrist is already in
hell, but there's some final little Antichrist here that
God has to deal with. Look at verse 7. So it's not a short amount of time,
it's a thousand years that passes between Satan being locked up in his prison,
and then the millennial reign, that's the
millennial reign of Christ, and that ends, you know,
after a thousand years, and will rule and reign with him, but then
for some reason, to be the final trash collector, because
people will be able to be saved in the millennium. And so there's people also
that will not be saved in the millennium. It's not like you're forced to be saved in the
millennium, you're not forced to be saved now, so you won't be forced to be saved then.
So there's going to be some unsaved people in the millennium. And so
they have to be taken care of. Look at what it says in verse 7. And when the thousand years are expired
Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, and shall go out to deceive
the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth,
Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle, the
number of whom is the sand of the sea. So it's a lot of people, isn't it?
And they went up on the breadth of the earth and encompassed the camp
of the saints about, and the beloved city, and fire
came down from God out of heaven and devoured them.
Kind of like Sodom and Gomorrah, right? And the devil that deceived them
was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast
and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night
forever and ever. And amen to that.
And you know what? That's the end of us having to deal with wicked people.
That's the end of us having to deal with dogs, blasphemers,
whatever kind of sinful thing, murderers, liars, whore mongers,
sorcerers, adulterers, all these different wicked people. That's the end of us
having to deal with them. God's going to judge those people and they'll be forever
cast away. And we, you know, He's going to wipe the tears from our eyes
and then we'll, you know, so there's a silver lining to this anti-Christ thing.
You know, if you look at them like they're all trash collectors, trying to
heap the trash themselves and then they get taken out of the dumpster and thrown into
the big giant hell dumpster, which then gets incinerated at
some plant or whatever, you know, just for mental purposes there.
Jesus said, turn to one last scripture, John chapter 10, I'm going to read for you
in John 14, we're out of here. John chapter 14
verse 5 says, Thomas saith unto him,
Lord, we know not whether thou goest, and how can we know the way?
Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man cometh unto the Father,
but by me. There's all these different religions out there, there's the
spirit of anti-Christ is in all of those religions because they're all false,
aren't they? And He says,
I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man cometh unto the Father, but by me. There's only one way
to heaven, folks. We've got to make sure that that's drilled into our heads
and that we help our children to understand this truth because
you know, even people that would classify themselves as Bible
believing Christians will say, well, there's other ways to get to heaven.
You know, and it's just like, what are you being taught?
How are you a member at a Bible believing church
and you believe that? How is that possible? Well, it's because they're not
getting taught. Most of the verses that I taught here tonight are not getting taught
in most churches. Most pastors nowadays won't even touch
Revelation with a ten foot pole. They won't touch the things of Daniel.
They don't understand them because they've been taught in Bible college
that it's a pre-trib rapture and that we're supposed to love the Jews, right?
And that just messes up their whole lens of theology. So every time they look at it
it's like they've got their Jew lens on and then they've got their pre-trib rapture
lens on and they can't see the forest for the trees. They can't see
the scriptures for what they say. Well, it says, let no man deceive you, this day shall not come
except, and then they say, well, Jesus
could come back at any moment. So just
Paul's wrong then. Is that what you're saying? No, Paul's right. You know, that's what it teaches.
What do you mean? It means the
opposite of what you think it means. And so this is the problem that we have
is that people aren't being taught doctrine either. Now, I had you
turn to John chapter 10 verse 7. This is it and we'll be done.
Jesus said, then said Jesus unto them,
again, verily, verily, I say unto you,
I am the door of the sheep. All that ever came before
me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not
hear them. So again, anybody that comes, even
the people came before Christ, I had this argument out so many this week and
it's like, well, what about the religions that are older than your religion?
Well, number one, God made the heaven and the earth and when he made Adam and Eve, they were
part of that religion. So nothing's older than that.
You might say, well, you have an older book
that's been put together, but the word of God lasts forever.
It is forever. So, no, you don't have an older book. No, you don't have an
older religion. And, you know, those people that
came and taught some kind of religion, whatever religion that was, Buddhism, Hinduism,
all this other stuff that came before 2,000 years ago,
all these different religions, all these different leaders and rulers of these religions,
Jesus is saying they're thieves and robbers.
They're trying to come in the back door. He's the door. He's the only way in.
So that's what the truth is. There's no man
that comes to God, no woman that comes to God unless
they come through Jesus. Period. So the Antichrist,
you know, he is going to send people to hell. You know what? Jesus saves.
Amen? He still saves today. And even if nobody got saved today,
when we're out, someone, you know what? Someone got saved the other day.
We're getting people saved all the time and that's the battle. That's the battle
we're in is for the souls of mankind before
it's too late for them. Let's pray. Heavenly Father, we thank you, Lord, so much for this day.
I pray that you would just bless and watch over all those that are sick at home and those that
have the sniffles or whatever it is that they have, a stomach bug.
Pray, Lord, you'd be with them and I pray that you'd just send everybody away here
safely. Lord, they'd get home safe and, Lord, that they would have
a blessed week and that they made you their first choice and their first priority
today. Let's bless them for that, Lord. Bless our church, God.
And I pray that you'd just bring us all back together again on Thursday. In Jesus' name, Amen.
Alright, let's sing the last song here.
It's turn two, page 143 in your green eminals. I double checked this
this time. Go easy on brother Rylan. He messes up
a lot, right? I'll blame him for the mistake
earlier. That's what we do here, right? Page 143,
blessed assurance.
Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine.
Oh, what a foretaste of glory divine.
Heir of salvation.
Purchase of God.
Born of His Spirit and washed in His blood.
This is my story.
This is my song.
Praising my Savior all the day long.
This is my story.
This is my song.
Praising the Savior all the day long.
Perfect submission.
Perfect delight. Visions of rapture
never saw my sight.
Angels descending.
Echoes of love.
Echoes of mercy.
Whispers of love. This is my story.
This is my song.
Praising my Savior all the day long.
This is my story.
This is my song.
Perfect submission.
All is at rest.
I am my Savior, happy and blessed.
Watching and waiting.
Looking above. Filled with His goodness.
Lost in His love.
This is my story.
This is my song.
Praising my Savior all the day long.
This is my story.
This is my song.
Praising my Savior all the day long.
Thank you for coming to the evening service.
Brother Alex, you want to close some prayer?
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