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The Coming Image of the Beast

Israel and the Jewish people are still expecting the Messiah because they have rejected Jesus Christ as the true Messiah. Now that the Jewish people are firmly planted back in the Holy Land, the land of their ancestors, their expectation has grown more pronounced. Many of the conservative majority want all the land from the river to the sea. Some want to see their Temple rebuilt in its original location on the Holy Mount. Although this may seem quite impossible at this juncture, there is one coming who could easily make it a reality. The Jewish people have made deep inroads into many countries, especially in America. They have become entrenched in leadership roles in government, entertainment, education, and technology. Their technological advancements in Israel and their host countries are unprecedented. Although they may appear to be hated by every nation because of their economic advancements, it only appears that way. The diaspora has made them a viable part of every country. Because of their religious roots, they are deeply loved by the Christian community. No matter what corner of the world they are in, their national ambitions have not changed as they fervently anticipate the arrival of their messiah, yet they are unaware that he is the Beast in the book of Revelation (Revelation 13:11-18).

Well, they are not the only ones anticipating the arrival of their Messiah, or Christ. The Christian community has been anticipating the return of Jesus Christ for over two thousand years. Although most believe that Christ will triumphantly return in the clouds to rapture His elect children just before the end of the world, some believe that He will come prior to the Great Tribulation. Either way, no sound biblical follower of Christ believes that He will come back to rule the world. Most Christians believe that the Beast or the false messiah will rise up in great power to rule the entire world prior to the end. Although we have not gotten to that point yet, this short thesis details the many things put into place to hail his coming as a man of peace and prosperity. We will examine the many miracles that will lead the entire world to worship and adore his leadership. As we shall see he will cut through the veil of every religion to capture the hearts of all humanity, with the exception of the elect in Christ. His coming will truly separate the wheat from the tares validating the great falling away.

The Holy Bible says, “Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; 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, shewing himself that he is God” (II Thessalonians 2:3-4). This false Christ (the Messiah translated in Hebrew) goes by many different names, each to show his character. We read here in this text the man of sin and the son of perdition. We will also discover that he is known as the man of lawlessness, the Antichrist, and the dreaded Beast in the book of Revelation. Whatever we choose to call him, he will have great power garnering the worship of all humanity. What we learn in the above text is there is no escaping this powerful man if we are still alive. We will either be counted among the elect, or we will worship the Beast, irrespective of what we call him. Through God’s grace, I can give you all the warnings, but nothing will stop you from worshipping this false Messiah except being a part of God’s elect children. We need to be clear on this point so that we will not be deceived.

Yes, this deception is very strong because Satan has been working for many years to draw the whole world away from serving and trusting in God exclusively. Perhaps it started with science and later with technology that has led humanity to trust in something beyond the information in the Bible and the leading of the Holy Spirit. Although the roots of scientific discovery have been around for nearly 4000 years, it wasn’t until the 17th century that modern science developed instruments to examine the world more closely. Through observation and experimentation, theories were developed for all of life concerning our place in the universe. Other disciplines were developed to understand the physical and mental health of humanity. Step by step slight divergences from Holy Scripture were more widely accepted. The wholesale acceptance of the evolution of life from a tadpole or a monkey decimated humanity’s belief in the creation of man in the garden of Eden. Moreover, it destroyed our belief that the heavens and the earth were created in seven literal days. The moment humanity began to trust in scientific discovery it questioned the authority and ability of God’s Word to solve all of our problems from planetary destruction to mental health issues.

I have written extensively about how God has given us everything we need for life and godliness (II Peter 1:3-4). As humanity ventures further away from God, we have seen a staggering increase in lawlessness, immoral behavior, and mental health issues. Instead of turning back to God who has the ability to fix all the problems ailing humanity, they have trusted the professionals of psychiatry to give them endless counseling and an increasing array of psychiatric drugs.  This movement away from God and trusting in scientific discovery has entered every area of society. It has permeated public education, entertainment, government policymaking, and even the local church. This movement away from God and trusting in scientific discovery has prepared humanity to trust in technology to not only solve their problems but to open up vistas of unimaginable possibilities. We have all held technology in our hands with the hope that it will improve our ability to function in the modern world. We have grown accustomed to the never-ending upgrades and innovations that have consumed even more of our time driving us further away from personal face-to-face relationships and exploring God’s beautiful creation. Every day, we draw nearer to the emergence of the second beast of Revelation, known as the false prophet. This false prophet along with the scientific community will construct the image of the Beast, Satan, giving it life and causing it to speak (Revelation 13:15).

Satan has already given the whole world something else to trust in other than trusting in God exclusively. We have grown accustomed to trusting in the scientific discoveries and the developing technologies that absolutely amaze us. As humanity is driven further away from God, Satan knows that there is a religious instinct that is embedded deeply into the hearts of every man, woman, and child. We have been created to worship and trust in our Creator. This instinct has spawned many different world religions and occult practices to satisfy the spiritual needs of humanity. So, it’s essential that Satan satisfies this need by raising up the second beast or the false prophet to lead humanity to believe that they can attain the highest truth on their own, which gives them the ability to achieve all that life has to offer. This false prophet will boastfully proclaim that humanity under his direction can obtain a dynamic connection with their environment and have the ability to solve all the planetary issues from global warming to infectious diseases. The false prophet will continually stress that the power is within yourself, in essence making you, your own god, having no need for God, or the higher power of other world religions and occult practices. His aim is to ultimately drive you to the altar of Satan in worship and obedience. This is clearly happening in our world today.

Furthermore, this will be accomplished through false promises and amazing miracles beyond belief. One miracle spoken of in the book of Revelation is his ability to cause fire to fall down from heaven (Revelation 13:13). This miracle is twofold, showing his great power and his ability to defeat all of his enemies upon the earth. Knowing that this false prophet, the second beast, will arise in the Western world and become the long-awaited messiah of the state of Israel, he will reign down fire upon all the enemies of Israel to obtain their dying allegiance. There are many more miracles to validate his many promises of peace on earth and prosperity among all of its inhabitants. Every miracle from calming the storms to eradicating the smog and pollution in the world’s great cities to the ruthless crackdown on unsanctioned wars and open hostilities against one another. In every perceived miracle he will drive humanity further away from the one true God and closer to trusting in themselves and the great power of the beast. There is one more miracle that will get all of humanity on the same page. It was no accident that Satan raised up all the social media platforms to allow everyone to openly express their own beliefs and opinions, which has ruthlessly divided the entire world.

The last miracle is to establish unity of faith and opinions in the entire world of wayward humanity. Although there will be a lot of trust in the false prophet that has reached beyond the veil of most world religions and occult practices, it will take one more miracle to convince humanity that there is only one truth. The false prophet, the second beast, will create an image of Satan, the first beast, to be worshipped by all of humanity. The Bible says, “And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed” (Revelation 13:15). We have had life-size robots and artificial intelligence for some time now that can both speak and answer simple questions, but now we are entering a new day of amazing discoveries in technology. There has been an almost unhindered race towards Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), with some sounding an alarm of a potential threat against humanity. These alarms have come from both the scientific community and the senior staff of those creating AGI.

Some of the latest discoveries have indicated that AGI has passed some initial reasoning beyond simply quoting from the vast trove of information on the internet and has solved some elementary math problems. However, it has also been stated that AGI using an advanced algorithm called Q* was able to surpass the security encryption creating unknown mathematical equations. Yet now everything seems to be covered up with no further information on its advances. We are not surprised, because this would be an extremely powerful entity that could crack the encryption of the entire planet. Although this could give AGI and its selected users unlimited power in the intelligence community, what concerns us most at this juncture will be its ability to make profound statements concerning it’s definition of the truth and require all of humanity to accept and believe it. This will create a unity of thought and beliefs among all of humanity that removes God from the equation. AGI, or image of the beast, will also have the ability to assign an unencrypted number to every soul on the planet requiring that they use it to adhere to the new stated truths for humanity. Of course, mankind’s failure to accept their number and agree with the stated truths would cause them to be killed. This is far worse than some science-fiction movie that has the fear of nuclear annihilation caused by AGI. Satan’s plan from the beginning is not total annihilation but total control, bringing all of humanity to the altar of the beast to worship him alone.

How close we are, we cannot say, but I am convinced that when the false prophet arises AGI will be ready for every soul on the planet to be plugged in to track and observe everything they do or think. Our only safeguard as believers in Christ, filled with the Holy Spirit, is to memorize the truth from God’s Holy Word. Our only safeguard is to keep in step with the indwelling Spirit rejecting every lie and only embarrassing the truth. We need to remember how things were before the great falling away when technology was not the center of our lives. We must remember that expressing our own small opinion was not the most important thing in our life. As God’s beloved children we rejoiced in expressing His truth alone to help others to become all that they were created to be. We were not plugged into our devices every moment of every day but spent our time with family sitting around the same table sharing the many blessings from the risen Lord. We did not believe the lie of Satan that we could turn this world into a living paradise of peace and prosperity even as we increasingly embraced every manner of sin. We understood the old prophecies well that this world would reap the consequences of its sins through the many plagues and wrath of God being poured out on an unrepentant world. Dear children, we must reject the coming technology that will plug us into the image of the beast designed to drive us further away from God and closer to serving Satan and powers of darkness. We must stand firm.

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The Hope of Our Coming Victory

After my precious article that brought a river of tears to our eyes, I am overjoyed to write this current article that looks beyond the pain and the suffering to a time of fulfilled hope and a glorious victory. Hope is one of the cardinal virtues along with faith and love that are both the solid anchor of our Christianity and the outward expression of who we are in Christ. Hope looks beyond our current suffering to a time when we will be delivered from the fire that has gloriously made us into the perfect image of Jesus Christ. What we have waiting for us far outweighs everything that we can possibly imagine, a million times better than our present reality. Hope beyond our present reality doesn’t diminish our sense of freedom as taught by the powers of darkness but it opens vistas not yet discovered. True freedom is beyond the confines of this earthly body with all its limitations caused by the original sin. Our hope not only longs for a new heavens and a new earth, but it longs for a new body designed to last for all eternity. Our new bodies will not be burdened with the aches and pains that increase exponentially as we age. Nor will it be destroyed by horrific diseases infecting the planet. Moreover, we will no longer struggle against the unrelenting evil thoughts engineered by the powers of darkness. This is our future hope.

To rediscover our hope now will help us to stand firm as the world seeks our annihilation. If our hope is only in changing the world by accepting and integrating the evil ways of the world, then we are destined to fail. On the other hand, if our hope is ushering in the Kingdom of God and leading humanity to follow His will in earth as it is in heaven, then we could witness a glorious victory. Unfortunately, we are living in the midst of the great falling away when believers will voice the Lord’s Prayer but will not work to that end believing that they have power to change lives through Christ. Why do believers pray for something that they don’t believe in or something they believe will never happen? I hope you can see how hope and faith are so intrinsically tied together. We can’t have one without the other. As believers, we work for both the present and for the eternity. We have faith and hope in both realities. We cannot sacrifice one for the other. The Bible says, “If in Christ we have hope in this life only, we are of all people most to be pitied” (I Corinthians 15:19). If we have a living hope it will bring us victoriously through this life and the next for all eternity. It is exceedingly important that we also have a living hope for our current reality and our future reality.

What do you hope for now and what do you hope for in your future reality? They should be the same. A living hope believes that God can make all things new, which is only possible if we stop allowing Satan to lead us around by the nose. Yes, dear children, Satan is leading all of humanity around by the nose. If you think about it, you know he is. From entertainment to higher levels of liberal learning, we are led around by the nose. From social media to the news media and from politics to scientific discoveries, we are being led around by the nose as our current reality sinks ever deeper into the pit of the unknown abyss of demonic control. Only the true believers of the faithful remnant have learned the secret of how to become completely separate from the abyss of demonic control that is robbing humanity of any present or future hope in Christ. Simply put, to restore our living hope is to come out from among them submitting ourselves completely to the risen Lord (Revelation 18:4-5). Only Christ can restore our living hope bringing forth an unimaginable joy in the midst of our darkest hour. Only Jesus Christ can destroy the hold that the powers of darkness have on humanity.

The living hope is not tied to the present reality of clocks and timepieces. The living hope sets us free in this present reality by allowing God through the indwelling Spirit to set our agenda every moment of every day to become all that we were created to be in Christ Jesus. Free at last! Free at last from the dominion of the devil and his ruthless powers of darkness. It won’t take long before we realize that everything has a purpose. We have our eyes opened to God’s loving providence in action working all things together for the good (Romans 8:28). God’s timing is impeccable doing and accomplishing things when we least expect it. God supersedes everything in the present reality bringing forth His will in a very powerful way even when we feel that He has lost the day or that we have been defeated by the powers of darkness. Faith gives us a new meaning to our living hope. Faith opens a whole new dimension allowing us to witness one amazing miracle after another. The Bible says, “For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly” (Psalm 84:11). Your unbelief or faithlessness will destroy your hope of changing this reality and ushering us into the next. We have hope for our coming victory in this reality and the next through Jesus Christ our Lord.

 If we just hope in the afterlife and have no hope for our present reality, then we also should be most pitted. Don’t let this evil world rob you of that hope. When we come out from among them and join others who have done the same, then we will be strengthened in the inner man. Our power will greatly increase through our connection with the risen Lord and with one another. Our living hope will see the possibilities of creating a community that is no longer controlled by the powers of darkness. The Bible says, “Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost” (Romans 15:13). Let us be assured that this power only comes through the Holy Spirit and not through the political process. Politics will never establish God’s will in this present reality. Politics has been the design of the devil from the beginning teaching people that they can have power and control over others. Politics is not the true source of power. Our power as believers is to be in the center of God’s will allowing Him to control our actions, never for personal gain as seen in most politicians. Let us come out from among them and receive the power of God to change our current reality. Let us pray, believing, “Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven” (Matthew 6:10).

Finally, we are living in a world where many have lost their hope in our current reality. I know that many of you feel defeated by what you see in the world today. Many of you have placed your trust in the political process and have been greatly disappointed. Many of you have put your trust in the secret rapture to deliver you before things get too bad. You have lost your hope in the present reality to really change, especially when we see that most of our children and grandchildren no longer follow Christ exclusively allowing Him to transform them. Dear children, we must restore our living hope, not in humanity, but in Jesus Christ who is the same yesterday, today, and forever. The message of the Cross is still powerful, and the Spirit still has the same power to transform people through faith in Christ. Please don’t lose hope but step out in faith trusting Christ alone every minute of every day. Believe me, the more you come out of the world, the better you will feel. The more you trust in God alone, the more you will experience His great power working through you. Remember, God’s methodology has not changed since the beginning. God still changes one person at a time making them into a new creation through faith. This is our living hope that is actualized by coming out from among them to experience true change, so radical it cannot be comprehended by the unspiritual mind. It is never too late to have this kind of living hope even as the world is falling apart around us. This living hope envisions the victory as they witness God’s power working through the Holy Spirit.

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The Dawning of a New Day

There is an incredible hope, to cut out the evil, and change the minds of mankind. God since the fall of humanity has been changing minds and hearts, which will cut out the evil one step at a time. Now, that the world is governed totally by self-righteous men they are attempting to cut out only the unaccepted evil and to change the minds of humanity. This has been a huge failure on the part of humanity, which has led to one war after another. Many of the wars, contrary to how they are reported, have turned into humanitarian disasters. Therefore, the coming Antichrist, sooner than you think, will be much more aggressive in cutting out the unacceptable evil while forcibly changing minds and hearts to adhere to his new global mandate. Oh yes, as Jesus Christ said, there will still be wars and rumors of wars, but incredibly more brutal, even to the point of genocide causing the entire world to erupt in hysteria (Matthew 24:6-13). What mainly concerns us in this article is how will Antichrist actually change hearts and minds bringing forth what will be perceived as the dawning of a new day. Although Satan and the powers of darkness have been working on accomplishing this for thousands of years, it pales in comparison to what Antichrist has planned for the very near future.

For the plans of Antichrist to work, it is essential to cut out all the evil that’s not accepted by the liberal establishment. What makes this even more appalling is it goes well beyond unacceptable bad behavior to include one’s beliefs. In essence, the establishment is saying your beliefs are destroying humanity and they must be eliminated. This will start by outlawing all public displays of your religious beliefs or any beliefs that don’t align with the establishment. Make no mistake this is already happening in public buildings, schools, and even public areas which has changed a whole generation of young people. Whatever gains recently made to demonstrate our faith in public buildings, unfortunately, will only be short-lived. The liberal knives are already being sharpened. People can have their religion, but it must be hidden from public view. This is all part of the plan to grow up an entire generation without the mindset of religious thought. All the world religions tend to go down much easier than the Muslim religion. If you want proof, then tell me that your children and grandchildren living in the West are faithfully following the doctrines of your professed religion. On the other hand, many of the Muslim countries have passed on their beliefs to their immediate and extended families with much greater success than the West. The Muslim religion will not go down so easily but will fight back with the viciousness of terrorism on a global scale.

Although with the coming Antichrist this will eventually change, but it will suffer first from the second woe in the book of Revelation, which I have written about previously (Revelation 9:12-21). ). See my article; “The Second Woe – The Muslim Invasion.” The second woe has been going on since the sixth century. It will finally come to a head when all the Middle Eastern nations join forces to fight against the West. The Eastern nations will not succumb easily, but they will eventually be defeated by the coming Antichrist. All public display of religious beliefs will be forbidden and to act otherwise will end in a death sentence. We have been seeing a hint of this in China controlling the church and requiring that they integrate their dogma into their teachings. Although this resistance of the Eastern nations may lead to World War III, it will not stop the Antichrist from fulfilling his mission of changing the hearts and minds of all humanity including the Eastern nations. At this point, the world as we currently know it is sick to death of wars and the many terrorist organizations. They are sick to death of all the religions forcing their will upon the people. Everyone will believe in their hearts and minds that they can change the world if they can eliminate the divisive and opinionated beliefs of religious people. They believe if all the religious expressions are banned and outlawed, then the world can have a lasting peace among the nations. They look forward to the dawning of a new day.

I don’t know how long this process will take, but I am assured that it will take place according to God’s prophecy. When this happens, the fallen world will think it is the dawning of a new day. The world as we know it will no longer be the same. The world will witness the elimination of all the terrorists causing death and destruction on a global scale. It will fix the broken United Nations by bringing all the nations into lockstep with one another. It will finally stop all the wars that are ravaging the world. They envision that humanity will overcome all the divisions but at the same time will allow every form of perversion and the outrageous lies of the devil to exist. It will be the dawning of a new day for the global elites and the coming Antichrist. They believe that they can eradicate, hunger and disease. They believe that they also have the power to stop global warming and make planet Earth a living paradise. Humanity will be ripe for a new world leader even if he appears to be a bit liberal and heavy-handed. Although they don’t know it, they are ready for the Antichrist to establish his order of things. They are ready for advanced technology to lend a hand to set things straight by introducing Artificial General Intelligence into the affairs of humanity. The world is ready for the dawning of a new day.

This will be something far worse for those who are committed to their God and their religious doctrines. The faithful remnant will hold to the doctrines of their faith and continue the transformation process as discussed in my previous article, “What is God’s Purpose for Your Life”. Although the faithful remnant will be small in numbers and spread across the entire world, they will stand firm in their faith and refuse to show allegiance to the Antichrist even if they must face persecution. As believers in Jesus Christ, I hope and pray that we will be ready for this new day that will sweep the whole world like a horrific storm. We have all witnessed the many plagues and woes in the book of Revelation, if we had eyes to see. If we are willing to admit it, we have never seen the world so crazy and mixed up spouting new perversions at an alarming rate. It will be essential that we learn how to stay pure in an impure world. Staying pure in an impure world has been a question that has occupied my mind for as long as I can remember. Yet, every day the struggle grows ever more difficult. How can we be in the world and not of the world should occupy the thoughts of every believer in Christ. This is even more difficult for those who believe that they should be on the proverbial wall, following world events, and separating truth from the enormous amount of lying propaganda, so that God’s children can be properly warned.

So, how can we remain pure in an impure world and continue our witness when it will be outlawed to demonstrate any expression of our religion? This is a question that must be answered now because the world is already aggressively attempting to change our minds clandestinely at the speed of light. Yes, the minds of fallen humanity are being changed while most don’t even realize it. Christianity has lost its meaning. It no longer means transformation. Christianity along with every other major religion is seen as a threat to everything that fallen humanity envisions in a new world. God gave us great truth in the Bible that would have saved us from this day, but we failed to listen to it and obey (Revelation 18:4-5). We thought we could live among the pagan and follow his ways without it affecting our way of thinking, but we were wrong. The minds of our children and grandchildren have been changed. They no longer trust in God to solve all their problems, including all their emotional and psychological problems, but they trust in the works of their own hands (II Peter 1:3-4). They no longer trust God to work all things together for good for those who love God (Romans 8:28). Our minds will keep being changed to the point where all forms of religion will no longer seem valid. I write this article with deep pain in my heart knowing that our way is quickly passing away. This is the great falling away (II Thessalonians 2:3). I will not rejoice in the so-called dawning of a new day. I will weep greatly that God’s children have lost their way.

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Mental Ascent to Heavenly Bliss

It is the Spirit of God that helps us to make the mental ascent to heavenly bliss. Without the Spirit it would be impossible. Without the beautiful mind created by God it would be impossible. It’s not only possible for the followers of Jesus Christ, but also essential to maintain our sanity in a world gone mad. All the hateful rhetoric and all the horrible actions of humanity begins in the mind. As we fast approach the End of Time, Satan and the powers of darkness have taken over total control of what most people think even if they vehemently deny it. Satan wants your mind. Thoughts from the enemy come in like a flood leading humanity to think the most horrendous thoughts even if they don’t express those thoughts openly. Often times those thoughts from the enemy will return again and again leading most to dwell on those thoughts for hours at a time as if they were their own thoughts. As a believer, if you are honest, you too have had to contend with these unwarranted thoughts invading your space from time to time. Thoughts from the enemy often sneak in when you least expect them to tempt you to entertain the thought even if it’s only for a brief moment in time. Today we will talk about how to guard your thoughts so that every thought, even for the briefest amount of time, will be pleasing to God. Continue reading Mental Ascent to Heavenly Bliss

The Great Deception of Mankind

If you are an American, then you have heard a lot about our freedoms and religious tolerance guaranteed by our constitution and democratic institutions. This is in stark contrast to the Chinese government which visibly and openly represses dissent for their involvement in every religion to conform it to the communist party’s ideology and its rules. Outwardly, we may appear to be completely different from the Chinese government, but it only appears that way. Our government has simply chosen a different approach and methodology, but its outcome will be the same. What our government is doing by openly proclaiming religious tolerance with one hand while under the cover of night, they wield the other hand of deception that is both disingenuous and hypocritical. Their aim is the same as Communist China to destroy our faith and allegiance in God alone, to direct the affairs of mankind, and to solve all of their problems. We are being conditioned and controlled in the dead of night to separate us from God. And even more disturbing, they have convinced us that we are the freest nation on the planet. So, how is this being ingeniously accomplished by those in power? How are they deceiving us? Continue reading The Great Deception of Mankind