Chapter
5
KINGDOM
OF THE ANTICHRIST
A
day is coming when all the kingdoms of the world will fall, and there
will be people behind the scenes pulling the strings so when they make
the changes to fix the problems they caused, they will be in absolute
control of governments and economies. The Federal Reserve is the
institution that is responsible for making money extremely available,
which caused a housing bubble that burst, plunging us into depression.
Banks gave loans to anyone who came to them asking for money without
inquiring whether the borrower even had a job. Bigger banks encouraged
smaller banks to lend as much money as possible, providing them with the
money, knowing that it was backed by the FDIC, and that the federal
government would have to pick up the tab when the bubble breaks.
They
are working under a master plan to destroy the world economy, making it
impossible for life as we know it to continue, until they fix it. These
banks may be under the authority of the federal government, but the
federal government gave away their authority when they borrowed
trillions of dollars and then handed it to the very banks that caused
these economic problems in the first place. Now these banks have the
authority that the federal government gave them, because money and power
are one and the same. They are so arrogant to publish their ultimate
goal on the back of every one-dollar bill with the insignia of an
all-seeing eye positioned on top of a pyramid of gold bars, standing for
the people’s inability to stop them.
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The
United States is on the verge of economic collapse far worse than the
great depression of 1929. It is safe to call the 1980’s a decade of
recession, so when the 90s came and brought economic recovery and
materialism, America embraced it with both hands, but all those years
really brought were deception and economic manipulation. The 90s was the
decade that exploited the short term benefits of opening up trade to
China through the Nixon administration and lifted regulations from the
financial sector through the Clinton administration, so banks could do
business and expand the economy without restraint. The very next decade
realized just how long those short-term benefits would last.
Economic
restraints and regulations are necessary as we now know, and if our
economy ever recovers, it will stabilize around the same level of the
80s before we lost touch with reality. However, we have spent thirty
years of wealth in fifteen, so a dreaded financial adjustment period
looms over the global economy, promising harsh conditions to make up for
the years of fiscal irresponsibility. When our economy finally
stabilizes with interest rates returning to eighteen percent and higher,
we will be approaching a level of economic lowliness well below the
status of the 1980s. Therefore, if the 80s were considered a recession,
what will they call this inevitable adjustment period, which could very
realistically last fifteen years? Perhaps the better question is, will
America stand for it, or will we accept yet another economic deception
greater than the first to avoid the simple reality that we are slipping
from our world status as a superpower? Perhaps the ultimate question is,
could our economy withstand another assault against the cold facts, or
is it dead already and we just haven’t felt the clammy hands of
poverty wrapping around our necks to keep the last morsel of false
sustenance from slipping down our throats.
The
world economy is based on the American economy and the American economy
is based on nothing, and has become the foundation of Satan’s empire.
The fact that this country is not generating as much wealth as we are
spending has devalued the dollar to the point of causing our banks to
fail. The banks didn’t fail because they have no money, but because
the money they have is worthless. It is only a matter of time when our
devalued dollar will manifest as skyrocketing inflation. It is worthless
because it wasn’t generated through the production of goods, but was
fabricated by the Federal Reserve and then manipulated by Wall Street.
China is the hub of global financiers. The money we borrow from them has
real value, but the fact that we have to pay it back makes the bailout
plan useless, because you cannot pay off debt with debt.
The
Federal Reserve for the last twenty years has been merely lending
numbers through the data wires to subsidiary banks. These numbers have
no value, but were simply invented by the vivid imaginations of the
moneylenders, but the banks that received these numbers must treat them
as real dollars, and are obligated to return them with interest. The
Federal Reserve claims (or at least they used to claim) that they
limited the money supply to buying and selling U.S. treasury bonds in
order to establish a system of checks and balances, which would have
avoided these market problems, so the fact that there was such a huge
housing bubble indicates that the Federal Reserve has abandoned the
treasury-bond system, evidenced by the fact that there are not enough
bonds in the treasury to account for the last two decades of frivolity
they have unloaded on the U.S. market.
The
Federal Reserve claims to be the stabilizer and watchdog of our monetary
system, but their relationship with our money is more like a fox
guarding the henhouse. Now that the housing bubble has burst, and a
handful of mega banks have been demonized in the public eye and forced
into economic reparations, the Federal Reserve has been all but excused
from the table of responsibility as though they had nothing to do with
regulating our money supply. If the Federal Reserve were as innocent as
they claim, they would have never flooded the market with money, and
they would have blown the whistle on the culprits who were responsible
for these insane lending policies, but they didn’t, because they have
no allegiance to America or fear its government. Rather, their heart
belongs to the almighty dollar. The federal government could
legitimately fire the Federal Reserve and take over managing the
nation’s money supply, but not even our own government has an
allegiance to America. We are left stranded in an ocean of sharks with
no one advocating for us.
There
is nothing federal about the Federal Reserve and they have no reserves;
rather, it is a private bank owned by private investors with a real
incentive for turning a profit at the nation’s expense. Consider the
Federal Reserve the middleman we have hired to regulate and manage our
money supply, yet the money supply has been totally out of control for
the last twenty years, and the Federal Reserve claims no responsibility
for it, and the government refuses to implicate them in the matter.
These economic powers have already grown far greater than all of us
combined. Most people think the Federal Reserve prints money and
distributes it to other banks, but that is only a fraction of what they
do. The fact that paper money represents only about five percent of our
overall economy means that ninety-five percent of the Federal
Reserve’s role in managing our money supply is still grossly
misunderstood.
So,
what did the Federal Reserve stand to gain by destroying our economy by
introducing a flood of money into the market, knowing it would cause a
bubble that would eventually burst? The better question is what they
stood to lose? Bailing out the moneylenders demonstrated the level of
control they have over the federal government, while at the same time
shifted the balance of power in their favor by trillions of dollars. Are
the moneylenders in absolute control? The proof is in the use of our
bailout money, giving themselves huge bonuses without even trying to
hide the fact, and the government could only whine about it, being
powerless to stop them. What is most perplexing, everyone is sitting on
their hands and letting this charade continue. People are utterly broke;
jobs are scarce; whole corporations are bankrupt. People are becoming
desperate looking for answers to real problems. The Federal Reserve has
loaned trillions of dollars and hardly got a nickel of it back. Now the
moneylenders are in a position to wield more than just financial power;
they are prepared to start making the rules for everyone. They intend to
reestablish the economy according to their own specifications, so when
it comes back online, they will have marbled their influence into the
fabric of government and society, so they can call the shots. That is
what they stand to gain!
Fascism
is considered a government-controlled economy, such as Hitler’s reign
of terror who lorded over everything in his domain, but what do you call
an economically-controlled government? Two words comes closest to mind:
Oligarchy (Government by a few) or plutocracy (Government by the wealthy
– American Heritage Dictionary), making it sound like our economic
problems have happened in the past, but what we are experiencing is new.
Controlling governments for the sake of wielding political power, is not
what these monsters of today claim accurately reflects their true
ambitions, which defines plutocracy, so they made up a new word to
describe themselves: plutonomy (taken from Michael Moore’s
documentary, “Capitalism: A Love Story”). It is defined as, “An
economy that is driven by or that disproportionately benefits wealthy
people, or one where the creation of wealth is the principal goal”
(Word Spy online dictionary). This word is not found in popular
dictionaries, such as the Merriam Webster’s and American Heritage
dictionaries. Apparently the objective of controlling governments is not
the aim of these people, rather they are about buying governments in
order to control economies, and they will stop at nothing until they
have everything. The fact that they had to invent their own word means
that there are no other examples of them in history. The Old Testament
book, Daniel, devoted to endtime prophecy gave all the nations it
referenced an animal name. There was a lion, a leopard and a bear, but
there was one he simply called the “beast!”
The
Beast from the books of Daniel and Revelation is referring to capitalism
out of control, like King Kong released from its cage. You could almost
say it is the very opposite of fascism. These moneylenders who have
hijacked the economy have long since hijacked our government. They are
the foundation of Satan’s emerging empire represented by the feet and
toes of Nebuchadnezzar’s statue representing the ten horns of the
beast, according to Revelation 13 made partly of iron and partly of
ceramic clay, the clay representing the “seed of men,” illustrating
the weakening of the global economy along with the human gene pool,
linking them together such that when the economy falls, racial unrest,
chaos and mayhem in the streets will inexorably follow. The
antichrist’s last day’s empire is based squarely on money, implying
that his kingdom will not be designed to govern the wilderness, which
will become a haven for everyone who refuses to participate in his
economy that will eventually be driven by the mark of the beast. Rev
17:3 says, “He carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and
I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of
blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns” KJV. The angel in
Revelation carried John away to the wilderness, because it was a place
where they could go and safely observe the beast. The wilderness is
outside the antichrist’s domain, thus it is where God intends to hide
His saints from the antichrist and from his mark.
Once
Satan migrates to Rome and establishes his pope as world religious
leader, together with the false prophet this beastly economic, military
and religious administration will establish a system of rounding up
Christians and unceremoniously eliminating them from the earth, because
of a worldwide outbreak of Christianity, rooted in Jerusalem. He will
not get much participation in herding God’s people into his death
camps, so he will lend his uncountable trillions to get the nations back
on their feet after a post WWIII economic crash, under the condition
that they restructure the global economy to make it impossible to buy or
sell without receiving a mark on the individual’s hand or forehead,
knowing that Christians will not take the mark. This will expose
Christians, so that when he makes it socially and financially profitable
to turn in Christians to the proper authorities, people will gladly
assist him.
The
mark won’t have the affect of a status symbol so much as a scar they
won’t be able to erase. If they were so tempted to take the mark, they
could theoretically cut off their hand, where they intend to place the
chip. In fact, that was Jesus’ advise in Matt 5:30, “And if your
right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better
for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to go
into hell” NIV. Once they make such a bold commitment to resist the
mark, they won’t have to cut off their arm. Those who refuse to accept
the mark will testify against those who have it by their very presence
in the world, which will incite the sons of the devil to gladly help the
antichrist rid the world of Christians. The antichrist will indoctrinate
the world to believe that Christians have always been responsible for
the ills of society, and that they are currently responsible for the
condition of their present distress. They will do this by collapsing the
global economy on or near the date of December 31, 2012, and then
calling it a self-fulfilled prophecy, blaming Christians for
brainwashing the world with all their apocalyptic notions of endtime
propaganda. Although there will be no evidence to support his claims,
people will believe him without compunction, since by then society will
be totally malleable, having been domesticated like cattle.
There
will be three phases of endtime prophecy. Midnight of December 31, 2012
will be when everything is predicted to fall apart, when the events of
endtime prophecy begin falling into place. Consequently, 2013 will be
the year when America’s moneylenders will attempt to confiscate their
assets in payment for their loans, becoming the cause of WWIII. China
will hire Russia to threaten America to pay their debts at the same time
that an economic genius will emerge from the beast, seeing the
opportunity and betraying his fellow moneylenders to finance a war using
the United States military. This war represents the apex of Satan’s
wrath in the form of the seals (the first of three judgments from God).
Then another period of the trumpets will follow; this is when the two
witnesses will judge the world for persecuting the saints during the
seals and for rejecting God’s offer of eternal life. The trumpets will
be the 3 ˝ year period of the church’s wilderness experience. After
the two witnesses are killed and are raised from the dead, the church
will lose its protection and martyrdom will resume. Then as though late
the rapture will finally occur, but not before the antichrist martyrs
many saints. After the rapture, the bowls of God’s wrath will begin,
which is the fiercest judgment of the three, after which Jesus will
finally make His formal return to earth and set up His millennial
kingdom.
According
to the numerology of the Bible, the number seven (7) stands for God. It
is the number of perfection. Six (6), being one number shy of seven,
stands for Satan, whom God has judged and found lacking in perfection.
The number three (3) stands for man, who consists of three equal parts:
body, soul and spirit. The number 666, then, is the union of the numbers
three and six, representing the union between man and Satan.
Followers
of Satan will receive an implanted chip reflecting this number that
represents his name. According to Revelation chapter thirteen they will
place his mark on their hand or on their forehead. They will receive a
number that will act as a credit card that gives them access to
Satan’s one-world monetary system. The mark of the beast, in Rev 13-18
states, “Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the
number of the beast…” Why do we need to calculate the number if he
tells us plainly that it is 666? People have wondered about this number
for centuries, even after social security numbers have been distributed
to every man, woman and child. What does 666 mean? Our present social
security number, which we received when we were born, is composed of
three digits followed by a hyphen, then two digits, hyphen, then four
more digits, making nine digits in all: 000-00-0000. The beast will give
everyone a new social security number and append it to our current one,
making it an eighteen digit number that will be arranged as three sets
of six digits: 000000-000000-000000, thus the number 666.
They
will continue using our current social security number to access our
personal information, while they will use the new number to interface
with the world monetary system. They cannot terminate our old social
security number and give us a new one, because the current information
on us would be lost in translation, nor can they use our old number in
their new computer system, because they are designing it to function in
very specific ways, making both the old and the new numbers
indispensable.
The
mark itself reveals a logical procession of events that must take place
within a specific sequence. The fact that the mark represents the root
of all evil (I don’t think any logical person would argue with that)
highly suggests that it involves money (1Tim 6:10). It will require
people to make a conscious decision to receive the privilege of
participating in the antichrist’s world monetary system, which will
double as a vote for the wholesale slaughter of Christians. Their only
other choice will be to become Christians themselves. This puts into
perspective the prevalence of the mark. If they refused Christianity
during good times, they will be even less likely to receive Christ when
it can potentially lead to their death. It is questionable who will find
the mark more useful, God or Satan, since it will have a positive side
effect of cleansing God’s church of unbelievers, and it will
inadvertently instill a level of love and devotion to Christ in the
saints that God has desired in His People since the original apostles
fell asleep.
Blasphemy
against the Holy Spirit is perhaps the least understood and yet most
feared teaching of the Bible. There is a forgivable unbelief that is
based on ignorance and there is an unforgivable unbelief that will
harden your heart, making it impossible to repent and believe in God.
Herein lies the difference… If, for example, you read a Bible verse
and choose not to believe it, that is forgivable, but if the Holy Spirit
reveals the meaning of His word to you, and you choose not to believe
it, then you will be guilty of blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. In
your heart you know it’s true, because the spirit of truth revealed it
to you. If you have experienced the Holy Spirit firsthand and then
turned away from Him, it qualifies as a type of blasphemy from which you
cannot repent. You cannot re-believe what God has revealed to you after
casting it to the ground and stepping on it with your unbelief.
The
antichrist is the essence of man. In fact, it is not recorded that Adam
ever apologized to God for rebelling against Him. He didn’t apologize
because he wasn’t sorry. People have asked, ‘Did Adam go to
heaven?” The answer is a resounding no, because Adam walked in the
presence of God in the garden, making his sin in the likeness of
Lucifer, who committed the unpardonable sin. We know that Lucifer has no
place for repentance, who sinned in the very presence of God, hence the
difference between man and demon, but God wants to bridge the gap
between the sin of man and the sin of demons by revealing Himself
through His church before He returns. We are fortunate that we have
never seen God at any time; for that reason our sin is less than the sin
of Adam, hence our sin is pardonable. It is for this that the world will
hate us; they will know that manifesting Jesus Christ through signs,
wonders and miracles will increase their sin of rejecting God a
hundredfold. We believe in God by faith in the sacrifice of His Son and
by evidence of the creation, but we understand His existence through
deductive reasoning, not through direct exposure to Him. For us the door
of faith remains open for repentance, but there is a sin that can shut
that door while still in the flesh.
Remember
what Jesus said to the Pharisees, “Ye serpents, ye generation of
vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?” (Matt 23:33
KJV). Jesus was saying that their fate was already sealed; there was
nothing they could do to appeal to God’s mercy for stepping over the
line. The question is: what did they do to step over the line? They
stood in the presence of Jesus Christ, though He was clothed in the
common flesh of man, they witnessed His miracles, signs and wonders, and
listened to the word of God in all its purity, yet they hardened their
hearts that they were face to face with the God of creation, their
messiah, whom Israel claimed to be worshipping since the day God first
spoke to Abraham. Luke 20:17,18 says, “What is this then that is
written, the stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the
head of the corner? Whosoever shall fall upon that stone shall be
broken; but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder”
KJV. The reprobate mind will never receive Jesus Christ; they are
destined to be ground into powder and scattered like dust. Jesus was
talking to the Pharisees, who are our examples of the reprobate mind;
they are what science calls psychopaths. They knew He was the Son of God
but refused to believe it. In the same way, God will empower His church
in the last days and especially His two witnesses to prove beyond the
shadow of a doubt that they are witnesses to a divine act of God in the
endtime revival of the church, and those whom they are persecuting to
the death are the very children of God, yet they will harden their
hearts and continue to martyr them in spite of the evidence, securing
their fate by taking the mark.
Taking
the mark is equivalent to blaspheming the Holy Spirit. Millions will
commit this unpardonable sin, searing the reprobate mind in their
conscience like a hot branding iron. Their fate will be sealed even
while still alive in the body. They will have lost their ability to
repent of their unbelief, according to Heb 12:16-17, “See that no one
is sexually immoral, or is godless like Esau, who for a single meal sold
his inheritance rights as the oldest son. Afterward, as you know, when
he wanted to inherit this blessing, he was rejected. He could bring
about no change of mind, though he sought the blessing with tears” NIV.
People will suddenly change overnight, as though someone flipped off a
switch and the lights went out. Remember the epigenetic switches we
discussed in the chapter Evolution of Culture that control genetic
modules? We saw that these modules are bundles of genes created from
man’s genetic past that work in concert with each other to create a
certain physical or behavioral expression, but have been shelved from
disuse. They are like replacement parts that can be deactivated and
reactivated through a process called reversion, and are triggered into
service usually by an outside stimulus. The mark will act as a switch,
turning on certain genes that code for the inclinations of psychopathy,
causing an endtime social disease outbreak of epidemic proportions.
This
may sound like science fiction, but we already have a historical example
of this kind of social behavior in the Third Reich, illustrating an
instance of genetic reversion simultaneously affecting individuals of an
entire country. Germany was suffering under serious oppression after
signing the Treaty of Versailles, which rightly vilified the German
people and labeled them the chief instigators of WWI, so when they voted
Hitler into power, Germany was ready to shed their guilt and oppression
imposed on them by other countries. Hitler offered Germany freedom from
oppression in the opportunity to believe in themselves as the
“greatest nation in the world,” and they took the bait and embraced
raw insanity as opposed to embracing the alternative prospective of
paying off their debts that other nations imposed on them. Does that
sound like something America would do? Their greed and lust for power
and their selfish ambitions for glory and national pride turned them
into monsters almost overnight. The seed of malevolence was germinating
just under their skin, so when Hitler came along and watered the garden
of their hearts, these evil desires immediately sprang up and blossomed
into a field of psychopathy among those who lost the ability of feel
compassion for other human beings. The United States has placed itself
in the same position as Germany after WWI; we are in debt up to our
ears, and other nations will soon be over here rightly making very
oppressive demands on us like happened to Germany in the Treaty of
Versailles. A man will then arise promising to deliver us from our
oppressors, and we too will take the bait for the same motives: greed,
lust and pride.
"He
answered, `Then I beg you, father, send Lazarus to my father's house,
for I have five brothers. Let him warn them, so that they will not also
come to this place of torment.' "Abraham replied, `They have Moses
and the Prophets; let them listen to them.' "`No, father Abraham,'
he said, `but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent.'
"He said to him, `If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets,
they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.'"
(Luke 16:27-31 NIV).
This
is one of Jesus’ most amazing statements, ‘If they do not listen to
Moses and the prophets, neither will they be convinced even if someone
rises from the dead.’ He was exonerating the word of God, implying
that it is more persuasive than a man coming from beyond the grave with
a message from God. This statement moreover testifies against the
reprobate mind in that no matter what happens or who brings the message,
the psychopath will never repent of his unbelief. The Pharisees were
incomprehensible to Jesus as the psychopath is to the scientific
community. They have delved into his brain and looked for abnormalities
and found none; the justice system agrees, calling him sane in a court
of law, except that certain tests on the brain have proven that critical
regions regulating empathy, remorse and other important emotions are far
less active in his brain than in healthy minds. Clearly there are
spiritual powers underfoot here. Instead of mother and father having a
positive impact on his developing brain as a child, demons have clearly
manipulated him and turned him into a heartless monster, the antichrist
being the leader of such people.
The
reprobate mind refuses to repent, resulting in a loss of ability to
repent altogether, so that the person eventually becomes a slave to his
unbelief. 2 Peter 2:19 says, “Promising them freedom while they
themselves are slaves of corruption; for by what a man is overcome, by
this he is enslaved” NASB. The reprobate mind thinks identically to
Satan, in that he too has no intension of repenting from his plan to one
day overthrow God’s throne. We know his vision will never be realized,
but he actually believes it is possible, being lost in his own grandiose
mental image of himself. This is the Bible’s account of “deceiving
and being deceived” in 1Tim 3:13. After Lucifer received the entire
universe as his inheritance and then lost it to desiring God’s throne,
it is understandable that he would find it difficult accepting the fact,
but refusing to accept the facts is a departure from reality. The
reprobate mind is just as lost in his ego and just as departed from
reality. If someone were to rise from the dead with a message for Satan,
he would not listen either, illustrating the resemblance the reprobate
mind has with the devil. While we are alive in the flesh we still have
the opportunity to repent and believe in Jesus, but the reprobate mind
is the exception to that rule. Like Satan, the psychopath has already
been judged before condemned to the eternal flames, before his soul has
been severed from his body; for when God gives up on you, you’re
already in hell (Mat 23:32-36).
Then
came the Feast of Dedication at Jerusalem. It was winter, and Jesus was
in the temple area walking in Solomon's Colonnade. The Jews gathered
around him, saying, "How long will you keep us in suspense? If you
are the Christ, tell us plainly." Jesus answered, "I did tell
you, but you do not believe. The miracles I do in my Father's name speak
for me, but you do not believe because you are not my sheep. (John
10:22-26 NIV).
These
verses expose just how dense the reprobate mind is to the knowledge of
God, denser than the lead walls of a nuclear containment dome. Jesus had
to remind them that he performed innumerous miracles in their presence,
but they still had to ask Him if He was the Christ. They didn’t know
because they didn’t want to know. During Jesus’ mock-trial the high
priest asked Him the same question, putting the words in Jesus’ mouth,
“tell us whether You are the Christ, the Son of God,” and Jesus
answered them, “You have said it yourself…” (Matt 26:63,64). They
spoke the very words that would have saved them if they could only
believe. To them it was the wrong answer, because they didn’t want Him
as their messiah. They were used to people respecting them as their
spiritual leaders, but Jesus found fault with them and rebuked them
openly, revealing them as the religious cowards they were. Jesus was a
man who had all the earmarks of their Messiah, except that He didn’t
speak their language, and they hated Him for it. This reprobate
mentality that finds the thoughts of their own minds more fascinating
and intriguing than the truth is developing within society today, and is
preparing itself for the great day of Satan. When he reveals himself,
they will immediately clamor to him as a moth to a flame. He will match
their worldview, which itself is a product of Satan.
What
I am driving home here is the fact that the mark of the beast is
essentially a ticket to eternal damnation to whomever receives it, and
that people will know exactly what they are doing when they take the
mark. You cannot accidentally loose your soul like you would misplace a
pair of socks. In every respect they will be trading any hope of eternal
life for a glimmer of optimism that their temporal lives in the flesh
might return to normal if they take the mark, so they may enjoy a few
more years of their useless lives before they must give an account to
God for the decisions they’ve made. They will know what they are doing
is wrong, but they will partition what they are thinking in their minds
from what they are doing to keep from understanding the truth about
themselves. The mark’s direct association with pure evil signifies
that it represents everything God hates, including and especially the
martyring of His saints. Therefore, everyone will know that it is the
mark of Satan, and to receive it is to cast their vote in favor of
eliminating whomever the beast deems inappropriate or a threat to his
kingdom. The fact that the whole developed world has set up a system to
eliminate Christians is the reason these are the last days in the first
place.
The
world has seen many evil days that have not precipitated the fulfillment
of endtime prophecy. God has turned a blind eye without lifting a finger
to stop the mayhem of past bloodbaths, because it did not involve the
wholesale slaughter and attempted mass extinction of a people who
believe in Him. Even the slaughter of the Jews in Hitler’s holocaust
did not evoke God’s judgment on Germany the way He intends to judge
the world in the last days, because the Jews did not believe in Him (see
Deuteronomy 28). The world can kill each other as much as they want, and
God will not interfere with the rights He gave mankind to exercise their
own will, but when people organize a campaign of mass genocide against
His beloved, who are serving Him in spirit and truth, whose cries are
bleating in His ears, He will rise from His glorious throne to deliver
them, and when he does, I pity my own executioner.
Hence,
for the mark to take on the meaning of absolute evil implies that it is
directly associated with the killing of Christians, dictating the fact
that martyrdom is underway before the mark is introduced, which also
carries with it the implication that a spiritual revival far greater
than the glory of the early church is also underway before the world
organizes a scheme to purge Christians from Satan’s New World Order.
An accurate scenario of endtime events involves Satan playing a manic
game of catch-up with God, who forces Satan to be constantly on the
hustle, trying to stifle the saints who are awakening from their
millennial slumber and shining the light of God’s truth in the eyes of
the world and testifying against their leader. Nevertheless, the world
will continue in the ways of evil, completely ignoring the signs, just
as the Pharisees ignored the signs pointing to Jesus’ true identity,
after God uses His church to prove they are following the devil himself.
At
this point it looks as though God is doing nothing to prepare for
Satan’s wrath, but when He does go to work, He will muster His people
very quickly. Without a revival there would be no reason to kill
Christians, since the current complacency of the church is hardly a
threat to Satan’s kingdom. Rather, the complacency of the church was
the very tool he used to establish his world empire in the first place.
Miracles, signs and wonders will suddenly become commonplace among His
people, causing the world to understand that God is living and working
among the very people the antichrist is trying to destroy. This will
cause his mark to be directly associated with mass genocide of the
saints, and will engender the reprobate mind within society, who will
know they are God’s people they are trying to destroy, but will cast
their vote against them just the same by receiving the mark. The world
will follow the path of the Pharisees who required the death of Christ
even after they stood in His presence and heard His words and witnessed
His healing power that proved His identity, so it will be in the last
days that God will give His people authority to prove their identity as
His precious saints by performing signs, wonders and miracles in the
presence of their enemies. The world will close their hearts to them and
to the truth, and forge ahead with their plan to destroy them without
the slightest remorse. Therefore, taking the mark of the beast will
become a person’s ticket to hell in those who receive it.
For
the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and
unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; Because
that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed
it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the
world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made,
even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither
were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish
heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like
to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping
things. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts
of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the
creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. For this
cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did
change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise
also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust
one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and
receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave
them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not
convenient; Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication,
wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate,
deceit, malignity; whisperers, Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful,
proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection,
implacable, unmerciful: Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which
commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have
pleasure in them that do them. Rom 1:18-32 KJV
There
will be no doubt about this man being the antichrist, no doubt that the
people they are murdering are the children of God, and no doubt that
taking the mark is their vote to side with pure evil. It will be as in
the days of Moses when the Egyptians saw the signs coming from Aaron’s
staff, who kept telling Pharaoh to let his people go. When the Red Sea
opened and the children of Israel walked across it as though on dry
land, the Egyptians fool heartily followed after them and paid the price
with their lives. They should have known better than to venture into a
miracle that was made for the very people they were trying to destroy.
So it will be in the last days that God will pour out His grace among
His people, and when the world lays their hands on the children of God
after witnessing so many miracles, they will bring down the judgment on
themselves. There is another reason the mark of the beast will
automatically condemn anyone who takes it, because God said it would in
Rev 14:9-12. All you have to do is read it for yourself in the Bible. Of
those who take the mark, as Jesus said, “It would be better for that
man if he had never been born” (Matt 26:24 NASB).
A
third angel followed them and said in a loud voice: "If anyone
worships the beast and his image and receives his mark on the forehead
or on the hand, he, too, will drink of the wine of God's fury, which has
been poured full strength into the cup of his wrath. He will be
tormented with burning sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and of
the Lamb. And the smoke of their torment rises for ever and ever. There
is no rest day or night for those who worship the beast and his image,
or for anyone who receives the mark of his name." This calls for
patient endurance on the part of the saints who obey God's commandments
and remain faithful to Jesus. (Rev 14:9-12 NIV)
After
so many Christians have been sacrificed on Satan’s altar of deception
the mid-tribulation rapture will finally occur as though late. Those who
are serving Satan will make up a story to explain what happened to
everybody, all the while knowing the truth in their hearts. They will
believe their own made up stories, conveniently forgetting the day and
hour they fabricated them. It says that signs were given to the false
prophet to deceive the inhabitants of the earth in order that all might
believe in the antichrist. Although the world was well acquainted with
the signs of the two witnesses nothing they do will move them, but they
will be moved by the signs of the false prophet.
Instead
of being persuaded by the two witnesses, people will send gifts to each
other after they are killed (Rev 11:10). The world will interpret their
death as proof that in the end the two witnesses were inferior to the
dragon who killed them, and inferior to his antichrist, who ordered
their death and inferior to his false prophet, who financed the campaign
to destroy everything that represents God in the world. After the two
witnesses come back to life and are raised to heaven in the presence of
their enemies, the whole world will effectively erase it from their
minds. No doubt after their bodies began to stir and they begin standing
on their feet, the camera crew will be ordered to stop broadcasting
their latest deception, calling it yet another hoax. They will no doubt
pay someone a lot of money to make up a story just like they did about
Jesus’ resurrection, saying that his disciples came and took Him away
while the guards were asleep (Matt 28:11-15). The world will believe
whatever they are told, because they were not chosen to inherit the
kingdom of God; they will never once consider believing in Jesus.
The
false prophet ordered a statue set up for the world to worship his image
in honor of the first beast (the pope) whose fatal wound had been
healed. Together, it will be like looking into a fire, where your eyes
get pulled into the flames and you lose your will to look away. He will
be like Medusa in Greek mythology; if you look upon her, you turn to
stone. People without a personal relationship with Christ will be
hypnotized by his human attraction, and will fall to his global
deception. The one facet to their deceptions that make them so
irresistible will be that anyone who does not worship him will be
killed. The man of lawlessness will establish his New World Order as the
final kingdom of men; people will clamor to it and accept him and his
image. They will make their choice and call it life, but in the end it
will be the way of death (Prov 16:25). The other choice is Jesus Christ,
who is the opposite of man’s evil nature; He is the opposite of Satan;
to choose Him is to choose eternal life, but initially it will be a
choice of potential martyrdom. The book of Romans talks about
figuratively dying to the flesh as a means of spiritually serving God,
but in the last days it may become all too literal (Rom 6:1-23).
One
of the names of Satan is the Great Deceiver (2Jn 1:7). What they are
really worshipping is money, which itself is the great deceiver.
Worshipping money is the equivalent of worshipping Satan. These will be
times when the world will simply refuse to believe in anything beyond
their money and their natural instincts of self-preservation without
concern for the truth or their fellow man. Society already has this
mentality. To them, their flesh is god, and they serve a god of flesh.
It says that power was given to his false prophet to give breath to the
image of the beast, so it can speak and cause all who refuse to worship
the image to be killed. Can an inanimate object come to life? Of course
not, it is another deception. The twisted part is that people will know
it is not really alive, like their money, yet they will worship it
anyway. To them it is better than worshipping the God of heaven.
The
false prophet and the antichrist are analogous to king Ahab and his wife
Jezebel. It says in 1Kg 16:29-33 that Ahab (the false prophet) did more
evil in the eyes of the Lord than any other king before him. He married
Jezebel (representing the antichrist), a Sidonian, who subsequently
influenced Ahab to worship and serve other gods (Baal – the dragon).
Jezebel is mentioned in the book or Revelation (Rev 2:20-23) to indicate
her significance in endtime prophecy. Ahab was the one in authority, but
Jezebel wielded the power of his kingship analogous to countless last
days prophecies regarding the great harlot who deceived all nations by
the wealth of her sensuality (Rev 18:3).
There
was another woman who had the same spirit of Jezebel, who was
responsible for the death of John the Baptist. Herodias, a woman of
standing with the king, hated John the Baptist and had her daughter
dance for Herod. The king asked the young dancer what she wanted in
exchange for her beauty, offering her up to half his kingdom,
essentially offering his hand in marriage, which would have earned her
the title of queen, the second most powerful person in his kingdom (Matt
14:1-12). She turned him down, though, at the request of her mother, who
instructed her to ask instead for the head of John the Baptist on a
platter. Herodias could not dance for the king herself, because she had
no beauty of her own, just like Satan, who has no beauty of his own, but
is ugly, poor and helpless, and needs human slaves to do his bidding.
Herodias
could have been mother of the queen, but she sacrificed her potential
status in society to satisfy her hatred of the anointing John the
Baptist carried that so diametrically opposed the demon spirits that
tormented her. What she did was unnatural to hate the Spirit of God over
the love of money, power and prestige, which made her all the more
dangerous and fearful. Even Elijah of the Old Testament was afraid of
Jezebel after calling down fire from heaven; he ran for his life in
dread of her. The antichrist and the false prophet will relate to each
other very much like Ahab and Jezebel in that the false prophet will be
king, while the antichrist will be a type of homosexual mistress. The
two witnesses will stand and face the wrath of Jezebel and the dragon
will kill them, but God will raise them from the dead before their very
eyes and before their enemies to demonstrate their impotence, proving
that Satan and all the power of evil are ineffectual in the presence of
God (Lk 21:16-19).
The
antichrist is God’s opposite: God is love, so the antichrist will
butcher the human race. Jesus is the way, the truth and the life, so the
antichrist is wayward, deceitful and murderous. Jesus Christ obeyed His
Father in all things, following Him even to His grave to secure victory
over death for the children of God later to be spiritually born to Him,
who will enjoy their company throughout all eternity in heaven, so the
antichrist will be free of all laws, rules and human authorities, who
will later be cast into the lake of fire, where he will long for death,
tormented there day and night for ever and ever. Dan 11:21 says, “And
in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give
the honor of the kingdom,” and Dan 11:37 says, “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” (KJV). Instead of going
through the proper channels to receive the kingdom, he will take it
through flattery and intrigue. There is no limit to this man’s
rebellion and arrogance.
In
other words he will steal the world without allowing any man, culture,
society or laws to preside over him. Nor will he rise from the ranks of
human governments, but will be an entity of his own, like Melchizedec,
who had neither father nor mother nor genealogy, “Having neither
beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God, he
abides a priest perpetually” (Heb 6:3). The priest Melchizedec,
originally mentioned in Gen 14:18, is a type of Christ, but the
antichrist is a counterfeiter of Christ, who will claim to come from
nowhere, having no heritage, respecting not the religion of his fathers,
but will have his own faith of self-worship, and will require the world
to believe in him. The religion of self-worship is already embedded in
society, so when the false prophet requires humanity to worship him, it
will be the same as worshipping self, for to worship self is to worship
Satan. It is no wonder God will permanently close the door on man’s
reign of power and open a thousand year reign where Jesus Christ Himself
is emperor, and He will create a heavenly environment on earth that man
never came close to achieving, in fact he never even tried.
James
R. Wuthrich
jimwuthrich@yahoo.com
