The storm clouds of this period of antichrist spirit rule will gather long before it begins.
1 John 2:18-19
18 Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.
19 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.
The church has filled with the antichrist spirit and has fallen away, the antichrist spirit has taken over…..not only the church but also the secular. The spirit that preludes the man antichrist, is in every area of our structure.
However, The discerning believer will be aware of and watching for the shadows of future prophetic events. It is not an event coming in unknown.
The true body of Christ and the true Church will witness shadows and events leading up to the actual events of Revelation 13. In fact, there are signs of shadows have already formed now.
Jesus warns in Matthew 24:23-25 what will be happening……but however, it will be so obscure to most, the events will take a spiritual leading to know and understand, but the true body will know.
23. Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.
25. Behold, I have told you before
It is an utmost importance to avoid deception during the time of the tribulation because this is the time in which the antichrist (also known as the beast in Revelation) begins his global rule and requires all to take the mark of the beast in order to by or sell (Revelation 13:17).
This is such an important time in history that God sends angelic messengers to specifically preach the gospel to the entire world and warn them of the consequences of accepting the mark of the beast (Revelation 14:6-13).
I await to see how the vaccine mark of the beasts transpires…...the antichrist spirit is already out in our world and culture and how far will this antichrist spirit rehearse how you must take a mark to buy, sell, or trade through what is headlines for us today.
The spirit of the antichrist that will be shortly in the future, is already in evidence today and reacts to the way the man antichrist will perform.
As Jesus was the true prophet to the church, so there will be a false prophet that will be to the church
The Description of the (false) Prophet (Revelation 13:11–13)
Like the Antichrist, the False Prophet is described as a beast.
In Revelation 13:11 we are told he looks like a lamb but speaks like a dragon.
11 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.
This False Prophet will be the total sum of every false prophet who has ever lived, From Judas to the pulpits of today. All are of this same spirit of the antichrist.
The Antichrist and the False Prophet are paired significantly: The former's (antichrist) focus is politics while the latter's(false prophet) emphasis is an “Instead of “ religion.
In this time of a fallen church and an antichrist spirit within the church, and thus with the absence of true religion, a false religion will be necessary to make sure the political power of the Antichrist.
Wherever there is a vacuum of true religion, political power will marry itself to false religion to give itself a mark of acceptability. That is so unmistakably apparent today.
The false prophet
The false prophet of the end times is described in Revelation 13:11-15. He is also referred to as the “second beast” (Revelation 13:11; 16:13, 19:20, 20:10).
Together with the Antichrist and Satan, who empowers both of them, the false prophet is the third party of what I call the unholy trinity.
Satan will cause his False Prophet to appear meek and when he really has the heart of a destroyer.
Verse 11 says he has “Small” horns(horns of a lion) to deceive the masses, however he is of the dragon, which we know that old dragon is the power of satan.
The false prophet comes like a lamb, very innocently and with a childlike charm, also with persuasive words that draws out sympathy and good will from others.
Coming out of the church system, he may be an extraordinary preacher or orator whose demonically empowered words will deceive the multitudes.
We have to remember, the family line of this individual was with God in heaven at one time. He knows all of God and God’s ways. This anitchrist spirit can imitate what he has seen of God
But he speaks like a dragon, which means his message is the message of a dragon.
Jesus said to beware of false prophets who "come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves" (Matthew 7:15).
Revelation 13:12
12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
Verse 12 gives us the false prophet’s mission on earth, which is to lead and convince humanity to worship him,the Antichrist.
He has all the authority of the Antichrist because, like him, the false prophet is empowered by Satan.
It is not clear whether people are forced to worship the Antichrist or whether they are so in awe of these powerful beings that they fall for the deception and worship him willingly. I personally think they will flock to him as they flock to the false message and false prophets today.
Just remember, the antichrist spirit has been nurtured in the religious and church system and according to John, this all was a part of the church and came out of the church.
13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men.
The beastly prophet will be a religious leader, pointing and leading masses of people toward the Antichrist, just as the Holy Spirit points people toward Jesus Christ.
He will be like many false prophets of our own day—dispensing what people want to hear instead of the truth they need and are required to hear by Jesus’ own words.
He will attract large crowds in the church and autotoriums as false prophets usually do. But in this day of trouble like the Great Tribulation, this seemingly peaceful preacher will suddenly transform into the true monster that he has been all along.
Satan always slowly takes you where you do not want to go and are trapped to do anything without the changing power of the BLOOD OF JESUS the CHRIST
During the Great Tribulation, Satan will use the religion of the False Prophet to unite the world under the leadership of the Antichrist.
The False Prophet will have the power to counterfeit some of God's miracles, including calling down fire from heaven.
This power has already been associated with God in the Old Testament, as it is an imitation and a strong connection with the prophet Elijah (1 Kings 18:38; 2 Kings 2:11).
The deception will be so great that the people will set up an idol to the Antichrist, "the image of the beast," and worship it. It will be their sacrificial altar.
This has also already been played out with the huge golden image of Nebuchadnezzar (Daniel 3) before which all were to bow down and pay homage at the sound of the music.
Whatever God does, Satan is the master counterfeiter as Satan learned from the best.
Since God often revealed Himself by fire under the old covenant, the False Prophet will use fire to validate his own works.
Since the church has separated itself from the old covenant and the church today has done away with the Torah and the prophets, the church is as lawless as this antichrist spirit. The church will have no problem accepting the false prophet and will actually worship him. The false prophets of today have taught them well.
The Deception of this false prophet (Revelation 13:14–15)
14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means (of very false) of those (convincing) 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.
The false prophet will deceive the people into building an image which can be used as a focal point for worship of the Antichrist.
I believe this image will be set up in the city of Jerusalem as a counterfeit to the temple of God. What greater insult to God than to build an image and set it in the temple in Jerusalem.
We aren't told what the image will be, but I believe it will be a large and impressive structure, and not just an image on a coin or bill or some similar symbol or image. I believe it will become a gathering place and a ceremony of world wide proportions for those drawn by this false holy spirit and will flock in masses to worship the Beast.
Israel today as in the days of the prophets, has the means, and all that is needed to build such a building to God, but do not have the will to build it. The government is afraid of what the world will say about them, and has outlawed the allowance to even worship on that site. I suggest that the antichrist will build this magnificent building to allow his wanted worship…...and the church will oblige him.
The False Prophet's powers will be impressive—he will make the image speak.
Since satan cannot give life, the image will come alive by a technical, “techy” system the Beast controls. A modern day invention of man.
It will only appear to be alive because of its speech. Some say it will be a computer chip that speaks much as our cars and computers and the home pods like we ask to talk to us today. (Could it be a device we set up in our homes to answer all of our needs…..the answer one?)
Through whatever means, the False Prophet will make the image seem to be alive.
It will awed and accepted by the masses
The fact that the second beast uses miraculous signs and wonders, including fire from heaven, to establish the credibility of both of them would seem to indicate that people will fall before them in adoration of their power and message. (the same people in the church today, that can not receive the things of God…)
15 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.
Those who survive the terrors of the tribulation to this point will be faced with two hard choices.
Those who refuse to worship the image of the beast will be subject to death (Revelation 13:15), but those who do worship him will incur the wrath of God.
The image will be extraordinary in that it will be able to “speak.” Whatever the image is (a statue? a hologram? an android? a human-animal hybrid? a clone, a home device?), it will have some kind of ability to breathe forth the message of the Antichrist and the false prophet and provide the fake holy spirit to draw all men without God’s mark.
I can imagine people gathering at this magnificent location every day to hear what the image has to say. Much like the gathering to pray at the old temples foundation we see on the news today. They will gather to hear or pray to the antichrist man?
The media will carry the image's speeches each day in the news; it will become a focal point of every person's day just as coronavirus is today.
I believe this image is the "abomination of desolation" Jesus spoke of in Matthew 24:15.
Along with being the spokesman for them, the image will condemn to death those who refuse to worship the unholy pair. He will withhold vaccines, disallow needed medical procedures?
In our technological world, it is not hard to imagine such a scenario.
Whoever the false prophet turns out to be, the final world deception and the final apostasy will be great, and the whole world will be caught up in it.
These false teachers in our church system today abound, and they are moving us and preparing the masses toward a final satanic kingdom.
We must faithfully proclaim the saving gospel of Jesus Christ and rescue the souls of men and women from the coming disaster.
The Demand of the Prophet
(Revelation 13:16–18)
In addition to his religious agenda, the False Prophet will direct the Antichrist's economic answer to cause all to worship and cause all to take a “Mark”.
An agenda of this program will be the requirement for everyone to receive a mark on their hand or forehead.
Again, this mark is yet another attempt at counterfeiting God's power.
During the Tribulation,an angel of the Lord will preserve His people who carry an identifying mark on their foreheads (Revelation 7:3; 14:1).
Everything God does, Satan imitates. Now you know why the church has done away with the Torah and the prophets….it has set itself up to take the law of the antichrist instead of the law of God.
The Beast will identify those who are loyal to him. Anyone without the mark will be deemed a traitor and withhold needed items, vaccines, medical procedures, foods, etc.
It is probable that some type of ration cards that are proof of your following and worshipping the beast and his system will be required for obtaining scarce but needed items.
Rationing was a used as a temporary means to support our country's war effort in WW 2, but under the Beast's reign it will be permanent.
All the money in the world won't be enough to buy bread if you don't have the mark of the Beast.
It is not about the “love of money” that most hold today, it will be a love and thirst of money with a “False god”.
We have been educated that those without the mark will suffer, but those with the mark will suffer as well (see Revelation 14:9–12).
9. And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand,
10.The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:
11.And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.
12.Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
The most complex issue regarding the Beast and his mark is found in verse 18 where we are told that the number of the Beast is 666. Of all of our end day prophets none of them knows exactly what 666 means. The “last day prophets” seem unable to tell us on what they claim to know.
One last note on all of this.
The antichrist will not bring history nor the true church to its final end and closure. Only the true God, through the Lord Jesus Christ, can do that.
The antichrist can not deceive the true church of God’s people. The antichrist does not win, the true God wins.
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