Another JesusBy Jeffrey D. Dean Sr.

Chapter 1

TRUE CHRIST VS. THE ANTICHRIST

Christians the world over (especially modern evangelical Christians) eagerly await the promised “second coming” of Jesus, foretold by prophets, apostles, saints, and depicted in detail in numerous books of the New Testament. It is said that the prophecies relating to the second coming of Christ are three times as prevalent in the Bible as the prophecies relating to His first advent (birth, life, ministry, death and resurrection). Never before in world history has there been such a generation that has so overwhelmingly come to the understanding that the return of Christ may indeed be imminent!

Consequently, the second coming of Christ has become a billion dollar industry in the world today. Modern Christian authors have made small and large fortunes on commentary, books, novels and even blockbuster movies based on this subject. The second coming is a topic that shows no end of dying any time soon.

Almost as popular are books and movies and commentary on the rise or revealing of the elusive and mysterious “antichrist.” Christians speculate and ponder this subject with much eagerness and anticipation and with some warning. Of course, the modern take on the antichrist, especially in America, and most popular view is that none of the Christians living in this present generation will ever witness the arise of the “antichrist” because popular doctrine states that Christians will not even be here for the event. It is accepted by a vast majority that Christians will have been “raptured” out of the world prior to the revealing of the antichrist.

There are many scriptural references, both in the Old and the New Testaments of the Bible that describe, or are considered to be descriptions of this antichrist. I have read so many modern prophetic books on this subject that I can no longer put a number to them. I have seen some pretty incredible and outlandish theories. One such book suggested that Anwar Sadat was the antichrist. I believe there isn’t a President of the United States who has been elected since the early 1970’s who hasn’t been accused of being “the antichrist” of the Bible. The Popes have, for over a thousand years, been suspect by protestant eschatologists (and still are suspect by many). More recently people have suggested that Opra is the antichrist! (I'm serious I heard such a theory).

I think it’s a very big mistake when eschatologists attempt to take the prophecies

concerning the end times and directly point to current or recent events and or, what’s worse, point fingers at people as the fulfillment. In fact, since by very definition eschatology seeks to "prophecy" or predict what is to come in the future, perhaps eschatology itself is a very big mistake. Why? Because, if your application of a scripture to future events or your handling of a particular prediction turns out to be false, you have now become a “false prophet.”

Dispensationalists especially should not be engaging in, or writing books of eschatology! Dispensationalists teach that the dispensation of prophecy has come to an end and now we have the Bible and there are no more prophets and the Spirit of Prophecy no longer works in the world. People who believe this, but then write an eschatological work that attempts to predict the future using scripture are telling us plainly that they do not have a direct calling from God to do so, because prophecy, according to them is a “finished” gift! Incidentally, the dispensationalists are hard pressed to explain how two prophets could show up in the Book of Revelation, called the “two witnesses” if prophecy has now ceased, especially when you learn dispensationalists also teach that during the period of the “tribulation” when the two witnesses prophecy, according them, the Holy Spirit is not even “in the world” but has been removed by the “rapture.” But I digress.

Instead of trying to point to any event, person, place or thing, I will endeavor to stick to the scriptures and use the written Word of God alone to unravel the mysteries of the Book of Revelation and the other end time prophecies. As you read this book you will be able to draw your own conclusions as to whether or not any of the prophecies I discuss within these pages are actually coming to pass already, or are going to come to pass soon. I honestly believe this is what a true studier and teacher of Biblical prophecy should do. Confine yourself to the Scriptures and, comparing scriptural things with scriptural and spiritual things with spiritual, use the written Word of God to explain itself and rely on the Spirit of God within those you are trying to help so they may see how the prophecy applies to them and their walk.

Most agree that the antichrist is an extremely charismatic man who arrives on the scene in the final 7 years of world history. (We won't go into how they arrive at this 7 year calculation because it's tenuous at best and extremely complicated). There are also factions who insist that the antichrist is not a man at all, but is a “spirit,” or a particular teaching that arises. Most scholars dismiss this, however, because the Book of Revelation in particular depicts a world leader who shall be “wounded as unto death, but the deadly wound is healed," and, they contend, you can't "wound" the "head" of a doctrine.

Nevertheless, as I said before, the most popular view, widely accepted as universal, is that an extremely charismatic man is yet to arrive on the scene, make covenants and peace accords, bring about a world peace, take over the fourth world government, (a revived Rome) be wounded and die, perhaps in an

assassination which shall, they believe, undoubtedly be blamed on the Christians, then, in a miraculous event shall arise from the dead and in a final act of world betrayal announce that he is God and must be worshipped as God, taking his seat in the newly built temple in Jerusalem (a building which he himself orchestrated for that purpose).

What most have failed to pick up on within the scriptures pertaining to the coming antichrist is that he is, not so much a "false" Christ as much as he is "another" Christ, a "counterfeit" Christ, identical in almost every detail to the true Christ. This "antichrist" actually will not, technically, be "another" Christ, but will be the true Christ, twisted and perverted. This was something that the Apostles themselves saw emerging all the way back in the first century.

Galatians 1: 6-9

6 I marvel that you are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ to another gospel:

7 Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.

8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than that which we have preached to you, let him be accursed.

9 As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel to you than the one that you have received of us, let him be accursed.

We as believers must heed the warning of the Apostles. They knew that a strong secular influence in the world would eventually seek to undermine and twist the Christ to their own ends. The Apostles, therefore, made it clear that we must remain true to the Christ that THEY preached.

2 Corinthians 11: 3-4

3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

4 For if he that comes preaches another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if you receive another spirit, which you have not received, or another gospel, which you have not accepted, you might well bear with him."

There we have it then. Paul's biggest fear for the church at Corinth was that someone would come and preach "another Jesus" and what's more that the Corinthians would "bear with" this false prophet and allow Christ to be perverted and twisted for future generations. Paul and several of the Apostles make it clear that this was a very real danger.

Not just the Apostles warned us. Yahshua, the true Christ, himself issued warnings concerning false Christs:

Matthew 24: 23=24

"23 Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not

24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect."

If you understand anything about the coming end times you know that there shall arise, not just ONE replacement Christ, but, according to Messiah himself, there shall be many. It is my contention that this Beast of Revelation is simply the most deceptive and powerful of all the false Christs that have ever arisen. It is this "other Jesus" that eventually the entire world "accepts" and "worships," to the point that anyone who refuses to accept this false Christ shall be under penalty of death. The power of the coming world antichrist lies primarily in that fact, I believe that this false Christ is the ACTUAL CHRIST, twisted and perverted. That is why there are so many similarities between the antichrist and the true Christ!

When I was writing regular editorials for the Delaware State News in the 1990’s I said something that offended the local chapter President of the Christian Coalition. (A pseudo political/religious movement fighting to impose “Christian Values” on America through political power). This individual was so offended by what I said that he went straight to the local Christian radio station, WXPZ, and dedicated a morning editorial to attacking me. In my article I had addressed the Christian’s continual desire to bring “God” back into the public school system. I posed the question, “which God do we admit the schools to teach and preach?” I asked this because there are so many different concepts of God in this world, and America, being a melting pot, has within its social structure many different and varying views of God.

The local leader of the Christian Coalition quoted me and stated emphatically that this is how he knew I was not a Christian, because Christians know there is but one God! In other words, if I, as an American respect my fellow citizen’s right to believe and worship whatever God they choose, I cease to become a Christian in the eyes of this political movement. So be it, for if my respect of other’s

cultures and beliefs, and if I as an American cannot legally accept the right of my fellow American's to worship whatever God they chose, if this makes me "unchristian" then I do not want to be a Christian.

Sociologists and anthropologists know that in the world there are many different Gods, and even among cultures that worship the same Gods, there are varying forms and cultural images of those same Gods! To deny that, in the world at least, is simply to stick your head in the sand and live a delusion. Even though I believe the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of the Bible is the only TRUE God, I recognize that many in this big world of mine disagree with me and as Americans, their God is legally as valid as the God I worship! If we allow Christians to preach their God in the public schools, will not the other religions demand equal time for their Gods? That was my only point.

Just as there are different Gods, in the world, and varying images and views of those Gods, I have learned there are different Jesus’ now present in the world. Better put, there are varying cultural images of Jesus. White America has an image of a Jesus who is a white democratic republican. There has been a movement among African Americans that present an image of Jesus as a black man! Even some leaders within that culture will insist that historically Jesus was indeed a black man. He may have been. I don’t know, and I don’t care! I tend to believe that Jesus was an Hebrew myself, and most likely resembled all the other Hebrews of his day within the region of the world in which he was born. That’s not the point! Christians, and even the various offshoots of the religion that most Christians consider “cults” all believe they worship the same Jesus (even though their "image" or picture of Jesus is in some cases extremely diversified), nevertheless, they worship, they believe, the Jesus of the Bible! While they may not agree, and while they may possess so many diverse teachings of Jesus, they will tell you that they worship the SAME Jesus !

Emile Durkheim, a well known sociologist, studied cultures in depth. He noticed that the worship of some form of a God is universal among all cultures, even the most primitive. He wanted to understand why this is. What he learned is very very relative to those who desire to understand the coming great world conflict depicted in the Book of Revelation of the Bible. Durkheim learned that the basic process by which a culture develops a religion is the same. When a group of people band together and live as a social group, such as in a tribe, they inevitably develop social traits in common. They then select an animal that best represents these value aspects of the tribe (much like sports teams pick a mascot). What Durkheim found is that, inevitably, over time, the tribe begins to worship the animal. This is called “totemism.” Durkheim saw totemism as the most basic form of religion. It is interesting to those who study Revelation for the great antichrist religion that arises in the end times to threaten the saints of YHWH is depicted as an “animal,” the “Beast.” In fact, all false deities in the Bible are depicted as “Beasts,” even though in scripture the Beasts all have ruling authority and are kingdoms, according to the scripture, we have to accept

the fundamental truth that all the great kingdoms of the world depicted in scripture have their religious underpinnings. All the great PAGAN kingdoms present an “image of a beast” or a deity who is to be worshipped, historically under the pain of death.

Durkeim believed that all religions are outgrowths of totemism, adding to it, myths, images, and traditions. The totemic animal, Durkheim believed, was the expression of the sacred and the original focus of religious activity because it was the emblem for a social group, the clan. If Durkheim is correct, religion therefore is just as inevitable as society is inevitable when individuals live together as a group. I believe he was dead straight on about this, for it explains why the first thing that God judged, after bringing the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt, was their creation of the “golden calf” to worship! The God of Israel is unique and did not want his people creating the same type of religious system that pagans create. This is significant when you understand that this type of development of religion inevitably grows into the tribe actually worshipping themselves. This is because the animal is nothing more than a representation of the tribe’s own traits and values, and when the tribe worships this symbol as such, what are they actually worshipping? Their own traits and values, in other words, themselves.

How is this so significant to those studying the Book of Revelation and the end times prophecies? The answer is obvious when you know the scriptures. One of the landmark scriptures found in the Newer Testament, which universally is accepted as a description of the “antichrist” or the great Beast of Revelation 13, actually states emphatically that this antichrist (called the son of perdition) “opposes and exhalts himself above all that is called God or worshipped until he sits in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.”

Some say this prophecy was fulfilled already when Antiochus Epiphanies entered the Holy Temple in Jerusalem and erected a statue of Jupiter that was in his own likeness and declared himself the representative of God on earth. Others have believed that the Roman Popes all fulfill this prophecy for they sit in the Church (which is always symbolic of the temple of God) and have declared themselves to be “Representative of God and of His Christ.” While all of these events indeed mirror this prophecy I think that the meaning of Thessalonians has far bigger significance because of the context of the verses.

2 Thessalonians 2: 3

“3 Let no man decieve 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.”

From reading the above verse (which directly precedes the mention of the son of Perdidition “calling himself God,”) we know that Paul is speaking of a much

greater event than just the revealing of the antichrist to the world. He clearly tells us that the antichrist will not become obvious to the world until there be a “great falling away” first. We know, then, that the falling away and the revealing of the antichrist are not just “connected” prophetic events, they are indeed RELATED or chronoligically connected.

The Apostles, and most specifically John, foresaw the day when the world would take away the true Christ and replace him with an antichrist and what’s worse, this event would be the culmination of a “great falling away from the faith in Jesus Christ and his teachings of love,” and would continue until the antichrist would sit in the “temple” of God totally convinced that HE himself (or she) is indeed God. It’s the worship of self, which is the exact antithesis of Christ’s and the Apostles teachings of “dying of self.” It's the ultimate totemism, where the social culture, instead of erecting an "animal" as the totem, erects a man instead and it ends the same way, idol worship that is in all actuality the worship of the value system of the society which created it (or in this case the lack of values).

REVELATION 13

1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crown, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.

2 And the beast which I saw was like a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.

3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.

4 And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast, saying, Who is like the beast? Who is able to make war with him?

5 And there was given to him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given to him to continue forty and two months.

6 And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.

7 And it was given to him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.

8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not

written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

9 If any man have an ear, let him hear.

10 He that leads into captivity shall go into captivity: he that kills with the sword, must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.

11 And I beheld another beast coming out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spoke as a dragon.

12 And he exercises all the power of the first beast before him, and causes the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.

13 And he does great wonders, so that he makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,

14 And deceived them that dwell on the earth, by those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by the sword, and did live.

15 And he had power to give life to 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.

16 And he caused all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:

17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

18 Here is wisdom. Let him that has understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred, threescore, and six.”

Revelation 13 is the landmark scripture depicting the arise of what everyone universally recognizes and calls “the antichrist.” There is much symbolism contained within this chapter, symbolism that has been used elsewhere in scripture and which are also as universally accepted as describing, not only the antichrist but the TRUE CHRIST as well. This has far more significance than eschatologists have realized.

Behold, the startling similarities of this Beast Christ to the actual Christ.

1. Yahshua, the Christ was wounded to death (albeit not by a sword and not a fatal head wound) and he arose from the dead. The antichrist, therefore, resembles the actual Christ in this very important detail of a death and resurrection.

2. Like the true Christ, the antichrist has power to make followers out of the entire world.

3. The actual Christ has many crowns on his head and has a name written on his forehead. (Revelation 19:12) The Beast "antichrist" mimics this very important aspect.

4. The followers of the actual Christ are “sealed in their foreheads,”(John 6:27, Romans 15:28, 2 Corinthians 1:22, Ephesians 1:13 and 4:30, Revelation 7:1-8, Ezekiel 9: 4-6, Revelation 9: 4) and the name of the actual Father is “written” on their foreheads of the 144,000. ( Revelation 14:1) Again, the Beast "antichrist" seals his followers in their foreheads.

5. The name of the Christ was considered blasphemy by the religious leaders of his time, likewise, the antichrist’s name IS blasphemous!

6. The actual Christ was given a mouth speaking “great things” and the Jewish religious leaders sought to stone him for uttering powerful words that they considered blasphemous on numerous occasions because the true Christ was the very "oracle" of God. Likewise, the antichrist is an "oracle," but not of God, he is the oracle of Satan instead.

7. The actual Christ received his power and authority from someone else, namely the Father, and made this clear numerous times and the Jewish leaders accused him of healing and casting out demons “by the power of the king of the Demons.” In other words, Christ was accused of receiving his power from Satan, who is also called “the Dragon” (Revelation 12). The antichrist in fact DOES receive his power and authority from Satan.

8. The actual Christ is called “the lion of the tribe of Judah.” (Revelation 5:5) The antichrist has “the mouth of a lion.” (Note: I believe this is a reference to the fact that the words of the true Christ are attributed to the antichrist. The antichrist is given the credit for the words that the true Christ spoke).

9. The actual Christ comes to make war with the devil and to destroy the works of the devil (sin). The antichrist comes to make war, but with the true Christ, through the saints, and preserve sin (the works of the devil).

10.Power over all kindreds, tongues and nations is given to the actual Christ. Likewise, the antichrist claims that same power.

11.The actual Christ causes the world to worship the Father who gives him his power and authority. The antichrist causes the world to worship the dragon who gives him his power and authority.

12.The actual Christ has “prophets” or apostles who exercise all of his

power. The antichrist has a false prophet who exercises all of his power.

Equally important as the similarities between the actual Christ and the false Christ are their differences:

1. The antichrist actually BLASPHEMES God, whereas the actual Christ was only falsely accused of the same.

2. The antichrist demands that all the world worship and pray to him, while the actual Christ did not demand worship for himself but commanded us to pray to the Father, not him.

3. The antichrist and his false prophet demand an “image” be created, the actual Christ preached the Tanahk and the Ten Commandments and would NEVER condone the making of an image to be worshipped.

4. The antichrist and his prophet take the world captive, hold them hostage, and seize power by the sword, killing those who refuse to accept their message or authority. The actual Christ would NEVER condone such actions and came not to lead into captivity but to set us free.

5. The antichrist seizes the power of the human monetary system and uses the desires of material things to entice and coerce the world into following them, while the actual Christ said “you cannot serve God and mammon” and taught that money is irrelevant in the kingdom he was about to establish.

6. The mark of the antichrist is a “number” and “name of a man,” the mark of the actual Christ is “the name of the Father.”

While the differences between the Christ and the antichrist are quite stark, their similarities are twice as numerous and equally as powerful. It’s easy to see how the world could get confused and mistake this Beast of Revelation for the actual Christ. With the exception of ministry and methodology the antichrist is in every way identical to the TRUE CHRIST!

DANIEL

The Beast in Revelation Chapter 13 was described by the earlier prophet, Daniel, in great detail and is actually described as “the fourth great kingdom on the earth.” In Daniel 7 we read about 4 consecutive great world powers or kingdoms that appear on the earth and they are clearly identified. These beasts arise up out of “the sea” according to Daniel 7:3 which is true also of the Beast of Revelation 13. The first beast was described in Daniel 7:4 as “like a lion,” with “eagle’s wings”. The Second beast is described as “like a bear,” (Daniel 7:5). The third beast is described as “like a leopard.” The fourth beast is described in Daniel 7:7 and it mirrors the Beast of Revelation in great detail, both in it’s description and in the depiction of the events which occur during the power of

this Beast.

DANIEL 7: 7-11

7 After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and broke in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts before it; and it had ten horns.

8 I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man and a mouth speaking great things.

9 I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire.

10 A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him? The judgment was set, and the books were opened.

11 I beheld then because of the voice of the great words which the horn spoke: I beheld even until the beast was slain and his body destroyed, and given to the burning flame.”

Cleary this Beast in Daniel is the same Beast as the one described in Revelation 13. We know this for the simple fact that Daniel sees this Beast reign all the way until the very reign of Christ on the earth and all the way until the Beast is cast into flame (the events of which are described in detail at the end of Revelation). If anyone has any doubt that the Beast in Daniel is the same Beast that reigns upon the earth at the time of the return of Christ we need only read the rest of Daniel’s prophecy concerning this Beast.

Daniel 7: 13-14

12 As concerning the rest of the beasts, they had their dominion taken away: Yet their lives were prolonged for a season and a time.

13 I saw in the night visions, and behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.

14 And there was given him dominion and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that

which shall not be destroyed.”

It’s obvious that Daniel’s final “beast” is the final KINGDOM upon the earth and will continue in power until the kingdom of God is established by Christ Himself upon the earth. This is absolutely CRUCIAL to comprehend because thankfully, Daniel’s angel comes to him and actually IDENTIFIES this beast in plain language, so that it is no mystery WHO is the Beast of Daniel and thus, the identity of the Beast in Revelation 13 is also no great mystery.

Daniel 7: 16-26

16 I came near unto one of them that stood by, and asked him the truth of all this, So he told me, and made me know the interpretation of the things.

17 These great beasts, which are four, are four kings which shall arise out of the earth.

18 But the saints of the most High shall take the kingdom, and possess the kingdom forever, even forever and ever.

19 Then I would know the truth of the fourth beast, which was diverse from the others, exceeding dreadful whose teeth were of iron, and his nails of brass; which devoured, broke in pieces and stamped the residue with his feet;

20 And of the ten horns that were in his head, and of the other which came up, and before whom three fell; even of that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spoke very great things, whose look was more stout than his fellows.

21 I beheld and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them;

22 Until the Ancient of days come, and judgment was given to the saints of the most High; and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.

23 Thus he said, the fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon the earth, which shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down and break it in pieces.

24 And the ten horns out of the kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.

25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and

they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.

26 But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.”

It is widely accepted by most that these four Beasts of Daniel represent the four great kingdoms which ruled over much of the civilized world from ancient times even to the very present. They are as follows:

Lion = Babylonian Empire Bear = Medo-Persian Empire Leopard = Greek Empire 4th Beast = Roman Empire

Interesting to note is that the Beast of Revelation 13 shares traits of all four of these beasts.

Revelation 13: 2

“And the beast which I saw was like a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.”

Some have offered alternative and “deeper meanings” to the identity of these four beasts of Daniel, however, if one reads chapter 8 of Daniel it becomes very clear that they are identified exactly as the Angel describes, “the four great kingdoms upon the earth.” There can be no doubt when you read the entire book of Daniel that the identities of these Beasts are no mystery (even though the angel tells Daniel to seal up the meaning of his prophecies until the time of the end). One only has to examine the history described in Daniel to see that the FOURTH BEAST shares traits from the three beasts that come before it merely because each Beast arose and then was subdued by the next beast, and many of the traits of the preceding beast were “incorporated” into the next beast that comes after, until, finally, the fourth beast (the Roman Empire) is a collective social culture made up of many of the aspects of the first three empires that led to the culmination of Rome as a world power! This cannot be disputed, either Biblically or historically.

Recently, some eschatologists are attempting to put forth that the fourth great kingdom is not Rome at all but is "Islam." Their argument is that Rome never actually "conquered" Babylon and Daniel's original visions came as a result of the

Emperor of Babylon's dream. They contend that the dream of the King of Babylon would only concern him if the fourth great kingdom actually conquered Babylon. Yet, even though Rome did not actually conquer Babylon militarily, Rome was indisputably the fourth great kingdom on the earth, the fourth kingdom to rule over the majority of the known civilized world. This is indisputable. Rome may not have militarily conquered Babylon, however, the Babylonian empire was subdued and influenced heavily by Rome for many years. This is undeniable historical fact.

There can be no doubt that the Beast of Daniel is none other than the Beast of Revelation 13 and that Beast is the Roman Empire! History teaches us that the Roman Empire fell long before the time in which we now live! This seems to fly in the face of everything I have just concluded. Furthermore, John the apostle, at the beginning of Revelation states that the Revelation is a vision of “things that must shortly come to pass,” and yet Rome was already in power at the time of John’s vision.

Both of these seeming contradictions however can be easily explained.

We merely need to turn to the angel’s interpretation of Daniel’s vision to understand both contradictions. The angel tells Daniel that the Fourth Beast is not just a KINGDOM but speaks of a SPECIFIC KING who seizes control of that kingdom and retains control until “the Ancient of Days” and the Second coming of Jesus Christ in the clouds of heaven. Clearly we can only conclude that John’s vision of the Beast is depicting that great KING who would rule over the Beast Kingdom of Rome, and that king had not yet arisen in John’s day. Thus, even though Rome existed, the Beast King that comes to power in Revelation 13 had not yet appeared and was, therefore a part of “things to come.”

Then, we have to consider the “little horn” of Daniel, which exactly coincides with the “second beast” of Revelation 13. This is yet another KING of Rome, but is specifically called “the false prophet” in Revelation. (Revelation 16:13, 19:20 and 20:10).

What about the falling of Rome? We know that the kingdom of Rome fell and out of that great empire arose many different nations! Was Daniel’s angel wrong and the vision flawed? Daniel sees the fourth great kingdom, which is indisputably ROME, and he sees it continue in power over the world until the second coming of Christ and until the judgment day. Not when you consider that Rome never really lost its emperor and thus never truly “fell.” Rome was preserved as a world power long after the empire itself fell into ruin and decay, and a long succession of Roman Emperors, the Popes, has continued the Roman rule upon the earth against all odds until this very day.

So, am I saying that the Beast of Revelation 13 is the Pope? Not at all! I believe the Beast that rises out of the sea is both a kingdom and a king but I don’t

believe that king is a succession of Popes. The Sea Beast of Revelation is not “many” kings in succession it is a particular king, the antichrist!

John the Revelator foresaw a time when Rome would have a great king placed over it who is identical in almost every way to the true Messiah and furthermore, this King would become the very embodiment of Rome itself. After this false Messiah, who is identical in appearance to Christ Jesus is set over Rome and made to be the very symbol of Rome, then a “false prophet” who is “like a lamb” arises and, exercising all the power of Rome, causes the world to worship the antichrist, the false Messiah who is identical to the true Messiah in every detail (with only a few very subtle but very crucial differences).

Both Daniel and John the Revelator agree that this great king will take over the fourth great kingdom upon the earth and then, afterward, a smaller king, who is described as a “little horn” by Daniel will then “make war with the saints of the most High” in the NAME of the Beast King, and what’s more shall, at least for a time prevail against them!

The antichrist, therefore, is a false Messiah, identical almost every way to the true Messiah, Yahshua. This false Christ, based upon and imitating the true Christ is then set up as the KING of Rome. The false prophet, the little horn, the second Beast is established, and that little Beast creates an “image” of the first Beast and causes (through the Devil’s power) that this image can actually SPEAK and have LIFE. Furthermore, this little beast has power to perform “miracles” and does so “in the sight of the beast,” even calling lightning down to the earth. The false prophet then “exercises all the power of the antichrist," through the image that speaks.

I do not believe the Popes are necessarily the antichrist yet it is quite possible that the “little horn” might have the same sort of position, power and authority as is possessed by a Pope! Nevertheless, we do know that the second Beast is the “representative” of the false Christ upon the earth and “exercises all the power of the first Beast before it,” much the same way that the Popes have been accepted as representatives of Christ. This second beast, the “little horn” must have all of the authority in Rome that a Pope would have in order to propagate this first Beast, the antichrist. This second beast will possess all the power of the fourth kingdom, which is Rome, at his disposal and he will use this power to coerce and entice the entire world to worship the false Christ and the false image of Christ.

Since it says “all the world will marvel at the (first) Beast,” we know that Rome will not be the only ones who accept this false image of another Christ (who is like Christ in every way but is full of blasphemy). yet, according to Daniel, to the little horn will fall the task of “making war” against the saints of the Most High. He will “wear out the saints of the Most High.”

This Roman “Christ King,” according to John, will be full of blasphemies, and

according to Paul, writing to the Thessalonians will “sit in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.” The antichrist will claim to be God incarnate.

There will be a smaller king who is the representative of this false Christ in Rome. He will exercise all of the power attributed to the antichrist and will cause the whole world to, not only worship the antichrist, but to make an image of him that shall be worshipped as well. Eventually, all in the world who refuse to accept this new God/Man King, the new Roman Christ, will be have a sentence of death. What’s more, even those factions in the world who are not Roman will worship this same Roman Beast Christ!

John foresaw the day when the very system of religion that the believers themselves have created and devised will be seized by the ENEMY, the true Christ will be taken away “out of the way,” and a false Christ put in his place, one that is identical in every way to the true Christ but is a “devil.”

2 Thessalonians 2: 4- 7

4 Who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sits in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.

5 Remember you not, that when I was yet with you, I told you of these things?

6 And now you know what withholds that he might be revealed in his time.

7 For the mystery of iniquity does already work: only he who now prevents will prevent until he be taken out of the way.”

Jesus Christ, the true Messiah of Israel identified himself as the ONLY way to the father saying openly “I am the way, the truth and the life no man comes to the Father but by me.” (John 14:6) The true Christ must, therefore, be taken “out of the way” in order to make way for the antichrist. This will be the “great falling away” preceding the revealing of the antichrist. As long as the true Christ remains the “way” to salvation this prevents the antichrist from coming to full power on the earth. In the end times the Christ preached by Rome and her offshoot religions will NOT the true Christ, but a perversion of the true. The Beast Christ is “another Jesus” whom the Apostles NEVER preached! It will not take a Biblical scholar, or an expert in world or Church history to see this very simple and plain fact. At the time of the end, or the “great falling away” as it is called, all you will have to do is compare the doctrines of the churches who preach this new Roman Christ to the plain written words of the true Christ to see that the they are preaching “another Jesus!”

The antichrist who will be created by the end times Roman Empire and

propagated by antichristians of all faiths and denominations will condone the killing of all those who refuse to accept his power and authority and all who refuse to worship him and his image! The Roman antichrist condones sin and provides a way for sin to multiply on the earth while at the same time promising those who believe upon his power that they shall all go to heaven no matter how horribly they live their lives!

The antichrist of Rome will preach that blessings are MATERIAL RICHES, whereas the true Christ and his apostles preached that those who desire to be rich make a “shipwreck of their faith.” This antichrist will actually use the material riches and gains of the world to gather his followers. The antichristian religions of the world will be DEEPLY rooted in the buying and selling of material goods. They can NEVER escape this Roman antichrist system for they would be “unable to buy or sell” which means their great churches and cathedrals could not be supported. Their entire ministry would fall!

The Roman antichrist leads INTO captivity, the true Christ “sets the captives free!”

Chapter 2

THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST VS. THE SPIRIT OF ANTICHRIST

Already, before the Apostles had even passed the torch to others and gone on to be with the Lord, there was a move to replace the true Jesus with a false, to replace the Christ with an antichrist! Furthermore, Paul feared that the Corinthian church would "receive another spirit." John the Revelator himself saw the beginnings of this antichrist beast arising and warned all.

1 John 2: 18-29

18 Little children, it is the last time: and as you 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 have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.

20 But you have an unction from the Holy One, and you know all things.

21 I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and that no lie is of the truth.

22 Who is a liar but he that denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist that denies the Father and the Son.

23 Whosoever denies the Son, the same has not the Father: (but) he that acknowledges the Son has the Father also.

24 Let that therefore abide in you, which you have heard from the beginning. If that which you have heard from the beginning shall remain

in you, you also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father.

25 And this is the promise that he has promised us, even eternal life.

26 These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you.

27 But the anointing which you have received of him abides in you, and you need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teaches you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it has taught you,

you shall abide in him.

28 And now, little children, abide in him: that, when he shall appear, you may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

29 If you know that his is righteous, you know that every one that does righteousness is born of him.”

John, in his first letter, speaks plainly of the coming of many antichrists who deny that Jesus is the Christ! John saw that there was coming a “false Christ” based upon the true Christ. I firmly believe this (even though these texts do not directly state this, it is implied). How is it implied? You can’t have “another Christ” until you deny the FIRST Christ! You can’t create a false Christ who is based upon the true Christ without intrinsically denying that the true Christ is the Christ at all. This is basic common sense, for if the true Christ, Jesus, is in fact the Christ there would be no reason to replace him with another! It is important also to note that the FOCUS of John's warning lies in this statement the true Christ is "righteous," and not only that "every one that does righteousness is born of him." (He later says that everyone that doesn't do righteousness has never seen the true Christ neither have they "known" him). The emphasis on the righteousness we have through Christ is the determining factor in weeding out the "false christs" and his followers. I believe that is because the biggest difference between the coming world Beast antichrist and the true Christ is that the antichrist and his followers justify, condone and eventually even encourage sin!

John speaks of the “unction” and the “anointing” which “abides in” those who

believe in the true Christ. I find that this is the key to John’s discussion of antichrist. John here states emphatically that those who bring us “another Jesus” must first deny the basic tenet that the true Christ “abides in us” and is able to teach us the truth Himself, and more importantly will attempt to get you to rely on “teachings of men,” rather than the anointing!

Indeed, Paul in his letter to Galatians mirrors this as well. After Paul writes that anyone who preaches any other gospel should be “accursed,” he says this:

Galatians 1: 11-16

11 But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached by me is not after man.

12 For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.

13 For you have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews’ religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it:

14 And profited in the Jews’ religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.

15 But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me by his grace,

16 To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood.”

There is a common theme whenever the Apostles spoke of the “replacement gospel” and the “replacement Christ” or antichrist. They emphasize that the teachings of the true Christ are “within” the believer and in fact that the true Christ “abides in them.” It becomes apparent that this theme is not by accident! It becomes obvious that the difference between the true Christ and the antichrist who is to come (the other Christ) is that the true Christ is ALIVE and abiding in his believers and is NOT dependent upon the teachings of men while the false (replacement) Christ is most definitely dependent upon those who preach and teach him! Which makes perfect sense because the true Christ is alive and sitting at the right hand of the Father and is ONE with us through the Holy Spirit and the false Christ is a concoction of men!

John the Revelator tells us exactly WHY this is!

1 John 4: 1-3

1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

2 Hereby know you the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus

Christ is come in the flesh is of God:

3 And every spirit that confesses not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof you have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.”

Again the same theme in all 3 texts I’ve quoted. Christ in me, abiding in me, in this fleshly creature. John predicted that the coming antichrist system (while at the same time professing a Christ within, just not the true Christ) but would eventually seek to eradicate this notion of Christ has literally come in the flesh (in the believers). This is because, before anyone can present to you another Christ they must first get you to forget that the true Christ abides in you, through the anointing of the Holy Spirit, and must get you to rely on their “wisdom” in order to twist and pervert the gospel of the true Christ and replace it with a counterfeit. In the end times, the Apostles foresaw a day when many, while confessing Christ “within” with their mouths will reject the true saints when they tell them that you do not need any man to teach you, for the anointing that abides in you through the oneness of the Christ teaches you of all things!

John has more to say on this subject.

1 John 4: 4- 17

"4 You are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because

greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

5 They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world hears them.

6 We are of God: he that knows God hears us; he that is not of God hears not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every on that loves is born of God, and knows God.

8 He that loves not knows not God; for God is love.

9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.

10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation of our sins.

11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought to also love one another.

12 No man has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwells in us, and his love is perfected in us.

13 Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us because has given us of his Spirit.

14 And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.

15 Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwells in him and he in God.

16 And we have known and believed the love that God has to us. God is

love; and he that dwells in love dwells in God, and God in him.

17 Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of

judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.”

John has laid it all out for us. He has given us the way to discern the difference between the true Christ and the antichrist! He repeats two times here that if the Spirit of Christ dwells IN us then God is IN US, and we are in God! He also states that as God’s Spirit of love is “perfected” in us we become like Christ, and ultimately like God in the world! To the antichristians of the end times that will be utter blasphemy, for their Christ is “God incarnate” and no one else. Only their Christ can say “I am in God and God is in me,” because their Christ is God! These end times “antichristians” who will actually STILL preach the indwelling of the Holy Spirit and teach that Jesus is “in” them will balk if you tell them that the Spirit of love can be “perfected” in you and you can live in perfect love even as the true Christ lived! They will call those who teach this a very dangerous person and their doctrine they will call “cultish!” They will pay utter lip service to the entire foundation of the true Christ, that he dwells in you and transforms you into the very image of God the Father, yet all the while denying it and calling those who truly believe it "antichrist," in an amazing "upside down twist" that is bigger than anything we've ever seen in history!

John warns us that ANY spirit that denies this basic truth that Christ is come in the flesh through God’s spirit is “that spirit of antichrist.”

In the end times all of the above statements of John will be considered BLASPHEMY by the antichrist church! To say "God dwells in me" will be a blasphemy because the antichrist church teaches that ONLY THEIR CHRIST has God dwelling in him bodily (for the Roman Beast Christ is God in the form of the Christ). The Roman Beast Christ is the only one that could say "I dwell in God and God in me," according to the antichrist religion. All others are blasphemers and making themselves "God."

“You can’t be perfect like Jesus because Jesus was God!” That will be the outcry of the antichristians to the true gospel message that is to be preached to the entire world. They simply will NOT believe the basic gospel truth that Jesus lives in me! Their Jesus lives in them only “symbolically,” not “literally.” They will follow the Roman Christ, who is God and only died to save them from the penalty of the sin, not to dwell IN them and eradicate sin in their life completely. The concept, which was the pinnacle of the Gospel as preached by the Apostles will be completely foreign to the antichristians!

CHAPTER 3

THE TRUE WAY TO SALVATION VS. THE FALSE SECURITY OF THE ANTICHRIST SYSTEM

Daniel has much more to say about the antichrist and at this point we must turn to him once again. Only in a full understanding of what the antichrist will do can we understand how this “great falling away” occurs and only then will we truly grasp the “mystery of iniquity,” described by the Apostle Paul to the Thessalonians.

The true Christ is “taken out of the way” of salvation. How is this done? Daniel is clear on this!

Daniel 9: 27

“And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.”

The antichrist comes into power and at first confirms “the covenant,” however, in the midst of his “week,” he will break the covenant and cause the “sacrifice” to

cease. What “covenant” will the antichrist betray? What sacrifice will he cause to “cease?” Thankfully Daniel gets an interpretation from the Angel himself.

Daniel 11: 30- 32

“30 For the ships of Chittim shall come against him: therefore he shall be grieved, and return, and have indignation against the holy covenant: so shall he do; he shall even return and have intelligence with them that forsake the holy covenant.

31 And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall place the abomination that makes desolate.

32 And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall be corrupt by flatteries: but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits.”

We do not have to stumble in the dark to understand how the antichrist replaces the true Christ. He takes away, not only the “holy covenant” but he places an abomination that makes “desolate,” and furthermore puts an utter end to the “daily sacrifice.”

Christ himself made reference to the taking away of the daily sacrifice and the placing of the abomination of Desolation!

Matthew 24: 15-16

“15 When you therefore shall see the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso reads, let him understand:)

16 Then let them which be in Judea flee into the mountains:”

All we need do is determine what is the “holy covenant” in the end times, and what is the “daily sacrifice” in the end times and we will understand the evil and mysterious plan of Satan to set up a false Christ right in the very midst of those who claim to follow the true Christ and lead them into a “great falling away.”

Again, thanks be to God, these matters are not mysteries to us. The Holy Covenant is described in detail in the New Testament, and the “daily sacrifice” is explained as well!

CHAPTER 5

THE HOLY COVENANT VS. THE OLD COVENANT

Most eschatologists agree that the “confirmed covenant” in the end times will be an agreement with the antichrist and Israel to restore, not only the temple. but the Covenant with all of it’s sacrifices. They universally agree on this, but I am not as convinced. That is because Daniel’s angel clearly makes a distinction by saying “the holy covenant.” A covenant is only “holy” when those who make the covenant with God KEEP it. Much the same as the Sabbath is only “holy” when you keep it. (The fourth commandment tells us to keep the Sabbath holy and it’s not a huge leap in logic that if you break the Sabbath it becomes an “unholy” thing and cannot be referred to as “Holy Sabbath.”)

The New Testament writers made it clear to us that the Old Covenant, the sacrificing of animals on the altar became “faulty” and “unholy.” NOT because there was something wrong with the agreement, of course there wasn’t, God doesn’t make mistakes. No, the covenant of old became unholy because those who made the agreement with God did not KEEP it! I doubt the Angel, speaking to Daniel about this covenant between the antichrist (or his agents) and the people of Israel would refer to such a covenant as “the holy covenant.” Some argue that Daniel lived before the days of the NEW covenant, only knew of the old Covenant, and they believe the Angel would speak to Daniel in terms he could understand. That is not a valid argument because there are many things within this vision that Daniel did not understand, there are many direct references to things that would only be understood after their fulfillment. I believe this “confirmation of the holy covenant” is one such case.

The HOLY covenant according to all scripture, especially in the time of the end, the time of the antichrist is most definitely the NEW Covenant as taught by the Apostles themselves.

HEBREWS 8: 6-13

6 But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.

7 For if that first had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.

8 For finding fault with them, he said, Behold, the days come, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:

9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt: because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, says

the Lord.

10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord; I will put my laws into their minds, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:

11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord; for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.

12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.

13 In that he says, A new, he has made the first old. Now that which decays and waxes old is ready to vanish away.”

It should be noted that modern translations all say that the covenant itself was “faulty.” In Hebrews 8: 7 they have added the word “covenant” and also in verse 13. I know this word has been added because it is found in ITALICS in the original King James version and italic words are words that were added by the translators. Hebrews 8: 7 does NOT say that the old covenant was “faulty.” The entire notion is ridiculous. That God could create a “faulty system” is, well, it’s ludicrous. There was nothing wrong with the old covenant other than the fact that the people of Israel didn’t KEEP it which is why in Hebrews 8: 8 it says “finding fault with THEM” God made a new covenant.

The New Covenant is a book within itself. Yet, I find it imperative that I summarize the key aspects of this Covenant, since we know that the antichrist or his agents will confirm this Covenant for a while, but then take it away and place the “abomination of desolation.”

The New Covenant is actually very simple and I will summarize it here.

1. Christ died to be the propitiation of our sins.2. The Holy Spirit entered the world (as a result of Christ’s

sacrifice) and comes to the believer to “lead you and guide you into all truth.”

3. With the Holy Spirit abiding in you, you have no need for any man to teach you to “know the Lord” because you know him intimately.

4. Whereas the old covenant could only “atone” for sin but could not eradicate your sin, the NEW covenant not only

atones for sin but provides a way of escape, setting free the captives to sin!

Many will, no doubt, take exception to item number 4 above, however, I’m not speaking out of thin air here, there are so many scriptures that back up item number 4 that, as I said, I can write an entire book on that subject alone. Hebrews itself backs up that the New Covenant has the potential to eradicate sin in the life of the believer.

Hebrews 9: 11- 14

"11 But Christ is being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;

12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption.

13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifies to the purifying of the flesh:

14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?”

I have always found it extremely frustrating the way I have heard this subject handled in the Churches I’ve attended. They completely mock the sacred covenant of old. They state that “of course the sprinkling of animal blood cannot save you, no wonder we needed Christ to mediate a new covenant,” and conclude that the old covenant was therefore faulty because it could not deliver on the promise that God had made to those who keep it! This makes God a complete and utter liar, when you think about it, for God assured those with whom he made the old covenant that if they KEPT it, they would be cleansed from their unrighteous deeds and their sins were atoned for!

Here, the writer of Hebrews does not say that the sprinkling of blood COULD NOT atone and cleanse. He says quite the opposite, in fact! He says “if the sprinkling of blood COULD cleanse, then how much more will the blood of Christ cleanse.” (My own personal paraphrase).

I say again, there was (and is) NOTHING wrong with the blood atonement of the old covenant. When it was (and is) KEPT the way God prescribed, it works, to the ATONING OF SINS. Otherwise, all of the children of Israel who came before Christ were DOOMED, and died in their sins! Yet, this atonement had to be repeated over and over and over again. Christ’s blood atonement happened once and for all, but that is only ONE of the reasons the NEW covenant is a

better covenant!

HEBREWS 10: 1- 4

1 For the law having a shadow of good things to come and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers there-unto perfect.

2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? Because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.

3 But in those a rememberance again of sins every year.

4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.”

When you read Hebrews 8, then 9, then 10 you begin to understand that the ONLY thing that was lacking in the old covenant was that it had to be repeated over and over again every year because, while it did make atonement for the sins of the past year and cleansed the people, the people would then go out the following year and sin again and have to return again and again. There was no power within the old atonement for the “taking away” of sins, or the complete eradication of sin once and for all.

In the blood atonement of Christ, there IS the promise and the possibility of your sins being taken away, through the power of the HOLY SPIRIT and through obedience to the same. The new covenant, unlike the old has the power to “make the comers there-unto perfect.”

This then, is the key message of the NEW COVENANT! It’s the same message as the Gospel was in the days of the writing of the New Testament. That Christ died once and for all to make blood atonement for our sins, but that’s not all, He died to “take away the sins of the world,” to eradicate sin on the earth! This is done through the HOLY SPIRIT or the writing of God’s laws in the minds of hearts of those who keep the covenant, so that they have no need for any man to teach them how to live without sin, for they are taught of God directly.

This, then is the mission of the antichrist. He comes in like a Savior, confirming the HOLY COVENANT with many for a short while (making lip service to the message of holiness through the abiding of Christ within the believers), but somewhere in the midst of this, he switches gears and has “intelligence” with them that “break the holy covenant.”

For those of you who still doubt that the New Covenant in Christ's blood has the actual power to eradicate sin in the life of the believer read the following texts:

Hebrews 11: 40

"God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect."

The above quoted verse MORE than implies that those "within" the Holy Covenant shall be made "perfect." This is not the only scriptural evidence that the inner working of the Holy Spirit through the New Covenant in Christ's blood will make you perfect, even as Christ was perfect ("tempted in every way but without sin"). There are so many such scriptures I cannot possible quote them all, I'd have to just simply quote here all of the letters of the New Testament in order to cover them all!

Ephesians 4: 11-13

"11 And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets, and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;

12 for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:

13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:"

CHAPTER 6

HOLY SACRIFICE VS. UNHOLY SACRIFICE

What about the “taking away of the daily sacrifice?” Many contend this statement alone proves that the Angel in Daniel is speaking of the old covenant because the sacrifice made in the NEW covenant was made by Jesus Christ, once and for all. They contend there is no daily sacrifice involved in the New Covenant. (This argument is just plain silly because there was no daily sacrifice in the old covenant either). They couldn’t be more mistaken, too, about there being no daily sacrifice in the New Covenant!

Romans 8: 13

“For if you live after the flesh, you shall die: but if you through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, you shall live.”

This chapter of Romans describes in detail HOW the New Covenant, working within the believer, day by day, transforms those who keep the covenant into

sinless creatures! By the New Covenant we received the blood atonement of Christ and the Holy Spirit enters into our flesh. Then, on a daily basis we begin to submit to that self same Spirit and we “mortify” or kill the sinful deeds of the flesh. This is a daily sacrifice of our own!

Colossians 3

“1 If you then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sits on the right hand of God,

2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on earth.

3 For you are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.

4 when Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall you also appear with him in glory.

5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

6 For which things’ sake the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience:

7 In the which you also walked some time, when you lived in them.

8 But now you also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.

9 Lie not one to another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his deeds.

10 And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:

11 Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.

12 Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;

13 Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any; even as Christ forgave you, so also do you.

14 And above all these things put on LOVE which is the bond of perfection.

15 And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also you are called in one body; and you be thankful.

16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

17 And whatsoever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.

18 Wives submit yourselves to your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.

19 Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

20 Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.

21 Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.

22 Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God.

23 And whatsoever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;

24 Knowing that of the Lord you shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for you serve the Lord Christ.

25 But he that does wrong shall receive for the wrong which he has done: and there is no respect of persons.”

I quoted this entire chapter because basically it describes the daily sacrifice better than any other I have seen! Each day, the true followers of Christ remember that they are “dead” in Christ and their life is “hidden.” They sacrifice themselves with the blood atonement that Christ was sacrificed and they mortify their bodies by mortifying the DEEDS of their flesh. Bit by bit, day by day, until their love is perfected and their bodies become holy living sacrifices unto the Lord!

Still not convinced that this is the “daily sacrifice” spoken of by Daniel the prophet? Well, here it is then, the one scripture that proves it beyond a shadow of a doubt:

1 Corinthians 15: 31

“I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our

Lord, I die daily.”

Paul herein writes to the Corinthians and in Chapter 15 he describes in detail the DEATH and RESURRECTION of those who have the “Holy Covenant” in Christ’s blood! It would behoove you to read this chapter and even memorize it if you can. We will study more from this chapter later in this book.

Clearly the “daily sacrifice” that is taken “away” by the antichrist and his agents is the POWER we have through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit to “mortify the deeds of the body” daily and move into fullness and perfection in the Lord at his coming! How can anyone take that away from you? By deceiving you into not believing it! That’s how! By offering to you another Jesus, who does not demand this daily sacrifice, and who has merely paid the price for your sin so that you could continue as you were, from sin to sin, until the day you die! That is the antichrist that is coming, according to not just John, but all the apostles. It is a "man of sin" a "fleshly Christ" a BEAST that offers no real liberty from sin, only a bondage to a religious system based upon a lie, designed to keep you forever in bondage to the flesh and thus forever in bondage to SIN and to the Beast religion!

CHAPTER 7

THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT VS. THE ABOMINATION THAT MAKES DESOLATE

No wonder Jesus Christ zeroed right in on the prophecy of Daniel and the “abomination of desolation” that comes to replace the “daily sacrifice.” The abomination of desolation is a full out assault on the very purposes for the sacrifice and blood atonement of Jesus Christ!

In order to thoroughly understand this you need to know what “desolation” is according to the Word!

When a woman’s womb is unable to bear children she is referred to as “desolate” in scripture or “barren.” This is because children are “the fruit of the womb,” in scripture. A tree or a plant is called “barren” when it does not bear fruit. A piece of land is called “desolate” when no life will grow on it (which is always a direct result of plant life being unable to reproduce or bear fruit).

The taking away of the “daily sacrifice” places an “abomination” which causes the followers of Christ to not bear “fruit.”

John 15: 1- 8

1 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.

2 Every branch in me that bears not fruit he takes away: and every branch that bears fruit, he purges it, that it may bring forth more fruit.

3 Now you are clean through the word which I have spoken to you.

4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can you, except you abide in me.

5 I am the vine, you are the branches: He that abides in me, and I in him, the same brings forth much fruit: for without me you can do nothing.

6 If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.

7 If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, you shall ask what you will and it shall be done to you.

8 Herein is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit; so shall you be my disciples.

9 As the Father has loved me so have I loved you: continue you in my love.

10 If you keep my commandments, you shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love.”

The coming antichrist takes away the entire message of the gospel that we must KEEP Christ’s commandments and abide in HIS love in order to be a disciple! It replaces it with an abominable RELIGION of empty sacraments, teachings of men, completely denies the indwelling of the Holy Spirit (while at the same time confirming this Holy Covenant with many at first through lip service to the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, but it's activities, doctrines, methodology all DENY this Holy Covenant of Christ Within). The antichrist Beast eventually denies every basic tenet of the teachings of Christ, twisting or perverting them, it takes away the daily sacrifice of dying to sin and replaces it with a false system of religion whereby you never stop sinning, you just are “forgiven.”

This Beast religion then makes WAR with those who are bearing the Fruit of the Spirit in love, even to the point of putting them to DEATH as blasphemers. It denies the power of Christ WITHIN, the Holy Spirit, to literally cleanse the believer of their sin and make them holy and perfect, abiding in the Father’s love to the nth degree, exactly as Christ abided in the Father’s love. The antichrist Beast calls this blasphemy and teaches that their Christ alone is the “only son of God” and he alone can achieve the perfect love of the Father!

Galatians 5: 12-26

“12 I would that they were even cut off which trouble you.

13 For brethren you have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even this; You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

15 But if you bite and devour one another, take heed that you be not consumed one of another.

16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.

17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that you cannot do the things that you would.

18 But if you be led of the Spirit, you are not under the law.

19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,

21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revelings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do

such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,

23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

24 And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.

25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

26 Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.”

I tell you plainly, even as did Paul to the Galatians. They that follow the Beast (the religion of the flesh masquerading under the guise of Christ) can in no wise ever inherit the kingdom of God! The antichrist religion will take away all “fruit of the spirit” from those who follow it and put in it’s place a delusional system that tells them quite the opposite of what Paul said to the Galatians. The antichrist and the system that shall be built around him will say that you indeed CAN live after the flesh and still go the Heaven. It will further DENY that walking after the Spirit as Paul admonishes us is even possible, state that only their Christ (the ANTICHRIST) has achieved this, (or ever will achieve this) and will vilify all who say contrary to this doctrine even to the point of making war with them and killing them!

This is the “taking away of the daily sacrifice” (as Paul says to the Galatians, “they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts”) and it shall place the “abomination that makes desolate” (a delusional system that requires NO sacrifice upon those that follow and requires no fruit of the Spirit whatsoever). The Beast System will take away the Holy Spirit from the equation entirely. Christ within will take on a mere symbolic meaning, and there will be no fruit among those that follow the system because frankly they love their sin and have no desire to see it eradicated in their lives!

That is why they will NEED their teachers, their preachers, their teaching tapes, their television evangelists, their books and prayer books and would never even THINK to question them! They are breakers of the New Covenant! They have no concept of the New Covenant whereby Christ dwells within and you have "no need for any man to teach you."

2 Thessalonians 2: 8-17

“8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:

9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders.

10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:

12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had

pleasure in unrighteousness.

13 but we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God has from the beginning chose you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:

14 Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

15 Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which you have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.

16 Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,

17 Comfort your hearts, and establish you in every good word and work.”

The central theme of the antichrist in Thessalonians, and those who fall away to create and follow him, is that they reject the Holy Spirit and its power to literally “take away your sins.” Instead, they put into place a delusional system in which you don’t have to love righteousness, good words and good works are irrelevant in the Beast System, for their antichrist has set them free from righteousness to live in sin! Eagerly shall the wicked flock to this new system for they “have pleasure in unrighteousness.” Every worldly pleasure that money (and the mark of the Beast) can buy awaits those who accept the Roman Beast system of the end times! Those who reject it and press into the Kingdom will be persecuted by the very people who claim to be following Jesus Christ!

CHAPTER 8

THE POWER OF GOD VS. THE POWER OF THE FLESH

No wonder the Apostles warned that in the end times men would have a “form of Godliness” but “deny the power thereof.”

2 Timothy 3: 1-5

“1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.

2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud,

blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,

4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God:

5 Having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.”

What I find most disturbing about the above passage is it describes the RELIGIOUS people. They have “a form of Godliness.” It’s not even telling us what the so called “heathen” or the rest of the world are like during the end times, it’s only describing what the so called “enlightened believers” are like in the end times! These are those who are supposed to have “God!” Astonishing and truly scary!

We read earlier that those who live “after the flesh” shall die but he who mortifies or kills the deeds of the body by the Spirit shall live. This is the pivotal difference between the followers of the true Christ and the followers of the end times antichrist! The true followers of Christ do mortify the deeds of the body, through the New Covenant in Christ’s blood and the followers of the antichrist DENY the POWER of the Spirit, reject that you can EVER mortify the deeds of the flesh and in so doing resign themselves to an existence of bondage, all the while claiming “liberty” and calling those who live after the Spirit “legalists.” This great battle between the Power of God, through the Spirit, and the flesh is an ancient one. The Apostles spoke of it in detail and promised that the saints (the followers of the true Christ) would defeat the flesh, by the Power of love through the Spirit! They also foresaw the day when many would depart from this great “hope of our calling.” The book of Revelation depicts these days in great detail, but only to those who have “ears to hear” and “eyes to see.”

How do the antichristians miss the Power of God? That’s simple. They DENY it according to Paul’s letter to Timothy. The true Christ made it clear that “as a man speaks so shall it happen unto him.” It really is as simple as that! The end times antichrist system will teach all that you can NEVER be “like Jesus,” for “Jesus is God!” It will teach that sinless perfection is completely impossible and it will set up a replacement system whereby through faithfulness to the SYSTEM the believer is made fit for Heaven. It’s a substitute for the Power of God. The true Christ is the Lamb of God who “takes away the sins of the world,” the antichrist claims to be the “Lamb of God,” but keeps the world IN it’s sin!”

Isaiah 29: 13- 14

13 Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with

their mouth, and with their lips do honor me, but have removed their hearts far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:

14 Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.”

They will continue to teach and preach that Jesus lives in them but they won’t really believe it and heap to themselves teachers who will tell them exactly what they want to hear! Their Jesus paid the price for their sins but did NOT deliver them from those sins and they will be perpetually stuck in their fleshly sin condition, dependent upon the traditions, teachings and sacraments of their Roman system of churches to continually cleanse them from the sin sickness.

CHAPTER 9

THE MYSTERY OF GOD VS. THE MYSTERY OF INIQUITY

How do things get to that point however? How does this “great falling away” occur and this sudden downturn in morality among them that claim to “have God?” The Bible calls this “the mystery of iniquity.”

2 Thessalonians 2: 7

“For the mystery of iniquity does already work: only he who now prevents will continue to prevent until he be taken out of the way.”

As long as the gospel of Jesus Christ is preached, as long as Christ IN YOU is a reality in your life you cannot be deceived, you will not be a part of the end times “great falling away” or the time when the “son of perdition” is revealed in them that perish! For you see, just as there is a “mystery of iniquity,” there is a “mystery of righteousness” or a “mystery of Godliness” or “mystery of God,” and that mystery according to scripture is “Christ in you, the hope of Glory.”

Mark 4: 10-12

10 And when he was alone, they that were about him with the twelve asked of him the parable.

11 And he said unto them, To you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but to them that are without, all these things are done in parables:

12 That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their

sins should be forgiven them.”

Romans 11: 25- 27

25 For I would not, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in.

26 And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:

27 For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.”

Christ spoke of the “mystery” first. He expounded deeper on the subject in other verses of scripture, of course, but clearly the believers have a special “unction” from God that helps them understand the deep things of Christ. This is none other than the Holy Spirit which we have through the New Covenant in Christ’s blood. In Romans this truth is spelled out in no uncertain terms, that the “covenant” would be “when I shall take away their sins.”

Yet there’s more to this mystery.

Romans 16: 25-26

“25 Now to him that is of power to establish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began,

26 But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith:”

Ephesians 1: 9-10

“9 Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he has proposed in himself:

10 That in the dispensation of the fullness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him.”

As you can see there is a common theme here throughout discussion of the “mystery,” and that is Christ in us and we in Christ, gathered together as members of one body, sharing one Spirit, the Holy Spirit.

1 Corinthians 2: 7

“But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world to our glory:”

If you recall, the New Covenant is that God would “write the law” into our minds and hearts, and that we would have “no need for any man to teach” us saying “know the Lord” for all shall know him. (All who honor the New Covenant in his Blood that is). If you read 1 Corinthians 2: 7 in its CONTEXT you can see that we are still on point here. The mystery is definitely related to the Holy Spirit that we possess and that possesses us upon being baptized into the New Covenant through Christ’s blood. Let’s read 1 Corinthians 2: 1- 6 to eradicate all doubt.

1 Corinthians 2: 1- 6

"1 And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring to you the testimony of God.

2 For I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

3 And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.

4 And my speech and my preaching were not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of the power:

5 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

6 Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: Yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to naught:”

Every time the “mystery” is discussed in scripture it repeats the exact same common theme. The Spirit, which comes to us through the New Covenant and the shedding of Christ’s blood (or as Paul put it in the passage above “Jesus Christ and him crucified.”)

Christ spoke of the importance of this when discussing his own crucifixion:

John 16: 7- 16

“7 Nevertheless, I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come to you; but if I depart, I will send him to you.

8 And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:

9 Of sin, because they believe not on me;

10 Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and you see me no more;

11 Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged.

12 I have Yet many things to say unto you, but you cannot bear them now.

13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will show you things to come.

14 He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall show it to you.

15 All things that the Father has are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine and shall show it to you.

16 A little while and you shall not see me: and again, a little while and you shall see me, because I go to the Father.”

Here Jesus Christ tells us that the main purpose of the crucifixion was to send us the Holy Spirit (and thus establish the New Covenant in his blood by writing the law into our hearts and our minds). This same Spirit will lead and guide us into all truth (as it says concerning the New Covenant that they shall not teach every one his neighbor to know the Lord for they all shall know him).

1 Corinthians 1: 17-18

“17 For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect.

18 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.”

Paul warned the Corinthians that to put your faith in wisdom of men is to NULLIFY the very crucifixion! For, as he says in chapter 2, if your faith stands in the wisdom of men it does not stand on the power of God. The antichrist Beast system therefore seeks to NULLIFY the very purpose of the crucifixion, which was to place Christ in us through the Holy Spirit and to build up our faith, not in the teachings of men, but in the POWER of God. We can rest assured, then, that the antichrist system will most DEFINITELY deny that Jesus is “come in the flesh” (that is in us) by the Power of the Holy Spirit, and set up a teaching that is

based upon the teachings of men and seek to bring all under the bondage of those teachings, which in turn causes them who receive the antichrist ministry to forsake the Holy Spirit.

The followers of antichrist will never see the fullness of the mystery in them for they reject it outright and go after a corrupt system and a perverted Christ.

Ephesians 3: 3

“3 How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words,

4 Whereby, when you read, you may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ)

5 Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit;

6 That the Gentiles should be fellow heirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:

7 Whereof I was made a minister according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power.

8 Unto me who am less than the least of all saints is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;

9 And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world has been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:”

Paul continues on in this chapter through the end talking about the mystery, and in verse 15 and 16 mentions the Holy Spirit and Christ dwelling in our hearts.

Colossians 1: 24-29

“24 Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the church:

25 Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfill the word of God;

26 Even the mystery which has been hid from ages and from generations but now is made manifest to his saints:

27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this

mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

28 Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all

wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:

29 Whereunto I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.”

The mystery is Christ in you, the hope of Glory, according to what Paul told the Colossian Church.

Many have settled that the mystery in the above verses simply is speaking about how the Gentiles would be offered the gift of Salvation. They conclude that this was something the children of Israel did not expect. They are right, yet HOW are the Gentiles included in the New Covenant? By the Holy Spirit, through the New Covenant in Christ’s blood. Other scriptures in Colossians that mention the mystery are Colossians 2: 2 and 4: 3.

CHAPTER 10

FINISHING THE MYSTERY

There comes a time in the prophecies of the end times when this “great mystery” which is Christ in you, is “finished.” First we will look at the book of Revelation:

Revelation 10: 5-7

“5 And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven,

6 And sware by him that lives for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, that there should be time no longer:

7 But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound the mystery of God should be finished, as he has declared to his servants the prophets.”

There's coming a great day, according to Revelation when this "mystery" of CHRIST IN YOU will be finished. This is also referred to in scripture (as we have

already read) as the time of the "fullness of the gentiles." Although Christ in You and the great meaning of what that portends was ONCE a mystery, thankfully most of that mystery is explained in very great detail within the New Testament. It occurs, according to Revelation at the sounding of the last (or seventh) "trumpet." Paul told us all what exactly will happen to us at this moment.

1 Corinthians 15: 50-58

50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither does corruption inherit incorruption.

51 Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,

52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.

55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?

56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.

57 But thanks be to God which gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be you steadfast, un-moveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, for as much as you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord."

The finishing of the MYSTERY of CHRIST IN YOU culminates in the believers overcoming sin in the flesh and receiving NEW, IMMORTAL, INCORRUPTIBLE bodies! yes, some will say, but not in this life, in the RESURRECTION. This is NOT what the Apostles taught! They taught that we "SHALL NOT ALL SLEEP" or die, but we shall all receive these new incorruptible, sinless bodies! There is an ENTIRE GENERATION of believers who will attain to the righteous perfection of Christ, through their persistence and faith and shall receive IMMORTAL BODIES as a reward, and this will happen while they yet LIVE, and will happen "in a moment in a twinkling of an eye."

Those who say that you cannot achieve "CHRISTLIKE PERFECTION" in this life manifest themselves to be the false prophets that they are, for they are claiming to know for a FACT they are not a part of this coming generation of believers who will attain, and NO MAN knows this. Furthermore, Paul concludes his teaching of this great mystery with an exhortation to continue steadfast and un-moveable in the "work of the Lord," because you know that your labor of love and good works are "NOT IN VAIN."

There comes a day when the true believers, who have been struggling their entire life (since they came to know the truth) who have been hoping and fighting to "walk in the Spirit," and thus "not fulfill the lusts of the flesh," will SUCCEED in their efforts and be REWARDED an immortal body! The ROMAN ANTICHRIST SYSTEM will deny this mystery outright and teach that it is HERESY to believe you can one day live PERFECT even as CHRIST LIVED, for in the minds of the antichrists, those who teach and believe this are putting themselves on the SAME PAR as the ROMAN CHRIST (the ANTICHRIST).

Chapter 11

THE BODY OF CHRIST VS. THE BODY OF THE BEAST

Just as the true Christ has a “Spirit” that dwells within his believers, the antichrist also has a “Spirit.” This is just yet one more thing that the Christ and the antichrist have in common!! It is therefore logical to assume that all the believers in the antichrist are members of ONE BODY as well, being that they all share the same antichrist spirit and work in consort with one another to pray and worship the Beast! This notion is very well supported in scripture.

Revelation 17: 15

“And he said to me, The waters which you saw, where the whore sits, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations and tongues.”

The “whore” or “harlot” described here we will save for another chapter. If we look at the beginning of Chapter 17 we see clearly that woman sits on the BEAST.

Revelation 17: 3

“So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet colored beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.”

This beast is the same beast as the one we see arising “out of the sea” at the beginning of Revelation 13. The waters are multitudes of people. So the Beast

kingdom represents the false God/Man and his followers represent his “body” in the same way that the true Christ’s followers make up HIS body! As you can see, in the end times Satan goes all out attempting to make the antichrist as much like the real Christ as possible In the same exact way that those who accept the true Christ become “the children of God,” and the “sons of God” and are all collective members of the “body of the Jesus,” those who accept the antichrist become the “children of the Devil,” and the “sons of the Devil,” and collectively make up the body of the antichrist or “the son of perdition.”

No wonder a great “falling away” must occur before the “son of perdition” can be revealed for the great falling away is the “assembly” of the body of the antichrist.

Ephesians 5: 6

“Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things comes the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.”

1 John 3: 6- 10

6 Whosoever abideth in him sins not: whosoever sins has not seen him neither known him.

7 Little children, let no man deceive you: he that does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.

8 He that commits sin is of the devil; for the devil sins from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

9 Whosoever is born of God does not commmit sin; for his seed remains in him and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

10 In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: Whosoever does not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loves not his brother.”

Once again John takes us right back to the question. Which Christ abides in us, the true Christ or the antichrist? If the true Christ abides in us, John explains, then we are born of God and do not commit sin! Anyone who commits wilfull sin in blatant and open disobedience and rebellion to God has the antichrist dwelling in them just as strongly as the Christ dwells within the believers and these that have antichrist are “children of the Devil” just as surely as those who abide in Christ and he in them are “children of God.” Thus, the most stark difference between the true Christ and the antichrist is that the followers of the true Christ move into fullness and perfection, mortifying the deeds of their bodies and committing no offense toward God or man and the followers of the antichrist do

just the opposite! The antichrist offers salvation but does not require righteous living from his followers. This is what makes him the "anti-" Christ! He stands for everything that is "opposite" of the true Christ!

Thessalonians (as well as a few in Daniel) have led many prophetic writers and commentators to the conclusion that indeed the temple in Jerusalem MUST be rebuilt before the final days of the end can even come to pass! These are the scriptures they point to most often to support their conclusions. Doctor J. Vernon McGee, a renowned biblical commentator who had a nationally syndicated radio show for many years on Christian radio went into great depths to prove this theory. He completely dismissed the notion that “the temple of God” described in Thessalonians can be anything BUT the temple of Solomon, rebuilt in Jerusalem. I’ll never forget this broadcast because he also addressed those who have proposed that the “temple” is actually the Church and stated emphatically that “nowhwere in scripture is the Church referred to as the temple of God.” I was totally stunned by this, because this was a Biblical Scholar, well respected and much revered and yet he had missed all of the numerous scriptures that, if not hinting, come outright and state that the Church is God’s temple, in which the Holy Spirit dwells!

John 2: 18-22

18 Then answered the Jews and said unto him, What sign do you show to us, seeing that you do these things?

19 Jesus answered and said to them, Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up.

20 Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and will you rear it up in three days?

21 But he spoke of the temple his body.

22 When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this to them; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.”

Romans 12: 4- 5

4 For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office:

5 So we, being many are one body in Christ, and every one members of another.

1 Corinthians 6: 19

19 What? Know you not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have received of God, and you are not your own?”

1 Corinthians 12: 12-31

12 For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of that one body, being many are one body: so also is Christ

13 For by one Spirit we are all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.

14 For the body is not one member, but many

15 If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?

16 And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?

17 If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole hearing, where were the smelling?

18 But now has God set the members every one of them in the body, as it has pleased him.

19 And if they were all one member, where would the body be?

20 But now are they many members, but one body.

21 And the eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of you: nor again the head say to the feet, I have no need of you.

22 No, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble are necessary:

23 And those members of the body which we think to be less honorable, upon these we bestow more abundant honor; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness

24 For our comely parts have no need; but God has tempered the body together having given more abundant honor to that part which is lacked.

25 That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members

should have the same care one for another.

26 And whither one member suffer, all the members suffer with it: or one member be honorored, all the members rejoice with it.

27 Now you are the body of Christ, and members in particular.”

Ephesians 5: 23

"For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the savior of the body."

1 Collosians 1: 18

"And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence."

The body of Christ is the “temple” according to His own words! Furthermore, the apostles revealed that the church, the true believers, are Christ’s “body,” so it follows that the church is also the temple. It’s basic logic. The apostles spelled it out in no uncertain terms!

1 Corinthians 3: 9- 18

9 For we are laborers together with God: you are God’s husbandry, you are God’s building.

10 According to the grace of God which is given to me, as a wise master builder, I have laid the foundation, and another builds thereupon. But let every man take heed how he builds thereupon.

11 For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

12 Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble:

13 Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is.

14 If any man’s work abide which he has built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.

15 If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself

shall be saved; Yet so as by fire.

16 Know you not that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?

17 If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.

18 Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seems to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.”

Those scriptures say it all. There are many more like it in the new testament. How ANY scholar can read the New Testament and come away with the outrageous conclusion that “nowhere is the church called the temple” is quite beyond me really! In fact, you are hard pressed to find a reference in the New Testament, beyond the four gospels where mention of the temple is NOT talking about the church! Why would it be any different in the prophetic words uttered by those same apostles? The answer is, of course, it wouldn't. The same Paul who said that the body of the Christ is the Church and that it is the TEMPLE of God is the same Paul that wrote and told the Thessalonians that the antichrist, the "man of sin" would sit in the temple of God showing himself to be God! It defies all logic to think that Paul was NOT talking about the BODY OF CHRIST, or the CHURCH!

Right AFTER John tells us (in 1 John chapter 2) that the "annointing" abides in us and we have "no need that any man teach us" (the NEW COVENANT) and right BEFORE John tells us how to differentiate between the "spirit of antichrist" and the "spirit of God" John states plainly that we all are now "the sons of God."

1 JOHN 3: 1-3

"1 BEHOLD, what manner of love the Father has bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knows us not, because it knew him not.

2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it does not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.

3 And every man that has this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure."

Those who are members in particular in the Body of Christ have been given the "power" to become the Son's of God.

John 12

"But as many as received him, to them gave he the power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:"

Paul told the Romans that everyone who is led of the Spirit of God ARE the sons of God:

Romans 8: 14"For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God."

He also told the Romans a few verses later that the "hope of Glory" (which we learned earlier is Christ IN YOU) is that we have an earnest expectation of becoming "sons of God."

Romans 8: 18-25

"18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be

compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.

19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waits for the

manifestation of the sons of God.

20 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason

of him who hath subjected the same in hope,

21 Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

22 For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.

23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.

24 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man sees,why does he yet hope for?

25 But if we hope for that which we don't yet see, then do we with patience wait for it."

The true Christ dwells within his body, the Church, who are the combined members of that body and are a “living temple” unto God!

We see in scripture that the antichrist also lives "IN" his believers as well and the antichrist is the HEAD of the BEAST even as Christ is the Head of his body, the Church. The Beast, therefore makes up, not just the fourth great kingdom on the earth, not just the false Christ, but is made up of each and every antichristian who follows the antichrist, and they are "members in particular" with the Body of the Beast! They all become "sons of perdition" just as surely as the believers in Christ, the members of his body become "sons of God." Until the GREAT FALLING AWAY we shall not see the REVEALING OF THE SON OF PERDITION. So we then see that members of the BODY of the true Christ who were assembled and built to be a part of the building that was meant for the TRUE CHRIST end up being the habitation of the FALSE CHRIST! This is the abomination of desolation standing in the HOLY PLACE.

CHAPTER 12

THE WHEAT VS. THE TARES

Matthew 13: 24- 30

"24 Another parable put he forth to them saying, The kingdom of heaven is like a man which sowed good seed in his field:

25 But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.

26 But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also.

27 So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didn't you sow good seed in your field? from whence then has it tares?

28 He said to them, An enemy has done this. The servants said to him, Will you, then that we go and gather them up?

29 But he said, No; lest while you gather up the tares, you root up also the wheat with them.

30 Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of the harvest I will say to the repaers, Gather you together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn."

Christ's parable is simple and it's meaning is actually quite clear to us. Both the children of the devil and the children of God grow TOGETHER, in the same field until the time of the harvest (which as we will see later occurs in the end times, at the revealing of the antichrist). This is why Paul told the Thessalonians that "the

mystery of iniquity already works." The "son of perdition" which is the BEAST, made up of the believers in the antichrist are sitting "in the temple of God, which is the Body of Christ, and they are showing themselves that they are God! They worship themselves, rather than dying of self and having their lives "hidden in Christ." They oppose everything that is "called God or worshipped," abandoning it for their own self worship, and the worship of their own twisted values! The children of the antichrist "love their lives" whereas the children of the living God "loved not their lives unto death." The children of the devil, the followers of antichrist will continue right along with the true believers, worshipping a completely different Jesus, until they are gathered into bundles to be burned at the time of the harvest.

Do you want to know something about tares? They are a plant that is identical in every way to wheat! You can't tell them apart from the wheat until the time of the harvest because the wheat brings forth the good fruit of the wheat plant (the wheat itself) but tares can NEVER bring forth wheat, they can bear no "fruit." It is no coincidence that Christ used this analogy, for, it is when the true body of Christ begins to bring forth CHRIST IN THEM, the true fruit of the Spirit, that the TARES, the children of the devil and members of the body of the son of perdition, will be identifiable! When the body of Christ brings forth the FULNESS of the FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT the wickedness of the FALSE CHRIST and his followers will be revealed. Out of jealousy, those who bring forth no fruit (for the true Christ is not in them) shall then turn on those who are bringing forth CHRIST IN THEM and shall persecute them!

I'm not conjecturing here about the wheat and the tares. Christ himself explained the parable:

Matthew 13: 37- 43

"37 He answered and said to them, He that sows the good seed is the Son of man;

38 The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one;

39 The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.

40 As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of the world.

41 The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity;

42 And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and

gnashing of teeth.

43 Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who has ears to hear, let him hear."

In every scripture where the second coming, the great harvest, the rising of the antichrist, the common theme is NOT what they "believe" or how they "pray" but is in fact HOW THEY BEHAVE. Notice that the angels gather together "all who offend and them that do iniquity," and bind them in bundles to be BURNED! In Thessalonians Paul speaks of the "mystery of iniquity" and calls the coming antichrist "that man of sin." He also says that those who follow the anti-crhist "received not the love of the truth" but had "pleasure in unrighteousness." John's letters state it clearly. Right after John states that we shall be "like him" (Christ) when he appears he clearly tells us that in that day we shall be judged by our OBEDIENCE TO THE COMMANDMENTS OF CHRIST TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER!

1 John 3: 3- 11

"3 And every man that hath this hope in him purifies himself, even as he (Christ) is pure.

4 Whosoever commits sin transgresses also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.

5 And you know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin.

6 Whosoever abides in him sins not: whosoever sins has not seen him neither known him.

7 Little children, let no man deceive you: he that does righteousness is righteous even as he is righteous.

8 He that commits sin is of the devil: for the devil sins from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

9 Whosoever is born of God, does not commit sin; for his seed remains in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

10 In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever does not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loves not his brother.

11 For this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we

should love one another."

You don't often see or hear the above verses read or studied these days. This is because they SEEM to say that a true follower of Christ never sins! I actually saw a travelling evangelists in Wilcox Arizona actually PREACHING that Christians don't sin! He was, not surprisingly, preaching to a completely empty tent!

These scriptures are speaking of how to tell the difference between the children of God and the children of the devil at the APPEARING of Christ in the end times! Verse 2 of this chapter sets the context by stating "when he shall appear we shall be like him."

John is telling us what we shall be LIKE at Christ's appearing! We shall be SINLESS, perfect, for the fulness of the MYSTERY will be finished!

Of course true believers sin along the way to that great HOPE of perfection. As the Apostles taught, if we are "hoping for this perfection and holiness" we manifest that we have not yet attained to it, for what we have already attained we no longer hope for. The scriptures would not call it a "hope" if the Christian attains to it immediately upon conversion. The Apostles were aware that we would stumble and fall along the way, and so did God. Otherwise why would John say:

1 John 2: 1-2

"1 My little children, these things write I unto you, that you sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:

2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world."

While we have a HOPE of our calling, which is Christ in US, the hope of glorification of our bodies into SINLESS PERFECTION, and while we MOVE toward that day, dying daily, and walking in the SPIRIT, no man can say that he is "without sin" along the way! If any man does, that man is a liar! True believers do indeed stumble and fall! That is why we have "an advocate with the Father." So, what is the difference between the children of God (who cannot say they are without sin without making themselves liars) and the children of the devil? Both have broken the commandments? Both have lived their lives at times unpleasing to God the Father? The ONLY difference between them is that the children of God are budding "wheat" plants and will, through patience and perserverance bring forth the CHRIST IN THEM and the TARES, the children of the devil can NEVER bring forth this "fruit of righteousness." The children of the devil can NEVER stop sinning, and will tell you so to your face! The children of

God will indeed some day be "LIKE CHRIST," and be PERFECTED and PURIFIED!

I am about to show you all the SECRET of both the MYSTERY OF INIQUITY and the MYSTERY OF GOD! It is as simple as what you SAY with your MOUTH! The only difference between the wheat and the tares, ultimately, between the children of God, the brethren of Jesus, the Christ and the children of the devil, the sons of perdition is what they BELIEVE and what comes out of the HEART of them and finally, what they SAY with their mouths!

The sons of God BELIEVE they can be LIKE JESUS, they confess this belief, they live by it daily, they press forth, dying of self, mortifying the deeds of their bodies every single day. The sons of perdition DO NOT believe they can be like JESUS (not in this life anyway). They are waiting for GOD to change them! They are waiting for some miraculous magic moment when they are no longer living in a fleshly, sinful body and temptation has been completely removed. The children of the devil confess WITH their mouth their UNBELIEF in this Christlike Perfection and completion, and in the end they TURN on those who confess this blessed HOPE to try and KILL THEM DEAD! They then fall away from the TRUE CHRIST and in his place concoct an FALSE CHRIST who is in every way just like the true Christ, with one very important difference. They take away the DAILY SACRIFICE which leads you to bear the FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT and they place the ABOMINATION THAT MAKES YOU DESOLATE OF ALL FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT!

Matthew 12: 31-37

"31 Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blashpemy shall be forgiven to men: but the blasphemy against the Holy spirit shall not be forgiven to men.

32 And whosoever speaks a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him? but shosoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come.

33 Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit.

34 O generation of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

35 A good man out of the good treasure of hthe heart brings forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth evil things.

36 But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall

give account thereof in the day of judgment.

37 For by your words you shalt be justified, and by your words you shalt be condemned."

This, on first appearance seems to contradict many things I've already said. I stated earlier that the antichristians give lip service to "Christ in you." John, in his letter concerning the antichrist said that "every spirit that confesses that Jesus is come in the flesh is of God." You would think, therefore, that as long as someone merely confesses with their mouth that Jesus is come in the flesh is a saved person, for, Christ states that men shall be justified or condemned by the words of their mouths! Yet, is merely SAYING that you believe Christ is in you enough or do you have to believe it in your HEART? The answer is obvious, of course. You have to BELIEVE this when you say it! This is because, if you don't BELIEVE Christ is in you, if you don't believe that some day the New Covenant in Christ's blood will make you "sinless and perfect," eventually this is going to come out in your CONVERSATION (and in your deeds). You can't hide the truth of your unbelief by paying mere lip service to it! If someone believes that they can "never be like Jesus in this life," then it shall INDEED come to pass that they never SHALL! Someone who refuses to believe that you can be like Jesus in this life, when confronted with those who actually DO believe you can, and as in the case of the end times, when they are confronted with those who are holding to this great hope, they will utter blasphemy, calling them liars, stating that their righteousness is "of the devil!" Which, is incidentally the exact same thing that the Pharisees had done in the above quoted scripture! The hypocrites explained how Christ cast out demons by saying "he casts out demons by the power of the king of the demons." Thus, they called the HOLY and PURE and RIGHTEOUS work of the HOLY SPIRIT demonstrated by Jesus Christ something that was "of the devil." This is "blasphemy of the Holy Spirit," according to Jesus and he states emphatically that they can NEVER BE FORGIVEN for this. Why? Because, the Pharisees were uttering with their mouths their true and heartfelt DISBELIEF in true righteousness!

As it was in Christ's day, so shall it be in the times of the end when the antichrist rules. True believers everywhere will stand up and do "exploits" according to Daniel and according to all of the Apostles! They shall begin to bring forth "CHRIST IN THEM" and begin to walk even as Christ walked upon the earth in total obedience to the father, they shall confess their faith that, eventually, they shall be without sin in this life and the antichristians will call this an UNHOLY THING! They shall stand up and state that the RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD is "of the devil!" Which is why John, when speaking of these events said "be not deceived he that does righteousness IS righteous even as he (Christ) is righteous!"

They will mock those who walk as Christ walked, even as they mocked Christ himself, saying "weren't you born to parents? Do we not have your birth

certificate on record? How do you now claim to be God?" For, you see, in the doctrine and teachings of the antichrist no one can be perfect, except God and their Christ (because their Christ IS God). When the true believers exhort all to walk HOLY and PERFECT in the SPIRIT and in the power of their Christ, and exhort all to follow Christ, out of the mouths of the antichristians will spew the words that shall be their condemnation for they shall spew blasphemies against the Holy Spirit of God and seek to KILL everyone who teaches that you indeed can be "just like Christ."

If you SAY, from the heart that you will NEVER be perfect, or never be without sin in this life, then guess what, it shall come to pass even as you have spoken with your mouth and believed in your heart! But you have a big problem, because the scriptures say that when Christ appears, he shall look for all who "offend and do iniquity" and send the angels to "bind them in bundles to be burned." If you honestly believe you will NEVER see the perfection that we have through the Holy Spirit, and thus, you never do, if Christ comes IN YOUR LIFETIME you shall be cast into OUTER DARKNESS, for you NEVER brought forth the FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT in your lifetime! He who says these things is denying CHRIST IN YOU. He who says "as long as I'm living in this fleshly body I will sin" is denying that CHRIST IS COME IN THE FLESH! Be very careful what you say, children, and more importantly examine your hearts whether you be truly in the faith! We have a HOPE of GLORY, a HOPE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, and we know that at his appearing we shall be "like him!" We also know that we all do not have to DIE to experience this! We know that there will be a generation who shall NOT ALL SLEEP but shall ALL be changed!

CHAPTER 13

THE BRIDE OF CHRIST VS. THE HARLOT WOMAN

I think most who have read the Bible at least a little are aware that, along with being called "the temple" or "the body of Christ" the Church is also characterized as "the bride of Christ." In Revelation we read of the "marriage supper of the Lamb."

Revelation 19: 7-9

"7 Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honor to him: for the marriage of the

Lamb is come, and his wife has made herself ready.

8 And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and

white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.

9 And he said to me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the

marriage supper of the Lamb. And he said to me, These are the true sayings of God."

When you read these three verses it doesn't really identify the "bride. These three verses, above all others in Revelation, demonstrate that the parables and symbolisms originally taught by Christ himself and the Apostles were used HEAVILY in Revelation. Many have criticized me in the past, telling me that I cannot use the symbols appearing in other places in the New Testament and apply them arbitrarily to the texts of Revelation. These three verses show us that there is nothing "arbitrary" in doing so because there is a CONSISTENCY among the symbols used in the writings of the Apostles in the gospels and the epistles and the symbols used in Revelation. It makes sense when you think about it. If each Apostle used the same symbols and allegories to describe different things it would become IMPOSSIBLE to connect their writings and get any sort of consistent message from them. That the BRIDE of Christ is the church in Revelation is NEVER disputed (while other symbols such as the "temple" in prophecy are almost ALWAYS disputed when you apply them to the Church)! I find this very odd, for when it comes to "the temple" there are even MORE verses in the New Testament where the "temple" is referring to the church, the body of Christ, than there are references to the Church as the Bride In fact, in every scripture in the new testament the consistency is 100 percent. When the Apostles said "the temple," they were without exception talking about the Church. Despite this reality, modern eschatologists INSIST on making the "temple" literal when talking about the antichrist and his entering in the temple to declare himself God!

Thankfully, there are no such controvercies surrounding the Bride. Universally she is accepted throughout to be a reference to the CHURCH, and this makes my job a bit easier.

Revelation 21: 2-3

"2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God."

Now, here is something perplexing to say the least. I just got done saying that in Revelation the Bride is the Church, but here is a scripture in Revelation that identifies the Bride as "the New City Jerusalem." We already know that the "temple" and "Jerusalem" have always been synonimous in scripture! We also know that the Body of Christ is also the temple. Logic dictates if the "temple" is the Church, and the temple is Jerusalem, and the Bride is New Jerusalem, we can only conclude that the temple and the Bride are also one in the same!

Revelation 21: 9-11

"9 And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me saying, Come hither, I will show you the bride, the Lamb's wife.

10 And he carred me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God.

11 Having the glory of God: and her light was like a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal;"

Clearly in Revelation at least the Bride is the city, New Jerusalem! So where does everyone get the idea that the Bride is the Church?

Ephesians 5: 23-32

"23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the savior of the body.

24 Therefore as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.

25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word.

27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loves his wife loveth himself.

29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord the church:

30 For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.

31 for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother and shall be joined to his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

32 This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning christ and the church."

The letter to Ephesians explains it all really. In the same way that a man becomes "one flesh" with his wife upon marriage, we, the believers, the Church become "one flesh" with Christ when we receive of the New Covenant in his blood and receive of the Holy Spirit. We become "one." That is why the Church is continually characterized as "the bride of Christ" in scripture. Yet, as "the body of Christ" we become a "holy temple" in which the Holy Spirit of God "dwells." That is how the Church can be both the temple, the Bride, and now we see that the Bride is also the "Holy City Jerusalem."

This is also another great SIMILARITY between the true Christ and the antichrist of Revelation, for, those who are "joined" to the antichrist also become "one" with the antichrist and become one with Satan himself. The antichrist has a "HARLOT" of which he is the HEAD, just as Christ has a Bride! The WHORE of the antichrist, however is not depicted as splendorously in scripture as is the Bride! This UNHOLY union is characterized as a PROSTITUTION!

Revelation 17: 3- 6

"3 So he carried me away in the Spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet colored beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.

4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet color, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornications:

5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

6 And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration."

The first and most crucial thing we must realize from reading about the Harlot is that she is seen SITTING on the BEAST, and this beast as described is undoubtedly the same Beast of Revelation 13, the revised Rome! When one "sits" on a Beast, one has subdued it. Who can argue with this? Who can sit on a WILD horse? The answer is, you can't. You have to TAME a beast to sit on it. Therefore, this Harlot woman is "riding" the Beast like a STEED! Many eschatologists make the mistake of saying that the Harlot Woman comes BEFORE the Beast of Revelation 13! According to what I just read, in order for this Harlot woman to RIDE the BEAST, the Beast must exist first! That is common sense. This Harlot rides into world dominancy on the "back" of this beast! This is abundantly clear from these passages.

The second most crucial thing we must gleen from the description is that the Harlot, (just like the Bride of Christ) is ALSO a CITY! The text calls this whore Bablyon, THE GREAT CITY!" This is vital because in another place in Revelation we are told WHICH CITY of the earth is "the Great City." Notice that within her name is the word "Mystery." Many have made much ado about this word found in her name. I've heard plenty of theories and it's odd, I've yet to hear anyone make the connection between the NAME of the whore, "Mystery Babylon" and the "mystery of iniquity" we have previously read about in Thessalonians. Surely, the use of these two words, both talking about a similar point in mankind's mystery MUST make them connected in some way! Especially when you consider that another word that appears in the Harlot's name, "ABOMINATIONS" also appears when talking about the antichrist in scripture. Daniel states that the Beast would "take away the daily sacrifice and place the abomination that makes desolate." I submit to you now that the words "Mystery" and "GREAT CITY" and "ABOMINATIONS" alone are a dead give away as to the identity of this Harlot City!

The Harlot is in fact "the abomination that makes desolate," spoken of by Daniel the prophet, the one that Christ warned us to "flee to the mountains" when we saw it "standing in the Holy Place." Furthermore, as the relationship between Christ and his Church is called "a mystery" in Ephesians so the relationship between the Harlot and the Beast is also called "MYSTERY!" The Mystery of Righteousness which shall be finished at the blowing of the last trumpet is the preparation of the Bride for the marriage supper of the Lamb. We know, then, by consistency that the "Mystery of Iniquity" (the Great Falling Away) is the preparation of the "antichrist" to be joined with the Harlot!

Many have recently pointed to world events in Iraq and are now considering the possibility that the great Harlot woman is in actuality LITERALLY Babylon, since Iraq is where Babylon once stood. This is a very interesting theory, but, the truth is, there is NO real MYSTERY as to which city in the world is represented by the Harlot in Revelation 17. The Scriptures make it abundantly CLEAR which city John was talking about! We'll start with the phrase "Babylon the Great" in her name. This Harlot city is referred to NUMEROUS times in chapter 17 and 18 as "the great city" or "that great city."

Revelation 17: 18

"And the woman which you saw is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth."

Revelation 18: 2

"And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of

every foul spirit, and a cage of ever unclean and hateful bird."

Revelation 18: 10

"Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is your judgment come.

Revelation 18: 16

"And saying, Alas, Alas, that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls!

Revelation 18:18

"And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is

like unto this great city!"

Revelation 18: 19

"And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying,

Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate."

Revelation 18: 21

"And a might angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into

the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thown down, and shall be found no more at all."

Here we have 8 separate places in the space of two chapters that clearly call the Harlot "that great city" or some variation of the phrase! I'm starting to think that God might have wanted to emphasize to us that in Revelation "the great city" is a reference to the Harlot Babylon. Don't you think? Now, what if I told you that the book of Revelation tells us EXACTLY which city in the world is "the great city" would you agree that the reference was a reference to Babylon, the Harlot city?

Revelation 11: 7- 8

"7 And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascends out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.

8 And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which is spirituallly called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified."

Here we have a LOCATION of the "great city." It's geographical position is "where also our Lord was Crucified." Our Lord, Jesus Christ as you may realize was murdered at Jerusalem! There can be no other conclusion than that the "GREAT CITY" the "GREAT WHORE" is none other than Jerusalem! It makes perfect sense too, when you think closely on this, for, if the Bride of Christ is the New City Jerusalem, it logically stands to reason that the antichrist's WHORE is going to be the exact opposite, the Old City Jerusalem for that is the pattern throughout scripture.

The identity of the GREAT WHORE can be none other than Jerusalem from what we have seen already, but, there's even MORE scriptural evidence of this than what we just saw!

Galatians 4: 22-27

"22 For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.

23 But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.

24 Which things are allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which genders to bondage, which is Hagar.

25 For this Hagar is mount Sinai, in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.

26 But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

27 For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearestnot; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate have many more children than she which has an husband.

28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of the promise.

29 But as then he that was born after the flesh presecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.

30 Nevertheless what say the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her

son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.

31 So then brethren, we are not the children of the bondwoman, but of the free."

This is the most startling of all the New Testament scriptures when studying the end times and Revelation! Why? Because it states clearly that the story of Abraham and his wife Sarah and the birth of their two sons were an "ALLEGORY," or symbolisms that God used to predict a greater event! That event being the TWO COVENANTS and the TWO JERUSALEMS. We know that the NEW JERUSALEM is the BRIDE OF CHRIST. In Galatians Paul shows us that the OLD COVENANT shall be used by the antichrist in the end times to bring BONDAGE. In the story of Abraham and Sarah (for those who aren't familiar), Abraham was promised by God that he would have a son and that son would be the father of "many nations." Sarah, however was "barren" and could not bear children, so Abraham took it upon hiimself to fulfill the promises of God by taking a concubine named Hagar! Hagar was a slave, a "bondwoman." She gave birth to Abraham's first son but this was NOT the child of the PROMISE. Sarah then miraculously gave birth to the promised one. As the two sons grew up together the first son who was not the promised one persecuted the younger, and being the oldest, considered himself Abraham's primary heir. In the end Sarah made Abraham send Hagar away with her son and the child NEVER inherited from Abraham!

In these Galatian verses Paul establishes two things. The New Jerusalem is "the mother of us" who are "born of the Spirit" and "children according to the promise." The second thing he establishes is that the FIRST JERUSALEM is somehow involved in the coming DELUGE! Which is just yet another confirmation that the GREAT CITY BABYLON is the Jerusalem that "now is." What's even scarier still is that Jerusalem is seen in Revelation as being involved with the antichrist Roman Beast!

The following represent the MYRIAD of scriptures which identify the Jerusalem that now is as a "HARLOT."

Isaiah 1: 21

"How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers."

Jeremiah 2: 20

"For of old time I have broken your yoke, and burst your bands; and you said, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree you wandered, playing the harlot."

Jeremiah 3: 1

"They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return to her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but you have played the harlot with many lovers; Yet return again to me, says the Lord."

Jeremiah 3: 6

"The Lord said also to me in the days of Josiah the king, Have you not seen that which backsliding Israel has done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there has played the harlot."

Jeremiah 3:8

"And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; Yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also."

Ezekiel 16: 15-16"But you did trust in your own beauty, and played the harlot because of your renown, and poured out their fornications on every one that passed by; his it was.

16 And of your garments thou did take, and decked your high places with divers colors, and played the harlot thereupon: the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so."

Ezekiel 16: 28

"You have played the whore also with the Assyrians, because you were unsatiable; yes, you have played the harlot with them, and yet could not be satisfied."

Ezekiel 16: 31-35

"31 In that you built your eminent place in the head of every way, and make your high place in every street; and have not been an harlot in that you refuse pay;

32 But as a wife that commits adultery, which takes strangers instead of her husband!

33 They give gifts to all whores: but you give your gifts to all your lovers, and hire them, that they may come to you on every side for your

whoredom.

34 And the contrary is in you from other women in your whoredoms, whereas none followed you to commit whoredoms: and in that you give a reward, and no reward is given to you, therefore you are different.

35 Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the Lord:"

Other scriptures that directly call Jerusalem are harlot are Ezekiel 23:5-44, Hosea 2: 5, Hosea 3:3, Hosea 4:15, Micah 1: 7, Nahum 3: 4 I wonder myself how many scriptures you have to find that directly call Jerusalem the "whore" before modern eschatologists catch on?

So, the Beast and the Harlot are joined together in an UNHOLY UNION. Paul even told the Corinthians that he who joins his members to a harlot becomes "one flesh" with the harlot!

1 Corinthians 15-16

"15 Know you not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.

16 What? know you not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, says he, shall be one flesh."

Christ himself predicted that some day Jerusalem would receive "another Messiah."

John 5: 43

"I am come in my Father's name, and you receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him you will receive."

The prophets of old, Jesus Christ, the Apostles all confirm that indeed, in the end times Jerusalem that now is shall receive "another Messiah" who is not the true Christ! Daniel spoke of this at length, stating that the antichrist would "confirm" a covenant with the people of Israel and then in the midst of that covenant betray them! Even the modern eschatologists state now that the major sign of the second coming of Jesus Christ will be the acceptance of Israel of the Christ as their Messiah. (We see now that it will not be the true Christ that they accept but the Roman Beast Christ).

Please don't mistake what I am saying. Am I saying that Israel are not the chosen people? Of course I'm not saying that, for how can Jerusalem be depicted as a "whore" for following a false Christ if God does not still consider

Israel a part of the Bride? I'm saying that INDEED Israel ARE the chosen people and I'm also saying that in the end times Israel is deceived by the antichristians into following a false Messiah who is identical in every way to the true Christ, but who is in all actuality the "son of perdition." As a result, the final "abomination that makes desolate" will stand in Jerusalem as Christ predicted! "Those who are in Judea flee to the mountains."

The people of Israel shall "ride into world power" on the back of the Roman Beast Kingdom. The followers of the antichrist will support Israel for a time and like Abraham did with Hagar, shall attempt to bring about the prophecies themselves resulting in a sort of "bastard child." Israel will welcome the assistance and support of the antichrist Roman Beast Christ and his followers! It will ensure stability for a while. This is actually how the "other Jesus" is created, for, the antichristians shall accept Israel as the people of God and inheriters of the promise LONG BEFORE ISRAEL ever accepts Christ. Thus, they take Christ "out of the way" of salvation. The antichristians will support Israel and encourage them to return to the building of the temple in Jerusalem and the sacrifices of the Old Covenant. In doing so the antichristians REJECT the New Covenant and are accepting Israel as the people of God (even though Israel has not yet received the true Christ). The antichristians never even realize that in order to do this, they have to give credence to the notion that Jesus Chist is NOT the "only way" to the Father!

In the end, however the Roman Beast Christ and his false prophet demand that Israel accept HIM as their Messiah! Israel, who has been accepted as being "the chosen people" will now be told that they must receive the antichrist as their Lord and Savior to be truly the chosen elect of God!

One final note for this chapter. In the Great City Babylon, is found "the blood of the prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth." (Revelation 18: 24). Eschatologists who are also dispensationalists will have trouble explaining this text if they refuse to accept that Jerusalem is the Great Whore! Why? Because dispensationalists clearly teach and believe that "prophecy is not for today." In other words, according to the dispensationalists there ARE no prophets for the great whore to kill! If dispensationalists want to cling to the notion that the prophetic dispensation has ended they are STUCK with the identity of the great whore being Jerusalem! Even if you aren't dispensationalist and believe that God is still sending prophets into the world, you can't avoid the clear testimony of Christ that Jerusalem is "the city that kills the prophets."

Luke 11: 47-51

"47 Woe unto you! for you build the graves of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.

48 Truly you bear witness that you allow the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them and you build their (your father's) graves as well.

49 Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they shall slay and persecute:

50 That the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation:

51 From the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, who perished between the altar and the temple: verily I say to you, It shall be required of this generation."

Christ made it clear that the blood of ALL the prophets is upon the Jerusalem of this current era, this "generation." If the blood of ALL the prophets who were ever slain falls upon Jerusalem, how can we find the GREAT WHORE with the blood of the prophets upon her too if she is NOT Jerusalem? Interestingly enough, Revelation 18: 24 says that in the great whore is found the blood of the prophets and of saints "and of all that were slain upon the earth." This is the EXACT same phrase as Christ used against Jerusalem of his day! We cannot ignore that. There's just no way to ignore it! Clearly, the Great Whore is Jerusalem!

Christ called Jerusalem "the city that kills the prophets."

Luke 13: 34

"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which kills the prophets, and stones them that are sent to you; how often would I have gathered your children together, as a hen does gather her brood under her wings, and you would not!"

Somehow, Jerusalem comes into power riding the Roman Beast antichrist and then, is betrayed by that same Beast kingdom, according to Revelations chapters 17 and 18. A covenant and agreement are struck between Israel and the antichrist (false Christ) and or the false prophet! This is an abomination unto the Lord. To add to that abomination, many believe that the sacrifices of the Old Covenant will resume. The interesting part of this will be when the antichristians stand up and point to these events as fulfillment of prophecy! They will speak of this whoredom of Israel and of this abomination as something that God has done! They will see it as a good thing. The antichristians will be thrilled for it was they who suppported and helped Israel rise to prominence, the purpose of that support was, of course to get the Jews to accept the Christ as their Messiah, but by the time this acceptance comes it's ANOTHER CHRIST that the Jews are accepting, it's ANOTHER CHRIST that the anti-church is preaching, it's ANOTHER CHRIST that the antichristians are following and worshipping!

When you think of it, the antichristian's support of Israel as "the children of God" without Israel accepting the true Christ first is ALL the evidence you need that the antichristians do not really believe Christ's words, "I am the way, the truth and the life, no man comes to the father but by me."

CHAPTER 14

HE THAT IS VS. HE THAT IS NOT

There is a single verse in Revelation 17, in reference to the antichrist beast of Rome that all of the eschatologists have brushed over, failing to understand or see just how PIVOTAL this verse is to understanding the very nature of the Beast!

Revelation 17: 8

"The beast that thou saw was, and is not: and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is."

The section of this verse that is so pivotal is the phrase "the beast that was, and is not and yet is." Compare this phrase, if you will to a phrase that God the Almighty uses when speaking of HIMSELF to John, at the very beginning of Revelation!

Revelation 1: 8

"I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord,

which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty."

We have here a beast who "was, and is NOT and yet is," and we have an

Almighty God who "is, and was, and is to come." It's important to notice that many, especially eschatologists attribute the words of Revelation 1: 8 to Christ. However, this is not the case and I'm not the only one who understands this, for, I have an old King James Bible, red letter addition. The words attributable to Christ are all in RED. Revelation 1: 8 is NOT in red, so earlier translators all recognized that the voice speaking in this verse was God the Father, the ALMIGHTY Himself!

God, the Almighty is he who is, and was and is to come. He IS GOD, WAS GOD, and IS TO COME (or will be forever) the ALMIGHTY GOD! The beast of

the Roman kingdom is called God! He sits in the temple of God showing himself to BE God! How do they explain that a man, who's parent's history we KNOW is supposedly GOD? They explain it by saying that he "was God" before he came to earth, "is not God" while he lives here on earth as a man, and yet, "still is God!" He's both ALL God, and ALL man! (Was God, is not God, but yet is God). This will be the earmark of the antichrist of the end times, the one aspect and blasphemy that sets him apart! No wonder Jerusalem will be called a whore for tolerating this beast! There is but ONE God, and that God cannot be contained in the heaven's or the earth, yet here is the antichrist claiming to be the fullness of the Godhead come down to earth and dwelling in a man!

How does Israel get so deceived? How is it even possible? Well consider this if you will, Revelation 13 states that EVERY NATION, TONGUE, and KING will be FORCED to bow down to this antichrist! It doesn't say "every nation except the nation of Israel!" The Jews will be under the same penalty of DEATH that everyone else is. Israel will have to accept this Roman Beast King if nothing but for the right to continue to EXIST! Not having the true Christ will put the Jews at a very distinct advantage, at least for a time, but I firmly believe that MANY Jews in Israel will hear the TRUE GOSPEL of the TRUE CHRIST and accept their long awaited Messiah at this same time, and be martyred with the rest of the faithful!

There is one more aspect we've not explored to this great picture which drives home exactly HOW the entire world is eventually deceived into receiving the antichrist, the false prophet, the image that speaks, and into accepting the "mark of the beast." This comes by examining the MOUTH of the beast!

Jesus Christ was the "oracle of God!" We know this because he told us so plainly!

John 14: 10

"Don't you believe that I am in the Father and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwells in me, he does the works."

Here we have as clear an explanation of how "the word" was "made flesh and dwelled among us." Christ, being flesh and blood gave himself over to the indewelling of the Holy Spirit that when he opened up his mouth, it was the Father in Heaven who was speaking! As it was with the true Christ so shall it be with the antichrist, but it shall be Satan himself speaking. Here is a twist. In order to accomplish this, the Roman Beast King must be "given a mouth." What do I mean by this? Well, since the Roman antichrist is merely a twisting and perverting of the TRUE CHRIST and doesn't really even exist, the false prophet creates an "image to the beast" and that image becomes the oracle, or MOUTHPIECE of the antichrist, (which in turn makes it the mouthpiece of both the false prophet and the devil).

Let's look at those scriptures again so that we can avoid all confusion:

Revelation 13:5-6

"5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.

6 And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven."

That the mouth of the beast is something completely distinct and innovative can be seen better if we go elsewhere in Revelation!

Revelation 16: 13-14

"13 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.

14 For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty."

We see here that the dragon (satan), the beast, and the second beast (the false prophet) all share the same "mouth." Out of this mouthpiece John sees unclean spirits "like frogs" spewing forth. This seems rather odd, until you remember the plagues of Egypt!

Exodus 8: 6

"And Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt; and the frogs came up, and covered the land of Egypt."

The unclean spirits spewing forth from the mouthpiece of Satan in the end times are just like the plague of frogs in the land of egypt. They "cover the land." In other words, they are EVERYWHERE! People can't get away from them. These lying spirits go forth and permeate every echelon of society. This is done by the use of "lying wonders." I tell you now, the mouthpiece of Satan is none other than "the image that SPEAKS."

Revelation 13: 13- 16

"13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,

14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth, by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword and did live.

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."

The false prophet is granted "power" and is able to do "great wonders" with this power, and it has to do with "fire" coming down from heaven to the earth. If you look this original word "fire" up in your Strong's Concordance you will see it is actually the word "LIGHTNING" when translated properly! Lightning, and in specific ELECTRICITY is the basis for ALL of the major scientific advances in mankind's modern history! With the "harnessing of lightning" (the advent of electricity) the world has truly seen "great wonders" produced! It is also this same POWER that gives "life" to the "image of the beast" and causes the image to "speak." These passages are clearly describing the advent of some form of technology which utilizes the same forces we see in lightning (electricity). This technology creates a MASS COMMUNICATION DEVICE called "the image that speaks." It becomes the very MOUTHPIECE of satan himself. Through this mass communication device the antichrist and the false prophet are able to send out satan's LYING SPIRITS to plague the world like the frog plagues of egypt. Their purpose? To gather the kings of the earth and all the people of the world together for battle!

The key to this entire passage lies in the fact that the false prophet brings this "power" this lightning down from heaven to earth and does it "in the sight of the beast." We've already seen that the followers of the antichrist are all members in particular of the Beast, in the same way that the followers of Jesus Christ are members of HIS body! All of these wonders and powers, made possible by electricty, are done "in the sight of the beast." This image becomes the greatest PROPOGANDA tool Satan ever devised to spread his lies to the entire world! Through the image that speaks the entire world is deceived. Through it Israel is restored and then is seduced by the Beast Kingdom! Everything that unfolds from that moment on is directly attributable to the great lying mouthpiece, "the image that speaks" and seems to be "alive."

I believe there is evidence that the power of the "air" is involved. I think this, because Satan is called the "Prince of the power of the air."

Ephesians 2: 2

"Wherein in time past you walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh

in the children of disobedience:"

I also believe that whatever this "image that speaks" utilizes to get its message out there it involves "the power of the air." Interestingly enough, during the end times the angels themselves use this same method to send their messages to the earth.

Revelation 8: 13

"And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound!"

Revelation 14: 6-7

"6 And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people,

7 Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters."

So, despite the antichrist kingdom, the devices they create to send Satan's lies out to the whole world are turned back by God and used against Satan and even used to spread the "everlasting gospel" to every nation and tongue and king. This is because any "power" Satan might possess and may be able to pass onto his minions came from God originally and there's no subtlety that Satan can devise that God himself cannot use against him!

CHAPTER 15

THE CHANGING VS. THE VANISHING

In America especially, and mostly among evangelicals there is a prevailing teaching concerning the finishing of the work and Mystery of Godliness that, in my humble opinion defies all logic and sound reason and I simply cannot write a book on this subject without addressing it. I hope I do not offend, but as you will soon see, I have good reason to question the thinking of those who believe that the Church will "vanish away" just prior to the "revealing of the antichrist" to the world. This event is lovingly called "the rapture," by those who teach it and espouse it and they don't seem to care that the word "rapture" itself does not even appear in the scriptures. Many who believe this idea make it such a central and important doctrine in their churches it's actually included in their primary

"statement of faith," despite the fact that up until the mid 1800's this doctrine was completely unknown in christendom and was not taught by ANYONE, ANYWHERE. This first defiance of logic, therefore, is to think that a teaching of this magnitude, that is so important it belongs in a primary statement of faith was completely missed by ALL of the believers in Christ that preceeded them! When you think about it, this borders on arrogance, and it's hard not to judge it so!

The most important unreasonableness of this idea of the "vanishing away" of the Church lies, as usual, in their handling of the scriptures they use to support the teaching, and especially in their complete disregard for the scriptures concerning the end times that would make absolutely NO SENSE at all, if what their teaching is true! They are oblivious to those scriptures that, once you examine them, you can only conclude that they are sadly mistaken in their beliefs in a "rapture" and especially in the notion this rapture will take place before the antichrist is ever revealed to the world!

I'll give you some examples.

Those who believe the rapture is a vanishing away of the church just prior to the revealing of the antichrist are often referred to as "pre-tribulation rapturists." Traditionally, but not all, most "pre tribulation rapturists" teach that when the church is whisked out of the world by Christ "to meet the Lord in the air" that at the same time the "age of grace" comes to an end, "the time of the gentiles is over" and furthermore they go so far as to say that "the Holy Spirit is taken out of the world."

Let's focus on what I agree with first. I agree that when the last trumpet sounds there will be a grand event that occurs to "those who are alive and remain" in Christ! I believe this with all of my heart, as you have seen in this book already. I also believe that this event is described as "the fulness of the gentiles," and I also concur that the age of GRACE comes to an end. You can see this in Revelation when, just before the Mystery of God is finished a voice says "there shall be time no longer." God comes to a point where he will give no more time to those who still haven't repented and produced the fruit of righteousness. For them, God's grace has come to an end and all they have to look forward to now is certain judgment and fiery indignation. It's this THIRD point that I cannot agree with. The notion that, at the time of this finishing work, suddenly the Holy Spirit is taken "out of the world."

The obvious questions just come flooding in. How do those who believe this explain that there will be, after this great event, TWO WITNESSES who are PROPHETS preaching to the children of Israel? How is anyone going to prophecy at all without the Holy Spirit? These same people who teach the Holy Spirit is removed from the world also teach that as a result of the prophecying of the Two Witnesses, 144,000 Jews are evangelized and accept Christ. How is anyone going to accept Christ without the Holy Spirit? Especially when Christ

stated clearly that "flesh and blood hath not revealed this to you but my Father in heaven?" Furthermore, all who accept Christ are then joined into the New Covenant, which is "I shall write their laws into their minds and into their hearts," how do they believe this will happen without the Holy Spirit in the world? During the reign of the antichrist the scriptures say that many shall be tormented if they "have not the seal of God in their foreheads." How will anyone have the seal of God in their foreheads without the Holy Spirit? I could go on and on with similar questions but I believe my point is made on this. Clearly the Holy Spirit cannot be taken out of the world before the revealing of the son of perdition, for without the Holy Spirit how will ANYONE resist the son of perdition after he is revealed? We know that many do resist him and are martyred for their refusal to receive the mark of the beast!

This begs another serious question. The Wheat and the Tares both grow up in the field together until "the time of the harvest." At the time of the harvest the Tares are gathered FIRST, in bundles to be burned, while the wheat are left happily in the fields. Afterward the wheat is "gathered together" into the barn. Furthermore, it is the WHEAT ITSELF that reveals the Tares, for the wheat brings forth it's fruit and thus exposes the Tares. Take the wheat out FIRST and there's no reason to bind the Tares at all, or expose them, who are you going to expose the tares to, the other tares? If so, to what purpose do you expose the tares?

Also, to whom is the antichrist "revealed" if the true believers are all gone from the earth? If the true believers have all departed to be "with the Lord in Heaven" then isn't the revealing of the antichrist a bit "moot" to the believer? Why would the Apostles warn the believer about the antichrist to begin with and teach them how to discern between the true christ and the antichrist being that they certainly would have known that the believers were not even going to be in the world when the antichrist emerges? It truly defies logic to warn the churches about an event that you know darned well they will NEVER even see!

Equally as provocative are the way the pretribulation rapturists handle the scriptures that they use to preach the doctrine. There used to be a song, about the rapture, quite popular in my younger days, written and performed by Larry Norman called "I wish we'd all been ready." In the song he sings "a man and wife asleep in bed, he hears a noise he turns his head, she's gone, I wish we'd all been ready." Now, J. Vernon McGee once did a radio broadcast in which he denied that Matthew 24: 36-42 is a part of the scriptural references used by the pretrib rapturists. He did this because those scriptures so obviously REFUTE the pretribulation rapture! The song by Larry Norman, used and appreciated and made popular by the pretrib rapturists clearly QUOTES that scripture, so we know that Dr. McGee was mistaken about their use of this scripture to "prove" their pet doctrine.

Matthew 24: 36- 42

"But of that day and hour knows no man, no not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.

37 But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark,

39 And knew not until the flood came and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.

41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.

42 Watch therefore: for you know not what hour your Lord does come."

The first thing we logically notice about this parable concerning the end times is the obvious fact that Noah was not removed from the world in order to save him from the flood or the "wrath" of God. Instead, he enters into the protection of an ark, an ark that I should point out Noah himself began preparing 120 years prior to the flood. So, how anyone reads the above text and comes away with the notion that the church will be removed from the world is quite beyond me, really! It simply is not in keeping with the parable. The second thing we notice here is that it is the JUDGMENT that is "taking people away" here in this text! Noah isn't taken away, he enters the arc (as I've said but it bears repeating). In verse 39 it says clearly that the WICKED know not "until the flood came and TOOK them all away," and this word TOOK is the same basic word that appears in the next verse, "two shall be in the field the one shall be taken the other left." As with the wheat and the tears, we see the wicked being gathered FIRST and bound for destruction, and the children of God are the ones "left behind." They've turned it all upside down!

Pretribulation rapturists like to also compare their "vanishing away" to safety of the clouds of heaven to when the angels pulled Lot and his family out of the the city before they rained fire down on it! The do this even though there isn't a single scriptural reference pointing to what happened to Lot and comparing it to what will happen to the Church. Not a single reference.

Well, there's not much more scriptures they can point to that prove we will be raptured out before the revealing of the antichrist, aside from a scripture that says the believers "aren't appointed to wrath" (1 Thessalonians 5:9) They reason

that, since the time of the tribulation when the antichrist revealed is called "the time of His wrath," therefore, logically the believers can't be there because they aren't appointed to wrath! The context of the scripture does NOT support their interpretation in the least. The wrath of which this scripture speaks is a totally different wrath, in which a person is cast into a lake of fire and brimstone. They always quote the first part of the verse and leave off the finishing of the sentence.

1 Thessalonians 5:9

"For God has not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,"

The wrath he's speaking about here is a PERMANENT wrath, and no we are not appointed to that wrath, but he's not saying that he won't pour out his wrath on the ungodly while there are righteous present on the earth! Again, they get that concept from the story of Lot but the scriptures do not actually SAY that God would never pour out his wrath on a world that has true believers in it.

1 Thessalonians 4:13-17

"13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that you sorrow not even as others which have no hope.

14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.

16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the charangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:

17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord."

In all actuality, this is scripture the pretribulation rapturists use most extensively and it is ironically this very same scripture that most clearly disproves the whole entire notion! That is because the writer here makes it clear this event occurs "at the last trumpet." All we need do is go to the book of Revelation and read about the events of the seven trumpets and we see that much of the outpouring of God's wrath is WELL UNDERWAY or already occurred at the sounding of the last or seventh trumpet. Many horrible "wrath" events have already occurred during the preceding 6 trumpet blasts and it becomes clear that the faithful are

going to be on the earth for at least PART of the wrath of God, which destroys the pretribulation rapturist's entire argument that we can't be here because we aren't appointed to wrath!

Revelation 11:5-7

"5 And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven,

6 And sware by him that lives for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer:

7 But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he has declared to his servants the prophets."

There are SEVEN trumpets sounding in Revelation. Here we have a CLEAR and plain timeline for the finishing of the Mystery which places it at the sounding of the seventh trumpet. What is truly fascinating is that without exception every scripture the "rapturists" use (and especially the pretribulation rapturists) and accept as the "rapture" also mention "the last trumpet." It's fascinating because when you point this out to them they always say that the references in the rapture scripture which mention both the MYSTERY and the TRUMPET aren't talking about the SAME trumpet and mystery you find discussed in Revelation! They tell you "it's a different trumpet." Eschatologists who teach that we "aren't appointed to wrath" and insist we won't be here when the antichrist comes onto the scene simply IGNORE these important scriptural cross references and dismiss them as being not connected. When you point out that most of the "rapture" scriptures say "at the last trumpet" they tell you that it's not the "seventh" trumpet that's sounding at the rapture but merely "the last trumpet any christian will ever hear." Yet, you have to accept THEIR interpretation of scripture first before this becomes a valid argument. You can't make an argument concerning a scripture that is only proved by accepting the argument first! That's defies common sense.

Let's look at what happens during the sounding of the first six trumpets! Before we do that however we need to discuss the seven seals. Virtually ALL eschatologists and writer's and lecturers on the subject of the end times agree that the seals and the trumpets are chronological. What this means is they believe the seals are opened first before the trumpets even sound. Since this is a UNIVERSAL teaching, especially among the pretribulation rapturists we will accept for argument's sake that the seals and the trumpets are chronological. We therefore have to add to the below list all of the events that occur during the opening of the seals as events that have occurred prior to the sounding of the seventh trumpet and the finishing of the "mystery" (or as some call it the "rapture").

Revelation 6: 1-2

"1 And I saw when the Lamb opened of of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.

2 And I saw , and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer."

Most eschatologists, and especially the pretribulation rapturists, accept that this rider on the white horse is none other than the emergence of the ANTICHRIST onto the world scene. They all agree on this unanimously. How do they not see that this occurs at the very opening of the first seal and that the seven trumpets haven't even begun to sound yet, and that the events that depict the so called "rapture" in scripture all agree that event won't occur until the sounding of "the last trumpet?" Here we have the most compelling evidence of them all that the antichrist arrives on the scene a long time before the sounding of the seventh trumpet and the "catching up" of the saints to "be with the Lord" at his second coming! That is all assuming that the rest of their interpretations are correct and the the rider on the white horse is indeed the antichrist, and assuming that the seals and the trumpets are indeed chronological. I think my readers are now starting to see that the modern eschatologists are playing "fast and loose" with prophecy in scripture and that their interpretations all contradict each other!

Revelation 6: 3-4

"3 And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and see.

4 And there went out another horse that was red: and the power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they shall kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword."

Universally they all agree that these are the terrible wars that are coming to the world during the great tribulation.

I will simply recap quickly the events that follow for brevity's sake. Here is a summary of all the events that occur prior to the sounding of the seventh trumpet and the finishing of the mystery (some call the rapture).

1. The conquering king on the WHITE horse (most agree the antichrist) at the FIRST SEAL.2. The rider on the RED horse who takes peace from the earth at the SECOND SEAL.3. The rider on the BLACK horse which represents horrible FAMINE at the

THIRD SEAL.4. The rider on the PALE horse, and death and hell follow with him and a fourth part of the earth end up dying by these FOUR HORSEMEN by the FOURTH SEAL.5. Under the altar are seen all the souls who have been martyred for their testimony during this terrible period, at the FIFTH SEAL.6. A great earthquake, the sun becomes black, the moon becomes as blood, the stars of heaven fall to the earth, the heaven is departed like a scroll rolled together, the mountains and islands are displaced, the mighty men of the earth hide themselves in dens and pray the rocks will fall on them for "The great day of his wrath is come." So, by the sixth seal the preliminaries are over and the great day of God's wrath begins.

I must quickly remind all that the central reason pretribulation raputurists say we won't be here for the above events is because they contend that we are "not appointed to wrath." Here we have the great day of God's wrath arriving long before the FIRST trumpet even sounds, and the so called "rapture" does not occur until the LAST TRUMPET and the MYSTERY of God where we are "all changed in a moment in a twinkling of an eye" is not finished until the days of the seventh angel when he shall begin to sound.

7. The 144,000 servants of Christ are sealed in their foreheads (Revelation 7: 1-8) PRIOR TO the SEVENTH SEAL.8. Those souls that have "come out of the great tribulation" are all given white robes prior to the seventh seal. (Revelation 7: 9-17)9. The seven angels with the seven trumpets stand before the altar at the opening of the SEVENTH SEAL. (Revelation 8: 1- 2)10. An angel takes a censer and fills it with fire from that altar in heaven and casts it to the earth and there are "voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake" and the seven trumpets prepare to sound at the opening of the SEVENTH SEAL. (Revelation 8: 3-6)11. Hail and fire, mingled with blood is cast upon the earth, a third of all plantlife is burned up at the sounding of the FIRST TRUMPET. (Revelation 8:7)12 A great mountain burning with fire falls into the sea and a third part of the sea turns to blood and a third part of all living creatures in the sea die and a third of all ships in the sea are destroyed at the sounding of the SECOND TRUMPET. (Revelation 8: 8)13. A great star called "wormwood" falls to the earth and pollutes a third of all fresh drinking water on the earth at the sounding of the THIRD TRUMPET. (Revelation 8: 10-11)14 A third of the sun and a third of the moon and a third of the stars are darkened and there is daylight only for a third part of the day and there is moonlight or starlight during only a third part of the night at the sounding of the FOURTH TRUMPET. (Revelation 8: 12-13)15 A fallen star opens the bottomless pit and locusts come out of the bottomless pit. These locusts torment men who do not have the seal of God in their

foreheads for FIVE months. During these days men shall pray for death but death will not come. Revelation 9: 1-12)16 The four angels who are bound at the river Euphrates are released and a two million man army crosses the dried river bed and kill another third of mankind are killed by the war that ensues from this event at the sounding of the SIXTH TRUMPET. (Revelation 9: 13- 21).

As you can see, most of the horrible events to which the pretribulation rapturists say we are "not appointed" occur BEFORE the last trumpet even SOUNDS! In order to continue to preach and teach this idea the pretrib rapturists have to ignore a LOT of scripture! Whoever came up with the doctrine knew NOTHING about the MYSTERY (which is Christ in you) and those who preach and teach the doctrine likewise have LITTLE KNOWLEDGE of the mystery of Christ in YOU and of the CHANGING OF THE SAINTS BODIES INTO INCORRUPIBLE IMMORTAL BODIES at the sounding of the SEVENTH TRUMPET!

Simply put, they are totally CLUELESS!

Aside from the scriptures in Matthew we discussed earlier in which Christ says "one shall be taken the other left" (which we know no is talking about the wicked being taken away) the "rapturists" who believe in the "great vanishing" of the church have NO OTHER scriptures to rely upon to PROVE this idea. NONE! There is simply NO scripture that says this anywhere! This is NOT the first doctrine that has emerged out of the Christian religion that has not been based on scripture. There have been many, so it is no new thing. The scriptures simply do not support a "vanishing," but instead the event that occurs at the sounding of the seventh trumpet is the "FINISHING" of the mystery. It is described by the Apostles in their letters as a "CHANGING" not a vanishing.

1 Corinthians 15: 50-58

"50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.

51 Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep but we shall all be changed,

52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that

is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.

55 O death, where is your sting? O grave, where is your victory?

56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.

57 But thanks be to God, which gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord."

The scriptures concerning this great MYSTERY which is finished at the sounding of the SEVENTH TRUMPET is clearly the VICTORY of the CHURCH! It is when the believers in the true Christ succeed in "mortifying the deeds of the body." This generation who will "not sleep" but shall "all be changed" shall have eradicated SIN in their flesh through the power of the Holy Spirit, the New Covenant in Christ's blood. Being that they are found WITHOUT SIN they are given incorruptible and immortal bodies, for the ONLY REASON our bodies are mortal to begin with is because of the SIN that is in our members. Get rid of the sin, you become immortal. So much for those that say "you can never be sinless in this life!" An entire generation of believers will PROVE those who say this wrong and prove them to be the FALSE PROPHETS they are (for most who say this will continue to say this right up until the day the Church is victorious)!

This will be the coming of the final end for those who have taught that there is NO WAY to overcome sin in this life, they will NEVER admit the error of their ways, even when confronted with a group of believers who are about to USHER IN the age of victory over sin! They shall blaspheme the HOLY SPIRIT by saying that these believers, who are about being SINLESS and are about being LIKE CHRIST (tempted in all ways yet without sin) are ALL OF THE DEVIL! They shall call these preachers of HOLINESS and SINLESSNESS "antichrists." This is because the antichrist does NOT take away sin, but instead merely pays the penalty for the sin, the antichrist that these antichristians who bear NO FRUIT follow does not demand PERFECTION. These antichristians will all band together (not realizing they are being bound in bundles to be burned) and shall turn to make war with the BRIDE who is preparing herself for the marriage by eradicating SIN in her flesh, calling them liars (for John in his letter did say that he who says "I have not sinned is a liar and the truth is not in him"). The antichristians will make the RIGHTEOUSNESS that we seek to achieve, believing that it is possible, through the power of the TRUE CHRIST an UNHOLY THING and turn everything upside down!

Those who believe in the "rapture" and especially in the "pretribulation rapture" will be on the FOREFRONT of them that fall away completely and reject the

RIGHTEOUSNESS of GOD that the believers have achieved. They shall be denying the POWER OF GOD and they shall CLING to the sins of their flesh saying "grace, grace." Why? Because they are sitting around doing NOTHING and waiting for some miraculous shout from heaven to change their bodies, instead of patiently and persistently working toward that goal! They think (and teach) that their sin state in the flesh is not something to be concerned with for they shall not be "in the flesh" in the rapture. They ignore the obvious fact that, if it were true that our efforts to overcome the flesh and the lusts of the flesh had NOTHING TO DO with their "precious rapture" then why would the Apostles warn every man and teach every man to overcome sin in the flesh and thereby "hasten the day of the Lord?"

What they don't know is that time is running out for them. The age of grace is fast coming to an end and very soon there shall come a voice from heaven saying "there shall be time no longer," and then the MYSTERY shall be finished and the body of Christ shall be "changed."

There is one more scripture the "rapturists" use is:

1 Thessalonians 4: 13- 18

"13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that you sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.

14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

15 For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.

16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first;

17 The we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words."

To most "rapturists" who believe in the "vanishing away" this scripture more than any other proves their doctrine. It clearly states that we shall be "caught up" with those who are resurrected "in the clouds" and shall "meet the Lord in the air." There are also numerous references to the second coming of Jesus which state that when he comes "in the clouds of heaven" that the saints shall be seen "with

him." Even if I were to accept that the catching away is quite literal and we shall all go up into the "clouds" to meet the Lord at his coming, we cannot ignore one important thing. The Lord is coming TO THE EARTH to reign. This is indisputable FACT in scripture. Wherever it depicts the second coming of the Lord "in the clouds" and the saints "with him," the Lord arrives and RETURNS to the EARTH to rule and reign.

If the clouds and the air in Thessalonians 4 are LITERAL, then this "catching away" is at best a U-Turn for even if we "meet the Lord" in the air at his coming, he comes TO the earth and we also RETURN TO THE EARTH with him!

Brothers and sisters, true believers I would like to ask you to entertain the notion that the "clouds" and the "air" in the above verses are quite symbolic! The word for "air" used in this text is the greek word is "aer" which is "breath" or "spirit!" How do they miss this? This text could easily have been translated "to meet the Lord in the spirit." But what about "in the clouds?" Clouds has always been a symbolic reference to the throngs of believers gathered together in one place.

Hebrews 12: 1

"Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which does so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us."

The "cloud" in 1 Thessalonians could easily be the same "cloud" mentioned here in Hebrews and is a reference to the "cloud of believers."

I do not reject outright a literal interpretation of the "air" and the "cloud" in Thessalonians. Even if I accept the literal version of this, as I said, this catching away is at best a U-turn, for it says "so shall we ever be with the Lord." We know that the Lord comes back to the earth and his followers appear with him! He comes to reign on the earth and we come to reign with him! The scriptures in 1 Corinthians describes a "changing" of our bodies due to the fact that sin is no more in our flesh and encourages us to keep on with our good works for we know that our labor is not in vain! Whether we are caught up into the air literally (or for that matter the question of when this happens) pales in comparison to the TRUE message of what is going on here, which is that the resurrection of the "dead in Christ" and then "we who are alive and remain" obtain also a resurrection where we are given IMMORTALITY and become completely INCORRUPTIBLE! The fact that the rapturists focus on the "catching away" and miss the FINISHING OF THE MYSTERY and the VICTORY OVER SIN AND DEATH in these scriptures speaks VOLUMES about their priorities!

Most of these rapturists, it is no coincidence, are the biggest proponents of the notion that you can NEVER live SINLESS in this life but have to WAIT for this great event that occurs at the RESURRECTION! Their idea is that they don't

have to do ANYTHING to obtain these righteous and holy sinless and incorruptible bodies except sit around and wait for it to happen. To them the words of Paul to the Corinthians to "be steadfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the works of the Lord for you know that your labor is not in vain," has absolutely NO meaning.

Recently I watched a prophecy conference on GOD TV. Mike Bickle (International House of Prayour) and his ministry team were speaking and answering questions. One question that was asked is "what does it mean to hasten the day of the Lord?" I sat on the edge of my seat for the answer to this question because I had heard Mike Bickle already blast the notion of the pretribulation rapture and my great hope was that he would then reveal the truth that we actually take an active part in the "changing" of our bodies into the incorruptible by walking after the Spirit and mortifying the deeds of the flesh, and that our labor to walk like Christ, sinless in this life is not in vain for many of the last generation shall indeed achieve perfection in Christ. I was excited, I just KNEW this would be their answer. I was disappointed. Their answer was not even close, because, let's face it the antichrist teachings that you can "never be perfect in this life" have already taken a very strong foothold in the world.We know from reading ALL of the scriptures concerning this great finishing of the Mystery and concerning the perfecting of the saints that not only do the very MINISTRY of the church (prophets, apostles, evangelists etc) has a part to play in perfecting the Church and making the Bride "without spot or wrinkle" but we ourselves take and active part as well. Which is why John wrote and said "he who has this hope in him purifies himself, even as he (Christ) is pure." (1 John 3: 3)

For you see, we know that "faith without works is dead," and we know that true faith brings forth the "fruit of the Spirit" and the fruit of the Spirit is righteousness and holiness!

James 2: 14-17

"14 What does it profit, my brothers, though a man say he has faith, and has not works? can faith save him?

15 If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,

16 And one of you say to them, Depart in peace, be warmed and filled;, notwhithstanding you don't give them those things which are needful to the body; what does it profit?

17 Even so faith, if it has not works is dead being alone."

So, we see that the Church has a work of faith to perform on the earth and that work of faith begins when you first receive the gospel. Faith grows within you

from day to day and you overcome to become a fruitful branch within in the vine of Christ. Those who say that we can never be perfect and sinless in this life have "sat down" and stopped running the patient race of faith. They have uttered a negative confession with their mouths that dooms them to be forever trapped in the sins of the flesh until the Lord appears in heaven to change them.

Those that want to cling to their lives of sin and remain living "after the flesh" untill the Lord comes, however, are running out of time to repent!

2 Peter 3: 9-12

"9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to usward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat,

the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.

11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in all holy conversation and godliness,

12 Looking for and hastening unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved."

Peter, the Apostle, has made it clear that the second coming has been delayed for ONE reason only, not all have come to "repentance." When eschatologists and most christian teachers quote these verses they apply the "longsuffering of Christ" to the world, to the unbelievers! Peter says that he is longsuffering "to usward," and includes himself and everyone that he is writing to! The reason most MISS this is because their idea of repentance is completely different than the repentance spoken of by the Apostles! To most Christians repentance is merely being "sorry for sin" and asking God to "forgive you of your sins." Repentance is something FAR stronger and requires some WORK of FAITH!Repentance actually means a complete "reversal" of direction! It means a "turning the back to" one's sins and going in the other direction (which is sinless perfection). The sad state of affairs in the world today is that the coming of Christ is being delayed, not because the WORLD hasn't repented but because the followers of Christ (to USWARD) have not repented yet! No wonder, for the antichrist spirit has been in work in the Church since it's very beginnings telling people that they can NEVER achieve that which Christ died and sent the Holy Spirit to achieve! Our "hope of glory." It all begins by our complete repentance and turning our back on our former lives of sin and finally, through spiritual growth, we ACHIEVE perfection and find ourselves LIKE CHRIST (tempted in all

ways yet, without sin).

The scriptures make it clear the Christ has delayed his return waiting for the Bride to prepare herself for the Bridegroom. We, the believers have a part to play in the FINISHING OF THE MYSTERY which is "Christ in you, the hope of glory." It begins with REPENTANCE and then culminates in VICTORY over sin in the flesh, by the daily sacrifice of mortifying the deeds of the body and walking in the Spirit! In the end times, this message will be preached to every creature and then comes the end, for the antichrist religion of the Roman Kingdom will wage WAR against this message and those who preach it! The Church, the true believers in Christ are taking part in their own SALVATION through FAITH which brings good works.

Phillipians 1: 6

"Being confident of this very thing, that he which has begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ."

Phillipians 2: 12-13

"12 Wherefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling

13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure."

There are so many already who are beginning to follow the antichrist doctrine that you can "NEVER" be like Christ in this life and that PERFECTION is not possible and that you will always live "in the flesh," (despite overwheliming scriptures to the contrary). Those who continue on this path will NEVER bear the fruit and never be a part of the marriage supper of the Lamb! They shall find themselves cast out into outer darkness at the Lord's return, for in them shall be found the iniquity of the hypocrites!

Matthew 24: 48-51

"But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delays his coming;

49 And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;

50 The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looks not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,

51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth."

Here is the REAL danger that those who say they can't live without sin have placed themselves in! Christ is honor bound by his word to "cut asunder" all of his servants whom he finds involved in iniquity when he returns! There's simply NO WAY around this truth! Many who claim to follow Christ right now would be in trouble at Christ's coming, for they admit openly that they are still caught up in the sins of the flesh, stumbling and falling and stumbling and falling, and what's worse they reject the idea that there is any way to do otherwise! They are going from daily sin to daily sin waiting for the Lord to come and give them new sinless bodies! Christ has stated emphatically that if he returns and finds them in this state they shall be cast out like the hypocrites they are! This explains why Peter said "not willing that any should perish." Many "servants of Christ" would PERISH if he returned today for they don't even BELIEVE in living holy and righteous on this earth and it is a REQUIREMENT at the second coming! This is because when Christ returns the MYSTERY will be FINISHED, the branches are bringing forth their fruit, the Bride has prepared herself and is found without spot and wrinke. It is the time of the harvest, when the TARES have manifested that they are not WHEAT and are "bound in bundles to be burned."

Those who think it's perfectly okay to go about their daily lives stumbling and falling into sin and they rely purely on the Grace of God, and think that God will come and magically change their bodies into sinless bodies that cannot be tempted and suddenly whisk them away into paradise (even though they might have been involved in one of those sins at the time of His coming) are in for a rude awakening! They are playing russian roulette with their SALVATION. For, they have NO IDEA when is this FINISHIING OF THE MYSTERY and the RESURRECTION of the dead and when they step out tomorrow or an hour from now and commit a sin they risk being "found in iniquity" at his coming! There shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth!

Matthew 25: 31- 46

"31 When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:

32 And before him shall be gathered all nations; and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divided his sheep from the goats:

33 And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.

34 Then shall the King say to them on his right hand, Come, you blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:

35 For I was hungry, and you gave me meat: I was thirsty and you gave me drink: I was a stranger, and you took me in:

36 Naked, and you clothed me: I was sick, and you visited me: I was in prison and you came to me.

37 then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when did we see you hungry and fed you, or thirsty and gave you drink?

38 When did we see you a stranger and took you in? or naked and clothed you?

39 Or when did we see you sick or in prison and came to you?

40 And the King shall answer and say to them, Verily I say to you, in as much as you have done it to one of the least of these my brethren, you have done it to me.

41 Then shall he say also to them on the left hand, Depart from me you cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:

42 For I was hungry and you gave me no meat: I was thirsty and you gave me no drink:

43 I was a stranger and you did not take me in, naked and you didn't clothe me, sick and in prison, an you did not visit me.

44 Then shall they also answer him saying, Lord, when did we see you hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister to you?

45 Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily, I say to you, in as much as you did it not to the least of these, you did it not to me.

46 And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into eternal life."

The MOST STARK and OBVIOUS truth that comes out of the Sheep and the Goats parable is that NOTHING is said about the RELIGIOUS BELIEFS of these two groups! Christ does not examine their DOCTRINES or the RELIGIONS they espoused in their lifetime and determine by this whether they shall have eternal life or not. How are both the sheep and the goats both judged? BY THEIR BEHAVIOR, BY THEIR WORKS! The Sheep did the WORKS of CHRIST and have eternal life for it, the goats did NOT the work of Christ and are judged and condemned! Again, this truth is UNDENIABLE in these verses! There is a WORK OF CHRIST for the Church, and at the second coming everyone who are

found NOT DOING THAT WORK are cast out into outer darkness!

CHAPTER 16

THE BIRTH OF CHRIST VS. THE BIRTH OF CHRIST IN YOU

The Mystery of Godliness, "Christ in you, the hope of glory," comes gradually, it is a work that was begun in the Church by Christ's crucifixion and the resulting indwelling of the Holy Spirit in the heart and mind of the believer. This is called the "New Covenant." In the end times the Church stands up and does the work of the true Christ. The faith and patience of the saints is fulfilled in the Church at that time. Up until then, the Church groans in expectation and hope of that GLORY to be revealed! It comes as no shock or surprise, therefore, that in the chapter directly preceding the persecution of the saints by the antichrist Roman Beast we find a complete description of this great and GLORIOUS event!

Revelation 12: 1- 2

"1 And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars:

2 And she being with child cried, travailing in birth and pained to be delivered."

As with all of the other Revelation prophecies there has been much debate over Revelation 12. The most common application of this chapter is when eschatologists take this as a "history lesson" and think that it represents either "Mary" or "Israel" bringing forth the Messiah. They, therefore apply it to the first advent of the Christ. John was told that the visions he was about to receive were "things that must shortly come to pass." It is highly UNLIKELY that Revelation 12 is depicting the first birth, resurrection, and ascending of Christ. Some eschatologists have begun to agree with this and are now starting to say that Revelation 12 is a depiction of the "rapture." I don't use the word "rapture," but I do agree this is a clear and concise description of the "finishing of the mystery." For, you see the Mystery, Christ in you, the hope of glory," is very much represented as a "woman in travail" to give birth in scripture. Christ is in us, and we groan and travail in our daily sacrifice to bring forth Christ for to many in the world the only glimpse of Jesus Christ they will get is by the Bride of Christ bringing forth Christ in her!

John 16: 20- 23

"20 Verily, verily I say to you, That you shall weep and lament, but the world

shall rejoice: and you shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.

21 A woman when she is in travail has sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child she remembers no more the anguish for joy that a man is born into the world.

22 And you now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man takes away from you.

23 And in that day you shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say to you Whatsoever you shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it to you."

What we see here in the gospel of John is the very first place that the Church is characterized as "a woman in travail" but it's not the last.

Before we look at those however, I'd like to point out that Christ makes it clear that those who are in "travail" and are having the "birthing pains" of Christ in them do NOT pray to Jesus Christ, but directly to the Father. The reason I'd like to point this out is because as I said earlier, the true Christ does not ask to be prayed to or worshipped. It is the ANTICHRIST who is both PRAYED TO and WORSHIPPED according to scripture.

Other scriptures that speak of the "birthing pains" are as follows:

Galatians 4: 19

"My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you."

1 Thessalonians 2: 9

"For you remember, brethren, our labor and travail: for laboring night and day, because we would not be chargeable to any of you, we preached to you the gospel of God.

1 Thessalonians 5: 3

"For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction comes upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape."

Romans 8: 22-23

"22 For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.

23 And not only they, but ourselves also which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of the body."

So, now we see that the WOMAN IN TRAVAIL in Revelation is the same as has always been depicted. The Church groaning and travailing to bring forth Christ in her, which results in the total and compete finishing of the mystery and the "redemption of the body," (sinless and perfect bodies for which immortality is given).

Revelation 12: 3- 4

"3 And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns upon his heads.

4 And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born."

Notice this dragon has the exact same description as the BEAST of Revelation 13! The prophecy is revealing that at the same time the Church is preparing to bring forth Christ IN YOU and finish the Mystery, the Dragon is bringing forth the antichrist BEAST KINGDOM for one purpose, to STOP THE FRUIT of the labors of the Church and to DEVOUR the testimony and the demonstration of the Spirit and Power that comes by the woman giving birth to Christ in her!

Revelation 12: 5

"And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God and to his throne."

This identifies the entire chapter as a depiction of the finishing of the mystery better than any other verse. "Those who are alive and remain shall be caught up to meet the Lord in the air," "the child was caught up to God and to his throne." This is the exact same terminology!

Revelation 12: 7

"And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels.

8 And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.

9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and

Satan, which deceives the whole world, he was cast out into the earth and his angels were cast out with him.

10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, who accused them before our God day and night."

This is a clear depiction of everything that Messiah said concerning the second coming! Messiah states that the angels would go forth and gather together all that has iniquity in the kingdom and bind them in bundles to be burned, he also said that the goats would be judged and cast into outer darkness prepared for the devil and his angels, and all of this is preceded by the VICTIORIOUS BRIDE bringing CHRIST IN YOU forth and finishing the work that was done by the death and resurrection of Christ! Remember we saw that the antichristians (followers of the antichrist) are of ONE BODY even as the followers of Jesus Christ are ONE BODY? When Satan and his angels are cast out so, also, are the MEMBERS OF THE BODY OF THE ANTICHRIST! Michael and his angels are sent, after the CHURCH brings forth Christ in her, and they begin to clean up in the kingdom of heaven.

The reason "the accuser of the brethren" is thrown down, is because the CHURCH has BROUGHT FORTH CHRIST IN HER, she is found "WITHOUT SPOT OR WRINKLE" and there is NO SIN IN HER for which the accuser can accuse!

But, what happens next?

Revelation 12: 13

"13 And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child.

14 And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time from the face of the serpent.

15 And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.

16 And the earth helped the woman and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.

17 And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ."

These verses set the stage for the persecution of the saints by the ANTICHRIST BEAST, who, was poised before the woman from the beginning of the chapter attempting to devour the BIRTH OF CHRIST IN YOU. The dragon and the beast and his followers are now all cast out and in anger and jealousy turn to make WAR WITH THE SAINTS OF THE MOST HIGH. Thus, we enter chapter 13.

I submit that the days of preparation for the finishing of the MYSTERY, and the Church bringing forth Christ in her, coincided exactly the GREAT FALLING AWAY that leads to the revealing of the antichrist. That is because the TRUE BELIEVERS as they become more and more VOCAL about RIGHTEOUSNESS and PERFECTION through FAITH and through the POWER OF CHRIST that is in her, the antichristians will become more and more vocal concerning their CONDEMNATION of CHRIST IN YOU!

I don't know about you, but it would take a BLIND MAN not to see that the GREAT FALLING AWAY has already begun and the stage is being set for BOTH the Church finishing the mystery of Christ in you and at the same time the antichristians taking over the Roman Beast Kingdom and setting up a COUNTERFEIT CHRIST!

CHAPTER 18

THE FRUITFUL BRANCHES VS. THE BARREN BRANCHES

The revealing of those who are a part of the GREAT FALLING AWAY is really just as simple as this, those who follow the son of perdition into the lake of fire have a RELIGION that is NOT FRUITFUL. They present a FAITH that doesn't work because it is a FAITH WITHOUT WORKS and the scripture makes it clear that is a DEAD FAITH! This entire end time scenario is catalyzed by the FULFILLMENT of CHRIST IN YOU and by the BRANCHES BEGINNING TO BRING FORTH FRUIT!

Matthew 24: 32-33

"32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and puts forth leaves you know that summer is nigh:

33 So likewise you, when you shall see all of these things, know that it is near, even at the door."

Almost universally, modern eschatologists accept the above scripture as a prediction of the restoration of Israel to their homeland. They state emphatically

that the fig tree is ALWAYS representative symbolically for Israel in scripture. The problem I have with this interpretation is that the emphasis in these verses is NOT on the fact that Christ is talking about a "fig tree." The emphasis is on the fact that when you see a tree (any tree) beginning to bring forth leaves you know that the FRUIT is not far afterward! It is the sign of the tree bringing forth the FRUIT that is the sign of the second coming of Christ, not the fact that it's a fig tree. This is why Luke doesn't just say "a fig tree" but in fact says "yes and even all the trees."

Luke 21: 29 32

"31 And he spoke to them a parable: Behold the fig tree, and all the trees;

30 When they now shoot forth, you see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand.

32 Verily I say to you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled."

That the believers in Christ are characterized as branches that bring forth "the fruit of righteousness" cannot be debated! There is AMPLE evidence of this scripturally. I have already quoted one, which bears repeating again because I did not until now point out the obvious fact that Christ states "every branch in me that bears not fruit my father takes away."

John 15: 1- 10

"1 I am the vine, and my Father is the husbandman.

2 Every branch in me that bears no fruit he takes away: and every branch that bears fruit, he purges it, that it may bring forth more fruit.

3 Now you are clean through the word which I have spoken to you.

4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can you except you abide in me.

5 I am the vine, you are the branches: He that abides in me, and I in him, the same brings forth much fruit: for without me you can do nothing.

6 If a man does not abide in me he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them and cast them into the fire and they are burned.

7 If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, you shall ask what you will and it shall be done to you.

8 Herein is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit; so shall you be my disciples.

9 As the Father has loved me so have I loved you: continue in my love.

10 If you keep my commandments, you shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love."

When the Body of Christ, the Bride, begins to show signs of bringing forth her "fruit of her womb" (even as a tree begins to show signs of summer fruit) we know that the end times is near (and so does the devil). When the signs of this great bringing forth of Christ in You do appear, the Devil will create a CONTERFEIT system that is designed to keep as many MEMBERS of the VINE from bringing forth FRUIT, then the devil uses this very same system to persecute the woman and the "remnant of her seed" who do what? Who "KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD" as well as "HAVE THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS." This is what sets apart the fruitful branches from the barren. This is what separates the sheep from the goats. This is what separates the Bride of Christ from the Harlot of the beast. One "KEEPS THE COMMANDMENTS" the other does quite the OPPOSITE and furthermore, those who do the OPPOSITE persecute those who keep the commandments!

CHAPTER 19

THE LOVE OF THE TRUTH VS. THE BIG LIE

This now brings us full circle back to discussion of the ANTICHRIST and the GREAT FALLING AWAY. As we saw, the antichrist, the BEAST and the FOURTH KINGDOM are identical to the true Christ in many ways and that there are only a few minor differences between them having to do with ministry and methodology. The one big difference, and it is a matter that makes ALL the difference to God, between the true Christ and the antichrist, is that the antichrist, being a flesh and blood man, born of a woman and a man, is turned into a GOD and worshipped. The antichrist is the ULTIMATE TOTEMISM! Instead of creating an image of an animal and worshipping it, the world creates the image of a MAN, calls this man God, and worships both the man AND the image! This is the great LIE!

Romans 1: 15- 26

"15 So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you that are at Rome also.

16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, the just shall live by faith.

18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;

19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God has showed it to them.

20 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:

21 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.

22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

23 And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four footed beasts, and creeping things.

24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves:"

The making of a man into a God. This is the LIE. They change the incorruptible God into the image of a man! This is what we see happening in Revelation 13. The Beast who is "a man" is called God and worshipped, an image of the beast is made and it is worshipped. The REAL damage that is done is that, this God/Man image is identical to the true Christ in almost every way except this lie! For, you see, the antichristians will be so incensed by the true gospel of Christ in You and the earnest expectation and hope of Christ-like Perfection because, the

Christ they worship and pray to, the God/Man is the ONLY man who can be perfect, according to their doctrines. He was perfect for us, and we are given HIS righteousness so that we don't HAVE to be LIKE CHRIST. Furthermore, it is IMPOSSIBLE to be like their Christ, because their Christ is God! They teach that no man, save for their Christ, can be "like God." So, the antichrist man/god completely makes those who worship him barren and unfruitful, for there is no earnest expectation to be LIKE the antichrist, for "who is like unto the beast?" (Revelation 13: 4) The answer to that is "no one" because the Roman Beast Doctrine specifically states that no one CAN be like the Beast for "he is God in the flesh."

2 Thessalonians 2: 11- 17

"11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:

12 That they all might be damned who believed not in the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

13 But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God has from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:

14 Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

15 Therefore, brethren, stand fast and hold the traditions which you have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.

16 Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God, even our Father, which has loved us and has given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,

17 Comfort your hearts, and establish you in every good word and work."

The ONLY difference between those who fall to the great delusion and believe a lie and those who have "the love of the truth" is that those within the delusion, who follow the "son of perdition" don't BELIEVE and have no love of the truth for they find "pleasure in unrighteousness," and deny the power that we have to continue in every "good word and work." While those who have the love of the truth, walk in faith, and some day are rewarded for that faith with the "glory of the Lord Jesus Christ."

I pray all of those who read this book that God may give you ears to hear the truth and instill in you a love of the truth.

CHAPTER 20

THE GOOD NEWS VS. THE BAD NEWS

One final word. The "gospel" is the "good news." That is what gospel means.

The teaching of the antichristians that "you can never be like Jesus, you can never be holy and perfect in this life" is ONLY good news to the person who wants to remain in their sin their entire lives (and have pleasure in unrighteousness). To the person who hungers and thirsts for righteousness, and to the person who desires with all their being to be VICTORIOUS over their sin and to be FREE of their sin, the news that they can never achieve this is NOT good news, it's bad news.

The antichrist gospel therefore is not "good news' at all but "bad news." It is an "anti-gospel" or "another gospel."

So, we come to the end of this study. There is much more I could say on all of these matters. I believe, however, in the Spirit of truth that leads and guides us into all truth, and part of the joy and excitement of discovering these matters was having them revealed to me directly by the Spirit and I do not wish to rob my readers of that joy!

Even so, come Lord Jesus, Come!