ࡱ> bda)` 5bjbj 4N{{-%^&^&^&8&,&4<v''"$'$'$'$'$'$'<!<!<!<!<!<!<$>h~@E<K*$'$'K*K*E<$'$'Z< . . .K*$'$'< .K*< . .:h5;$'& Ђy^&c+:<p<0<:0A-0A 5;5;0A;H$''| .N(d($'$'$'E<E<-d$'$'$'<K*K*K*K*D:$: The Antichrist Satans Superman Rev. 13:1-10 A quote to ponder: The streets of our country are in turmoil. The universities are full of students rebelling and rioting. Communists are seeking to destroy our country and the republic is in dangeryes, danger from within, and danger from without. We need law and order. Without law and order, our nation cannot survive! Was it Trump? No. Sounds like a presidential election in the 60sbut Kennedy did not say that. Maybe it was some college fanatics after some street rioting in the 80s? No, it was Adolf Hitler in 1932. You see, dictators rarely take over by brute force. Political problems / economic problems pave the way for dictators. In the 30s, Germanys economy was in shambles, people were starving, inflation was severe, and communists stirred up riots in the streets and on university campuses. Germany was in turmoil and confusionon the verge of collapse. And no one was able to create order out of the confusionand then he appearedHitler! A voice of authority in the midst of chaos. He was viewed as a Saviorbecause the rioting stopped, men started working, people were eatingthere was a new sense of national pride. You and I know the final result in hindsight, as people turned admiration into worship, and Hitler turned out to be a demon-possessed monster. By the way, Hitler called for a cleansing of the Jews, and now liberals are calling for a cleansing of Trump voters. Hmmm Yet as bad as that was, Hitler couldnt even play 3rd string compared to the antichrist. v. 1-10 This is the antichrist. The last world-wide dictator. Sometimes called the man of sin/son of perditionhere he is called the beast out of the sea. (evolutionists say we came from a beast, we know were headed that way!) Lets see 5 things about this beast: The dictatorship of the beast v. 1 What is this sea representing? Isaiah 17:12 Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters! Revelation 17:15 And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest...are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues. The sea represents all of humanity, the nations of the world. During the tribthey will be in mass confusion/turmoildont forget what has already happened up to this point Waters turned to blood/fresh water poisoned/famine on a world-wide scale/chaos reignslike the raging sea during a storm, the nations will be churning, seething, tossed in all directions! And 1 man will come on the scene and make it all better! And when, in the tribulation, the world is looking for answers during the greatest turmoil of all human history, the beast will rise up out of the sea! (Emperor worship in the early centuries A.D., they had to say, Caesar is Lord, or be thrown to the Lions, people cheered, for they believed he was Lord!) dictatorship of the beast The description of the beast 1, 2 If ever there were a child of the devil, the spawn of Satanhere he is! His ancestry goes all the way back to Lucifer. "Ye are of your father, the devil." Family likeness 12:3 (Satan [v. 9]) Hes a chip off the old block, his fathers son. The antichrist will be able to say, as Jesus did, if youve seen me, youve seen my father! He will be the visible expression of the invisible devil! The 7 heads represent 7 mountains17:9which city is this referring to? Rome! (anti-pope!) Next is the 10 crowns13:1ten horns/ten crownsthese represent the same thing as the 10 toes in Daniels statue, the 10 nation revived Roman Empire in Europe. (watch out for Europethey already have their Euro dollar, and are uniting together. The United States of Europe is a term first coined by Winston Churchill, [chart of Western European Union] Family lineage v. 3 leopard, bear, lionturn to Daniel 7: 1In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream, and told the sum of the matters. 2Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea. 3And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another. 4The first was like a lion (kingdom of Babylon), and had eagle's wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man's heart was given to it. 5And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, (medo-Persian empire) and it raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh. 6After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, (ancient Greece under Alexander the Great) which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it. 7After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, (the antichrist) dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns. Back to 13:2like untoall 3 animals! Hes a composite of all the world dictators which have ever served under Satan. All the Caesars/napoleons/hitlers/stalins/khomenis/nebuchadnezzars/Alexander the greats/saddam husseins/Khadafisall rolled into 1! John 5:43 I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive. His family likeness/lineagehe is just like those that have gone before him! Family legacy, v. 2bthe unholy spirit, Satan, will fill and empower the antichrist 2 Thessalonians 2:9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, Is the antichrist alive today on earth? Where is he, if so? Why doesnt he take over? II Thess. 2 talks about this, revealing theres a restraining force in place holding him backits the Holy Spirit in our heartsbut once the salt is removed (rapture), he will be freeno more preservation! Weve seen his dictatorship (rising up out of an angry sea w/ 7 heads and 10 crowns) his description: family likeness, lineage, legacy The Desirability of the Beast Why would the people of the world follow a man like this? Whats his appeal? v. 3 Interestingthe antichrist will be very popular, for many reasonsnot the least of which will be his imitation of the resurrection of Jesus Christ! He will receive some kind of mortal wound to the head, appear to die, and then appear to resurrect. Another Satanic counterfeit! Down to v. 12 (talking of 2nd beastthe false prophet) Then v. 14 3 times this mortal wound is mentioned in ch. 13it must be significant! Heres what we dont know about it: Whether actual or simulated (v. 3 as it were [as if]) We do know: It will gain him great popularity (v. 3all the world wondered after) His desirability is greatdont get off track because hes called the beastthats a reference to his character, not his appearance. Even Satan is called a Dragon, but hes an angel of light in appearance! Practical application: Heres what we can learn from this that will apply to us The devil has always been an imitator (Martin Luther called him Gods ape!) His last words before falling from heaven I will be like the most high Hes a master-counterfeiter! Examples: counterfeit Christiansmatt. 13:38-? Tares mixed into the wheat! Profession w/out possession. Initially you cannot tellbut eventually their true colors show! 10 virginsmatt. 24all had lamps, but only 5 had oil II Cor. 11:13counterfeit ministersall over America today they stand behind pulpits, but do not believe the Bible/virgin birth/sinless life/resurrection/hell/absolutesstrive to be politically correct/take pollsgo w/ flowand they need to leave the pulpits and get an honest job! [I am a counterfeit if I judge another to be a counterfeit for any reason other than doctrinal -- I reveal my personal envy or disdain if I don't view them as a team member] Gal. 1counterfeit gospelits how some live decades, even a whole lifetime, believing good people go to heaven and bad to hell! Satan has always been a counterfeiterand the same will be true in the tribulation! Hell imitate the resurrection. Desirability The Determination of the Beast 3 things hell be determined to do: Deify himself v. 4 worshipped the beasthe wants that! II Thess. 2: 3Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; 4Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. Its already happened dozens of times, at least: Didnt China think mao-se-tung was God?/Germany-Hitler/South AmericaJim Jones/TexasDavid Koresh/RussiaVladimir Lenin has been dead for years, still his body is encased in state under glass, multitudes pass by it all the time, except for when they wash him in formaldehyde because they dont want to wash their dirty Linen in public! Defy God A master of wordswill mesmerize w/ fair speech Blasphemes God/name of God/tabernacle (heaven)/those that dwell there (us!) He hates us, and will try to convince the world that we who were raptured are missing because of a great judgment of God against us! Sound crazy? The Bible says its a lie so clever that even the elect would believe it if it were possible! Blasphemy will spew out of his mouth like sewage! Ironic that Jesus was always accused of blasphemythen was rejected But the antichrist will be blindly accepted, though he blaspheme! Destroy the saints v. 7 this is not usits in the trib. This is not the millennium either! (its verses like this that make some think the church will go thru the trib.) But these are they that are saved during the trib. by the witness of the 144k! (see ch. 7) The antichrist will try to rid the earth of every last believer: they will face guillotines/firing squads/gas chambers/concentration camps/torture! Why do some say theyll wait to get saved [see if it all really happens]? Bible promises they wont (if not now when it is easy, will they when all is working for them?) (II Thess. 2 also says God will send strong delusion to them which have rejected Christ today) [want to go that direction and follow himok, Ill give you a shove!] determination The Deception of the Beast (v. 8) v. 11His agent of deceptionthe false prophetthe beast out of the earth [sinister minister] (next time) Years ago a man lived on long island/always wanted a barometer to put on mantle/saved $ and got a nice one delivered to his home/took out of box, noticed needle pointed toward sector indicating a hurricane on the way/assumed it must be brokenshook it, tried to adjust it to the kind of day it was/kept pointing to hurricane/just set it on the mantle/went to work in the city/wrote scathing letter to company he bought it from/ youd think for that kind of money it would work!/got home late that evening and the barometer was goneso was the house--the great hurricane of 1938 had swept thru! The barometer didnt need adjusting at all, it just needed believing! The Bible tells of a spiritual hurricane of judgment which is on the way as we speak! It doesnt need to be adjusted, just believed! No need to face antichrist if you accept Jesus Christ today!     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