The Antichrist and Its Ruler, the Beast

“Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. Therefore we know that it is the last hour.” ~1 John 2:18

God related to me that the ‘beast’, the ruler of antichrist would be born in 2035.  I suspect, but am not sure, he will be a rich Arab prince.  By then one world religion and one world currency should be well established, as one world government is already established.  All that needs to happen is for its ruler to take his figurative throne.

The symbol of Islam is the crescent moon and star.  Image result for symbol of islamIsaiah 14:12 states

 “How you are fallen from heaven,
O Lucifer, son of the morning!
How you are cut down to the ground,
You who weakened the nations!

Shahram Hadian says that the translation of the bolded verse equates to ‘moon and star’, therefore I believe (as do many) that antichrist is an ideology that turns many away from the truth of Jesus Christ.  That ideology is Islam and Muslim leaders, because it is against Christ, because it derives from Ishmael, the rejected son of Abraham, as it is prophesied in Isaiah (the ‘fifth gospel), and is corroborated in the Book of Revelation (see below):

Fall of the King of Babylon

It shall come to pass in the day the Lord gives you rest from your sorrow, and from your fear and the hard bondage in which you were made to serve, that you will take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say:

“How the oppressor has ceased,
The golden[a] city ceased!
The Lord has broken the staff of the wicked,
The scepter of the rulers;
He who struck the people in wrath with a continual stroke,
He who ruled the nations in anger,
Is persecuted and no one hinders.
The whole earth is at rest and quiet;
They break forth into singing.
Indeed the cypress trees rejoice over you,
And the cedars of Lebanon,
Saying, ‘Since you were cut down,
No woodsman has come up against us.’

“Hell from beneath is excited about you,
To meet you at your coming;
It stirs up the dead for you,
All the chief ones of the earth;
It has raised up from their thrones
All the kings of the nations.
10 They all shall speak and say to you:
‘Have you also become as weak as we?
Have you become like us?
11 Your pomp is brought down to Sheol,
And the sound of your stringed instruments;
The maggot is spread under you,
And worms cover you.’

The Fall of Lucifer

12 “How you are fallen from heaven,
O Lucifer,[b] son of the morning!
How you are cut down to the ground,
You who weakened the nations!
13 For you have said in your heart:
‘I will ascend into heaven,
I will exalt my throne above the stars of God;
I will also sit on the mount of the congregation
On the farthest sides of the north;
14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds,
I will be like the Most High.’
15 Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol,
To the lowest depths of the Pit.

16 “Those who see you will gaze at you,
And consider you, saying:
Is this the man who made the earth tremble,
Who shook kingdoms,
17 Who made the world as a wilderness
And destroyed its cities,
Who did not open the house of his prisoners?’

18 “All the kings of the nations,
All of them, sleep in glory,
Everyone in his own house;
19 But you are cast out of your grave
Like an abominable branch,
Like the garment of those who are slain,
Thrust through with a sword,
Who go down to the stones of the pit,
Like a corpse trodden underfoot.
20 You will not be joined with them in burial,
Because you have destroyed your land
And slain your people.
The brood of evildoers shall never be named.
21 Prepare slaughter for his children
Because of the iniquity of their fathers,
Lest they rise up and possess the land,
And fill the face of the world with cities.”

Babylon Destroyed

22 “For I will rise up against them,” says the Lord of hosts,
“And cut off from Babylon the name and remnant,
And offspring and posterity,” says the Lord.
23 “I will also make it a possession for the porcupine,
And marshes of muddy water;
I will sweep it with the broom of destruction,” says the Lord of hosts

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Revelation 13 New King James Version

The Beast from the Sea

13 Then I stood on the sand of the sea. And I saw a beast rising up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his horns ten crowns, and on his heads a blasphemous name. Now the beast which I saw was like a leopard, his feet were like the feet of a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a lion.Image result for rich arab princes

The dragon gave him his power, his throne, and great authority. And I saw one of his heads as if it had been mortally wounded, and his deadly wound was healed. And all the world marveled and followed the beast. So they worshiped the dragon who gave authority to the beast; and they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast? Who is able to make war with him?”

But the BEAST will come up from the sea and will rule, and this is the Ruler of the One World Order, who has on his head 10 crowns and a blasphemous name.  All the world marveled and followed the beast Image result for pope with arab princes

and worshiped the beast and said, “Who is like him?  Who is able to make war with him?”

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And he was given a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies, and he was given authority to continue for forty-two months. Then he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme His name, His tabernacle, and those who dwell in heaven.

It was granted to him to make war with the saints and to overcome them. And authority was given him over every tribe, tongue, and nation. All who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

If anyone has an ear, let him hear. 10 He who leads into captivity shall go into captivity; he who kills with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.

The Beast from the Earth

11 Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lambImage result for abramovic and spoke like a dragon.Image result for spirit cooking 12 And he exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence, and causes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. 13 He performs great signs, so that he even makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men. 14 And he deceives those who dwell on the earth by those signs which he was granted to do in the sight of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who was wounded by the sword and lived.

15 He was granted power to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak and cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed. 16 He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, 17 and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.Image result for spirit cooking

18 Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666.Image result for pentagram on abdomen abramovic

The Three Heavens, the Three Hells, and God

Heaven

Paradise

Living in the Spirit on Earth

Living in the Flesh on Earth

Sheol

Lake of Fire

We know there are three heavens because of the Apostle Paul’s words in his epistle to the Corinthians

2 Corinthians 12:2-5 New King James Version (NKJV)

I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago—whether in the body I do not know, or whether out of the body I do not know, God knows—such a one was caught up to the third heaven. And I know such a man—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows— how he was caught up into Paradise and heard inexpressible words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter. Of such a one I will boast; yet of myself I will not boast, except in my infirmities.

As there are three degrees of hell, there are also three heavens.  The first heaven is our earth that God gave us, including our atmosphere and outer space.  It is temporal meaning it is tangible, physical, and not necessarily spiritual, though it can be. Just as earth can be hell and man can suffer, it can also be heavenly because of all the blessings God bestows on man, in Christ and without.  After all, sometimes evil people receive good things, and the most persecuted are those who follow Christ.  Although overall, it is also true that Christ makes the difference between heaven and hell in our earthly bodies and existence.

Created for us over billions of years, the earth has been sculpted by our Father for us to live in and dwell in and to have joy in.  From the platform of the earth, we can contemplate our Maker while looking out at our distant universe and back into the far reaches of time.  In the first degree of hell, we can live a ‘lowly’ and ‘base’ life mired in dirtiness, darkness, and depravity; or live a higher life with a higher mind listening to the upward call of God in Christ Jesus (Philippians 3:14).  Not as tillers of the ground like Cain, living for the flesh; but as holy beings like Abel, living for the Spirit.

The second heaven is Paradise.  That place where Jesus is meeting us when those who believe in Him pass from death unto life (Luke 23:43).  The holding place where saints and those great and small await the Final Judgment.  Analogous to Sheol, Paradise exists only in the Spirit realm between true Heaven and life on earth.  Our bodies decay as in Sheol, but in Sheol those poor souls become less than a man, and in Paradise we become more like God.  Like Sheol, it is a temporary holding place until Jesus completes His thousand year reign and Heaven is established.  This is undoubtedly where the Garden of Eden is being protected from man.

The third heaven is Heaven, which is the New Zion, the New Jerusalem, which will be established in the Final Days.  Paul was caught up to here for a while, transcending through paradise, but he did not like to talk about it lest he be seen as boasting.  Its analogous dwelling place for those who are evil is the eternal Lake of Fire.  They both last forever and ever:  one good, one bad.  Explained in the final pages of scripture, it is the long-awaited time when God places His tabernacle among men and they become His people, and He their God (Revelation 21:3).

How characteristic of God to make six levels of existence for man, just as He made six days of creation for man.  Of course, God makes the circle complete as the seventh essence encompassing all these heavens and hells, transcendent and immanent among and in all of them, just as He is resting in His seventh day now, awaiting His new kingdom to come.

There is no place man can escape or disappear from God.

~~~Praise God~~~