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"And I saw a mighty angel come down from heaven,
clothed with a cloud; and a rainbow on his head, and his face as it were the
sun, and his feet as pillars of fire.
And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the
sea, and his left foot on the earth.
And he cried with a loud voice, as a lion roars: and when he had cried, seven
thunders uttered their voice.
And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and
I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven
thunders uttered, and write them not.
And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his
hand to heaven,
And he sware by him that lives forever and ever, who created heaven, and the
things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the
sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer:
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.
And the voice which I heard from heaven spoke unto me again, and said, Go and
take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which stands upon
the sea and upon the earth.
And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little
book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make
thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey.
And I took the little book out of the angel's hand, and ate it up; and it was in
my mouth sweet as honey; and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter.
And he said to me, Thou must prophecy again before many people, and nations, and
tongues, and kings.-Revelation (Apocalypse) 10:1-11 KJV
Now we notice that Rev.9 closed with the events of the sixth trumpet. The
sounding of the seventh trumpet is not introduced until we reach
Rev.11:15. He had a little book open. We may infer from this
language that this book was at some time closed.
We read in Daniel (the companion book of Revelation), "Thou
O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end:
many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased."---Daniel
12:4 KJV
Since this book was closed only until the time of the end, it follows
that at the time of the end, the book would be opened. But when would be
the time of the end is the question. In Dan.8:17 we read:"Understand
O son of man; for at the time of the end shall be the vision."
Protestantism had always maintained that the little horn power in Daniel is none
other than the Papacy. Catholicism insist that the little horn of Daniel's
prophecy is the small insignificant Persian ruler Antiochus Epiphanes II.
But have a look for yourselves, Daniel in the vision calls the 'ram'
great. He calls the 'goat' very great. But the' little horn' grew
exceedingly great. If the goat that represents Alexander the Great, is
called very great, then the Bishop of Rome, when placed on the throne of the
Roman World Empire, is the man we are looking for "he grew exceedingly great".
THE YEAR DAY PRINCIPLE
A horn symbolizes a King or Ruler (Revelation 17:12). The
Papacy is this little horn power that ruled from 538 a.d. till 1798 a.d.,
fulfilling exactly the prophetic time of Daniel 7:25. In fact all the 1260 days
of years in both Daniel and the Revelation of Jesus Christ.
Ezekiel was a contemporary of Daniel and tells us that a literal day is a
prophetic year (Ezekiel 4:6). A time in the Jewish calendar is a year of
360 days and so the 1260 days, the 42 months, the time, times and a half, refer
all to the same time period of papal bloody history.
GOD'S SANCTUARY TEMPLE
When Daniel says that the little horn cast the truth to the ground, we saw
Luther picking it up again and cleaning the dust of it. Where it says that
the little horn magnified himself even to the prince of host, we see him calling
himself by God's own title "Holy Father". And where Daniel says
that the little horn cast down the sanctuary where Jesus Christ is our High
Priest in order to establish his own counterfeit priesthood of the
mass.---Daniel 8:9-11 rebuilt
Revelation (Apocalypse) 11 pictures not the non existent Temple in Jerusalem, nor any future
utopia, but God's Temple in heaven where Christ's work of priestly ministry is
carried on. The very teaching's the little horn had thrown to the ground and
into the dirt. The measuring of GOD'S Temple above, refers to the judgment
or justification.
The angel just remains us that the Gentiles were not allowed inside the
Sanctuary and only into the outer court but then makes the declaration that not
only the Temple of GOD in heaven, but the whole heavenly Jerusalem was to be
trodden under foot. And that was not all, the two witnesses of GOD, the
Old and New Testament was forbidden by the Roman Catholic Church for the period
of her cruel reign.
So the beginning of the end, or endtime, began in 1798a.d. when Napoleon took
the Pope off the throne and into exile. Q.: What happened after 1798 a.d.
that was so sweet in the mouth of those who swallowed the little prophetic book
of Daniel?
There was a great 'revival', a renewed interest in the prophecies of the last
day events (Eschatology) around 1830 a.d. when the powercourt house conferences
in England and other parts of the free world, which is known as 'the great Advent
Awakening'. Very unfortunately, here it was were the Plymouth Brethren
accepted the Roman Catholic version of Daniel and the Revelation still taught at
Oxford University today. They accepted the Roman version of Anti-Christ,
Antiochus Epiphanes before Christ's time, and another to come at the end.
The Angel in Revelation 10 forbids this. He said that after the great and
bitter disappointment of 1844 A.D. there was no more prophetic time, only the
fulfilment of events.
Unfortunately no Theologian knew what the "Sanctuary" was and so it
they understood to mean this world Christ came to clean with fire in 1844
a.d. at the end of the prophetic 2300 days of years [see our 2300 days page]. And instead of coming
back to this earth, Jesus came in judgment to cleansing of the heavenly Temple
before the Ancient of days, that is, the Father. (Daniel 7:13)
Those who loved Christ and truth awaited His advent with joyful anticipation and
it was as sweet as honey in their mouth. But very soon, it turn into a
bitter disappointment, just as they angel said.
Christians of all denominations were expelled for no other reason than that they
loved God with all their hearts, minds, and strength. Termed Fanatics by
their former Brethren, but formed the first truly united Church after hammering
out all their differences they had inherited.
Now, says the angel in the Apocalypse, Rev.10:11 "Thou must prophecy
again (a second time) before many peoples, and
nations, and tongues, and kings.".
The daily sanctuary services (Daniel 8:13; Lev.1:-) applied the sacrifice of the
cross of Christ and made the atonement. Whereas the daily sacrifices
defiled the holy apartment, the yearly atonement was called the cleansing of the
sanctuary or judgment day, also the day of Atonement ( Yom Kippur), (Lev.23). Since the resurrection Jesus worked in
the first apartment. In 1844 at the end of the 2300 day prophecy, Jesus
went into the holy of holiest and in the presence of the Father.
There we see the ark of the testament open on judgment day (Revel.11:18,19)
containing the Ten Commandments which also James confirms, are the standard of
judgment, the foundation on which God runs His Universe, and the speculation of
an earthly Temple bypasses Revel.11:1 and the 42 month and 1260 days of papal
reign seen in Revel.11:2,3.
At the onset of Revelation we see the ten years of Dioclecian tribulation stated
as ten days to show us the year day principle of prophetic interpretation
applied to Revelation as well as Daniel.
The 3 1/2 days in Revelation 11:9 matches the French Revolution. In 1793,
the decree passed the French Assembly suppressing the Bible. Just three
years after, a resolution was introduced into the Assembly going to supersede
the decree, and giving tolerance to the Scriptures. That resolution lay on
the table six month, when it was taken up, and passed without a dissenting
vote. Thus from the 1st November 1793 to the 17th of June 1797 God's two
'Witnesses' were slain.
Spiritual Sodom.----"Spiritually"
this power is called Sodom. What was the characteristic sin of Sodom?
Licentiousness. Did
France have this character? She did; fornication was established by law
during the period spoken of. Spiritually the place was 'where our Lord was
crucified'. Was this true in France? It was, in more sense than one.
First, in 1572 a plot was laid in France to destroy all the pious Huguenots, and
in one night, fifty thousand of them were murdered in cold blood, and the
streets of Paris literally ran with blood . Again, the watch-word
and motto of the French Infidels was, 'CRUSH THE WRETCH', meaning CHRIST.
The very spirit of the bottomless pit was poured out in that wicked nation.
But did France make war on the Bible? She did! In
1793 a decree forbidding the Bible was passed by the French Assembly, and Bibles
were gathered and burned, and every contempt heaped upon them, the weekly
Sabbath replaced by every tenth day. Baptism and Communion were abolished.
The goddess of reason was set up in the person of a vile woman and publicly
worshipped.
" And they of the people and kindreds and
tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and a half, and shall
not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves."---Rev.11:9
"The language of this verse denotes the feelings of other nations than
the one committing the outrage on the witnesses. They would see what war
infidel France had made on the Bible, but would not be led nationally to engage
in the wicked work, nor suffer the murdered witnesses to be 'buried', or put out
of sight among themselves the Bible, though they lay dead three and a half, that
is, three years and a half, in France. This very attempt by France served
to arouse Christians everywhere to put forth a new exertion in behalf of the
Bible, as we shall presently see in verse 12.
"And they that dwell upon the earth shall
rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because
these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth." --Rev.11:10
But the blackest in the black catalogue of crime, most horrible among fiendish
deeds of all the dreadful centuries, was the St. Bartholomew Massacre. The
world still recalls with shuddering horror the scenes of that most cowardly and
cruel onslaught.
The King of France, urged on by Romish priests and prelates, which also had
banned the Bible, lent sanction to the dreadful work. A bell,
tolling at dead of night, was a signal for the slaughter. Protestants by
the thousands, sleeping quietly in their homes, trusting to the plighted honour
of their King, were dragged forth without warning and murdered in cold blood.
As CHRIST was the invisible leader of His people from Egyptian
bondage, so was Satan the unseen leader of his subjects in this horrible work of
multiplying martyrs. For seven days the massacre was continued in Paris,
than extended to all provinces where Protestants were to be found. The
butchery continued for two month. When the news of the massacre reached
Rome, the exultation among the clergy knew no bounds. The Cardinal
rewarded the messenger with a thousand crowns; the cannon of St. Angelo
thundered forth a joyous salute; and bells rang out from every steeple; bonfires
turned night into day, and Pope Gregory XIII, attended by the Cardinals and
other ecclesiastical dignitaries, went in long procession to the Church of
St.Louis, where the Cardinal of Lorraine chanted a
TE DEUM....a Medal was struck to
commemorate the massacre, and in the Vatican may still be seen three frescoes of
Vasari, describing the attack. Pope Gregory sent King Charles of France
the Golden Rose and other gifts.
"And after three days and a half the
Spirit of life from GOD entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and
great fear fell upon them which saw them."---Rev.11:11
Witnesses restored.--- In 1793, the
decree passed the French Assembly suppressing the Bible. Just three years
after, a resolution was introduced into the Assembly going to superceed the
decree, giving tolerance to the Scriptures again. That resolution lay on
the table six month, when it was taken up, and passed without dissenting vote.
Thus, in the three years and a half, the witnesses stood back up on their feet again
On the 17th of June 1797, Camille Jourdan, in the council of Five Hundred,
brought up the memorable report on the "Revision of the laws relative to
religious worship". Thus the 'two witnessses" the old and new
testaments, stood back up on their feet. The Bible, so long and so sternly
repressed before, was placed in honour, and was openly the book of free
Protestantism.
Going back to 1793, on the 1st of November, Gobet, with the
Republican priests of Paris, had thrown off the gown, and abjured Religion.
On the 11th, a 'Grand Festival', dedicated to 'Reason and Truth', was celebrated
in the Cathedral of Notre Dame, which had been desecrated, and been renamed "The
Temple of Reason; a pyramid was erected in the centre of the Church, surmounted
by a temple inscribed 'To philosophy'. The National Convention
and all the authorities attended at this burlesque and insulting ceremony.
"And I heard a great voice from heaven
saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a
cloud; and their enemies beheld them." ---Rev.11:12
To understand the expression 'ascended up to heaven', see Daniel 4:22: "Thy
greatness is grown, and reacheth unto heaven". Here we see that the
expression signifies great exaltation. Have the holy Scriptures attained
to such a state of exaltation since France and the Papacy made war on them?
Yes, they have! Shortly after, the British Bible Society was formed in
1804 followed by the American Bible Society in 1816 and these with their
innumeral auxiliaries have scuttered the Bible everywhere. Before
1804, the Bible had been translated and circulated into 50 languages. By
1942, the Bible in whole or in part reached 1,058 languages and dialects and has
been voted the Best - Seller Nr. 1 in the World!
The Bible is exalted to heaven next to the Son JESUS CHRIST!
"And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and
the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven
thousand: and the remnant were afraid, and gave glory to God of heaven."---Revel.11:13
(Apocalypse)
Q>: Which city? "The woman that thou sawest
is that great city which reigns over the kings of the earth."
The woman or church (see Revel.19:7,8) is also said to be a city---Vatican
city! France was one of the ten horns, the Franks of the old Roman Empire
and the ten horned dragon (Revel.12:30). And in the earthquake was slain
of men (margin says names of men) seven thousand. France made war on all
titles of nobility, and their Heaven-defying work filled France with scenes of
blood could see the results and quickly returned to God.
Note, there are Christians who discredit the old testament and say we now live
in the new. True, but you take out of the new testament all that is
connected with the old, than you have not much left over. The study of the
Candle sticks and the olive trees can't be covered here and is a separate
study. As a matter of interest, the Vandals, one of the ten roman tribes,
in A.D. 455 stole from Rome the golden lampstand which the Romans had once
stolen from Jerusalem. And as the Angel said in Rev.10:6, prophetic time
would be no longer, i.e. it would not extend beyond 1844 A.D., the last
prophecy. Many are trying to extend the literal 1260 days at the very end
of time, but this cannot be. Rev.11 gives us the 42 month [v.2] as the
1260 days [v.3] and a day for a prophetic year refers to the time period of
papal supremacy only from 538 to 1798 making it the exact time prophesied in
which time frame the French Revolution is included.
If you have any questions or comments, please direct them to us. Thank you
for visiting our website. Please call again some time. We appreciate
any comments and may our God bless you as you contemplate and pray over what you
have just read.
OVERVIEW:
Revelation 12:17 to 14:12. The people who receive the MARK of the
BEAST stand in contrast to the SAINTS who "keep the commandments of
God".
Revelation chapter 13
"And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and I saw a
beast rise up out of the sea having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his
horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
And the beast which I saw was like unto 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 power,
and his seat, and great authority."---Rev.13:1,2 KJV
Modern interpretations are many, and mostly speculations, but I determine here
to let the bible be the interpreter. Q.: What is meant by the sea? A.: In
Rev.17:15 we see that it stands for masses of population and you've heard the
expression that the wicked are as the restless sea. This first beast
therefore arose out of a populated society, whereas the second beast of that
same chapter is said to have arisen out of the ground, i.e. an unpopulated
place.
Q.: where else do we find such a beast with seven heads and ten horns in the
bible? A.: Rev.17:3,7....but notice here that the crowns are no longer
mention in ch.17 and that for a good reason. Rev.13 shows that man
devouring monster before the French Revolution and in ch.17 after it. The
war on royal titles and authorities of the Revolution had worldwide impact
paving the way to democracy.
The description of the beast
The body is' like unto a leopard'. Where do
we find the leopard in the Bible? Revelations companion book, the book of
Daniel, shows it in chapter seven to be Greece. Daniel saw in the metal
image Babylon in his time as the head of gold, followed by Media and Persia
symbolized by the upper body and than Greece by the thigh and lastly Rome by the
iron legs.
In Daniel seven, these Empires are repeated in animal form, Babylon the lion,
Media/Persia as a bear, Greece as the leopard and Rome as a dreadful and
terrible beast with iron teeth.
We therefore can safely conclude, that the multi - beast Rome inherited features
of all its predecessors. Papal Rome took over pagan Rome and merged
(adulterated) Christianity with Paganism. From Babylon the great man
devouring snout that ate Christians during its long reign. The papal claim
to have his title 'Pontifex Maximus' in short 'Pontiff' inherited directly from
Babylon. The incorporation of Plato's Greek philosophy of life after death
and the deleting of the second commandment in order to bring in after life,
hell, limbo and purgatory.
We now have a fair biblical description of this dreadful beast. Now lets
look at the seven heads and ten horns. Scholars have pointed out that the
seven heads are referring to the seven hills on which Rome was built originally
before the expanded and added more hills. And without a doubt, the ten
horns are the ten Kings of the ten tribes that ruled the Roman Empire.
Daniel 7:24 says: "The ten horns are ten kings who
shall arise from this kingdom. And another shall rise after them; he shall
be different from the first ones, and shall subdue three kings.".---NKJV
Verse 8 says that the three horns were unplugged by the roots. The Roman
Empire was ruled by the ten Arian tribes which was a form of Christianity taught
by their teacher Arius which taught that Christ was a created being. Then
it says that the last king would be different from the ten. The Pope
has a tripple crown by which it is claimed that he is the king of heaven, earth
and the lower regions, and it surely made him different. In order for him
to take over the Empire, three of the ten tribes that occupied Italy had to be
destroyed.
Generalissimo Belasarius was recalled from Africa to do just that in A.D. 538
when he managed to free the city of Rome. We can safely count from that
day the papal bloody rule to when Napoleon deposed him in 1798 and so fulfilling
the prophecy of the 1260 days of years in both Daniel and the Revelation.
Here we must note that the whole of 'Protestantism' has been deceived by the
papal delusions of "Pretorism" and "Futurism" with a
complete differing view of these prophecies and particularly regarding the I.D.
and timing of the "Anti - Christ". The Roman
'Counter-Reformation teachings of the Jesuits Priests' were designed in the 16 +
17 hundreds to contradict the Protestant Reformers. Fallen Protestant
America therefore has become the second Beast and the false prophet by accepting
and promoting Roman Catholic doctrines!
Name of blasphemy on 7 heads
I do not believe that blasphemy is written on the seven hills, but on the beast
and later we will define the number 666. The tripple crown, the
infallability claims and the power to forgive sins and to modify divine law, the
declaration of making the whole Roman empire holy, the Priests claiming to be
the creators of their creator, all add to blasphemy of that religio/political
power of the 'Papacy'. (see also Revelation 17).
The devil is also called a dragon (Rev.12:9) and it is a good description.
Pagan Rome had a red dragon on their emblems and banners: "And
the dragon gave him his power, his throne, and great authority."---Rev.13:2,
last part. The devil gave the bishop of Rome the throne of the Empire and
they ruled and coronated Catholic emperors where ever they liked to install one.
Napoleon received his crown with the back turned to show his disgust.
Demonic power and the struggle for world dominion
The Devil is also called the dragon (see Rev.12:9). "I
saw one of his heads as if it had been mortally wounded, and his deadly wound
was healed. And all the world marvelled and followed the beast."---Rev.13:3
NKJV
This deadly wound was received, not by Protestantism alone, but by Napoleon's general Berthier upon entering Rome in 1798 and taking the pope of the throne again.
In 1929 Moussolini handed back the papal states and paid compensation.
From here we can conclude that the deadly wound started to heal again.
The duration of papal reign
"And he was given a mouth speaking great things
and blasphemies, and he was given authority to continue 42 month."---Rev.13:5
We notice the mouth of Babylon, the lion. Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon
said in defiance of God: 'isn't this the great city that I have built'.
Just like him, so the Pope does not give glory to God but wants to be worshipped
himself. We already listed some o the blasphemies. The duration is given
as 42 month.
30 days x 42 month = 1260 days of years.
In Daniel 7 and Revelation 12:14 as 3 1/2 times or years, 360 days x 3 1/2 =
1260, and in Revelation 11:3 and 12:6 as 1260 days. In both Daniel and the
Revelation, only the year day principle of interpretation works out perfectly.
From A.D. 538 to 1798 are exactly 1260 days of prophetic years of papal reign.
With his tripple crown, the Pope blasphemes against God, God's tabernacle, and
those who dwell in heaven (see verse 6).
The new and second beast
We now see the new or second beast coming out of the earth. We are
most interested in this beast. As mentioned before, the first beast, the
papal religio/ political inquisition machine sprung out of the populace, but
this new beast began about the time when the first beast received the deadly
wound.
The USA was born on July 4, 1776 when the declaration of Independence was
signed, which said that all man were created equal. The first amendment
guarantees freedom of speech and religion and a country without a king and a
church without a pope.
"Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth,
and he had two horns like a lamb and spake like a dragon."---Rev.13:11
NKJV
Q.: What does this mean? A.: The American bison has two little horns like
a lamb, but this is not what it means. The horn stands for a king or
leadership. The USA displays the gentle caring manner of Christ the King
who is also the lamb of God. The two horns therefore are the guarantee in
the constitution of democracy and religious freedom, separation of church and
state, the opposite of the papacy.
But, it speaks like a dragon in two ways. Satan speaks deceptive and has
come as an angel of light, and also makes fire come down from heaven like cloven
tongues of fire, like on the day of Pentecost, a fire breathing dragon.
"And he exercises all the power of the first Beast before
him and causeth the earth and all that dwell therein to worship the first Beast,
whose deadly wound was healed." We can now say with certainty that
the papal wound is now healed since he made several visits to Protestant America
welcomed with open arms. Just as papal Rome was seduced by spirits and
doctrines of devils [see 1.Tim.4:1-4], so today this same spirit of
"spiritualism" has seduced the second Beast by the same spirit and doctrines
held by the papal see. Speaking in tongues with signs and wonders just as
listed in the manual of spiritualism brought these two Beasts, the Vatican State
and the United States together. The worship of the second Beast and that
of the first is now the same!
"And he does great wonders, so that he makes fire come
down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men." See our tongues
page for the deceptive work of counterfeiting the day of Pentecost!
"And deceives 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 the sword, and did live."
Now the sword is usually the sword of the Holy Spirit [Eph.6:17] and the
French Revolution grew out of the Protestant Reformation and a disgust for the
powerful papacy on the thrones of the Caesar's. The Holy Spirit of GOD
also helps us to see the false spirit and doctrines.
"And he had power to give live unto 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."
"Romanists declare that "the observance of Sunday by the Protestants is an
homage they pay, in spite of themselves, to the authority of the Catholic
Church."---Plain talk about Protestantism of today,p.213
The enforcement of Sundaykeeping on the part of the Protestant churches is an
enforcement of the worship of the papacy---of the beast. Those who
understanding the claim of the fourth commandment, choose to observe the false
instead of the true Sabbath are thereby paying homage to that power by which
alone it is commanded. But by the very act of enforcing a religious duty
by secular power, the churches would themselves form an image to the beast;
hence the enforcement of Sundaykeeping in the United States would be an
enforcement of the worship of the beast and his image also.
The Roman Catholic Church, uniting the forms of paganism and Christianity, and,
like paganism, misrepresenting the character of GOD, has resorted to practices
no less cruel and revolting. In the days of Rome's supremacy there were
instruments of torture to compel assent to her doctrines. There was the
stake for those who would not concede to her claims. There were massacres
on a scale that will never be known until revealed in the judgment.
Dignitaries of the church studied, under Satan their master, to invent means to
cause the greatest possible torture and not end the life of the victim.
"And he cause all, both small and great, rich and
poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their
forehead."--Rev.13:16
Many are speculating with the computer micro chip planted under the skin.
How could this constitute a moral violation of GOD? We have a more
biblical example of this. God told the old testament people to tie the 10
Commandments to their hands and between their eyes. We can also see from
Rev12:17 and 14:12 that the 10 Commandments are involved over this Armageddon
battle of the mark of the beast, the name and its number.
Papal Rome removed the second of the 10 Commandments which forbids false worship
and also change the very day of worship from Christ's Saturday Sabbath to the
day of the Sun, Sunday, from pagan sun worship.
" 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." Rev.13:17
A religion of externals is attractive to the unrenewed heart. The pomp and
ceremony of the Catholic worship has a seductive, bewitching power, by which
many are deceived; and they come to look upon the Roman Church as the very
gate of heaven. [Babylon means the gate of god and means also confusion].
Such religion is just what the multitudes desire. The church's claim to
the right to pardon leads Romanists to feel at liberty to sin.
"Here is wisdom. Let him that has the understanding
count the number of the beast; for it is the number of a man; and
his number is 666".---Rev.13:18
It is very puzzling how Protestants could point to a giant computer in Brussel,
the headquarters of the EEC and say this is the beast 666! We now
have to take you to another website temporarily for the explanation of the
number 666, the number of a man: www.666man.net
Revelation 14
If you have grasp the study so far, you may want to have a look at our 144
000 page to see a more detailed study of chapter 14. Since 1844 the three
angel's messages of Rev.14 have been proclaimed. They are prophesying
again this time with accordance of Rev.10:10,11 in full strength like never
before using the media.
They tell and warned us for the fall of spiritual "Babylon". The corrupt
woman, the great "Whore" of Revelation 17 which prostituted the purity of the
truth with dirty politics to make it acceptable with the world, has been in a
fallen condition for centuries. She claims to be the "Mother" of Christendom
whereas God prefers to call her the "Mother of other Prostitutes" [Rev.17:5] and
abominations of the earth. What are abominations?
"And he said unto them, You are they which justify
yourselves before men; but GOD knows your hearts: for that which is highly
esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of of GOD."---Luke 16:15
There is another Scripture that speaks of those who justify themselves:
"For behold, the Lord will come with fire, and with
chariots like a whirlwind, to render anger with fury, and His rebuke with flames
of fire.
For by fire and by His sword will the Lord plead with all flesh: and the slain
of the Lord shall be many. They that sanctify themselves, and purity
themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh,
and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the Lord."---Isa.66:15-17
Catholicism and Protestantism alike, have ignored GOD's dietary laws which
forbids the eating of unclean foods like pork, or swine's flesh and as such put
them into one basket together with CHRIST's seventh day Sabbath [Mark 2:27] as
Jewish despite the fact that GOD says it is for all mankind. Isa.66:22,23
tells us that the Sabbath is eternal and continued in the new earth.
Through the three angels messages, GOD not only presents the "GOSPEL" alone, but
with it the "hour" of the judgment which began in 1844 when JESUS entered the
"Most Holy" place of His priestly ministry by GOD the Father and the 10
Commandments, but also warns us of the greatest of all punishments He ever
pronounced against the false worship of the Beast of Rome and its very image,
fallen Protestants.
The three angel's definitely are quoting from the fourth of
the 10 Commandments, the Sabbath: "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."---Rev.14:7
Notice that the judgment "is" come, present tense! When first-day
Adventists in 1844 saw the judgment commenced by Christ in heaven [Dan.7:9;8:14]
at the end of the 2300 days of years prophecy, and Jesus brought close to the
Father [Dan.7:13] they saw all of the Ten Commands in the ark of the testament:
"And the nations were angry......and the time of the dead,
that they should be judged........and the temple of God was opened in heaven,
and there was seen in His temple the ark of his testament...........".----Rev.11:18,19
Notice here that it is the dead and not the living that are being judged!
In 1844 the judgment began with all who ever lived on this earth and very soon
it will pass to the living here on earth now. Wow to the false worshippers
of the beast. It is not Noah's ark, but the ark of GOD that contains His
mercy seat and His holy law of the 10 Commandments including the Sabbath.
First-day Adventists true to God and the Bible switched back from obedience to
papal decree of Sunday worship, to that of GOD's command, the Seventh-day.
They saw that it was the papal horn [Dan.7:25] that made the breach in GOD's
holy law and set out to repair it [Isa.58:12,13].
Justification means the declaring and not the making of righteousness.
JESUS gave us a demo and said that the Pharisees counted their own virtues of
self-righteousness, but the sinful publican under the conviction of the Holy
Spirit cried out for mercy and was "justified", declared righteous by GOD.
Justified without the law by faith [Rom.3:28,24]. But only the doers of
the Law can receive justification [Rom.2:13], i.e. a lawless person, a violator
or transgressor is evil and therefore cannot be justified in his sins.
JESUS does not save us in, but "from" sin [Matthew 1:21]. Therefore
conviction of sin, which is by the law of the 10 Commandments [1.John 3:4;
Rom.7:7], and repentance and the forsaking of sins by the power of the Holy
Spirit, all play a vital role. We cannot save ourselves from sin, only
JESUS can.
"For not the hearers of the law are justified before GOD,
but the doers of the law shall be justified."-Rom.2:13
Therefore it must be by faith that we keep the law holy [Rom.3:31].
Someone objects and quotes 1.Tim.1:9 that the law is not for the righteous but
sinners only. Yet even after his dramatic conversion from Jewish legalism,
the apostle Paul still classified himself as a chief sinner [1.Tim.1:15].
Sin remains but does not reign [Rom.6:12-14] . We are not under the law
means under its condemnation, as long as we walk in the Holy Spirit and not in
the lust of the flesh [Gal.5:18] and so remain justified through CHRIST always.
The Sunday Sabbath is self justification, just like the eating of unclean foods
and a mark of disobedience and rebellion.
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