The Coming of the AntiChrist

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Senior Teaching Elder: L D Smith, Manna Ministries.

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Adapted from The Authorised King James Version, 1611.

I would like to thank The Lord for blessing me in the study of his word
I would also like to give a special thank you to my wife and my youngest son for helping me in the publication and completion of this book. All glory and honour be given to The Lord Our God.

Contents
01. The Deceitful One
02. The Son of The Deceitful One
03. The Origins and Kingdoms of The AntiChrist
04. The Satanic System and Babylon The Great
05. The False Prophet and The AntiChrist
06. The Apostasy from the Faith in Christ Jesus
07. The Desolation Campaign of The AntiChrist
08. The Rapture of the believers in Christ Jesus
09. The Signs of the Second Coming of Christ Jesus
10. Salvation: The Gift of God
11. The Inspired Word of God
12. Know Your Enemy

INTRODUCTION

Today we are approaching an era in which the Lord God has called the end of the the age. A time when the Human race shall be thrown into strong delusion because of their rejection of Gods' truth, and with open arms the World shall receive its' Saviour, their man of peace who shall influence them with all power,and signs and lying wonders in accordance with the workings of Satan. He shall be the AntiChrist of Scripture; The Son of Satan

This book is short but simple: its purpose is to awaken those who wish to receive Salvation, to look away from religion and to fix your hope upon the Lord Jesus Christ; for the religious of this world have become futile in their speculation, and by their professing to be wise they have become but fools

01. The Deceitful One

Satan is a Hebrew word, signifying an adversary, an accuser, and the enemy of the Lord God, and the originator of sin, Satan will do everything in his power to destroy the life giving word of God,the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Christians in this day and age do not like to hear or talk about Satan or Hell, in the belief that if you don’t speak or listen about Satan and his works he will eventually go away and disappear, but this is exactly what satan takes great delight in, the thoughts of foolish christians.

Paul the apostle, in his letter to the church at Corinth warns of this very danger, for he says that satan can disguise himself as an Angel of Light, (2corin c11:v14) Paul is revealing here,that satan can and does disguise himself into what would appear righteous and Holy,in the pretence of an angel of light, doing the disappearing act from wickedness and evil as if he had never existed as the adversary of God, but this is just an act of satan, so that he is able to blind the minds of those who are foolish enough to allow him to do so.

It is in the interest of every child of God to be aware of satan and the ways in which he operates, his deceitfulness and his powers, the scriptures teach us of the powers that satan has, for we are told that he was able to transport the Lord Jesus from the wilderness to a mountian top in a moment of time, and show the Lord Jesus all the kingdoms of the world and their Glory, (matt c4;8), bear also in mind that the Lord Jesus did not at any time during his temptation call satan a liar, these promises of satan where indeed real, so if satan can present alluring objects to Christ Jesus, think what he could do to the mind of a mere human given the chance, and believe it or not, there are many in society today who are fascinated and attracted by satan's promises of rewards, but as all true born again believers know these promises of satan's are empty promises to lure people into a lost eternity.

The Lord Jesus makes it quite clear in order that no advantage betaken of the child of God by satan, we are not to be ignorant of his Schemes (2corin c2:v11), but alas many within society are ignorant of his Schemes and even many professing christians are oblivious of his schemes.

But if you read the letters sent to the church at corinth you will find that satan was able to keep the apostle Paul and the church at corinth estranged at times, and these were all believers in Christ Jesus, yet they could not at times settle their differences with one another, proving that satan is subtle, especially when putting believers in the Lord Jesus in turmoil with one another for the purpose of destroying the work of the Holy Spirit.

Throughout the centuries satan has been portrayed as a grotesque monster with horns, tail and holding a fork, but scripture portrays him in a different light, we are told that his heart was lifted up because of his beauty, that he corrupted his wisdom by reason of his splendour,(ezek c28), here it is revealed to us that satan is not ugly, and isaiah the prophet reveals that satans fall was because of his pride, (ego), “how you have fallen from heaven, o star of the morning, son of the dawn”, (isa c12: v12-v14).

In these verses of the book of Isaiah, satan used the phrase “I will” five times detailing his sin, it was his ego that gave birth to pride and his destruction, for satan is inordinate with self-esteem.

Satan is also known as the accuser of the Brethren, who has been cast down to the earth, (rev c12:v10). For one to gain insight into the works and power of satan, one has to turn to the book of Job, for here we find that satan conversed with the Lord God, which requires intellect (job c1:v7) and in verse 11 we find satan at his best accusing Job, saying to the Lord God, that the only reason for Job Worshipping the Lord God was because of the wealth the Lord had blessed Job with, and if the Lord God was to take away all of Job’s wealth, then Job would curse the Lord God to his face.

We know that the Lord God permitted satan to take all of Job’s wealth, and when satan saw that this did not result in Job’s cursing God, but in blessing the name of the Lord God, he charged Job with callousness,and said to the Lord God, skin for skin! all that a man has he will give to save his own life, now put forth thy hand, and touch his bone and his flesh and he shall indeed curse you, (job c2: v4-v5), satan’s intent was to destroy Job and disgrace the Lord God.

Satan may have great power, but his power is limited by the will and sovereign control of the Lord God, the Lord God allowed satan to smite Job with boils from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head (job c2: v7),this disease is known as elephantiasis, which brings nothing but acute pain to the person,and make no mistake, Job was in agony, yet he still praised the name of the Lord God, not once did he blame the Lord God, unlike a lot of people today who blame the Lord God for everything that goes wrong within their life, there are times when the Lord allows his children to come into suffering, it is part and parcel of salvation, it is being partakers of Christs suffering (1pet c4: v13), but be under no delusion, for no testation shall overtake the child of God, for the Lord God is faithful and He shall not allow any testation beyond what you are able to bear,just as in the case of Job who was given the power to carry and endure the pain of his suffering.

We also come to realize throught Job that satan cannot be every where at the one time, for we are told that the Lord God asked satan,”from where do you come”? and he replied “from roaming about on the earth and walking around on it”, (job c1:v7), the Lord Jesus also testified that satan is a lair and a murderer.

When Christ challenged the nature of the pharisees, and discribed them as being of their father the devil, (satan), (john c8:v44).

The first utterance from satan is recorded in Genesis chapter 3 verse 1, and it is in direct defiance to the “word of the Lord God, revealing his total opposition against the word of God and creation,and his (satan) appearing as the angel of light.

Within the book of Revelation we are told that satan has an army of demons (fallen angels) (rev c12:v4), and that his tail swept away a third of the stars of heaven, and threw them to the earth,this was satan’s past rebellion against the Lord God, in which a third of the angels in heaven joined him in his attempt to seize control of the Throne of God.

Satan failed in his attempt and was cast out of heaven with his host of fallen angels, throw from the presence of the Almighty God, to be damned forever to a lost eternity.

The apostle Paul relates to satan as “the god of this world”who has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, that they might not see the light of the gospel of the Glory of Christ, who is the image of God, (2corin c4:v4).

The question may be asked,”how can satan blind the minds of the unbelievers”? Satan can do this in many ways, he will use what is known as the art of magic, black or white, scorcerer’s, mediums, spiritist and witchcraft,in the book of Deuteronomy the Lord God warned the childern of Israel that there shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, one who use’s divination, one who practices witchcraft, or one who casts a spell, one who interprets omens,or one who is a scorcerer, or a medium, or a spiritist,or one who calls up the dead.(deut c18:v10-v11).

Divination is a general term covering all types of magic the practice of witchcraft,the practice of the hidden arts, the interpretion of omens, sorcery one who is a practitioner of spells and ocult magic,spiritist, one who pretends to know about the unseen world and fortune telling, one who claims to know the future.

The Lord God warns against turning to mediums or spiritists for to do so is to be defiled by them for the Lord God says, when they say to you, let us consult the mediums and the spiritists who whisper and mutter,tell them should not the people consult their God who is the living God, why consult the dead on behalf of the living, (lev c19:v31; isa c8:v19).

Christ, Himself taught that the dead cannot communicate with the living,for Christ gives testimony to this fact in Luke’s Gospel “now it came about that the poor man died and he was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom; and the rich man also died and was buried, and in hades (hell), and he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far away, and Lazarus (the poor man) in his bosom, and he cried out and said, father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool off my tongue; for I am in agony in this flame, but Abraham said, child remember that during your life you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus bad things, but now he is being comforted here, and you are in agony, and besides all this, between us and you there is a great chasm fixed, in order that those who wish to come over from here to you may not be able, and that none may cross over from there to us, and he said, then I beg you, father, that you send him to my father’s house for I have five brothers that he may warn them, lest they also come to this place of torment, but Abraham said, they have moses and the prophets, let them hear them, but he said, no father abraham, but if someone goes to them from the dead, they will repent! but abraham said to him, if they do not listen to moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded if someone rises from the dead. (luke c16:v22-v31).

Note a chasm means a great divide between the two kingdoms of heaven and hell.
Many within the spiritualist church point to the fact that King Saul throught a medium was able to bring up Samuel from the dead,(1sam c28:v12), whether or not it was Samuel or some evil spirit who impersonated Samuel, or whether the Lord God permitted the actual spirit of Samuel to come back from the dead, the result was the imminent death of Saul, a warning to all who use this satanic scheme.

Evil spirits are deceitful it reminds one of the endless stories that one hears from people who go to these spiritualists to hear how their dearly departed loved ones are getting on after death or to what may occur to them in the future, or to be told about their families back ground, there can be no doubts that some of these spiritualists can bring up spirits from the beyond, and are able to give details of the particular person in question, but be not deceived by such claims, for the truth, if revealed would show that the spirit presented would not be the spirit of a dearly departed loved one, but a familiar spirit posing as the spirit of the deceased, to tell you that all is well and not to worry about a thing, Heaven is for everyone and everyone is going to Heaven,but they fail to tell you that heaven is the abode of a Holy God and without Holiness you shall not see him,(heb c12:v14), so to believe anything that may be said at a spiritualist meeting, could cost you your soul, it is beyond belief as to how many people are willing to believe the lie of satan.

In Pauls letter to Timothy, he returns to his attack on heresy, “that false teaching is inspired by demons and promulgated (proclaimed) be means of the hypocrisy of liars), but the Holy Spirit explicitly says that in latter times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons, (1tim c4:v1), these doctrines are being taught in many churches today, such as,“God loves you”, it does not matter what you believe, as long as you are a good person you will go to Heaven, this is the gospel of satan.

It is true that the Lord God loves you, but He hates sin, it was for this reason, that is our sin, that He gave his only begotten Son, Christ Jesus, as a substitute for us, that throught the cross, the shedding of His blood, our sins would not be held agianst us, and that we throught Christ Jesus should be reconciled to a just and Holy God.

Satan would blind your mind to this simple fact, for he has many schemes,(eph c6:v11), and he does not take any prisoners, (1pet c5:v8),satan has a vast host of demons at hand and is committed to the destruction of every thing that is Holy.

Satan is a Hebrew word, which signifies an Adversary, an accuser and the enemy of God and the originator of Sin, he also is a master of disguises and can appear Righteous and Holy, but underneath his disguise as an angel of light he is counterfeiting the workings of the Lord God in his bid to destroy the Gospel of Christ.

Christ Jesus is the (only begotten) Son of the Most High God, (matt c3:v17), it is also revealed that satan has a son, (2thess c2:v3; john c17:v12; luke c22:v3), all authority was given to Christ by the Father,(matt c11:v27), we find that satan do’es like wise, (rev c13:v2), Christ Jesus ministry lasted three and a half years, (luke c13:v7; c3:v23), the antichrist (satan's son) we find also shall reign for three and a half years, (dan c12:v7), within the book of Hebrews, it is revealed that the Lord God shall effect a new Covenant with Israel,(heb c8:v8), and in the book of Daniel we find that the antichrist shall also make a covenant with Israel, (dan c9:v27), and in the book of Revelation we read, behold a white horse and He (Christ), who sat upon it is called faithful and true,(rev c19:v11), and in chapter 6 of the book of Revelation, it is revealed a white horse and he (antichrist), who sat upon it, was given a bow and a crown, (rev c6:v1), and in Revelation we also read, Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord God Almighty,'who was and is and who is to come,' (rev c4:v8), also within the book of Revelation we read that the antichrist, was, and is not, and is about to come, (rev c17:v8), also in Revelation it is revealed that the bond-servants of God are sealed on their foreheads, (rev c7:v3), and like wise the antichrist also seals all with a mark upon their foreheads and on their hands,(rev c13:v16), Christ Jesus wrought miracles, wonders and signs,(acts c2:v22), and in thessalonians it is revealed that the antichrist shall also perform with power, signs and lying wonders,(2thess c2:v9), Christ Jesus came to give life, (john c6:v40), the antichrist shall come to take life, (rev c13:v15), scripture clearly shows that satan shall imatate and counterfeit every single thing in the Lord God’s plan.

- God almighty, the God of Heaven (gen c1:v1)
- Satan, the god of this world (2cor c4:v4)

- Son of God (Christ) (john c1:v14; isa c7:v14)
- Son of Satan (antichrist) (2thess c2:v3; rev c13:v2)

- Holy spirit (matt c1:v18-v20)
- Evil spirit (2 thess c2:v7)

- Holy Trinity (john c14:v16-v17)
- Evil Trinity (rev c16: v13)

- Holy angels (matt c25:v31)
- Fallen angels (rev c12:v9)

- Order of angels (dan c10:v12-v13)
- Order of demons (mark c5:v9)

- Throne of God (isa c66:v1)
- Throne of satan (rev c13:v2)

- King of kings (1tim c6:v15)
- King of the abyss (rev c9:v11)

- Prince of peace (isa c9:v6)
- Prince of darkness (dan c9:v26)

- Good shepherd (john c10:v14)
- Worthless shepherd (zec c11:v17)

- Christ’s ministry (luke c3:v23;c13:v7-v9)
- AntiChrist’s ministry (dan c12:v7; rev c12:v14)

- Prophet of God (luke c7:v24-v27)
- Prophet of Satan (rev c13:v11)

- Servants of God (2cor c5:v20)
- Servants of Satan (2cor c11:v14-v15)

- Christ’s elect (matt c24:v22)
- AntiChrist’s elect (rev c11:v9-v10)

- Kingdom of Heaven (matt c5:v3)
- Kingdom of Satan (rev c17:v9-v17)

- Holy faith (eph c4:v5)
- Religion (rev c13:v8)

- Miracles, signs, wonders (john c21:v25)
- Miracles, signs, wonders (2thess c2:v9)

- Covenant of God (matt c26:v28)
- Covenant of Satan (dan c9:v27)

- Seal of God (rev c7:v2)
- Seal of satan ( rev c13:v16)

- White horse (truth) (rev c19:v11)
- White horse (delusion) (rev c6:v2)

- Christ’s second coming (matt c24:v29-v31)
- AntiChrist’s second coming (rev c9:v11)

- Authority given to Christ (matt c28:v27)
- Authority given to antichrist (rev c13:v4)

It is no wonder that John in his letter, said,” do not believe every spirit, but test the spirit to see whether they are from the Lord God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world, by this we know the spirit of God, every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God”,(1john c4:v1).

To confess Jesus as “The Christ” openly in John’s day would result in execution, thus showing your love for Christ, as for false prophets, he was warning of the heresy of gnosticism which was making in roads into the church, gnosticism was a sect which claimed to have special knowledge of God and Christ, but they denied the Deity of Christ, and in the churches of today we hear the word agnostic being used by many of the so-called christian leaders, they also deny the Deity of Christ.

Remember our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of this darkness of the age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness,in heavenly places, (eph c5:v12), and we are not to be ignorant of satan nor his schemes,(2cor c2:v11).

So what do we know about satan, he’s the enemy of the Most High God, the enemy of Christ Jesus and the enemy of the Holy Spirit, he is also the enemy of the child of God, he is the originator of “sin”, and chief of all evil spirits, he is malignant and a foul spirit, and shall do all in his power to destroy the life giving 'Word of God'.

Satan was at one time the Anointed Cherub, who occupied a special place of prominence in guarding the Throne of God, until pride was found in him, and he became corrupt.

To know your enemy, one must first know his names and titles, that the Lord God has so graciously revealed within his Word.

The evil one is given the name of “The Serpent of Old”,this name given to satan is a common symbol for evil, it was used by the sacred writers as an emblem of wickedness, cruelty and treachery, and be not deceived into believing that the serpent of old was a snake, for it is a word which depicts his nature, not his form.

He was also given the name, “The Great Red Dragon”, it applies metaphorically to satan, for Dragon depicts desolation and cruelty,”great” because of his sin towards the Lord God, and red because of the slaughter he has brought and will bring upon mankind, Dragon is mentioned thirteen times within the book of Revelation, and denotes rebellion and apostasy, satan the angel of sin, who shall make the earth tremble, and a wilderness, he is “Abaddon”and “Apollyon” the Destroyer.

Only within the new testament is satan called a “Devil”, Devil means slanderer, he is the supreme evil spirit, the prince of darkness, malignant and foul, who makes false and malicious statements to win his case, the accuser of the brethren.

He is also called “Lucifer” Son of the Morning, the morning star, who appears as an Angel of Light, deceiving and counterfeiting the things of God, the name Lucifer only occurs once in the scriptures and it is a reference to satan’s fall from grace.

“Beelzebud”, the chief prince of all demons, the lord of the flies, a deity of the ekronites, the Jews polluted it by changing it to Beelzebul, meaning, the lord of the dung or dunghills, in the greek it is Baal-zebul, meaning lord of abominable idols, the prince of idolatry, the chief of all wickedness, the Jews used these names as an Epithet for satan.

Demons are disembodied spirits who serve satan their master, in opposing the Lord God and antagonizeing his work upon the earth, satan is giving the title of “the god of this world”, not that he rules the world, for he is not sovereign, it is his influence that is in question.

Satan is called the prince of the power of the air, prince denotes ruler, and he is the prince of darkness and king of the Abyss, he may be superhuman, but he is not Divine, his power maybe great, but he is not Omnipotent.

It is satan’s aim to try and destroy the foundation of the church, by undermining the credibility of the very elect of God, but the Lord God in his wisdom has within his word (Holy writ),forewarned us how the spirit of iniquity operates, throught the channels of satan, i.e., the spirit of antichrist, (iniquity), the spirit of bondage, the spirit of divination, the spirit of error, the spirit of fear, the spirit of dissension, the spirit of whoredom, a lying spirit, a dumb spirit, a confusing spirit, a foul spirit, an unclean spirit, a familiar spirit, and an evil spirit. etc.

The one thing that the spirit of iniquity cannot produce, is the fruit of the Holy spirit, for allow the spirit of iniquity may give the appearance of Righteousness it shall inevitability always give itself away.

The child of God must not give the enemy rest, they are to wage war continually against satan, and they must remember, that the more they are used by the Lord God, the more the enemy shall attack, the greatest weapon that the child of God has to destroy satan, is the “Word of God”, the greatest force to overcome the enemy and his schemes, is Prayer, praying through the blood of Christ, but understand that prayer demands much, and its price is high, and the attacks from the enemy shall be often, i.e. physical, emotional and spiritual, to be mighty in prayer is to be mighty against the enemy, for the Holy spirit operates with the full force of the Almighty behind it, therefore we must be militant in our prayer and christian life’s, for the character of our praying shall determine the character of our Godliness, prevailing prayer is our pleading to Our Heavenly Father.

Prayer is humility at work, for it is looking Godward, and away from Self, a negative christian shall achieves nothing, the Lord God is calling for a praying people, the Daniel’s of this world, let us become like Daniel the prophet,in persistent prayer, so that our prayers may prevail against our enemy, and we shall become overcomers through the lord jesus christ!

Note that sin originated in the angelic world, for satan the accuser, realising his down fall cursed the Lord God and turned his attention to Adam, the crown of God’s Handiwork, and it is revealed that they (the fallen angels) kept not their own principalities.

Satan knew that sin would enslave man, and that the wages of sin was death, he knew in his heart that sin is a transgression of the law of God, and that it was an attack on the Lord God Himself,for the Lord God was the Great Law Giver, and sin satan knew would be a revolt against the righteousness of God and the very Foundation of His Throne.

Satan knew that the moment Adam ate of the forbidden tree, he would automatically place himself in opposition to the Lord God, thus trusting no longer in the Lord God, but in his own ability, hence being brought into subjection to the Authority of satan through his disobedience to the Lord’s spoken word.

Thus Satan was quite aware of the unhappiness that sin would bring, and that through sin, man would become corrupt and depraved by his sinful nature, such as murder, immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, envy, drunkeness, etc, thus satan has devised schemes were possible so to prevent man from turning from his ways.

But remember there is hope and there is salvation for those that seek it with all their hearts, for there is no other name under heaven that has been given for salvation other than the name of “Jesus”, (acts c4:v10-v12).

02. The Son of The Deceitful One

Satan we know is the enemy of the Lord God, who opposes God and the teachings of God and also counterfeits the workings of God, we know that Christ Jesus was the son of God, for,' I have seen and have borne witness that this is the Son of God,' (matt c3:v17), this was the testimony of John the Baptist, but when we read Paul's letter that he send to the Thessalonians we find that satan also had a son, Paul was relating to the day of the Lord, that is the second coming of Christ Jesus, when he said “let no one in any way decieve you, for it will not come unless there first comes the apostasy, that is the falling away from the faith, as perdicted by Christ Himself in Matthew’s Gospel, and “that man of sin” be revealed, “The son of Perdition”, the son of destruction, (2thess c2:v3) the son of the destroyer,(satan).

In the gospel of Matthew it is revealed that all things have been handed over to Christ by the Father, (matt c11:v27), and in the book of Revelation it is revealed that the Dragon, that is Satan Himself, has given his power, his throne and great authority to the beast, now the question must be asked, would satan give his power, his throne and his great authority to just anyone.

When we study the scriptures it is revealed that one of the twelve disciples, was given this title, “the son of perdition” by Christ Jesus Himself, and of course we know that it was “Judas Iscariot”, whom the Lord Jesus said was not clean, because satan had put an inpure thought into Judas’s heart (mind) to betray him,(Christ) (john c13:v11), it is from the heart that all wickedness and evil starts, it is one thing to have wickedness spring up from the heart because of our own corrupt nature, yet it is another thing to have satan put it there, because we have hardened our (Thinking)heart, (john c13:v2).

Judas was the treasurer, yet he was a thief and a liar, (john c12:v6), Christ knew the heart of Judas, he pick him as one of the twelve knowing that he would betray him, it was the fulfilment of the fFther’s plan, the fulfilment of all the prophecies concerning Christ coming, but what a terrible thing when the Messiah say’s it would have been better if he (Judas) had not been born, (matt c26:v23-v25; mark c14:v21), and then it is revealed that satan entered into Judas, (luke c22:v3; john c13:v27), and note; that it was not a demon nor a devil that entered into Judas Iscariot, but satan himself, and also note that when Judas hanged himself, he did not go to the place of the unseen dead, but went to his “own place”.(acts c1:v25).

In the book of Revelation it is revealed that the beast, (antichrist) “was and is not, and will ascend out of the bottomless pit and go to perdition, (rev c17:v8), suggesting that he was once upon the earth.

We know that Christ’s ministry lasted for three and a half years, and we also find revealed in the book of Daniel that the antichrist will reign for three and a half years, for from the time that the regular sacrifice is abolished and the abomination is set up, there shall be 1,290 days, three and a half years, (dan c12:v7-v11), this shall be the second half of the tribulation period, which is called the great tribulation period, such as has not occured upon the earth from the beginning of the world, and unless the Lord God intervenes no life would have survived, (matt c24:v21-v22), such will be the slaughter at the hands of the antichrist.

Behold days are coming says the Lord God, when I will effect a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, (heb c8:v8), a new covenant, a covenant based upon grace, mercy, knowledge and a personal relationship, and this new covenant shall occur at the second coming of Christ Jesus, (zec c12:v10; c13:v1),and behold, we read in the book of Daniel that at the end times, the antichrist shall also make a covenant with the Jewish nation for one week, that is a seven year period, but in the middle of the week, after three and a half years he shall break the covenant, and this shall be the start of what is called the great tribulation period, were he shall direct all worship to himself, (antichrist) (dan c9:v27).

In the book of Revelation we read that heaven opened and behold a white horse and he who sat upon it, is called faithful and true, (rev c19:v11), this is the second coming of the Lord Jesus, not as a servant king, but as the King of kings, returning as promised by the Lord God, to give retribution to those who rejected Him, and because of their rejection of the truth, and their delight in unrighteousness, the Lord shall send upon them strong delusion, (2thess c2:v10-v12),for behold John the apostle said, a whith horse and he who sat on it had a bow, and a crown was given to him, and he went out conquering and to conquer,(rev c6:v2), this horse is 'Delusion', appearing to be like Christ, but in fact he is the antichrist, note: the wording, and a bow was given to him, Christ is always depicted as having a sword,(rev c1:v16;c19:v15), not a bow, but in Ephesians we read taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts, (arrows) of the wicked one, (satan), (eph c6:v16).

And also the fact that no one was found worthy in heaven to open the seven seals accept the Lamb of God, who is Christ Jesus, so if this white horse revealed here in the first seal was Christ, then the remaining six seals would not be opened. (rev c5).

Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord God, 'The Almighty',”who was and who is and who is to come”, the Omnipotence of the Lord Jesus as the Etrnal One, (rev c4:v8), and also in the book of Revelation we read, that the beast (antichrist), was and is not, and is about to come up out of the abyss, “was” implying that the antichrist or beast was upon the earth at some time in it’s history, “and is not” would imply that for some reason or other this beast, (antichrist) is not present upon the earth at this time in history,”and is about to come up out of the abyss”,(rev c17:v8), the bottomless pit, when a human being dies without christ as their saviour, they go to a place called Hades (Hell), or as recorded in the old testament Sheol (a place for the dead), both mean the same thing, the place of the dead, where as the beast, (antichrist), the son of satan, comes not from the place of the dead, but from the abyss, that is, from his own place, the same place that Judas went to, the bottomless pit.

It is revealed within Holy-writ that in the last days the lLrd God shall seal His Elect on their foreheads, to protect them from His coming wrath, (rev c7:v3; c9:v4), and also within the last days the antichrist shall cause all the great and the small, the rich and the poor to be given a mark on their right hand, or their foreheads, (rev c13:v16), this shall be the mark of satan, it shall be an abomination to the Lord God, the selling of one’s soul in a display of defiance and open disobence towards the Most High God,(Elyon), for to the Most High God, our worship must be direct, for that is man’s chief purpose.(rev c20:v4).

In acts of the Apostles we find Peter testifying to the miracles and wonders that Christ Jesus performed in their midst, and John in his gospel, testifying that there would not be enough books in the world to contain all the miracles and wonders that Jesus perform, (acts c2:v22; john c21:v25), and not to be out done the antichrist shall appear at the end times performing great signs and false wonders, that is lying wonders with all the workings of satan behind it, the great deception from the great deceiver, we know that Christ came in his Father’s name, and that He was rejected, (john c8:v43),but he was not only rejected He was dispised, He was foresaken, and He was shown no esteem,(isa c53), but the man of sin, (antichrist), he shall be received with open arms.

Christ Jesus came into the world to save that which was losted, this was the will of the Father (ELYON), that everyone who believes in Christ Jesus may have eternal life, (john c3:v16), by this we know that Christ came to give life, but the beast satan’s son shall take life, for we are told that he had the people beheaded, who would not worship his image or receive his mark (rev c20:v4), and it is prophecied that the number of people he shall murder would be a great multitude, which no one could count,(rev c7:v9).

The name beast was given to the antichrist by the Lord God, it was to describe the kind of grotesque nature he shall have.

We know that the antichrist shall be an intellectual genius, he shall be insolent, and skilled in intrigue, his power shall be great, and he shall destroy to an extraordinary degree,and prosper and perform his will, he will destroy mighty men and the Holy people, and through his shrewdness he will cause deceit to succeed by his influence, and he will magnify himself in his heart, and will destroy many while they are at ease, and he will even oppose the Prince of Princes, but will be broken without human agency, (dan c8:v23-v25).

Within the book of Revelation it is revealed that the antichrist shall be a military genius, for it was given to him to make war with the saints and to overcome them, and authority over every tribe, and people and tongue and nation, also in chapter 6 of Revelation we know it was given to him to go out conquering and to conquer,(rev c13:v7, c6:v2), he shall direct all worship to himself believing himself to be God, and shall exalt himself above every so-called god or object of worship, (2thess c2:v4) also within the book of Revelation it is revealed that there are two beasts,the first beast (antichrist) we know came out of the sea, the sea is a reference to wickedness, (isa c57:v20; isa c27:v1; dan c7:v23-v25; c8:v23-v25), but the other beast came up out of the earth, this is referring to a man,since the Lord God created man from the dust of the earth, but this beast had two horns like a Lamb, but he spoke like a Dragon (rev c13:v11).

Yet within the scriptures the word Lamb represents the Lord Jesus Christ, therefore this beast would seem to have a veneer of christianity about him, but when he opens his mouth he speaks as a Dragon, and within scripture the word Dragon represents satan, so then this second beast is the false prophet of scripture, a man who holds great sway over the nations of the world in religious matters, and a man who can persuade governments, yet who holds to some form of christianity, he shall exercise all authority of the first beast, (satan’s son), but only in his presence, it will be the false prophets mission to deceive the people of the world into worshipping satan through idolatry.

As shown through scripture satan will imitate and counterfeit everything in the Lord God’s plan, if possible!
the situation shall be so grave, that when the son of satan,(antichrist) and the false prophet (religious leader) come upon the scene, that Christ Jesus gave a warning before the events of the tribulation period take place, that false christ’s and false prophets will arise and will show great signs and wonders, even as to mislead, if possible, the very elect of the Lord God, (matt c24:v23-v25).

03. The Origins and Kingdom of “The AntiChrist”

To establish the origins and kingdom of the antichrist we turn to the book of Daniel and the dream of Nebuchadnezzar, (dan c2),Daniel was the only one among the kings, magicians, the conjurers, the sorcerers and the chaldeans, who could tell the king not only his dream, but also give a true and accurate interpretation of it, the dream that he interpretated for Nebuchadnezzar consisted of a great statue, the head of the statue was of fine gold, this was to represent the Babylonian kingdom, the breast and the arms were made of silver, representing the kingdom of the Medes and Persians, the belly and the thighs, made of bronze, representing the kingdom of Greece, and its legs made of iron, and its feet partly of iron and partly of clay, representing the kingdom of Rome, the two legs would represent the Roman Empire at the time of Christ, and at the time of the coming antichrist, at the end times, it would be the toes that would represent the kingdom that the antichrist would reign over, Revelation calls it the eighth kingdom, who is one of the seven,(rev c17:v11).

Daniel the prophet was also given a Revelation by the Lord God, he also had a dream, in his dream he saw four great beasts each different from one another, the first beast was like a lion, representing Babylon, the second beast was like a bear, representing the Medo-Persian, the third beast was like a leopard, representing the Greek, and the fourth beast was different from all the others, it was dreadful and terrifying and extremly strong, and it had large iron teeth, and it devoured and crushed and trampled down the remainder with its feet, and it had ten-horns, and behold another horn a little one, came up among them, and three of the first horns were pulled out by the roots before it, this horn possessed eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth uttering great boast, (dan c7:v4-v8), now compare this beast of Daniel’s with John’s beast in the book of Revelation, “and he (satan) stood on the sand of the seashore, and I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten-horns and seven heads, and on his horns were ten crowns, and on his heads were blasphemous names, and the beast which I saw was like a leopard, and his feet were like those of a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a lion”, (rev c13:v2), comparing that which Daniel revealed and that which John revealed about this beast, you shall begin to realise that they where speaking of the same beast,that shall arise during the seven year tribulation period .

In Nebuchadnezzar’s dream, Daniel told him that his kingdon was far superior than the three other kingdoms which would follow after the babylonian kingdom, the Babylonian kingdom was represented by the lion, and having the wings of an eagle, both of these symbols representing its strength and speed, the Medo-Persian kingdom was represented by the bear, this symbol representing its strength and fierceness, the Greek kingdom was represented by the leopard, this symbol representing the speed in which Alexander the great swept through asia minor, syria, egypt, and mesopotamia.

John’s beast in the book of Revelation is described as having all the qualities of these three past world empires, strength, speed and fiefceness, this will give you some understanding into the coming kingdom of the antichrist, for during the first half of the tribulation period,(three and a half years), the antichrist like Alexander the great shall sweep through the world and over run events before people are aware of what is really happening, they shall be decieveed.

The prophet Daniel reveals to us that the feet and the toes of the fourth kingdom are partly of clay and partly of iron, this will be a divided kingdom, consisting of strong and weak people, but this fourth kingdom will be differenet from all the other kingdoms, for it will devour the whole earth and tread it down crushing it, as for the ten-horns out of this kingdom, ten kings (ten world leaders) shall arise, from which another (antichrist) shall arise after them, and he shall be different from the previous ones and will subdue three of the ten, (dan c7:v23-v24).

Some today refer to this kingdom as being the European Community since its true name is the “treaty of Rome”, Daniel the prophet revealed that this fourth kingdom would be different from all the other kingdoms, the differents would be that this kingdom would not past away like all the other kingdoms before it, and secondly it would be the people of this kingdom who would crucify the Lord Jesus Christ, and that this kingdom would arise to its fulness of power at the coming of the antichrist (satan’s son), but there was to be a period of time between the crucifixion of Christ Jesus and the coming of the antichrist, this period of time is called the time of the Gentiles,(luke c21:v24).

Daniel was told in his prophecy that seventy, sevens have been decreed for the Jewish people, and the Holy city (Jerusalem), to finish the transgression, to make an end of sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and Anoint the most Holy place, (dan c9:v24), the seventy weeks that daniel speaks of are obviously years since he had been thinking of the years of the captivity, in verse 2, which was seventy years, further more weeks of days are so specified in chapter 10 verses 2 and 3 where the Hebrew adds “days”, Daniel was therefore referring to years, that is seventy sevens, 490 years was given to the Jewish people to finish their transgreesion and to end their apostasy and make an end of their sins, to make atonement for iniquity, this refers to the sacrificial death of the Lord Jesus Christ upon the cross, which is the basis for Israel’s future forgiveness,(zec c12:v10; rom c11:v26-v27), and to bring in everlasting righteousness in the millennial kingdom of Christ,(jer c23:v5-v6), and the Anointing of the Holy of Holies in the millennial temple.

Daniel was told that from the issuing of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince, (Christ), there will be seven weeks (49years) and sixty-two weeks (434years), (dan c9:v25), bringing the total number of years to 483, the seventy weeks (490years) beginning with a decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem was given by Artaxerxes lLngimanius in 445 b.c, chronologists have shown that Christ Jesus was crucified just after the 483years, from the time of Artaxeres decree, Daniel was foretold that certain important events were to happen after the seven weeks and sixty-two weeks (483years), that is the Messiah (Christ Jesus) will be cut off and have nothing, and that “the people” of the prince (antichrist) who is to come, will destroy the city and the sanctuary and its end will come with a flood, even to the end there will be war; desolations are determined, (dan c9:v26), remember it was after the 69 weeks (483years), that the crucifixion of Christ Jesus occurred and the city and temple as history reveals was destroyed in seventy A.D. and history also reveals that the Romans where the people of the prince (antichrist) who is to come, for it was the Romans who crucified Christ, and it was the Romans who destroyed Jerusalem and its Temple, so we can say without any doubt that the antichrist shall be the head of a revived Roman Empire, with the military and political strength it held in the days that Christ Jesus walked upon the earth.

Since the events of the crucifixion occurred just after the end 0f the seven weeks (49years) and the sixty-two weeks (434years) total 483years, and the temple and city of jerusalem being destroy with nearly forty (40) years between them, we then know that there must be a space of time between the conclusion of the sixty-nineth week (483 years) and the beginning of the seventieth week, (seven year period), this seven year period is know as the tribulation period which shall come upon the world when the antichrist, (son of satan), shall make his appearance unto the world stage, the man who will solve all the worlds prombles.

The reason why prophetic time stopped after the sixty-nine weeks (483years) was because the Jews, the Nation itself had rejected their promised Messiah, (Christ Jesus) the Lamb of God and because of this rejection of their Messiah, salvation was then opened to the Gentiles, and this is known as the time of the Gentiles, (luke c21:v24).

The apostasy of the Jews was so great, that they did not recognise their promised Messiah when he came unto them, for the words of Christ were “I have come in my Father’s name, and you receive me not, if another shall come in his own name, him you shall receive”, (john c5:v40), and the Jews followed false messiah’s periodically until they where finally crushed by Rome in 135 A.D., and it took just over 1800 years before Israel became a nation once again, yet but they have never known peace since they became a nation in 1948 A.D, so when the antichrist comes upon the scene masquerading as this great statesman with the assurance of their peace, with a promise, (covenant) the Jewish nation shall be glad to agree after so many years of war, but when this takes place, the prophetic clock shall start ticking once again, and the seven year tribulation period shall come into fruition.

Daniel the prophet was told that the antichrist will make a firm covenant with the Jews for one week, (seven year period), this is the seventieth week, the last seven years of Daniel’s 490 year prophecy to Israel, but he forewarned the Jewish nation that in the middle of the week, the antichrist will put a stop to their sacrificeand grain offerings, and on the wings of abominations will come one who makes desolation, (dan c9:v27), the antichrist shall after three and a half years into his agreement with the Jews shall declare himself God, for the first three and a half years the antichrist will give the Jewish nation a false peace then the covenant with Hell will have to be paid in full.

It is marvelous to look at the way the Lord God brings his plans into fruition, when you read the prophets of Holy-writ you realise the promise of the Lord to bring back the Jews into their own land, Jeremiah declares, behold, days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will restore the fortunes of my people Israel and Judah, for I will bring them back to the land that I gave to their forefather’s, and they shall possess it, also within the book of Daniel we read that the Jews are performing the sacrifice.

In Matthew Gospel,the Lord Jesus Himself declared, 'let those who are in judea flee to the mountains', and in Zechariah we read that durning the Armageddon campaign all the nations of the world are gathered against Jerusalem and Judah, there can be no doubt that the hand of the Lord God was upon the Jewish Race in bring them back into their promised land.

It is true to say that many nations of the world such as the United States of America, Canada, and many other nations of the westren Hemisphere are not mentioned in scripture, but it is a fact that they shall play a major role, for in the book of Revelation it is revealed that all who dwell upon the earth shall worship the beast (antichrist).

Many may ask the question as to how the people of the world shall follow or even worship the antichrist when there is so much dividing them, different cultures with different beliefs, scripture tells us that satan was one of the most intelligent angel that the Lord God created, and when we read chapter13 of the book of Revelation, we find that satan gave his power and throne with great authority over to the beast his son (the antichrist), many may say that this would not be enough to bring the people of the world together, for it would be an impossible task to achieve, this may seem impossible for man to achieve, but not for satan, for the road that the antichrist shall travel down has already been paved, for in the 1940’s and 50’s numerous treaties were signed, such as the Warsaw treaty, Seato, (south-east asia treaty), the Arab league, o,a.s. (organization of American states), the treaty of Rome, Anzus pact, etc, but the one that brings most nations of the world together, is known as the United Nations Organization, which came into existences in oct 1945, whose aims are for peace and progress, the preamble of the charter contains a general statement of policy and runs thus: we, the people of the United Nations, determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind, and to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women of nations large and small; and to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained; and to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freemdom; and for these ends to practise tolerance and live together in peace with one another as good neighbours; and to unite our strength to maintain international peace and security; to ensure by the acceptance of principles and the institution of methods, that armed force shall not be used, save in the common interest; and to employ international machinery for the promotion of the economic and social advancement of all people, have resolved to combine our efforts to accomplish these aims.

It is not hard to understand how the antichrist with his high intellectual ability will beable to manipulate the nations of the world into believing that he can solve all their problems, for just like his father, he to shall be a master of deception.

It is also interesting to note that the security council of the United Nations Organization has five permanent members, which are Russia, United States of America, China, France and the United Kingdom, these five nations shall play a major role in the Lord God’s Prophecy

Russia in the book of Ezekiel, China in the book of Revelation, France and the United Kingdom in the book of Daniel and the book of Revelation, as for the United States of America, many believe that because they are not mentioned by name in prophecy they therefore must be a second rate power at the coming of the antichrist, but this belief is totally wrong, because biblical prophecies teach us that the world shall be divided into three main camps, the Orientals (china, the kings of the east), Russia (from the remote parts of the north), and the revived Roman Empire (the ten-horns) headed by the antichrist, remember that chapter16 of revelation reveals that all the nations of the whole world are gathered together for war, the final conflict.

We know that other nations of the world are also not mentioned within scripture, just as the United States, Canada, Austrlia, New Zealand and what is known as Latin America, but if one looks at these nations you shall realise that they were all colonized by the nations of Europe, the British Spainish, French, German, Italian and Dutch, all contributed to the colonization of these nations, so directly or indirectly all roads lead to Rome or the revived Roman Empire.

The United States of America has more treaties and pacts with other nations than any other nation in the world, they give more aim to nations of the world, than any other nation, they have more power, might and wealth than any other nation in the world, so because the United States of America and other nations of the world are not specifically mentioned by name within prophecy, does not mean they will not play a vital role, at the end of the age, the one thing that is certain, is that the antichrist shall be the head of the Western Alliance.

The european community which at present consists of some twenty-five (25) nations at present, does not necessarily mean that the completion of Daniel’s prophecy has been fulfilled concerning the ten-horns or ten-toes, for over the centures the bounders of Europe’s nations have changed, and the fulfillment of Daniel’s prophecy may well contain more than twenty-five nations to bring it into fruition, what is a fact, is this, when the prophetic clock starts ticking Rome (revived Roman empire) shall hold sway over all the territory it held at the crucifixion of Christ Jesus.

Paul the Apostle in his letter to the Thessalonians said, 'while they are saying, “peace and safety”! destruction will come upon them suddenly like birth pangs upon a woman with child, and they shall not escape', and this is exactly what Daniel revealed in his prophecy about the antichrist, 'one who makes desolation, even until a complete destruction',(2thess c5:v3; dan c9:v27).

04. The Satanic System and Babylon the Great

The satanic system, “and another sign appeared in Heaven behold a great Red Dragon having seven heads and ten-horns, and on his heads were seven crowns, (rev c12-v3), the ten –horns we already know through Daniel the prophet and John the apostle to represent the political and financial power that the son of satan, (antichrist), shall have through the Revived Roman federation of nations.

The seven heads of the Dragon will represent Idolatry, unfaithfulness towards the Lord God, for the seven-heads are the seven kingdoms which satan would set up upon the earth, for in revelation chapter12 it is revealed the casting down of satan to the earth, thus satan would curse the Lord God and in direct defiance would set up these seven kingdoms, these seven-heads would have upon them, 'seven crowns', representing the glory of satan’s kingdoms.

When one compares chapter12 and chapter13 of the book of Revelation it is revealed that when John saw satan in chapter12 satan had places his crowns on the seven heads not upon the ten-horns, the seven heads with all there glory came before the ten-horns, but in chapter13 we read that “satan stood on the sand of the seashore, and behold, a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten-horns and seven heads and on his horns were ten crowns and on his heads were blasphemous names”, this beast is the antichrist, satan’s son, but note the ten-horns come before the seven-heads, and also that the ten-horns have ten crowns on them, and that the heads have blasphemous names upon them, it becomes clear that satan in chapter12 gives his crowns of glory to the seven-heads, that is his Seven-Kingdoms, where as the antichrist his son gives to the ten-horns, that is the Revived Roman Empire his crowns of glory, therefore the seven-heads came before the ten-horns.

These seven-heads (seven kingdoms) of satan would play a vital role in his plan, for they would be the kingdoms which would pay him homage in direct defiance to the Lord God, for these would be the kingdoms that he would fill with idolatary worship, this kind of worship is a total abomnation to the Lord God, for in Deuteronomy the Lord forwarns any who practice such abominations that they are viewed by Him as iniquitious and having a heart full of wickedness, and all these kingdoms that satan set up indulged in these abominations and endored the worshipping of idols, thus breaking the commandments of the Lord God.(exod c20).

John the apostle reveals in Revelation chapter17, that five of these kingdoms have fallen, that one is, and that the other has not yet come, and when he comes, he must remain a little while.

The first kingdom was that of the Chaldee’s who practiced this idol worshipping, for in the book of Joshua chapter 24 we read, “and Joshua said to all the people, thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, from incient times you fathers lived beyond the river, namely, Terah, and they served other gods, and that Abraham was born in Ur of the chaldeans were he worshipped idols, (gen c11:v31).

The second kingdom was that of the Egyptians, they also indulged in these abominations, for when Moses confronted Pharaoh he called for his wise men and his sorcerers and magicians, (exod c 7:v11).

The third kingdom was that of the Babylonians, they also practiced these abominations, from idolatry to sorcerers, magicians, conjurers and even the Chaldeans are present, (dan c2)

The fourth kingdom was that of the Medo-Persian, and the fifth kingdom was that of the Greek under Alexander the great, these two kingdoms inherit all these abominations from the Babylonians, as did the Babylonians from the Chaldeans.

The sixth kingdom of satan was that of the Roman Empire at the time that Christ walked upon the earth, for John the apostle wrote within the book of Revelation, that the sixth kingdom “was” that is present in his day, and history reveals that it was the Roman Empire who ruled over the world in John’s day.

The seventh kingdom shall be according to scripture, the Apostate kingdom, that is the falling away from the truth, no longer teaching the full gospel of the Lord Jesdus Christ, but the teaching of a social gospel, the cry shall be, tell us what our itching ears want to hear,(matt c24:v10; thess c2:v3; tim c4:v3-v4).

this shall be the long awaited dream of the ecumenical movement, the one 'World Church', but this dream of their’s shall be short lived, for when it comes it shall only remain for a little while, and then their dream shall be shattered, (rev c17), for at the mid-point of the tribulation period the antichrist shall direct all worship towards himself, (thess c2:v4).

The Apostle Paul forewarned of the peril of apostasy when he said, that in the' last days difficult times shall come, for people shall be lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of God, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding to a form of Godiness, although they have denied its powers', this corruption of man is to be found all around us in todays society, it comes from ignoring the Word of God, and in accepting satan’s lie, for his lie goes back to Adam and Eve when he told them, if they eat of the tree of knowledge, they would be like god’s, but the only thing it did was to give birth to Ego, and now man believes that he is at the centre of the universe and not the Lord God, man decieved by his own vanity, and following after his own ideology and man made religion to the damnation of his soul.

“And he carried me away in the spirit into a wilderness, and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast, full of blasphemous names, having seven-heads and ten-horns, and the woman was clothed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and of the unclean things of her immorality, and upon her forehead a name was written, a mystery, babylon the great the mother of harlots and of the abominations of the earth”,(rev c17:v3-v5).

Note that the woman is sitting on the scarlet beast, full of blasphemous names, having seven-heads and ten-horns, compare this chapter with chapter 12 of Revelation, and it is revealed that this scarlet beast is satan, also the seven-heads of revelation chapter12 and revelation chapter 17, come before the ten-horns.
where as revelation chapter 13 the antichrist (son of satan) puts his ten-horns (Revived Roman Federation) before the seven-heads (satan seven kingdoms), this woman is sitting on satan.

The Lord God calls her the mother of harlots, harlot we know to represent a false system which is unfaithful to the Lord God, a system which prostitutes itself to satan, John the apostle said she had a name written upon her forehead, which read “a mystery” the word mystery can mean hidden system, to silence the truth, which is imposed by the initiation into religious rites, and as we know the system of satanic worship is a hidden system, which in many cases is done under the pretence of christianity, it is religion at its best, God calls this system of unfaithfulness Great, unlike all the other kingdoms who practiced the anicent Babylonian rights and rituals of satanic worship, this one would surpass them all in idolatry worship, and would seem to spread over the face of the earth, bringing together all religions under the pretence of Godliness.

The mother of harlots is the name that the Lord God has given to her, and from this 'mother of harlots' would rise her offspring, alliens to the Lord God and Christ and the truth of His Gospel.

To find exactly who this mother of harlots is, we must turn to the sixth and seventh kingdoms of Revelation chapter 17, here we find that the sixth kingdom is the Roman Empire, for the apostle John said that the sixth kingdom was present, and as history reveals at the time that John wrote the book of Revelation, the Roman Empire ruled over the world, the seventh kingdom shall be the revived Roman Empire headed by the antichrist, it will be the Romanist doctrine of idolatry that will be accepted with open arms.

The Roman Empire we know lost its military might in the fourth century, but it never lost its pagan worship of idols, when you study the dream of Nebuchadnezzar’s statue, you shall find that the prophet Daniel referred to the Roman Empire as the legs and feet, but what if one of the legs was to represent the Roman Empire from 241 B.C to the fourth century when it lost its military might, and the second leg was to represent Rome’s ecclesiastical might, bearing in mind that the ten-toes shall be the Revived Roman Empire completely as it was over two-thousand years ago, for it is the ten-toes, (the feberation of nations who signed the treaty of Rome, which shall represent the military strenght of the revived Roman Empire, take note that the church of Rome in the times before the protestant reformation, reached further out across the face of the earth, then all the Ceasar’s put together and that the ecclesiastical side of Rome has murdered in the name of God, more than all the ceasar’s, of the old roman empire.

In the first three centuries of the early christian church, the pagans of Rome presecuted and murdered the christian believers, but the more of God’s children they murdered, the more the Lord God raised up, it was therefore satan’s plan, that if he could not destroy the christian church, he would therefore set-up his own phoney religion, under the pretext of being a christian church, and this he did with the church of Rome as his throne, for the city of Rome was formly known as the city of Saturn, Saturn is the Roman God of agriculture, and also means hidden god, and Rome stands on the seven hills of Saturn, (and not seven mountians).

The Roman Empire was conquered by Constantine early in the fourth century, he was a sun worshipper, but before he conquered Rome, he was supposed to have prayed to his pagan gods, but received no signs from them, but in the sky there appeared the sign of the cross with the words, “in this sign conquer”, it is believed that from this sign, constantine was supposed to have favoured the christian faith, and made it the religion of the day, but constantine is said to have died worshipping the sun god of Saturn he was an idolater, and the only thing that Constantine achieved, was the fulfillment of satan’s plan, in the setting up of a satanic system which is filled with idolatry worship, and this system of the Romanist was to spread over the face of the earth, and for one thousand years would reign ruthlessly and would become known as the one thousand year dark age, because the truth would be totally hidden from the people, and it was only in the sixteenth century that this system of idolatry was to be given what would seem to be a death blow, with the spread of God word through the protestant reformation.

In chapter 13 of the book of Revelation it is revealed that one of the heads was seen to be fatally woulded, this wound is referring to one of satan’s kingdoms and not as many believe a fatal wound to the antichrist, who by some miraculous sign is resurrected back to life, since the heads are to do with satan’s kingdoms, the fatal blow to one of the heads is referring to the protestant reformation, for it was the protestant reformation that broke the chains of idolatry and freed the 'Word of God' for all who wanted to read it, but satan healed what seemed to be a fatal blow to his devilish plan.

There can be no mistake that the sixth and seventh kingdom’s are indeed that of Rome and that according to scripture, it is satan’s aim to draw all religions under the one umbrella within the seventh kingdom, that is the one 'world church', the brotherhood of man, Rome has not rested from the reformation, the Jesuit priesthood have been plotting to bring back all the power that Rome enjoyed before the protestant reformation, here are but a few of the idolatrous practises which the Romanist do daily-: the worshipping of Mary as the mediator between man and Christ, the use of images in the worshipping of the dead saints, the immaculate conception of the virgin Mary, the assumption of the virgin Mary,(the bodily ascension to heaven shortly after her death), and the mass of the Romanist church, the most blasphemous act of their idolatry, they claim that the mass is one and the same sacrifice as the crucifixion of Christ Jesus, in other words the mass is a re-crucifixion of Christ Jesus on a daily bases, but scripture says Christ died once for all sin,(rom c6:v10), not over and over again as the church of Rome would have you believe.

The church of Rome use the word heretic to brand all outside of their church, but it is they who have strayed away from the truth, if anyone challenges them through scripture they cry bigot, when it is they who are the bigots, for when a bishop of Rome takes his oath of allegiance it is to the pope, not Christ Jesus, for it is to the pope that he swears with all his powers to persecute and make war upon all heretics, schismatics and those who rebel against our lord the pope and all his successors.

The teachings of the Romanist church claim they have the right and it is their duty to kill all heretics, (heretics being anyone outside of the Romanist church).

It is no wonder that the Lord God says the 'harlot is filled with the abominations of the earth', the Roman system is responible for the deaths of millions of born again christians, for bible believing christians were brought before tribunals made up of Romanist bishops and priests, who sit in the position of God, and to disagree with the tribunal was to challenge God, for which the result was death, they massacred and slaughtered the innocent through the centures, many say this was done long ago, and that Rome has changed, she not like she was, but Rome will never change, it is for this reason that the Lord God cried, come out of her my people, that you may not participate in her sins.

If Rome has control of a nation it will never grant freedom, it shall do every thing in its power to keep its people from the truth, you know the old saying, from the cradle to the grave, and if the Romanists are in a protestant nation with sufficient numbers they will never live in peace, but shall do every thing in their power to cause civil unrest.

This system of the Romanists Church was implemented by satan under the pretence of christianity, and it shall be this system that satan will use to bring forth the antichrist (his son) and the false prophet, the Romanist church has two facets to it, Religious and Political power.

What most people do not know, is that the Vatican is an independent sovereigh state, whose purpose is to use its political powers over the affairs of nations, for the vatican sends and recieves Ambassadors from willing nations of the world, the commercial finances of the vatican are understood to be vast, with its ownership of vast properties all over the world, yet it is impossible to discover the present value of the church of Romes assets because of its secrecy, and also remember that religious denominations come under the heading of charities.

It is not at all hard to see the fruits of the Romanist church by the poverty of the nations it has power over, and the troubled societies of many of her faithful and devoted nations, it is without doubt that the Romanist church is the greatest corrupt system that the world has ever known, to the outside world the vatican puts on the show of being righteous and innocent, but behind her smile she is political, commercial and ruthless.

The romanist kept the bible from her people for centuries, and in the mid-sixties (1960’s) they lifted the ban on the bible, but told their laity that they could not interpret the bible by their own understanding, that only the church herself had the power to interpret the scriptures correctly, they may as well not have bothered to lift the ban on the bible, for they are still keeping their laity in the same ignorance that has surrounded them for centuries.

It shall be this system of the Romanist that the antichrist shall indeed arise up out of, but as the Lord God has foretold, he shall put into the hearts of the feberation of nations under the influencel of the antichrist to destroy it, just in the same manner in which the Romanist system has destroyed so many others.

The Romanist church loves to apply all glory to herself, but the antichrist will have none of this, for he shall never share glory with anyone else, John the Apostle describes the woman sitting on the beast, prostituting herself to satan, this is a favourite trick of the Romanist system, for if Rome thinks it can further its political power or wealth, she will ride along with tyranny.

With reference to the protestant reformation being what would seem to be a fatal wound to one of the heads, (kingdoms of satan), remember that John the Apostle said, it looked as “if” it had been slain, he did not say it was slain, and in verse 14 of chapter 13, it is revealed that the false prophet told those who dwell upon the earth to make an image of the antichrist (beast) who had the wound of the sword and had come to life, note the wording, “the wound of the sword”), in revelation chapter 1, it is revealed “and out of the mouth of Christ Jesus came a sharp two-edged sword”, and in the book of Hebrews chapter 4, it is revealed that the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and in Ephesians chapter6, it is revealed that “the sword of the spirit is the word of God”, therefore the sword is a symbol both of the truth and the severity of the word of God, and as we already know, satan hates the truth, because he is a liar.

It was the protestant reformation that seemed to be a fatal wound to satan’s idolatry system, but the apostasy and the falling away from the faith has healed this wound, and woe to those who have no relationship with Christ Jesus.

The eighth kingdom shall be totally controled by the antichrist, in which no other form of worship shall be permitted, this eighth kingdom will be set up half way through the tribulation period, which shall be the beginning of the 'great tribulation period'.

And to the Romanist queen of heaven, the Lord God has this to say, “come down and sit in the dust, o virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground without a throne, o daughter of the Chaldeans, the children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the woman knead dough to make cakes for the queen of heaven, and they pour out libations to other gods in order to spite me.” (jer c7).

05. THE FALSE PROPHET AND THE ANTICHRIST

The beast, (the antichrist) we already know shall be the head of the feberation of nations of European states, and its allies of the Western hemisphere, with the seventh kingdom being the revived Roman Empire with all its military, political and religious powers restored to its former days when Christ Jesus was crucified, this beast John says had a number, and his number was six-hundred and sixty-six, (666), John also said that this beast came up out of the abyss, (the bottomless pit), and he also suggests that this beast was upon the earth at one time in history, and would seem to be referring to some kind of incarnation of Judas Iscariot, for it was Christ Himself who gave the title of ,'the son of perdition' to Judas, and we know that Christ also called him a Devil, (john c6:v70), and that satan himself is referred to in the new testament under the name of Devil also note that it was satan who entered into judas not a demon.

Throughout the centuries there have been different opinions as to who will be the antichrist, some believe that he shall be an atheist or an infidel Jew, while others believe that John the apostle was thinking of Nero as the antichrist, because “Emperor Nero” is exactly equivalment to 666, in Hebrew, and others believe the antichrist to be the popes of rome, because the official title of the pope in latin is Vicarivs, Ftlii, Dei and using the latin alphabet this comes to the total of 666, it is also true to say that many mathematicians can work the number 666 to many notorious men in past history, but all these can be discarded, because the apostle paul in his letter to the Thessalonians foretold that the antichrist would not be revealed until the apostasy has come into fruition, read what he says 2 thessalonians chapter 2 verses 2 and 3, ”do not be soon shaken in mind or toubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of the Lord has come, ( the second coming of christ jesus), let no one deceive you by any means; for that day will not come unless the falling away,(the apostasy), comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition.” and in verse 8 it is revealed, “and then the lawless one shall be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of his mouth and will destroy with the brightness of his coming.

There can be no mistake as to the revealing of the identity of the antichrist and of the time in which he shall be revealed, and this according to scripture shall only occur in the middle of the week, that is in the middle of the tribulation period, when he (antichrist) declares himself to be god, and directs all worship to himself, then his association with the number 666 shall be revealed, (thess c2; dan c9; matt c24).

The false prophet of the antichrist is revealed within chapter 13 of the book of revelation as having a veneer of christianity or belonging to a religious system, that gives the appearance of some form of christianity, so it would seem that the antichrist and the false prophet have a religious back ground, we know that everything concerning the antichrist, according to Daniel the prophet is to do with Rome, (dan c9:v26), and that Paul the apostle in his letter to the Thessalonians revealed that the mystery of iniquity is already at work,(the spirit of iniquity), (2thess c2:v7).

Note the word “mystery, for in revelation chapter17, it is revealed that upon the harlots forehead a name was writen, a “mystery”, the word mystery means hidden system, so Paul and John the apostles both use the word 'mystery' to describe the system, that the spirit of iniquity works through, can there be any doubt that the Romanist religious system is the very system in which the spirit of iniquity works through, considering the antichrist’s close association with Rome.

Would it do then to brand the popes of Rome as the antichrist of scripture,, there is no doubt that the popes take the place and title of Christ, but they do not fit the requirements of the Antichrist, this is not to say that the popes of Rome are not anti-christian, for the popes of Rome from this present day right down through the centuries have been none other than the 'false prophet' of scripture, for it has been the popes of Rome who have been teaching a gospel that is alien to the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, they have done what satan has designated them to do as false prophets, and that is to mislead the people ensurring them of a losted eternity, and the preparing the way for the antichrist.

The antichrist as we know will be the head of the revived Roman Empire, and we know that the pontiff of Rome is the head of the Romanist church, and that he as the head of the church could never come from being the head of the church to being the head of a political federation of nations, but what most people are not aware of, is the fact that there are two popes in Rome at the same time, this other pope is known as the black pope and is the head of the Jesuits priesthood, and the Jesuits have the reputation of being industrious, the word “Jesuitical” having entered the dictionary as a synonym for that which is crafty, deceptive and cunning, the Jesuits are also known as the society of Jesus, they dominated the papacy, the idea that Mary was born sinless was brought about largely by the Jesuits, and it was they who forced through the infallibility of the pope, they control the whole system of the Romanist.

The crucifix of the romanist church reads I.N.R.I. which means, Iesus, nazarenus, rex, Iudaeqrum, but in the extreme oath of the Jesuits it has a special meaning, Iustum, necar, reges, Impios, (classical latan), translated into English it means, exterminate or annihilate impious or heretical kings, governments or rulers, and this is the extreme oath of the Jesuits: the Jesuit has been taught to act the dissembler among the Roman catholics, to be a Roman catholic, and to be a spy even among your own brethern, to believe no man, to trust no man, among the reformers, to be a reformer, and obtaining their confidence to seek, even to preach from their pulpits, and to denounce with all the vehemence in your nature the holy religion and the pope, and even to descend so low as to become a Jew among the Jews, that you might be enabled to gather all information for the benefit of your order as a faithful soldier of the pope, (black pope head of the Jesuit), and you have been taught to insidiously plant the seeds of Jealously and hatred between states that were at peace, and incite them to deeds of blood, involving them in war with each other, and to create revolution and civil wars in communities, provinces and countries that wre independent and prosperous, cultivating the acts and the sciences and enjoying the blessings of peace, to take sides with the combatants and to act secretly in concert with your brother Jesuit, who might be engaged on the other side, but openly opposed to that with which you might be connected, only that the church be the gainer in the end, in the conditions fixed in the treaties for peace and that the end Justifies the means, you have been taught your duty as a spy, to gather all statistics, facts and information in your power from every source, to ingratiate yourself into the confidence of the family circle of protestants and heretics of every class and character, as well as that of the merchant, the banker, the lawyer, among the schools and universities, in parliament and legislatures, and in the Judiciaries and councils of state, and be all things to all men, you must serve at the proper time as the instrument and executioner as directed by your superiors, for none can command here who has not consecrated his labours with the blood of the heretic, “for without the shedding of blood no man can be saved” and it is our duty to extirpate, exterminate them from the face of the whole earth, and that I will spare neither age, sex or condition, and that I will hang, burn, waste, boil, flay, strangle and bury alive the heretics, rip up the stomachs and wombs of their woman and crush their infants heads against the walls, in order to annihilate forever their exerable race, and when the same cannot be done openly, I will secretly use the poisoned cup, the strangulating cord, the steel of the poniard or the leaden bullet, regardless of the honour, rank, dignity, or authority of the person or persons, what ever may be their condition in life, either public or private, as I at anytime may be directed so to do by any agent of the pope or superior of the brotherhood of the holy faith, of the society of Jesus.

From a church who claims to be christian where is Christ Jesus in the mids of this, this may show how the antichrist shall rise out of the Romanist system, for they teach the gospel of satan, for he was a liar and a murderer from the beginning.

The apostle John reveals that there is two beasts and we have two popes, one of these popes shall be the false prophet, and that most likely shall be the black pope of the Jesuits, while the antichrist of scripture shall come up out of the Romanist system.

The Romanist church claims that the pope is the head of the church, but the apostle Paul in his letter to the Ephesians says that Christ Jesus is the Head of the church..

The New York catechism says: the pope takes the place of Jesus Christ on the earth, by divine right the pope has supreme and full power in faith and morals over each and every pastor and his flock.

Some believe that the antichrist will be a system, but this would be totally wrong, for Daniel the prophet and Paul and John the apostles refer to the antichrist as being an individual person, as for the pope of Rome being the antichrist, such claims as the pope being head of the church, that he is the infallible ruler, the founder of dogas, the author of and the judge of councils, the universal ruler of truth, the arbitor of the world, the supreme judge of heaven and earth, and the judge of all, being judged by no one, god hinself on earth., it is such claims as these that has branded the popes of Rome as the antichrist.

The founder of the Jesuits, Ignatus Loyola laid down the laws for this Jesuit order, one of these laws reads:
laying aside all private judgment the spirit must be always ready to obey the true doctrine and therefore, if anything shall appear white to our eyes which the church has defined as black, we like wise must declare it to be black, and if you receive from your superior a command which appears to go against your own judgment, your own conviction, or your own well being, then you must fall on your knees, putting off all human principles and considerations, and renew when you are alone, your vow of obedience!

If one would take stock of the protestant churches to-day you would find that they no longer preach against the church of Rome and they no longer preach or teach on Holiness or Hell.

06. The Apostasy from the faith in Christ Jesus

“Let no one in any way decieve you, for it will not come unless the apostasy comes first”, (2thess c2:v3) “and then they shall deliver you to tribulation, and will kill you, and you will be hated by all nations on account of my name, (Christ Jesus) and at that time many shall fall away and will deliver up one another and hate one another, and many false prophets shall arise, and will mislead many, and because iniquity has increased, most people’s love shall grow cold”, (matt c24:v9-v12).

The falling away from the faith of the Lord Jesus Christ, shall prepare the way for the coming antichrist, for in society to-day the apostasy is well rooted, for many of the so called religious of today preach a different gospel which is contrary to the gospel of Christ Jesus, for in the pulpits of the churches today stands men and woman who call themselves agnostics and freethinkers, some of whom deny openly the very Deity of Christ, while others deny him in their hearts, they pay Christ Jesus lip services,while their hearts are far from him, they call themselvesthe friends of Jesus, but with friends like these who would need a enemy.

The religious of today have come to the conclusion, that christianity should enbrace all truth’s where ever it is to be found or however they have come to apprehend it, whether through specific Christian teaching or through Buddhism, Mohammedanism, Hinduism, Confucianism, Taoism, Zoroastranism or even through the bleak desert of apparent Atheism

The apostle Peter when speaking on heresies, forewarned, that false prophets, shall arise among the brethern, just as there shall also be false teachers, who will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the master, who bought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves, and many shall follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of the truth shall be maligned, (2pet c2:v1-v2), it is the aim of the religious of the day to forge together all the main denominations of the world into one body of believers, the pioneers of this system are known today as the Ecumenical and the Charismatic movements,who believe that by unifying all the religions into one system, they shall become more acceptable to the will of God, but in truth they shall only bring together the brotherhood of mankind, and in doing so shall place themselves outside of the perfect will of the Lord God.

It is therefore not in their interest to teach the gospel of Christ Jesus, for all these religious people teach a different gospel in which Christ can only play the part of a great religious leader, who was prepared to die for what he believed, and not as the only begotten Son of God, who died on the cross as an Atonement for Sin.

These religious people seem hell-bent on trying to bury the Lord Jesus forever, for the life of Christ is contray to the life of the religious of today, for Christ Jesus did not live in a big house, for He had no where to lay His head, Christ did not take from the people, he gave everything He had, even His life as a ransom for Sin, but if one looks at the religious today who profess christianity you shall find they have an abundance of wealth and have a form of commercialization about them, always crying out for money, but giving little or none to the poor.

The question therefore must be asked, is religion from trhe Lord God, or is it from man, when one looks at history you shall find that the religious of this world have throughout the centuries persecuted the very Gospel of Christ Jesus and of those who believed in it, and when you read the new testament was it not the religious who persecuted Christ Jesus and the apostles and the believers many to their deaths, and was not all this done, in the name of God.

When one reads the old testament, you shall find that the words religion and religious are not to be found, and the word “Synagogue” only occurs once in the King James version, and is a miss-translation, for the Hebrew word (mo/adah) which occurs two-hundred (200) times in the old testament and is only once translated as synagogue, it should redender ameeting place or Holy place of God, and not a reference to synagogue, but when you open the new testament you shall find that there are synagogues every where, for it was the Jews who turned away from the Lord God, and turned themselves into a man made religion, which is known to this day as “Judaism”.

The Lord God never set the Jewish people aside as a religion, he set them aside and called them, “my people”, and today every born-again believer is set aside by the Lord God and called “His children”.

Within the new testament the words religion and religious are mentioned in three books, Acts, Galatians and James, when one reads these three books you shall realize that religion has nothing what soever to do with christianity, for when the apostles Paul and James use the words religion and religious it was to condemn them, for Paul in the book of Acts chapter 13 directly accuses the religious of the Jews for the death of Christ Jesus and in chapter 26 he uses the word religion when testifying that he lived as a pharisee according to the strictest sect of the Jewish religion, but because he now professes Christ as Saviour, and had thrown off the rags of religion, and because of this remark by Paul the religious leaders of the Jewish authorities wanted him dead.

In Galatians Paul uses the word religion to discribe his former manner of life in the Jewish religion and how he once persecuted the church of God, and in chapter 1 verses 11and 12, we read in Pauls own words; “for I would have you know brethren, that the gospel which was preached by me is not according to man, for I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a Revelation of Jesus Christ, ” Paul testifies that man’s religion has nothing to do with the Lord God or Christ Jesus, that religion only serves the purpose of man, and is away from the truth of the gospel.

James wwhen addressing Jews who professed christianity, had this to say about religion, 'if anyone thinks himself to be religious, and yet does not bridle his tongue, he decieves his own heart, this mans religion is worthless”, these Jews that James was addressing were professing christians, who had not left their religious past behind them, they where boasting about being religious and up right people, but James was quick to point out to them that they where only decieving themselves, for the Lord God knew what was in their hearts, he was warning these christian brothers and sisters of the dangers of religion, for he said to them, pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father, is to visit orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world, mans religion does not wash with the Lord God, for the Lord has no time for the religious of the world, because the moment someone becomes religious they also become self-righteous, and for that reason Isaiah forwarned from the Lord, that all our righteous are as filthy rags.

The religious of the world would not agree with what I have said, for it is they who teach that being a good person and giving to the church you shall receive salvation, but the Lord God says only through Christ his son can any receive salvation, and when Christ addressed the religious leaders of the Jews he called them hypocrites because they had corrupted the commandments and Gods laws to suit their own thinking.

In the world today the word christian is widely used by many of the religious movements, but the word Christ simply means Messiah, so to be a christian that is a disciple of Christ, one must believe that Christ Jesus is the Messiah, the only begotten Son of God, and that the Bible is the inspired Word of God, that is all Holy-Writ not just what appeals to you, and to obey and act upon the words of Christ, and not to pay Him lip service, as many of the religious do today, while their hearts are far from him.

When you look at the doctrines of the religious movements of today it will become quite apparent that they have nothing to do what so ever with Christ or His Gospel.

Let us just look at some of their doctrines, the Jehovahs witnesses, they claim to be christian orientated but they deny the Holy Trinity, and the Atonement of Christ, they see Christ’s death as that of a perfect man, they deny the bodily resurrection of Christ, and Salvation by Faith, and the Eternal punishment for the ungodly, the second coming of Christ (bodily) and they also claim that Christ returned in 1914 and that it was invisible, and that there is no salvation outside of their religion, all that the Jehovah witnesses achieved was to rob Christ of his Deity.

The Unification church known to many as the Moonies, they deny the Virgin birth, the bodily Resurrection, the second coming of Christ, they deny that it was God’s will for Christ to die on the Cross, they also rod Christ of his Deity, and their leader Sun Myung Moon claims to be the new Messiah.

Christian science they deny the suffering of Christ, the death of Christ, the bodily resurrection of Christ, and the ascension of Christ into heaven, they also rob Christ of his deity.

The Mormon church known as the Latter Day Saints, they deny the Virgin birth, they deny Salvation by Grace through Faith, they deny original Sin, and they believe that Christ was a Polygamist! they also deny the Diety of Christ.

The Romanist church, better known as the church of Rome, this is the biggest man made religion of them all, they call themselves a christian church, but it is filled with ritualism, images, crucifix, scapulars, rosary, relics, indulgences, pilgrimages, prayes for the dead, confessional, salvation by works, their doctrine of celibacy, their blasphemous mass which they claim is the same sacrifice, as the sacrifice of Christ on the cross, the immaculate conception of Mary and her assumpton into heaven, the infallibility of the pope, and the claim that there is no salvation outside of their religion, they portray Jesus as an unforgiving God, who sits on the throne and demands punishment for sin, and that Mary is the Mediator for the sinners, that is of course those who worship her, hence their doctrine of Maryality, the heresies of the romanist religion are endless with no scriptural back ground, they reject salvation by grace, and the council of trent even pronounced a curse upon anyone who presumed to say that they had assurance of salvation.

When the popes of Rome are crowned they are proclaimed to be lord of heaven, and lord of the earth, lord of hell, the popes of Rome take the Deity of Christ Jesus and apply it to themselves, they call themselves the blessed and most holy father, but christ said, 'call no man your Father upon the earth for your Father is in heaven', (this is in the spiritual sense), (matt c23:v9), they call themselves the head of the church when scripture says that christ is the head of the church, they apply the word 'Catholic' to themselves, but a catholic dictionary gives this definition, the word Catholic is derived from the Greek and simply means 'universal', and it is Christ’s church which is universal and not the Romanist church, therefore it is the true believers in Christ who belong to the Universal church or the Catholic church, and not any religious system.

The list of religious bodies or movements which teach heresies are numerous, here are just some of them, Christadelphianism, Seventh-day adventism, Spiritism, Modernism, Freemasonry, Unitarianism etc, and even within the Christ centred churches we have Mysticism, mysticism being the interpretation of a scripture as to what it means to you, you no longer have to study the scriptures, just go on your own understanding. i.e.the office of overseer must be the husband of one wife, that is married only once to the same woman, the mysticism would interpret this as one wife at a time with a string of divorces, violating the covenant of marriage, we must understand that we are not to point to scripture and say this is what scripture says to me, we are to point to the scriptures and say, this is what scripture says, for the Holy Spirit is the 'Spirit of Truth' and Arbitrator of the Holy Scriptures, and what He says within scripture is final, and is not open to debate or to what you think.

If such Godly men as Luther, Calvin, Wycliffe, Huss and Knox to name but a view, were alive today I believe they would cry to the high heavens at what is churned out in the pulpits of the protestant churches today by those who call themselves the friends of Jesus, for many of these men reject the Deity of Christ and do it with no shame or remorse, they wish to change the 'Word of God', so as to make it more acceptable to society, they accept divorce and homosexuality, and reject repentance, they seem obsessed with politics rather than the spiritual needs of a sick society.

The gospel of John records the first Ecumenical movement, it was the coming together of the pharisees and saducces, they where totally alien to one another, the pharisees were nonconformist they controlled the synagogues, and the sadducees denied the doctrine of the pharisees about the body resurrection and the belief in angels, but they had one thing in common with each other, and that was the putting to death of Jesus (john c11:v47-v53).

The council of the Jews is not unlike the ecumenical council of churches for they both have the same aim, that is the death of the gospel of Christ Jesus, but as any born-again believer in Christ would tell you, they shall not be so easily decieved by any man or teacher who would attempt to subvert in the smallest degree from the 'Word of God', it may be the belief of the ecumenical movement that we must make progress, for we live in a civilized and modern society and that the church must go forward, but in their progress forward they are making the word of God null and void, and are creating a doctrine that is the precepts of man in the vain hope that it is accepted by the Lord as worship, the church of Christ Jesus is a spiritual church, and not a church built with clay bricks, it is made up of the body of belivers who deliver up a spiritual sacirifice, christianity is not a way of life, it is life it self, it is not based upon a system of doctrines but on the 'Living word of God,' where religion puts its faith totally in man, born-again believers put their faith totally in the Lord Jesus Christ, and His word, where religion takes, christianity gives, while religion marches for peace, the child of God is assured of peace between himself and the Lord God through the Lord Jesus Christ.

07. The Desolation Campaign of the AntiChrist

This shall be the most horrific time ever to come upon the face of the earth, it shall begin at the mid point of the tribulation period,(seventieth week of Daniel's prophecy) the first three and a half years will see the antichrist come to power as the head of a federation of nations,(EU) and at his greatest height with complete control of world events, and it shall be at this period in time that he shall start his campaign of desolation, and it is called the great tribulation period, it shall begin when the antichrist puts a stop to the Jewish sacifice for the atonement of sin and demand that the Jews worship him as God, and as history shows the Jews shall never give homage to the antichrist or his image, and from this point the Jews will realize that he is a false prophet, the mistake that the antichrist will make, shall be to give the Jewish nation the assurrance that they shall not be attacked or threatened by the Arab nations, thus guaranteeing them their long awaited peace, but when the Jews rebuild their temple it shall be at the expense of the Arabs, whose Rock of Dome (mosque) will have to come down to make way for their temple, the Arab nations shall be enraged, and unrest shall spread through the middle east and shall cause the antichrist to head for the middle east, it shall now be in the antichrist’s interest to annihilate the Jewish nation and to wiped the Jewish race from the face of the earth, for the antichrist knows that the Lord God shall defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem, (zec c12), so if the antichrist can annihilate the Jews from the face of the earth, then there would be no need for Christ to return and defend Jerusalem for there would be no Jews to defend living in Israel.

(please note that the Lord Jesus is not coming back for the church, for our promise is already assured in Him, His covenant is with the Jews and this he shall fulfil), (this is called 'the time of jacob's troubles').

It was for this very reason that the Lord said, that those days would be cut short for the sake of the elect, (matt c24), to ensure that the events of the great tribulation do not get out of control concerning the nation of Israel, for in the book of Revelation it is revealed theat the Holy city, that is Jerusalem, shall be given over to the Gentile nations for forty-two months, three and a half years, the time period of the great tribulation,(rev c11:v2).

These nations, the nations that shall tread over Jerusalem shall consist of the antichrist with his federation of nations including all his allies, the Chinese and the Russians and the Arab nations, the nations of the world shall be divided into three main camps at the end times, when the antichrist reaches the middle east, he shall be attacked by the king of the north and the king of the south, that is he the antichrist shall be attacked by Egypt and Syria, the antichrist shall then strectch out his arm and defeat the Arab nations that are to the south, such as Egypt, Libya, Sudan and Ethiopia, he shall also capture Jordan, but Jordan shall be rescued out of his hand by the help of Syria, Saudi-arabia, Iraq and Iran.

The antichrist having put Egypt, Libya, Sudan and Ethiopia firmly under this feet, shall then head northwards entering into Israel, making his base and headquarters between Jerusalem and the sea’s of Galilee and the Mediterranean, at the plains of Esdraelon.

Here the final battle shall be fought, with the antichrist making his bsae at the plains of Esdraelon it will be foremost in his mind to destroy the remaining Arab nations, the Russians on hearing this news shall mobilize its forces to defend her Arab friends and with this mobilization of the Russians, the Chinese shall also mobilize its forces, and it shall be at the news of the Russians and Chinese mobilizing their armies, that the antichrist shall be enraged, and at this point he shall go up to Jerusalem and set up the abomination of desolation exalting himself above every so-called god or object of worship, and from this time onwards he shall go forth with great wrath to destroy and annihilate all those who do not worship him as God, the Jews automatically shall reckonize him to be the antichrist a false messiah, and thence the beginning of the Great Tribulation.

During this three and a half years the false prophet and the antichrist shall make the people receive a mark upon their foreheads or upon their right hand, to refuse this mark of the antichrist shall result in death by be-heading, and as a result of the battles leading up to the final battle of Armageddon, the world shall be subject to Famines and Disease which shall result in the death of over 'one quarter of the earth’s population'.

The chinese armies shall spread across the Far- East like locusts, they shall pass through many countries till they reach the Euphrates river, which shall be dried up allowing this vast army to travel up through Iraq and into Syria, and then down through Syria and into Irael to the plains of Esdraelon, it would be impossible for the Chinese to cross the Syrian desert without a heavy loss of men and material, thus we have the Lord God who miraculously has the Euphrates dried up, making a pathway for this Chinese army to arrive for the final battle of Armageddon, for many battles shall occur leading up to the great battle of the Lord, such as the siege of Jerusalem were tens of millions shall perish, and the struggle of the Arab nations against the antichrist, the advance of the Russians into Israel, and the advance of the Orientals towards Israel, and when all these nations reach the plains of Esdraelon the death toll shall be appalling, and when they have all arrived to do battle with the Lord God, the slaughter shall be so great that the blood shall flow for two-hundred miles at the depth of some four feet, no words can explain what the carnage shall be like, but one thing is sure, it shall be a living nightmare.

Now let us identify these nations through scripture, we already know that the antichrist is of Roman origins and that he shall head a federation of nations, in the book of Revelation it is revealed that the sixth angel poured out his bowl upon the Euphrates river, and its waters was dried up, that the way might be prepared for the king of the East, (rev c16:v12), this complies with Daniel’s rumours from the East, (dan c11:v44), also in chapter19 verse 16 of the book of Revelation it is revealed that the number of the armies of the king of the East was two-million.

Then we have what Daniel the prophet called rumours from the North, and to find their identity we turn to the prophet Ezekiel chapter 38 and it is revealed that the Lord told Ezekiel to set his face towards Gog of the land Magog, Magog was indentified by the historian Josephus as the land of the Scythians, the region north and north east of the black sea and east of the Aral sea, now occupied by Russia, in verse 15 of the same chapter we are told; and you will come from your place out of the remote parts of the north, you and many people with you, a great assembly and a mighty army, note: Ezekiel did not identify Russia as the king of the North, but as coming from the remote parts of the North, which would comply with what Daniel the prophet said, rumours from the North assembling themselves to come against Jerusalem.

Now we come to identify the king of the North and the king of the South, these two kings that daniel refers to in chapter11 verse11 are discribed by him as Arab nations, the king of the south is Egypt, and the king of the north is discribed by Daniel as Syria, many have confused the king of the north, (Syria) with the rumours of the north, (Russia), but these two Arab nations shall attack the antichrist in a pincer movement, not because they believe that they would defeat him, but in an act of open defiance towards him.

In chaptr 13 of Zechariah it is revealed that two-thirds of the Jewish nation shall die, as they try to defend the holy city against the nations of the world, and in chapter 14 of Zechariah it is revealed that the city is capured, and the houses plundered, the woman raped and half of the city exiled, twice before the Jewish people have been severly persecuted, the first was in the Roman wars where it is estimated that some two-million died, and the second time was when Hitler murdered over six million in what is now known as the Jewish Holocaust.

Yet the coming Great Tribulation period shall see death as the world has not known, first the march of the Chinese armies, they shall kill over 'one third of the worlds population', (rev c9:v15), the antichrist, it is revealed shall kill 'one quarter' of the worlds population, the Russian the Lord said; shall devise an evil plan to conquer, no figure is given as to how many of the worlds population shall be killed by the Russian as they invade the middle east, there are those who believe that as soon as Russia invade Israel they shall be destroyed by the antichrist, but according to the prophet Ezekiel they shall be present at the Day of the Lord, that is Christ’s second coming, (ezek c38:v20), as I have said, there is no reference to the carnage and slaugther that the Russian shall inflict, but you can be sure it shall be great, for the Lord Jesus forewarned that unless those days be cut short no life wound have been saved, and Isaiah the prophet, also prophecied that few would survive, (isa c24:v6).

08. THE RAPTURE OF THE BELIEVERS IN CHRIST JESUS. “For the Lord Himself shall descend from Heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first, then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and thus we shall always be with the Lord. (1 thess c4:v16-v17), from the Latin for “caught up” comes the term rapture, but there are many different interpretations as to when the rapture shall occur, some believe it will occur at the beginning of the tribulation period, and some believe it shall occur half wat through the tribulation period, that is the beginning of the great tribulation period, and still some who believe it shall only occur at the end of the great tribulation period, that is at the second coming of the lord jesus, and there are those who even deny that the rapture shall occur at all.

The biggest believe in the christian family at present, is that the christian shall not go through the tribulation period, and that they shall be kept from the wrath of the antichrist, but to find out the truth about when the rapture shall actually take place, we must turn to Holy-Writ, for only within the scriptures can we find the answers to all our questions, when we read such chapters as that of Matthew chapter 24, we find that the Lord Jesus Himself said, that immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun will be darkened, and the moon shall not give its light, and the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken, and then the sign of the son of man will appear in the sky and then all the tribes of the earth will morn, and they will see the son of man coming on the clouds of the sky with power and great glory, and he will send forth his angels with a great trumpet and they will gather together the elect from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other”.

Here we receive from the mouth of Christ that the rapture of the believers shall occur at the end of the great tribulation period, yet there are many of the believers who say that this only refers to the elect of Israel, that is the Jewish nation, but we read that Christ would gather 'His' elect from the four corners of the earth, and also reminder that one of the names of Christ Jesus is, “Israel”, (isa c42:v1-v12; c49:v3;gal c3:v29; c6:v16).

This would suggest that the elect of Christ would be gathered from all over the earth, when God’s elect of the nation of Israel is only 144,000, and they shall be the forerunners of a much larger group of Jews who shall turn to Christ at the end of the great tribulation period, and they shall be centred around Israel, and if the church is not going to go through the tribulation period, why did the Lord Jesus in Matthew chapter 24 synchronise the falling away from the faith (the apostasy), Christ clearly stated that the church,(body of believers) would go through the tribulation period. (verse10).

When the Lord Jesus gave his promise, that he would keep the believers from the hour of testing, that hour which is about to come upon the whole world, (rev c3:v10), it was not to be interpreted as the seven year tribulation period, as many have done, for if you read chapter 14 of the book of Revelation it will become clear that the Lord Jesus was promising to keep the believers from 'His' coming wrath, (judgment), for we read, to fear God and give glory, because the hour of 'His' judgment has come, (verse7) ansd also in chapter 6 verses 16 and 17 we read,and they said to the mountians and to the rocks, “fall on us and hide us from the presence of 'Him' who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb, for the great day of Their wrath has come, and who is able to stand,” it would therefore seem that the Lord shall keep the believers out of the hour of his coming judgment, and not the seven year tribulation period in which the antichrist will be free to slaugther and annihilate.

The apostle Paul in 1corinthians chapter15 verses 51 and 52, “behold, I tell you a mystery we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet, for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed”.

Note that Paul said the last trumpet, to find out more about the last trumpet we have to turn to the book of Revelation, and here it is revealed in chapter 8, that seven trumpets were given to seven angels, and when the first trumpet was sounded the earth was smitten, when the second trumpet was sounded the sea was smitten, when the third trumpet was sounded, the waters of the earth were smitten, when the forth trumpet was sounded the heavens were smitten, when the fifth trumpet was sounded men were smitten, and when the sixth trumpet was sounded, men were killed, and this was to occur before the sounding of the seventh trumpet, there is not another trumpet mentioned within revelation after the sounding of the seventh trumpet, so in fact the seventh trumpet is the last trumpet, and also the fact that the trumpets came after the seven seals, and at the breaking of the first seal it revealed the going forth of the antichrist to conquer.

So we know that the antichrist shall be upon the earth long before the sounding of the seventh trumpet, and that the earth, sea, waters, heavens, and men all have been smitten, before the sounding of the seventh which is the last trumpet, but what is revealed when the seventh trumpet is sounded,(rev c11:v15) “and there arose loud voices in heaven, saying, the kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord, and His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever”.

Here it is revealed that the 'mystery' that Paul the apostle spoke of in 1corinthians chapter 15, is manifested in Revelation chapter 10, for in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound, “then the 'mystery' of God is finished, as he preached to his servants the prophets”, there can be no misunderstanding as to the sounding of the seventh trumpet, nor to the fact that the child of God shall go through the tribulation period.

In 2 Thessalonians, it is revealed that the mystery of iniquity is always at work, and that only He who now restrains shall do so, until He is taken out of the way, (2thess c2:v7), many interpret this as the Holy spirit holding the antichrist back, they believe that the Holy spirit shall be taken out of the way, and that the church at this time shall also be taken out of the way, (raptured), allowing the antichrist to do his will upon the earth, but this belief of the Holy spirit being removed from the earth would then mean that the time of 'Grace 'had come to an end, but this would not be scriptural, for in the book of Revelation chapter 7, it is revealed that a great multitude which no one could count from every nation, who came out of the Great Tribulation and are washed in the blood of the Lamb, and in John’s gospel chapter 14 it is revealed that the Holy spirit is called the Comforter or Helper, but never the restrainer, for the Lord God Himself is the Restrainer, for in the book of Roman’s chapter 13, we find that the Lord God is the 'One' who establishes and that there is no 'Authority' except from the Lord God, so the restrainer that Paul spoke of is God’s influencing power or restrainering power that he exercises upon the worlds governments.

Because of the apostasy from the faith and the rejection of the truth, the Lord God shall let go of his restraining influence over the governments of the world, and allow the man of sin to come to power, but remember because the Lord God has taking his restraining power from the governments of the world He still is in 'complete control' of the events of the world even at the time of antichrist,(rev c17:v17; matt c24:v22).

It is also interesting to note that in 2 Thessalonians, the Lord God Himself shall send strong delusion upon the earth, this would seem to be a punishment upon those who have rejected the truth of God, for this reason it is very important for the child of God to be aware of what is being peddled from the pulpits of our churches, there can be no excuse for not studying the word of God, notice I did not say reading the word of God, but studying the word of God, for this idea of being raptured before the great tribulation came about in the late nineteenth century,(1880’s) and was then called the 'secret rapture', remember the words of our Lord Jesus, when He said the truth shall set you free, (john c8:v32), but this freedom can only come about if you abide in His word.

It is necessary to warn those who call themselves christians, that Christ Himself forewarn of the dangers of falling away from the faith, and the delivering up of one another and the hating one another, remember He was addressing those who at one time claimed to be a child of God, shall this come about because there will be those who shall be waiting for the rapture but the antichrist shall over shadow them, and before they know what has happened, they shall have turn away from Christ.

The apostle Peter had this to say concerning the last days, for' mockers shall come with their mocking, following after their own lusts, and saying, where is the promise of his coming? forever since the fathers fell asleep, all continues just as it was from the beginning of creation'!(2pet c3:v3).

There can be no doubt as to the second coming of Christ being a single event, to say then that the church shall be raptured before or during the tribulation period makes nonsense of Christ’s second coming as a single event, and as to the fact that many say this coming of Christ is to the air for his church, and not the earth, they point to the scriptures of 1Thessalonians were Paul the apostle said, for the Lord himself will descend from Heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first, then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and thus we shall always be with the Lord'(1thess c4:v16-v17), comparing what Paul said here in Thessalonians and that which John says in Revelation you shall come to the conclusion that these events happen simultaneously, (1.) in Thessalonians we have the voice of the anchangel, in Revelation at the sounding of the seventh trumpet we have loud voices in Heaven, (2) Thessalonians we have the trumpet of God, in Revelation we have the angel sounding the last trumpet, which is also the trumpet of God, (3) in Thessalonians the Lord Himself shall descend, and in Revelation we are told that at the sounding of the last trumpet, the kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of Christ, this is the victorious second coming of Christ, as for those who believe that the rapture occurs before the tribulation period is indeed a wonderful through, but the facts on which they base their belief is totally wrong according to Holy-Writ, they believe that if the rapture occurs at the second coming of Christ there would be no one to go into the kingdom (millennal), and repopulate the earth, but according to Zechariah one third of the Jewish people shall be left, for Christ says he shall pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem the 'spirit of grace and supplication', so that they shall look on Him (Christ Jesus) whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for Him; as one mourns for an only Son, and they shall weep bitterly; and shall call on His name, and He shall answer them, and say, they are my people; and they shall say, the Lord is my God.

This shall occur when the Lord’s feet stand on the mount of Olives at his second coming, so from the descent of Christ from heaven, till His feet touches the mount of Olives, we have what Paul says, the dead and the living being caught up to meet Christ in the air, in the twinkling of an eye, so from the time that Christ leaves Heaven, until the time that His feet stand on mount of Olives, there shall be no believers upon the earth, but as soon as his feet stand on mount Olives, we shall have the one third of the Jewish people who survived by God’s grace receive salvation.

Those who believe that we shall be spared the antichrist’s wrath also believe that when Christ returns he will divide the believers from the unbelievers, but they say if the rapture were to take place at the same time as his second coming how could the believers and the unbelievers be separated on the earth, as all the believers would have been caught up to Christ in the clouds, thus leaving no believers on the earth.

We have established already through Zechariah the prophet, that one third of the Jewish nation shall become believers, but also the fact that scripture says every eye shall see Christ coming on the clouds at his second coming.

Many also believe that because the church is not mentioned after chapter 5 of Revelation, it must have been raptured, but chapter 2 and 3 is reflecting the church’s attitude towards Christ and His Word, chapters 4 and 5 of Revelation is describing what the child of God shall experience in Heaven.

The answer to the question as to when the rapture takes place lies within the scriptures, but know this, that anything which does not pertain to Salvation should not cause division within the church, (body of believers) for to cause division shall only serve the purposes of the enemy.

09. The Signs of the Second Coming of Christ Jesus As the Lord Jesus was sitting on the mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him, asking, what will be the sign of your second coming, and the end of the age, (matt c24), the warning that Christ gave was to make sure that nobody misleads you, for He forewarns the child of God that many shall come and say, I am the Christ! and false prophets will arise, and shall mislead many, we know that from the ascension of Christ into Heaven to this very day that many have claimed to be the Christ, and many have mislead tens of thousands away from the truth, we have only to look at society today to find that the gospel of Christ has been rejected, not only by the many false religions that have arisen around the world, but by many within the christian church who openly deny the Deity of Christ and the Bible, but this apostasy from the truth is but a sign of His return, for there must be a total and unified rejection of the truth by the masses of the world.

The Lord Jesus also gave the sign, that nation would rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, the kingdom against kingdom, many believe this to have a signifigant meaning as to the second coming of Christ, for while nations have been at war with each other throughout history, it is only from the second world war, that so many nations have experienced civil-unrest, (civil war), raging within them, so they believe that when the Lord Jesus said that kingdom would rise against kingdom he was not talking of conventional war, but civil war, but we must also remember, that Christ also said, that this is just the birth pangs, so could it be possible that this nation against nation and kingdom against kingdom, and the hearing of wars and the rumours of wars, is the leading up to the Great Tribulation period, for we know that there shall be rumours from the East, (chinese) and north,(Russia) (dan c11:v44), and that three great kingdom shall go to war with each other.

Christ also spoke of famine and earthquakes, and in the book of Revelation it is revealed that there are famines, death and disease, (rev c6:v8), and also in Revelation it reveals earthquakes, (rev c6:v12; c8:v5; c11:v13; c16:v18), note; in Lukes account of the end of the age, he calls the earthquakes great, he also says there shall be terrors and great signs from Heaven. (luke c21:v11).

Christ Jesus also said, that it would be like the days of Noah, because lawlessness shall increase, and peoples love shall grow cold, for people have become lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding to a form of Godiness, although they denied its power, (2tim c3:v1-v5), would this not discribed todays society.

Another sign of the end times comes from Daniel the prophet, he said many would go back and forth, and that knowledge would increase, here is a sign that reveals that both travel and education shall vastly increase just prior to the coming of antichrist, and it is a fact that the intelligence of man in the last forty years has vasty increased at an amazing rate, and that a person can now travel across the world in a matter of hour and now of late we have been told that in a few years we shall be-able to travel in space for leisure!

We know that one of the signs of the end of the age is the falling away from the truth, by people who are more interested in paying attention to deceitful spirits and the doctrines of demons, we already know that in the world today there are more cults and sects than at any other time in history, these comes under the banner of religion, and the occult, and that some come under the banner of christianity.

The occult which is totally satanic is practices widely over the face of the earth, with many of its priests,(witches) professing openly that they are the devils disciples, there can be no doubt as to the expansion and growth of satanic cults today.

Jude also gave a sign of the last days, when he said, that mockers shall come, following after their own ungodly lusts, these are the ones who cause divisions within the church, they are the worldly minded, who are devoid of the Holy spirit, they are the false teachers who are more interested in position than they are in God’s word, Paul the apostle calls them spiritually appraised, the carnally minded christian who is like Jonah, outside of the will of God, doing their own thing, what which is right in their own eyes.

The greatest sign of the second coming of Christ, is in the 'parable of the fig', for this was the only parable in which the Lord Jesus said, “learn”, for when its branch has already become tender, and puts forth its leaves, you know that summer is near, even so you to, when you see all these things, recognize that he is near, right at the door, for truly i say to you, this generation shall not pass away until all these things take place, (matt c24:v32), all these things, the signs that Christ described in matthew chapter 24 verses 4 to 28, from the misleading the many to the gathering of the vultures.

We know that the 'fig tree' is a symbolic term used for the nation of Israel, for the prophet Hosea in chapter 9 verse 10, said that the Lord God saw his forefathers as the earliest fruit on the fig tree in its first season, here the Lord states clearly that He saw the Jews like the fruit of the fig tree, and in Jeremiah chapter 24 the Jewish people are depicted as figs, we can understand now why Christ Jesus cursed the fig tree in matthew chapter21, because it bore no fruit, it was an illustration of the rejection of Christ by the Jewish people as their promised Messiah, despite every advantage given to them, and because of their rejection of Christ, and the killing of God’s prophets, the Lord Jus foretold them that their house, (the temple),would be left unto them desolate, meaning the scattering of the Jews into every nation, as prophesied in Leviticus chapter 6 and Deuteronomy chapters 28 and 30.

In the parable of the fig tree Christ did not mention that there would be any fruit, just that it would have its leaves, for Jesus said, when its branches have become tender and it puts forth its leaves, this would comply with the words of Christ in the cursing of the fig tree, for He said no longer shall you bear fruit, so there are four things to learn from the parable of the fig tree, 1.the fig tree is a symbolic term referring to Israel, therefore the parable of the fig tree is referring to Israel’s return to their promised land, as prophesied, (deut c30:v1-v10), 2 the branches and the leaves referrs to the generation of Jews at the rebirth of the nation, 3.Christ Jesus did not refer to Israel bearing fruit, and as we know to this day Israel as a nation does not recognize the Lord Jesus as their Messiah, 4.Christ referred to this generation who would not pass away until all these things take place, some interpret this word generation as race or family, but when Christ was speaking to the generation of His day, he said, I am sending you prophets and wise men and scribes, some of them you will kill and crucify, some you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city, that upon you may fall the guilt of all the righteous blood shed on earth from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar, truly I say to you all these things shall come upon this generation, behold your house is left unto you desolate, and as we know, forty years from Christ Jesus spoke these words, the Jewish nation ceased to exist as a nation, and it was indeed that very generation that witness all that Christ said, so if Christ was so explicit about that generation, it wound not do justice to assume that the generation of the parable of the fig tree, is race or family.

The scriptures reveal many of the wonderful signs of Christ’s second coming, yet many of the scoffers in the world today deny that He shall return and some even claim his second coming was invisible, but bible believing christians have no doubt of His return, for it will be physical, personal, visible, glorious and triumphant, putting his enemies under His feet, unlike his first coming when He came as a servant king, now he comes as the King of kings, and the Lord of lords, were every knee shall bow and tongue confess that He is Lord, for out of heaven He shall be revealed, with his mighty angels by his side, in a flaming fire dealing out retribution to those who did not want to know Him and to those who do not obey His gospel, to execute judgment upon all, and to convict the ungodly of all their ungodly deeds which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have said about Him, it is without doubt that many of the signs for the return of Christ are falling into place, yet the question must be asked, are you saved, remember the coming of the Lord Jesus shall be like the days of Noah, for in his day the people were eating and drinking, and marrying and given in marriage, and not taking any heed of the warning signs, and then suddenly it was to late, the flood came and took them all away.

10. Salvation: The Gift of God “Come to me, all who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest, take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you shall find rest for your souls, for my yoke is easy, and my load is light”. (matt c11:v28-v30).

The words of the Lord Jesus inviting all to come and receive the gift of salvation, contray to the teachings of the religious today, who teach that by living a good life and helping others, and by believing that chuchianity is christianity, and shall stand you in good credit before the Lord God, believing they are not sinners but the righteous and thus cannot be called sinners, and so foolishly wrap themselves with the rags of their religion and respectabilty.

It is amazing to find just how far away religion is from the word of God, religion cannot seem to accept that by grace through faith in Christ Jesus can anyone be saved, religion likes to add to the grace of Christ, yet the Lord says lift up the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the Lord, (ps116) for God so loved the world, that he gave His only begotten son, that who so ever believeth in Him shall not perish, but have everlasting life, ( john c3:-v16).

The Lord God forewarns the religious minded that all have sinned and fall short of His glory, (rom c3:v23), and in Isaiah chapter 64,He siad;'for all our righteous deeds are as filthy rags', the Lord God calls us sinners with no righteousness of our own, and no hope of salvation, yet such is his love towards us, that he sent His only begotten son, that through Him we would receive the out pouring of the father’s love,for He came to save sinners, and the only people that Christ died to save was sinners, and the only people on the road to Heaven are sinners saved by grace, and the only people in Heaven are sinners who were saved by grace, and if you think that you are not a sinner, than you are on the road to Hell, to a lost eternity, and you shall never know what salvation is, the Lord Jesus told us that who soever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved, and to them He gives the right to be called the children of God.

Not one person upon the earth could ever merit salvation, you cannot buy it, you cannot put the Lord God under obligation and you cannot bribe God, it is the undeserved, unmerited gift of God, you have to receive it, from a repentant heart, for now is the day of salvation, now is the accepted hour, and if you die without Christ as your saviour, then you shall die in your sin, and if you die in your sin you shall go straight to a lost eternityl, it is the gospel of christ that teaches the forgiveness of sin, it teaches people that it does not matter who you are, rich or poor, black or white, Jew or Gentile, if you call upon His name you shall be saved, there are many today who resist the Holy Spirit and the invitation of salvation, Christ can change the most vile of people,for the blood of Christ can make the foulest clean, for all who comes to Christ not one shall be cast away, for Christ is the door, if anyone enters through Him they shall be saved.

If you would take your place humbly and gratefully, and say, Lord, I am a poor guiltly Hell deserving sinner, I don’t deserve anything, but just as I am, I come, come into my heart and be my saviour, and lord of my life, I repent of all my sins, and offer my body as a Holy and living sacrifice to do your will, in Jesus name, I pray, amen! When you receive Christ as your saviouryou must confess him with your mouth and believe in your heart that Christ Jesus is the son of God, and your confession of Christ to others shall insure that Christ shall confess you before the Father, and when you come to Christ Jesus He shall change you into the person He desires, and shall convict you of your sin, and through the person of the Holy Spirit, shall bring you from immaturity to maturity and into a relationship with Christ Jesus.

Remember no one can give you salvation, only Christ can do that, you must ask Him into your heart, no one can do it for you, people may pray for you, but it must be you and you alone who will have to ask Christ to be your saviour, for there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men, by which we must be saved, that name is “Christ Jesus the Lord!”

11. The Inspired Word of God

Many in society today do-not believe that the Bible is the “inspired word of the living god”! many say can anyone prove that the Bible is the inspired word of God? the answer to this question is YES, it can be proved to be the inspired word of the living God, but before the answer comes let ask the question to the scoffers can you prove that the Bible is not the word of the living God.

To some it would seem that it is not enough to say that Jesus was the Christ,but what He said was totally divine, He was not trained as a Pharisee or a Scribe, but was called Rabbi,(teacher), because of His great knowledge and wisdom, to believe that the Bible is the inspired word of the living God takes faith through the working of the Holy spirit within the human heart, yet the Lord in his mercy, through his word, (the Bible) shall open the mind of anyone who seeks Him with all their heart even the scoffer, remember the Bible is a spiritual book so without the kindling of the Holy Spirit within you shall never come to any understanding of it, for the Lord searches the heart of man and knows the reason of the mind.

Paul the apostle wrote in 2 Timothy that all scriptures is inspired by God, and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, (c3:v16), and in 2 peter we read; but know this first of all, that no prophecy of scripture is a matter of one’s own interpretation, for no prophecy was ever made by an act of human will, but by men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God, (c1:v20-v21), also if one reads Mark chapter 12 verse 36, Acts chapter 1 verse 16; chapter 4 verses24 and 25; Hebrews chapter 3 verse 7, chapter 10 verses15 and 16; and Psalms 2 and 41 and 110, for they all ascribe to the Holy Spirit, even King David tells of the Lord Jesus, and there are many prophets in the old testament, some of the greatest prophets the world has ever had the privilege to know such as, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel and Zechariah.

Isaiah was called the evangelical prophet, because he says so much about the redemptive work of Christ, some seven-hundred years before the birth of Christ.

In chapter 53 of Isaiah there is given a portrayal of the suffering and redemption back ground and physical appearance of Christ Jesus, in the days of Isaiah, death was by stoning, but in chapter 53 verse 5, he depicts that Christ would die by crucifixion, and crucifixion was brought by the Romans 200 years before the birth of Christ and 500 years after the death of Isaiah, (the scoffers would say this was only a lucky guess).

King David over 900 years before the birth of Christ, also foretold of the crucifixion of Christ, in psalm 22, he discribed what death by crucifixon would be like,” I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint, my heart is like wax; it is melted within me, my strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue cleaves to my jaws, and thou dost lay me in the dust of death, for dogs have surrounded me, a band of evildoer’s has encompassed me, they pierces my hands and feet, I can count all my bones, they look, they stare at me, they divide my garments among them, and for my clothing they cast lots.

king David portrays the suffering of Christ, prophetically describing the crucifixion, the pain, the extreme thirst, asphyxiation, and agony to the hands and feet.

Zechariah also prophecied concerning the second coming of Christ, for in chapter 12 we read, “and I will pour out on the house of David (Israel) and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication, so that they will look on me whom they have pierced, and they shall morn for Him,(v10), this was prophecied 500 years before the birth of C hrist, Zechariah clearly shows that Israel shall recognise Jesus as their Messiah at his second coming, acknowledging with deep contrition that he was the one whom their forefathers had crucified, ( pierced),

These prophesies may be disbelieved or put aside by many in society today concerning Christ Jesus, but can they so easily dismiss these prophecies concerning his second coming.

The book of Revelation was wrote almost two-thousand years ago, by the apostle John, when we read what it has to say, we find that it records that all the green grass, and the trees are burnt up, also the rivers and its springs, and the sea’s were also smitten, along with the stars, the moon and the sun, and men, and the cities, the mountians, and islands were not found,(rev c6; c16:v19-v20).

There has been many wars upon the earth, but there has never been a war that has made mountains or islands disappear, or burned up all the green grass.

Isaiah in his apocalypse of the tribulation period, forwarns us that the earth shall be laid awaste, and distorted, and that the inhabitants of the earth shall be burned and few men shall be left, also that the foundation of the earth shall shake, through which the earth shall be broken asunder, split through shaken violently, (isa c24; ezek c38:v20), and in Zechariah chapter 14 we read, and this shall be the plague with which the Lord shall strike all the people who have gone to war against Jerusalem; their flesh shall rot while they stand on their feet, and their eyes shall rot in their sockets, and their tongues shall rot in their mouth. (zec c14).

This was prophecied two-thousand-five hundred years ago, I don’t believe one needs a great deal of intelligence to come to the conclusion that these prophecies shall be fulfilled by the use of “Nuclear Weapons”, and only the Lord God could have foreknown of these weapons, for these weapons of mass destruction have only come about in the last sixty-five years,(1945) and it has only come about in recent times that these prophecies of God have been revealed to mans understanding, it is the Lord who has lifted the veil for man to understand the importants of not losing your soul, for he takes no plearsure in the lost of a soul.

All of the prophecies that are revealed within the scriptures where foretold thousands of years ago, and those prophecies which have come to pass, have come to pass exactly as was said, so if they have been so accurate, why would the prophecies relating to the end of the age not be the same in there authenticity, and if this be true, what other proof is needed, for the Lord God does not look for the approval of men, for His word speaks for itself, for be assured, that Heaven and Earth shall pass away, but His word shall not pass away, every Word of God fulfilled every prophecy concluded. AMEN!

12Know your Enemy

Our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in heavenly places, (eph c5: v12), for we are not ignorant of satan’s schemes, (2cor c2:v11) satan we know is a Hebrew word, signifying adversary, an enemy of the Most High God, (Elyon), and the enemy of the child of God, he is the originator of "sin", and chief of all evil spirits, he is malignant and a fowl spirit, and shall do all in his power to destroy the life giving word of God, satan was at one time the Anointed Cherub, who occupied a special place of prominence in guarding the throne of God, until pride was found in him, and he became corrupt,to know your enemy, one must first know his names and titles, that the Lord God has so graciously revealed within his word.

The wicked one (the evil one) is given the name of “the serpent of old", this name given to satan is a common symbol for evil, it was used by the sacred writers as an emblem of wickedness, cruelty and treachery and be not deceived into believing that the serpent of old was a snake, for it is a word which depicts his nature, not his form.

He is also given the name, "the great red dragon", it applies metaphorically to satan, for dragon depicts desolation and cruelty,"great" because of his sin towards God, and red because of the slaughter he has and will bring upon mankind, dragon is mentioned 13 times within the book of revelation, and denotes rebellion and apostasy, satan is the angel of sin, who shall make the earth tremble and a wilderness, he is "abaddon" and "apollyon" the destroyer.

only in the new testament is satan called a "devil", devil means slanderer, he is the supreme evil spirit, the prince of darkness, who is malignant and foul and who makes false and malicious statements to win his case, and is called the accuser of the brethren, he is the father of lies. "Lucifer" son of the morning, the morning star, who appears as an angel of light deceiving and counterfeiting the things of God, the name Lucifer only occurs once in the scriptures and it is a reference to satan’s fall from grace.

"Beelzebud" the chief prince of all demons and devils, the lord of the flies, a deity of the Ekronites, the Jews polluted it by changing it to Beelzebul, meaning, the lord of the dung or dunghills, in the greek it is Baal-zebul meaning lord of abominable idols, the prince of idolatry, the chief of all wickedness, the Jews used these names as an Epithet for satan.

Demons are disembodied spirits who serve satan their master, in opposing God and antagonizeing his work upon the earth, satan is giving the title of "the god of this world", not that he rules the world, for he is not sovereign, it is his influence that is in question.

The enemy is called “the prince of the power of the air”, prince denotes ruler, and he is the prince of darkness and king of the abyss, he maybe superhuman, but he is not divine, his power maybe great, but he is not omnipotent.

It is satan aim to try and destroy the foundation of God’s church, by undermining the credibility of the very elect of God, but the Lord God in his wisdom has within his word (Holy Writ), forewarned us how the spirit of iniquity operates, through the channels of satan, i.e., the spirit of antichrist, (iniquity), the spirit of bondage, the spirit of divination, the spirit of error, the spirit of fear, the spirit of whoredom, the spirit of dissension, a lying spirit, a dumb spirit, a confusing spirit a foul spirit, an unclean spirit, a familiar spirit and an evil spirit, etc.

The one thing that the spirit of iniquity cannot produce, is the fruit of the Holy spirit, for allow it may give the appearance of righteousness it shall inevitability always give itself away, the saint must not give the enemy rest, he is to wage war continually against satan, and one must remember, that the more you are used by the Lord God, the more the enemy shall attack you, the greatest weapon that the child of God has to destroy satan, is the word of God, the greatest force to overcome our enemy schemes, is prayer, praying through the blood of Christ to our father (Elyon), but understand that prayer demands much, and its price is high, and the attacks from the enemy shall be often, i.e. physical, emotional and spiritual, to be mighty in prayer is to be mighty against the enemy, for the Holy spirit operates with the full force of the Almighty behind it, therefore we must be militant in our prayer and christian life’s for the character of our praying shall determine the character of our Godliness, prevailing prayer is our pleading to our heavenly father, for prayer is humility at work, it is looking to God, and away from self, a negative christian shall achieves nothing, the Lord is calling for a praying people, the Daniel’s of this world, let us become like Daniel in persisting prayer, so that our prayers may prevail against our enemy, and we shall become overcomers through the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen!

Note: sin originated in the angelic world, for satan the accused realising his down fall cursed the Lord God and turned his attention to Adam, the crown of God’s handiwork, and it is revealed that they (the fallen angels) kept not their own principalities, satan knew that sin would enslave man, and that the wages of sin was death, he knew in his heart that sin is a transgression of the law of God, and that it was an attack on the Lord God Himself, for the Lord God was the Great Law Giver, and sin satan knew would be a revolt against the righteousness of God and the very foundation of His Throne, satan knew that the moment Adam ate of the forbidden fruit, he would automatically place himself in opposition to the Lord God, thus trusting no longer in the Lord God, but in his own ability, this action of Adam brought him into subjection to the authority of satan.

Satan was quite aware of the unhappiness that sin would bring, and that through sin, man would become corrupt and depraved by his sinful nature, such as murder,immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, envy, drunkenness, etc, thus satan has devised schemes were possible through his spirit (the spirit of iniquity) to prevent man from turning from his ways!

The spirit of iniquity shall with all wickedness deceive those who are foolish enough to reject the truth, this spirit which is called the spirit of iniquity is the third person of the evil trinty, he is the spirit that brings death and destruction, he can be found at the heart and root of all religion, opposing the truth of the Almighty God and all that is Holy, (2thess c2: v7; rev c16: v13; 2cor c11: v3-v4).

First we must ask the question what is iniquity; and the answer is, “sin”! iniquity is all unrighteousness and ungodliness towards the Lord God by all that was created, it is to transgress and violate his word, throught disobedience or neglect by an act of wickedness or depravity of the human nature, in mind, body or soul.

It would be true therefore to say that iniquity is evil at its worse, iniquity comes in many forms and in many disguises, for evil has many faces, remember that satan can appear as the angel of light and his messengers as messengers of righteousness,(2cor c11:v14-v15), remember when one walks in the spirit of the Lord God, the spirit of iniquity shall declare war upon you, (rom c5:v3; john c15:v20; 2cor c4:v9); for no longer do you belong in the kingdom of darkness but reside within the kingdom of light, and it is the renewing of the mind that satan and his host fear, (rom c12:v1-v2), for it is the light of the gospel ( the knowledge of the truth) that destroys the works of satan, bringing his kingdom of darkness to nought, and the overpowering of all his schemes, we are not to be ignorant of his ways nor his thoughts, lest he should gain advantage over us, (2cor c2:v11).

Let us now look into the word of God and see what his light has revealed concerning the workings of the wicked one (evil one), and we find that because of our fallen nature we are children of disobedience, (unbelief) who by nature walk according to the course of this world, by the power of satan and his spirit, therefore without the grace of God, we are by our sinful nature sons of satan, filled with unbelief and walking in accordance to his spirit, being led by the spirit of iniquity into outer darkness and separation from the Lord God, (eph c2:v3), so from the day of our birth, we are born into the kingdom of darkness, as if we had a veil covering our soul keeping us from the truth, (2cor c3: v13-v14), after all you do not need to teach a child to tell lies, but thank the Lord Jesus Christ for his grace over children, but for those who come to the age of understanding they must open their minds to the spirit of truth, and receive his grace with a repentant heart, for to do less shall leave you in your unbelief and in direct disobedience to the will of God, (rom c5:v19; eph c2:v2), held in bondage by the works of the spirit of iniquity, (gal c4:v3; heb c2:v14-v15), and be not deceived for the spirit of iniquity can work miracles, can possess, can afflict, and can blind the mind of a mere human keeping them in bondage by ignorance and superstition, so that it produces its fruit of arrogance and hatred, it is this spirit of bondage by the thrid person of the evil trinity that puts the recipient in total slavery to satan, paying him homage, homage for which they are not even aware of doing,(john c8:v44; rev c13:v3),look at the habits that we form through iniquity, not the norm like smoking or over indulging in alcoholor nor the taking of drugs, but the indulgence of over eating, whether it be by chocolate or cream cakes etc, the sin shall be the same, it is called gluttony and reported to be one of the seven deadly sins, gluttony is eating for the sake of eating and will kill you just the same as drug abuse, remember the Lord said your body was to be a Holy temple, not a cathedal for obesity, (1cor c3:v16-v17; c6:v19), and when we criticize another and claim its because of their pride, when in reality it down to our own envy of that person, we dishonour the Lord God and his word, (prov c3:v30,jam c3:v14-v16, 1cor c3:v3).

So with our tongue we proceed to murder those around us by assassinating their character, and we never call this slander, we don’t even called it gossip, for such has the spirit of iniquity blinded our minds, (1john c2:v9; c3:v15; 2pet c1: v7-v9), yet the Lord God has said it is an abomination before his eyes, (prov 6:v16; c12:v22; luke c16:v15), for slander comes from lying lips, and the father of lies is none other than satan, (john c8:v44), the Greek rendering for slander is traducer meaning accuser, satan himself.

The spirit of iniquity shall travel down all avenues in which to ensnare you, such as putting you in bondage to the spirit of fear, (2tim c1:v7), or the spirit of error, (1john c4:v6), the spirit of whoredoms, (hos c4:v12), the spirit of antichrist, (1john c4:v3), the spirit of divination, (acts c16:v16), a dumb spirit,(mark c9: v17-v19), foul spirit, (mark c9:v25), even unclean spiirits, (matt c 12:v43; mark c7:v25), and it is the spirit of fear that produces one of the greatest sins within christiandom, it is one of the most destructive powers alive, for it produces hated and bigorty, intolerance against others, especially those of another race or tribe, fear breeds hate not love, and sadly fear can also produce cowards, those who are to afraid or timid within their christian faith, taking no stand for Christ Jesus, being faithless to their calling, to shy to offend, just going to church and sitting quietly in thier own little corner secretly hidden away from others, heavenly bound and of no earthly use, stuck in the trenches while the battle rages all around, not having the sword of the Holy spirit in their heart or in their hand, just griped in fear instilled in them by the spirit of iniquity to keep them in bondage and on the road to becoming a worthless servant, (prov 28:v1; eph c6:v19v20; 1john c4:v17-v19), who shall be cast out into outer darkness away from the present of the Lord God, but remember, perfect love cast out all fear.

The spirit of error is one within the church who is led by the spirit of iniquity, a leader or teacher who does not place Christ Jesus at the center of their lifes, (gal c2:v4; matt c7: v15-v20), or their fellowship with others, this is so wide spread today among many so called christian fellowships, we know the obvious such as those who put an emphasis upon money, but there is a more dangerous error that has gone unnoticed within christendom and that is the emphasis that is place upon the gifts of the Holy spirit, but bear in mind the Lord Jesus did not say you would know them by their gifts, he said you would know them by their fruit, remember the Holy spirits role is soley to point to Christ Jesus, as the only way for salvation.

But the spirit of error (delusion) does not point to Christ Jesus, but points to the gifts of the Holy spirit, yet the gifts cannot bring salvation to anyone, only Christ Jesus has that right, (1cor c1:v1-v30; c3:v11; c13:v1-v13; c14:v19; c15:v3), for he alone is the way the truth and the life, therefore when so much emphasis is put upon a gift of the Holy spirit or for that matter one of its fruits, Christ Jesus no longer becomes centeral to salvation or our worship for which he alone deserves, and “delusion” the spirit of error has succeeded in robbing the Lord Jesus Christ of his rightful place and majesty, scripture clearly teaches us that it is the Lord Jesus who is worthy of power, riches, wisdom, strenght, honour, glory and blessing, (rev c5), for he alone is the “Risen Lamb”, and worthy of our worship.

The spirit of whoredom is always connected with idolatry and unfaithfulness towards the Lord God and Christ Jesus by those who claim to be the children of God, idolatry is not just referring to the worship of statues or images that man has conjured up within his own imagination, for idolatry became universal after the floor, for it was satan working through the spirit of iniquity, that the true knowledge of the Lord God was forsaking by man, who was himself deceived and corrupted by the great deceiver at the fall, (gen c3).

The reason why man losted his special relationship which he had with the Lord God within the garden of Eden, was because he believed in satans lie, that if he would eat of the tree of knowledge he would become like God, and so from that time mankind has been worshiping things made by his own hands or things within his own imagination, right up to this present time, where he is generally worshiping himself through science, placing himself equal if not above the Lord God, and this was accomplished by the simple art of seduction by satan who is a pastmaster.

What does the spirit of iniquity place within the mind, but to believe in “yourself,” and what is the sin of idolatry, putting anything before the Lord God, for he alone must be first and the only Lord of your heart, for in him the Lord Jesus is revealed, (john c14:v9-v11), he is the image of God the Father, and in him and him alone, love is revealed, (col c1:v15; c3:v10).

The spirit of antichrist, which is the spirit of iniquity opposes the word of God and Christ Jesus at every opportunity, it appears as a substitution or in the place of the Lord Jesus, this spirit of antichrist always denies the diety of Christ Jesus, i.e. His virgin birth, His bodily resurrection etc, (titus c1: v15-v16, 2pet c2: v1-v3; jude 4), the spirit of antichrist is mainly to be found within christendom rather than in the world, by the so called friends of Jesus, they come under many names such as agnostic, humanist and even atheist, they are what the Lord God calls worthless shepherds who scatter the sheep, they are wise within thier own eyes, they call themselves theologian, (rom c1:v21-v23; 1cor c1:v25-v31),yet they take a simple message of salvation and turn it into a set of rules, then they proceed in debating the very oracles of God, taking out what offends them and adding in what is in their own minds acceptable to society, yet the only thing that they have achieved is in accordance with the spirit of iniquity, for they no longer teach or preach in accordance with the Holy spirit, their gospel is not the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, for Christ Jesus was but a mere man according to their own testimony, for which they have no shame nor do they feel any need for repentance, but according to the word of God no man can be saved of himself, not by works or deeds or by clean or good living, so the gospel that is taught in many churches today is the gospel of death, hell and the lake of fire, for if Christ Jesus was not the only begotten son of God, who then can be “saved”, and from where does one receive “salvation”, (acts c4:v10-v12), denial and confusion is how the spirit of antichrist works through the spirit of iniquity, but this can only be achieved by the spirit of antichrist if you do not study your Bible and pray for divine guidance through the Holy spirit, (john c16:v13, john c8:v32), the spirit of iniquity can only operate through ignorance.

The spirit of divination is one who is possessed or controled with by a demon i.e. a medium (spiritualist) who is controled by a supernatural power in the pretence of talking to the dead, or soothsaying, i.e. fortune-telling, all forms of divination are denounced by the Lord God,(deut c18: v10-v13), and no child of God is to have many dealings with any of it, for it is satanic and pays homage to satan, the occult takes in all forms of magic, black or white, wizards, witches, chanters, sorcerers, charmers, astrology, satan can only delude you if you are foolish enough to believe that a horoscope or to gaze into a crystal ball or by reading cards etc, can perdict your future, don’t live your life by the movement of the stars or by what someone says, live your life by what the Lord God says within his word, and you shall be free,(john c8:v32).

A foul spirit or unclean spirit are the most grievous and wicked evil spirits that can possess a human being, for they take full control of the person and set out to destroy with great malice not only the person in question but all who are around them, (luke c8: v27-v29; matt c17:v15), this is not just any demon possession it is of a higher order of demons and can be called a devil, the one who rules over these foul spirit is given the names of Abaddon and Apollyon,(rev c9:v11), meaning destruction and destroyer, also note that in the book of revelation three unclean spirit came out from the mouths of satan, antichrist and the false prophet which where the spirits of devils (demons),(rev c16:v13-v14),there mission is to bring all the nations of the world to destruction, do not under estimate the workings of evil spirits, for they can bind a persons tongue that they should be dumb (mark c9:v17-v25), or give them a lying tongue that they may deceive, (2thess c2:v9; isa c19:v14), one has only to look at the church of this generation to see just how much damage satan and his messengers have achieve, many within the free churches believe that you can cast out a demon by the name of Jesus, this in part is true, but in truth it is not true, first the title, that is the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, is not just Jesus, it is Christ Jesus, or Jesus Christ , his true title is, “the Lord Jesus Christ”, and all the epistles within the new testiment confirm this fact, such was the power of his ressurection, (rom c1:v4; 1pet c3:v21-v22), that through it we received power from above,(luke c24:v45-v49),it is in these names that the child of God is granted any request within the Fathers will, and secondly the Lord Jesus told the disciples that some demons can only be cast out by fasting and prayer, (matt c17:v21).

Demons we know through scripture can be found in heavenly places, (eph c6:v12), in the air, (eph c2:v2), on the earth, (gen c6:v4; jude 6), in the sea,(matt c8:v32),in dry places, (matt c12:v43), in swine,(matt c8:v32), in people, (luke c11:v24), and in leaders of the world, (rev c17:v12), in religion, (rev c17:v4),it has always been the intentions of demons to destroy the souls of men, by delusion, temptation or by affliction, physical, mental or spiritual, body, mind or soul,(rev c16:v14; c13:v15), the gospels also bear witness to this truth, and in the 'end times' many within the church shall fall away from the faith, and this shall be achieved through seducing spirits and the doctrine of demons, (1tim c4:v1), we live in times where the word of God is no longer relied upon for guidance, for we have what can only be called mysticism within the church, a self interpretation of scripture, no longer having a need for studying the word of God, or for that matter even reading it, for it is enough to allowing your inner spirit to led you into the truth, if it feels right then it must be right. (jude; 2tim c3:v1-7; 1tim c1:v4).

This is like building a house upon sand, satan will have no problems at all in decieving the masses, if he has not decieved them already, for great is his craftiness, (gen c3:v1), remember he was once the gaurding angel of the throne of the Lord God, he was the seal of prefection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty,(ezek c28), he can appear as an angel of light, (2cor c11:14), he can quote scripture,(luke c4:v3), he can afflict,(job), cause strife among the brethren, (1cor), he can led you into temptation, (matt), he can use persecution against you, oppress you, snare you, sift you, lie about you and use every immoral scheme that your finite mind could not comprehend, he can make good to be looked upon as evil and evil as good, that’s why millions are fervently religious but totally Godiless, (read the scriptures for proof), when is the last time you heard about Holiness, is it not by Holiness that we are called to live, it is for this reason that the Lord God tells us to be aware of satan and his schemes, not by our own interpretation of scripture, (2 tim c3:v16; 2pet c1:v20-v21), but by the renewing of our minds daily, (rom c12:v1-v2), and walking in the light of his word, (eph c5:v8), do not be foolish and lean upon your own understanding, (prov 3:v5), but trust in the Lord God and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the Holy spirit shall led you into the truth of their word,(john c17:v17).

These are just some of the fruits that the spirit of iniquity produces in its bid to destroy the souls of men and to undermine the gospel of the Lord Jesus within the church, i.e hypocrisy, those who are devilish (having a bad attitude towards others) they can be called natural demonic, filled with jealously and self ambition, possessed with deceitful spirits to seduce the gulible, these are the ones who have been snared by satan and held captive by him to do his will, (2tim c2:v26), they are not hard to distinguish from the true child of God, for they do not manifest within their walk the fruit of the Holy spirit, (gal c5:v22; jam c3:v17-18), they may talk about Godily things, but talk is cheap, (jam c2:v15-17), they may even possess spiritual gifts, but what they cannot hid is their true nature, for such is their egotism that their very nature always produces its fruit revealing them as lovers of self, lovers of money, lovers of pleasure, (2tim c2:v2-7), they are the carnal minded, who harbour bitterness within their hearts, not all who claim christianity have faith in Christ Jesus, that is why you must test the spirit of everyone who seeks fellowship within the church instead of welcoming all with open arms, (1john c4:v1), for the true children of God will always have Christ Jesus on their lips, minds and hearts, (matt c22:v38), it is said within scripture that the mystery of iniquity, that is the spirit of iniquity is at work within the church, (2thess c2:v7), the word mystery means secret, to conceal, to lie hidden, yet the Lord Jesus clearly states within scripture that we are not to be ignorant of satans schemes, revealing that what ever is concealed, what ever is hidden or what ever is a mystery, it shall be revealed to the child of God, (john c16:v13), therefore false brethren, false teachers, those who never give of themselves, those who are always quarrelsome, those that teach strange doctrines that are not biblical, those who’s deeds are so evident of the flesh, should be put out and ostracized from having christian fellowship, (eph c5:v11; 1cor c10:v20; 2cor c6:v14), the child of God has only to read what the apostles have recorded within their epistles, to come to an understanding of just what harm the spirit of iniquity can do within any christian fellowship if allowed a foot within the doors of any church, but sadly many christian fellowships today are suffering great hurt within themselves simple because they have come away from sound doctrinal teaching (the bible), and the only cure for this apostasy, is total repentance (a turning away from sin) and the seeking of forgiveness from the Lord Jesus Christ.

Remember the church (the child of God) is forbidden to be friends with the world (man in his fallen state) for the world is the enemy of the Lord God, and any who call themselves friends of the world place themselves in direct oppostion to both the teachings of the Lord Jesus Christ and the Lord God, (jam c4:v4), and ignorants of the word of God shall not be an excuse, especially by those who call themselves christian, remember the words of the Lord Jesus, the road is narrow and few shall find it, (matt c7:v14), pointing to the fact that the responiblity to form a relationship with the Lord God and Christ Jesus soley depends upon the recipient, for Christ has fulfilled his side of the promise, we in turn must respond to this great out pouring of his love, and rid ourselves of all false humility and hypocrisy, (matt c11:v28; eph c2:v8).

The spirit of bondage (iniquity) always produces bad habits and bad habits are hard to break, simply because satan through his spirit instilled them within our nature corrupting the mind of mankind, that is why the Holy spirit tells us that we are to renew our minds daily, because of our fallen nature we are at birth alreally conformed to the world and its ways, we are children of wrath,(eph c2:v3), and if one cannot amid to this fact, then the chances of putting to death the habits of the world are nil, the spirit of iniquity from the fall has been able to influence s(through temptation) mans thinking, satan knowns that through his deceit he has polluted and corrupted the heart of man, making mans heart deceitful beyond imagination, (gen c6:v5), for mans depavity as history reveals gets worse with every generation, spirraling downwards, hell bound.

This curse has come through satans influence, a curse that has seen man become selfish and conceited, trap in the bondage of his sin, and this is why satan intents to have you chasing after your habits, for it places you in total slavery, for through his deceit he has deceived you into believing it is called liberty, freedom for you to make your own decisions, yet how can one make a decision when they are blind to the truth, yet know this truth, the way you live and the decisions that you make in this life, shall determine where you live in the next life.