Who Is The Beast?

Post 253

If you will remember, I have several early posts building up to the introduction of the Beast of Revelation 17. I will not re-cover that material here but wait for a later time to bring it all together, but because it has been so long since we covered it there may be many who are now asking how I can be so sure that Islam is literally the kingdom of that Beast rather than simply see my conclusions as generic paranoia of an unfamiliar faith among many. So, in a very simple and direct reply, I offer this refresher of Bible Prophecy showing us the world’s last eight Gentile Global Dominate Empires (GDEs) and the evidence that the rising Caliphate of Islam is in fact the eighth and last, before the return of Christ to set up his eternal kingdom of heaven on earth as the ninth, bringing in a truly New Age.
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In identifying the temporal-timeline coming of the Beast that rises from the bottomless pit on which a great city of abominations is carried (Revelation 17:7-9+18), the apostle John is given a fore-history of seven GDEs that come before it:

“and there are seven kings (935): five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space” Revelation 17:10.

We know by history looking back that, at the time John was given this prophecy in his old age (about 90AD), Rome was in position as the reigning GDE and the king (ruler) of Rome was Cesar; i.e. “the one that is.”
To confirm this truth we simply backtrack through history to find the five GDEs that came before Rome and fell previous to John’s revelation. Listing backwards from Rome we find:

Greece, Medo-Persia, Babylon, Egypt, Assyria. “five are fallen…”

Secular history will easily show that these five are in fact the five before Rome which was number 6.
OK, but since these had already come-and-gone (fallen) before this prophecy was written, it’s really not much of a prophecy.
True.
But remember, this fore-prophecy is simply showing the timeline of WHEN in history this eighth GDE Beast would rise to power. The pre-history was simply being established as relevant in time from which to locate the actual prophecy, this keeps us from attempting to apply what comes next in the prophecy to any period of history that suits our fancy.
By this pre-prophecy information we know that after John’s current GDE of Rome there would be but one more Gentile GDE on planet earth before Jesus Christ the Son of God himself comes to earth establishing his own kingdom to rule the earth:

“and there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is (Rome), and the other (7th) is not yet come…”

John never saw the one after Rome that would come, but we have; The only GDE that followed Rome was the Caliphate of Islam, which ruled more globe than any of the previous five and lasted an incredible 1400 years until its official fall on March 3, 1924 AD, and no GDE has taken its place to date. Yes there have been and still are world powers such as Spain, England, Russia, and America, but none of these reached the undisputed state of GDE as did the six previous that reach back through time even before ancient Egypt.
So why stop with Assyria; What happened before then? Historically and Biblically, after the age of the pre-flood period, the earth was not populated enough and/or mentally prepared to create a GDE before Assyria (Genesis 10:13-17<18), and the best that fallen man could do along that line was to create dominate cities (Genesis 10:12). Among the greatest happened to be ancient Nineveh (Genesis 10:11), located up the northern portion of the Euphrates River, and eventually became the capitol of the Assyrian GDE. Another of the great cities was Babylon (Genesis 11:4-6), founded by Nimrod (Genesis 10:8-10), also found on the Euphraties River and geographically located about 40 miles south of Baghdad today. This city too, eventually became the capitol of the later Babylonian Empire GDE. The point is that these very ancient cities were born many centuries before the GDEs sprung up around them in their times.

The fact that this Revelation prophecy only lists one last gentile GDE after Rome, before “the end of the world” (Post Flood age) comes, is not by itself alarming; in skepticism it could be argued that there might be dozens after Rome that simply are not named. So what is alarming is that the prophecy seems to doom itself by making a very radical proclamation: that after the seventh GDE (the one that follows Rome), there would come the kingdom of Christ himself, back from the dead, back from heaven, to set up his own GDE to forever dominate the globe never to be replaced (Revelation 11:15, Daniel 7:27), yet with interesting complexity (Revelation 19-20) which we will cover much later, God willing.
But now, as expected, scripture always provides an interesting twist right before the expected fulfillment of every promise; there is always an expanded complexity in the resolution and this is no exception. Let me explain:

This Revelation 17:10 prophecy, in context, specifically speaks of seven kings (935) rather than kingdoms.

Kings 935 basileus; probably from 939 (through the notion of a foundation of power); a sovereign (abstractly, relatively, or figuratively):-- king.

Kings need kingdoms to be kings, but a kingdom is not a kingdom without a 935-foundation-of-power king so we understand and confirm by history that kingdoms (GDEs) are inferred, but now we find a curious complexity before the kingdom of heaven comes; there is an eighth king not included in the list of seven:

“And the Beast that was, and is not (see Revelation 17:7-8), even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition” Revelation 17:11.

The wording of this verse is extraordinarily curious and has stumped prophetic scholars for two thousand years, there are lots of conjecture and speculation as to is specific meaning and as we get closer to the day of its fulfillment we find our conjecture is getting closer to the truth. I am certainly not proposing that I have the exclusive or full truth of its meaning but the more I search it out the more I find it contains.
The first question that needs to be asked of this verse is;

“Why is the eighth not listed with the seven?”

We get the answer in the same verse; Because he is of the seven.
Remembering that we are specifically speaking of kings, and only inferring kingdoms, we understand that this verse is telling us this eighth king is not in addition to the seven but somehow of the seven, yet independent enough to be listed as the 8th.
In earlier posts I have already expounded on the idea that this eighth king is the return of the seventh king as the twelfth Imam of the first Islamic Caliphate (the seventh GDE) who was occluded at the age of five fulfilling the “he must continue a short space” of Revelation 17:10, and will actually rise from the bottomless pit to which he was banished, and is confirmed by radical factions of Islam to be residing in a well in the Middle East waiting his return (*1). But what I have not yet suggested is that by the specific wording of the verse this eighth king is not simply “of one of the seven” but is perhaps “of all the seven” thus, “of the seven.”
Since the seven kings of their seven GDEs covered thousands of years of world history we begin to see that this king is not simply a man but rather a spirit king that ruled over all seven GDEs. Now as the eighth, he is no longer just a spirit ruling the king of a GDE as before but is now himself risen to assume the actual role of king as “himself”… not of an eighth GDE but a return of the seventh which keeps him from simply being listed among the other seven as the 8th. In the temporal timeline of events he is the eighth king but is actually of all the seven that came before him, like a sum. This theory seems to be confirmed by Daniel’s interpretation that all the last four GDEs will be destroyed by Christ’s coming, and not just the last one existing at the time:

“And in the days of these (ten toe) kings (of the 8th GDE of the feet) shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people (replaced in time by others), but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever. Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold…” Daniel 2:44-45.

Iron, brass, silver, and gold are the Nebuchadnezzar dream’s identification of the four last Gentile GDEs. I have shown that the GDE of Iron comes in three parts; Four Great Beasts, post 177 (http://when-did-reason-die.blogspot.com/2011/03/four-great-beasts_25.html), which includes the legs of pure iron, and the twin feet of iron and clay. Frankly I am not yet ready to explain why the clay seems to be mis-ordered in this verse, or even included in this list at all, as it is previously presented as little more than a difficult blend with the final Iron kingdom of the feet (Daniel 2:42), but I will state here that it perhaps has a lot to do with the Nephilim and the fact that by Greek Mythology it is suggested that the “clay” was already attempting to blend itself with the brass of ancient Greece, which is perhaps why the clay is located where it is in this list. Suffice it for now to note in Daniel 2:43 that the miry clay will succeed in mingling itself with the seed of men at the time of the GDE of the iron feet, therefore whatever the clay is, it is NOT the seed of men. This was lightly suggested in the discussion of The Little Mermaid in Post 249 The Cinderella Syndrome (http://when-did-reason-die.blogspot.com/2012/06/cinderella-syndrome.html).

I don’t wish to rabbit trail this post further so only reference that this Daniel 2 section speaks only of the last six Gentile GDEs of Revelation’s eight GDE kings; beginning with Babylon (Daniel 2:37-38) followed by Medo-Persia and Greece (Daniel 2:39), then Rome (Daniel 2:40), and finally the first foot of Islam as the since-fallen Caliphate now waiting for the second foot.
The introduction of an eighth king of the seven shows a return of the Caliphate now rising in our present time, subdivided into 10 later kingdoms at the coming of the Antichrist in the final seven years of this last GDE (Daniel 2:41-43) a prophetic “hour” (Revelation 17:12). What modern Christians perpetually fail to consider in their escapism mentality, is the duration of this eighth GDE before the establishment of its demonic ten-toe-kings and the Antichrist that rises to power through them (Revelation 17:12-13) for the final 7 years (Daniel 12:6-7+Revelation 12:14-17).
There is a plethora of scripture detailing the events during this final GDE reign that we will not discuss in this section of posts but it must be noted that this Daniel prophecy of these last five GDEs is in fact all prophecy written before these kingdoms rose to power after Babylon! Now that really is something!
There is so much scriptural detail of this last kingdom and events that it is now no longer speculation that the return of Islam is this eighth and last GDE before Christ returns to earth. That really does make this the last times as scripture states (Hebrews 1:2, I Peter 1:20). But yet-unfulfilled prophecy, and future history will show this is not going to be a short period as the seven years that modern Christians are presently looking for it to be (Genesis 49:10+Matthew 24:31=Isaiah 32:10).

What concerns me is that careless Christians who have little ability to hear from God through the scriptures have been brainwashed into thinking their Rapture will soon take them away from the darkness that is now coming on the earth because we have simply allowed it to come unresisted (II Chronicles 7:14, 6:32-33). By this belief, coupled with the ignorant notion that the last seven years of Gentile world history begins now, these Christians have stopped participating in reality through earnestly influencing Government positions, local politics, and other seats of social order, or even their own neighbors as if their wickednesses will not affect them. This has left these roles to the Godless (not godless) and as America falls by our neglect, the resulting growth of discomfort is tolerated in expectation of soon being rescued before it gets really ugly. I have bad news; We are only now ending the American pause in the Gentile Age clock of the eight GDE kings, Typed to us in the three-phase Jewish Age clock of Daniel 9:25,26,27 which was itself paused in the middle of v.26 for this 2000+ years Gentile Age of Satan’s rule before v.27 finishes it within 7 years.
Christians universally will not likely escape the wrath of Satan through Islam and its Whore, nor later through his Caliphate Beast king, as has been made clear by the historical pattern of abuse through the previous seven GDEs without rescue. The Rapture only protects us from the wrath of God himself when at the end of Satan’s rule he brings his wrath upon Satan’s kingdom (*2). We are just now about to experience the results of our own neglect of our own Gentile Age “Promised Land,” just as did the Jews who possessed and lost their Promised Land for the same reasons while expecting their messiah to rescue them. Historically and scripturally the results are far less than tolerable, let alone desirable (Matthew 24:21-22). But here is the good part; this period will strip away every luxury that turns your focus away from God so that you will be free to turn your hope and attention to him in earnest;

“If you couldn’t serve me with all the distractions of comforts let's try it without them.”
Isn’t that what God told the Hebrews just before they actually entered the Promised Land? (Deuteronomy 28-31):

“If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful name, THE LORD THY GOD; then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful (6381: distinguished, marvelous, great), and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.” Deuteronomy 28:58-59.

“Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is not among us?” Deuteronomy 31:17.

This is not the warm-and-fuzzy message that Christians want to hear today, we only want to hear how our enemies get the harsh end of the stick and how we get nothing but “unconditional love”. That might indeed be your god, but don’t for a second think that is the God of scripture. Warm-and-fuzzy bedroom talk is for lovers not adulteresses! (Revelation 3:16).
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The Beast’s Whore:
Strangely enough the 8th Beast king is not the sole power in this last GDE as End Time scholars seem to proclaim. While everyone is looking for the Antichrist to appear any day, there is another power that rises first, and being a “Mystery,” it’s what we need to be looking into today as the GDE without a king works symbiotically with the Whore for an undisclosed period of time (Revelation 17:7). With this in mind I offer the following current-events example of this embryonic Whore already in pre-action development:

I just watched the NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS SUMMIT of April 23, 2012 that I pre-recorded off C-SPAN. The moderator’s discussion with Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter expressed in current perspective the growing vilification of the Christian view that I described in the last post.
There is much that was said that would take a lengthy explanation to reveal the error of foundational concepts such as the praiseworthiness of the Arab Spring’s success in Egypt’s recent overthrow, but one portion of the conversation stands out as obvious in the light of the last post and so I address that specifically:

President Carter:
“…I think in the future we are going to see not only the children in China and Japan and South Korea maybe even including North Korea, the Hamas and also Fattah and the Palestinian community, and they and Israelis, and Israelis and Egyptians, those children are going to be able to talk to each other and communicate with one another because of almost instant translation as you know. So I think what has happened within Egypt say, or Tunisia, is very likely to happen in the future among children of different nations. And once they see they have something in common; that is the benefits of peace, and the benefits of prosperity and the benefits of education and the benefits of environmental equality, I think that will be a very major contribution to them wanting to get along better with each other instead of forming a commitment to war on the drop of a hat.”

These four NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS’ arguments in attempting to bring world peace are not specifically evil and I have no desire to stand against their honorable but misguided efforts; we do in fact need world peace and they are trying earnestly to make that happen in these difficult times. “World Peace” is the obvious desire and focus of this Summit and of course peace is not a thing to keep at bay; clearly “we all” want peace, but the error is to assume that actually everyone wants the same peace and so by communication and dialogue we can achieve it.
But how does a teenage girl walking home alone in the park at night make peace with a rapist who suddenly holds a knife to her throat? If she is a good communicator can she expect to talk him out of his goal of finding his kind of peace through abusing her? And is she out of line to persistently and passionately protest that she cannot find peace through being raped? Is the rapist of the mindframe to want to talk about it? Is he prepared to believe he can find the peace he is looking for by a conversation with this girl, or does his violent lust stop his ears from hearing? Perhaps instead of being raped she should propose marriage to make it honorable, and thereby find peace in the event?

Former Polish President Lech Walesa clearly recognized the problem that not all governments and people are yet able to agree on the goals, and this is a monkey-wrench in the peace works. But when asked if a strong leader is needed to forward a movement of change, Jimmy Carter says “No” and sites Arab Spring in Libya, Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen and Syria as examples of young “voices combined to make a powerful weapon that can change a government and bring about revolution” without a singular leadership. I contend the argument must be made regarding the success of what kind of change?
If overthrow of what “is” is the goal without concern for “what comes after” then yes these examples were successful, but what is the end result of each of these overthrows, and what controlling spirit led them? By the action of overthrowing in discontent, are these people then automanticaly qualified to create a better government by osmosis? Is the mindframe that thinks only “destruction” the same mind that can then create peace? Islamic domination and control with a strong trend toward Sharia-Law-kind-of-oppression seems to be the trending direction of these present examples. Is this the success we are looking for in bringing about world peace? It seems evident that Jimmy Carter thinks “Yes”. I respectfully and earnestly disagree, as Islam by Quranic mandate is regularly murdering Christians for their refusal to abandon their faith in the Son of God. From the Creator’s perspective this is not the kind of peace the world should be looking for (Luke 1:76-79, Matthew 5:44, I Peter 3:10-11, James 3:17, etc.).

The merits of Mr. Carter’s argument hinges on the goal of a world democracy… which may be a wonderful aim if God does not actually exist. But if there really is a Creator to whom the world is accountable, then the values of democracy (mob rule) is irrelevant in the argument. And if the identity of that Creator is hotly contested by two opposing worldviews, then the entire peace process proposed by Mr. Carter fails at its roots… unless the peanut farmer knows a secret of how to kill the Eternal Omnipotent.
Now since these basically godless men of peace are trying to bring about Peace from godless world democratic views… between two fundamentally established faiths of two opposing Gods, there seems to be an extremely large blind spot in their effort.

Former President of South Africa F.W. de Klerk seems to understand best the basics when he agreed with Jody (?), who said; “Choose your cause and align with an organization.” He ends his statement with “I don’t think we should protest for the sake of protest”.
This argument recognizes that there are many various causes which cannot easily agree and therefore need to be championed by organized collections of like-minded people to further its cause, presumably until it prevails by swayed public opinion (mob rule). This is at least focused intelligence and not mindless masses being driven by undefined forces or goals to undetermined ends such as the uprisings we see today.

“Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters! The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind” Isaiah 17:12-13.

The entire foundation of the argument changes when we recognize the authority of a real Creator or if we don’t.

Jimmy Carter:
“Yes I believe that faith and religion do have a positive place to exert itself in the future, as long as we look at the overwhelming compatibilities among the great religions…when you look at Christianity, whether its Protestantism or Catholicism, if you look at Judaism if you look at Islam if you look at Buddhism if you look at other religions, then you find that their basic principles are all exactly the same. None of those I mentioned including Hinduism fail to promote peace.”

Really?

“Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me” John 14:6.

“Think not that I come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword” Matthew 10:34

Who said that!?
Oh, just Yeshua Christ the author of Christianity and the Prince of Peace.
Yah, but maybe he really didn’t mean it the way it sounds.
Sure.

“For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. A man’s foes shall be they of his own household. He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me. He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it” Matthew 10:35-39.

Clearly generic World Peace is not one of Jesus Christ’s primary goals right now.

“Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever” Deuteronomy 23:6.

You see, Jesus was more concerned that we live in obedience to him than the un-peaceful reaction we get from other because of it.

"Believers! Wage war against such infidels, as are your neighbors, and let them find you rigorous" Qur'an 9:124.

" Make war upon such of those to whom the scriptures have been given as believe not in Allah and have forbidden His Apostle, and profess not the professor of truth, until they pay tribute out of hand, and they be humbled" Qur'an 9:29

But since Godless “Peace” is Mr. Carter’s singular goal he can make such wildly irresponsible claims that are expected to generically arrive at his desired end. But his complete ignorance of the foundational roots of these various religions and faiths entirely disqualifies him from a reasonable statement, yet because of his title of NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNER he is revered as one who knows because his lips were moving.
I would ask Mr. Carter; “How do you get, say, Ebola and People to live in harmony together?” By focusing only on the compatible elements and denying the incompatible Mr. Carter assumes that there should be no problem, as both “like” people.
The problem is that one likes to be people while the other likes to eat people. This is not a compatible, or even a small, complexity. The natures of Predator and Prey is the primary factor to be considered in the quest for mutual peace but this is never brought up in their discussions because we don't want to rile the predator.

The moderator asks him next: “Then is it ignorance that makes people fear the religions that they are not familiar with or that they associate for example with terror?”

Mr. Carter: “I don’t think its ignorance, but it’s a matter of people trying to be superior to other human beings. And that creates extremism. It creates fundamentalism. And fundamentalists in any religion, including Christian religion, is that ‘I believe that I have a peculiar or special relationship with God; that I speak basically on behalf of God in my personal belief, anyone who disagrees with me not only disagrees with me but disagrees with God who’s my partner.’ And then that disagreement can deteriorate into feeling that other person is inferior to you, and that can go further into saying that other person is sub-human and therefore that person’s life is not significant. And I can go to war and take advantage of that other person and take that other person’s life because they are inferior in my opinion and also inferior in the eyes of God. So I think extremism or fundamentalism when carried to that point can be a very negative factor in religion, so, but that’s a minor differences among different religions and I think if we look at the overall complex of religions; peace, justice, humility, service, forgiveness, compassion, love, (even of people who disagree with you, are not lovable or who don’t love you back), that’s the essence of religion. And so the common goal of religion is the same, and can be the same goals, by the way of NOBEL PRIZE winners try to strive for, and that individual human beings should adopt.”

Again, this is wonderful sentiment if there is actually no real God to whom our intentions or actions are accountable. Religion can then simply be a means to share a generic good feeling among everyone, without the need to adhere to specifics from a real God, who’s views might tend to run against a NOBEL PRIZE WINNER’S feelings that his views are better than mine.
The problem is even greatly compounded when there are two very real entities claiming to be God. This, Mr. Carter is not actually ready to accept, yet he is more than ready to think his views are superior to those who actually believe in a God and are accountable to him (whether Jehovah or Allah). His argument falls flat for being what he condemns religious extremists for being; i.e. feeling intellectually superior. For Mr. Carter, religion is fine so long as it doesn’t actually have a God, and that is apparently his religious opinion of superior thought.

IF there really is a very real God and Creator, then Mr. Carter stands against Him in his human minded democratic approach to Godless peace. But from such a God’s perspective, the collective views and values of the entire planet united, simply don’t matter when it comes to deciding what is the right thing to do; any view contrary to the Creator’s is a wrong view. The truth of this is made evident by the inability of any of the present Nobel Prize Winners to answer the next question from the moderator:

“How do you get people to care about injustices in the world?”

Though not a single PEACE PRIZE WINNER in the conference could even attempt to answer it, our founders knew the answer to this question and had much to say on the subject:

“It is religion and morality alone which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand. The only foundation of a free constitution is pure virtue.” - John Adams “The works of John Adams, Second President of the United States” Vol. IX, p. 401

“We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion…. Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” - John Adams, Same book p.229

“The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. If 'Thou shalt not covet,' and 'Thou shalt not steal,' were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society, before it can be civilized or made free.” - John Adams, “The works of John Adams, Second President of the United States”, Vol. VI, p. 9.

“There are three points of doctrine the belief of which forms the foundation of all morality. The first is the existence of God; the second is the immortality of the human soul; and the third is a future state of rewards and punishments. Suppose it possible for a man to disbelieve either of these three articles of faith and that man will have no conscience, he will have no other law than that of the tiger or the shark. The laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise, virtuous, or happy.” - John Adams, “Letters of John Quincy Adams to His Son on the Bible and Its Teachings” pp. 22-23.

“We profess to be republicans, and yet we neglect the only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government, that is, the universal education of our youth in the principles of Christianity by means of the Bible. For this Divine Book, above all others, favors that equality among mankind, that respect for just laws, and those sober and frugal virtues, which constitute the soul of republicanism.” - Benjamin Rush, “Essays, Literary, Moral and Philosophical” pp. 93-94.

“The Gospel of Jesus Christ prescribes the wisest rule for just conduct in every situation of life. Happy they who are enabled to obey them in all situations!” - Benjamin Rush, Essays, p. 112, “A Defense of the Use of the Bible as a School Book" Addressed to the Rev. Jeremy Belknap, of Boston.

“By renouncing the Bible, philosophers swing from their moorings upon all moral subjects…. It is the only correct map of the human heart that ever has been published.” - Benjamin Rush, “Letters”, Vol. II, p. 936 (to John Adams on January 23, 1807).

Dr. Rush was not a simple religious thinker as his comments on the French Revolution apply directly to events today such as we see in the current upheaval in nations by the mindless revolt of the masses:

“[I}t was Reason in the form of a Goddess that produced all the crimes and calamities of the French Revolution, and… it was by a book entitled The Age of Reason that Tom Paine demoralized half the Christian world….Men are rational only, not reasonable creatures.” - Benjamin Rush, “Letters”, Vol. II, p. 978, (to John Adams on September 16, 1808.

Dr. Rush was not implying that the wicked French Government should not be pulled down but that the horrors that resulted in the process were by the deluded reasoning that went about it. Such are the efforts of today’s Global Community just beginning to fill the streets with the blood of the innocent that appear to stand in the way of their democratic endeavors for "change."

I could go on and on with such examples of our founder’s writings on the subject but what comes plainly clear is that America’s forefathers firmly believed that injustices in the world were only properly evaluated from the Creator’s perspective and that to create a concern in the hearts of society regarding those injustices, Christianity of the Bible must be embraced. This is why Dr. Rush suggested:

“Let every family in the United States be furnished at the public expense…with a copy of an American (English language) edition of the Bible.” - Benjamin Rush, “Essays”, p. 184, “A Plan for a Peace-Office in the United States.”

So how is it that these men in this Peace Conference, who do not actually know the God of Peace personally, and have rejected his most applicable Word on the subject, have been awarded the world’s prestige as worthy to provide the wisdom to finding peace?
I propose that the Goddess Dr. Rush speaks of is the Great Whore of Mystery Babylon rising again today as America has now cast off the God of Peace without questioning what will replace him. The spirit of the Beast and this Whore is what we have voted into the highest office of this once great nation, and the many positions under it. Being that we the citizens put them there, how then can we seriously ask God to help us in the result?

“When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn” Proverbs 29:2.

But if you think resolving these kinds of problems is confusing today, we haven’t yet even arrived at confusing!

“If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, and the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them; Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul” Deuteronomy 13:1-3.

Do you hear this? There will come among us men of renown who bring proof that their recommendations are valid by dreams and signs and wonders which will all come true. How can you argue with such supernatural proofs? There is only one argument; “I will serve no one but Jehovah God of the scriptures.” (Deuteronomy 13:4) declared in a slightly different way by Joshua when reasoning with his people:

“And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the (Noah’s) flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell (because God destroyed them): but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD” Joshua 24:15.

But note now; before the confusion of successful prophets come, that God declares these tests come by his own bidding to prove if we really love God WITH ALL OUR HEART AND SOUL. The confusion has not yet come but already the evidence is strong that this is not the way the average Christian loves God; we seem more than willing to follow men like Jimmy Carter even without such signs and wonders or dreams that come to pass. These “Christians” will utterly fail this test and be beguiled by the signs and wonders and dreams; they will follow the god’s recommended by these men because the results look promising and they do not actually know the Creator, though they are confident that they do.
The science of miracles only proves the controlling entity is powerful; it does not prove it is the right entity to follow. If self-preservation of the Germans was the goal, then Hitler was the right choice at the time, but that did not make him right nor his reign enduring. Now looking back we see that everyone must die eventually and all that is left is an ugly memory of foolish people who chose poorly and made many millions suffer horribly. Long after the sum of his life is weighted, the name Hitler is synonymous with Evil.
Do you yet recognize the Beast, and the Whore who uses him?
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(*1) Post 199 The 7th King (http://when-did-reason-die.blogspot.com/2011 /06/7th-king.html).

(*2) I realize this view stands fully in the face of every Christian expositor I know of. To suggest boldly that the Rapture will not happen “soon” is perceived as near blasphemy. It is true that scripture provides no factor yet to be fulfilled before the rapture of the Church and so this fact makes the event possible at any moment, and by all means I am quite eager to hear that shout and will not refuse to go whenever it comes, but the warning of the ten virgins (Matthew 25:1-13) very strongly indicates a great need for lengthy endurance that half those waiting will not be prepared for. It is certainly not with pleasure or glee that I make such a proposal, but the American Church is not ready to patiently endure what is about to fall upon it because of our indifference to evil. Think of the great endurance that Jesus experienced as he was tortured before being crucified and at the very last he felt overwhelmingly that God had forsaken him (Matthew 27:46). But was he forsaken? In the above verses of God’s warning to the Hebrews, did he actually forsake his people through all that they then suffered, even in the most recent thousands of years with no help? NO!

"Let your conversation (mode or style) be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me" Hebrews 13:5-6.

That verse does not apply to the disobedient! Are you disobedient? Be very afraid!

"We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. For we which live are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh."II Corinthians 4:8-11.

The persecution experienced appears unchanged, but in confidence of our great relationship with the Loving God, we discover that in the midst of it we are not forsaken! The disobedient knows no such security (Hebrews 10:26-27).
By God’s great grace America has been the light to the world for several hundred years, Showing them hope and peace and freedom found in Christ Jesus. But now the light in this nation has grown dark and evil and we are a trouble to the world not a blessing, we provide confusion and blasphemy of the name we bore. Sure there are still faithful believers in this land and they will remain faithful no matter what comes, but as a nation, because believers have become quite and un-influential, the nation has cast off her glorious clothes of righteousness, now chasing after strange gods and the pleasures of spiritual and physical adultery. Lot was not removed from Sodom in all its wickedness until God was about to bring judgment. Likewise the rapture is not so Christians can escape hard times; it is to keep God’s true people from experiencing God’s final judgment on sin. Frankly I see far more history in scripture before that final judgment.
Yes, I know Israel became a nation in 1948, and I know the prophecies that center around such a return; some fulfilled but some not. This is not THAT return since it did not fulfill the details promised (Jeremiah 31:31-34, Isaiah 51:11, etc.). Like the three false starts of the keystone Daniel 9:25 prophecy, this return is close, but we need to be looking for a more accurate fulfillment.
In the meantime, knowing that we will reap the harvest of our own neglect might spur us into serious action to diligently preserve whatever shreds of Christ we can find remaining in our homes and societies and thereby pray as the pagan Ninevites did for mercy. I don’t just tremble for my country anymore; I fear with great sorrow what will become of her because the people will not wake up.

I would like to end this post on a note of hope for those earnestly trying to restructure their lives to align with the Creator. I encourage you to buy and watch the DVD "Courageous" produced by Stephen Kendrick. It is a superb family film showing how we can begin to heal our families in a real way, and by so doing, educate our children to rightly care about real Social Justice and not the wicked illusion using that name.
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