Studying God's Word in these last days sure is exciting?

Here we are, present when many Biblical prophecies are coming to pass!

Just think!

The prophets like Ezekiel and Daniel and all the disciples of Christ
wanted to know what it would be like in our day,
in the final generation,
the generation of the fig tree which was planted in 1948,
the first born of whom are entering into their 50's.

Do you realize how blessed we are that our Father saved you and me to be born now,
at the end of the 6th day, the 6,000 years of flesh man,
to witness the birth of a new age?

Do you realize how exciting things will be shortly?

Why? We get to face the Dragon and his locust army!
(I said exciting, not easy!)

The Book of Revelation is actually very easy to comprehend?
Once we take the time to understand the symbolism
that the Holy Spirit uses to paint vivid pictures for us,
the meaning becomes self evident.

Often it just requires the application of common sense more so than "doctoral like" scholarship.

Now let's study of the revelation of the "Acts of the Dragon" in Rev. 13:5.
Rev. 13:5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies;
and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.
Rev. 13:6 And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God,
to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.
Many people when they read these last two verses imagine that the dragon, Satan, the antichrist,
is going to say evil things against God.

But he's not going to be speaking "bad things" about God.
He's going to be speaking AS GOD,
i.e. everything that comes out of his mouth is blasphemous
because he is claiming that HE IS GOD.

That's the blaspheme!
Remember what Paul told us would happen BEFORE our gathering back to Christ?
2 Thes. 2:3 Let no man deceive you by any means:
for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first,
and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
The "falling away" is the great apostasy which
we will read of in a few verses in Rev. 13:8
whereby the whole world worships the dragon,
the son of perdition,
the son who will perish, i.e. Satan,
because of the next verse in 2 Thessalonians.
2 Thes. 2:4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God,
or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God,
shewing himself that he is God.
There is your blaspheme of Rev. 13:6!

Blaspheme of God's "name and His tabernacle and all that is in heaven".

Satan sits in the temple of God claiming to be the Messiah
and all those Christians who didn't have enough oil in their lamps,
i.e. were Biblically illiterate and were not sealed with the knowledge of His Word,
are bowing to the dragon, worshipping Satan, believing he is Jesus!

The dragon is really good at deception.
Just wait a few verses and we'll see him perform "miracles" to dazzle the troops!
Rev. 13:8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him,
whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain
from the foundation of the world.
There it is, the Great Apostasy!

If you don't know ahead of time that there are two Christs,
if you don't understand 2 Thes. 2 and the 7 Seals real, real good,
then you will worship Satan as Jesus.

You see, from Ezekiel 28 we know how beautiful and marvelous
and wonderful and charismatic this guy really is!

And from Daniel we know he enters in peacefully and prosperously
with a booming economy,
meaning big bucks for everyone ("It's the economy, stupid!")!

And from the previous chapter in Revelation, chapter 12,
we know that he drew a third of God's children away from God in the first earth age!

Folks, he's really, really good at swooning people!
They just love him to death (both figuratively and literally)!

And do you want to know something that's a mystery to most,
yet it is real simple?

Remember in chapter 12 we saw the woman, clothed with the sun,
with her 12 stars standing there facing the dragon and his own?

She was standing there "ready to go" in the first earth age,
before the foundation of this earth age!

It is those who stood against the dragon in that first earth age,
before the foundation of the world,
who have their names written in the Lamb's Book of Life.

Is yours?
[9] If any man have an ear, let him hear.

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