Rev. #44~13:1-6 The Unholy Trinity Series

Rev. #44~13:1-6 THE UNHOLY TRINITY 2-27-19

Today we’re in chapter 13: and in this chapter we have the unholy satanic trinity, the devil, the antichrist and the false prophet.

Satan tries to imitate the thing of God, the antichrist tries to imitate the Christ, the false prophet tries to imitate the things of the HOLY SPIRIT.

The devil has all kinds of perversions of the True Word of God, the K.J. Bible for the English-speaking people.

Let me say that the only way we can detect something that is not real is to know what is, let us learn all we can about the things of the True and Living God, then we can expose what’s not true.

The events taking place in the 2nd half of the tribulation are a result of what takes place in the atmospheric heaven just above us at or about the Midpoint of the 7-year period.

Satan and his angel’s war and lose with Michael and his angels and are cast down to the ground, they can no longer enter the heavens,

Satan’s final method of assault on the woman,** {Israel} and her offspring (the saved) are revealed to us in the 13th chapter.

Satan on Earth will incarnate the leader of a “Revived Roman Empire”; this leader will have died, and brought back to life, we pointed out a while back why we believe he will be Judas Iscariot, as Judas went to his own place when he hang himself, in Acts 1:

His resurrected body indwelt by Satan, will assume control of the kingdom of the Beast. We read about Satan portrayed as a 7-headed dragon in chapter 12, cast out of Heaven, is now the source of power and authority of the 7-headed beast arising from the sea.

This future kingdom will focus on the glorification and exaltation of this “Satan-Man” and the persecution and destruction of those who refuse to accept his deity.

This period will last for 42 months or 3.5 years, and will end with the return of Jesus Christ when surviving Israel, finally recognizes Him as Messiah and calls out in prayer and supplication for his return. Zechariah 12:9-10

9And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem. 10And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, ---

Going before the beast, the antichrist, will be a false prophet who will perform great signs and wonders in the name of this world leader. This false prophet will instruct the world to worship the beast.

This false prophet will direct the earth dwellers to erect an image of the beast, he will demand that the earth dwellers worship the antichrist and also his image, all that refuse to worship the Beast or his image will be killed.

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Verses 1-10 tell us about the Beast “out of the sea.” This Beast represents “the kingdom as well as civil and military power; we believe the beast in verse 1 is telling about the revived Roman Empire and then verses 2-10 about the Antichrist who will head up this Empire.

Verses 1 and 2 look more at the kingdom, the empire;

Verse 3 includes both the king and kingdom, and verses 4 and the following verses refer more to the individual

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Verses 11-18 tell us about the 2nd beast, as he comes up from “out of the earth.” We believe this 2nd beast is the False Prophet. He will head up the one world religion once the True Church has left; he will direct all people to worship the 1st beast, the Antichrist.

Both Beasts are instruments of the Dragon, which is the Devil. They’re called “beast” because their so evil and cruel.

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vs.1-And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.

Ø Listen to what is included in verse 1-----

--- the sand of the sea-- Sand of the sea” is a phrase associated with the growth and population of the Earth.

--a beast—this “beast” here in verse 1 is telling about the Empire its self.

The “seven heads” are seven historic Gentile kingdoms, the “heads” pointing to 7 kings or rulers.

And 6 of the historic world empires were;

Ø 1-Egypt: 2-Assyria: 3-Babylon (4) Medo-Persia: (5) Greece: (6) Rome: and the 7th will be “the revived Roman Empire”

The “ten horns” figuratively speaking are ten future kings who will rule over ten nations, which will make up the Revived Roman Empire.