Who is the Antichrist? | Amazing Facts
Who is the Antichrist?
Daniel 7:8, 21-25
8 I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.
21 I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them;
22 Until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the most High; and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.
25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
Who is this beast? Let's look at the identifying factors in this passage. Who do you think these identifying factors refer to?
A. The "little horn" or kingdom "came up among them"the 10 horns which were the kingdoms of Western Europe (Daniel 7:8). So it would be a little kingdom somewhere in Western Europe.
B. It would have a man at its head who could speak for it (Daniel 7:8).
C. It would pluck up or uproot three kingdoms (Daniel 7:8).
D. It would be "diverse" or different from the other 10 kingdoms (Daniel 7:24).
E. It would make war with and "wear out" or persecute the saints (Daniel 7:21, 25).
F. It would emerge from the pagan Roman empirethe fourth world kingdom (Daniel 7:7, 8).
G. God's people (the saints) would "be given into his hand" for "a time and times and the dividing of time" (Daniel 7:25).
H. It would "speak great words against" or blaspheme God (Daniel 7:25). In Revelation 13:5, the Bible says the same power speaks "great things and blasphemies."
I. It would "think to change times and laws." Daniel 7:25.
http://www.amazingfacts.org/media-library/study-guide/e/4992/t/Who-is-the-Antichrist.aspx
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Every man is free to choose what power he will have to rule over him. None have fallen so low, none are so vile, but that they can find deliverance in Christ. The demoniac, in place of prayer, could utter only the words of Satan; yet the heart’s unspoken appeal was heard. No cry from a soul in need, though it fail of utterance in words, will be unheeded. Those who will consent to enter into covenant relation with the God of heaven are not left to the power of Satan or to the infirmity of their own nature. They are invited by the Saviour, “Let him take hold of My strength, that he may make peace with Me; and he shall make peace with Me.” Isaiah 27:5. The spirits of darkness will battle for the soul once under their dominion, but angels of God will contend for that soul with prevailing power. The Lord says, “Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive delivered? ... Thus saith the Lord, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children.” Isaiah 49:24, 25. - DA 258.6
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The Millenium of Revelation - A short summary
The millennium of Revelation does not refer to an earthly kingdom in any way. In fact, the Bible says that the earth will be destitute, and without life, save for the originator of sin and his angels. The righteous will be in Heaven (the New Jerusalem) with Jesus, judging with Jesus both the wicked dead and the devil and his angels.
Leviticus 16:21-22 --> 21 And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness: 22 And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited: and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness.
Jeremiah 4:23-27 --> 23 I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light. 24 I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly. 25 I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled. 26 I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the Lord, and by his fierce anger. 27 For thus hath the Lord said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end.
1 Corinthians 6:3 --> Know ye not that we shall judge angels?
Revelation 20:1-4 --> And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. 2 And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, 3 And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season. 4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
Resources from the Amazing Facts website, www.bibleprophecytruth.com
The Millenium of Revelation
http://www.bibleprophecytruth.com/topics/millennium-1000-years.aspx
1,000 Years of Peace
http://www.bibleprophecytruth.com/prophecy-resources/bible-study-guides/bible-study-guide-list/study-guide-viewer.aspx?IID=2-12&LNG=en&TL=1000-Years-of-Peace
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Porn Again Christian by Mark Driscoll - Free ebook download
What is this?
This blog post is borrowed from Mars Hill Church from their ministry The Resurgence.This booklet was originally published at Mars Hill Church and is now being offered as a freely distributable online eBook and downloadable as a PDF which we encourage you to distribute.
Introduction
Chapter 1
A Tall Glass of Toilet Water
Chapter 2
The Fear of the Lord
Chapter 3
A Theology of Pornographic Lust
Chapter 4
A Practical Theology of Pornographic Lust
Chapter 5
Masturbation
Practical and Theological Reasons to Not Masturbate
Practical and Theological Reasons to Masturbate
Chapter 6
Manly Men
Chapter 7
Answers to Common Questions
Chapter 8
Pornography and the Slippery Slope
of Ted Bundy
Appendix:
A Final Word to Military Men and Other Men Who Like Prostitutes
Sex Slavery
How Are Women Procured?
“Breaking” the Women
Organized Crime and Corruption
U.S. Military and Prostitution
Most Prostitution is Slavery
Conclusion
Remember the Sabbath - Exodus 20:8-11 (Repost)
Exodus 20:8-11 KJV
8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
11 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
11 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
The
Sabbath has been an issue that's been debated for most of Christian
history. The majority of Christianity keeps Sunday as Sabbath. But where
did this observance of Sunday come from? Many claim that because Jesus
was resurrected on the first day of the week, that it is the reason for
Sunday observance. Many claim other reasons, often distorting passages
from the Bible for their observance of Sunday.Some claim that they keep the spirit of the law but not the letter. They claim that saying we should keep sundown Friday to sundown Saturday as the Sabbath is legalism. But how can you keep the spirit of the law without the letter, when the letter is the very foundation for the spirit of the law? It's like saying you shouldn't look with your eyes upon another lustfully (thereby committing adultery in your heart) but it's OK to physically sleep with them. Or that you shouldn't hate someone (thereby committing murder in your heart) but it's OK to shoot them in the head.
Some claim that Sunday is the Lord's day. But what does the Bible say about when the Lord's Day is? Matthew 12:8, KJV, says this, "For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day." Jesus didn't say Sunday. He said the Sabbath day. The word for "sabbath" here is σάββατον, transliterated sabbaton. The definition for this word is as follows from Blue Letter Bible:
1) the seventh day of each week which was a sacred festival on which the Israelites were required to abstain from all work
a) the institution of the sabbath, the law for keeping holy every seventh day of the week
b) a single sabbath, sabbath day
Some will claim, then, that this definition makes it
clear that the Sabbath was only for the Jews. But this is not true. In
writing to the Gentiles of Galatia, Paul wrote in Galatians 3:29, KJV, "And
if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to
the promise." Again, Paul here was writing to the Gentiles. Sure, there
may have been some Jews there. But this was not a Jewish city in the
least. The apostle makes it clearer than crystal that if you belong to
Jesus, then you are Abraham's seed. In other words, you are a part of
Israel, Hebrew blood or not.
In addition to this, Sabbath was instituted at Creation. Genesis 2:2-3, KJV, reads, "And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made." (Emphasis mine).
In addition to this, Sabbath was instituted at Creation. Genesis 2:2-3, KJV, reads, "And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made." (Emphasis mine).
Some claim that the Ten Commandments have been changed. To borrow a quote from Amazing Facts, in their article, The Lost Day of History, "Jesus says: "And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail." Luke 16:17. God says: "My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips." Psalms 89:34. Notice, the Ten Commandments came from His lips. Exodus 20:1 says, "And God spake all these words, saying ... [the Ten Commandments follow in verses 2-17]."
A yod is the smallest letter of the Hebrew alphabet. The tittle is the smallest part of this smallest letter. So Jesus was saying not even the smallest part of the smallest letter will ever pass from His law.
However, Sunday observance never was encouraged by Jesus. So who started it? Ministry Magazine, in their article, Pagan Sunday Observance, says this: "The civil law issued by Constantine on March 7, A.D. 321, was one of a series of steps by which men were led to celebrate Sunday as a day of rest after the manner in which the Sabbath was kept by the people of God."
From the author, Ellen G. White:
The royal mandate not proving a sufficient substitute for divine
authority, Eusebius, a bishop who sought the favor of princes, and who was the
special friend and flatterer of Constantine, advanced
the claim that Christ had transferred the Sabbath to Sunday. Not a single
testimony of the Scriptures was produced in proof of the new doctrine. Eusebius
himself unwittingly acknowledges its falsity, and points to the real authors of
the change. “All things,” he says, “whatsoever that it was duty to do on the
Sabbath, these we have transferred to the Lord’s
day.” But the Sunday argument, groundless as it was, served to embolden men in
trampling upon the Sabbath of the Lord. All who desired to be honored by the
world accepted the popular festival. {The Great Controversy,
1888 edition, 574.2}
“Constantine, while still a heathen,
issued a decree enjoining the general observance of Sunday as a public festival
throughout the Roman Empire. After his conversion he remained a stanch advocate
of Sunday, and his pagan edict was then enforced by him in the interests of his
new faith. But the honor shown this day was not as yet sufficient to prevent
Christians from regarding the true Sabbath as the holy of the Lord. Another
step must be taken; the false sabbath must be exalted to an equality with the
true. A few years after the issue of Constantine’s decree, the Bishop of Rome
conferred on the Sunday the title of Lord’s day. Thus the people were gradually
led to regard it as possessing a degree of sacredness. Still the original
Sabbath was kept. {The Story of Redemption 329}
“The archdeceiver had not completed
his work. He was resolved to gather the Christian world under his banner, and
to exercise his power through his vicegerent, the proud pontiff who claimed to
be the representative of Christ. Through half-converted pagans, ambitious
prelates, and world-loving churchmen he accomplished his purpose. Vast councils
were held, from time to time, in which the dignitaries of the church were
convened from all the world. In nearly every council the Sabbath which God had
instituted was pressed down a little lower, while the Sunday was
correspondingly exalted. Thus the pagan festival came finally to be honored as
a divine institution, while the Bible Sabbath was pronounced a relic of
Judaism, and its observers were declared to be accursed. {The Story of
Redemption 329}
God says several times in His Holy Bible that He never changes. Malachi 3:6, KJV, says, "For I am the Lord, I change not..." Speaking of God in Psalm 102:26-27, KJV, "They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed: But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end." Even though Heaven and Earth pass away, God's law will not. Isn't it safe to say that the laws a person makes describe who they are?
Hebrews 1:12, KJV, says, "And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail." Hebrews 13:8, KJV, says, "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever." James 1:17, KJV, says, "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning."
Jesus said that nothing will ever pass from the law. And speaking of Jesus, He Himself kept the Sabbath. Luke 4:16, KJV, reads, "And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read." (Emphasis mine).
The same is true of the apostle Paul. Acts 17:2, KJV, reads, "And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures," (Emphasis mine)
The seventh day Sabbath will also be kept in Heaven and the New Earth. Isaiah 66:22-23 KJV says, "For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the Lord, so shall your seed and your name remain. And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the Lord."
If you know about the seventh day Sabbath, why not keep it? Why cling to tradition? Why cling to a foundation-less belief in Sunday? I don't mean to be rude. I just want to tell the truth. John 14:15, KJV, "If ye love me, keep my commandments." Jesus didn't specify some and not others. If I love Jesus, I am to keep all of His commandments. I can't pick and choose.
So we can see that the seventh day Sabbath is still binding. I encourage you to read the articles mentioned here in this blog. I will post them again here at the bottom as well as a video from Amazing Facts showing a completely Biblical case for the seventh day Sabbath.
The Lost Day of History
Pagan Sunday Observance
Saturday, January 5, 2013
Friday, January 4, 2013
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
For the Hour of His Judgment is Come - Revelation 14:7
This is a very important part of the Three Angels Messages. It is vital
to understand this part of the Holy Bible. Pastor Stephen Bohr does a
fantastic job at explaining this portion the Three Angels Messages, of
Revelation 14:7.
I would also recommend starting at the beginning of this sermon series by Pastor Bohr.
Here are the prior posts in this blog series:
2. Revelation 14:7 - Fear God
3. Revelation 14:7 - Give Glory to God
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