Welcome to our 81st lesson in the book of Revelation. I've entitled it, Antichrist the Monster. And we'll be looking at Revelations 13, verses three through five. Let's read them. One of its heads seemed to have a mortal wound, but its mortal wound was healed, and the whole earth marveled as they followed the beast. And they worshipped the dragon, for he had given his authority to the beast. And they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like the beast, and who can fight against it? And the beast was given a mouth, uttering blasphemous words, and it was allowed to exercise authority for forty-two months. Now the underlying concept I want you to keep in your mind as we go through this lesson, the next lesson. In fact, every time you think that Satan is involved, this concept should pop into your mind, and it's drawn directly from pop culture. It's the promised delusional lie of nationalism, socialism, that appeals to people to plunder everyone else. It's rather like the Borg Queen from Star Trek who told Captain Picard, let the hive mind assimilate you and negate your personality. And in return, you, of course, you won't exist anymore because you've been assimilated and lost your personality. You will get to assimilate and negate everyone else's individuality. This is the delusion, that you will be able to be assimilated and yet retain self, retain escape from judgment, retain that relationship with God that you never had, which you only imagined, but now your relationship is actually not to God who can save you, but to the accuser who has no interest in saving you, only himself at your expense. And everything that you do seeks to further his cause. You have no cause. You might be along for the ride for a moment, a short time. Even through a lifetime in this existence, which compares to nothing in the eternal existence, you might get it all. but you will get nothing but the second death. This is the lie. This is the delusion. Now we're going to explain those terms, nationalism, socialism, as we go along. Now notice when I read the text, it said beast, but I'm saying monster. Because the Antichrist is not like a veminous animal, a therion, but a monster, a bizarre amalgamation of demon and lost man complimenting each other. It's an unnatural imitation of the Christ spirit, new covenant salvation. whereas this usually appears as mental instability due to the unnatural bonding, some mesh seamlessly with the demonic spirit. Antichrist is not the first or the only one to have done this. Let that sink in a moment. This is an unnatural amalgamation of demon and man because they cooperate. When we turn to Matthew chapter eight, 28 through 32, that man who's been occupied and possessed by many, the legion of demons, he's anything but cooperative and calm and peaceful. He's wild, he's untamable, uncontrollable. And everyone lives in fear of being hurt by him, and he lives in fear because he's being tormented by the indwelling demons. Now, why were they there? Sin, you give in to sin, you embrace sin, you continue in sin, and you double down in sin, And somebody comes to warn you, hey, you shouldn't be doing that. You're hurting yourself. And you come back with a smart, stupid report of, I'll just do it more. Well, you do that. You just do it more. And you've only hurt yourself. You've only started to kill off, sear off that part of your conscience. And now you are coming under greater influence. This is this meshing seamlessly with that demonic spirit. There are some world leaders today, I would swear, have done that. Now do they say I'm making a bargain with the devil? I don't know. I don't know if I could say that. I don't know if anyone could say that. I know I cannot say for a fact this or that individual indeed for a fact has this or that demon or has a demon, can't say that. But I can say they are so complacent and not just complacent but energetic in their sin that when they talk they appear charismatic because they have no guilt. They don't care. And when I talk to everyday people at our level about sin, they don't care. Used to be, way back in the 20th century when I was saved, people were eaten up by guilt. You'd come along and say, I see you having a problem. What is it? Christ can help. Now you can't pay your bills. He can't get you the woman or man you want. He can't buy you a new car. That's not the help you need. The first help you need is salvation, peace. And from peace flows the calming river that will carry you along. and you will be able to obtain training, better yourself, but more importantly, you will be able to understand the wiles of the devil and how he tormented and deluded you. But these people, they have become so comfortable in their sin that there is no fear of God. They do not think about the punishment to come. It doesn't exist to them. They have been deluded. They are very comfortable. And in turn, many of them have been very rewarded because they are easily used. And the more you're used, the higher up in the organization you go. Now John highlights the fact that this man will suffer death and resurrection. He will have a mortal wound. That's one of the first things John tells us in this passage. This monster, he's human, and he will look very normal Human, but he is not. As we've talked about. But Satan can only copy. Sinners can only copy. In fact, all created beings only copy. Who are you copying? I'm being original. No, you're not. There's nothing new under the sun. That was pretty well done away with way back in Genesis early on. So there's nothing new under the sun. There's no temptation that comes upon you that is not common to everyone. You're not special in that respect. So we all copy. Are you going to copy your father, Satan, John 8, 44, as a liar and a murderer from the beginning, walking around in anger and violence as his prime trade, Ezekiel 28? Or are you going to imitate Christ and the fruits of the Spirit, love, joy, peace, long-suffering, endurance, all of these that are blessings. The world will be amazed at the monster who appears as light, for this proves the truth of his lie. See, he's been growing for three, three and a half years, 20 years, 30 years before all this starts. He's been growing in the background. Low profile. Coming up through the ranks. The helpful one. The insidious one. One who's always there to help. The one who has the solution. Coming up through the ranks. He may not even know who he is at that point. It doesn't matter. What matters is that the demons know. And what matters is he's compliant with that, first in the small things, then larger and larger and larger and larger. But he's not tricked into it. He trades it. for what he can get, what control over others he can get, what influence he can get, what control in political and leadership positions he can get. That's his stock and trade. And Antichrist and the demon point people to worship his god, Satan. Now, it will not be obvious. We're not gonna be having black masses at every Catholic church in the street corner. But he's gonna offer them a new path. And he's gonna have a helper who's going to assist him in doing that, because it is this helper, the false prophet, that assists in his resurrection. And we'll cover this more in future lessons, because you really can't get into depth on this until you come to the false prophet. He's such an integral part of this, essential part of this, that to cover the details before we get to him leaves a big gap in our logic, and we don't want that. Now, this monster, he's substituting the miraculous by rejecting the logic. Remember, God says, come, let us reason together. That is what the Bible does. It reasons with us. But Satan and the lost, and especially the The immature, the saved immature, who are struggling to make this transition, and it's a painful process, and we all have to go through it, the Hagia Sophia process, as Christ slowly peels away, layer by layer, our sinful worldview that we had constructed, so that we may see the world as He sees it. And I'm always very nervous around people who say, yes, I'm saved. but I'm always the same as I was before. Well, I'm not sure how that's possible because I don't see it in the Bible. I don't see it in my life. And over the decades, I've seen these famous people claim salvation, but they don't change. Well, Jesus can forgive me. You know that's not how it works. You become a changed person. You become a new creation. You now have the Holy Spirit living in you. And you are now, your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit. You know that's not how it works. And yes, you may slide back. Because you're struggling. But you're not gonna be happy now. If you're happy before, You're not going to be happy now. And you weren't happy before, which is why you got saved. And so you're definitely not going to be happy. Because the Holy Spirit's not going to let you be happy. It's not about your happiness. It's about molding you and melding you into the image of Christ without taking away your personality. because Christ can have a unique individual relationship with everybody simultaneously. God, he can do that. But Satan and the lost, and especially the immature, because they are struggling, rely on signs and illogic to perpetuate the lie, the delusion. and that's in 2 Thessalonians 2 verses 3 through 12. And those who claim to use logic to prove God's non-existence begin from this premise, showing their bias by rejecting creation and the inner 10 words. Now I want us to understand that these two issues here, Creation, look up into the sky, night sky, and you see creation. And that inner witness of right and wrong is the 10 words that's been instilled in every single person because we are made in the image of God, the character of God. And thus, even though we're lost and that's enough, fallen and we rebel against it, it is still there. And this is where guilt springs from. No amount of godless, blasphemous, psychological, or psychiatric with meds counseling is going to change that, except to help you seal your mind. I mean you can't sear your mind, they will sear it for you with 400 volts of electricity. And electroshock therapies, as they call them. All you can do is kill your mind. Assimilate. Lose that individuality. and then become part of the machine to assimilate and overcome others and absorb their personalities so that you all become the same. You may look different, you may sound different, you may think you're different, but you're not. What is the blasphemy of the monster that allows him to rule for 42 months, indicating control over the laws under his authority? We've talked about that in the past, how these different phraseologies in the same time period are pointing us to whom is the subject, who uses the term times, times, and half the times, saying about Satan and that Christ directly at work. We're talking about 42 months. It's about control over the lost. And three and a half years is directed at the true Jews, the ones who are being, not just Jews, but all who are being saved. And they can occur simultaneously. That last three and a half years is simultaneous with all three of these. Daniel wrote to this horn, this authority who spoke with great words in Daniel chapter 7 verse 8. Let's go there. Daniel 7 verse 8. And I considered the horns, and behold, there came up among them another horn, a little one, before which the three of the first horns were plucked up by the roots. And behold, in this horn were the eyes of a man, and the mouth speaking great, great things." Now he says great things. That's not wonderful. That's not beautiful. That's not positive. That's blasphemous. That's what he's meaning there. And he seeks to change the times and the seasons. Let's go down to verse 25 in the same chapter of Daniel. and he shall speak words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High, and shall think to change the times and the law, and they shall be given into his hand for a times, times, and half a time." So he is going to remake how you perceive everything. He's going to remake right and wrong. He's going to remake morality. He's going to remake so that you are as God's able to choose your own morality. To make yourself as good, God is evil, and God a liar. That is the point. And it's not for you, it's not for the lost, it's for himself. so that he can say, see, I am not deserving of judgment. The one who judges me is unrighteous. Now, do we have a modern precedent for preparing the world to accept the Antichrist? Do we? And it's not modern, and it never ended. And that would be the French Revolution, the beginning of de-Christianization. The American Revolution, based on John Locke's utopian limited state delusion, was just that. It was a delusion. See, John was not writing about economics. John was not writing about how to make England better. He was writing about his view of a utopia. From a philosophical view, this is what we need to strive for. We need to have a limited government. It needs to be of the people and by the people. And he popularized the idea of the state. See, without John Locke, There would not have been a French Revolution. There would not have been this understanding of the state. John Locke brought this in. But he said it's limited. And it's limited because the citizens of the state have natural rights. And we still parrot that today. or we have natural rights. Then we add the caveat, give them to us by God. Okay, throw the Bible on the table and tell them to show you where it's at. If it's of God, it's in the book. Where is it? You have from God, a reasonable expectation of life. And it's wrong for others to take that from you. However, that was very quickly shown to be disregarded by the lost. and everything else. And so this understanding of the state being limited was naive. John Locke was not saved. These are not pronouncements on high from God through his modern prophet, because Locke believed in the tabula rasa. Clean slate. Everyone's born with a clean slate. They make their own destiny. Well, no, everyone's born lost. Everyone's conceived in iniquity and born in sin, and you never have to teach people how to do wrong. It's how to do it better. But you struggle to train children to do it right, to tell the truth. And what John did, in addition to creating the state, was to legitimize rebellion, another principle that is absolutely antithetical to the Scriptures. In 1 Samuel 15, 23, all rebellion is the sin of witchcraft or divinity. God does not work by rebellion. God detests rebellion. God never supports rebellion. So if your country was formed from a rebellion, I don't care how you try to define that so it's not a rebellion, it's still a rebellion, then it did not begin as a godly nation. a legitimized rebellion and thus set the stage with Voltaire and Rousseau, among others, for the French Revolution. Now, because the American Revolution is based on Locke and not Rousseau, their goals were limited. They were going to just give themselves a new limited government and it would stay limited. And how limited did it stay? Well, after the Articles of Confederation, they threw it out. They said, well, that's too limited a government. We need a stronger government. A government for the people. See, there's a difference there. It's a subtle difference. Of the people and by the people is not the same as for the people, because for the people shows that they are external to the state. Of and by the people shows they are internal, integral with the state. The true emphasis is for the state. And this should not be a shock, because you turn to 1 Samuel 8, when the Jewish elders said, we want a king like everybody else got. God told them through Samuel that they have not rejected Samuel the prophet, but they have rejected God as king. So Samuel tell these people what their government will do. And we see that the government takes, and takes, and takes, and takes, and takes. And that is the function of government. Now, a thousand years later, Christ walking the earth. What are the Jews unhappy with? The government taking, and taking, and taking. And what's God's stance on the government taking? He told you that in 1 Samuel 8. He says, okay, you get your king, you get your taking, and when you come whining to me about it, I'm not gonna be listening to you. And so they came whining to Christ about the taxes. And what do you say? I'm not listening to you. This is what you wanted. Now you pay your taxes and shut your mouth. But this is the government you want. You pay your taxes and you shut your mouth. Because you rejected Christ from being king. And so the French Revolution is based upon a lie. The liberty, equality, fraternity. But the truth is, it was conscription, subordination, and fratricide. You know that the first target of the American army were American citizens. In Pennsylvania's Whiskey Rebellion, against the tax, led by George Washington. got disgusted with the whole mess and went home, leaving it in Alexander Hamilton's hands. Scary thought. And the American army was marched against American citizens in Lincoln's war to form a more perfect union. to put to death the last vestiges of limited government and to lay the groundwork, the framework for what we have today. Before you join a political party under their propaganda onslaught, you better study some history and you'll see that Every political party seeks to elevate the state just for their own best interests, not for the people. It's based on the strawman logical fallacy because they were fighting against religion. We're throwing off religion. We're going to have a new religion because the old religion, Roman Catholicism, was bad. Now the Reformation movement did make much of a headway in France because it was called the Huguenots, those who believed in the Reformation, and they were slaughtered. So they got rid of the Huguenots, they got rid of the Reformation. But Roman Catholicism is not Christianity. Christendom, and much of what was the Reformation changed and morphed into Protestantism, which over the years morphed into Christendom and not Christianity. That's a strawman argument that God has failed, that the Bible has failed, that Christian religion is evil. No, that's the workspace religions that Satan was able to grow out of the fertile ground of true biblical Christianity. And we studied this when we went through the letters of the churches, but this is a straw man argument. We set this straw man up so we can knock it down. So yes, French Catholicism was evil. Italian Catholicism is, Catholicism is evil. It depends on works. Greek Orthodoxy grew out of Catholicism and maintained the same evil, works. They don't work. Every man-based religion, every man-thought-up religion, even atheism is a religion, is works-based, and thus evil. They set up the cult of reason. Evil, because you have to think a certain way. And if you don't, oh, well, the guilty awaits. We're going to simulate you. It was based on philosophy to create a better society. Via dechristianization, we're going to get rid of the law. And not the mosaic law of cults and rituals and temple and animal sacrifices. When we say the law, we're talking about the 10 words. Do not kill. Do not commit adultery. Do not covet. Because we fail these all the time. The state is a sole arbiter, the greatest good for the greatest number for the people. And the Pax Romana, well, why was it called the Pax Romana? Because it was united and made peaceful under emperor worship beginning with Augustus. And if Augustus sounds familiar, he's the one who put out the decree that all should be taxed. and the revived empire, guess what? It's going to be united by Antichrist worship. That's going to bring the various diverse elements together. The one who was killed and resurrected, and now he speaks truth. He's come back from the dead. He's telling us what we need to hear. Well, he is, but not what you need to know. And these basic tenets remain in play today. The French Revolution morphed. It never ended, to be honest. It did as Plato said it would do, not that he's some saint, not at all. But democracy beget oligarchy, and the rule by the people became the rule of the few, which became the tyranny, the rule of the one, and that was Napoleon. And the basic tenets of the French Revolution thus continue today. The cult of reason, the reliance on empiricism to prove non-empiricism. We call it science, but it's not science. It's scientism. And that is the fallacy, that we can use science to prove these things, and we can't. We can't use science. Science deals only with the empirical. because that's all that we can deal with, our five senses. Our mind is something else, but our mind lies outside the ability of being repeatable and measurable. Think of how many stupid tests you give people, the guy's psychology, that you're being a science, you're not. You're just making it up. And after having worked it, I know for a fact And I say that for a fact. God's not there. And they have no reliance on truth. But they are used by the state to incarcerate you involuntarily. And they do not need to arrest you for any charge. They can just say, you're a harm. And the legal system will then put you away for as long as they think they need to put you away, without a time limit. Not by the people or of the people, but for the people. It's coupled with humanism. Virtue, which is never defined, guided by human wisdom, which of course is corrupted. Romans 3, 10 through 18. Go read those passages, all quotes from the Old Testament, which Paul makes the case that this is what we do. This is what we are when we're lost. And it begins with, well, let's turn there. Romans 3, 10. None is righteous. No, not one. No one understands. No one seeks God. All have turned aside. No one does good, not even one. I mean, you can't get more plain than that. I mean, he drove that home like four or five times. No one, no one, no one, no one, no one. And no one excludes no one and includes everyone, all. The throat is an open grave. Their tongue is deceived. The venom of asp is under their lips. They spread bitterness and curses and they seek to shed blood and there's no fear of God before their eyes. This is a result of that monstrous amalgamation of lost people and demons. No fear of God. and its virtue guided by this corrupted human wisdom. What it does is it seeks to make the good evil and evil good. The state redistributes good to give to each via utilitarianism or the equality myth. And it failed. And it fails every time it's implemented. But it still gets re-implemented. In fact, in the French Revolution, they actually redefined the actual calendar and work week, and that failed. The only thing that survived of the French Revolution, other than the tenets of the revolution, which never faded away, was the metric system. It's not too bad. But I wouldn't say that the French Revolution was good because of the metric system. I'd say that was just one of those accidental happenchances that occurred. Now, what's the goals of the ongoing revolution? The Great Reset. The revolution that never ended. Morality has changed as desired. And we give it a name and we embrace it, the LGBTQAI+, whatever, based on pragmatism and self as gods. Because the very nature of man, lost man, Romans 1, 18 through 28, is there is no God. If we come back to Romans, And you really should memorize the book. Went too far, excuse me. Here we go. For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. Even his invisible attributes, the 10 words internally, namely his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived because of that inner divine nature in which we're made. Ever since the creation of the world in which the things that have been made, So they are without excuse. Psalms 2, the heavens declare the glory of God. We can know it. It is knowable. And claiming to be wise, they became fools. Because the lost developed a society, a philosophy, a religion. that later became many religion societies and philosophies, all based on the fundamental aspect that God does not exist. Something might exist, but we'll define it. Whether it be Vishnu or Krishna or Zeus or Jupiter or Odin, whatever. Or maybe it's just man. Maybe it's just me. And equality promises wealth, justifying the state, the people's approval. And this is what equality does. It is the greatest simulation. It promises you, if you're simulated by the state, you're gonna lose your personality, because that's what equality demands. We all be the same. then you get to plunder others, or you will authorize the government for you to plunder others. Well, it's partial plunder in the form of partial taxes, or it's complete plunder, in which we take everything, socialize everything, and everything automatically belongs to the state, but in the end, The ultimate goal not only is to do that, but it's to remove the unbelievers. It's to remove the saved. That's what its purpose is. How can we tell who the saved are? They're not equal with us. They have rejected being equal with us. Thus they have brought this on their own heads. They are haters. They are against us because they want to be different. Now Christ said, come, let us reason together. Come unto me all who are labored and burdened I will take your burden. And all will be at the same level, the same relationship to me, but you do not lose your individuality. You are equal before me in the fact that the Jew has as equal standing as the Gentile. There is no difference. You're not special in relationship to Jesus because you're a Jew. Because that's what the Jews were preaching. And that's what Paul is addressing in Romans chapter 2. And Paul said, later on in his letters, I am a Jew. I am of the tribe of Benjamin. I was a Jew, or the Jew, or the Jew. What did it avail me? Nothing. Now I'm a Christian. I'm a Jew born out of time. Now I'm a Christian." And he grew the church. And he said, all who are Christians have equal standing, equal outcome before Christ. All are saved. Now, all do not have the same equality of possessions. Some will be given more, some will be given less. Christ will determine that. It's not that kind of equality. But it's equality, as we say here in America, equality before the law. Not that it exists, but where do we get that concept from? The scriptures. Nationalism, socialism, remake society in Satan's image. Napoleon built on Locke's people state the concepts of nationalism, which is external to the nation, and socialism, which is internal to the nation. Now I'm saying he used these terms, but this is what he did. He claims diversity, but he erases differences. Now that's what he did. The state exists for the state. People are necessary evil only if controlled. Proverbs 14, 28. You're not a leader if you don't have people under you. And Satan has to have people to control, to prove, see, they're evil. But you made them. Ergo, you are evil because you made evil. That's theodicy. That's the false dilemma argument of theodicy. It claims to try to prove that God is not evil, but in its arguments, you must come to the conclusion that God is evil, and thus unworthy to judge. But you don't fall into the false dilemma. You fall into it when you first buy into its premises. When you accept how that problem is defined, you have fallen into the premise. And you must come to that conclusion if you're going to use logic, they say. But they began by not using logic. You see how it becomes that trap to ensnare you. Reporters do it all the time. False teachers do it all the time. Satan does it all the time. Nationalism sees other nations as evil. And it seems, seeks to form a more perfect union via war. That's what it does. Nationalism is all about us. and you're not of us. So we're going to expand outward and make you like us. Not like us as love us, but like us as we're going to assimilate you and make you like us. Without your personality, you'll have our personality. You know, that's one thing they never tell you about the board. You do have a personality. You don't have yours, you not have theirs. except some are more equal than others. That bored queen, she gets to be above all the men who are not men, but then neither is she woman. And thus, this is the nationalism. The socialism is internal, It's the people are the state and the people identify with the state, excusing as control or legitimizing as control. The delusion is the state taxes to protect. No, it protects to tax because it generates no income on its own. The citizens are necessary for the taxation. As we saw in 1 Samuel 9-18. In socialism, inequality is evil. Redistribution is social justice. Social gospel religion, and I don't mean just the movement, but there's always going to be a social gospel. Because all governments are built on right and wrong. That's what governments do. They define morality. That is their essential quality. And the foundation for what is right and wrong is that religion. It legitimizes temporary force to achieve unity. I mean, I calls it temporary. It tends to be permanent and it tends to be murder. The state is the religion. An attack on religion is attack on the state. Critical theory. That is what it is growing into today. That is the state philosophy. That is the state religion. That is how we see here in Western society, Satan working to change the times and the law. We see in Romans 1, 18 through 28, that as people reject knowledge of God, as they build their own society, it leads them to worship elements of nature, which are just self-perpetuating myths, and it's expressed in degradation of self, especially the individual self, changing the natural function of one's body, so that you become self-destructed. If you cannot procreate, your society dies out. It takes man and a woman to do that. If you do not do that, if you say you can take a man, change him into a woman, and there's fewer volunteers for women offering to be changed into men, But there are some, I guess. You're not gonna produce any offspring. You're gonna die out. That's the trans movement. The lesbian gay movement, exactly the same way. Women with women, men with men, you're not gonna be producing much. And it's still going to die out. it's still rebellion against God. And if you think it's not a rebellion, go watch their parades. They say we're different. No, you're the same as you've always been down through biblical history. There's been nothing different. You're just a small segment now, but you're becoming a larger and larger segment of the population. Christ allows government and rejects the rebellion against them. Romans 13, one through seven. This does not mean that he says governments are good. That's conflation, another logical fallacy. Stop it. He says they're necessary because the very reason Cain found him necessary, the original murderer. is that he was forming a society and now he's faced with the dilemma that people are going to follow his example and kill each other. Well, you can't build if you got no people to build with. In other words, you can't tax if you have no people to tax. If they're murdering each other, if they're destroying society, if they're not building well. You need people to stop doing that so you have to control them. And the lost need control, they have no internal self-control. That comes as a fruit of the Spirit, from being saved. And so, governments serve their purpose, as long as governments do not demand that you violate scripture. Acts 12, Acts 4, 18 through 20, excuse me. The apostles make this case. You want us to stop preaching Jesus. That's an edict of the law. Well, you're going to have to then tell us which is better, to do what God tells us or to do what government tells us. In the scheme of things, I think God is just a touch above that one. We have to obey God. So where God, where government does not conflict with God, I can obey government. Where it does conflict, I have to obey God. It's not like the three laws of robotics. You see where Asimov stole from the Bible. He didn't come with anything original. He just reworded it. He kind of stole the concept. And that's what the laws do. When they say don't kill, they have no foundation for that morality. They have to steal from the Bible and then deny it came from the Bible. But any logical, lost logical presentation of why it's wrong to kill doesn't hold up apart from God said. What was wrong? Because all the people decided it was wrong in this country. How about in this country where they all decided it was right? Well, they decided wrong. By whose standard? See, that's what nationalism does. It says we must assimilate so everyone is like us. It's an external form of equality. And it doesn't mean I get to keep mine, you get to keep your country, and you get to keep your country, but that's not how countries ever worked. 20th century didn't teach anybody anything. The Enlightenment and all those wars didn't teach anybody anything. Roman Empire and the study of it didn't teach you anything. You always expand outward to make others like yourself, or to make them slaves so that you can continue to tax and rob them. And socialism is what you do on the inside, internal, because you're consistent. Satan's Antichrist. And so getting back to this 20th century being the bloodiest in human history, it's because there was this battle between nationalism and socialism. Socialism wanted to go international. Nationalism was already socialistic internally. What was going to work? and we battled it out, both on the battlefield and then on the economic field in the quote unquote Cold War and the regional conflicts and so on and so forth. But basically what we've come up with, and we're still working it out, but it's working-ish, is this nationalism-socialism fiscal cabal. See, it's being controlled from backstage. And the globe is being prepared for this future. The Fabian Society is just one of its many tentacles that is made public, like the Club of Rome, like the WEF. like the International Monetary Fund, like the World Bank. United Nations is a front. This works behind the scenes. And yet there are even those that work behind that. These are all fronts, multi-layered, multi-tentacled in every modern nation, controlling every other nation. bringing this to fruition in our time. So what I'm talking about is not some abstract future pie in the sky, this will happen probably not in your lifetime, who cares? This is going on and has been going on for all of man's future and we trace it down. And it's much easier to trace in the modern era from the Renaissance onward. Satan, Antichrist, great blasphemous words? Dechristianization. Dechristianization. Dechristianization. Rely on empiricism. Rely on magic. Rely on logic. And they are. They violate the law of non-contradiction. But who cares? Scientism violates non-contradiction. Who cares? People today call themselves people of science, and they're not. They're people of scientism. They don't care what the measurements show. They make them mean what they want them to mean. We are part and parcel of this. There is no escaping this. Christ told us this 2,000 plus years ago. There is no escaping this. This is being allowed to occur. I am saving a people out of this. The gospel call has gone out around the world. Whosoever shall come shall be saved. Will you come? No, you will not come. Christ has to come and get you, has to compel people to come in. But the word goes out. The word goes out. Now, what is their blasphemy? Christ is not God. Antichrist is a path to the God of reason and experience. Belief in Jesus and normative hermeneutics of the Bible is to be suppressed. Antichrist promises life from death as evidenced by his post-human image. And this is the true monster. Let's turn to Daniel again. Go back to Daniel chapter seven. Let's go back up to the beginning of the verse, chapter 7, and we read that, After this I saw in the night visions, and behold, a fourth monster, terrifying and dreadful and exceedingly strong, it had great iron teeth, and devoured it, broke in pieces, and stamped what was left with its feasts. It was different from all the other beasts who were animals that were before it. And it had 10 horns. And of course, out of those 10 came one that destroyed three. Iron teeth. Post-humanism. The true monster. that we're going to talk about in more detail when we get to the false prophet, because he is an integral part of this. You literally can't have it without him. But we're going to see this amalgamation of lost man and demon become lost man, demon, and inanimate object. That is where Satan is going. That is how he intends to cheat death. Now, we've talked about this in previous lessons some time ago. And I don't want us to forget the context that what is going on simultaneous with this. The continents are shifting. The atmosphere is undulating. The moon is dark and the sky is blackened. Earthquakes, volcanoes, everything is in turmoil. There's widespread death and pestilence and famines. And it's just terrible. And people will, they cry, God, hide us. Let the rocks fall on us rather than repent. And yet God has sent his witnesses out to spread the gospel and they are being slaughtered wholesale. But some are being saved regardless. They stand out like sore thumbs because they do not buy into equality. We are not the same. We are not to be assimilated. We are here to save you from the assimilation. Will you be saved? Thank you.