Welcome to our 102nd lesson in the book of Revelations. I've been held to John's delusion of hermetic Gnostic dialectic socialism of his day, just like we are of our day. Let's go to Revelation 17 verses seven and eight. Let us look at these. But the angel said to me, why do you marvel? I will tell you the mystery of the woman and of the beast with seven heads and ten horns, a carrier. The beast that you saw was and is not and is about to rise from the bottomless pit and go up to destruction. And the dwellers on earth whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world will marvel to see the beast because it was and is not and is about to come. Now for us to grasp this, we need to throw off the explanations of the past. The Pope is not the Antichrist. The Catholic Church is not the false belief system spoken of here in Revelation. It's just another works-based religion sitting at the round table of all works-based religions that are being brought together and will be united under the false prophet. And then they will be focused upon Antichrist. Not immediately. This is a process. It's always a process. Because Satan works through processes and experimentation. And while he preaches liberty, he pushes freedom. His actual product is slavery. Now, if you're following along the slides, you can see the graphics I developed to get this concept across. So you think in the West that you have knowledge, that you have science, that you are above religion, you are above these mythic belief systems. And because of that, you are the most deluded of all. And we've talked about that in the past several lessons when we've gone into detail on Hermetic, Gnostic, Dialectic, Socialism. Now, if this is new terms, you need to go back to at least the first or the last few lessons, but to actually grasp the broad brush meanings, you need to go and begin at the beginning of revelation. It's not new. These are very, very ancient thoughts. But because we swallowed a myth, because that's what Satan does, he always pushes a myth. He doesn't care what you believe. In fact, one of the Concluding thoughts in the movie Serenity of the series Firefly was the quote-unquote preacher dying, telling the hero, I don't care what you believe, just believe. See, those movies, those shows were propaganda. All shows are propaganda. Satan doesn't care what you believe. He just wants you to believe. And you do believe because we are creating the image of God. We will believe. There is not one person who does not believe in something, even in self. Everyone believes. And unless you have been freed by Christ, given the new nature, you will believe in some form of error. And it doesn't matter what that is. You can fight amongst yourselves as to which one is right, which one is wrong. It doesn't matter. It just matters that you do believe, that you do pick a position, that you do pick a side. Because once you have embraced something, he can capture that. and use it. And then at the appropriate time, he brings it all together. Now we're seeing the very early stages of it in our own lifetime. where we bring together the false face and have them start talking about unity and have them start talking about what they have in common and uniting together-ish while retaining their distinctness. But at some point, those distinctness will be thrown off. And that is really what is happening, beginning to happen in our lesson today. and will happen in chapter 17 of Revelation. I used to believe that he was talking to just the Jews about this, but they are just one aspect of it. They overrate themselves. They think they're going to control the world government that is coming and headquartered in Jerusalem and so on and so forth, which has always been the destiny envisioned by the Zionist Jews since the 1940s at least, or at least the 1960s when they voiced it in a Luke article. And that's the magazine Luke for those who remember such devices. Now, John marvels. We need to go and look at this word. Remember, meanings matter. Words matter. And how words are used by a particular author matter. It's all part of hermeneutics. Now, you use hermeneutics whenever you read a book. which is becoming a rare occurrence these days. You still use the principles of hermeneutics when you watch and listen. You still do. So how a particular show uses a set of words how they define them sets you up to buy into their propaganda, into their mythos, into what they're actually peddling. And I don't mean just the advertisers. The advertisers are buying into the shows, and the shows are on the TV or streaming media because somebody is paying the bill. And that's the advertisers, to expose you to their products, get you to embrace them, to buy them, to use them. But that is just the outward advertisement. That is the outward support model. The inward or hidden or spiritual support model is mirrored by that outward form. And that is what Satan is doing. He's allowing the program to be produced so that you will sit there and watch it and receive his propaganda. I don't care what you believe. Just believe. Just believe. Just believe. And you do. And you bring others to watch. It is a great show. Watch this. Just believe. What does this mean when John wrote, and when I saw her, Babylon is who he's referring to, I marveled greatly. That word marvel is the Greek word thomazo. And it's astonished, it's amazed. Now that gives us some idea of what is going on here. When you're amazed at something, you're drawn into it. You know, that's how illusion functions. Magic, stageman magic, basically illusion. It gets you to believe. It amazes you. It astonishes you. It pulls you into its illusion. And it appears to do the impossible. Now, you know, it can't do the impossible, but it appears to do so. So how does John use this word previously? Well, if we go to Revelations 13, three and four, we'll see. Revelations chapter 13, verse 3. And one of his heads seemed to have a mortal wound. This is referring to the beast, the first beast, the first terrible monster. And the whole earth marveled. There's a Thumazo as they followed the beast. So what is occurring? They are amazed. And because they are amazed, they are following. And they worshiped. the dragon, for he had given his authority to the beast, and they worshiped the beast, saying, who is like the beast? Who can fight against it? So we have thamaza, we have amazement, then we have following, now we have worshiping. So this is the pathway. This is how John is using this word, the mazo. And when we closed out our last lesson, we saw that John marveled greatly when he saw Babylon, when he saw the concept. And he's looking at it from Christ's perspective. But he's looking at it while he's remaining in his sinful flesh. I want us to really understand just how this flesh of ours deludes us. We don't know. because this is normal for us. But we see it's a reflection. We don't see through a mirror. You never see through a mirror. Otherwise, it's just a pane of glass. It makes no sense to say, I see through a mirror. You see a reflection, but it's an enigmatic reflection. It's not a true reflection. It's a distortion of reality. And try as we, as hard as we can, we can't see the true reflection. It's distorted by the lens of the sinful flesh. Always. So here is John referring to himself as Themazo. He's marveling. He's being enticed. He's being drawn into her. And if John, who is seeing these things unfold, is pulled in, what hope can there be for you? But to be pulled in, we don't even get John's perspective of a vision. For us, this is reality. And we're going to show toward the end of this lesson how that works, at least from an American perspective. And so the angel in verse seven is confronting John. Why? What are you doing? Why are you? You gotta wake up, buddy. It's like the Pied Piper of Hamlet. All the kids are following and the parents are standing around watching it happen. Nobody's intervening, everybody's under the spell. Wake up. That's what the angel is saying, wake up. This is God's direct intervention to keep John from coming under the siren's call. which comes from the Greek story of Homer. And Odysseus and his ship sailed along the sea, and they were going to pass near the sirens, which lured sailors to their death by their beautiful melodies. That's what we do. Doesn't matter what you believe, just believe. Just follow. The angel is John's parakletos, his advocate. He's sent there by Christ to wake John up, so to speak, to open his mind. Say, hey, what are you doing? and to open our minds. We're reading this. But if we're reading this like this is the Catholic Church and the Pope is the Antichrist, which never made much sense since Popes are religious later, you'd think he'd be the false prophet. Why is he there? He is there because Christ is waking him up. Don't listen to that song. Don't just believe. See the reality of it. See, that's what Revelation is all about. Giving us the reality, God's reality. And if John stumbled, how will you and I not stumble, especially when it's supported by the world system? And by that, I mean everything seems to agree. The information systems with their propagandic messages all tell us what is the truth. All tell us the same message when you internet search it. They all come back. I don't care what those search engines advertise. They're all the same. They all produce the same results. I've tested them. They're all designed to give you the same propagandic errors, lies, messages. You use whatever you want to. You follow whatever workspace religion you want to. It doesn't matter. You will still be given the same message. It is supported by your politicians. I don't care what system you're under. It'll still be supported by them. And Christ rightly asked, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth? Should the tribulation last longer than these seven years? He said, no one would believe. Everyone would be captured, and we would. We are but mud. And that's in Mark 14, 38, and Luke 18, 6-8. Wake up. The Bible, empowered by the Spirit, is our parakletos, our advocate to challenge us. not to agree with us. Somebody who agrees with you is keeping you in your delusion. That's not helpful. That's not love. And yet that is what passes for love today. Love, as defined in the Bible, is like Someone caring enough about you to challenge you. As iron sharpeneth iron, so does a friend sharpen the countenance of his friend. And there's a friend that sticks closer than a brother, which is Christ. He challenges you, see the truth, see the reality. I would not have you stay in error. And yet we raise kids today in error to stay in error. We embrace their error and we tell them to embrace it. Then we build our streaming medias to push that. And we build our great theme parks to take them to it so they can live and walk in that delusional unreality. And begins to wear off, we take them back again and again and again. We embrace that delusion. That's not love. That is the very opposite of love. Now the angel interprets the metaphors, ish. It's going to give us some broad brush understanding, clarity here. into the various metaphors that have been used here in chapter 17 and earlier in Revelation. But it has to be broad brush because this was written 2,000 years ago. If you wrote it for 21st century readers, earlier readers would not have understood it. It would not have been clear. But it should be clear for every time period. Not just to look ahead to the end, but also to see how it's being built in their own lifetimes. So that they do not get captured like John was almost captured. And this is what the Bible, empowered by the Spirit, does. It challenges us. People have no intrinsic power or charisma. When we say that somebody is charismatic, that they have a personality that pulls people in, that is not emanating from themselves. That is emanating through them. from the spiritual forces behind them so that they may accomplish whatever it is they are to accomplish at that point. In other words, Tim Bundy, serial killer, which always appeared charming on camera, you know, lured in the women through his charm, his charisma, but it wasn't his. It was that spiritual force behind him that lured them in. When you sit there and that message speaks to you, it's not because of the talent of the pastor. It is because Holy Spirit, He's hit you upside the head and said, this is for you. And a scale or two falls off your eyes, your spiritual eyes, and you go, I see it. I understand this. I grasp this. In some depth. Not totally. I see myself in some measure as Christ sees me. I repent. This is what happens at salvation. This continues to happen throughout the Hagizo process. This is the truth of that Star Wars, The Force. It's not some impersonal force out there that you can tap into and use it as you will. It is the force that has personality. It is the force that has an agenda. It is the force that uses the people. In essence, they are all deluded. And all they're doing is fighting amongst themselves for the amusement of the force, for the agenda of the force, for the goal of the force. And when you begin looking at it like that, the entire force becomes the evil, and there is no light or good to it. See, this is the dilution of Gnosticism. Mystery Babylon. It is the mystery because it is hidden from the people. And it's Babylon because it's that ancient system imported, I believe, from the first age and rebuilt, and is trying to rebuild itself again since its days of Babel, of confusion. It's prostituting, seducing, and uniting all works-based religions into one faith. Now it is the prostitute sitting astride the beast. The beast with seven heads and 10 horns. And the angel later on will give us more detail about this. But even from this, The seven heads are the kings that rule, the 10 horns, horns denote power, they denote force, they denote government, and so we have faith, government, culture, the foundation of her system. And his system, the beast's system, the dragon's system, Because as we saw, the beast draws in Revelation 13, the beast draws his charisma from the dragon. But he is the hypocrite. He is the one who speaks from behind the mask. And what is the mask he is speaking through? Babylon. The mystery is that he is the mystery, that he is the one who's speaking. And that it is Satan they are actually worshipping. You're actually worshipping demons. Paul tells us this. You're not worshipping idols, you're worshipping demons. So the Antichrist, the false prophet, are supportive of Babylon at first to build upon this system, her system. Later on, not so much. Then the false prophet supplants mystery Babylon. with the Antichrist, Satan, worship. And this is in the temple. And this is the desolation of abomination that is spoken of, not only by Daniel, but of Christ. In Mark 24, 15. No, Matthew 24, 15 and Mark 13, 14. This is their victory. And they do it in the temple. And why do they do it in the temple? To celebrate their victory. The false Jews rebuild the temple. They're going to want to reinstitute animal sacrifice, which is now an abomination to God. They want to resurrect once again the synagogue of Satan. Well, they still have that today, but they want to do it now in the temple. like of old, except the purpose for the temple tabernacle does not exist. Because Christ died and rose again and sin was paid for. There is no point to it now. Stop wishing for it. Stop agitating for it. Stop being deluded by that. Stop becoming a John. and start becoming a Paul. Become a Paul and see more clearly. And yet even Paul admitted he cannot see completely. Even though he had his own vision, he still struggled. That's why he was given the weakness in the flesh. so that he might learn to live in the strength and truth of reality of Christ rather than his own. I remember the Hermetic Gnostic Dialectic Socialism, the HGDM, as I call it, has a unifying worldview. John was raised in this, just like we're raised in this, just like we're all raised in some worldview. Our worldviews are sinful. It's how we understand the world. And because sin comes from a common source, our worldviews have commonalities, things in common. They may disagree in details, but in the broad principles that underlie them, they're all the same. And this is in Romans 1, 18 through 28. Began with flesh's desire to be God. Well, they were deceived. You're not going to be God. And they wanted to control everything, but they're not going to control anything because they have no power. Satan thinks he's going to get control of everything, because he can control us. But in the end, he also is deceived. And I've mentioned this in previous studies, is that Satan is as much a prisoner of sin's delusion as we are. When you go to 1 Corinthians 15, you understand that sin is the actual deluder. Sin and death. And Satan was as much a prisoner of sin and death as you and I are. and Revelations shows us this. The basis of works, the Egyptian Mayat, the works, the weigh in the balance, the let me do enough good to outweigh my bad so I can get to heaven and miss the bad stuff later on, proves oneself equal to God because admitting sin shows one is not God. Now, if we say we have no sin, we make Christ a liar. So Christians, if you say, I cannot grow sin, I can keep perfecting until I no longer sin, you are a liar. His truth is not in you. That does not come from Christ. That comes from Satan. That's another delusion. Satan appears as an angel of light, as does his emissaries. and his future emissaries, too, like Mr. E. Babylon. Remember, Satan doesn't come up with anything original. He's always copying Christ. Christ did this. I'll do that. The was, is not, and will be is a reference back to Christ, who took on flesh, was killed, then resurrected, Well, he's going to do the same thing. Only he's going to do it in a post-human body. He's going to take on flesh. He's going to indwell the beast, the Antichrist. The Antichrist will suffer wound, mortal wound, appear to die. He will be transplanted into, in some form or fashion, into a mechanical body. Who was the most fascinating character in Star Trek The Next Generation? It wasn't the people. It wasn't the Klingons. It wasn't the Romulans. It wasn't anything else that they could make up. It was data. How many shows were built around Data. Endeavoring to be human. Endeavoring to know more. Endeavoring, endeavoring, endeavoring. And we're all fascinating with that. We were swallowing the propaganda. We were being trained, those who watched that, being trained to accept a mechanical person, a mechanical device as being human. We are being prepared incrementally for the delusion and we call it science. But scientism And this is how he's going to copy Christ. He appears to follow Christ's path, but without Christ's authority. Remember, Christ had the authority in John 10, 17 through 18, to lay down his life and to pick it up again. He says, I have authority. That means there was one above him who gave him authority to do that. It wasn't intrinsic to him. It was intrinsic to the Father. And this was their plan. Now Satan has to mimic this. If he's going to pass himself off as God, he appears to follow Christ's path. that he doesn't die in the sense that Christ died where his soul left the body, and it went to the abyss, and then to Sheol, and then it took paradise up to heaven. His destiny is different. See, Christ returned to heaven. He literally died, went to Sheol, the paradise, pronounced his victory to the hell side of Sheol, if we remember Luke 16, 21 through 31. So he's not gonna do that. Now, he's gonna go to the abyss. We're gonna talk about that. He will be chained in the abyss. Revelations 20, one through three. And he's gonna be down there for nearly a thousand years. Then he's going to be released to lead another rebellion. So Christ returned to heaven. Satan returns to earth. That right there tells you everything you need to know about Satan's power. It's a delusion. He goes where he's allowed to go. And he does what he does. He doesn't change. Well, Christians are deceived in the same manner, in the same manner as John. Americans are beguiled by their worldview. I can speak in generalities of the rest of the world governments, but I can speak with specificity to the American system because American. We are so science-based and sophisticated, and yet we worship an idol, Lady Liberty in the harbor. Well, Lady Liberty is just the goddess of victory, the goddess of reason. That's what the statue was patterned after. The claims, and claims to give freedom. Go read the distorted verse from Matthew on her base. It's a lie. America does not give freedom. claims freedom, but gives slavery. But it's a slavery people ask for. But as the need for this delusion wears off, as control increases, So there is less need for the delusion. These chains of slavery become more and more apparent. Until, at some point, the entire delusion will be done away with. And people will see themselves totally enslaved with their consent. Which makes it much more powerful than any tyrant dictator trying to do it by force. From Eve to Isis to Ishtar to Esther in the Bible to Venus. Sex is the tool. Immorality is the tool. Spiritual immorality. Science is born of hermetic alchemic origins. It's really scientism. It is just another means of dilution, another means of control. Now, has it transformed mankind's existence in the last 200, 300 years? Absolutely. But has it changed mankind? Nope. We're still born sinners, except now we have more ability to destroy more people and enslave greater numbers. For we can only do it in the family, then in the tribe, then in the empire. Now we can do it globally. Now we can unite together and do it globally. That is what it has done for us. Along the way, it has given us medicine and full bellies and fantastic products, all designed to dilute us and bring us in. And we all agitate for it. So the Liberty Statue, just so you know, was designed by masons. And originally, it had a cup. But the people of New York City who were going to be getting this thing said, we don't want a cup. We want a torch. And we're going to use it as a lighthouse. Does this sound like the Colossus of Rhodes of ancient world? The lighthouse celebrating its victory, bringing people in. Here is the light. Here is the flame of freedom that's going to enslave you. The Masons have a motto. Virtus unix mors non superibit. I don't speak Latin, so I probably butchered that. What it means, though, is that virtue unites even in death. Their hidden knowledge is their future, virtue, and it unites them even in death. Sin's virtue unites in the second death, throughout the second death, throughout all eternity future. That is the slavery. And this church succumbs to that. Remember Laodicea? There's a reason those letters to the churches were given first. To lay the path, to show that no matter how much we think that we are enlightened and we have truth and we have the scriptures and we have the new nature, The church as an organization falls by the wayside because it's not about organizations. It's about individuals. Christ doesn't save organizations. He saves individuals, one at a time. He didn't save the corporate body of Jews, not even throughout the Old Testament. He saved individuals, Moses. Aaron, Caleb, Joshua, David, and even those that failed, like Saul, like Gideon, like you and me. Can we see this today? Can we see our own delusion? Especially as we come into another presidential election year. And we once again are surrounded with the calls of, we are in peril and only this election will save us. We know it's just another nail in the coffin of slavery, no matter whom you pick. And the Christians are deceived like the Jews because we ignored Paul's warning in Romans 11. worshiping earthly Jerusalem. This is a reference to Galatians 4, 21 through 31, when Paul said that earthly Jerusalem and heavenly Jerusalem were different. It was his parable. It was Paul's attempt at a parable. Now that's been translated to mean it was an allegory, but that's not what the Greek means. The Greek means that it was like a parable. It was a contrast. It was a contrast to reveal truth. So Paul was trying to copy Christ. The Holy Spirit was working through him, giving us a post-Christ parable. And the heavenly Jerusalem stood for freedom. The earthly Jerusalem stood for slavery, the law, works-based. The Jews rejected the heavenly for the earthly Jerusalem. They chose slavery under Satan, Galatians 4, 1 through 3. They chose a world that is passing away, 2 Peter 3, verse 7, and 1 John 2, verses 15 through 17. But guess what? Today, the world, today, Christians choose slavery under Satan. How many churches are agitating for, let's support the Jews, that literally in their writings hate Christ, and see Him boiled in a pot of excrement throughout all eternity for His heresy, and look down on everyone who's non-Jewish as animals? That's what they do. That's in their writings. That's choosing slavery under Satan. And we're going to help them rebuild the temple and redo the animal sacrifices. They already have the synagogue of Satan. Now we're going to give them the temple of Satan so that at the appropriate time, the true beast will reveal himself. claiming the victory from God. Choose a world that is passing away. For this world is passing away. And we choose democracy to stop Christ's return. Remember, democracy is a socialistic term. Stop using it. It's the delusion. The more you use that term, the more you are like John, marveling the mazo at the delusion and coming under it, following it, worshiping it. Stop using the words they give you to use. The words have meanings. Use the correct words. Democracy is rule of the majority. but it's death by committee. It gives way to the rule by the oligarchy, the few, who in turn are ruled by the one, who is Satan, and eventually his emissary, the Antichrist. The Jews keep their dilution through myths, the Talmud, the Midrash, the Mishnah. We need to be careful. Whom Christ loves, he chastens. Now he chastens the true Jews. That is the story of, part of the story of Revelation. Not just Revelation, Zechariah. The Old Testament, the New Testament, this is the Hagizo process. But those whom Christ hates, he gives up. Like the false Jews, the false Christians, the false teachers, the false prophets. What is the mystery revealed? It's the false. It's the false Jews. It's the false church. It is the false faith. It is BBL, Babel, the confusion. It never died. It never went away. It always stayed here. It is the world system. And every aspect of today's society World society is designed to bring us together. I don't care if these the Olympics Americans can have their football the Europeans and the rest of world can have their football But you know, it doesn't matter how you kick that stupid ball around the field What matters is? The sports The unifying aspect of the sports and bringing together everyone around the same ideals until at some point there is only the one ideal, which is the worship of the beast. It's worshiping and following the beast. I don't care if it's music, if it's sports, if it's movies, if it's the force, if it's your religion or his religion or her religion, It's always the same. And to show you just how, not transitory, but just how delusional this is, the world now worships men as women. That's what transgenderism is. It's another step closer to transhumanism acceptance. It doesn't matter. Biological woman, biological man, you just have to claim whatever it is you want to claim. We have an Indian woman claiming to be black, supported by the black community. It's a delusion. 50 years ago, we would have called it insanity. Today, today it's called normalcy. And people speak of it as if it is normal. It's no wonder John marveled. It's no wonder we marvel. But Christ rescues us from our delusion. If we listen. Do not train your children in the delusion. But you will. Do not train your grandchildren in the delusion. You be the voice of reason, but you won't. You claim you will, but you won't. But we all have to stand before Christ and give an account. And if you won't give an account before your family as to what the truth is, you sure will stand before Christ and you will be given him an account. What is more important? To have Christ tell you, well done? Or to have your family say, I love you. when their idea of love is not love at all. It's the very opposite. We are here to be the beacons of truth and therefore of hope. I'm afraid too many of us have chosen to be the dark light. And those that are truly saved will have to give an account to Christ. And most Christians don't care. That is really the sad thing of today. They would rather believe their own delusions than accept the truth. Are you? Do you? Are you even trying to see the truth? Thank you.