While reading psalms, with its depths and heights, its references to a coming Savior, the idea of leviathan has continued to pull me in its wake.
There is a set of prophecies that tie to leviathan, and dragons…that most people simply ascribe to symbolic, so” I just won’t look at that.” Well, it is symbolic, and it jumps out of the pages of Revelation, further skewing any timeline, and frustrating readers. But if you follow prophetic themes, and trace them back through other writing, you can put it in place. One system to understand Revelation requires marking another place in the Old Testament; the book of Daniel. With computers today, you can open two windows and flash back and forth. The message to John, in one sense, is a reassurance that even though the world had become very dark, for Christian and Jew, all these things would come to pass, and the Messiah would be revealed. So here are the dragon and his 2 beasts, of Revelation. 3Then another sign appeared in heaven: a huge red dragon with seven heads, ten horns, and seven royal crowns on his heads. 4His tail swept a third of the stars from the sky, tossing them to the earth. Rev 13:1 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….4And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? Who is able to make war with him? Rev 13:11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon . These two are part and parcel of the reign of someone else…the dragon. We have traced the dragon, the serpent, back through time to the original confrontation in the Garden of Eden. Our enemy, our accuser, and the God of this age. The Beast from the sea (general biblical principle; the sea is the world, all peoples.) is empowered not just by the dragon, but by the second beast, who works as his prophet, his supposed holy spirit. He performs miracles (but only when he is with the first beast, which is interesting….) Coming from the earth…he could be Jewish. The tribe of Dan is left out of the 144,000. (twelve tribes, but no Dan) he a predicted to be Genesis 49:17 Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward. Dan had led Israel into spiritual sin by having a bull, an idol to be worshipped.(other one was in Bethel) Jeroboam established these places of worship to rival the Temple of Solomon. Just as in the golden calf made by Aaron. Israelites had no problem with worshipping in this way instead of the invisible presence of God, the holy place, etc. and also offered worship in the “high places.” I believe they did not understand the significance of the holy temple. They resisted such authority, I do not know if they considered themselves offering to idols, they probably just considered it..an older way .And that might send up some alarms about practices in the Christian church, the Body of Christ, today. Some practices are not in keeping with how we were taught. Do we worship idols, unawares? Genesis 3:15 And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise you on the head, And you shall bruise him on the heel." As all the tribes are involved in the end times, and Dan has..quite a past, will this prophet fulfill the prophecy spoken over Dan in the beginning? Total betrayal of God, and the Jewish people? The first beast is actually controlled for the first part of the tribulation period by a woman. Rev 17:17 17 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters: 2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication. 3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. 4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: 5 And upon her forehead was a name written, Mystery, Babylon The Great, The Mother Of Harlots And Abominations Of The Earth. 6 And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration. 7 And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns. 8 The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is. So, she is the ancient religious system, started by… a woman. In Babylon. Semiramus. Who deified her husband, Nimrod, her son Tammuz, and named herself the Queen of Heaven. Who spawned countless goddesses and her consorts. Marduk, Bel, Baal.Who encouraged child sacrifice, sexual sin…all of it. Who was worshipped in Israel. Who is also associated with the name Jezebel, who caused Israel to sin. She is in control for the first period. The Antichrist himself, with his political ambitions and his armies, cannot withstand her, any more than the early Babylonians withstood the Queen of Heaven, or the northern Israelites withstood Jezebel. Notice she is drunk with the blood of..not just the old testament prophets and saints, but with the blood of the followers of Jesus Christ. So that is AFTER 30 AD. And she is alive and well even now. Followers of Jesus will suffer dreadfully at her hands. If you think you are going to skate through until the time of the Mark of the Beast you are sadly mistaken. We tend to put all sin and death as the fault of the Antichrist, I suspect, when he declares himself God and refutes worship of the Whore of Babylon, it will be a relief. Most people assume the symbolism is of Rome, and therefore, the Catholic church. While the church is full of mystical, hierarchical nonsense, and held Europe in its sway for a long time.it is not the final “form” of an earth worshiping mystical, ecumenical, sin affirming church. ”All” will be welcome, except those who will only follow the one true God. So if the symbolism is so…goddess oriented, why do we assume the false prophet rules over her? After all, he serves the Antichrist and the dragon. Isn’t it more likely she is headed by a woman? Making the Pope the false prophet is sort of a short cut to the truth, It may have nothing to do with what happens in the endtimes, though this Pope is doing his best to propel the members of his flock to a one world religious system.no walls, no poverty one world singing kumbaya. The false prophet is more likely dealing with..the Two Witnesses. Claiming them to be false Jews. With a supposed victory over them, with his fake miracles, sure to impress the rabbis waiting for the Messiah, having won the victory of a new temple for Israel, for which they will be so grateful…victory for his man of the hour, the Antichrist,are assured. He then moves to have every human on earth forced into worship of the Beast. Interestingly, the mark is placed exactly here the phylacteries of the ancient Jews were to be placed.. the forehead and the hand. Deuteronomy 6:4 Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord: 5 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. 6 And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: 7 And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. 8 And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. At this time, the time of Jacob’s trouble, the main enemy of the Antichrist seems to be..the Jews. 1/3, a remnant will go into hiding. The 144,000 Jews who spread the word, of salvation, preaching the coming King, are Jews. Sealed. On their foreheads, by God. Jews will understand that symbolism. And gentiles will also get the message, filling Heaven with tribulation saints. Others will survive, having at least been helpful to these preachers. Some will survive to go into the Millennial Kingdom. The Antichrist seems consumed with military and political control. The ultimate dictator. the technology exists now, and is about to be used…computer implants into people.. an internet of people..which would allow him to punish each and every person who does not worship him, probably instantaneously. Good object lesson. So we have a corrupt female church, and a corrupt male political leader. We have God’s wrath coming down in more and more severe fashion, while the World remains deluded that this is the breakthrough moment when humans truly rule their own destiny. This leader does not stop war, but each time claims,, it is the last, He does not help economies, but promises a perfect world is around the corner, he makes a system we call the Mark, its corruption of God’s plan obvious as the insertion places rot and stink. A noisome sore…he has an explanation for every judgment from God. And given that the timing of things.. we have no idea from a pre trib rapture, to the timing of the Gog Magog war, as to how long it is until the signing of the covenant with Israel, is an unexplained time period …will many people even remember the people of the remnant church, or simply view fundamentalism of any type as “the old bad” returning? Christians and Jews will be seen as the very last harmful theologies on earth, heretics, haters of humanity. That is assured. (so if you don’t believe in a pretrib rapture, I just told you about much more sorrow and tribulation than you thought, sitting here in the US, that you would personally experience. At well over a million Christians killed for their faith since 2000, I would advise you to wake up. And all your hoarding won’t help. The governments already track people with purchases of supplies that might indicate hoarding.. they will come and take them when the food runs out.) We must be ready to stand for truth every time this Harlot church makes her pronouncements. Be aware of women or a woman seeming to be heading towards universal acclaim, and of churches that proclaim every new thing “good”. (some churches seem to think any relationship and any identity is equal to man and woman marriage and man and woman identity. Some churches consistently berate Israel and seem to want its demise as badly as many Islamic countries do. To those Christians; if we break off the root..how do we survive? ) We must be willing to allow both diplomacy and judicial use of the military to stop truly evil actors from harming more people. Here, we can still vote. We can still pray, we can still preach. We can give money or time to oppressed Christians and feed people and house people….But it will be up to the 144,000 to finish the job. So pray for all of us. And finally, I cling to the hope of salvation through Jesus Christ, physically as well as spiritually. Maranatha |
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