The Bible warns of a coming world ruler known as the Anti-Christ. Could he be in the world today and, if so, what are his identifying characteristics? More importantly, what will his coming mean for those who are followers of Jesus of Nazareth? Moreover, could the widespread persecution of Christians that is already occurring across the Middle East, and elsewhere, be setting the stage for a final clash between the forces of good and evil at a place called Armageddon, in Israel?
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Israel: The Prophetic Connection | Dr. John Tweedie - Examining the Two Evil Beasts in Revelation | March 28, 2025
- The bible warns about an evil man that is to come.
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- He's referred to as the anti-christ figure.
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- Could he be in the world today?
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- Next on israel the prophetic connection.
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- Music
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- Rev. dr. john tweedie: with all that has happened in the first 12 chapters of revelation
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- We're bound to wonder could anything worse happen than what has already happened?
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- But in fact it does in chapter 13.
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- We have this amazing description
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- Of two evil beasts that are to arise
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- And john describes them in chapter 13
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- But he says in the very first verse:
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- Scripture
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- Well i'm standing on the seashore of the mediterranean this morning
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- And you can see the waters of the mediterranean behind me
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- But i don't think it is a literal sea that john is, is speaking about.
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- I really think it's the sea of humanity
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- Because the description he goes on to give in this chapter
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- Is of an evil individual who will blaspheme god and blaspheme heaven.
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- But there is a second beast that comes later in chapter 13
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- And this beast arises out of the earth.
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- He essential does the bidding of the first beast
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- In fact his agenda seems to be to get humanity to worship the first beast.
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- These two beasts arise together
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- And they are connected together as the instruments of satan
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- As things get worse on the earth.
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- And there is wide spread deception among those that inhabit the earth
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- In the time of these two beasts.
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- Narrator: chapter 13 opens with an evil beast
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- Which arises out of the sea.
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- But this first beast is soon followed by another which arises out of the earth.
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- Peter: in this chapter we have these amazing events of these two beasts.
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- One arising from the sea and uhhh this is been characterized as the anti-christ.
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- And the second beast the false prophet is the one who convinces people to worship the first beast
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- And so as one is a spirit of deception and the other is a spirit of domination.
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- Pastor wayne: so we see these two beasts arising.
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- One out of the sea one out of the earth.
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- Interesting parallels you think of moses and aaron.
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- You have moses anointed of god to do these great wonders.
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- You have aaron the spokesman.
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- And here you have one spokesman speaking blasphemies
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- Where as aaron is preaching the word of god.
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- We have two witnesses that have divine powers
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- To do great wonders on the earth
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- And here we have these two beasts the anti-christ and his false prophet on the other side.
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- Narrator: in this chapter we are also introduced to something called the mark of the beast, but what is it?
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- Pastor wayne: here we have the mark of the beast.
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- We have this symbolic number 666.
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- I don't know exactly what it is but it's interesting that the letter for 6
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- (speaks hebrew) is the number of man
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- That's what it symbolizes in various places of the bible.
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- It's also interesting that the equivalent of (speaks hebrew) is a w in english and we have www.
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- I'm not saying that that's got anything to do with the internet
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- But we do know that much of commerce now is moving toward the internet.
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- You have to, if you want to get a good deal on something you'll probably go to the internet first
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- If you're going to buy almost any product now, it's cheaper there, it's more convenient.
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- And what if the anti-christ
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- In his authority as a world leader says
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- You can't buy or sell without that number that code
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- Dr. jay: one of the most important elements in the book of revelation in chapter 13
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- Is this uhhh mark of the beast uhhh 666 or
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- Uhhh we like to think about it and without it you can't buy and sell
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- So it controls the whole world economy
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- Uhhh and you know this is uhhh
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- Symbolic, very clear leading up to a one world monetary system
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- Lead and guided and directed by the anti-christ
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- Peter: i believe this 666 number is yet to come
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- And it has to do with a with a world wide economic system
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- Of course without which, without this number
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- People will not be able to buy or sell, they won't be able to participate in the economic events of our time.
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- There's going to have to be an alternative economy for the for the people of god
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- Pastor wayne: so believers who don't want to fall under this world system
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- This satanic inspired system
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- Will want to opt out of that.
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- But what they will discover is they can't operate
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- In business like you would normally operate.
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- It's very interesting, even now you try to rent a car and you don't have a credit card
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- You probably will find it very hard to rent it no matter how much cash you put on the table.
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- You can't rent that car.
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- Narrator: is what john described really possible?
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- A cashless if discriminatory world in which only those who have the mark of the beast can buy or sell?
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- Dr. jay: we are uhhh in a place now in time and history
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- Where chips, uhhh information uhhh total information about people is, is everywhere.
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- In fact we found a dog the other day and we had to take it to the vet
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- And they found a chip in its neck and you know it was owned by someone so
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- This chip technology is coming in rapidly.
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- Uhhh the mark of the beast, what are we going to do when we can't buy and sell uhhh without this mark?
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- Uhhh it's very very good question.
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- Are, do we have enough, is our faith greater than our fear of, of taking this uhhh mark?
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- Narrator: but how close are we to the events john describes in chapter 13?
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- Peter: i believe that we're coming towards these times but we're not yet at them.
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- Although the foreshadowing of it is pretty clear there's a, a number of countries that are beginning
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- To ummm unify their economic systems, national boarders are falling by the wayside
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- And of course there a, there's a godless spirit that is being exalted
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- Uhhh in, in government around the world particularly in the west.
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- And i think where christianity is oldest historically
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- We can begin to see more of the shadow of this anti-christ spirit
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- This first beast that arises from the sea, perhaps from the sea of humanity.
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- And then we can also begin to see the foreshadowing of this spirit of deception
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- That goes out that, that convinces people that this is the way to go
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- Against their, against their spiritual instincts, and against the teachings of the bible
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- And against the teachings the historic teachings of the church.
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- There's a tremendous spirit of deception that is going on
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- Particularly i believe in the western world
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- And we're beginning to see already the foreshadowing of these two beasts coming up
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- Uhhh who will rule the world and in time
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- Unify the world in a in a single economic system that is really
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- A system of tyranny and oppression.
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- Narrator: clearly there will be difficult choices ahead for those who believe in god.
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- Those who will do their best to live their lives according to his righteous principles
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- Over and against a backdrop of growing tyranny
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- And the spread of spiritual darkness.
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- -[narrator] this past year has been incredibly challenging.
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- Rev. dr. john tweedie: as we come to this final teaching in episode 13
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- Based on revelation chapter 13
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- We have difficult symbolism again.
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- We discover two beasts rising.
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- One out of the sea and one out of the earth.
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- And we read john's words in chapter 13 beginning in verse 1:
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- Scripture
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- These could be empires throughout history
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- They could be nations that exist today there are different ways of interpreting crowns and horns and heads.
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- But certainly they are positions of authority.
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- And i think a helpful way to think of them is
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- They are nations represented here or the rulers of nations represented here.
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- But this beast that rises out of the sea
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- I believe it's out of the sea of humanity and i believe john is describing
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- The anti-christ who is described by other prophets as well and apostles.
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- And so we continue reading:
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- Scripture
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- So now we're given a clue to the nature of this beast
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- And these two individuals are called beasts because of their evil natures.
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- Scripture
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- Scripture: and this is a synonym for satan or the devil
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- Scripture
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- So on earth he has the authority to do certain things as long as the sovereign god allows him to do those things
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- And it seems that god will allow him to do evil for a time at least.
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- Scripture
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- Now you could imagine is someone was mortally wounded and suddenly healed.
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- The whole world would be astonished and this individual would immediately attract attention
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- And the homage of the masses and that's what's being we're being this is being described here.
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- Scripture: it says
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- Now i don't think the whole entire world but certainly the world that was not informed and didn't follow jesus of nazareth.
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- They would worship this individual after this miracle that they have seen occurring.
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- Scripture: and so it says
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- Scripture
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- Three and a half years
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- And as we have seen in the book of revelation
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- There's a great tribulation period that is to come.
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- Some scholars bible teachers believe this is a seven year period.
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- And this may well be the latter part of that seven year period
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- The second half of thirty two months or uhhh three and a half
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- Oh sorry forty two months and three and a half years.
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- And then it says in verse 6
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- Scripture
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- So again his nature
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- Scripture
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- Which may be the temple in jerusalem
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- Scripture
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- So his nature is being revealed
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- With each thing that's being told about him.
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- You know daniel lived 2500 years ago
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- He was one of the young jewish exiles taken to babylon
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- Following the destruction of jerusalem and of the first temple
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- By the armies of king nebuchadnezzar of babylon.
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- David like john was given the privilege of seeing visions
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- And he saw the future and in chapter 7 of daniel
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- Daniel writes of an individual who makes war with the saints.
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- And here's the parallel passage in revelation chapter 13
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- Scripture
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- Incredible authority invested in one individual.
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- Scripture
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- We remember that in episode 5 in chapter 5
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- We saw that the lamb of god identified as jesus of nazareth
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- Was the only figure on heaven and in earth
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- Worthy to open the seven seal scroll
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- That began to unlock the judgements of god
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- That we find throughout the book of revelation.
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- And here that lamb is mentioned once again
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- But this time in the context of the book of life
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- Which seems to record those who have his salvation
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- Those who believe in jesus of nazareth
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- And have accepted his sacrifice on the cross at jerusalem
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- And for them he's become then their lord and saviour
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- Scripture
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- And then if we go to verse 11 we see the second beast rising
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- But he does the bidding of the first beast.
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- So he is subservient to the first beast of the anti-christ figure.
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- Scripture
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- So he has the appearance of a meek lamb
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- But he speaks like a dragon meaning he does the bidding of satan just like the first beast.
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- And then it says in verse 12 of revelation 13:
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- Scripture: the second beast
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- Scripture
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- You can think of the second beast as the false prophet.
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- He is ummm the opposite of the holy spirit if you like he's a false prophet.
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- Scripture
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- And of course elijah god's prophet was able to do this on mount carmel.
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- So here is a false prophet doing the very same thing
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- And of course once again the world will be astonished
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- And run after this false prophet and the anti-christ that he serves.
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- And then we continue to read:
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- Verse 14:
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- Scripture
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- Now that's even more specific that first that wounding of the first beast
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- It seems is by a sword but he survives somehow the deadly wound.
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- Verse 15:
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- Scripture: he the false prophet
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- Scripture
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- So christian's can not worship the image of this beast
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- So their death is sealed their martyrdom is guaranteed according to this verse
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- It will be a time of great tribulation for christian's for the church of jesus christ.
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- And then an economic system is introduced
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- Which makes it harder for christian's to even buy or sell and deal in the market place.
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- Verse 16:
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- Scripture
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- The rising of the anti-christ and his false prophet
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- Will usher in extremely dark days for christian's
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- Those on earth who love god
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- They will be forced to worship this image of the anti-christ figure
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- And if they refuse they will be killed.
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- The anti-christ is going to usher in an economic system
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- And unless you have the mark of the beast his mark
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- You will not be able to buy or sell, what is this?
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- You know tattoos have become very popular in our generation, extremely popular.
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- But theirs a mark in their forehead or on their right hand
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- And only that allows you to trade in the anti-christ economic system.
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- Dark days for christian's but god will have the final word and the final say.
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- It will all take place in this valley behind me
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- A place called the valley of armageddon.
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- And the king of kings and the lord of lords will come with the armies of heaven
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- And in this valley below me, below nazareth where jesus grew up, where i'm standing, in this valley
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- There will be a day of reckoning with these two beasts of revelation 13.
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- And god will pay them back for what they have done to the saints, to the christian's
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- Ummm alive in those days.
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- -[narrator] today more than ever before.
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- Rev. dr. john tweedie: as we come to chapter 13 of revelation
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- And really the end of this particular series
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- With another series on revelation to follow
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- I want to look at something that happened in the book of daniel
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- Many scholars believe that daniel is an apocalyptic book just like revelation is.
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- Daniel living 2400 years ago
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- 2500 years ago in babylon and john of course towards the end of the first century.
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- But it's interesting because in chapter 12 of revelation we're introduced to
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- Michael who is the arch angel and one of the primary players in that particular drama that plays out
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- When there is war in heaven and chaos on earth.
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- But michael appears in daniel chapter 12 and that's why i want to go there
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- Because this is even earlier and he appears to daniel.
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- Remember daniel was a young boy among the israeli captives
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- Captured when the babylonian armies took jerusalem and destroyed the temple of solomon
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- Daniel was one of those they were selected because of their potential
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- And of course daniel rose to prominence in the babylonian court
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- And in the persian court that came afterwards because he could interpret dreams
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- And he had incredible prophetic insight.
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- But listen to these words and you see the parallels in the book of revelation
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- In daniel 12:
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- Meaning this future time because daniel's being given a prophetic glimpse of the future, or glimpses.
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- Scripture
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- Now daniel is jewish, so his people are the jewish people.
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- So michael the arch angel seems to have special responsibility for the jewish people
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- He is if you like their overseer and certainly ummm he's to watch over them
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- On behalf of the lord god almighty.
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- And then, here's what's said:
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- Scripture
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- We're back to the great tribulation theme that we've already seen on the lips of jesus in matthew 24
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- And again in the book of revelation
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- Even to that time there's never been a time of tribulation quite like this.
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- Scripture
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- So god has it seems a book of life that he keeps
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- And whoevers name is written in that book
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- Will find salvation will be saved.
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- And then it says eluding to the resurrection to come
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- Cause death is not the end for those who believe
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- Scripture
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- Later on in the new series toward the end of the book of revelation
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- We're going to come to what's known as the great white throne judgement
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- Where the sea gives up the dead that are in it
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- And there's this great judgement before
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- It's almost like the supreme court of heaven
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- The court of absolute and final appeal.
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- And i believe that's what's being eluded to with these expressions.
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- Scripture
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- And then these clues:
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- Scripture
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- Consider this travel in the 21st century
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- The way we can get about from place to place
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- And be in north america in one minute and a few hours later
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- 12 hours later be in the middle east.
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- Travel uhhh is a phenomenon of the 20th and certainly the 21st centuries
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- We've already put a man on the moon
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- So 2500 years ago these things were being shown to daniel and that's not all
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- And knowledge shall increase.
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- You know when i was growing up encyclopedia britannica
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- Uhhh we had salesmen going door to door selling these huge volumes of knowledge
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- And they were very successful because parents wanted their children to learn.
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- Now my grandchildren have this information in their little phones
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- And they can access the world wide web
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- And they can ummm enter the museums of the world and
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- All of the incredible places and the knowledge that's available in this generation ummm is incredible.
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- So are these two clues that michael is giving about the future
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- When travel, people will travel everywhere
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- And knowledge shall increase
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- That's the words that he gives to michael.
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- And then daniel says:
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- Scripture
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- And who was that one standing there?
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- Was that a theophany?
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- Was it an old testament appearance of jesus of nazareth?
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- Who knows because its not, he's not identified but he was someone very significant in the story.
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- Scripture
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- We saw this reference too to time, times and half a time
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- Representing 3 and a half years of persecution of god's people.
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- But after that the culmination of human history and god's people delivered.
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- Here we complete this season of the first half of the book of revelation
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- And in the next season which will continue right after this
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- We will be in chapter 14 and we will continue through chapter by chapter
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- Each chapter uhhh a mirror of a particular episode until we get near the end
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- Because we only have 22 chapters in revelation
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- And we're going to stretch the remaining chapters
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- Perhaps into some of them into two episodes
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- So that that will give us over the two seasons
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- 26 episodes in all.
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- So thank you for travelling with us on this incredible journey
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- Through the revelation of jesus christ revealed to john the apostle
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- And we look forward to seeing you next time
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- As we go into the deeper parts of revelation yet to come.
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