World goes, 'We knew he was the one!'

Revelation 13:3, talking about the Antichrist, says, [3] And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.

“The Antichrist sustains a deadly wound that’s healed," explains Jordan. "If you have a deadly wound, that’s a mortal wound you die from, so this means he’s not dead anymore. In the process he lives.

“Talking about the two witnesses, Revelation 11:7 says, [7] And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.

“Notice there’s a beast that ascends out of the bottomless pit that used to be on the earth. You’ll see him again in Revelation 17:8. The beast used to be on the earth, he’s gone out, and now he’s going to ascend and be the one who ultimately goes into perdition.

“Isaiah 37 reports, [5] So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
[6] And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say unto your master, Thus saith the LORD, Be not afraid of the words that thou hast heard, wherewith the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.
[7] Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.

“This is Hezekiah and the Assyrians that are attacking him, but notice what he says in verse 7. You can find all that in Daniel 11. ‘And I will cause him to fall by the sword.’

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“About the judgment on the Antichrist, Isaiah 14:18-19 says, [18] All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house (i.e., they’re all dead).
[19] But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.

“He’s killed by his enemies with a sword but notice what happens to him. He goes down into the grave, wounded with a sword like all these others, but then he gets cast out of the grave.

“The idea there is this guy professes himself to be God. Somebody says, ‘Well, how do you know Jesus Christ is God?’ Romans 1:4 says, [4] And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:

“The dude gets assassinated. He dies. When a man dies, you know where his soul goes? To hell. You know how his soul gets out? You know how people get out of hell? You get out at the Great White Throne Judgment when God casts you into the lake of fire.

“But there lies that dude’s body and there’s a spirit down in the bottomless pit (a fallen angel) which ascends up, takes residence in that body and animates that body.

"He stands up and all the world goes, ‘We knew he was the one!’ That deadly wound is healed and all the world declares him to be God because he’s declared to be God by that resurrection.

“Listen, Satan is a consummate imitator and counterfeit of what God has done. Satan is a counterfeit of God the Father; ‘your father is the devil.’ The Antichrist is a counterfeit of God the Son and ‘the false prophet’ is a counterfeit of God the Holy Spirit. That unholy trinity--the beast, the false prophet and Satan--works together. Revelation 20:10 says they all wind up in the lake of fire.

“That idol shepherd and the wound he has--the things we’re reading about and why those things become so prominent in the Scripture is because there’s some things that go on in the midst of that 70^th week in connection with the Antichrist BECOMING, and that’s the word people use—he’s becoming.

“You ever seen the movie Red Dragon? The red dragon, the protagonist, keeps saying, ‘I am becoming. I am becoming.’ And he’s transforming himself into this great demonic thing. That becoming is a part of the occult.

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“Mystery Babylon the Great comes into all of that. Zechariah 11:16 says, [16] For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, which shall not visit those that be cut off, neither shall seek the young one, nor heal that that is broken, nor feed that that standeth still: but he shall eat the flesh of the fat, and tear their claws in pieces.

“You remember how they worship the queen of heaven? They have drink offerings of blood, as Psalm 16:4 calls it, and are eating flesh. You go to a Catholic church and their Mass and they believe when they ring the bell and do the blessing that little cracker becomes the flesh of Jesus Christ. When you put that cracker in your mouth you’re literally eating the flesh. When you take in that hooch you’re drinking the blood.

“In Zechariah, when they eat that flesh, they’re literally sacrificing those believing Jews, the souls under the altar. They’re literally sacrificing them to this character in their religion. ‘They teach thy servants to commit fornication and eat things sacrificed to idols.’ That’s not just the symbolic stuff; at that point it gets to be the real thing!

“So God’s people are being persecuted in a way that’s hard to fathom. Back in Kings it says they had such famine they ate their babies a span long. They’d take a little 18-inch baby and starve him so bad that he dies and then they eat him.

"You think, ‘How does it get that bad?’ When you’ve got a Burger King and a McDonald’s on the same corner you’ve got no way to imagine what it is when you’re starving. This stuff, though, they’re not doing it just because they’re starving; they’re doing it to sacrifice to Satan.

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"Regarding the Antichrist, Zechariah 11:17 reveals, [17] Woe to the idol shepherd that leaveth the flock! the sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.

“The way that verse is understood in most teaching is the sword, like in the Book of Job, is his power that’s going to be broken. You know, Christ sits at the right hand of God; the right arm of power.

“Then they say his eye--the source of light, wisdom, understanding--is going to be dried up and so the judgment’s going to come and his arm’s going to be clean dried up. He’s going to lose all his power and his wisdom’s going to be completely gotten rid of and that's what’s going to happen in the Second Coming of Christ. The Antichrist and his power will be negated and gone forever.

“That’s what the preachers say about the passage and that’s okay if you want to take it with a spiritual bent like that, but if you just leave it for what it says, there are some fascinating things in connection with this. What it would mean is that the sword shall be upon his arm and his right eye. This guy’s going to be wounded.

“How do you get both a guy’s eye and his arm? You could probably get this eye and that arm but you’d have to whack at him. You remember Peter in the garden, he cuts the guy’s ear off with a sword? How would you do that?

“To swing hard enough to get it you’d hit his shoulder. But if he was ducking, you could get his ear and it would fly up in the air. Jesus caught it and stuck it back on and healed him. In other words, Pete was trying to cut his head off. Well, in the case of the Antichrist, there’s a sword attack that wounds his arm and his right eye."

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