Beastly circumstances

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The tribulation period is going to be a time when God looks at the Antichrist and says, “He’s the beast! He’s a mad man!” and the world bows down and worships him and exalts insanity.

“In the Bible, there’s this whole counterfeit spirit world of creatures; these creatures are real, they’re potent and they hate everything God stands for,” explains Richard Jordan.

“Psalm 96:5 says, ‘For all the gods of the nations are idols: but the LORD made the heavens.’ When it says all the gods of the nations are idols, those gods are living creatures, but they inspire their followers to make representative nations to them.

“You remember Jesus told them in Matthew 25 that ‘hell’s prepared for the devil and his angels’? I mean, these creatures have been around and functioning for a LONG time.

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Psalm 91:13 says, ‘Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.’

The adder is a venomous snake, i.e., Satan. The dragon is Satan. In I Peter 5, Satan’s called “a roaring lion” who “walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.’ 

“Satan’s the top god of the world because the people have chosen him and the rulers of the angelic rebellion went with him.

“Michael is the commander of the armies of heaven and Gabriel is the top diplomat, but everybody else in the upper echelon--the top-third in the ranks of the heavenly government--went with the Adversary; they bought into his lie program.

“In the heavens, Satan took the commanders first and decimated the government of heaven that way. They chose him to be their God and humanity did the same thing.

“That’s why Satan could take Jesus up into a high mountain and show him all the kingdoms of this world in a moment of time and say, ‘These are all mine!’, because he’d usurped them.

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“Lucifer was a cherub. In Revelation, John gets caught up into the throne room of heaven and writes, ‘And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four beasts full of eyes before and behind.
[7] And the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle.’

“Those four creatures have four faces, and it’s important to follow those faces because those faces have an awful lot to do with the revelation of God in connection with these demonic characters.

“The first one has a face of a lion, the next one has the face of a calf, then the face of a man and then the face of an eagle.

“In Ezekiel 1:10, you’ll see this again. Ezekiel is caught up into the same throne room and sees the glory of God. ‘As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle.’

“Notice how he changed that? The calf becomes more specifically an ox. In chapter 10:14, he’ll change that one more time: ‘And every one had four faces: the first face was the face of a cherub, and the second face was the face of a man, and the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.’

“The one that gets changed there—Satan’s an anointed cherub that covers. That throne, if you took an aerial view and looked down at it, has four creatures on the four corners.

“But if you look at it like I’m looking at you, you’d see the one here and then there’s one up there that’s covering. The fifth cherub was Satan. That’s why five in the Bible, first of all, is the number of death.

“The Cross work of Christ turns that No. 5 from death into grace. The fifth cherub’s ‘spot’ is taken over by the Body of Christ. So the No. 5 has two kinds of significances in the Bible.

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“In Genesis 3, it says the serpent who beguiled Eve is ‘cursed above all the cattle of the field.’ People say, ‘Well, doesn’t the Bible know the difference between a reptile and a cattle?’ Yeah, it does, but you see that serpent was really a calf because that’s who his character is. That’s his nature.

“He’s an ox. You ever make your fingers into horns are put them behind somebody’s head? The symbol of an ox is horns and that’s the symbol of Baal worship in anthropology and in Bible archaeology.

“You go to Revelation 6 and the first guy on the white horse is an archer. He’s got a bow, but he doesn’t have any arrows. You know what you do when you’re an archer? You hold back, and when you don’t have an arrow any longer, what did you just do? You let it go.

“When I studied archery as a teenager the instructor told us you always anchor at the same place and you let go of that bow, and I can still remember that teacher saying, ‘And that’s the sign of an archer,’ and I thought, ‘Whew! There’s that!’

“You say, ‘Where’d all that come from?’ You remember in Exodus 32, Moses goes up on the mountain and while he’s gone, Aaron builds a golden calf.

“What did we see show up in Hosea over and over and over? ‘Hear me, thy gods of Israel who brought ye out of Egypt.’ What was it? A calf. A representation, an idol inspired by Satan to represent him. That’s why Hosea 8 said, ‘IT is not God.’

“The Antichrist is called ‘the son of perdition’ because at the second half of the tribulation (in the first half he’s called ‘the man of sin’) he’s the beast that ascends up out of the bottomless pit.

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“In Daniel 2 you have this great image of Nebuchadnezzar and the feet represent the kingdom of the Antichrist.

"Daniel 2:43 says, ‘And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.’

“Who is the ‘they’? Well, there is no real antecedent unless it’s the 'toes' back in verse 42. Now if they’re going to ‘mingle themselves with the seed of men,’ whoever they are must not be men; must not be human or there would be no comparison with it.

“You look up the word ‘iron’ in a concordance and you’ll be amazed how often it’s associated with the giants. My subjective guess is it has something to do with magnetism and electronic forces and that kind of stuff. Superman had kryptonite and they got iron.

“All of this satanic activity starts all over again in ‘the last days.’ Rev. 11:7 says, ‘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.’

“Isn’t that an interesting way to define the ‘son of perdition’? He’s the ‘beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit.’ He is moved from that dimension into the human dimension. He’s doing exactly what the fallen angels back there in Genesis did.

“If you recall, we’ve looked at a bunch of verses back in Isaiah about the idea of the portals; the places where you can move from one dimension to the other dimension.

“If you think about the angelic world, they’re just as real as you are; they’re just not made of the same physical properties. Angels are not made of Carbon-14, and in the Scripture, there are passageways; we use the term ‘portals.’ Life in their realm is just as real as it is in our realm."