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 Preacher 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.
*****
“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.’
[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.
*****
“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.’
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