Creature plots

“Heading into the holidays, Mufasa: The Lion King will go head-to-head with Sonic the Hedgehog 3 in what's expected to be a close battle,” reports a movie entertainment website. “Neither Kraven the Hunter nor The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim will likely pose much competition after opening this weekend. 

“Exploring the unlikely rise of the beloved king of the Pride Lands, Mufasa: The Lion King enlists Rafiki to relay the legend of Mufasa to young lion cub Kiara, daughter of Simba and Nala, with Timon and Pumbaa lending their signature schtick.

“Told in flashbacks, the story introduces Mufasa as an orphaned cub, lost and alone until he meets a sympathetic lion named Taka - the heir to a royal bloodline.”

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Did you ever go watch a Disney animated movie with your children and you, as an adult, see one thing in it and they see something else? You, as an adult, take away something different from what kids do,” says Richard Jordan.

You take The Wizard of Oz. It was first written as a religious social parody. Now, you never saw a kid get any of that out of it. But if you study it; I mean, they have college courses that study The Wizard of Oz. They study the similitude of it. Well, God did that.

There are only 33 original plots in all of drama, theatre, literature and arts and every one of them comes out of the Bible. That Book in your lap is the only scientific textbook to explain to you the symbols and the activities on this planet.

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Psalm 91:  [13] Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.

Who’s the lion, the adder, the young lion and the dragon? What do all those creatures represent? The dragon is Satan. In I Peter 5, Satan’s called “a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.”

In the Bible, there’s a whole counterfeit spirit world of creatures. These creatures are real, they’re potent and they hate everything God stands for.

God’s the big “G” of the little “gs,” a reference to angelic creatures. In Genesis 3, for example, they first show up “as gods knowing good and evil.”

These gods are living creatures; they know good and evil. Eve’s acquainted with them because, obviously, if she hadn’t known who they were, there would have been no temptation at all.

She sees these angelic creatures functioning on the earth; her and Adam's responsibility was to go out and have dominion in that earth—win it back from them, so she knows who they are. She knows they have knowledge and that they’re real, living creatures, not idols.

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.

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“Hosea 13:7-8: [7] Therefore I will be unto them as a lion: as a leopard by the way will I observe them:
[8] I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them. 

You see those four different beasts? The lion, the leopard, the bear and the wild beast. Come over to Revelation 13 where he describes the Antichrist (back in Hosea he says it’s going to be AS a lion; Hosea is full of similitudes, or comparisons using "like" or "as").

Revelation 13:2: “And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.”

The dragon is Satan (Revelation 12). Those are exactly the same four beasts in Daniel 7 that describe the career of the Antichrist.

Notice his body is like a leopard that has feet like a bear and a mouth like a lion. He’s a composite, but the basic appearance is that of a leopard. You remember in Jeremiah 13 when the Lord asks Israel, “Can a leopard change his spots?”

In Revelation 13, there is a mark of the beast. A leopard has a mark on him, doesn’t he? You know what the spot on a leopard is? It’s a black spot. You ever seen anybody come out of Mass on Ash Wednesday and look at what they’ve got on their forehead?

And if you don’t put it on your forehead, because you’re going to be on TV and don’t want people to see it, you know where you put it? In your hand. In Revelation 13, where does it say they’re going to put the mark?

By the way, when he says “kiss the calves,” you ever hear anybody talk about “the kiss of death”? That’s it. You know how Judas betrayed Jesus? With the kiss of death. That’s what this is right here.

Again, God says in Hosea,  [8] I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps.

You know, if you meet a lion by the way, that’s not a good thing. If you meet a bear bereaved of her babies, that’s not a good thing.

All four of those beasts describe the Antichrist and God is telling them that He Himself is going to bring the Antichrist against the nation Israel. He says in II Thessalonians 2, “And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie.”

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Lucifer was a cherub. John gets caught up into the throne room and writes in  Revelation 4, "And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne.
[3] And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald.
[4] And round about the throne were four and twenty seats: and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment; and they had on their heads crowns of gold.
[5] And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices: and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.
[6] 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 Crosswork of Christ turns that No. 5 from death into grace. 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 and 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 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.”