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When Satan’s cast out of heaven in the great tribulation,
the beast in the bottomless pit rises up to become the “son of perdition.”
The Antichrist is killed in the midst of the week, and when
a man dies his soul goes to hell. This beast out of the bottomless pit comes up
and inhabits his body and he literally becomes “Satan incarnate.” There’s an
angel who’s king over the bottomless pit in Revelations 9, so there’s a lot of
weird stuff going to happen, explains Richard Jordan.
The Antichrist is described as “the beast who ascends out of
the bottomless pit.” That takes place in the midst of the 70th week
when he’s killed. If a man dies, he’s dead. Your soul dies and goes to hell and
you don’t get out of hell and come back.
This beast animates that body and so you have all these movies,
books, TV shows, etc., about vampires and the walking dead.
There’s this fascination with all that kind of stuff because
that’s part of the mythology of man’s mind; it’s part of what’s there because
the creative genius of unsaved people is satanically inspired.
And if I want to prepare the world to worship me, what am I
going to do? I’d take all the young people in the world and I’d teach them this
is normal, common, ordinary kind of stuff.
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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. 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.
Revelation 13, talking about the Antichrist in verses 1-2,
says in verse 3, [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. 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 chapter 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.
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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.’
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 70th 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?” 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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