Last Days Timeline, A literal interpretation of biblical prophecy, second edition by Gregory Supina - HTML preview

On the other side, the bitter spirits born of Satan will hate God more fervently, since Satan, the father of their spirits, will stir and awaken their spirits too. Then they will inwardly realize that God's wrath is about to be poured out upon their sinful lives. All awakened non-elect spirits will be taught more directly by their loveless, ruthless father as well. Thus, the minds of their spirits will embrace Satan's delusions and lies of false religions with an even greater zeal than ever before. Above all, most will take up the beast's religion of secular humanism, because humanism is the ultimate Satanic religion.

The cause of all the worst sins is a delusional desire to become one's own god, to imagine that one controls one's own destiny and, therefore, determines all the laws and ways of one’s own life. Then this naturally makes the non-elect want to control the lives of those within the sphere of one’s own life as well, to gain enough power to create laws and rules for those associated with one’s own life, to judge and even destroy those other lives while one pretends to be their god. This is the essence of humanism. From the beginning, the religion of humanism has always involved the worship (esteem and service) of a non-elect person who wants to be a god. Of course, all sects of humanism must be polytheistic, since all humanists are forced to worship more than one person at a time, since each must worship oneself and other human gods, as well as money, terrorizing or defending entities, and a great number of things, like status symbols, intellects, possessions and means to esteem and power.

 

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Humanists worship anyone or anything that is self-affirming, anyone or anything that makes them feel more god-like. But those other people or things worshiped by a humanist are merely secondary gods. For the highest god of a humanist is either oneself or some other human being. Even the beast will worship himself as his own highest god, while he too will also worship many other things (like the god of fortresses). As God’s Word clearly prophesied, humanism will be the religion of the beast, the root of all his sins, the source of his hatred of God—just as the desire to be one’s own god is also the foundation and root cause of all Satan’s sins. For Satan is the beast’s father, and the beast is the messiah of Satan’s world order. This is true of the beast’s followers too. All who wear the physical mark of the beast’s name will be self-willed, self-esteeming humanists who hate God and His truths, since God and His truths interfere with their delusional desire to be their own gods who rule their own destinies—although it is impossible to be their own gods and they are all total slaves to Satan.

In the days of Adam, God began to develop an enmity between the elect and non-elect. And this dichotomizing process increased in intensity after our God Jesus walked among us. Yet, even at this time, the vast majority of both the elect and non-elect wander blindly in a barren land between the kingdoms of God and Satan. Only after the revival of the sixth seal, will the elect and non-elect part ways, where the elect serve only God’s kingdom and the non-elect serve only Satan’s kingdom. A very clear division between the two will be written in stone, enduring forever. Then, by the time we see the return of Jesus, this dichotomizing effect will be complete, with God’s own elect children making their stand behind the fortified lines of God’s kingdom, and Satan's children driven far into the darkness of his world order. There will be very few souls remaining in the no-man’s land between the two kingdoms, although most on earth are currently living in that no-man’s land today.

By the time the seventh trumpet sounds, none will be sitting on the fence and the dichotomy will be almost complete, with the elect and non-elect irreversibly divided. And there will likely be massive migrations as well, with the elect going to Christian nations and the non-elect going to fascist lands. For, by then, God will have fully exposed the lies of Satan's world order—the destructive, worthless, unjust and arrogant foolishness established by Satan to maintain his social, political, legal, economic and military systems that he created in his rebellion against God. With the beast's arrival, most hearts on earth will have made a choice in their hearts and souls. Their spirits will have been irresistibly drawn to whatever sides they were born to choose. Since Satan's children are never able to repent nor truly love, they will hate God's wise, beneficial ways more than ever, and will eventually follow Satan’s messiah, the beast. But God's elect will become wise in Him, because Jesus dwells in them.

As the era of the seventh seal begins, and the first of the seven trumpet sounds, God’s visible true church will exist will be preparing for the return of Jesus, but also for arrival of Satan’s messiah, the beast. God will make His church ready for when the devil’s ruthless and unjust kingdom becomes the dominant world power, so God can use His church to fully expose the folly of that beast. For, by then, most of His elect will be much stronger, able to resist the beast’s deceptions, and able to defend themselves to some extent, although they will not be psychopathic warriors like the beast’s armies.

The last days before Jesus returns will be a time when God will show all the elect how Satan’s world order has only ever worked intentional evil through the hands of his own children, through the native citizens of his kingdom. For the Satanic messiah's mind and body will reveal the essence and nature of Satan, his father, since the whole of Satan shall dwell in that beast. This is why the beast shall call himself his own god. Because the core desire of Satan's spirit is to be his own god, we will see the beast, in whom Satan dwells, also desire to be his own god, even the god ruling over all the earth.

 

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The beast and his people shall be the purest humanists who ever lived in all history and, as fascists, the non-elect will faithfully worship the beast as their highest god, even more than they will worship themselves. Satan will cause this pure humanism to bear such a strong appeal to all non-elect spirits and minds of flesh that none will be able to resist it. Only the elect in Christ will be able to resist its dark, mind-bending power to delude. “For false [messiahs] and false prophets will arise and perform great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect” (Mat. 24:24, ESV). In the current era of the fifth seal, we see many fake messiahs and false prophets, even more than we have been seeing in all past history. And the beast will be worse than any of them. But God will not allow the beast to rise up until most of His own elect children have been sealed, sanctified and separated into His kingdom, made able to resist the delusions and lies of the beast and his people. The era of the sixth seal, as well as the plagues of the first six trumpets during the era of the seventh seal, will gather them into His true church. Jesus told us this when He taught about these predestined events.

Matthew 24:14-31 (ESV): “And this Gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout

the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come. So when you see

the abomination of desolation spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing in the holy place (let

the reader understand), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. Let the one who

is on the housetop not go down to take what is in his house, and let the one who is in the field

not turn back to take his cloak. And alas for women who are pregnant and for those who are

nursing infants in those days! Pray that your flight may not be in winter or on a Sabbath. For

then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until

now, no, and never will be.

“And if those days had not been cut short, no human being would be saved. But for the

sake of the elect those days will be cut short. Then if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the

Christ!’ or ‘There he is!’ do not believe it. For false christs and false prophets will arise and

perform great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect. See, I have

told you beforehand. So, if they say to you, ‘Look, he is in the wilderness,’ do not go out. If

they say, ‘Look, he is in the inner rooms,’ do not believe it. For as the lightning comes from

the east and shines as far as the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. Wherever the

corpse is, there the vultures will gather.

“Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon

will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will

be shaken. Then will appear in heaven the sign of the Son of Man, and then all the tribes of

the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with

power and great glory. And He will send out His angels with a loud trumpet call, and they

will gather [together] His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.”

In these days of instant communication, we have already seen the “Gospel of the kingdom … proclaimed throughout the whole world,” although not even the churches who claim to believe in Jesus actually believe its testimony. But the “Good News” of the Messiah’s salvation has been broadcast around this entire globe—the message that our God Jesus has enabled a New Covenant relationship with Him, so His Holy Spirit can personally teach and train our spirits to become full and true citizens of His kingdom. So now the end times of the sixth and seventh seals will begin.

In this sermon of Jesus, He referred to the “abomination of desolation,” which occurs in the middle of the beast’s seven-year reign. Jesus was citing Daniel’s prophecy about the Roman beast in the end times: “He will make a firm covenant with many for one week. In the middle of the week he will

 

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cause the sacrifice and the offering to cease. On the wing of abominations will come one who makes desolate; and even to the decreed full end, wrath will be poured out on the desolate” (Dan. 9:27, WEB). Daniel told us that the beast will conquer Israel and the Middle East at the beginning of his reign. But he seems to withdraw most of his troops after three and a half years when lands in the north and east threaten his homeland. Up to that time, the beast was trampling through the temple in Jerusalem and oppressing the Jews, but seems to have allowed them to worship God at their temple. Then, before that beast withdraws most of his troops from the Middle East, to war with his other enemies, he will commit one last act of spite against God and the Jews. The beast will desecrate God’s temple in Jerusalem, just before he leaves Israel and the Middle East. Through his hatred of God, the beast will stand in temple and declare himself to be their only true god, then likely set a statue of himself inside the temple’s inner room, in the place called the Holy of Holies, where Yahweh God promised to dwell. Then the beast will leave and not return for about three years.

When the people of Judah see the beast commit this “abomination of desolation,” Jesus said they should immediately “flee to the mountains.” For this event will initiate the last half of the beast’s seven-year reign, which will be when that beast begins to behead anyone opposed to his fascist form of secular humanism, anyone who refuses to worship him as their high god. So all honest Jews and Christians will be murdered by the beast’s soldiers and spies, who will begin their work as soon as the beast commits the “abomination” and leaves Israel, to return to his homeland. Since the beast’s soldiers will soon be transferred to other lands shortly after the beast leaves, to war against their enemies to the north and east of the beast’s homeland, they will carry out this murdering mission quickly. Therefore, the need to flee from them will be very urgent. And, since the beast’s armies will mostly be stationed in the cities and towns near the agricultural lands in the valleys of Israel, it will be best to flee into sparsely populated hill country or “mountains” of Israel. Since the beast’s armies will be in a hurry, because most of them will need to leave Israel within a few weeks, they will not waste much time searching for God-worshipers in the “mountain” country. After killing as many of the faithful Jews and Christians as they can find in the populated areas, the majority of the beast’s troops will be deployed to other arenas of combat. Then the people of Judah can return to the cities, where they and their allies can plan a rebellion against the beast and prepare for the Messiah’s return.

This portrays an extreme sense of urgency. By the time the beast commits “the abomination of desolation,” he will have conquered Israel and much of the Middle East, even parts of Africa. And the bulk of his armies will be stationed in that region. But, immediately after he desecrates the temple in Jerusalem and kills the two prophets preaching there, he will need to war against the very aggressive armies of secular nations to the north and to the east of his homeland. So, while many of his troops are in the Middle East, he will begin to persecute the Jews and Christians, but cannot do a very thorough job, before he and his troops must go elsewhere to defend his European homeland. Of course, throughout the entire last half of his seven-year reign, the beast will continue to persecute the worshipers of God and all who speak the truth against him. But he will not be able to do so in the Middle East and western Africa, if those Jewish and Christian nations can successfully overcome the sparse forces he left behind to occupy and govern those lands. And, after the beast withdraws most of his troops, it seems that Israel and her allies will rapidly eliminate all the beast’s remaining troops.

After this rebellion against the beast, he may send a few missiles and aircraft to bomb some of the cities in retaliation. However, the beast will be far too busy fighting in other wars, and unable to send enough troops to reoccupy the region. So it will be a few years before he can return and retake the lands in that region. But, after the army of 200 million from the east is defeated and the beast has subjugated them and the nations to the north of homeland, he will gather an international army to

 

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come against Israel, since Israel seems to be the principal organizer and power behind the rebellion. And, this time, the beast will not come to merely occupy Israel, but will come to utterly destroy the entire land and kill everyone in it, except a few remaining loyal worshipers of himself. When he comes to Israel, he will establish his headquarters on the hill of Megiddo, at Armageddon. But Jesus will return before the beast takes Jerusalem, slaughtering his troops and casting the beast into hell.

Of course, the false humanistic church of the Great Prostitute in the beast’s homeland will not be persecuted throughout the last half of the beast’s reign, since they will be the beast’s citizens and willing to worship him. But, during that time, true Jews and Gentile true Christians will suffer some of the worst persecutions they have ever experienced in the lands controlled by the beast. Prototypes of the humanistic beast’s kingdoms, such as Hitler’s Nazis and Communist regimes, persecuted tens of millions of Jews and Christians. And the beast may be even worse than them. Consider that the population of the beast’s seven nations may be more than a quarter of a billion, with hundreds of millions more in the lands striving to appease him. But a third or more of these will probably be Christians after the sixth seal’s revival. Then there will be Jews of the Diaspora too. So the number of believers beheaded by the beast within those three and a half years may exceed a hundred million.

Jesus warned us: “There will be great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, and never will be. And if those days had not been cut short, no human being would be saved. But for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short” (24:21-22, ESV). Then He later told us how long the end times would last: “Most certainly I tell you, this generation [i.e., the generation living in the end times] will not pass away until all these things are accomplished.” (24:34; cf., Mark 13:30, Luke 21:32). So God will “cut short” His judgment of the world. All of His end-time plagues, from the world’s devastation at the beginning of the sixth seal’s era until the last non-elect soul perishes before Jesus set His feet on the Mount of Olives, will occur within one generation. And a biblically defined generation is usually considered to be forty years. So the great wars fought since Jesus said this, including the world wars, did not cause as much tribulation as those end times will cause. No hardships that human beings have ever experienced since the day God gave Adam and Eve the ability to discern between good and evil will be as difficult as the great tribulations of the end times. Yet a remnant, consisting of only elect Jews and Gentiles, will survive, because Jesus will shorten the end times. And, as Jesus returns, He will bring with Him many elect souls who died during the beast’s persecutions or at other times in history. And this will be the first resurrection of the dead. Then all these surviving and resurrected elect shall serve Jesus during the millennium of His rule, as He restores the earth and provides a full, loving life for all as they repopulate the earth.

Note how Jesus said that “no human being would be saved” if He did not cut short the days of the end times. For, if Jesus allowed the beast and his people to take over the world, those vain secular humanists would first murder all the elect on the earth. Then the beast and his people would destroy themselves. For all humanistic societies in history, whenever they are left to themselves, without the interventions of God and His elect, have always made stupid and self-destructive choices which kill them. This is because humanists are vain, self-worshiping, wanna-be gods who oppress one another in counter-productive class systems and hierarchies, until they war among themselves and murder one another. But, to prevent the humanists from utterly destroying all human life on earth, Jesus will silence them with the world-wide earthquakes and striking meteors of the sixth seal, followed by the sealing of the elect to form a visible true church. And these elect will preserve some of the world until Jesus returns. Then Jesus will make the seventh seal’s plagues short, for the sake of these elect.

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the wages of workers). The elect were put on earth to serve as His priests, to teach truths necessary for justice and order, which keeps the people of the earth alive. Without God working in the world through His elect children, all the others in the world would become lawless and destroy one another.

Then Jesus warned us that there would be many deceivers in the end times. And the beast’s own advisors will be the worst deceivers of them all, coming with all kinds of “signs and wonders” to lure the undiscerning into their religion and into the worship of the beast himself. For that beast will claim to be a kind of “christ” or “anointed one” himself (that is, the word χριστός, or “christ” in English, like the Hebrew word “messiah,” means “anointed one,” and is not exclusively a title of Jesus). Then there will also be many religious con men who will also claim to be “anointed ones” or “christs” as well. Both the beast and these religious frauds will be very charming and friendly in outward appearances, although they will all be psychopaths. So they will deceive very many souls.

Jesus told us, “If anyone tells you people, ‘Look, here or there [is] the anointed one,’ do not believe [it]. For false anointed ones and false prophets will be raised up. They will provide great signs and omens in order to deceive even the elect, if possible. See, I told you people beforehand. Therefore, if they explain to you, ‘Look, He is in the wilderness,’ do not go out; or ‘[He is] in the secret room,’ do not believe [it]. For, just as the lightning goes out from the east and shines up to the west, even so will be the advent of the Son of humankind. Wherever the corpse might be, there the vulture will gather” (Mat. 24:26-28, ALT). While Jesus’ body remains in heaven, His Holy Spirit is everywhere and can find each individual elect soul wherever that one might be. So there is no need for any of us to go anywhere to find Him. And, when Jesus returns, His light will shine from one end of the world to the other, on that special day which has no morning nor evening. So no one on earth will ever need to go anywhere to see His descent from the sky. And the dupe who believes the deceivers about Jesus having returned to someplace in the wilderness or to some kind of secret room are spiritually dead, and knows nothing of the biblical prophecies. So the “vultures” will gather around that dupe to devour him. Let the elect beware and learn the Scriptures, so they will not be deceived by vultures.

Since there will be an attempt “to deceive even the elect, if possible,” we know that the strategy of many religious deceivers and the beast will be to try to convince the elect that they are “anointed ones” sent by God, and that they are their only hope for salvation. They will tell the elect their man-made laws and ways are far better, more modern and far more just than God’s laws and God’s ways. For deceivers, especially the humanists, have always done this. The beast himself will try to convince the elect that they should cast aside the Bible and listen only to him, instead of seeking truths from God’s Holy Spirit, as He personally teaches their spirits about His meaning of His Word.

Although everything that is even partially good in humanistic teachings was borrowed from God’s Word, they do not acknowledge this, but give credit for all truths to men. Instead of recognizing that all truths given to all human beings in all history came from God, they attribute all truths to certain men, then say that men created all religions, and later religions came from earlier religions. None will even dare to think outside that narrow little box, to acknowledge that God has been teaching and saving elect spirits since He first granted Adam and Eve an awareness of spiritual good and spiritual evil, since He made the first human creatures aware of justice and injustice. Then those humanists also feel that their infantile, ignorant spirits bear the ability and even the right to choose what they want to call good or evil, and judge others by those standards, even though they know that good and evil are immutable standards created by God alone. They feel they can edit or alter any borrowed words from God’s Word as well, although their changes invariably cause severe harm in the end.

 

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Humanists have always insisted that the foolish ways of a particular worshiped human god, or group of human gods, are far superior to the ways of all the other humanists who thought just like them, who also destroyed themselves through their own vanity. And humanists always think their thoughts and ways are infinitely superior to God’s thought and ways, since they believe that the Bible is simply a collection of writings made by backwards, ignorant, barbaric prophets and apostles. So both the secular and religious humanists often mock and slander God’s Word, usually by building straw men to illustrate how supposedly stupid, contradictory and irrational it is. Yet, for all their claims of inventing better laws and ways, those humanists keep on destroying innocent lives and themselves.

No matter how “wise” a humanist seems to be, he will still war against other humanists through his selfish ambitions and try to force his own ineffective and unjust “truths” on the others. But the beast will be the most effective conquerer of all the other humanists, since he will provide the most deceptive of all false proofs, to convince his dupes that his lies are truer, better and wiser than the words of all the other humanists, and infinitely superior to God’s words. For the beast and his assistant, the second beast, will be the most directly empowered by Satan, even able to perform great signs and wonders to deceive the dupes of this world. Since those shiny bobbles will easily convince the non-elect to believe the beast and his assistant, almost all non-elect in the world will admire him.

Yet Jesus will personally teach the elect about Himself and about His ways. Beginning in the era of the sixth seal, long before the beast rises to power, Jesus will make His elect able to see through the deceptions of the beast and other religious deceivers. Collectively, the elect will become aware of all truths and created realities, so they will understand how the beast leads all his dupes to death. Jesus’ Holy Spirit will teach God’s Law to elect spirits, and His Law forbids us to believe and follow any person who comes with prophecies or miracles, if they do not worship the real God (Deut. 13:1-18). Only God’s Word have proven to be true and effective throughout history, while the lies invented by men have proven to be false through the death and destruction they have caused throughout history.

Jesus came to fulfill God’s laws in us and through us. Our God Jesus will keep our hearts grounded in His created realities. So, not only did Yahweh come in Jesus’ body to warn us about deceivers, but His Word and what is written in His creations also explain the truths and realities we need to survive and thrive. And notice that nothing is mentioned about whether or not these deceivers will be sincere or not. For their emotions of the flesh, whether real or not, do not matter. When a deceiver does not love the truth, God hands that one over to delusions, and that one will often sincerely believe those delusions, with all of one’s loveless, wicked heart. So sincerity means nothing when judging whether one’s teachings are true or false. For evil motives and intentions of a spirit can be entirely sincere.

Those who speak the truth grudgingly, even without sincerity, are still speaking the truth. And those who tell a lie may do so with heartfelt trust in that lie. Likewise, prophecies or miracles, worked by either God or a demon through someone do not prove that the person is a faithful servant of God, only that either God or a demon chose to manifest power through that person. Then, if the prophecy or miracle is loving and promotes God’s kind of justice, it must be from God. But the person through whom God worked is nothing. Or, if the prophecy or miracle is a loveless show of power that leads souls into the worship of demonic or human gods, or is unjust in any way, is must be from a demon.

In His Law, God said He would purify or “test” us in the same way we test metal (e.g., Deut. 13:3), by allowing Satan to give accurate prophecies or work real miracles through his deceiving children, in ways that will lead their dupes into the worship of false gods and promote all kinds of injustice. So the only real proof that an accurate prophecy or genuine miracle comes from God is if it leads elect spirits to worship God in truth, if it causes the elect to esteem and serve God through a greater

 

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love of Him and His people, if it promotes just, equitable love. The only real proof that an accurate prophecy or real miracle comes from God is if its effects align with God’s Word, as it is taught by the Holy Spirit of Jesus to our spirits. For the Word of God always proves effective in guiding our works of just love for the good of all. So sincerity, other emotions of the flesh, prophecies proving to be accurate, real miracles or charming words do not prove that a loveless liar comes in God’s name.

Also notice here that, when the real Jesus returns, His coming will be blatantly obvious to the whole world, both to all the elect and to all the non-elect. It will be an event that no one will be able to miss or misconstrue. A clear and unmistakable event of Christ’s descent from the sky is what we need to wait for, a day of bright light radiating everywhere upon the entire planet, a light that literally all will see. Then, as soon as Jesus returns, He will cast Satan and his beast into hell, while also slaying the armies of the beast and all the ruthless non-elect upon the earth. And, naturally, the elect survivors will not be able to bury all of those corpses lying on the ground. So the carrion-eating birds will feast upon them. Literal vultures will gather around the corpses of the non-elect in Israel and other lands.

The “tribulation of those days” will begin with the destruction of the earth’s infrastructures by the world-wide earthquakes and striking meteors at the beginning of the sixth seal’s era. After about twenty years, God will then strike the earth with the plagues of the seven trumpets and pour out the seven bowls of His wrath upon the beast’s kingdom. And part of the Great Tribulation will include the way in which the elect shall suffer the persecutions of the beast. There will be times of physical darkness over much of the world and in Europe during the fifth bowl of God’s wrath, just before God gathers the armies of the beast and sends them into Israel for their destruction. God will plague the beast, his European homeland and his armies in Israel with this darkness until the day He returns to destroy them all, although it will be a relatively short period of darkness, likely only a few days. In fact, all the events initiated by the seven bowls of God’s wrath will last only a few weeks, and will occur in very rapid succession near the end of the beast’s seven-year reign, just before Jesus returns.

Jesus also told us that the Son of Humankind “will send out His angels on a mission with a great trumpet sound, and they will gather together His elect out of the four winds, from the uttermost parts of the skies up to their far ends” (24:31, ALT). The main verb in the last clause of this verse is a form of ἐπισυνάγω, which indicates gathering together at a particular location. And this gathering will occur after Jesus returns (v. 30), as His last teaching about the sequence of events during the end times. So this may refer to the first resurrection of the dead, when Jesus brings many previously deceased elect back to the earth to serve Him during the millennium. For they would be asleep in the skies of the spiritual realm after death, and would need to be gathered by the angels from there. Or this could refer to the second and last resurrection of the dead, which is followed by the rapture of those still alive on earth, when all humans who ever lived on earth throughout history are gathered together and taken to the gates of heaven for the judgment day, just before God destroys the earth.

If this refers to the second resurrection, then there would be more than a thousand years between the day of His return and this second resurrection. And only mentioning the main events, without any reference to how much time passed between sequential events, was very common in prophecies of the Bible. For these two events, the Messiah’s arrival and His gathering together of His elect into heaven over a thousand years later, would seem close to one another in God’s eyes. For earthly time is God’s creation, and does not flow sequentially in the way we perceive it to flow. Rather, earthly time is all one time, where all the past and future exists at once. Some say this verse implies that Jesus will gather all the elect into heaven on the same day He arrives, and think that His arrival will occur on the same day that He destroys the material space-time continuum. In other words, they do not believe that Jesus will return in His physical body to rule the earth for a millennium before He

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causes material existence to cease. Instead, they prefer to believe that God wants the ignorant men who rule their fake humanistic church to rule the world for a millennium, as an unjust and loveless Roman kind of hierarchical theocracy, where the elite oppress their siblings for their own benefit.

But, of course, those who believe all this are interpolating their own self-serving inventions into the text, and are not interpreting these two verses through the global context of all the other biblical prophecies about the end times. And their false interpretation actually nullifies numerous other Scriptures. So they are both adding to and subtracting from God’s Word, which is a sin that brings a curse upon them. But we must always remember that all the Scriptures must be interpreted in the light of all the other Scriptures, and according to God’s intended meanings as they are taught to our spirits by God’s Holy Spirit. We cannot simply force a couple of isolated verses might to mean what we want them to mean, so a bunch of psychopathic human gods can gain power and wealth for themselves by usurping the Headship of Jesus, by establishing a humanistic theocracy led by them.

When we read these prophecies, we must strive to find out what God intended them to mean. Just because Jesus did not mention the other prophesied events that would occur between His arrival and the final gathering together of the elect into heaven, it does not mean that those other events will not occur. Besides, verse 31 might even refer to the first resurrection, not the second resurrection. But even if it does refer to the second resurrection, several other prophecies stat that Jesus will return to the earth in His body of flesh, will restore the earth after He causes much of it to be destroyed, then rule as the King and High Priest over all the earth for a long time, which John’s prophecy delineates as a full millennium. This omission of those details might be confusing. Yet the omission of details is a common practice in biblical prophecies, as well as in the conversations and writings of all people in every culture. In everyday speech, one might say something like, “After I inherited the money, I bought this house,” even though one bought that house seven years after receiving that inheritance.

We often see prophecies provide a general description of main events, but neglect to mention all the other events which occurred between them. And most of our descriptions also leap back and forth in time as well. It may even seem as though someone deleted some texts that originally existed between the verses. But, actually, this is simply how people spoke in those days, and also how we describe events in our day too. However, the harmonization of all the Scriptures will clarify what He said. Jesus expected those who heard these words to assume that, when He described the very beginning and very end of the millennium, all that occurred between was included, whether mentioned or not.

Now, what we really need to do is heed the warnings that our God Jesus gave in this prophecy. And this also means that we must be able to recognize the beast when he comes. Therefore, we need to examine all that the Scriptures tell us about the beast, and also look at similar historical figures who are prototypes of the beast. We need to look at how humanistic dictators acted, men arising from the same religious kingdom with the same motives and intentions, men with same purposes and selfish ambitions. And there have been many of these kinds of anti-Christs rising up at various times over the last 2,500 years, male secular humanists created in the image of Satan and the beast. So, from the very common similarities shared by all these men, we can know exactly what the beast will be like.

First, God’s Word tells says the beast will be the final ruler of Satan’s fourth kingdom after Babylon, that is, the last ruler of the Roman Empire, as it exists in the end times, once the Roman religion has spread throughout the entire world. And all the beast’s laws and ways will be based on that demonic religion. This means the beast will establish a steep hierarchical government with an oppressive class system, where the power of its elite human gods is maintained by terrorizing the masses into fearful submission. The beast’s kingdom and homeland will consist of seven European nations or cultures,

 

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and his capital will be the city of Rome. He will practice the traditional Roman secular humanism, which worships him, which is what we now call fascism. And this is confirmed by many Scriptures.

Obviously, the beast will also be charming to his friends, like most high-functioning psychopaths, and well-loved by his citizens, because he will flatter their egos and convince the blind masses to worship him. Daniel’s prophecy described Antiochus IV Epiphanes before he was born, and Daniel portrayed Antiochus as a prototype of the beast. And Antiochus was very much like Hitler, Mussolini, Trump and other fascists. So we know the beast will strive to make his kingdom prosperous and great through ruthless deeds and by enslaving people, for the glory of his own name, just as the Roman Emperors did. But, since the beast will stroke the egos of his worshipers, they will love him. So the beast will seek short-term gains at an enormous cost to many human lives, through ruthless exploitation, severe persecutions, plundering and wars, through all the quick, easy, brutal methods that result in devastating long-term losses for his own kingdom. There will be nothing truly wise and loving about his reign. To “stimulate the economy,” the beast will bow before the demon Mammon and sacrifice the lives of millions of innocent people to it, as well as many of his soldiers.

The beast and his covetous people will think the persecution of God’s people helps them financially prosper. And it might, in the short term, when they plunder the possessions of the elect. But those honest and fruitful elect are the backbone and heart of their land. So their sinful, myopic solution of plundering them will always backfire in the end, causing a slow and steady destruction of their land, even by the curses of God upon them. But the main and core reason that the beast and his people will hate God and His people will be spiritual. Since their non-elect spirits want to be gods who promote only their own selfish destinies through a fictitious “free will,” but elect spirits love one another and humbly work together through the collective knowledge of all their people for good of all, there will always be conflicts between the elect and non-elect. And the ways in which the elect expose the lies and failures of the egotistic, deluded non-elect makes those non-elect hate the elect, since the only thing those non-elect live for are their lies and delusions. Thus, the non-elect persecute the elect.

The non-elect will always employ false reasoning to slander God and His people. In their eyes, they are making rational arguments for persecuting and murdering the innocent. Then they broadcast and repeat those false arguments publicly, while suppressing the truth, to propagandize and brainwash themselves. And they call all this lying to themselves, all this oppression and bondage of their own minds, their “liberty” and “freedom.” For they grant themselves the so-called “freedom” to abuse, exploit, dehumanize, oppress and murder other siblings in the family of humankind. Yet they make themselves into the slaves of those lies and delusions, which is ultimately slavery to Satan and to the demon-controlled human gods appointed by that devil to rule over them. Like most Satanic despots in history, the beast’s will propagandize and brainwash the people into believing that their slavery to him is “freedom” and “liberty,” that evil is good and good is evil. The beast will never dare to reveal that his Satanic, unjust ways only lead to complete slavery and death. Now let us take a look at the Scriptures which reveal the attributes of the beast, as well as the psychopathic sins he will commit.

II Thessalonians 2:1-17 (ESV): “Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and

our being gathered together to Him, we ask you, brothers, not to be quickly shaken in mind

or alarmed, either by a spirit or a spoken word, or a letter seeming to be from us, to the effect

that the day of the Lord has come. Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day [of Jesus'

return] will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness [i.e., the

beast] is revealed, the son of destruction, who opposes and exalts himself against every so-

called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming

himself to be god.

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“Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things? And you know

what is restraining him now so that he may be revealed in his time. For the mystery of

lawlessness is already at work. Only He who now restrains it will do so until he is out of the

way. And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will kill with the breath

of His mouth and bring to nothing by the appearance of His coming.

“The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs

and wonders, and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they

refused to love the truth and so be saved. Therefore God sends them a strong delusion,

so that they may believe what is false, in order that all may be condemned who did not

believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness. But we ought always to give thanks to

God for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God chose you as the firstfruits to be

saved, through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth.

“To this He called you through our Gospel, so that you may obtain the glory of our Lord

Jesus Christ. So then, brothers, stand firm and hold to the traditions that you were taught by

us, either by our spoken word or by our letter. Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and

God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort [along with many other kinds of

counsel that provide eternal solutions] and good hope through grace, comfort [this actually means

‘counsel’] your hearts and establish them in every good work and word.”

Here we see the Greek phrase, ἡμῶν ἐπισυναγωγῆς ἐπʼ αὐτόν, means, “our assembling or gathering together towards (or because of) Him” (2:1). And it might refer to the second resurrection with its “rapture” of the living into heaven for the judgment day, or it could also refer to the “gathering together” of the elect after Jesus returns to the earth. But it cannot possibly mean that literally all the surviving elect on earth on the day of His return will be brought to Jerusalem to meet Jesus. For the tens of millions of elect at that time could not physically fit into that city. So the noun, ἐπισυναγωγή, must refer to “a gathering together to or toward [and] at some location’ (BDAG3). Thus, in context, the prefix ἐπί on this noun might refer to the great gathering of all the elect on the judgment day, or possibly to the gatherings of elect survivors in small and large groups scattered around the world, all looking at Jesus together, as He descends from the sky. But it most likely refers to the judgment day.

Then Paul warned the church to not be “quickly shaken in mind or alarmed” by demonic spirits that cause panic, by spoken words of false teachers, nor by forged letters that supposedly came from the apostles. So, by the time Paul wrote this letter (in about AD 51-52), deceivers and false preachers were already attempting to corrupt various churches, and were even forging letters and saying they came from the apostles. Liars were trying to frighten the people with sensationalistic and fake stories about the Lord having already returned to the earth. But why would they do this? Their reason was the same as the reason why so many fake religious and political “leaders” spread sensationalistic and fake stories today. They want to look like the “strong” men who can deliver the people from purely invented and fictional dangers, so the people will become dependent on them. They want to take captive the uninformed and superstitious minds and hearts of the people, so they will serve them.

A captive and dependent people pay much and serve much, providing a good income and power for fake preachers and exploitative politicians, for “leaders” willing to lie about spiritual and moral matters. For, if liars can make the people afraid, but make themselves look like strong “saviors,” the people will turn to those deceivers and say, “Tell us what we must do to save ourselves and we will surely do it.” Then the liars “comfort” them by saying: “Do not worry. If you trust every word I say and blindly obey me and give your money to support me, everything will be fine.” Humanists have

 

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used this kind of trickery on society’s dupes for thousands of years, to become rich and powerful, to become human gods worshiped by their dupes. But Paul warns us to be wary of these rhetoricians who utter corrupting lies with such convincing confidence, in such an authoritative, believable way.

Even in those early days, Paul had to remind the people: “The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith. Certain persons, by swerving from these, have wandered away into vain discussion, desiring to be teachers of the law [i.e., here the ‘law’ refers to all the Scriptures, and means they were desiring to be teachers of the Bible], without understanding either what they are saying or the things about which they make confident assertions’ (I Tim. 1:5-7, ESV).

Those deceivers who came to corrupt the true apostolic church of the first century were exactly like the pastors and priests of all the other humanistic churches in history, up to this very day. And they use the same methods to preserve their exploitative institutions. That is, they gather like-minded disciples as their assistants and grant them esteeming endorsements and accolades, such as degrees and certificates from their universities and colleges. But they only give them to those who uphold and perpetuate their lies and delusions, because those deceptions provide them with money and power. They pretend that those like-minded deceivers earned their authority and good reputation as fellow “saviors” of their dupes, and that their fake “salvation” is built on a solid foundation. So, in one generation after another, senior deceivers enable junior deceivers to make “confident assertions” about deceptions that are “without understanding,” which lead their people into destructive errors.

However, we must remember that all human beings are sinners. All are fundamentally fools and liars, especially those who function solely through their intellects and emotions of their flesh, of which they are so proud. The only truly worthy accolades of a true teaching and judging elder are the teachings in the mind of his spirit, which all come from the Holy Spirit of our God Jesus. And all true elders of true churches must be loving, just, honest, equitable men, whom Jesus Himself has personally sent to humbly serve His people. Let us never forget this. All the true teachers of God’s Word, those genuinely sent by God, are seldom glorified or even recognized by the world order. But fake teachers sent by Satan are often glorified by his world order, and are frequently well paid too.

As Paul once said about himself and other true elders sent by God: “Not that we lord it over your faith, but we work with you for your joy, for you stand firm in your faith.... Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, as some do, letters of recommendation to you [such as degrees or certificates from universities or colleges, or endorsements from other sinners] , or from you? You yourselves are our letter of recommendation, written on our hearts, to be known and read by all.... But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us. We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies ... as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.... From now on, therefore, we regard no one according to the flesh.... but as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: by great endurance, in afflictions, hardships, calamities, beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleepless nights, hunger; by purity, knowledge, patience, kindness, the Holy Spirit, genuine love; by truthful speech, and the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and for the left; through honor and dishonor, through slander and praise. We are treated as impostors, and yet are true; as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as punished, and yet not killed; as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, yet possessing everything.... Therefore go out from their midst, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch no unclean thing; then I will

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welcome you, and I will be a Father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to Me, says the Lord Almighty’ (I Cor. 1:24; 3:1-2; 4:7-10,18; 5:16a; 6:4-10,17-18, ESV). So Paul was educated in institutions of men, and there is nothing wrong with getting an education. But no one can educate a true teaching and judging elder of a true church except the Holy Spirit of our God Jesus Himself.

To the religious teachers who came in the names of other men, who came by the authority granted to them by other men and not by God Himself, Jesus Himself declared: “How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?” (John 5:44, ESV). And Jesus says the same to the pastors and priests of humanistic churches today. When men seek accolades from humanistic institutions and prominent men in Satan’s world order, they do not seek glory from God. And it is impossible to teach God’s Word rightly to one whose spirit is not Christ’s disciple. If one’s spirit is not being directly taught and trained by our God and Head Teacher, Jesus the Christ, then one cannot even become a member of God’s true church, much less an elder. Only God knows His own intended meanings of His own words, so only our God Jesus, the Messiah, is the final authority in all matters of our faith and of life. And only Jesus can call, teach, train, equip and send men who faithfully teach and judge His people lovingly, rightly and justly in His name.

Now let us look at the signs of the end times, which Paul told us about. In our day, many of the same Platonically inspired deceptions which the first-century deceivers used are still taught in churches of our day. So we must be aware of them and reject them. And Paul commanded us, in the name of Jesus (that is, through prophecy, by speaking truths that God commanded his spirit to utter): “Let no one deceive you.” This means we must perform certain kinds of activities. It is a command to pray for Jesus to open the ears and eyes of our spirits, so we can hear and see the truths that He willingly and lovingly grants when we pray. And it is a command to diligently and thoroughly study His words in His Book, accompanied by prayers directly from our spirits, the words which He gave us through the sacrifices of His true servants, the prophets and apostles. And it is a command to stop believing in words of men who come in the names of men, and stop worshiping human beings as our saviors. The only thing the people in true churches need to learn is how to let their elect spirits believe the words and commands of Jesus’ Holy Spirit. For there is no salvation in any other name on earth.

Then Paul provides some fundamental facts about the coming anti-Christ, whom John also called “the beast.” First Paul declares that Jesus will not return until after the beast’s “rebellion,” until after “the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction.” This beast is a human male who is a “son” of the devil in the same way that Jesus is the Son of God. That is, the spirit which controls all the thoughts and actions of the beast will be the spirit of Satan. So this “man of lawlessness” will oppose the loving and just laws and ways of God. Since we know the beast will not come until after the time when the sixth trumpet sounds (i.e., after the world war involving an army of 200 million, which kills a third of mankind), and we also know that he will be the chief ruler of seven European nations (six of whom previously belonged to the ancient Roman Empire), this means that Jesus will not return until after the sixth trumpet sounds. Jesus will return when the seventh trumpet sounds, just after Jesus pours out the seven bowls of wrath on the beast’s kingdom and destroys the beast’s armies at Armageddon. Jesus will not return until after His elect experience the Great Tribulation.

Not long after the great world war kills a third of mankind, we will need to look at the news about continental Europe. As soon as we see a man leading a rebellion against God’s effective, just, loving laws and ways, as a fascist ruler of Italy and six other nations, we will know he is the beast whom the Scriptures warned us about. That beast will invent countless self-serving laws and force his ignorant and foolish ways on the people, bribing or terrorizing them into submission, in the usual and typical ways of all secular humanists. That is, he will enforce his laws with brutal, excessive,

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unjust penalties, but also grant excessive wealth and power to those who worship him. All secular humanists rule by inventing ever more laws, which they then enforce through ever-increasing force.

In spite of their friendly words to their worshipers, fascist humanists always end up forcing their selfish desires and delusions upon their people through acts of terrorism, and ruthlessly torture or kill even their own most loyal worshipers who displease them. For, although fascists demand loyalty from all, they are never loyal or faithful to anyone. And those loveless psychopaths never rule through true justice, never to bring peace and security to all. Rather, fascists are willing to sacrifice masses of their loyal worshipers for relatively insignificant and worthless rewards for themselves.

Thus, like all humanists, the beast will also war against the just, spiritual ways and the natural order of life that God created to preserve the spirits and flesh of His creations. The beast will not be “lawless” in a way where he will not make any laws, but in a way where he rejects God’s laws. And he will make very many laws for his kingdom—although, like all psychopaths, he will not bind himself or his loyal henchmen to his own laws, but only require that all his “inferior” people to obey all his laws, as loosely interpreted by him and his most trusted worshipers. And, as a humanist, the beast will see himself as the only god who bears the “right” and enough “wisdom” to create all the laws, all the dictates that all must blindly obey through unquestioning, unthinking faith in him alone.

But—since the beast’s foolish, contradicting laws will be created to serve only his own carnal and selfish purposes—that beast will keep both his people and himself on the brink of destruction. If he ever ran out of victims to enslave and plunder, his economy would collapse. Then his people would starve and rebel against him. Thus, he will need to continuously engage in wars to conquer, plunder, enslave and exploit other people in other lands, to support his insane, self-serving economy. This is also why Paul called him the “son of destruction.” One of the first things he will do is wage a war against the Christian nations in the Middle East and western Africa, as well as the Jews in Israel. The beast will call them something like “criminals” and “parasites,” because their democratic and just governments will oppose his unjust and cruel laws in his own government. And with his slandering propaganda, he will convince his people to war against those Christians and Jews. Then he will steal their resources and enslave their people to enrich himself and his kingdom, in the typical fascist way.

Although there was no word to describe the fascist Roman empires in Paul’s day, he definitely did describe the beast as a fascist Roman humanist in this Scripture. For Paul said the beast “opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship” (II Thes. 2:4a), in the same way that most fascists do. Then Paul alluded to the first half of the beast’s reign, to the time when the beast will conquer Israel and commit the “abomination of desolation” in the middle of his seven-year reign. Paul prophesied that the beast will “take his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God” (2:4b). The beast will not only deny the existence of the real God, and every other god, but will also proclaim himself to be the god ruling over all God’s creations. For Satan in the beast wants to be the only one who control the destinies of all men, by inventing laws and ways for all to obey. Roman humanist dictators have never humbly accepted that God’s laws and ways have always been the wisest and most effective governing principles throughout history, providing true justice for all.

Paul then reminded the true churches: “And you know what is restraining him now so that he may be revealed in his time” (2:6). God’s power was “restraining” the beast’s advent until the appointed time of his seven-year reign. First Jesus had to proclaim the Gospel in all the world, so that the beast “could be revealed” when he came. And that Gospel revealed how the Messiah Jesus would fulfill God’s Law in and through His elect, including the loving justice of God’s judicial, democratic, free systems that He taught in His Law. These true principles have been spreading throughout the earth

 

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during the past two thousand years, and the elect all over the world have been embracing them. So it is almost time for the end times to begin, and for them to be completed by the reign of Satan’s beast.

By the truths revealed in the Gospel, the elect will be able to recognize and reject the persuasions of the beast when he arrives. And those attributes of the beast will be the same as those of the Roman, Greek, Persian and Babylonian dictators of the past. As Paul told us, “For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work. Only He who now restrains it will do so until he is out of the way. And then the lawless one will be revealed, who the Lord Jesus will kill with the breath of His mouth and bring to nothing by the appearance of His coming” (2:7-8, ESV). Antiochus IV Epiphanes, a Greek king, was one example of the “lawlessness … already at work” in the second century BC, a prototype of the future beast that Daniel spoke about. And there have been many others, even our day, such as Hitler and Trump. These psychopaths rise up in every generation, so the elect may learn to recognize the final beast when he arrives. But God “restrains” these prototypes of the final beast, and does not allow Satan to entirely rule over their lives, not in the same way Satan will control all the beast’s thought and actions. And our God Jesus will keep on restraining these prototypes until seven years before He will return, until He is ready to destroy that beast and tear his kingdom down to nothing.

Of course, “the mystery of lawlessness” is the humanistic religion of the beast that Paul described, the religion which worships a human being as a savior and lawmaker, which esteems and serves a human god who “opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship.” By the term “mystery,” Paul referred to a secret revealed by God to His people. And by the term “lawlessness,” he referred to a religious power that sets itself up against God’s Law. So Paul was referring to a false religion revealed by God in the Scriptures, especially by the prophecies through Daniel. For Daniel explained that the beast’s religion, which is the foundation of all his laws and ways, originated in Babylon. Then that religion further developed in Persia and Greece, until it became mature in the fourth kingdom of Rome, and also became the dominant religion of Satan’s world order, in every unjust nation on earth. And this is why Paul, in the middle of the first century, told us that this lawlessness of the beast was “already at work.” For Rome was already working it.

Yet this humanism was also restrained by God’s intervention, so the beast would be unveiled and exposed until his appointed time. The beast’s kingdom of secular humanism existed in Paul’s day, and even since Babylon invaded Judah in the beginning of the sixth century BC. The religion of humanism had been worship men as their only law-makers and saviors for centuries, had been esteeming and serving humans as their principal lords and gods since Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon refused to give any gods credit for his own power and success. And that was unheard of in the days of Nebuchadnezzar. From that day on, a new religion was born, one which claimed that man alone rules over his own destiny and the destinies of others. And this religion was actually the core of the power exerted by Roman dictators, who were basically what we would now call worshiped fascists.

But this religion, by which all Roman dictators exerted the “right” to invent all their self-serving laws, has always been restrained by the ways in which God has manipulated those men and their people. Nevertheless, this religious bedrock of Rome’s power still exists today and still serves as the foundation of power in most nations. Thus, we can see how the Roman Empire actually still exists today, and how it has actually gained even more influence and power than it had in Paul’s day. It was not allowed to become the dominant religion of Satan’s entire world order until recently, until the last couple of centuries, until just before the end times, when the beast shall come to rule his Roman Empire. But now it has become dominant in all Asiatic, African, American, Indian and other nations of the world, not just in Europe and the Middle East. Yet God has slowly eroded its power through the dissemination of biblical teachings as well, which the coming fascist beast will entirely reject.

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God, in His wisdom, has torn down each human god of the people before any of those human gods could become as powerful as the beast will temporarily become in the days of the seventh trumpet. Although the Roman Empire has now conquered the entire world, God has kept it even more divided than it was in Paul’s day. But the beast will succeed in uniting all the non-elect of the world into his religion of fascism, so all will worship him as their “savior” and law-making god. Yet the beast will only be able to do this near the end of his seven-year reign. Then our God Jesus will kill that beast and tear down his entire world-wide kingdom of the non-elect, even so thoroughly that not one will remain alive to rebuild it. All forms of Roman humanism will be destroyed and never seen again.

The phrase, μόνον ὁ κατέχων ἄρτι ἕως ἐκ μέσου γένηται (2:7b), could mean a couple of things. We might interpret it as: “Only the One now restraining [will do so] until [the beast] is removed.” This would mean that, even when the beast rises to power, God will restrain his actions to some degree, until He decides to remove that beast—which will occur when Jesus, returns to the earth in a body of flesh. For, even after the beast rises to power, there will be humanistic nations to the north and east of his homeland who will oppose, threaten and outright attack the beast’s homeland. Those secular nations will not join the beast, will not unite with all the other humanistic nations on earth, until the end of the beast’s reign. Then they will gather with him at Armageddon, a few days or weeks before Jesus returns to destroy them all. So this first interpretation makes sense and fits other prophecies.

But we could also interpret that clause like this: “Only the One now restraining [will do so] until [the beast] comes out from the midst [of his kingdom].” The beast’s kingdom will be seven European lands that blindly place faith in him as their savior. And, as soon as that beast forms his kingdom (by stopping the advance of the eastern army of 200 million), his kingdom to conquer the Middle East and western Africa, including Israel. But God will restrain the beast’s rebellion against Himself until that beast comes to the end of his seven-year reign. Then God will allow that beast to conquer and unite all the humanists of the world to war against God and Israel. So the beast will go “out from the midst” of his homeland to assemble them at Armageddon in Israel. Then Jesus will destroy him and all the other humanistic nations. So both interpretations are similar and both and confirm the other end-time prophecies about the beast. But this second interpretation is a little more specific about the time when the beast will be destroyed by Jesus, since it alludes to the end of beast’s seven-year reign, when the beast departs to destroy Israel, as he gathers his international armies at Armageddon.

If God did not restrain Satan’s religion of humanism, all the non-elect of the earth, who all wanted to become their own gods, would have long since ruled over every nation on earth by now. So, in every land on earth, one chief human god would makes all the laws and govern through the dark deluding power of demonic spirits, allow about two percent of his most psychopathic and blindly loyal dupes to help him rule, bribe about another ten to twenty percent to remain loyal, then violently terrorize all the rest of the people into submission. For this is the humanistic Roman system that all humanists follow. And there would be no free, democratic lands remaining on the earth, if God did not grant His truths to the world through His elect and suppress humanistic powers. But God has repeatedly empowered the truth and the elect who utter it, then deluded and confused the humanists until they have destroyed themselves. God is the only reason the world has not been totally destroyed by them.

It is because God has been revealing His loving, just, equitable ways to His elect and causing that truth to take effect that Satan’s Roman humanism has not driven every land on earth into desolation and destruction. Thus, Roman humanists hate God, and all the inherently loving elect who know they need God to be their God. For these elect think Roman humanism is repulsive, and all forms of humanistic oppression and slavery, whether it is theistic or secular, whether it falsely claims to be Christian or atheistic. And the awakened elect war against all who lie and deceive to gain power and

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wealth. This is how God separates the elect from the non-elect, and shall complete this process of dividing them just before His body returns to the earth. God will sanctify and set apart all His elect, so they will not partake in the final plagues and deaths assigned to the loveless non-elect in the end.

Since “the lawless one” (the beast) “will be revealed” to the elect, the elect will not need to idly speculate about who the beast might be. God will ensure that all His elect will definitely know who the beast truly is, as soon as he arrives. We will all recognize him and identify him with all certainty. We will not be mistaken about his identity. For there are far too many Scriptures describing the beast and his kingdom for us to be mistaken about his identity. We know he will come in a “rebellion” against God and His just, loving ways, in an unjust and psychopathic way. He will also come “with all power and false signs and wonders,” which are worked by Satan to impress his easily duped and manipulated non-elect children. He will rise up in the lands that belonged to ancient Rome. Then, in the first year of his power, the beast will attack the Middle East and western Africa, including Israel. Also, the beast can only rise to power after an eastern army of 200 million kills a third of mankind.

Therefore, the beast cannot be any of the rulers existing in our day. Also, since we will be able to clearly identify the beast when he comes, we will also be able to predict the year and even the month that Jesus will return. For we know that, at the end of the beast’s seven-year rule, Jesus will return to kill the beast, by casting him alive into hell, along with all his armies and all the non-elect upon the earth. We may not know the day or the hour of Jesus returning, after we see the beast rise up. But we will be left with no uncertainty about the year or month of Jesus’ second advent. So let us stop foolishly speculating about the beast, as many do now. Yes, there have been many anti-Christs, little prototypes of the beast, throughout history, like Antiochus IV, Hitler, Trump, Stalin and so on. Yet the final beast will be clearly identifiable by all, especially by the awakened elect of the sixth seal’s great revival. That beast will be like many other outwardly charming psychopathic deceivers, but clearly unique in in terms of where, when and how he rises to power, in all he does and all he says.

And identifying characteristic of all the non-elect is their lovelessness, and their accompanying stubborn refusal to ever “love the truth.” All have always loved the darkness of their own preferred lies and delusions far more than any kind of light of truth. All hate the humbling, equitable, just and loving ways of God. All crave the economic and terrorizing power offered by Satan’s world order, especially through that devil’s ultimately evil religion of Roman humanism. Some non-elect may acknowledge some truths, while those truths benefit them in some way. But, even then, they always corrupt those truths for their own ulterior and impure purposes. So every non-elect heart finds it impossible to truly love any physical or spiritual truth. Thus, none of them are capable of God-like and pure love, which can only be built upon truths. And the non-elect never seek a life of simple, modest, humble and pure godliness, with caring and love for God and for His people or creations.

Since God only teaches His created physical and spiritual truths to elect spirits, little by little, for the salvation of their spirits, only the elect can be saved. Non-elect cannot learn truth and cannot be saved. Yet we must never hastily judge whether or not a person is God’s elect. For literally all the elect have amoral bodies of flesh which are prone to lies and sins, which often overcome the wills of their infantile elect spirits. So all the elect begin life by being cast them all into Satan’s kingdom of sinners. Thus, it usually takes months or years, and many personal interactions, before a mature elect soul will be able to discern whether or not a person possesses an elect spirit. And someone’s carnal, impulsive instant or even angry rejection of the truth is not always a sign of a non-elect spirit, since an elect soul may do this through the flesh, not necessarily through the spirit’s lack of love for the truth. And, especially among the young, the flesh can be strong. The self-serving flesh always wars against the love of an elect spirit, and the mind of flesh can “take captive” the elect spirit. So, if we

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see anger of the flesh against the loving, just, wise truths of God, the spirit inside that flesh will not necessarily be a non-elect spirit. And an elect spirit inside that person may not agree with the way its own flesh is rebelling against truth and love, but may be deeply conflicted with what its flesh does. So, when that elect spirit is taught and trained by Jesus’ Holy Spirit, it will become stronger and better able to govern its mind of flesh, so both the mind of flesh and mind of the spirit in the souls can function in a way that pleases God. This is the New Covenant salvation that Jesus works in us.

But, when we see a consistent, life-long rebellion against God’s truths and love, where both the flesh and the spirit of a person harmoniously oppose truths and love, and where the love of that person is always fake and highly conditional, then that one likely has a non-elect spirit. For Paul told us: “The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders, and with all wicked deception of those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. Therefore, God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false, in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness” (II Thes. 2:9-12, ESV). Throughout history, the perishing and self-destructive non-elect have been handed over to strong delusions and were deceived by Satan. So they have always refused to love the truth and took pleasure in bullying, exploitative, murdering injustice. But both Satan and his non-elect children were restrained by God and by His elect children. God seldom allowed Satan to use his power to produce impressive signs and wonders to lead whole nations astray. But soon, after the separation of most elect and non-elect souls on the earth, God will let Satan produce great false signs and wonders through the beast and his chief assistant, through his demonically controlled puppets.

Here it talks about those who consistently refuse to “love the truth.” And God’s kind of just and real love is built on realities and truths in the mind of the elect spirit. No genuine love can possibly originate from the mind of flesh nor exist in the mind of a non-elect spirit who hates the light of God’s created physical realities and truths. So, when the very spirit of a person refuses to “love the truth,” then that one’s minds of the spirit and flesh in the soul can never perform the actions of real love. The only kind of “love” the non-elect can possibly have is a fake and often extremely zealous conditional love from the emotions or lusts in the mind of flesh, the kind which can easily transform into a passionate hate if the object of its “love” begins to oppose that non-elect person’s selfish and exploitative desires. So, when we see a long-term, consistent, inward rejection of truths and realities, accompanied by a highly conditional fake love, we can assume this one has a non-elect spirit, a spirit born of Satan. If someone always refuses to spontaneously guard the well-being and purity of the real truth, from the heart, and refuses to defend the truth whenever it is inconvenient for that one to do so, then we can be certain he or she is not a true Christian, and may even have a non-elect spirit.

We cannot afford to be deceived by Roman humanists who falsely claim to Christians, especially by virtual psychopaths falsely claiming to God’s teaching and judging elders or prophets. For the end times are rapidly approaching, and the lawless beast will be arriving, with his deceiving signs and wonders, within about a half a century. Yes, Satan’s children will acknowledge and obey the truth when they must, to prevent their flesh from suffering the consequences of lawlessness. They will acknowledge and obey truth if it is convenient, or if their flesh gains some kind of reward. Then they even brag about their forced “righteousness,” although they will instantly become exploitative and unjust as soon as they are freed from those constraints. But, even at their best, the non-elect can only manage a hypocritical outward appearance of “loving the truth” and a charming superficial display of fake “love.” For the love of the truth is one of the “fruits” of an elect spirit being taught and saved by Jesus, and Jesus does not save the non-elect. So a “love of the truth” helps us identify the elect.

 

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If a one lies for personal gain whenever one can get away with it, such as those who think they have found the power to do so in little anti-Christs like Hitler or Trump, then that one is likely one of the non-elect, and will certainly join the beast if they live to see him. Or, if one always avoids the real truth whenever it personally condemns oneself or is inconvenient, if one is always drawn to the darkness of lies and delusions and never makes any real effort to search for the light of truth, then that one is likely one of the non-elect, not someone whom the elect should trust and share their lives with. And, when the beast comes, God will allow Satan to use his power through the beast, to grant those kinds of people the freedom to pursue those loveless lies and delusions they desire so much.

Yet even the power of Satan working through the coming beast will be limited by God, as always. For God will powerfully turn the spirits of His elect against that beast, while he hands the spirits of the non-elect entirely over to Satan and his beast. In conclusion, we can be sure the beast will be a mindless puppet of Satan, who gives his whole heart to faithfully serving Satan. Nevertheless, the beast will deceive only the non-elect by the end of his seven-year reign, only the non-elect spirits who were born from Satan’s spirit, all who are destined to perish because they love the delusions and lies of darkness rather than the truth and wisdom of God’s light. God will save literally all His elect.

Many still like to think they have an autonomous “free will,” the power to choose whether or not they will be deluded by lies, whether or not they “love the truth.” But God’s Word and even true, honest science, proves that God alone chooses to create our spirits with or without an inherent desire to love the truth, and with or without a potential ability to love. Then either God will shape the wills of elect spirits, or Satan will shape the wills of non-elect spirits. And no human actually has any real choice, only the ability to trust in the teaching and training of their spirits by either God or Satan. So everyone, even Satan and all Satan’s children, ultimately remain subject to God’s will, with “slavish” wills that have no choice regarding either their earthly or eternal destinies. God retains absolute power over all His creations, and there are no magic sacraments nor prayers which can alter God’s will for anyone or anything. The most the true elect can do is ask their heavenly Father to reveal His will, then say or do exactly what He wants them to say or do in His name, to fulfill His will in joy.

Throughout history, Satan’s children, humanists in particular, have believed only what they wanted to believe. And they only wanted to believe what Satan wanted them to believe, regardless of how irrational and destructive those beliefs were, even as those beliefs actually destroyed their own lives. For Satan was created by God without one of God’s main attributes, without the attribute of love, not even for his own children. Then that devil also created all the spirits of his non-elect children in his image, where all lacked the ability to truly love. Yet God-like love is the motive for loving God’s just and loving laws and ways, for the “love of the truth.” Thus, Satan does only what God created him to do, and Satan himself is limited and manipulated by God, caused to do all he does, as are his non-elect children through him. Even their sins like murder are controlled by God, so they can murder other non-elect souls mostly, but also elect souls whom God will doubly reward for the rest of their eternal lives in the greater reality at home in heaven. For Go appointed all flesh to die, then go to judgment. No flesh was meant to live forever in perceptions of this earthly space-time continuum.

Every eternal spirit dwells in flesh temporarily, and a human spirit the only real consciousness which can ever be aware of oneself, which can follow either core truths or lies into greater eternal realities in the spiritual space-time continuum. So an infantile human spirit only perceives earthly life long enough to learn the lessons that either God or Satan wants it to learn. And all earthly perceptions are very real, because God creates and controls them all, and his power enforces their reality. But, since God controls them all, nothing can occur on earth apart from His will. Thus, even if Satan murders someone through his loveless children, that earthly death will occur at God’s own appointed time.

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But humanists never want to acknowledge this truth. They always love to imagine that they remain in charge of their own lives, that they can own themselves and that they can even own other people and other creations of God, which are all owned and controlled by God. Humanists even think they create themselves, that they have shaped their own inherent attributes of their spirits and their flesh, that they are the only gods who ultimately rule over their own destinies. And secular humanists, like the beast, will go even a step further. For their spirits imagine that there is no Creator God, and tell their minds of flesh that there is no such thing as eternal spirits or a spiritual realm, although those lying human spirits actually dwell in the spiritual realm of hell at all times. For their spirits love their delusional biological functions of their flesh, and hate God’s spiritual laws which balance and cause long-term well-being for both the spirit and flesh. All those humanists want are ways to gain power and money so they can indulge in pleasures of their flesh, and some spiritual pleasures of abusing people or God’s creations, just to make them feel like powerful gods, in a stupid, manipulated way.

So humanists, both the elite and the inferiors in their class systems and hierarchies, all believe that the gratification of their flesh is the only reason for living and the only reward that life offers. So, to get this gratification, they suppress, censure and violently oppose God’s truth, while disseminating their lies and delusions to all. And, an elite “superior” secular humanist will pursue the gratification of his lies and delusions more mercilessly and slavishly than the rest, as his or her spirit becomes increasingly controlled and beaten into submission by Satan. Humanists occasionally will cooperate and work together for this common goal of feeling like gods and gratifying the flesh, but never as one mind or one soul. For human gods can never truly love any other human gods, and become one with them, to share the same purposes and goals. The non-elect can only selfishly and greedily strive against one another, even murder one another, to get what they want. And, if the temporarily need to work with others for a common goal, they will do so, but only in a fragile, tentative, conditional way.

God Himself also keeps the devil’s non-elect children schismatic. God will often set one individual against the other, one group against the other, or one whole secular nation against another, by letting Satan build up hate-filled delusions in each of them. So, because Satan controls the thoughts and sins of the non-elect, those sins may seem conspiratorial, and the schismatic non-elect may even loosely conspire together at times, although they remain suspicious of the selfish ambitions of one another and cannot really share a common goal effectively or for any length of time. In reality, they actually sincerely believe their common destructive lies and delusions because Satan causes them to do so, because God has handed them over to that devil’s strong delusion, over to Satan’s manipulations of their minds of their spirits and flesh. Their delusions are merely similar and seem so conspiratorial because Satan has one mind, and all the non-elect ultimately serve him for his purposes. But none are actually independent thinkers able to pursue any shared purpose that they have chosen through their own wills. All the non-elect are manipulated dupes, driven into warring factions by their father.

Even if clear, irrefutable evidence supports a real truth, if veritable evidence interpreted by sound reasoning is presented to the non-elect, but it does not suit Satan’s will for them, those non-elect will not and cannot believe those truths. For they are not like the elect, and do not have a father who is like the heavenly Father of the elect. The Father of the elect teaches them the truth, compels them to believe the truth. But the non-elect are made so blind that they cannot even see the brightest light, and their father compels them to believe only his lies and delusions. So the only way to control the loveless, lawless non-elect is through the power of God to limit Satan’s control over them. That is, once the elect are awakened and mature enough to hear and heed God, then God will use His power to enforce the threats of the elect against the non-elect, and frighten the non-elect into compliance.

 

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Now some may think this means the non-elect are not guilty of the sins they willingly commit through their loveless spirits and self-serving minds of flesh, since those non-elect did not choose to love darkness and evil through a “free will.” Yet that is simply an irrational way of thinking. For the willingness to commit sins, through their inherent love of lies and delusions, are entirely from their own spirits. And whether or not their spirits were created with those permanent, immutable attributes and propensities is totally irrelevant. Whether or not they were predestined to be set aside from all of God’s good creations by being forever cast into hell, to prevent them from attacking and abusing God’s elect spirits and other good creations, does not depend on any kind “free will” to create their own spiritual attributes and propensities, only upon their spirit’s core evil will to love lies and sins.

We must realize why God hands the non-elect over to the darkness of delusions when it is time for their innate desires of their spirits to receive those delusions. God does this because they inwardly hate the real truths and realities He created and caused. And the non-elect sin because they actually take “pleasure in unrighteousness,” in their unjust, evil, exploitative, murdering ways which make their spirits feel like gods who erroneously believe they can exert power over other people and things through their own “free wills.” So, on the judgment day, God cannot send them into the unbridled light of truth which exists literally everywhere in heaven, since they would forever suffer extreme pain and fear in that light. Rather, God must mercifully send all the non-elect into their beloved spiritual darkness of their cherished lies and delusions, that is, into hell. Of course, God will not allow any elect spirits or good creations to dwell in hell. So the non-elect demons and humans will have nothing to abuse in order to make themselves feel like gods. And not being able to feel like gods will frustrate them to the very core of their spirits, causing them to scream in deep and total agony. Still, they will prefer their home in hell far more than heaven, where they would also be powerfully denied any opportunity to ever feel like gods, and where its light would incessantly attack every one of their beloved dark lies and delusions. Non-elect spirits were all born for hell.

Now let us look at how the elect in the apostolic church of the first century were truly being saved by Jesus, because those apostles preached the true Gospel. For they proclaimed that salvation was a process of being sanctified by our God Jesus, and by Him alone. His Holy Spirit purified their spirits though His constant teaching and training, caused the minds of their spirits to believe the truth and to use it effectively through God’s wisdom. Just as the whole Bible shows us how Jesus came to us the first time to make disciples of His elect, to teach and train His people, the elect in the apostolic true churches were clearly being taught and trained by Jesus, for their sanctification, for their salvation.

But the elect in the apostolic true churches were the “firstfruits” of His New Covenant salvation, a bright and shining light that would soon fade. That light would not permanently shine until the end times, and there would not be another large, discernible visible church on earth after them, not until after the revival of the sixth seal’s era. Those apostolic churches were a pattern and model for all the future true churches. But Jesus had to do many works among the nations of the world, and slowly erode the power of Satan’s world order, especially that devil’s principal evil religion of humanism, before He could permanently establish His world-wide true church on this earth. First Jesus had to sanctify and separate His elect from the non-elect, set the elect apart for His purposes, without any of the corruptions of Satan. Then He could destroy the non-elect and let His elect inherit His kingdoms.

So now that the era of the fifth seal is drawing to close, and the great revival of the sixth seal’s era is about to begin, the folly of Satan’s religion of humanism, and his entire world order throughout all history, is being exposed. People are seeing how the non-elect, since the beginning of humanity, and especially Satan’s spiritual awakened psychopaths, have exploited and murdered the vast majority of people in their societies, in ways that even destroyed even themselves the lands around them. Now

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elect spirits are growing better able to directly hear and heed Jesus’ Holy Spirit, and do the works of God on the earth as they are done in heaven. Common apostolic Christians prophesied, healed and worked miracles through their love for Jesus and their love for those to whom they ministered in the name of Jesus, serving as His mouth, hands and body on earth. Those ordinary Christians did what the prophecy of Joel said all God’s people would do in the end times, during the eras of the sixth and seventh seals. Then their light shone in the subsequent eras of darkness, to give us hope for the end times, as an example of how the church will become in the end times, throughout the millennium.

Their light still shines today, for all whom Jesus makes able to see it. But the true church of the end times will shine even brighter, especially after Jesus returns. Of course, cessationists in the false and humanistic churches deny what the Scriptures say. For they want to justify their false doctrines and the lack of God’s power working through the people of their churches. They also want to justify the incomes and power of the human gods in their churches, who have usurped the Headship of the one true God in Jesus. But those fake churches are cruel and Satanic, and war against the true elect who have real love in their spirits, who are being taught to express that love in truly just and equitable ways. At the present time, many true elect do not claim to be Christians, primarily because they hate the unjust, Satanic fake churches who falsely claim to be Christians but slander His name. But the elect must avoid and war against those false ruthless, loveless churches, while also calling out the elect who are trapped in them. We must not be like those false churches, but take God’s words to heart, and glean hope from Jesus like the early church did, remembering to worship Jesus as our only Saviour, Head, Lord and God. Then we will overcome the darkness of Satanic delusions and lies.

Lastly, let me explain certain interpretations. The Greek text of II Thessalonian 2:13b is: εἵλατο ὑμᾶς ὁ θεὸς ἀπαρχὴν εἰς σωτηρίαν ἐν ἁγιασμῷ πνεύματος καὶ πίστει ἀληθείας (“God chose you for Himself, the firstfruits of salvation, in sanctification of the spirit and belief in truth”). This is our New Covenant salvation in Jesus, being sanctified or set apart for God’s purposes through His Holy Spirit’s teaching and training of our spirits, which builds up our spirits’ faith in His truths. And, in some reliable ancient texts, including the Codex Sinaiticus, the form of the noun ἀπαρχή is replaced with ἀπ’ ἀρχῆς. Now ἀπαρχή literally means “of/from the start/beginning,” but was most often used with reference to sacrifices and offerings. Therefore, to Jewish writers like Paul, it usually referred to the first part or firstfruits offered at the temple, like the first grain gathered from the harvest. But ἀπ’ ἀρχῆς usually means “from the beginning.” And, whether it is ἀπαρχή or ἀπ’ ἀρχῆς, this sentence can mean: “God chose you from the beginning for salvation in sanctification of spirit and belief of truth/reality.” Either way, it affirms that our election into His salvation has been predestined by Him.

Any way this is interpreted, it states that God first chooses us. We do not first choose God. It affirms that God saves us, and through a process in which God Himself sanctifies our spirits and God grants us a belief His truth. We do not sanctify ourselves, nor can we be sanctified by magic priests or elders who are all sinners chosen by other sinners for political purposes of a church or denomination to perform magic sacraments or prayers. Neither the “free will” of human individuals or groups of people is a factor in God’s election for our salvation or our saving faith. It is entirely our God Jesus, the Messiah, who causes us to believe by teaching and training our spirits about Him and His truth.

We must remember that God actually wants us to “obtain the glory [good opinion] of our Lord Jesus Christ.” But our infantile human spirits possess neither the knowledge, wisdom nor strength to teach and train ourselves adequately to obtain even a small fraction of a good opinion from our perfect and utterly holy God Jesus. For His good opinion originates from an inherent ability created by God in our elect spirits which He designed for Himself in the beginning, before time existed. We were elect and chosen before we were created, predestined to do the loving works of Jesus in His name, that is,

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according to His commands that He speaks to our spirits in our hearts, and through His power, not according to human wills and powers. Then, throughout our lives on earth, His Holy Spirit teaches and trains our elect spirits in ways we cannot even fathom, and He will continue to shape our spirits to complete perfection throughout the long judgment day. He works our entire salvation inside us.

Then the loving works He causes us to do for His good opinion are: (1) to proclaim only but the real truths and realities which He created and caused, because all real, just, God-like love and unity can only be built upon a foundation of realities and truth; (2) to counsel, guide and console our brothers and sisters with words originating directly from our God Jesus, that is, through the right doctrines He personally taught to our spirits, as His Holy Spirit has revealed meanings from His concepts that His faithful servants received directly from Him; (3) to heal the bodies and minds of His faithful serving elect through His unlimited power, so they might continue to serve Him without the distractions of physical suffering; (4) to perform other miraculous works as the power of Jesus works through our spirits and flesh, whenever works of Satan must be nullified for the sakes of our family members who are the body of Jesus on earth; (5) and to provide, whenever Jesus is willing to enable us, daily care for the hungry, thirsty, inadequately clothed, homeless and needy souls of this world, even for our enemies, since some of these may belong to our eternal family of God. All these things are our purposes while we live on earth. He causes us to do all these works and more, because these works teach and train our eternal spirits to love and do the same works we shall do in eternal heaven above.

Jesus causes good works, even prophecies and miracles, to be done through those who truly worship Him in their spirits and in truth. But all such works can only be done through the love, truth, wisdom and power that He grants to us. Jesus stated: “Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in Me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father” (John 14:12, ESV). Jesus ascended from the earth to the Father in heaven so we would no longer seek only His body of flesh, but rather learn to allow our spirits to be taught and trained by His omnipresent Holy Spirit who also dwells in our hearts and souls with our human spirits. Any elect spirit that places trust and confidence in Jesus, because Jesus is sanctifying that spirit through His teaching and training, might be called to do even greater miraculous and loving works of God, through God’s will and power, than Jesus actually did in the first century. For God only does works of greater power and worth for His people when they have been made ready to receive those gifts.

Now Jesus, when He walked among us in the flesh, did great miracles. And it was also the will and power of our God Jesus that performed great miracles through the prophets, like Moses and Elijah, as well as all the works done through the apostles and the true church in the first century. And His will and power will grant even greater prophecies and miracles through His faithful servants in the true church after the revival of the sixth seal’s era. Then, after His return, He will personally speak and work miracles again, so His words will be the Word of God, new Scriptures which harmoniously expound upon His previous words of the Old and New Covenant Scriptures. And His will and power will also work miracles and call His awakened elect to utter His words of prophecy at that time too.

Contrary to what humanistic cessationists think and teach, Jesus did not tell His elect: “While I am walking among you, and for a few years after I ascend into heaven, I will allow some flashy and impressive miracles and prophecies, merely to put on a good carnal show, so minds of amoral human flesh will be shocked into a fleeting and erratic faith. Then some will think I am a cool dude, until they see how the Gentile Platonists outwardly look and sound more impressive than Me. Thus, I will only allow you Jewish apostles to perform a few impressive miracles for a few more decades, to trick loveless minds of Gentile flesh into entering their churches and tithing, so they can finance their Gentile churches until that Platonic humanism can replace My teachings. Then those Platonic

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humanists can lies about the Jews and murder them, although they must leave the Roman Gentiles alone, because it was actually their Roman religion and world order that tortured My body to death, not the devout, Bible-believing Jews themselves. So, when your churches are properly taught and inundated with the cool Platonic doctrines of the fourth kingdom of the beast, which are so much better than anything I, your God, ever taught you, I’ll stop granting miraculous spiritual gifts and only allow Satan and his children perform outward signs and wonders to impress minds of flesh. For I am going to retire and enjoy My self-indulgent leisure in heaven, and leave all works in the capable hands of hierarchical class systems oppressed by psychopathic elite church leaders who cunningly and violently raise themselves into positions of power. That purely Gentile church will be able to terrorize inferiors into esteeming their religious rulers, without any need for impressive miracles, like you weaker and less terrorizing apostles do, or like I did. Yes, those Platonists will rule in stupid, cruel and very destructive ways, but that is what the flesh loves, and I don’t care if they do that. I will simply become an impassive Platonic God who only focuses solely on Myself within a far-off heaven, leaving men to become the lords and gods of the church, grasping for more esteem and money, all stolen from My people. But don’t worry. Those human heads and gods will invent all kinds of nonsense to keep the dupes of the Gentile church entertained and submissive. Those human gods will be loveless enough to keep their dupes superstitiously bowing to them and serving them by inventing new teachings throughout history, so their dupes remain captivated by their grand flesh.”

This basically what the cessationists in fake churches think and teach. But it is NOT what Jesus actually said. In reality, Jesus promised that whoever places all the spirit’s trust in Him and His words will do even greater works than the miraculous works He did through His body of flesh. And, through the Scriptures, we know that He meant that even the most common believers would do these miraculous works, including private and public prophecies. Jesus would give a unique set of gifts to each and every individual elect soul in His true church of Israel, to each according to one’s own predestined inherent attributes and destiny, so each would rejoice in Him, doing what one’s spirit most desires to do. The entire body of believers were to be His body, were every part of His body expressed His love through His miraculous spiritual gifts, and where each administered His love to the souls who most needed His works of love to serve Him and His creations. And Jesus did not ever limit the time in which His promise for these miraculous gifts would end. In fact, this promise was an eternal promise to His church, for His power working through them is the eternal New Covenant.

As long as the eternal New Covenant stands on earth and in heaven, so will the promise that God will do His works through His people, so they may be the light of the world and His children who inherit heaven. It is because He is training us to do His works in the spiritual realm of heaven that He commanded us to “pursue love, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy” (I Cor. 14:1, ESV), where true biblical prophecy is defined as revealing the concepts that God commands one to reveal to a person or group in His name. Jesus did not want us to pursue love and the the spiritual gifts only in the first century, but for all time, even forever in the spiritual realm of our heavenly home. Since God gave “the spiritual gifts” to express His love from our eternal spirits to His people and to His creations, in the same way our God Jesus expressed His love through His miracles and prophecies, God will never withdraw His spiritual gifts from us, for He will never stop expressing His love for His people and for His other creations. And, actually, literally all of His works are miracles. All material and spiritual existence is worked through His power and His will.

God may temporarily turn away from His elect when their spirits refuse to heed His Holy Spirit, but not forever. Either on earth or at the gates of heaven on the judgment day, His burning rebukes will destroy the lies and delusions of His elect children and cause them to repent into the truth. Thus, God

 

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will never withdraw His spiritual gifts from His awakened elect and His true church. At the most, He will stop using His power to prophesy and perform miracles temporarily, only while His elect keep refusing to repent into His truth. Therefore, even today, His promise to do miraculous works and utter prophecies can be fulfilled by the elect who worship Him in their spirits and in truth, because Jesus went to the Father in heaven, because He received His kingdom at that time, because He has always been building His true church throughout history, by teaching and training His elect to love.

After that day on the cross, Jesus granted the elect as His kingdom, both on earth and in heaven. So, at that moment, He sealed the doom of Satan’s world order. Jesus became the only High King, the only one with the right to rule the earth, and He will soon return in the body of a Man walking among humankind as their King and High Priest forever. Satan had not yet been cast into his permanent home of hell, and still clings to his earthly power as the subject king of sinners and the world order, just as he had before Jesus’ body died for His elect on the cross and ascended into heaven. But the power of his world order, even the power of his Roman religious kingdom, has been eroding over the past two millenniums. For his kingdom of the world order was always subject to the overrule of God, who was always the High King over all existence. But soon Satan, together with all his fallen angels and human children, will be removed from the earth, and his kingdom will be gone.

God never sent Himself, as the world’s High King, to walk among us in a body of flesh, not before His first advent. The earth never had a High King to rule all the earth in loving justice, to turn all His elect children back to Him and to establish His peace over all the earth, to destroy and replace that devil’s earthly subject kingdom. But He did come the first time to establish His earthly kingdom of His world-wide priesthood of His true church called Israel, at His first advent. And, when Jesus returns, He will utterly destroy Satan’s kingdom, so it cannot oppress God’s people on the earth. Nor will Satan ever be able to touch God’s elect in heaven. So Jesus will rule us forever. Jesus will even walk among us in heaven, in a new and human body made entirely of eternal spiritual substance like our new heavenly bodies. Soon, when the spirits of His elect learn to hear Him again, after the sixth seal’s revival, He will also perform the same kinds of miracles He did while He walked on earth, and even greater ones, through the flesh of His true elect believers, as well as give words of prophecy through their mouths of flesh. Even now this will be done, through elect spirits worshiping in truth.

Unless Jesus’ rule over God’s earthly and heavenly kingdoms can be taken away from Him (and it cannot), no true elect believer shall ever be prevented from doing even greater works than He did, if they are done in His name, that is by His command, through His will, authority and power. As long as Jesus is the Lord and Head of every elect person, Jesus bears the power to command that person’s spirit to speak His very words in true prophecies, and Jesus also bears the power to work miracles through that person. Jesus only refuses to grant these spiritual through carnally minded unbelievers, such as either the unbelieving elect or the non-elect, like humanists. All who worship man or other gods will never receive His spiritual gifts, for their minds of flesh rule their lives. The spirits of those unbelievers are either suppressed or hate God, and cannot hear the Holy Spirit of Jesus commanding their spirits. So they cannot speak the concepts that Jesus commands them to utter in prophecy, nor obey His commands to proclaim when He will use His power to work miracles. This is why God does not grant real prophecies or His loving miracles to the paganized humanistic false churches.

We must remember that God wants us to “obtain the glory [good opinion] of our Lord Jesus Christ.” And this good opinion comes through an awakened, taught, trained, believing elect spirit’s God-given ability to hear and heed the authoritative counsel of Jesus’ Holy Spirit. His spiritual gifts and loving works must be done in Jesus’ name, that is, according to His commands that He speaks to our spirits in our hearts, and by His power, not according to human wills and human power. And His

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loving works are: (1) to proclaim real truths from Him, because all real, just, God-like love and unity can only be built upon a foundation of real truths; (2) to counsel, guide and console our brothers and sisters with words that originated directly from our God Jesus, that is, through the right doctrines He personally taught to our spirits, and by truly biblical prophecies as the very mouth of our God; (3) to heal the bodies of His faithful elect through His own power, so they will not continue to suffer physically, so they might vigorously serve the Lord with healthy bodies and minds; (4) to perform other miraculous works as the power of Jesus works through our bodies, whenever works of Satan must be nullified for the sakes of our elect family of our heavenly Father; (5) to daily provide care for the hungry, thirsty, inadequately clothed, homeless and needy souls of this world, for those in our family of God and even for our enemies, whenever Jesus is willing. This is our calling through the Gospel. This is what Jesus causes through those who truly worship Him in their spirits and in truth.

Paul prayed in a way that clearly indicated how God Jesus and the Father, through love for us and through His grace alone, is able to personally counsel us, in order to establish us (make us stand fast) in all we might say or do. Yet many translations of one of Paul’s prayers are like this: “Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace, comfort your hearts and establish them in every good work and word” (II Thes. 2:16-17, ESV). Here Paul prays for God to “establish in [us] every good work and word,” which would include miraculous works and prophecies. But versions like this translate a cognate noun and the verb as “comfort.” Yet it is not God’s “comfort” that “establishes” His good works through us.

In reality, the form of the noun παράκλησις actually refers to any kind of personal “counseling,” which may or may not be comforting. This noun is a cognate of a verb meaning, “to take aside and personally talk to one,” about anything. So this cognate noun refers to any kind of “encouragement, exhortation, appeal, request, comfort, consolation” (BDAG3), and so on. Then the verb, παρακαλέω, is the action of giving any kind of personal counsel and means, “to call to one’s side, urge strongly, appeal to, exhort, encourage, request, implore, entreat, comfort, encourage” (BDAG3), and so on. So here Paul prayed for “our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father” to personally counsel the spirits in our hearts, in a way that powerfully provides knowledge and wisdom with a good hope, in a way that establishes faith. His counsel leads us into and causes every good work we do and every good word that we speak. Paul prayed for God, who is a Spirit, to personally counsel out spirits, with His rebukes, wise teachings and consolations, so we would learn to say and do what is right in love.

And he prayed for God to do this for through His love for us, through His unmerited and unearned grace, for His beloved children who are all weak and fallible sinners. Paul prayed this because he knew we cannot obtain this kind of counsel and hope from any other source on earth or in heaven. Only God—Jesus and the Father—is able to provide this kind of counsel and hope. We can never gain solid, lasting, wise, powerful and completely trustworthy counsel from men who can only speak to our ears and minds of flesh, no matter how wise a man might be or how well he practices the art of rhetoric. And no human is truly wise. God alone is wise. Even the most golden tongues of men, even the best motivational speakers, can only provide a tenuous, temporary hope through faulty counsel with partial, short-term solutions done by the flesh for the flesh. If God does not counsel our spirits, we are left to learn through our flesh alone, for the benefit of our flesh, or our spirits may even begin to depend on demonic spirits for counsel, who will destroy us with lies and delusions.

All human beings have eternal spirits. And all worthwhile treasures we can possibly receive during our lives on earth are spiritual and pertaining to the spirit’s just love. Then our spirits exist forever after our earthly flesh dies, since our perceptions of our brains and bodies of flesh are not so real as our spirits think they are, nor is anything material. Only our spirits are truly real and permanent. So

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counsel of the flesh for the flesh is relatively worthless, though most spirits desire nothing but the counsel of the flesh, and magic deeds of the flesh to save their spirits. This is especially true of the Roman humanists. Thus, all true elect in fake churches remain inwardly dissatisfied and spiritually weak due to the counsel they receive in those churches, a counsel regarding temporary solutions for the flesh. The elect need God’s personal counsel spoken directly to their spirits, regarding eternal matters pertaining to a spirits love built upon wise, eternal principles, which produces hope for both their earthly and eternal lives, which assures their spirits that everything will forever right in the end.

Our ultimate hope is that our spirits and the spirits of our loved ones will be made pure, perfect and loving in the end, fit to live abundant eternal lives, laboring together beside Jesus and our Father as a holy family on earth and in heaven above. Thus, the elect require the kind of counsel and hope that is firmly based on God’s immutable realities, verities and truths—not false counsel hope for the flesh.

Elect spirits counseled by Jesus’ Holy Spirit learn to distinguish lies from the truth, so they will not be deceived into committing destructive, deadly sins. When our God Jesus wakes elect spirits, they begin to realize that their spirits are real, and also whether or not a word of counsel originates from the real Creator God’s Spirit. Furthermore, the awakened elect see that God’s personal counsel and its resulting hope in His words and power must be granted through His unmerited grace alone. They need the kind of freely granted counsel and hope that provides eternal solutions and can ultimately make all things forever right in the end, even though they possess weak, infantile spirits and weaker, amoral minds of flesh. They must be assured that God will grant this solely because God loves them. They need to know God will give them a good end as a free and unmerited gift. For all the elect also realize the fact that they are all useless sinners who have never earned anything good from anyone, much less from the utterly holy Creator of their spirits who provides all that exists. But humanists are deluded into thinking they alone have power, wise counsel and hope in their foolish, sinful flesh.

Daniel 11:36-37 (ESV): “And the king [i.e., the beast] shall do as he wills. He shall exalt

himself and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak astonishing things against the

God of gods. He shall prosper till the indignation is accomplished; for what is decreed shall

be done. He shall pay no attention to the gods of his fathers, or to the One beloved by

women. He shall not pay attention to any other god, for he shall magnify himself above all.”

When the final Roman anti-Christ arrives, he will be just like all the other humanistic dictators who have exalted themselves over their other siblings in humankind throughout history. And he will also worship the mind and power of his own flesh over every other human or demonic god that has ever been worshiped by men, even over the one true Creator God. That beast will desire his own will to be done on earth, and somehow believe that his own earthly life will endure forever, in a new eternal heaven that he created for himself on earth. Perhaps he will think he has found a way to live forever, without aging and dying. And “he shall prosper till the indignation is accomplished,” that is, until he has met his end at Armageddon. “For what is decreed shall be done,” according to the power and will of the real God. But the non-elect children of Satan shall place all their hope in this man, since God will allow Satan to completely control all this beast’s thoughts and actions, and call all his own children to worship this beast, to esteem and serve him. For the time has come for their destruction.

One who exalts and glorifies oneself above every spiritual entity called a god is a secular humanist. And every secular or theistic humanist vainly hopes to rule one’s own destiny to gain some kind of salvation, usually a carnal kind, involving wealth and power. So a humanist never has any genuine faith in the real Creator God, and never possesses any genuine and stable spiritual or moral compass. Their only faith is a misguided and arrogant trust in one’s own sinful, deluded, foolish, weak and

 

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pathetic self, or in other human beings who are just as irrational and ignorant. And the churches in our day are humanistic, based on the Platonic doctrines taught by the Roman Catholic church, who is the Great Prostitute. Yet one cannot possibly be a humanist and a Christian at the same time. For no one can worship God and man at the same time. A spirit can only esteem and serve one or the other.

Likewise, one can never syncretize humanistic doctrines with biblical teachings, since humanism will nullify faith in the real God and God’s Word nullifies faith in human beings, which is why the humanists hate biblical Christianity so much. Since a humanist trusts in oneself or in other sinful, foolish, inept human beings to save oneself in some carnal way, and relies on humans to make all laws that define and enforce all moral and spiritual principles applied for one’s own benefit and life, the humanist worships human beings as one’s highest gods, not the real God. Thus, a humanist can never trust the Holy Spirit of God to teach one’s own spirit about God and God’s ways. Humanists can only do what one’s own mind and body of flesh wills to do. A humanist functions only through the mind of flesh, as one’s weak flesh is manipulated by other humans or by demons. So a humanist can never do as God wills, because one’s human spirit cannot submit to the counsel of God’s Spirit.

The fact is that the real God condemns all forms of humanism, as the ultimate false religion that Satan created through Babylon, Persia, Greece and Rome, all in that devil’s attempt to rule the world order through his many anti-Christs and his final Roman beast. Because it humanism a false religion, both secular and theistic humanists rail against the real God, and His true teachings, then hate and bully His faithful elect who speak the truths of God. Still, God will let Satan’s beasts of this world “prosper till the indignation is accomplished,” which trains His elect to hate the unjust and deadly cruelty of Satan and his children. But this means the beast shall literally “push forward” to try to rule the entire world, until God’s wrath completes its work of exposing that evil from Satan and his beast.

But, especially since the days of Jesus’ first advent, God has been causing His elect to see how evil, unjust, oppressive and destructive humanism truly is. So this insight forces many elect to withdraw from the humanists. And now the elect are fleeing, more than ever before, from false humanistic churches and from the secular humanist oppressors. Truths from God are polarizing the elect from the non-elect, creating a dichotomy of elect and non-elect upon the earth. And when this dichotomy has been completed, Jesus will remove Satan, his religion, all his fallen angels, his beast and all the non-elect minions of the beast from the earth. God decreed that the beast shall prosper, so the beast surely will prosper during his appointed time. But that beast’s prospering will drive all the elect children of God away from him, enabling God to destroy the entire Satanic world order after that.

This prophecy also said the beast “shall pay no attention to the gods of his fathers, or to the One beloved by women.” The “gods of his fathers” would be the pagan gods of the Roman Empire, both the acknowledged gods, like Jupiter, and the unacknowledged gods, like Mammon. It may even include some of the other pagan gods worshiped in the pagan cultures of his European kingdom before Roman times, since the worship of both the Roman gods and the other pagan gods are being revived in our day. But, in reality, their principal gods, whom they always obeyed first and foremost, were actually human beings. Those nations have always esteemed and served themselves and human lords more than any other god. Romans did truly worship and acknowledge gods, like Jupiter, but not as faithfully as they worshiped themselves and their Emperors, nor even as faithfully as they worshiped their unacknowledged gods like Mammon. And all their mythical, anthropomorphic gods were all fashioned in the likeness of the human beings they worshiped most, that is, in the image of despots, ruthless warriors, beautiful prostitutes and so on. Likewise, the Roman Catholic church did the same, but renamed Jupiter and other Roman gods with biblical names like “Father” and “Jesus.”

 

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Humanists have always worshiped self, other humans, money and power far more than they have ever worshiped any other gods. They have always esteemed, heeded, served and placed all their faith in humans far more than the “gods of their fathers,” and have never worshiped the real Creator God. So the Roman beast will not even bother to worship the gods of Rome, nor any other gods, and will absolutely hate the true Creator God who opposes all his unjust ways. So the beast will make a point of inventing all kinds of lies and truncated false logic to slander the true Creator God, to “speak astonishing things against the God of gods.” However, that beast will indeed worship himself and some unacknowledged gods, like self-protecting “fortresses,” money and other self-serving gods.

As a secular humanist, the beast will be a complete materialist and rule like a god over a hierarchy with a firmly regulated class system. And he will not value any kind of spiritual worth through any kind of love from the spirit. So he will place all his most loyal and capable dupes in the highest classes, all the toadies who are most willing to kill and plot for his success. Then those who do not serve his vain whims quite as well will be assigned to lower classes. And the lower classes will include women, for “he shall pay no attention ... to the [God] beloved by women.” As a materialist, he will not believe that a woman’s weaker flesh and different thought processes hold just as much spiritual worth in the eyes of God. Then identifiable minority groups whom the beast does not like for any superficial irrational reasons whatsoever, will be treated as subhuman beings, without any rights at all, and forced into the lowest class. As for any who oppose the words and will of the beast, they will not even be treated as subhuman, but as non-human inanimate things whom his henchmen may torture and kill for their own psychopathic pleasure. Many will be enslaved in death camps or killed immediately. For the beast will rule through terrorism like the ancient Roman Emperors and Hitler did, and will brutally murder any who do not loyally, submissively and blindly worship him.

By the way, only one god, the true Creator God who revealed Himself through His eternal priesthood of Israel, values women as His equal spiritual heirs, together with all men. For there shall be no such thing as genders in heaven, only spirits and genderless bodies made of spiritual substances. Thus, no religion except pure, biblical Judaism and Christianity sees the entirely equal spiritual worth of every elect woman dwelling in an earthly body. For God Himself created female bodies for a different role on earth, and allows women to be women in their flesh, to find their joy and glean their identity from their circle of loved ones. Only God clearly differentiates between earthly male and female roles and responsibilities in the flesh, yet also treats the elect spirits of both men and women as completely equal, both as His full heirs of His kingdom, because the elect spirits of women do not differ in any way whatsoever from the elect spirits of men. But, because the beast will be an entirely materialistic secular humanist, he will discriminate against and oppress women for his own selfish purposes. And this also means that he will also oppress or even eliminate others with weaknesses of the flesh, such as the physically and cognitively disabled, whom he will call a “burden” on society. That is, he will also practice eugenics, and strive to suppress and destroy any who provide no material value for him.

The Scriptures clearly define the beast as what we would now call a secular humanist. Of course, the term “humanist” was not invented until the 19th century, and the religion of humanism was not actually defined or recognized as a religion until the 20th century, although it had become the world’s dominant religion long before then. And many still refuse to recognize it as a religion, because they falsely reason that worshiping humans as gods means that they worship no god. But worship is the revering and esteeming of a deity, usually expressed that reverence through actions which serve and extol that deity. And this is exactly what humanists do with themselves and other humans who impress them in self-serving ways. Then a religion is a “system of faith and worship” (Oxford). So their faith in themselves and other humans, as well as their previously defined worship, means their

 

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humanism is indeed a religion. But, of course, humanists do not like this truth, so they add that a religion worships only “superhuman” deities, not humans. However, other religions, like Buddhism, do not worship “superhuman” deities either, yet humanists still call them religions. Furthermore, humanists often ascribe “superhuman” attributes to the humans they worship, such genius and various other skills and strengths that are above and beyond what is considered to be human. Thus, any way anyone might look at theistic and secular humanism, they are sects of a genuine religion.

For more than two and a half millenniums, humanists have hidden behind a mask. Throughout most of history, humanists falsely claimed to be Jews, Christians or Muslims, and lied about worshiping the real Creator God. Then, since the “Enlightenment,” they began to falsely claim that they did not worship any gods, but lived solely according to their biased and impure “scientific” and “logical” thoughts, which were actually based on a form of superstitious humanism known as Roman Middle Platonism and Neoplatonism, and still pretend to do this to this day. But the beast's world power, which will be administered through seven nations (six once belonging to the old Roman Empire), will practice secular humanism and openly worship the beast, just as the Roman Empire had always practiced secular humanism from its beginning, and had always worshiped humans as the gods of their hierarchies. The beast will be the messiah, savior and god of humanists, ruling with an iron fist, just like most of the other secular humanist rulers of history (like Hitler, Stalin, Mao Zedong, etc.).

The final beast raised up by Satan, to rule his fourth Roman religious kingdom, will place ten other humanistic leaders into the highest class of his hierarchy. These ten will govern his seven nations, although Daniel also prophesied that the beast himself will replace three of them during some time in his seven-year reign, thus reducing them to a council of eight men, then will also create an eighth nation which shall be ruled entirely by himself. Furthermore, all the past humanistic anti-Christs who came before the final beast are also considered to be the subordinates or prototypes of the final beast.

At times, the term “beast” refers to the whole of the beast’s kingdom, all seven nations and all ten rulers, even all his subordinate rulers throughout history, as well as the future man who will be the final beast. Most often the term “beast” refers only to the one man who rules over them all. But, in the times of biblical prophecies, a pagan nation considered their kin to be one and the same as his entire kingdom, since they thought their king was the rightful and ultimate owner of all the people and all that existed in his kingdom, and his kingdom was a part of his identity (although God’s elect were to recognize Him as the only Owner of all people and the entire earth). So, in the days of the biblical prophecies, readers seldom differentiated between a king and his kingdom. And, if their king died or was conquered by another king, his whole kingdom was inherited or conquered, including all the past works of all past kings. Thus, when Satan hands the entire Roman Empire over to the final beast, that final beast will be the inheriting and conquering king of all the Empire’s people and property, both in the past and present. Thus, the prophecies may sometimes say the “beast” did certain things that were actually done by his Roman kingdom in the distant past. But what such prophecies means is that his kingdom did these things, not that they were actually done by the man who will be called the final ultimate beast in the end times, just before Jesus returns. So we must maintain this perspective as we read the prophecies, for the last beast’s will was done in the past too.

Daniel 9:24-27 (WEB): “Seventy weeks [this actually does not refer to “weeks” of days, but “weeks”

of years, to seventy Sabbath years, seventy periods of seven years each] are decreed on your people and

on your holy city, to finish disobedience, to make an end of sins, to make reconciliation for

iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint

the most holy. Know therefore and discern, that from the going out of the commandment to

restore and to build Jerusalem to the Anointed One, the Prince, shall be seven weeks, and

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sixty-two weeks: it shall be built again, with street and moat, even in troubled times. Then for

sixty-two weeks it shall be built again with squares and moat, but in a troubled time. After

the sixty-two weeks the Anointed One shall be cut off, and shall have nothing.

“And the people of the prince who shall come shall destroy the city [i.e., Jerusalem] and the

sanctuary [i.e., the second temple in Jerusalem]; and its end shall be with a flood, and even to the

end shall be war; desolations are determined. He [i.e., the beast] shall make a firm covenant

with many for one week, and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the

offering to cease; and on the wing of abominations shall come one who makes desolate; and

even to the full end, and that determined, shall wrath be poured out on the desolate.”

In this controversial prophecy through Daniel, which so many try to denigrate or dismiss, God begins by decreeing or determining “seventy” units of time for His people of Israel. And each unit of time was called a shabua in Hebrew. Now the word shabua simply referred to either seven days or seven years, either to a week ending on the Sabbath day, or to seven years ending on the Sabbath year, which was the year of forgiving debts and fallowing fields. So “seventy” of these units of time equaled 490 units. It meant that Israel must wait 490 years, after a certain event that God described and specified in this prophecy. Then she would be sanctified and gain atonement in her relationship with Him, after He would “anoint the Most Holy” (which is not a “place,” as some translations say). This anointed “Most Holy” is the Messiah, Israel’s Most Holy Yahweh God. This is a Messianic prophecy, which was to be fulfilled 490 years after a specified event which would occur in Persia.

In verse 25 of some versions of the Bible, the Hebrew word “mashiyach” (“messiah”) is translated as “an anointed one.” But the indefinite article (“an”) should be replaced with a definite article, since the context clearly and irrefutably refers to thee prophesied and long-awaited Messiah of Israel. That is, it should be translated as “the Anointed One” (as it is in this WEB translation above), or as “the Messiah” (capitalized). The word Mashiyach is the title of the “Most Holy” one previously specified, who can only be the prophesied Messiah. There is no other possible honest, rational interpretation.

Then this prophecy divided the “seventy” units of time into 7 and 62 units, but left one unit of time until the very end. So, through Daniel, God declared that “the Messiah” would come to sanctify and atone for Israel (as a sacrifice did) within 69 Sabbath years. This sanctification and atonement would not begin until after seven Sabbath years (49 years) plus 62 Sabbath years (434 years), for a total time of 483 years after a Persian decree to rebuild Jerusalem. And these units of time are definitely “sevens” of years, not “sevens” of days, because all that is prophesied could not possibly occur in 490 weeks (less than ten years). That is, the Hebrew word “shabua” means “a sevened,” and is a denominative form (used to name an entity) of “sheba” or “shibah.” It referred to “a week of years” in Daniel 9:24 and in the following verses, such as according to The Analytical Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon (Benjamin Davidson; Hendrickson Publishers, Peabody, Ma.; 2007). Here it obviously refers to seven-year periods of time, as “sheba” did in Lev. 25:8, Deut. 15:1 and Deut. 31:10. For the context refers to the time it takes to rebuild a city. And, in those days, massive construction projects like that would take decades. So the time to rebuild a city was not measured in seven-day “weeks.”

In reality, this prophecy was actually fulfilled in exactly the way it was prophesied. For there was to be 483 years after a decree “until” (Hebrew preposition ad, meaning, “up to, until”) the Messiah, began to serve Israel. And Jesus did actually begin His earthly ministry of Israel’s salvation in AD 25, in the very year Daniel prophesied. For the year AD 25 was exactly 483 years after the decree of a Persian king named Artaxerxes I, in 459 BC, the decree which commanded the Jews to restore and rebuild Jerusalem. For, if you subtract 459 from 483, the result is 24. Then you must add one year in

 

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order to transition from BC to AD, which indicates the year of AD 25. Then, about three years into His ministry, the human body of our Messiah and God Jesus was indeed “cut off.” That is, His body was killed. Jesus was crucified only three years later, in AD 28, by the “people of the prince,” that is, by the people of the one who is otherwise known as the “beast,” the ruler of Satan’s fourth kingdom.

Now we must understand these numbers in this prophecy through the context of the time it was granted, which was during the reign of the Medes and Persians. Then we must also interpret it with regards to the four successive kingdoms of God’s enemies which this book of Daniel so extensively prophesied about (Babylon, Persia, Greece and Rome). So look at the first period of seven Sabbath years, which would end 49 years after the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem in 459 BC. This indicate the year of 410 BC, when Greece fought its first great war against Persia, during the Battle of Marathon. So this is when the third kingdom of the beast (Greece) began to rise up to replace the beast’s second kingdom of Persia. Then Daniel did not further divide the next 62 Sabbath years into the Greek and Roman periods because the fourth Roman kingdom would be a combination of all the previous three kingdoms. Thus, the next 434 years included both the Greek and Roman kingdoms, when Jerusalem “will be built again, with street and moat, even in troubled times.” And Jerusalem was built again, during the “troubled times” of wars with the Greek Seleucid Empire, and the Roman occupation of the land after that. Jerusalem and its temple were not destroyed until the year AD 70.

Also, the “Messiah” was to “have nothing” after the “people of the prince” of the fourth kingdom killed Him. This meant that the Messiah, the King and High Priest of Israel, would not yet possess His kingdom of Israel after He was killed. The Messiah would be without a kingdom until the end of another period of seven Sabbath years, which would occur in the end times. But the dead cannot possess anything. So here it was prophesying that the Messiah would rise from the dead and live.

After the Romanized Jews and secular Romans took Jesus captive, all His disciples scattered in confusion. Then they gathered again through their love of Him, and saw Him crucified to death. Yet His body rose from the dead on the third day and later, on the day of the Pentecost, on the seventh week or 49th day after He rose, the New Covenant branch of the church of Israel, the kingdom of the Messiah, was eternally established. Thus, when Daniel prophesied that the Messiah was to “have nothing” after He was “cut off” or killed, it meant He was not going to begin to possess and rule the priesthood of Israel and the earth at that time. Daniel suggested that the Messiah would not remain on earth to rule as the High King of the earth and as the High Priest of Israel in Jerusalem—although Daniel and others did prophesy in many Scriptures that the Messiah would eventually become “a Prince” (9:25, from the Hebrew word nagid, referring to any kind of “leader, ruler, prince” or king).

After the 62 Sabbath years, another nagid would come to rule over Jerusalem and Israel, instead of the Messiah. And “the people of [this] prince who [was] to come,” the people of this evil ruler, who is the beast, would not only “cut off” or kill God’s Messiah, but would destroy the city of Jerusalem and its temple (Hebrew = qodesh, “sacred place, sanctuary”). And Daniel’s prophesied rebuilt second temple was indeed destroyed by Rome in AD 70. Then Rome utterly destroyed Jerusalem in about AD 135, and expelled the Jews, forbidding them to enter Jerusalem. So these “people of the prince” were to be evil, not the people of the Messiah, who was also a “Prince” (nagid). These people were the people of Daniel's prophesied beast, Romans, the people of Satan’s fourth kingdom, which was to war against God until the end times, until the Messiah came to destroy that beast and his people.

This evil prince or ruler will be the final and greatest king of the Roman Empire, the greatest and final owner of the Roman Empire. So all these events—the advent, death and resurrection of God’s

 

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Messiah, then the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple—all occurred exactly as prophesied. And all of these events began at the very time Daniel prophesied they would occur, after the year AD 25.

Here Daniel prophesied that Rome would destroy the second temple, which was being built during Daniel’s lifetime. Then they would destroy the heart of Israel too, the city of Jerusalem. “Its end will be with a flood, and war will be even to the end. Desolations are determined” (9:26c). And Jerusalem was destroyed “with a flood” of Roman armies surrounding it and besieging it. After this, the wars continued “even to the end” of that city. And “desolations” were determined or decreed when Rome expelled the Jews from Jerusalem. All this destruction happened within a span of about 70 years, from AD 66 to AD 135, which is a relatively short period of time within the entire history of Israel.

But, when this prophecy states, “and war will be even to the end” and “desolations are determined,” it is actually starting the part of the prophecy about the last seven Sabbath years, the last of the seventy Sabbath years. Wars and desolations were to occur in Jerusalem and in Israel until the end times, until the day of the Messiah’s return, until He determined the desolation of the beast and his kingdom, even all the wicked upon the earth. And these wars and desolations have indeed occurred throughout the centuries after Jerusalem was destroyed, to this day. And there is virtually no hope that they will stop before Jesus returns. Wars shall continue in the Middle East and all over the world “even to the end,” until the very day of our Lord’s glorious advent. Here Daniel is talking about the eras of all seven seals, and the plagues of all seven trumpets, all that would occur from the day the Messiah was “cut off” until the beast inherits his Roman kingdom for a period of only seven years.

Then the beast “will make a firm covenant with many” (9:27) for that period of seven years. Many people of the world will approve of, agree with and strongly support the precepts of that demon-controlled Roman beast, after he inherits his kingdom. And, for a half of that seven-year period of the beast’s rule, “he will cause the sacrifice and the offering to cease,” likely during the first three and a half years. And forbidding sacrifices must occur in a new temple built in Jerusalem, during a third temple period in the end times, since the beast will have already destroyed the second temple.

After the first half of the beast’s reign, he will commit a great sin. “On the wing of abominations will come one who makes desolate; and even to the decreed full end, wrath will be poured out on the desolate” (9:27c). Here an “abomination” usually refers to either a defiling sacrifice or to a pagan idol brought into the temple, and the plural suggests both. The “wing” of these “abominations” is the beast. The “abominations” will enter the temple without opposition, or in a way that the devout Jews will not be able to stop, because the beast will hold absolute power over Jerusalem and Israel at that time. The main attribute of this beast is described here too, as “one who makes desolate,” like most of the humanistic dictators of history. But there is a “decreed full end” of this desolator, when the “wrath” of our God and Messiah “will be poured out on” him. This alludes to the seven bowls of His wrath described in the Revelation, which rapidly destroy the beast’s entire kingdom during the last few months or weeks of his seven-year reign, just prior to the return of Jesus in His body of flesh.

I repeat, this last Sabbath of years (seven years), will occur in the end times, during the days of the seventh trumpet. It refers to the time when the beast reestablishes the Roman Empire with seven European nations, but only for seven years. The “firm covenant with many” seems to indicate when the beast’s people place his mark on each one’s hand or forehead, as a sign that one will worship him. The mark will be a sign of a covenant between him and them (Rev. 13:16-18) because they all promise to esteem, trust and serve the beast, and obey his laws, which is the definition of “worship.”

Since the beast stops sacrifices and causes an “abomination” in the temple in the middle of his seven-year reign (9:27b, translated in some texts as “in the midst of the week”), these abrupt changes

 

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in his actions and policies indicate that he has begun to face external and extreme challenges at that time, so he must abandon Israel and the other lands he conquered, withdrawing most of his troops to fight battles elsewhere. For “news out of the east and out of the north will trouble him; and he will go out with great fury to destroy and utterly to sweep away many” (Dan. 11:44, WEB). That very troubling news will almost definitely be the great world war initiated by an eastern army of two hundred million, which kills a third of the earth’s population. This war will occupy the beast for a few years. So, during those few years, Israel and the Middle East, including west African nations, will rebel against the beast, as independent nations again. So, after the world war, that beast will return to Israel and the Middle East, with an army, and try to reconquer the lands he held during the first three and a half years of his reign. This is when the Messiah Jesus will return to destroy the beast, along with all his international armies and all the wicked on the earth. The beast “will plant the tents of his palace [i.e.,“pavilion,” his army headquarters] between the sea and the glorious holy mountain [Armageddon]; yet he will come to his end, and no one will help him” (Dan. 11:45, WEB).

Also, do not forget that Daniel said the beast would destroy the second temple before all this would happen. So, if the beast stops sacrifices in a Jewish temple in Jerusalem when he conquers Israel at the beginning of his seven-year reign, this clearly indicates that a third temple period will begin in Jerusalem before the beast arrives to conquer Israel. But the Jews in Israel have not yet built a third temple. Thus, since this prophecy will be fulfilled, we know the Jews definitely will build a third temple in Jerusalem, and they will do this sometime before the beast arrives. Then this also means that all the current speculations about who the man called the beast might be, all the sensational “theories” made about the beast before that third temple even exists, are worthless. But all the awakened elect, after the sixth seal’s great revival, will clearly recognize the Roman beast and his seven nations when he rises during the era of the seventh seal and the time of the seventh trumpet.

Now consider how John prophesied that the beast would kill two prophets in Jerusalem during the middle of his seven-year reign. And Daniel prophesied that, at about this same time, the beast would withdraw from Israel and the Middle East, to defend his homeland from armies in the north and east who threatened his power. So the beast will likely desecrate the temple as he leaves Israel, then, in bitterness and as an act of revenge, will also kill the two prophets at that time. Thus, for the first three and a half years, the beast seems to grudgingly allow some limited “freedom of religion,” even though he stops the sacrifices and offerings at the temple. For he allows the two prophets to preach until he withdraws from Israel. And this seems typical of a humanist’s way of thinking. On the one hand, the beast thinks it is cruel to slaughter animals in sacrifices, and exerts control over all the doctrines and functions of all religions, to establish his own “better ways” of worship, with himself as the chief object of worship. On the other hand, he does not acknowledge that physical life is a temporary perception of eternal spirits, and is willing to murder human beings for personal reasons.

The beast is a demonically controlled ordinary human man “who makes desolate” and will be “on the wing of abominations,” meaning he will be characterized by and even esteemed for his vile abominations, for his sins and blasphemies. His secular and mostly non-elect worshipers shall esteem and praise him for his “abominations,” so they will also partake in those lies and sins, as fellow humanists. But his end is decreed. The beast’s end has already been determined by God, even since the beginning of time. The beast and his demonic master are doomed, even before they will begin to rule. That beast and Satan's entire world order will be destroyed as soon as Jesus returns. Then Jesus shall rule forever. In the meantime, there will be many other lesser anti-Christ beasts upon this earth. So let the elect be aware of their attributes and characteristics, and avoid being

 

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deceived by their carnal emotional rhetoric and false reasoning. The elect need to remain rational and sane, well informed and reasonable, for the coming end times will be highly deceiving times.

That “chief ruler who shall come” is definitely the beast, whom both Daniel’s prophecies and the Revelation harmoniously described in detail. And that beast had not yet come in AD 70, when his people destroyed Jerusalem and its “sanctuary,” the second temple. But the beast's Roman nation, religion and people all existed back then, during the first century. For the people of the beast are the people of the spiritual kingdom of the Roman Empire, bound together by their religion of humanism. And those Roman humanists still exist today. In fact, Roman humanism, with all its vindictive and unjust laws, with all its terrorizing methods of maintaining power in their hierarchical class systems, became the dominant power and religion of the entire world by the 19th century. It’s power has been eroded by some biblical influences in some lands. But its religious delusions remain the foundation of most laws and patterns of thought in most people today, including most churches and synagogues.

God’s created realities and principles of truth, His most beneficial and effective wisdom, continues to be ignored throughout the world, although all His just, loving laws and ways repeatedly prove to be the only ways that build up love, joy, peace and abundant life. For the non-elect live only for the amoral and temporary lusts and desires of their flesh, then convince even most of the elect to do the same. But the darkness of their violence, which attempts to force their wills upon souls who are just a little different in their perspectives, makes those non-elect feel like gods. So they will not give up their cravings to feel like gods, and will continue to force their wills upon others through terrorism.

Those who practice Roman humanism are the beast's subjects. All who trust in the doctrines and ways of the beast’s state religion are citizens of the beast’s Roman Empire. And time is not what most people think it is. All the past and future exist now, simultaneously. So all past humanists and all future humanists currently belong to the beast, as his worshiping property. The beast's people of the Roman Empire destroyed the second temple of God during the first Jewish-Roman war (ending in AD 70). Then, after the second Jewish-Roman war (ending in AD 135), the same Romans also destroyed Jerusalem and rebuilt a pagan Roman city in its place. Immediately after this, the same Romans expelled almost all the Jewish people from Judea and renamed the land “Palestine,” which is what it is now being called again, in our day. All this occurred just as Daniel, John and the other prophets said it would, for it is God who actually spoke through them. Therefore, let us interpret those prophecies with all this in mind, not like the humanists who interpret all through delusions.

Of course, the final beast has not yet come. But very many lesser beasts or anti-Christs, made in his image, have come throughout history (I John 2:18). And the Roman Empire, the fourth kingdom, has always belonged to the final beast, although that beast will not physically come until later, to govern his Roman kingdom, as the messiah of Satan’s world order. In the same way, Jesus has always been the Chief Ruler and King of God’s kingdom on earth, although He too said that He was not going to physically come to govern His kingdom until later, as the Messiah of Israel, of the true church. But time has scientifically and biblically been proven to be deceptive, that is, to our minds of flesh, since our minds of flesh only exist in earthly time and space. So, since our minds of flesh are a part of that deception, we must now think with the minds of our spirits, and step outside of that deception. We must begin to realize that the beast, the beast’s kingdom and all the loveless non-elect are already dead and cast into hell, now, as we breathe at this time. Thus, we cannot panic now or in the future, but must steadily advance. Our spirits must continue to be taught and trained by Jesus, which is the whole reason we endure these perceptions of material existence. And Jesus has already come to rule over all the earth, has already won the victory, in real heavenly time. So let the elect trust in Jesus.

 

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The beast that the Revelation speaks about is the same beast that Daniel prophesied about, the one whose kingdom is a compilation of three other kingdoms: Babylon, Medo-Persia and Greece. And the foundational religion of all four kingdoms is humanism, which was formed in Babylon through its king, Nebuchadnezzar (Dan. 4:30-32). Humanism (the worship of man as the only god capable of ruling over human destinies) was further developed through the systems of terrorism used by the Persians. And the Persians, in turn, influenced the Greeks. For the Greeks syncretists, who mostly borrowed the doctrines of their religious and moral philosophies from other religions. Greece created a complex web of deceitful apologetics to defend the unjust precepts of humanism, along with polemics and methods of terrorism to suppress other religions. The Greeks streamlined and greatly strengthened the lies and delusions of humanism, producing its final form that Rome adopted, the doctrines seen today. So Babylon’s reliance on human cunning and strength, Persia’s class systems and administrative oppression and the Greek deceptions all came together as one body under Rome.

According to the doctrines of Roman humanism, a man is his own god, because all of an impassive god’s creation’s always submit to man’s will. And, to maintain this delusion, humanists have always had to invent creator gods that do not interfere with the wills of man, like Plato did. These impassive creator gods differ a little in various humanistic sects and at various times in history. Nevertheless, all these impassive invented gods are indeed exactly the same god that Plato invented. For instance, today’s humanistic materialism invented a “big bang” god, and often even claims that the physical universe is its own conscious designer and creator. Thus, this most recent imagined creator god is impassive, completely uninterested in the affairs of human beings, totally amoral, blind and neutral.

So humanists brainwash their dupes into believing that an impassive creator god is amoral and completely materialistic. They invent a god who only creates physical laws of nature, not spiritual and moral laws which effectively maintain human life and all the other life that their god created. This does not make much sense, but this self-delusion makes them feel free to invent quasi-spiritual and moral precepts for themselves. It lets them lie, sin and oppress others with total impunity. Once they have convinced their people that there are no consequences for any actions of any kind, they can invent consequences for anything they want to define as “evil.” But they only define “evil” as that which kills, harms or inconveniences those whom they recognize as fellow human gods. And they are especially ruthless when it comes to punishing any “evil” committed against the elite in their hierarchies, based solely upon their own invented unjust spiritual and moral laws. Thus, they all admit that spiritual and moral principles exist, all admit that they define human behaviors as either good or evil, yet refuse to admit that they maintain no possible basis whatsoever for defining them.

Humanists also need to develop hierarchical class systems, which force most members in the family of humankind to obey the petty whims of an elite few. For the most psychopathic, ambitious human gods among them never want to serve their siblings as equals, but want to own them as slaves, for their own personal pleasure and profit. So those most worthless parasites pretend that they are far superior to the most useful servants of life and God, then terrorize their siblings into submission, or pay thugs to do this for them, since they are too “busy” indulging in themselves to do it themselves.

Thus, humanists are never willing to build any kind of a natural, just, equitable, biblical, loving system of governance for their people, only class systems which kill, oppress and steal the God-given free lives from their people. But God is real. God has designed, created and revealed principles of good and evil. These truths are written in all His spiritual and physical creations, as well as in His Word. So elect human souls have discovered these truths since the beginning of time, and have called for these principles of justice, equity and love to be upheld. So false religions, but especially Satan’s most favored false religion of Roman humanism, despise those believers of God’s truths who

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interfere with their “right” to lie, oppress, terrorize and murder. Then they viciously attack the elect, which makes the elect angry. So the flesh of those elect impulsively wants to use the unjust, ruthless, lawless and very carnal methods of the false religions against their psychopathic oppressors. But, if the elect do that, they become members of those false religions, as the old saying goes. Thus, the elect must not walk according to their easily deluded minds of flesh, as false religions do. Rather, we need to walk according to the minds of our spirits, and heed God’s words to our spirits. For all their ways destroy life, and only the ways of God are able to build up life, even an abundant life of love.

Literally all human beings are sinners. We are all ignorant, perverted, weak, irrational, foolish souls who need God’s teaching and training. None of us are mature, wise and stable enough to invent their own laws and ways, never in a way which will prevent irreparable harm and deaths. None are able to define good and evil for themselves, never in a way which is effective, beneficial and able to build up free, equitable, just, loving lives for our people and for all God’s creations. All humans must seek God, to discover the ways He designed and created for us to live, trusting only in Him to grant each of us the unique destiny He wants each of our spirits to fulfill. This is our salvation, allowing our spirits to be taught and trained by Jesus’ Holy Spirit, so we may become wise and mature enough to join our Father in His heavenly home. And our God Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through Me” (John 14:6, WEB). Therefore, we must allow our spirits to go to Him as His disciples, to learn His ways and truths for our lives. There is absolutely nothing we receive from secular or theistic humanists that can possibly ever benefit us in any way.

Now remember, the Roman religion of humanism exists today and has been the dominant religion of the world for centuries. It has been providing the spiritual and moral foundation for the most unjust, terrorizing, demoralizing, oppressive laws and governments around the world, especially the beast’s form of fascism. And it often controls its people by spreading its lies and delusions through theistic humanism, through its fake churches, synagogues and mosques. For the teachings of most religions in the world have been syncretized with humanistic doctrines, which transformed them into sects of humanism. Yes, Jesus still causes the just, loving principles of pure, biblical Christianity to circulate in the world, and they are being revived to prepare for the end times. But the devastating effects of the devil’s fourth Roman kingdom have cast this entire planet down to the brink of utter destruction.

Therefore, all that Daniel prophesied about the Roman Empire came true. And God’s description of that religious kingdom was indeed correct too: “The fourth kingdom will be strong as iron, because iron breaks in pieces and subdues all things; and as iron that crushes all these, it will break in pieces and crush…. a divided kingdom … partly strong and partly brittle … they will mingle themselves with the seed of men; but they won’t cling to one another, even as iron does not mix with clay” (Dan. 2:40-43, WEB). Of course, in their typical way, secular humanists usually lie and deny that they are religious. But literally all laws and all determinations of good or evil are based on spiritual and moral beliefs, which is religion. So the controlling power of all governments is based on a chosen religion, and most despots build all their spiritual, moral and legal principles upon faith in Roman humanism.

Honest souls admit that, aside from a faith in a god or gods to define spiritual and moral precepts as the basis for all laws and behaviors, there is no valid reason to acknowledge the existence of any laws or morals. Not even survival could possibly be a reason to remain moral or law-abiding, since life itself would be utterly futile and meaningless without a genuine higher and meaningful reason to even remain alive, much less to conform to any kind of behaviors in order to sustain life. And, to live only for the perceptions of the flesh is definitely not a worthy goal for any spirit inside that flesh, especially not for elect spirits. There would be no purpose in surviving if the genius intelligence that designed the intricately balanced laws of the material universe did not also design all the spiritual

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and moral precepts that effectively and beneficially govern life too, and give us a reason to live. So honest souls are forced to conclude that the beast's fourth Roman kingdom is a religious kingdom, loosely united by the bonds of common faith in human gods, by a religious belief that man bears the right to make his own spiritual laws and moral precepts, to control his own destiny and even force those whom he defines as lesser human gods into submission. Both the Old and New Testament prophesy about these four kingdoms, and declare that all four kingdoms will continuously exist, as religious entities, even until the very day Jesus returns. And the fourth Roman kingdom will be the worst, spreading its religious lies and delusions into all the earth, destroying all whom it may touch.

Theologians like to focus upon human kings and the lands they conquered at certain earthly times, then declare that their kingdoms ended when the flesh of those kings and their subjects died. But these four Satanic kingdoms are not about flesh and blood, no more than God’s earthly and heavenly kingdoms are about flesh and blood. The kingdoms created by Satan’s eternal spirit are not physical kingdoms with physical borders. For the Scriptures say all four kingdoms will remain on earth until Jesus destroys them, beginning with the beast's fourth Roman kingdom. And how could that be true when the fourth Roman kingdom itself occupied some or all of the physical borders of the first three kingdoms? The fact remains that the physical lands of the first three kingdoms belong to the fourth kingdom, and all four kingdoms now practice the religion of Roman humanism. The entire world is primarily practicing the religion of Roman humanism, although this religious kingdom is divided, just as Daniel said it would be. Fascists, communists, capitalists and other humanistic nations all war against each other, and so do the humanistic religions of Satan’s world order. But all are humanists.

When the prophecies said all four kingdoms would exist until our Messiah Jesus returned, these prophecies were not referring to lands within physical borders. These four were all kingdoms of evil religious beliefs, evil religious doctrines, evil religious philosophies and evil spiritual ways of life. Just as the kingdom of God is not a physical land, but an inner kingdom of the spirit’s beliefs and ways, so are all four kingdoms of Satan. And the difference between these kingdoms is spiritual, not physical. God’s kingdoms are just and loving, while Satan’s kingdoms are unjust and loveless. But both do exist now among us. And the beast's fourth Roman kingdom bears all of the attributes of the previous three Satanic kingdoms. All four are still strong and growing, consuming the earth like cancers. So Daniel's prophecies about all four kingdoms, and his interpretations of the God-given dreams of Babylon's king, Nebuchadnezzar, are very relevant to us in our day. For even that king’s first kingdom (Babylon) still exists. Thus, we should study Daniel's prophecies about these four kingdoms, starting with his interpretation of Nebuchadnezzar's dream, to see how they pertain to us.

Daniel 2:31-45 (ESV): “You saw, O king, and behold, a great image. [Nebuchadnezzar had a

dream about an image or worshiped pagan idol, which represented the whole of his kingdom during its entire

existence on earth, lasting more than two and a half millenniums, until Israel’s Messiah would return.] This

image, mighty and of exceeding brightness, stood before you, and its appearance was

frightening. The head of this image was of fine gold, its chest and arms of silver, its middle

and thighs of bronze, its legs of iron , its feet partly of iron and partly of clay.

“As you looked, a stone was cut out by no human hand, and it struck the image on its feet of

iron and clay, and broke them in pieces. Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the

gold, all together were broken in pieces, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing

floors; and the wind carried them away, so that not a trace of them could be found. But the

stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.

 

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“This was the dream. Now we will tell the king its interpretation. You, O king, the king of

kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power, and the might, and the

glory, and into whose hand He has given, wherever they dwell, the children of man, the

beasts of the field, and the birds of the heavens, making you rule over them all—you are the

head of gold. Another kingdom inferior to you shall arise after you , and yet a third kingdom

of bronze, which shall rule over all the earth. And there shall be a fourth kingdom, strong as

iron, because iron breaks to pieces and shatters all things. And like iron that crushes, it shall

break and crush all these. And as you saw the feet and toes, partly of potter's clay and partly

of iron, it shall be a divided kingdom, but some of the firmness of iron shall be in it, just as

you saw iron mixed with the soft clay. And as the toes of the feet were partly iron and partly

clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly brittle. As you saw the iron mixed with

soft clay, so they will mix with one another in marriage, but they will not hold together, just

as iron does not mix with clay.

“And in the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that shall never be

destroyed, nor shall the kingdom be left to another people. It shall break in pieces all these

kingdoms and bring them to an end, and it [the Messiah’s kingdom] shall stand forever, just as

you saw that a stone was cut from a mountain by no human hand [i.e., the Messiah comes from

God, not man, and to elect spirits, not to flesh.] , and that it broke in pieces the iron, the bronze, the

clay, the silver, and the gold. A great God has made known to the king [to Nebuchadnezzar, king

of Babylon] what shall be after this. The dream is certain, and its interpretation sure.”

The golden head of Nebuchadnezzar’s image or idol, in his dream, represented him and his kingdom. But this prophetic dream indicated that this golden head will remain a part of that idol until the end, until the entire idol would be crushed into “chaff,” in an event that would occur in the distant future. That is, this prophecy declared that “the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold, all together [Hebrew = khad, ‘one, at once’]” would be “broken in pieces” by the “stone,” in latter days, that is, by the Messiah, who would become a “mountain” that would fill the earth. So that golden head would not stop existing after that king died, nor perish after his physical kingdom of Babylon had been conquered or destroyed. In this prophetic dream, the kingdom of Babylon was a construct of spiritual precepts, a religious empire which would war against God’s kingdom until the end times. And God appointed Satan to develop that evil spiritual or religious kingdom, in order to teach and train His elect, so they might learn to nullify its loveless, unjust precepts. Then God also appointed the demonically manipulated man called Nebuchadnezzar as its king, allowing Satan to develop the essential concepts humanism in his soul. So the king’s evil spiritual or religious concepts would shape Babylon. Then that religion of Babylon would shape the following three kingdoms after that.

The idol’s “chest and arms of silver” represented the Medo-Persian Empire, which strengthened the power of humanism, by refining its governing systems of terrorism, rule by fear. Many seem to think the Persian rulers were “kind” and “gentle” people, “equitable” and “fair,” because they allowed some “freedom of religion.” But they allowed other people to worship their own gods because they were polytheists and wanted all those other gods to bless them with wealth and power, not because they were “good” and “open-minded.” In reality, the Persia was a psychopathic nation from hell, like Rome. They tortured, murdered and plundered other nations for fun and profit. Then they allowed their captives to live in peace as long as they received pay from them. But, if they did not pay those Persian thugs, they would be tortured, murdered and plundered again. They ruled by pure terrorism.

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gods who determine their own destinies. Then, to enable the god-like power of their elite rulers and citizens, Greece also justified Persia’s hierarchical class systems, which ruthlessly exploited and brutally oppressed slaves, along with many other siblings in the family of humankind. They merged, syncretized and perfected the administrative systems developed by Persia, even making those Satanic doctrines of humanism sound noble and good, to provide humanistic rulers the means to force the masses into compliance and submission. Then Greece disseminated these lies throughout the world.

The fourth kingdom was represented by “legs of iron,” with the ability to powerfully crush enemies. Those two legs indicated the eastern and western halves of the Roman Empire, and the whole of this fourth kingdom was a combination of all the first three kingdoms. For Rome was to be the kingdom that Satan would use to carry his evil religion into all the world. It was the primary evangelist of that devil’s destructive humanistic religion throughout Satan’s kingdom of liars and sinners. But notice that this entire idol had one great weakness. The feet were “partly of iron and partly of clay.” And the feet are, of course, at the bottom of the body, supporting the entire idol. So, if the feet are fragile and break, the entire body will fall, crawl on the ground and become extremely vulnerable to destruction.

Now, when Nebuchadnezzar dreamed about this idol, he obviously perceived it to be a pagan god that should be worshiped, like the physical golden idol which he created not long after he had that dream. And he commanded his people to worship that physical golden idol upon pain of death (Dan. 3:1-7). Any who did not worship it would be killed painfully in fire. For the worship of that golden idol was a sign of loyalty to him and his kingdom, in the same way that modern fascists demand the unquestioning worship of their leader and an extreme nationalism which is willing to die for their state. But the idol in the dream was not all gold, like the physical idol made by the king. Rather, the idol in the dream represented a hierarchical system which indicated the perceived worth of each of the four kingdoms and the people of all four kingdoms. Each successive kingdom would decrease in perceived value. Then the entirety of the idol suggested a class system, which is a characteristic of all humanistic kingdoms, where each successive class was “inferior” in perceived esteem and worth:

1. The golden head represented elite rulers like Nebuchadnezzar, who spoke their thoughts and

expected their “inferiors” to make those thoughts become realities. Then those rulers could

claim that they themselves created those realities, although they actually did nothing real.

Not even their thoughts were original nor innovative, but merely reiterations of ideas that

others developed. And they did no designing, planning nor labor to actually build what their

“inferiors” created by their commands. Rather, those rulers were simply esteemed, obeyed

and served blindly, through delusions. And there could only be one man at the very top of the

hierarchy, since he had to possess literally all the power, wealth and resources of the nation.

Otherwise, that one ruler would not be able to threaten to withhold life-giving necessities

from those who refused to obey his petty whims, and people would serve one another rather

than him, according to the just, equitable, natural system that the real God created on earth.

2. The silver chest holds the heart and arms of the idol, those who administer the thoughts of the

golden head. And, like all classes below the head, it had subclasses within it, where one was

the god of another, expecting that “inferior” to esteem and serve one blindly. Since this class

was the most valuable to the head, it was also granted more rights, privileges and authority

than the lower classes, along with a more comfortable, wealthy lifestyle than the lower

classes. Meanwhile, the lower classes had to make great sacrifices to pay for the “rights” of

this upper class and the golden head to rule over them, to terrorize them into submission.

 

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3. The bronze stomach and thighs were common and numerous, but still considered more

valuable than the massive iron lower class. This class would have consisted of merchants,

skilled workers and the army, who nourished and pleased the silver and gold elite for pay. So

the eyes of this class only ever looked up, never down, nor to the side. Their entire focus was

upon the “superior” classes who paid them, never upon their siblings in humankind working

beside them, and certainly not down to the lower classes. Each was taught to worship only

their “superiors,” and each strove to become superior to the other. For their “superiors” and

their fellow workers spread propaganda to convince them that this delusion of hierarchical

systems was real, necessary and the only system that could save them all from destruction.

4. Even the iron lowest class had subclasses within it, where one tried to lord it over the other.

For they too were brainwashed to believe that hierarchical class systems were the only real

systems which could provide the inadequate food and shelter that their “superiors” granted to

them. Somehow, they could not comprehend that God had provided plenty of edible plants,

land and resources on earth, more than enough for everyone to live healthy lives in the flesh,

as well as spiritually loving and fulfilling spiritual lives, if they simply and equitably served

one another through love. Nor could these peasants and slaves, who formed the majority of

the population, see that they were actually the ones who provided all the food, shelter, wealth

and luxuries for all the classes above them, that it was actually their sacrifices of their lives

and their children’s lives which kept the entire hierarchical system from entirely collapsing.

So this was the ruthless class system that Nebuchadnezzar dreamed about and loved. But it was the complete opposite of the biblical, just, equitable, loving system that Daniel read about in God’s Law, and Daniel knew that the selfless, serving Messiah would come to destroy that humanistic system, so He could replace it with a system that truly fulfilled God’s loving Law. Then there were a number of fatal flaws and extreme weaknesses in those humanistic systems. Above all, loveless systems like humanism cannot build any solid unity among its people, nor between nations. Rather, each one in the system strives to weaken and subdue the other, which makes all weaker than they could be and destroys unity. Then whole nations do the same against one another. Furthermore, the majority of the people belong to the lowest classes, who possess the fewest delusions about the elite. The ignored masses often see through the insanity and hypocrisy of the unmerited entitlement demanded by the deluded upper classes, and realize that the system is unjust. Then, although the elite manage to keep them brainwashed and ignorant, those masses easily become demoralized, dissatisfied, rebellious, unproductive and even criminally inclined, due to the injustice and exploitation they must endure.

Daniel saw these weaknesses in that system, especially in the lowest classes, in the fragile feet made of clay and iron. For the iron pieces may support the body of the humanistic system, but iron does not bind well with the clay pieces, who do not support the system. So this makes those feet very easy to break apart. But, once those feet crumble into fragments, the entire body will fall to the ground and will not be able to stand up again. Then our God and Messiah Jesus also saw that this was true, and chose to educate the lowest classes. Jesus discipled the pieces of the “feet” who were not Roman citizens, the impoverished Roman captives in Israel, the clay whom He molded into freed children of the Most High King. Jesus is the “stone” sent by the one real Creator God, who was not cut out by human hands, a holy and natural “stone.” Jesus “struck the image on its feet of iron and clay, and broke them into pieces” (Dan. 2:34, ESV). And, from that day on, Jesus has been breaking the clay pieces from the iron pieces. His Holy Spirit has been teaching and training the lowly about the just, equitable, loving God and His truths, chipping away at Satan’s unjust Roman humanistic system.

 

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This dream of Nebuchadnezzar was about the creation of the Satanic religion of humanism and the resulting four kingdoms that would be released upon the world, how his empire would grow larger and greater, at least until the Messiah of Israel finally came to destroy all of it. And, since this image or idol was to be worshiped by the subjects of the four kingdoms, Nebuchadnezzar desperately built a golden image to replace it, one that even had feet of gold, then commanded all his subjects to worship it instead of the image in his dream. This seemed to be his vain attempt to thwart the future destruction of his empire, to correct the problem of the feet made of iron and clay in the dreamed idol. But Nebuchadnezzar was a fool, for a physical idol could not change the reality of his evil spiritual kingdom, not then nor in the future. That humanistic hierarchical kingdom was what Satan caused Nebuchadnezzar and the three future kingdoms to build, and idols made by human hands could not alter that system. No human will nor power could change what God allowed and decreed through Satan. Satan himself could not oppose God’s command to him, and change it. Thus, the true prophet and faithful servant of God declared that the “great God has made known to the king what shall be after this. The dream is certain, and its interpretation sure” (2:45b, ESV). And we have seen the humanistic systems of those four kingdoms plague the world for 2,500 years now, spreading to all corners of the earth. Yet all those factious kingdoms bear the same weaknesses, and will all fall.

Humanists want the power to govern their own destinies, to be their own savior gods, then make horrible, messed-up lives for themselves. But, not satisfied with pretending to be their own gods, humanists also want to exert autocratic power over other siblings in the family of humankind. They want to be decision-making heads ruling over other fools like themselves. But, in God’s Law, which Jesus fulfills, God alone is able to remain the Head and King of every individual man. So all men must remain free from the tyranny of other men, so each might say and do whatever God’s Holy Spirit counsels one’s human spirit to say and do. Then God also provided all the needs of all men, if they will cooperate, share and serve one another in equitable democracies, with godly justice for all.

The earth can no longer afford to allow humans to pretend they are gods, since every individual human is too stupid, perverted and weak to govern one’s own life in an effective and positive way, much less rule over the lives of others. Only if the elect spirits of a large number of men and women heed the counsel of Jesus’ Holy Spirit, can that collective body govern themselves wisely and effectively. That is why God created His priesthood of men and women, a body of His counseled laborers who spent their lives learning His just and loving ways, who will together serve humankind for their good through just love. And that is why God has been gathering people from all nations into that priesthood of Israel ever since the days of Abraham, why He took slaves from many nations out from Egypt’s world order when He revealed His Law to that international church, why the Messiah and God of Israel spoke to a lost and exploited Gentile woman at the well as He walked among us.

Inwardly, all humanists know their attempts to become ruling gods only produces filthy darkness and destruction. This is why they put on an outward show of clean brightness, why they like to dress in expensive clothing with shiny bobbles, and pretend to be glorious. This is why they use externals to make themselves artificially feel like gods who govern their own lives and the universe, instead of God. They need to pretend, because their spirits know that it is actually God who dictates every little cause and effect through His own just and loving will, that God serves His creations without the need for any other entity’s counsel or help. Every spirit of life on earth and in heaven knows that absolutely nothing in all spiritual and physical existence remains under its own power or control.

All the laws and ways of Roman humanism, which is now trying to destroy this planet, but will not succeed, are futile vanity. Each arrogant humanist glorifies himself with praise and accolades from other equally deluded humanists, and refuses to truly glorify the real God from one’s own spirit,

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since that would distract from one’s own glory. Humanists all cherish their external status symbols to esteem themselves in the eyes of men instead of in the eyes of God, worldly status symbols like fine clothing, big houses, titles like “pastor” or “doctor,” and so on. And humanists all attempt to turn all eyes towards their flesh, because they need to turn all eyes away from their ugly and exploitative spirits in their hearts. They conspire with one another, forming organizations to mutually esteem each other, to bolster their power and glory. Yet this manufactured fake “brightness” is repulsive, not truly appealing at all, since their loveless criminal negligence and nurtured hatred intentionally kills their own siblings more ruthlessly than a pack of wolves, just to gain what their vain flesh desires.

To gain all these self-deluding superficial externals, humanists force their destructive wills on others, and try to force others to fear them as gods who bear power over life and death. But their wills are confused and foolish. And the only one anyone should fear is God, who alone bears the power to cause final death or build up true life. Some also fool others into thinking they are knowledgeable, objectively wise and superior, fit to rule over all. But, in reality, God has handed them all over to dark, empty, worthless, irrational and destructive delusions. God alone is omniscient, objectively wise enough to plan and effectively execute those plans, entirely superior, and loving enough to justly rule over all. So their external appearances do not convince the awakened elect to bow before them and serve them. For the awakened elect may see themselves as worth absolutely nothing, but also see those the pretending human gods as worth absolutely nothing. And “worth” matters nothing to the awakened elect, since God-like love is all that matters, and love is built on truth, not on worth.

Humanists bully and intimidate souls into compliance. They ridicule, slander, threaten, coerce imprison and kill those who oppose them, using violence and torture to make their siblings submit. They assign all non-humanists, and all who are not deluded enough to join their vain causes, to a subhuman status. For they know that, when they can delude other humanists into thinking a human being is not a human being, those other humanists will help them oppress those “inferiors,” and even impassively murder those “sub-humans.” Then humanists make unbalanced, unjust laws, designed to benefit only themselves, laws which oppress any opposition to their lies and delusions. Because they worship man and reject the wise ways of their Creator and God, humanists are never able to establish any kind of true equity, responsible freedoms, humble rights or real justice in any land they rule. For they never address real problems, nor admit that they themselves are the principal cause of injustice, crimes and sins in their land. Instead, to force their wills on others, they impose inordinate fines and prison sentences on the lower classes in their hierarchical systems, while they set free the powerful and wealthy who lie, oppress and murder better than other criminals. For humanists are terrorists.

Like Hitler and Trump, all the “greatest” humanist gods strive to cause more terror than any of the other terrorists who might oppose them, to prove they are “stronger” and “superior” terrorists, so the people will serve them and not the other terrorists. For only the greatest terrorists can dominate all in any Roman humanistic nation. Thus, the wanna-be gods of nations never actually attempt to oppose terrorism itself, as an evil crime, but merely strive to become more terrifying terrorists than the other terrorists. They never really want to overcome evil with good, since they are evil themselves. They never actually reason with the people, proclaiming the wisdom and the long-term benefits of God’s ways. For the laws and ways of humanists are all designed to force others to submit, in exactly the same way that other terrorists are trying to force others to submit. Meanwhile, their elite manipulate their own man-made and unjust laws so they can exploit their siblings in their family of humankind, and freely commit whatever crimes they please. So the elite humanists are seldom ever punished for any of their own injustices, except when either a greater humanistic terrorist can seize power from those elite, or when a truly just governing body rises to power and replaces all forms of humanism.

 

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In the end, the latter will occur. All the divided nations of terrorizing iron, especially the Roman fascist nations of the beast, will be replaced by just one just governing body. “And in the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that shall never be destroyed, nor shall the kingdom be left to another people. It shall break in pieces all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, and it shall stand forever, just as you saw that a stone was cut from a mountain by no human hand, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold” (2:44-45, ESV). This is referring to the last days, to a period of more than two millenniums following Jesus' first advent., when the Messiah Jesus gave His New Covenant salvation to His kingdom of Israel.

During the subsequent years, which the Revelation defined as the eras of the seven seals, Jesus’ kingdom of awakened elect spirits has warred against humanism in lands throughout the world, nullifying many religious precepts of the iron Roman Empire. The “woke” kingdom of God has toppled Roman-like dictatorships and outlawed their methods of terrorism. They have attempted to build biblical systems of government, although the humanists have always risen up to taint those biblical systems with their unjust laws and ways. The kingdom of God has established various imperfect forms of biblical democracy; merciful biblical justice systems with parole and other ways to account for repentance; biblical social security systems to provide for the needy; biblical health care systems for the infirmed; biblical systems to care for strangers and immigrants; biblical systems of freedom of conscience and freedom of speech; a biblical recognition of the need to provide for the freedom and safety of harmless “outsiders” like the LGBTQ individuals; biblical systems to “tend” the garden of the earth and take responsibility for the living spirits of wildlife; and a host of other biblical systems which both the secular and theistic wanna-be human gods hate and try to suppress.

Now think about how the Messiah Jesus came to strike the image on its fourth kingdom’s “feet,” which were a weak mixture of iron and “soft clay” pieces. To destroy an evil and ruthless enemy, most strike at the head or chest. But Jesus has always struck at the “feet,” always called the people in the lower classes in rigid humanistic hierarchies, and has effectively toppled prototypes of the terrorizing beast by doing so. Jesus began His earthly ministry by purging humanism from the hearts of common people, who were ignored by the Roman elite. Jesus first makes the lowliest ones begin to love in the just ways He teaches to their hearts, makes their blinded eyes see the evils of their humanistic lords who unjustly oppress and exploit them. Generation after generation, elect spirits learn to love, either directly or indirectly through God’s Holy Spirit, even though most of their spirits remain too dull to recognize that they are learning from Him, and from Him alone. But, in the end, it is the protest of the common people against the unjust ways of humanism which change those ways. For the elite rely on the common people to do all the real works of their kingdoms, and cannot retain their power and controlling wealth if those “worthless” and “inferior” people stop working for them.

When Jesus removes the common people from the humanists, and gathers them into His kingdom for His just and loving purposes, their humanistic kingdoms fall. When the spiritual life of the elect begins to focus on serving God by serving one another for the inner and outer benefit of all, there is nothing left for the useless parasites in humanistic kingdoms to steal from them, and no way for those wanna-be gods to maintain their power and control. For it is always the common people who actually support the whole weight of the hierarchical humanist structures. So, while humanistic fake churches bow before the elite in Satan’s world order, Jesus wisely begins His attack on Satan and his prime religion of humanism at the feet, by bringing His truth and ways into the hearts of His elect.

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value of love and justice in life. Then these elect can do the works which actually touch the land for its good. It is these elect who most effectively raise crops and livestock, who build solid structures, who make firm roads on unsteady ground, who traverse the lands, rivers and oceans to acquire the resources of the earth to feed, clothe and house their loved ones. The elect are the wages of the earth, only ones who actually keep life on earth alive. And Jesus will gather all the elect into His kingdom.

But, to gather these elect into His kingdom, Jesus must first divide the elect from the non-elect, which is usually a painful process. For infantile elect spirits usually sleep in their amoral bodies of flesh, as their flesh blindly succumbs to the cajoling or threats of the non-elect. So, to separate the elect from the non-elect, Jesus often lets the non-elect take His elect children captive. Then, after those loveless and lawless non-elect prove themselves to be ruthless abusers and murderers of the elect, the spirits of those elect wake up and no longer remain comfortable in their blinded state of captivity. Satan’s world order may bribe the flesh of a few of the elect, to prevent their spirits from waking up. But most elect are not as selfishly ambitious as the non-elect, and remain in the lower classes of humanistic hierarchies. So most elect become the most abused and exploited in humanistic systems, the most humbled and humiliated. Thus, most elect become spiritually and even physically separated from the non-elect. And that is when Jesus calls them to nullify the evil works of the devil.

We are now nearing the end of the fifth seal’s era, when the persecutions of God’s elect truth-tellers has reached its climax. Now the elect have been humbled to the extreme, and are waking up in huge numbers, totally disgusted with both the secular and theistic humanists. So now the “soft clay” in the hearts of those elect is separating from the loveless iron of non-elect hearts, which is breaking the feet of the beast apart. And, to complete that dichotomizing process, the world-wide destruction of national infrastructures that support humanistic hierarchies will occur. And this will allow the elect to be freed, and almost force them into a world-wide revival of the Messiah’s true New Covenant church. That will draw a firm and visible line between the elect and the non-elect, so that our God Jesus can begin His war against those non-elect, and against Satan’s Roman humanists in particular.

So the works of our God Jesus are mostly done on earth through His humbled disciples, in what we might call a “grass roots movement.” Throughout history, many have attacked the heads or the elite parts of the upper body, either by violence or by debate. But all these attacks have inevitably resulted in nothing beneficial, merely another evil elite body taking the place of a previous one. This is why we must follow Jesus as cooperative equals who strike at the feet, who divide the “soft clay” from the “iron” in the lower classes. We do not need to replace one despot glorified by Satan’s world order with another despot glorified by Satan’s world order. Rather, we need to topple the entire unjust hierarchical system and replace it with equally cherished servants chosen by God to labor for one another. We choose the servants God has chosen and prepared for works of service in governments, businesses and homes, so works can be done for the good of all the people. And before we can do God’s works, we need to know how God works and what He wants each to do, then choose those whom He has taught and trained to do each work. Doing this will build a just and loving nation which forbids exploitative humanistic hierarchical systems, and equitably serves all life in the land.

We do not need Satan’s invention of money or hierarchical power to do God’s works. To nullify the works of Satan and destroy the power of the religious kingdom of secular and theistic humanism, we need to worship Jesus as our only Head Teacher and Lord, as common brothers and sisters working according to His one mind for His purposes, without human heads and lords. Through His works in our everyday lives, His power will overcome the enemy. And, when Jesus returns, He will crush the lies and sins of the beast’s 2,500-year-old kingdom into dust, blowing it away with the angelic spirits of the wind. Our God Jesus will do all this as His works of loving service for all the Father’s sinful

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elect children, as His labors of love for us, through His unmerited, unearned grace. And He will do this as a Man who previously walked among those in the “feet” of the Roman hierarchical system.

When Jesus came to us the first time, He did not come as a citizen of Rome, nor as a member of any other hierarchical system. Rather, He came as one of the “outsiders,” as a clay piece of the “feet,” whom the Roman hierarchical systems exploited and plundered for their profit, and to use as their slaves. The chosen parents of His earthly body were impoverished peasants, working people who could not even afford the inexpensive lamb sacrifice required to celebrate his birth. Joseph and Mary were so poor that they had to sacrifice doves at His birth, which were the designated substitute for the poor in the eternal Kingdom of God. And when Jesus was born in Bethlehem, God called none of the most esteemed Bible scholars in the world, in Jerusalem only six miles (10 kilometers) away, to witness His birth. Rather, God called only a few marginalized and impoverished shepherds to the barn where He was born, to worship the earth’s God, King and High Priest in humility. Then all the years of Christ’s ministry were spent teaching fishermen, farmers, shepherds, laborers and slaves as His personally chosen disciples. Jesus went straight to the most common people, to the marginalized and disenfranchised, to the poor. He ignored the rich, the esteemed and the elite, the ruling council of the church, the nobles and the privileged Roman citizens, unless they came to Him in godly humility.

Jesus, our God, first takes the hearts of the elect among the common people, for God makes most of His elect remain humble and common, so they do not form Roman hierarchies among themselves. It is Satan and his world order that makes his own non-elect children into the so-called “great” men of their times, the cruel lords who strut and bully their way to the top of humanistic hierarchies. Almost all of God's beloved elect are found among the common people, among those who are rejected and marginalized by the arrogance of humanistic class systems. For, as Christ's Holy Spirit teaches the spirits of His elect, even unconsciously, their hearts can never allow themselves to strive for loveless positions of status in the ruthless humanistic systems. Thus, the elect are shoved aside into peripheral roles in every humanistic society. Yet the elect are actually the only souls who keep their land alive and able to function, as the physical, emotional and spiritual foundation supporting their entire land.

The weight of the whole nation, including the upkeep of the exploiting elite, rests on the common, honest, just elect who do all the real works and maintain the only hope that exists for any society. So, as Jesus begins to turn elect hearts back to Him and their Father in heaven, as they learn to love and to consciously follow His ways, so they might do His wise works which truly bless all life, these elect will be separated from the loveless non-elect who exploit and plunder them. Jesus’ just and loving kingdom will grow and the kingdom of Satan’s world order will die. The rich and powerful will lose their wealth and power in the end, but elect souls will be free to live good lives, caring for one another equally, under the guidance of their loving and serving Teacher of wise righteousness.

As this era of the fifth seal is winding down and the revival era of the sixth seal is about to begin, the elect are starting to see how the empty, lifeless, loveless ways of the Roman humanistic religion are worthless. So they will let those evil and destructive ways die, while the ways of just, God-like love triumph in many lands. But even some common folk, who long to someday esteem themselves in the Roman world order, will still reject God’s just ways, then attack the elect who proclaim and practice those ways. And this is why Daniel prophesied that Jesus will break the feet into pieces as He strikes them. The first plague of God’s wrath against Satan’s destructive world order will be during the era of the sixth seal, when He will destroy the infrastructures that hold the Roman hierarchical systems together. During that time, He will break the feet of the worshiped beast. The elect “soft clay” and the non-elect “iron” pieces will be separated, and the “feet” will crumble. Then the “soft clay” will be molded into the image of the “Stone,” and caused to grow, but in fire which will make them far

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stronger and more resilient than iron, bronze, silver or gold. After this, the power of our God Jesus will send plague after plague against Satan’s world order, and especially against that devil’s fourth Roman kingdom. Finally, by the time Jesus’ feet touch the Mount of Olives, Satan’s entire world order will be crushed into dust, and not even one non-elect soul will be left alive upon the earth.

Jesus did not come to rule the earth during His first advent, just as the Roman Empire became the dominant world power. Rather, “in the days of those kings the God of heaven … set up a kingdom that shall never be destroyed, nor shall the kingdom be left to another people” (2:44, ESV). The true kingdom of God, the awakened elect who worship Him in their spirits and in truth, was “set up” by Jesus, through His sin sacrifice on the cross and by His Holy Spirit teaching and training the spirits of the Father’s elect children. And that kingdom was not “left to another people,” not to the Roman humanists of fake churches, synagogues and mosques. Rather, although those humanists killed and oppressed God’s elect and suppressed His truths, they could never “destroy” His true kingdom. His elect have always remained hidden among them, with their spirits learning from Jesus’ Holy Spirit about God’s kind of loving justice. In fact, His kingdom has been growing throughout the centuries.

The biblical truths that God has poured into the minds of elect spirits, into the hearts of His elect, have now spread throughout the world. His elect are now becoming the “woke” on earth, and will soon become a visible church, that is, His true New Covenant priesthood of Israel who shall serve all His creations of life on earth. The Holy Spirit of Jesus has been teaching their spirits all along, in God’s humble way, where His Spirit does not brag about Himself or even mention His own name, but merely teaches the truth through His love for His people and His other living creations. He has revived many elect spirits since His first advent. Then, as these elect have witnessed the arrogance, injustice, folly and inequity of humanism, their inner convictions about God’s words and ways have grown. And this growing conviction will increase exponentially during the revival of the sixth seal.

So, when Jesus returns the second time, He will be a “great mountain” filling the whole earth. After He comes the second time, all four Satanic kingdoms will fall, ending all humanism. And Jesus shall rule the whole earth in pure, just love. So it is time for the elect to see what has been happening on the earth for the last two and a half millenniums. Vain Nebuchadnezzar likely thought this dream and its interpretation indicated that he had received God’s blessing, in much the same way humanistic American evangelicals thought the victories of Trump were God’s blessings. But, in reality, God had cursed Nebuchadnezzar, in the same way God cursed the American evangelicals by granting their wicked hearts what they wanted, for their own well-earned destruction, even for their eternal death.

But God’s true servant, Daniel, knew that God was actually telling vain Nebuchadnezzar he was one of the most deluded, materialistic and damned men in all history, the most worthless of all. Then, throughout the history of the following Persian, Greek and Roman kingdoms, we also saw how psychopathic humanists, like Nebuchadnezzar, strive to become ruthless rulers over all the world, how all sought to replace God, even while they all had access to God’s Word and knew that God alone was the wise and beneficial Head and King over all. None of them bothered to consider this claim in God’s Word, to do the research and reason through the evidence which proved that only Yahweh is God, and that only His ways are just and loving. Thus, God made Nebuchadnezzar and his kingdom of Babylon, the first and worst of all, to be the head of the other three kingdoms that were represented by this demonic worshiped idol which the Messiah would crush into dust someday.

Nebuchadnezzar heard the interpretation, how God had doomed him and his kingdom to destruction. This was presented to him clearly, in no uncertain terms. Furthermore, he witnessed the miraculous proof that his haunting dream, which he could not forget nor dismiss no matter how hard he tried,

 

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was indeed from a supernatural source, just as he suspected. For he did not tell his dream to anyone, although Israel’s God revealed that very dream in every detail, and its interpretation, to His true and faithful servant, Daniel. Yet God handed that vain Nebuchadnezzar over to a great delusion, which even caused him to try and thwart those purposes of God, by building his own worshiped idol out of solid gold, without fragile feet of clay and iron. Then that doomed king then tried to force his people to worship his less vulnerable man-made replacement instead of the God-formed idol of his dream.

But his attempt to alter the decree of God failed, because the faithful servants of Yahweh, the men named Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, refused to bow down and worship Nebuchadnezzar’s man-made substitute for God’s image. And that angry king could not threaten them into submission. So he tried to consume God’s church of Israel in a furnace, to eliminate all who would not worship the god he created for himself. Yet his efforts were in vain. For our God Jesus saved His elect, and walked among them in the furnace, unharmed and free, as a sign that He will come to deliver His true church of Israel from the kingdoms of the beast. Then Nebuchadnezzar had to accept the doom that the God of Israel appointed for him and his kingdom (Dan. 3:10-30). Regardless of how many mighty men of the armies the humanists might send to cast God’s church into the furnace, that furnace will kill those mighty men, but leave His church untouched. For Jesus saves His elect from the fires of hell, and those fires shall only consume those whom God deems to be unworthy of life.

Later, God even made Nebuchadnezzar wander out into the fields and eat grass like an ox. And all these delusions were cast upon him as punishments. Begin cast into these kinds of delusions, which cause one to do evil and destroy one’s own flesh, is God’s ultimate penalty, reserved for the most greedy and immoral sinners. God hands all who do not love the truth, all who love lies instead, over to the darkness of self-destructive delusions. And this is not a mental illness, but a perversion of the spirit’s mind, a condition of the heart. God can even delude whole nations, then hand them over to the worst of rulers. God sends a strong delusion to a wicked people, so they will blindly follow and serve even the most obvious inept, lying, psychopathic frauds, so they will worship those vile monsters until they either destroy themselves and their land, or until the elect survivors will repent.

This is why God handed the humanists throughout history over to the worship of Nebuchadnezzar, to esteem and serve him as their high god. And, to this day, humanists have been worshiping little copies of Nebuchadnezzar, whom his dreamed image represented. This dreamed image is also the final beast and his kingdom, history’s ultimate enemy of God. Yet that final beast is indeed merely Satan’s ultimate copy of Nebuchadnezzar, but fully deluded and controlled by that devil, without any will of his own flesh or of his own spirit remaining in him. This is why devout Jews, including some of the true apostles of Jesus, called the final beast and his kingdom by the name of “Babylon,” since the name of the head is the name of the whole. And notice how God called this psychopathic, weak man, this Nebuchadnezzar, “the king of kings” (2:37). Of course, this meant that Nebuchadnezzar is the high king who will rule over many future subject kings in the four Satanic kingdoms. Yet, to Daniel and the prophets, this title was reserved for God alone. Only God is the “King of kings,” the King of all people and of all that exists upon the earth (e.g., I Sam. 8:7). Thus, God’s prophecy about Nebuchadnezzar being the “king of kings” meant that this man thought he could replace God, who is the only real “King of kings.” Nebuchadnezzar wanted to usurp the sovereignty of God on the earth.

This vain mortal man was so deluded that he thought he had the ability and even the right to create and enforce all the laws of his kingdom, according to his own foolish will. This man believed he could govern the destinies of all the people in what he called “his kingdom,” as well as his own destiny. Nebuchadnezzar refused to acknowledge that, at the beginning of creation, God designed and established all the immutable just laws and ways that men must follow to effectively benefit

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themselves and all life on earth. Nor would he admit that God alone owned him, all the people of the earth, all that is on the earth and all that is above the earth. So, to this deluded psychopath named Nebuchadnezzar, the words of prophecy about his dream sounded like a blessing and even like God praised his works for himself. But those words were actually accusing him of being one of the worst and most evil sinners in all history, who committed a blasphemy which was worthy of eternal hell.

Still, it was God who handed Nebuchadnezzar over to this delusion, because his heart did not love the truth. And it was God who made Nebuchadnezzar rise to power, who also raised up Satan's subsequent three kingdoms after him (i.e., Persia, Greece and Rome). So God must have done such things for a good reason. And His purpose was to expose the sins of self-centered human hearts throughout history, and allow the wicked to heap up their own damnation for their just condemnation on the final day. But, ultimately, it was to help His elect children learn to cherish His just, wise and loving ways, and reject the very common selfish, evil, foolish, ruthless ways of Satan, which had always prevailed in his unjust world order. For Satan’s ultimate religion of humanism magnified and empowered all the sins committed by mankind since the beginning of human history, all the lies and delusions of the sinners in that devil’s world order. Now His elect would see what was in the hearts of the loveless non-elect citizens of Satan’s kingdom, then truly repent into His just, loving kingdom.

Since God grants sinful and destructive rulers to a people who do not love the truth and reject Him as their King, God will give the beast to Satan’s world order, because none of the beast’s worshipers will love the truth and all will reject our God Jesus as their only King. Since Jesus alone is the King, Owner and God of all kings and all people, even of all that exists, the only Head of each individual man, the act of God granting power, might and glory to a worshiped sinner should never be seen as a blessing or complement. All the little copies of Nebuchadnezzar, all the psychopathic humanist kings in history, may say their power comes from God, because it does, as a punishment to their people who do not love the truth. But none can say they rule with a “divine right” to ruthlessly oppress their siblings, by making unjust laws and enforcing them, since no mortal sinner is ever granted any right to sin, only the right to repent and serve God. And one serves God by lovingly serving His creations.

When Daniel prophesied that the king's power, might and glory had been granted by God, he was indicating that God was cursing that king and the arrogant people in his kingdom. The dream, about Nebuchadnezzar being the head of the four kingdoms and the final beast, all of which also belongs to God alone, indicated that Nebuchadnezzar was to be the head of the greatest enemy of that one true, omnipotent and omniscient God, then cast into hell. Therefore, Nebuchadnezzar must have been a very evil man, which was evidenced by his psychopathic deeds. For what good man would ever want to be the ruler of a kingdom destined to be God’s greatest enemy, a kingdom ultimately ruled by Satan—a kingdom which ruthlessly slaughtered and plundered other nations for its own profit, then forced countless souls to serve as either abused slaves or murdering henchmen; a kingdom that also forced the people to glorify and worship vain and foolish mortals and demons? Every loving elect soul would tremble in terror and immediately flee from the possibly of being cursed in such a way.

God’s elect want God alone to be worshiped, and want our God Jesus to be their only King. All the loving and awakened elect want God alone to appoint His own chosen servants to each and every position of decision-making authority in their land, so all decisions shall be made according to God’s will and by His commands to the spirits of those men. For all the awake elect want to be conformed into the humble, wise and capable image of Jesus, our true God and King, who serves His people for their good, who even gave His body over to a torturous death for the salvation of His people. All good and just rulers desire only God's “glory,” only the good opinion of God Himself, not any glory for themselves. For they are all Jesus’ disciples, who call Him their Lord and Head Teacher, and do

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not call themselves the teachers or guides of any other men. They all merely follow the Teacher of God’s just ways, and do not ever create laws for their own selfish benefits. The faithful elect seek and apply the wise and loving ways of God, not the self-seeking, self-esteeming ways of vain men.

But, in our day, we tend to think all these Christian ideals are outdated and obsolete, that societies today have progressed far beyond the ancient cultures and are now far more acceptable to us. So the churches readily adopt the world’s cultural precepts today, then look back at the devout Jewish captives in Babylon, like Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, as story-book characters in a surreal ancient foreign land. But those Jews in Babylon are us, and our modern world is Babylon.

Today, we live in basically the same religious, philosophical, moral and spiritual culture as Babylon. And the inner lives of both the elect and non-elect have not changed for millenniums. For the second of the four Satanic slave societies after Babylon was the Medo-Persian empire, which originated from the Babylonian empire, and were one with Babylon from their inception. Then Greek scholars, mercenaries, traitors and defectors from the devil’s third slave society often spent many years in Persia, and many Persians also lived in Greek states too. So the Greeks knew and syncretized Babylonian and Persian ways with their own. Many Greek philosophies, teachings and traditions originated in Babylon and Persia. Later, these Greek humanistic doctrines became the core beliefs of Rome, and we even call it the Greco-Roman empire, which became the basis for all European-based cultures. Then this Greco-Roman Europe influenced every land on earth by the twentieth century.

So the world we now dwell within is essentially Babylon, the devil’s ultimate religious kingdom. A few externals, like clothing, foods and housing, have changed. But we live by the same core cultural, moral and religious constructs that motivate behaviors. And biblical Christianity is the fulfillment of the same just and loving laws of God that Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego believed and refused to compromise while they lived in that Babylonian-Persian culture. So the same conflict between God’s ways and the demonic humanistic religion of Babylon exists today, but with more developed and more intense spiritual forces at play on both sides. And Babylon will soon perish.

The fourth kingdom of Babylon was to rule Satan’s world order of intentional liars and sinners. But God was going to set up a small “stone” kingdom through His Messiah during the time of that fourth kingdom. And it was a small stone. The apostolic church was tiny, far less than a tenth of one percent of the Roman Empire. Then itinerant humanists bullied their way in and crushed it. Nevertheless, God’s Holy Spirit continued to work in elect spirits and He also preserved the words He revealed through His prophets and apostles. So the small “stone” has grown substantially, and will soon become a “great mountain” during the sixth seal’s revival. Then Jesus will return to crush the fourth Babylonian kingdom to dust. Roman humanism has broken to pieces and shattered all other nations and religions since it was formed, and much of its spiritual conquering was through the humanistic Roman Catholic church or its daughter humanistic churches. Yet we can already see its “feet,” the common working people and marginalized people, dividing, breaking apart, dichotomizing. Rome reached the peak of its arrogance and power in the 20th century, but began to break apart then too.

The Roman style of conquering and colonialism, which exploited and enslaved other nations so they would serve as its “feet,” was once effective in breaking and crushing opposition. And the ultimate form of Roman humanism—with a worshiped Caesar, which we now call fascism—was revived in the 20th century, to enhance and increase the fifth seal’s persecutions of God’s elect. Now fascism is still alive throughout the world, and will not end until the final beast is worshiped by the non-elect. Yet the works of those Roman humanists over the centuries, all its labors in causing delusions, lies, arrogance, hate, murdering ignorance, factious powers, wars and shattered societies, have come very

 

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close to destroying this entire planet. So the elect among the “feet” of that worshiped idol called the beast, are waking up and starting to realize that just, equitable, loving truths of God, and also the real God Himself, must rule this world, to save this world from utter annihilation by the Roman Empire.

Ancient Rome was always a divided kingdom, engaging in many civil wars, with emperors and elite murdering one another to gain wealth and power. The selfish ambition of its emperors and elite were always involved in many intrigues and crimes that divided their enslaving kingdoms and resulted in the deaths of many innocent souls. For each humanist wanted to be a god who was blindly obeyed by loyal worshipers. So conflicting wanna-be gods continuously caused bloody wars or rebellions, accompanied by famines, refugees, plagues and other deadly effects. Above all, the eastern Roman Empire became separated from the western Roman Empire, which ultimately caused their captive and colonized nations to rise up against them, as well as all the other nations around them. So the Roman factions caused the destruction of the original city and state of Rome, which shall not be revived until the final fascist beast arrives. But the empire of its Roman culture and precepts carried on through its religious philosophies of humanism, and conquered human flesh in the entire world.

Factions in the Roman empire began to increase during the second century, through small and carnal changes, which caused much trouble among them because Roman humanism is an entirely carnal religion. First, the west finally adopted their native language of Latin as their official language. But the eastern empire kept the more “scholarly” Greek as their official language. Then, through other forms of petty carnal pride and greed, other differences developed. But Rome continued to war against and plunder other nations, taking captives for slaves, all to make themselves more wealthy and powerful. So they made themselves enemies of themselves and made enemies of everyone else as well, which is not a good strategy for survival. They were just like today's humanists, especially the fascists of today. Roman arrogance has always been demonically self-destructive, laboring hard for its own destruction, by causing its own people and everyone around them to bitterly hate them.

Most Roman humanists throughout history have been factious, warring against one another and against outsiders through selfish ambitions, for their own economic interests and other exploitative purposes. None have been content to accept their siblings in humankind as equal spiritual heirs of God’s world and heaven. None seek out and strive to live the life God ordained for all humankind, the only kind of life in which anyone can find true joy and peace with God, including peace with other elect souls and all God’s life on earth. None labor to overcome evil with good, since they rely solely upon the methods of Satan’s world order and his weapons of warfare to gain more of that devil’s invention of money and more god-like power over their equal siblings in humankind. Each humanistic leader, group or nation strives to exploit, subjugate or destroy one another in their lusts and desires of their amoral flesh, which can never actually be gratified by any means whatsoever.

If anyone tries to bind together chunks of iron with soft clay, to form a firm foundation of “feet” for an extremely heavy and burdensome statue, that one will fail. No matter how much terrorizing force and fire one may use to press and melt the pieces together, that artificial unity will not remain solid for long. Incessant vibrations and the knocks of even a small “stone” will eventually separate the iron from the clay. So the foundation of feet will crumble and the entire statue will fall. The reason that no real unity can ever be achieved through the religion of humanism is because each individual humanist is taught to be his or her own god, and even the god of other souls. Each enslaved working person strives to be an independent individual, a chunk of self-sufficient iron, through the delusions and lies each one is told. But the myths of humanism are not true. None can be self-sufficient, except the Creator God. All weak, foolish humans depend on God, His creations and other human beings.

 

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In reality, it is impossible for humanists to build a solid footing, consisting of exploited, oppressed souls, to support an extremely heavy hierarchical structure, so a human god and his elite puppets can then securely sit on the top of that man-made structure in self-indulgent luxury. No matter how much their father from hell tells those humanists that this can be done, the immutable principles of good and evil which God created for His earthly kingdom will not allow those humanistic hierarchical pyramids to stand for long, and God’s power will crush them all to dust in the end. In the meantime, while their hierarchies remain standing, the humanists who build and maintain them will simply be heaping up eternal condemnation for themselves. That is, the darkness of their lies and delusions which they create for themselves on earth, all that makes them feel like gods, will be carried with them into hell, and torture them throughout eternity with unending, frustrated, ungratified desires.

Both on earth and in hell, the non-elect wanna-be gods will never actually become the kinds of gods they want to be. For the only way to do that is to exploit and murder, which God’s power and His creations will never reward. Always, there will be opposing spiritual and physical forces which will frustrate and destroy those wanna-be human gods. For all human beings were created to beneficially serve one another and God’s creations, according to God’s immutable created principles. And no one can find any inner peace, true joy or spiritual satisfaction, nor even physical contentment, apart from those truths which build up God-like love. Each humanist is created as a haphazard shape, as a little chunk of unyielding iron. Then each iron chunk wants everyone else to comply to all its own rules, laws and demands. But God, His elect and His creations were not created to follow those man-made ways, and do not. So that wanna-be human god gets frustrated, works harder, accomplishes nothing and finally dies in grief and bitterness, only to carry all that darkness into one’s eternal home of hell.

No matter how much the humanists plan and work together, all they will ever manage to build is an unsteady structure that will fall apart as soon as the clay separates from the iron pieces in the feet of their supposedly “Utopian” hierarchy. Eventually, the elect clay in the feet will realize that the gold, silver, bronze and iron above them is exploiting them, and that iron pieces among them are merely deluded non-elect souls being exploited through lying propaganda. So the clay will separates from the iron pieces and fall off. Then the iron pieces will fall off too. The long, strong storms of truth will wash the pieces of clay from hierarchical structure and topple the whole thing, leaving it prone to theft and vandalism. Soon all of it will be torn apart and carried off by greedy and unruly enemies.

Humanists sometimes work together through shared fears, greed, selfish interests and other delusions that God allows Satan to work within their hearts and minds. Yet it is clearly impossible for any real, deep and lasting unity to ever develop among humanists, since each is striving to be his or her own god ruling over one’s own destiny, and each wants to get one’s own way while subjugating all the others. Humanists can be deluded into selfless acts of blind loyalty to a nation or worshiped human god, but can never bind themselves to others through pure, selfless, serving, just, God-like covenants of love created by God in their spirits. For non-elect spirits are incapable of permanently cherishing one another as equals, by committing their lives to a loving service of God and other souls, not in the way God created the elect to be the most effective servants for the benefit of all. Loving covenants of the spirit can only be established and ratified by God, by the Owner and Lord of spirits. And God only creates those kinds of covenant in His elect. So people can only truly and permanently bind together in perfect unity if God is their only God, if God teaches and trains their spirits regarding His ways of unconditional, eternal love, if God creates loving covenants in their spirits through His love.

Since all committed humanists want to be their own gods, the real God can never be their God. So their spirits can never learn from God to become deeply and truly joined together by the love of their spirits, in eternal covenants which will even bind them together in heaven above. Even the elect that

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have been taken captive by the lies of humanism cannot form true covenants in their spirits. This includes the covenants of real marriage. For the covenant of two spirits in marriage must be established, ratified and ruled by God inwardly, in each spouse’s spirit, and that love will not end, but continue in heaven where there are no genders nor marriages. Thus, humanistic marriages never see the spouses grow inwardly, thrive and endure all trials—unless the spouses have elect spirits and God Himself mercifully intervenes by ruling their spirits, so they will overcome their fleshy desires.