Confusing the Antichrist with the Roman Catholic Church
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Originally Posted by RICK MARTELLO
the holy book says the antichrist will blaspheme god. blaspheme means to forgive sins and also to sit in place of god. the bible says it will change times and laws. the catholic church has changed the law of god. the popes crown in roman numeral also adds up to 666 and he is a man that speaks great things. for over a thousand years the catholic church has persecuted jews and christians--known as the dark ages or mid-evil times. revelation says that this power will repeat itself as history always does. the roman catholic church was the first beast and the second will make an striking image of the first through the protestant and catholic church coming together through spiritualism. this will be the second beast or false prophet known as the antichrist.
The second beast is a person just as the first beast is. Though the Roman Catholic Church is the great harlot that makes drunk the nations with the wine of the wrath of her fornications (Rev. 14.8). Distinguish between antichrists and THE Antichrist.
“A woman sitting upon a scarlet-colored beast”—This beast represents the Roman Empire, for the seven heads and ten horns are merely part of it; it also points to Antichrist, because even though he is the eighth head he nevertheless possesses all the villainy of the other seven as well as the powers of the ten horns. God looks upon Antichrist as just a wild beast. Moreover, He looks upon this woman as a harlot, for she is not as irrationally vicious as a wild beast, though she abandons her rationality and acts a harlot.
The woman is the Roman Catholic Church typifying religious Rome, not political Rome. The beast is the Antichrist who is Nero. Neron Kaiser = 666 in Greek. The person who killed more Christians than anyone was Nero. The only two people in the Bible called sons of perdition were Nero and Judas, so Nero is the Antichrist and Judas is the False Prophet. They will be resurrected. The Roman Catholic Church did not exist at the time of John's writing, so John applied the 666 to what he knew at the time which was Nero, one of the 5 fallen Caesars.
Rev. 17.8 The angel explains to John that the beast he saw has four stages of history; namely, the beast (1) was, (2) is not, (3) is about to come out of the abyss, and (4) will go into perdition.
In the book of Revelation this beast, as has been said, represents Antichrist as well as the Roman Empire. In this connection, though, it points to a man, not to a state. The reasons for this view are as follows:
(1) This beast “was”—How then can we say that the Roman Empire once existed earlier prior to the time of John?
(2) The beast “is not”—Yet neither can we say that the Roman Empire did not exist at John’s time.
(3) The beast “is about to come up out of the abyss”—Abyss is the place where the spirits are imprisoned. How can we therefore say that the Roman Empire is about to come out of the abyss?
(4) The beast is “to go into perdition”—How, moreover, can we say that the political entity known as the Roman Empire will go into hell in the future?
Since, from this reasoning, this beast cannot apply to the Roman Empire, it must have reference to Antichrist. “Was” shows that before the time of John there was such a person who once lived on earth. He is one of the 5 fallen Caesars (Rev. 17.10).
“Is not” indicates that at John’s time (of writing during the reign of Domitian) this man is not in the world since he must have died. The phrase “is not” is also used in Genesis 42.36-38 to indicate death. Death is not a word to describe the Roman Catholic system for it did not die as humans die. In fact it still remains today.
“Is about to come up out of the abyss” reveals that he is now in the abyss but will come out of it, that is to say, he will be resuscitated.
“Go into perdition” discloses that he will not live forever on earth, neither can he rule forever, because his destiny will be that of being cast into the lake of fire (19.20, 20.10). The Roman Catholic Church is a system which will cease to exist, whereas those who go to Hell remain, but eternally separated from God.
His being “was, and is not, and is about to come” is a clever counterfeiting of God “who is and who was and who is to come” (cf. 1.4,8; 4.8).
“And they that dwell on the earth shall wonder”—And this wonderment will eventually lead them to worship the beast (13.12). Only those whom God has chosen will be kept. All whose names have been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world will be preserved by God and kept from worshiping the beast.
Nobody has any wonder with the Roman Catholic Church. It is very earthly, centered on the 7 hilled city of Rome.
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after the 1000 yrs. jesus will return again for the third time with ten thousand of his saints to execute the judgment onto the wicked and satan. and that judgment is fire raining down to burn up the evil, death, which is hell and the whole earth(lake of fire) to remake the new earth with the new jerusalm city.
The second coming of Jesus is where He reigns on earth for 1000 years. This called the day of the Lord. There is no 3rd coming of Jesus. How silly. There is His first coming nearly 2000 years ago and then His second coming. Jesus Himself said He would return, not a third time. How silly. The New Earth is not remade. For it is considered new. Earth will be burned up "without the sea" after the millennial kingdom. So the New Earth must be in a new place which is Mars from where John viewed the New City from the great high mount Olympus on Mars. It is also without the sea. This is not hard to fathom as trips to Mars are already in the works by NASA and Elon Musk. Even so when Jesus returns, He will mount a campaign to Mars even greater than this since ultimately this is where the New City will be. It takes a little forward thinking, but is it really so hard to fathom? Mars will be oxygenated as well. The gravity is more pleasant about 1/3 of Earth's gravity. And the temperature will be better as well since Earth will be burned up without the sea.
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there is no secret rapture and i can prove it with bible texts and the history how this was formed
The earliest church fathers taught partial rapture.
There is a secret rapture according to readiness, not a foregone conclusion for all believers since it is based on works and overcoming, doing God's will. Matt. 24.40-42 says, "[Mat 24:40-42 KJV] 40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. 41 Two [women shall be] grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left. 42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come."
"Your Lord" refers to the Lord of Christians not to non-Christians. No Christians at the end of the Tribulation will be left so to be left must occur from the start of the Tribulation. So Christians at the start of the Tribulation will be taken and left depending on their readiness to be received. There are advanced parties and harbingers in every sphere. Compare wheat with wheat, firstfruits and later harvest. Only those Christians who are watchful are taken. Non-watchful Christians will enter the Tribulation to be raptured at the last trumpet with those who are alive and left (1 Thess. 4.14-18). The Church remains on earth during the Tribulation.
Again speaking to Christians, If "thou didst keep the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of trial, that hour which is to come upon the whole world, to try them that dwell upon the earth" (Rev. 3.10). Do all Christians keep the word of His patience? Of course not, so only those who do so will escape the hour of trial of the Tribulation by being first raptured. Christians are in the Tribulation many of whom will be martyred, but death is no blessing. Surely it is not God's desire for you to die as a blessing.
Lastly, speaking to Christians again, "Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man." (Luke 21.36) Are all Christians prayerful and watchful? Of course not, so not all Christians alive at the first rapture will be raptured "before the throne" (Rev. 7.9) in 3rd Heaven before the 1st trumpet (8.7). Notice the first rapture is to the throne whereas the 7th trumpet rapture and resurrection with those alive, left and asleep is to the meet the Lord in the air. Different places different timing.
You're not a Christian, because you reject the rapture as Jesus was raptured. Therefore, you will be resurrected and raptured for Hell. Therefore, you are going to Hell. When you are in the Tribulation you won't realize it, because there will be a man who claims to be God who erects himself in the 3rd Temple (2 Thess. 2.4, Rev. 11.2) whom you will favor. Therefore, you will mostly likely not have a conscience to refuse the implant under your skin, the mark of the beast, to be able to buy and sell. Therefore, you are going to Hell. The acceptance of the mark is simply a manifestation of rejecting Jesus for a false Christ.
My prayers go out to you.
