666 The Beast From The East： Revelation 13

The unholy trinity was last week. This week is the beast from the east. Six six six. Now it's a play on on the title because what we're going to talk about is the beast from the earth. Last week was the beast from the sea. This is the beast from the earth and there a lot of them are pointing to the dragon. So that's where we come up with the unholy trinity. We can see exactly how satan, false prophet, the one world leader, how they how they work together. And on this topic it's so important to allow for different views. Remember I've shared that before. Allow for different views and that's one way God tests our unity I believe. If somebody ever comes up and they say I agree with everything you believe, you might want to you know pray about that because there are differences. God allows us different views. In the non-essentials I should say right. We can't all come together and worshiping different gods. That's not unity. True unity is unity of the faith. But then within that is and remember people aren't maybe where you're at spiritually or you're not maybe where they're at spiritually or maybe your experience is different than theirs and when you you read the you know we read the bible with a different interpretation sometimes of what the city looked like or the timing of this and and how many of you saw that beautiful picture of the lake and the mountains you know and spirit lead me in a couple of how many of you thought of skiing when you saw the snow or how many thought of being in a boat on the lake or how many of you I mean I could keep going I thought of being 100 feet out there and waiters with the fly pole and nobody else there right just you know no like what that that seems crazy well that's that's kind of my dna my dad raised me uh fly fishing taught me 12 years old and that's really a connection to get away and and just that's real fishing by the way I want to rub it in all those guys that put on bait and I say you're lake strippers who can throw a power bait out there and drink a beer I mean that's that's not working for your fish so sorry just offended some of the guys I apologized so revelation 13 11 through 12 so remember the beast came from the sea it's not necessarily coming from the ocean it could be the sea of humanity and that here I saw another beast now coming up out of the earth and he had two horns like a lamb and he spoke like a dragon and he exercises all authority of the first beast in his presence and he causes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast whose deadly wound was healed remember that from last week so this first beast the second beast is causing people to worship the first beast remind you of anything in the trinity because we don't worship the holy spirit remember that and I hear some pentecostals kind of their language is concerning a little bit you know because they're they're worshiping the holy spirit the holy spirit points us to worship christ and that and he's and we see actually the same thing here Ellicott in his commentary said both wild beasts rise from beneath when we talked about last week and this week the sea out of which the first rises represents the impulses and passions of mankind the earth the more fixed element of is of human thought and wisdom the wisdom however is that which which guides the wild beast is not divine wisdom but wisdom that is earthly sensual and of the devil now it's interesting I don't necessarily come away with that interpretation but I'm not sure what you do with a large beast rising out of the sea a large beast writing out of the earth and trying to put that together the bible uses a lot of imagery to represent what john saw the second beast is like the third person of the unholy trinity less graphic description so last week the first beast had a very graphic description and it thrives on deception and violence we're going to see in verses 13 and 14 isn't that interesting this next beast thrives actually on violence and being deceiving the people and that's really as we go through life you're going to see that a lot more a lot of deception and in case you haven't caught it yet um they use scare tactics around the world even our nation scare tactics and fear because the more fear the more scared you are the more freedoms you'll give up so in order to be under this one world system it's going to take a lot of fear and people giving up their their freedoms because of fear and that's what we saw during the um 2020 uh time period I can't say certain words because youtube sends me an email that you've been removed if we say so gosh got to wonder wonder what's going on there they're not since they're not they're not getting rid of fauci's videos and things like that but those who talk about these things they are so this person is given the same authority as the first beast but points to him for worship much like the holy spirit in the holy trinity the first beast is often called the anti-christ but some say it's the second beast to me i don't get too caught up on who is who or the language because we just don't know both of them appear in the temple think about this when you talk when you when you look at jesus and i could give more examples when you look at jesus and whoever the the anti-christ whatever beast it is both of them appear in a temple both of them claim to be god and both of them make a covenant with israel and both of them rise from the dead jesus and this false prophet this anti-christ isn't the similarities are amazing you might say well what what covenant did jesus make with israel the most important covenant there is that i give to you a new covenant it was a shedding of blood and the remission of sin and that's the covenant and this false prophet so you can see them working in parallel revelation 13 13 through 14 by the way just so you know there are a group of people that i respect but have already have already i don't know if they come a lot can come here but they've already they're already checked out in their mind about what i'm saying because it's a view called preterism and they believe that the book of revelation has already been fulfilled the whole book and if you read how they come to these conclusions there you know i give them credit there's really good points but there are some like i don't that's kind of hard for me on this area in this area in this area in this area it doesn't appear that everything was fulfilled now well i don't want to jump ahead but the reason is there are some have you heard of the word anti-type or you know god will sometimes do something here that actually is going to do again later and it can have dual fulfillment for example what i don't remember the exact chapter um many of you i'm sure know but in ezekiel where he's talking about the king of tyre and he's actually pronouncing judgments against babylon the philistines and this king of tyre is definitely a king a little legitimate real king but as he keeps going this king switches to language that is not that can't be an earthly king that has to be and that's where they a lot of people come up with now this is satan oh morning star how you've fallen and and you're deceiving the nations and are they going to say is this a great deceiver and it's like well that's that can't be a king but this first part definitely is a king so lord i don't want to do with that could it be dual fulfillment could it be that and and you do see without a shadow of a doubt that that nero anybody heard of nero burning christians at the stake blamed the burning of rome on christians you can definitely see how a lot of what john was writing about could fit into nero's persona and what he did but for me not everything there's things there that that i can't i can't make that that that leap but you you can see how people believe that and my whole point is this i was taught that those type of people were like like heretical that they weren't even christians but i didn't go to happen to read and study and like okay i can see where they draw this conclusion and there's different views partial preterism want to get real confusing they partially believe that some of the book of revelation has been fulfilled and uh they do a lot of work with the old testament bringing imagery in and then there's all millennialism where the millennial kingdom isn't really literal it's it's figurative and so i just think it's important to give grace in these areas because no one knows i can say that without a shadow of a doubt with it out is it without even a hint of hesitancy that nobody knows exactly how this is all going to unfold it would be impossible oh yeah here and here and here now somebody might get it right if they're you know just happen to just get it right but overall there's different views for different reasons on when these things will occur that that's why the key is always throughout scripture there's nothing we have to worry about because it the whole point is are you ready are you ready are you prepared here's what could go down and it's preparing the church it's preparing the saints and also it could be a wonderful revelation could be a wonderful letter for unbelievers to read in the future they go oh wow how do we miss it you know many could come to the faith by reading revelation in the future when they see these things unfolding and so this person performs great signs so that he even makes fire come down from heaven on earth how has that been fulfilled already in the sight of men and he deceives those who dwell on the earth by those signs which he was granted to do in the sight of the beast telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast beast who has wounded that we talked about last week and he was wounded by the sword and he lived so again he's pointing to that first beast he's deceiving those who dwell on the earth how is he deceiving them you guys see that by signs by signs which he was granted to do so the question does come up who who granted him those that power some say well the anti or the satan did and possibly but again god allows things nothing's gonna happen outside of god's sovereignty that's how i go to bed every night not worrying about anything i don't know about you but that's how i go to bed at night at night i don't that's god's sovereignty is my sanity there's no other way around it so obviously god granted him but could it be that the devil we don't know all we know that now he's doing signs and that is probably one of the best ways to deceive people correct that's why all these you know if if there's a sign that happens and i don't quite understand how the magicians were able to do it when moses did it with pharaoh some of that can be explained some of that was just maybe supernatural signs could it be all this weird stuff we're hearing about ufos could that be demonic and aliens that's probably the only answer i mean honestly if you think it through that's probably the only answer people seeing things or these happening so could it be possible that signs are going to follow this person and then if somebody oh if they see a sign that must be legitimate not necessarily not necessarily this remember when it comes to signs wonders what's going on does it line up with scripture does it lead you in a deeper relationship with god or farther away you start to question god that's why i encourage especially young adults don't watch all these youtube videos on conspiracy theories there are people you can just make a video and it does how do you know if it's true how am i going to check all this how am i going to say nasa did this they did this how i don't i can't check it i can't references or or this happened about the earth's shape and the it's really flat and like how how were you well he said how do you know what he said is right and see we start to be to see and i've seen a lot of christians now pastoring 14 years who will get way out there in the crazy land by watching all these things and not staying grounded scripture i can't tell you how many times i've seen it and they get mad at me you're just not open no i don't think the earth is flat can i send you a video that proves why it doesn't all these 20 scientific facts no i've already made up my mind don't confuse me with the facts i mean just and just getting into people i've talked to him about george bush plan 9-11 like where'd all these airplane passengers go oh they're hiding them somewhere can't you see this explosion how this and and you talk to engineers i've talked it's like guys you're getting off track and arrogant and deceived let's just say hypothetically speaking let's just say something like that is true okay why do you need to be focused on it all the time and argue with people about it what's the point what's the point you're being argumentative and we can be very very deceived by these things and i know sometimes i say things that people don't like and that's why i pray lord would you is this me or you but god gives us different callings for what he wants to accomplish in our lives i have to tell you this is really funny but there's pastors in town and they're friends of mine we you know i've been to every church here by the way i've been to highlands i've been to vineyard i've been to grace chapel i know chris well i've been to hope chapel i know sean well i've been to calvary chapel i know pastor my pastor mike was my pastor i know i've been to all these churches so i know i i and i and that's why i don't really put people down because there's different callings they're not going to preach like me they're not called to preach like me and i can't do what they do these they're incredible but we laugh sometimes because hey shame people are at our church because you're too hard i'm like people are at our church from you because you're too soft isn't that funny i mean you have to just laugh oh yeah i just met this couple they say you're just too hard too convicting and too i'm like what i just met another family last week that says you're going woke and you don't talk about the issues and you're like you're this compromising pastor and you're so and you you don't you don't shake them up what is it i just have to laugh it's like because you have to be comfortable what god's called you to do and i just god has a sense of humor i think because every one of them that tell me that i can tell them a family who's come to our church because of what they lack in oh there's an industry and i and i do be careful anytime i hear that i tell morgan they'll be gone six months because if you bring that spirit of offense into this church and you bring this baggage into this church and you bring your issues here and you've got bitterness this is a matter of time that's a spiritual problem and i'm going to tick you off eventually and if you don't deal with it now how are you going to deal with it how are you going to grow in those areas and i tell people go back to your church apologize and just grow if that's where you're getting fed i sent people recently to grace chapel or calvary chapel if they like through the bible verse by verse expository preaching or lancaster baptist i talked to pastor paul sometimes coming on my podcast we've got we're on the same team once you realize we're all on the same team the church had just planted in quartz hill i talked to him every week did you need anything how are things going well some of your people here i don't care my people are not my people they're not they're god's people and sometimes people need to shift to get it to get into okay shane's a little hard i just need a breather for a few months okay i got it i got it that's fine go get a breather it's okay but i love later years later people got you know what i hated what you had to say but you were right my marriage fall apart i'm hooked to porn i'm back in alcohol if i would have just listened and not ran from that conviction i can't tell you how many times i've heard that i can't tell you i saw a family six months ago i was sitting right there i probably convict him again but um he said i just didn't want to come because i was addicted to these things and i didn't want to hear it and so you have to be comfortable in that now do i say things perfectly no absolutely not i i just we're we're a work in progress sometimes my own thoughts come in you don't have if you if you knew how many times i said nope not gonna say that not gonna say that nope not gonna go there i don't know if that's you lord and and just my mind i don't say it right but so we have that struggle where does your flesh come in where does your anger come in where does your but where does your also that boldness and that tenaciousness and that faith come in and motivating men and and motivating people to come to the altar where does that come from that's just an interesting side note is it not is that just that just cracks us up a pastor's laugh and people don't even know they think i got shane he's too convicted i'm gonna go to a different church well as soon as you're leaving somebody else is coming for the very same reason that you're leaving it just it make you'll go insane if you don't understand different callings and you hit people where they're at in different lives right i mean different not different lives buddhist but you know where they're at some people need some people need this type of conviction these types of services other people's other people don't they say hey our kids are really growing our youth are they're on fire for the lord at faith community and i talked to caleb i'm like well go there stay there let them grow in the faith once you once i got over this point of competition years ago it life is so much easier it's so full i don't care don't send me the stats how many people are coming i i don't know and now if they leave because of me and there's an issue we need to resolve then yes please but once it's leaders we realize it's not about competition because we are on the same page we're on the same team it's there's so much joy there's so much joy and peace and churches though that are ran like a ceo and a business they get upset when they lose numbers they they do sermons based on numbers they they don't want to offend that that's a very very dangerous place to be because now you're offending god because you're worried about the applause of men and the approval of men woe be to those who look to the approval of men look to the approval of god and so i i actually have no clue what that has to do with revelation 13 but i'm sure it'll fit in there somewhere i think i started on why there's different views and it's good to respect different views but he will deceive through signs he will deceive through signs why knowing god's word now is so important for the future isn't it you guys know mahomes and purdy stats that pronounces right and the stock exchange numbers and taylor swift's lyrics but do you know the life giving word life giving word it's amazing it's amazing i do have to say when i i never watched a football game except for the super bowl i did i know people are going to say how can you watch but i turn off the commercials okay how's that but um that guy i didn't know he's mr irrelevant purdy like last in the draft pick last and now you're the the the uh quarterback in the super bowl and he's a believer i don't know god might have he might have played a role in that somehow i mean that's amazing to me that is a true that's a true underdog i mean that is like so you kind of know who i was rooting for but it was it was you know it's just amazing and pastor ed who spoke yesterday talked about how god healed his knee and said i want you to be in the nfl i want you to be a linebacker and i want you to mean joe green is who he would go up against if you guys remember him and so god will put us in strategic positions to make a difference as long as that doesn't become an idol an idol in your life so anyway they are deceived by signs and that's why knowing god's word now knowing god's word now is now i don't know i put that i missed i didn't spell check probably so that's a good encouragement for you if you don't want to be deceived later what does god's word say just be in it just be buried in understand signs and wonders and what does jesus t and so if you if you see these false prophets it's not going to be hard to spot for a true spiritual believer who knows god's word you're not going to be like oh man i don't know flip the that gosh they're both pretty right they're both guys they're both saying the same thing they're both i don't lord i don't know who to choose it's it's good for somebody in his word with the spirit of god it's going to be night and day because a perfect a person's filled with the holy spirit even though they're not perfect they're in god's word they're meditating god it's like ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding right the the the bells just go off you know and i'm always fascinated by that drink the kool-aid guy like a thousand people drank the kool-aid in this part of i remember jim jones and and i just just the documentary like like i as god's my witness the first sentence he spoke in his demeanor i'm like oh man false prophet that guy i have not have a good feeling for that guy whatsoever but how are all these people deceived because you're not in god's word or they're not believers as well and they're tossed back and forth by every wind of doctrine and you'll see even in the christian church anytime somebody is is kind of getting off course and they're like but shane i don't know what about this illuminati stuff or what about this you know this and and now the the have you heard of the abrahamic house that i don't know if it's dubai but somewhere in the middle east we're off they have a something for muslims jews and christians all in the same temple and i know christians like well what's wrong with that okay where do we start where where where do we start and so see but every single time i can't think of one person that there's an exception they do not know god's word they they they don't know god's word they they just kind of like well yeah i have a five minute devotional i read john sometimes i mean no you get the whole counsel of god's word listen to solid teachers get grounded in and that's the only way to not be deceived i mean if somebody came up and they're like shane you know god sent me here and he just makes a snake right here i'm not gonna bow absolutely not because it will be crystal clear now i have to tell you this i wasn't going to and i put this one thing i prayed about but i i like a lot of old commentaries any of you like old commentaries i like new ones too i use mccarthur's commentary uh systematic theology i use wayne grudem systematic theology um the christian uh cbn bible i don't know christian something so i look at different commentaries but this one i this is just it was really ironic so many of the old commentaries link this to rome and the papacy let that sink in elicott benson uh most commentaries in the 1800s link this to the papacy now i'm not going to do that but there is if you look there's a lot of parallels and that's why i bring these things up if somebody happens to listen and they are part of and they follow and they agree with rome's teaching roman catholicism it is definitely in air it's way off base it's not even close to scripture there's i was an altar boy i can break it down from the pope is not peter did you know that they teach epistolic succession did you know that they think the pope is part of peter's line because of on this profession of faith on this rock i will build my church for anybody to think the church is built on a man is already left the building jesus the gates will hell will not prevail against my church so there's no successive authority because here's the problem with that now i'm i'm in the succession of peter i'm pope whoever now i'm the final authority and they won't say this but all you have to do is go look at their doctrines they would say that that is actually equal or above scripture the final word of the papacy the pap the papal directions and and it's just it's a very destructive thing and i and people are like why do you talk about you're causing division no i'm trying to tell people hey you don't have to go to a priest to confess your sin all the time you that's not biblical actually for a priest to not marry is not biblical to worship mary is not biblical to worship the saints is not biblical immaculate conception is heretical and there's so many doctrines of and you look at rome with these billions of dollars and and they sit on this power this this place of authority and that's why a lot of the people in 1800s would make this connection they saw just how wicked and evil this had become so benson said this in 1850s now miracles visions and revelations are the mighty boast of the church of rome even fire is pretended to come down from heaven as in the case of saint anthony's fire back in the 1800s and solemn excommunications which are called the thunders of the church and are they they are performed with ceremony of casting down burning torches from on high as symbols and emblems of fire from heaven they are indeed so far from being any proof of the true church that they are rather a proof of a false one and as we see the distinguishing mark of antichrist so am i saying that the pope will be the antichrist no i have no clue who the one world leader will be absolutely no clue at all now are there a lot of similarities in this and when i grew up in that i don't know if you remember but they would and we we got all caught up and they would send out pamphlets or where they would see uh like a tree bleeding this image of and they would go people would travel travel hundreds of miles and they would weep at this tree that the face looked just like mary and it had actual blood i can't explain some of the things that happened you know because not god and they would worship this tree and worship mary they'd have how is that not how is that not totally off base so when people get upset at me i have to tell explain that to me please explain that to me our neighbor her bumper sticker said something like looking for jesus pray to mary that to me if i say nothing i'm a coward because i don't want people get upset if you research it it is it's a false system can there be christians or catholic absolutely of course many of them though if you talk to they'll tell me shane they don't believe go read your own material from read the papal decrees of the 1800s and 1600s 17 read what they they actually that you'll find in there that mary is co-redemptive co-redeemer mary's co-redeemer jesus most them pray you ever see that picture of mary they're all worshiping and she's holding a little baby jesus that's not biblical that's heretical that's deceptive and unless you break out of those shackles you will be and could be worshiping a false god revelation 13 15 through 17 he was granted power all right i'll tell you this too i'm trying to kind of ignore it because i've talked about before but on very large church catholic church off of mcdean or something i'm not sure where it's at down there but this lady set up um she wanted me and the priest to debate or meet and just everything he did we just did it was like not good because everything i just told you they have this defense i'm like that makes no sense that's mary worship because they have a why you have a statue of mary out front that's 14 feet high so anyway we got to purgatory and i said if jesus paid it all we look to tell us it is finished paid in full we go directly to be with christ we are forgiven of our sin what is the point of purgatory you guys know what that is it's a teaching it's a teaching that says you have even a christian you have to go be punished for your sins and that's how they built saint peter's cathedral uh whenever a coin in the coffer sings a soul from purgatory springs so you could actually pay to get your family members out of purgatory why is nobody denouncing that is completely heretical and destructive so i said please explain to me purgatory as a believer and he looked on there forget kind of he said shane how do you deal with your shame and guilt if you there's not a purgatory oh this now i i believe i i personally believe that many of these priests are not even saved absolutely without a shadow of a doubt and i just say that love who in the world is going to say how am i going to go hey guys rick laurie evette how do you guys deal with shame and guilt there has to be a purgatory to cleanse us because see they haven't experienced the cleansing work of christ and as a result they have to go and get cleansed in purgatory how long are you there depends how much sin you have that is so that is so blatantly false that is blasphemy at the highest level christ finished work on the cross was not enough so now i have to go to purgatory and i know people i can't they get upset but listen i have to go home and deal with god i don't have to go home and deal with you i have to drive home and say boy i sure was a coward today but i didn't upset anybody so this person was granted power to give breath to the image of the beast and that image of the beast should both speak and cause as many as would not worship here we go would not worship the image of the beast to be killed so this is what many people are wondering about and worried about okay as a believer i want to be careful here i don't think it's okay to worry and have fear but um most of us deal with uh i hope i'm out of here right i don't want to deal with this is terrible this is terrible times and that's why we sometimes you know we'll read into scripture things or we'll um maybe i i don't know i just know this is going to be the time whenever it happens that whoever does not worship the image of the beast will be killed that's why i said last week be encouraged it will not be a sneak attack you're not gonna do something and then one day go oh did i i knew i shouldn't have got that tattoo right or i knew i shouldn't got that mark i knew now when when when the jab was out remember the jab i said 22 gauge but it's probably a probably an 18 gauge if it's water-based because we can have a smaller anyway um so what was that did i open the door to that no no no no you're that yeah there's christians have different views now could these things lead to lead to it if you don't have this mark i mean i even heard language i wish i would have saved it i'm sure many of you did you're not going to be able to travel unless you have this certain passport restaurants in la were not serving you call me conspiracy theorists isn't funny all those people that call me conspiracy theorists how much of that's true now it's just unbelievable if you if you hold the line what god will reveal so take inventory now who are you and what are you worshiping who and what are you worshiping because i run to people and they'll say you know shane i understand that but man i'm having fun now when the time comes i'll bow my tea to jesus oh no you you play like you practice when that time comes you might go further into the deception if you will not live for him now you will not die for him later it just goes together so are you truly ready take that inventory now because when he comes on the scene those not worshiping god will flow automatically to the antichrist or this one world leader you'll just flow that way and and and sometimes we think have you ever thought you know i just kind of man i'm just kind of neutral right now maybe when you weren't following god there's i know i'm not living like heaven but i'm not living like hell i'm kind of neutral well if you don't do anything to press into christ and build that relationship like throwing a piece of wood into a river you will go right to that decided deception because you're already conditioned for it you're already being deceived so now let's talk about this for a minute questions of reflection are you standing on god's word with a humble broken repentant heart and i we you know let me let me just throw this out there let us pray with you this morning next door because this comes in a lot um email people tell me i just don't understand the bible the bible is boring i just have a hard time with it and i understand that i understand that was my life for 20 my first 29 years of life until the holy spirit came radically upon me and filled me and tremendous joy and now it comes alive is it still confusing yeah go through ezekiel like what is this future plan you know it's but god can give you wisdom and direction according to his word look at good commentaries and it can be something you look forward to because it is your life that's how i feel this is my if i don't get this spiritual bread i'm going to wither and die spiritually so let us pray for you next door it could just be maybe you're you're immature in the faith it could be that you have no desire for the word of god right now i know that besetting sin when we're in sin we don't want to look at the word because you're you're in the words you're not in sin and when you're in sin you're not in the word so let us pray for you and that desire to come upon you i can't tell you how many people we prayed for and they'll come back next week and just pastor the bible came alive it's did you have you ever read this yeah i've read a lot i've read a lot well i didn't did this does this mean uh and they'll you know they'll be reading even the prophet and they'll be reading when the when the enemy comes in like a flood the spirit of the lord will raise up a standard against him and something just lept in my spirit or leap i don't know what they're right but it's just something and i says oh and i highlighted it and god began to minister to me and show me the thing i'm going through it will not take me out and when that enemy raises up that comes against me the spirit of the lord actually raise up a standard and protect me that minister to me i began to put on worship and that one verse came alive that's how the bible works guys that's how the bible works first you have to look at in context i always look at in context because you know the verse we all love including me a life verse for i know i have the plans for you plans of hope and not a a future and to give you peace and you remember that promise i jeremiah right yeah 29 11 i have plans for you to give you hope and a p but did you know that they were getting ready to go into 70 years of captivity ouch oh uh context not good after you go through these 70 years of captivity because of your sin some of you and your children will be have be blessed because of it i know the plans i have for you and your children in the future of hope and a piece but people will take them they're like weeks will go by months will go by lord i'm claiming this promise well what's the context honey you haven't been through 70 years of bondage yet now of course doesn't mean we'll go no it doesn't it doesn't but if you're reading in that scripture just ah leaps out and it comes that's what i that's what i needed today the word of god is living and powerful sharper than any double h or it pierces it divides it exposes and encourages and that verse is sometimes like that's exactly what i needed to hear today that's why i told you but they began the service streams in the desert and my utmost for as high as this last week have been just donna you're shaking you know so it's like what god this verse i've read this a hundred times it's never ministered to me before let me just give you an example i talked them in yesterday i get down just like many of you and oswald chambers i think was talking about you've got to take the initiative god comes upon you to help you not while you're waiting for him but when you when you start to step out in faith then he begins to move in you so many times i'm sitting waiting lord you gotta do something you gotta do something well shane i'm waiting for you to no no no no you do something and so taking that initiative in that that verse i think he talked about um where where the the woman at the issue of blood or the blind beggars crying out jesus son of god son of david have mercy on me what about if they never cried out how many people did jesus walk by who needed healing think about that did he heal everyone no verse say i could not do many miracles there because of their that's a whole nother topic that's where the name and claimant group has it right and that's where they have it wrong dead wrong because they'll take scripture ah see see see see see just name and claim it oh no no there's a lot there's a lot behind now you can't just do whatever you want what is god's sovereign will are you walking in obedience is there besetting sin in your heart is a part of god's will will this thing you're praying for destroy you or is it something god wants you to have there's so much behind that you can't just name and claim it blabbing grab it put the scriptures in context so are you willing to yield to the direction of the spirit are you willing to yield to the are you are you actively engaged in dealing with the things that hinder his presence in your life i told the guys yesterday deal with it now or it will destroy you later somebody needs to hear that again deal with it today or it will destroy you later we're saying that do you have a verse for that whatever a man reaps he will sell god is long suffering and waits patiently but he will expose you if you don't expose your sin and go to him and repent it's in my life as well as my life as well i went to the elders about things said listen guys i fell here it's a hard week i need prayer i need covering i need to just bring this to your attention not things that would disqualify you but things that you're struggling with because if you don't expose it what is it what does sin just stay nice and little look tiny look at that little cute little sin i hope he just stays that little good boy he turns into a 10-foot monster that you have no more confess ask a man caught in pornography it started out so you know when they and then not to get graphic here because there's kids and things and but when they interview serial killers when they interview them do you know that it all started with porn nine out of ten times when bundy was interviewed by james dobson and i can take you to what ariel castro remember that guy i was just reading over one of my articles i forgot off he had two girls in his house trapped for 13 years you'll go back it all starts with that innocent innocent because sin grows or withers depending on whether you feed or starve it you can't manage sin because it will overtake you it will control you you have to starve it expose it to the light bring it to the light and that's what we should want to do if we don't want to do it you have to wonder what side of the game are you on here guys i'd rather overly expose things and i even told you like when i've talked to the elders about things they're like hey don't that's not nothing i mean thanks for telling us but it's nothing that's you know that big a deal we're not right now but where could it go later or with my wife or we taught you know you have to you expose it because i i've experienced enough where you know when it's exposed it loses its power it loses its power it loses its hitting power in your life so i'm going to try to to get to this mark part so i don't have to go into part two next next sunday he causes all both small and great rich and poor free and slave basically everybody everybody everybody to what receive a mark so this is ultimate control you see this is where things are going in this direction i mean i think most of us can see have you ever seen the massive protests in different countries with the farmers it's incorrect what are they trying why are they trying to shut down farms do you know who the number one the number one owner of land is in america china or bill gates yep does bill great gates like cows no i'll get into some point i'm i'm i'm not an environmentalist but i care about our environment when we go camping we leave the river whatever cleaner than when we got there we do have the kids you pick up more if we can make a difference recite of course but this whole green is an agenda it's for every scientist you have talked about global warming you have other scientists saying no this is normal but because there's an agenda is it just me or if you have built millions of more uh teslas where's where's the power grid hello i used to dig for southern california edison and and run in trenches and they're they're 12 volt 12 000 volt line i know how these things work you don't have we don't have enough we've lost our mind because of an agenda get rid of cows get rid of this what's the world health organization or is it the world economic forum you're going to be poor and you're going to be happy you just watch what they say these that we're at a very critical time where these things are going to start to apply what so what is a mark there's your greek word there's your greek word it's an engraving or an etching or a figuratively it's a mark providing undeniable identification like a symbol giving irrefutable connection between parties now some people say it's an actual mark and it could be but there are a lot of scriptures for example i have a few up there exodus 13 deuteronomy 11 exodus 13 and it shall serve as a sign to you on your head and a reminder on your forehead i'm sorry it shall be assigned to you on your hand dyslexia is coming out again and a reminder on your forehead that the law of the lord may be in your mouth for with a powerful hand the lord brought you out of egypt many times when it's talking about the the mark on the hand or forehead the bible's talking about what you put in what you're thinking in your hand how you act it's it's often not a literal mark look at deuteronomy 11 18 therefore you shall lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul and you'll bind them as a sign on your hand and they shall be frontlets between your eyes now the pharisees would have something called i forgot to even just thought of this phylacteries where they would actually roll up the little scrolls of god's word they would put you might even see it today when you go to the orthodox and they would actually literally do this but there's a lot of scriptures where it's not a literal mark now we can see though where things are going with um when it was the last joes and whole foods and this lady just went like this or something or that you've seen the videos on there they'll get little chips or something and they start wow it could be a mark or could it be something like a passport um personally i don't get too caught up in it because it'll be obvious i mean it's gonna be obvious you have to take this whatever it is and this is what you mean you bow to our green ideology and you're gonna worship this new leader who's over the united nations and you're going to oh by the way i think i just found it this morning aubrey did you get it in there this picture that i don't know if you've ever seen this um in new york i think it's by the un but that's that i even what i didn't put it up there yet um i don't even know if i wrote down it was 666 united nations plaza the address and i tried to do some research on it it's it's kind of mixed i don't know if it's a real address or not but this is this is the beast at the un in new york and if you read that this is all just true like i went i looked at 40 different pictures and webs i'm like this can't this can't be true what are we that stupid you ever went to hollywood have you ever seen the hollywood you go down there the the your it has the arch of babylon and all these babylonian gods down there on sunset it's just it's just amazing now again to me i believe whether these things are directly related or not there are similarities because it's the same anti-christ spirit working out there so let's go back to this revelation 18 revelation 18 so those who get a mark are going to be able to buy and sell and trade and live like you normally if if you want my personal opinion i could see where things are going um i know they're they're planning for the next pandemic i know there's already uh certain you know things being in the works i can see how there's some type of passport where things get harder because what happens is you get so fearful as you think that these things are the answer and so they start to and if you didn't get the the jab you were people hated you i mean i look at a liberal t it's like wow you are the anti-christ you are killing people you're killing grandma and i can see how this hatred is there and so if we start to see like we don't want to do these things okay now you have to have this to say you got this or you have to you have to you have to um what's that new apollo that new number they're giving to corporations um this this new uh social credit score for corporations i did you know that most corporations are owned by like is it blackstone blackrock vanguard they're owned billion dollar companies and why would bud weiser do something so ridiculous as as dylan mahaney why in the world bill disney because they're not looking at it as a media profit they're looking at it to have the right social score with these higher ups that are ultimately going to decide the fate of these corporations so they're planning for the future so you can see how things are going where you either have to bow to this and and and embrace all of this will give you some type of mark some type of etching maybe maybe some type of passport maybe something that proves you are on this side and all of you who do not it's a pretty bad fate it and people are like well she and they would never kill people are you kidding me these do you are you reading about these a lot of the transgenders down the news mass shooting that's happened to olstein's church transgender other massacres at the school they are so filled with hatred that things are only you want to do something that will blow your mind like i didn't even i was going to be way off if somebody told me to guess columbine was really the the first kind of big school shooting right just google how many active shooter how many shootings have there been in the last 20 years or 10 there's like hundreds a year it's amazing how far we have progressed and the evil and the wickedness and we're getting to that point so it goes back to you don't need to fear you need to be ready you don't need to fear you need to be ready i'd be i'd rather be a christian filled with the spirit of god in this season than a lukewarm or unbeliever in the 1980s what was easier then well not necessarily if you don't have god in your heart so here's wisdom here's how you're going to know let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast for it is the number of a man his number is six six six so that's where that comes from that's where that is is brought out there now a couple key things wisdom is needed that tells me it's you can't just go name people and think it's good i mean i remember you know many of you if you're older ronald reagan or gorbachev or the united nations or um a lot of hitler and there are i believe anti-types there are people who can fulfill some of what's going on but wisdom is needed it's the number of man which we know like the number of man six man was created on the sixth day uh the number 777 is a number of completion uh where 666 is not that number it's it's a number of man and i want just a quick note in some of the older greek manuscripts actually the number 616 is used instead of 666 even though the evidence strongly supports 666 but the fact that some have 616 should motivate us not to jump to conclusions now you're ready to get interesting for just a minute before i close preterist and partial preterist take nero caesar and they translate the latin into hebrew so an n is added to conform with the hebrew spelling of nero's name in a manner similar to the greek adding of an s like jeremiah's joneses so we add they add that n and you can see it comes out to the 50 the 200 the 6 to 50 the 100 the 60 to 200 comes out to 666 if you spell out caesar nero's name in latin translate latin into hebrew so if anything i when i saw this many years ago i'm like well that is very interesting but there are other names you can make fit that as well too and so it's not for me it's not something where i would rush out but i understood okay well these you know if you believe that you're not too far off that's that's interesting and because of what nero did and you can see how nero um nero was after 80 70 i believe or um don't quote me on them trying to do the history here i know 80 70 titus conquered jerusalem um and i think you know nero came after that and you do see a lot of how these things parallel what happened in early church history but i just don't think full throttle that it would be hard to make all of this work 1st john 218 john was writing in the last hour see that's why a lot of these people think this has already been fulfilled because john 2000 years ago was writing in the last hour he called it the last hour children it is the last hour and as if you heard that the antichrist is coming so now many antichrist have come therefore we know that this is the last hour he wrote that about 2 000 years ago we can clearly see now right looking back hindsight vision 2020 we can see that and my the big question for me is okay if all this stuff happened already boy it sure looks similar as what we're going into right now it's not like oh yeah all that's passed we don't have to worry anymore you know america's getting better the government everything's changing we're getting more christ-like i'm like i don't not sure i agree with that one so i guess they could have some type of dual fulfillment obviously streams in the desert said this this is for us if we have to and next week i think i'm going to um title it traveling through the tribulation revelation 14 traveling through the tribulation if you're not here great we're out of here if you are still here there's going to be some tips or if you're listening to this later you're an unbeliever and then you become a believer this will be so important for you next week but i want to share something with you now if a bird is flying for pleasure it goes with the wind but if the bird meets danger it turns right around and faces the wind in order that it may rise higher did you know that about birds if they're just relaxed you'll watch this if you're if you're um i've seen even like dove hunting or different things they'll take off uh maybe i shouldn't tell you you should do that but um there's there's when that meets the danger they go against the wind so they can that wind pushes them up higher sufferings are god's winds his contrary winds sometimes his strong winds they are god's hurricanes but they make human life they take human life and they lift it up to a higher level towards god's heaven for the message of perseverance is this i cast my mind on calvary where jesus bled and died for me and i really do hope it is so hard giving a message like this i don't want people to leave here like man i'm so worried because we're not we don't need to be worried if there's things in my life that i'm not prepared for if i'm not walking closely with you lord i need to get that right this morning i need that joy of the lord to be my heart i need to repent of certain things and it could be a wonderful opportunity to get us back on track and i truly believe that's why we don't have heaven on earth one reason you know of course of sin but i think that's why some reason god sometimes god gives us challenges and god makes us think about difficult things because it balances us back you ever see those scales you know the old time where they used to put and it would weigh the scale down the more you put on this side well if all we have is blessings and life's pretty easy and things are going great oh man seven thousand on my tax return man kids are walking with the lord everything's going great my car's running great this and we just it's it's we'll be lopsided and that's where actually people get into trouble into idolatry they get lazy spiritually so sometimes god will put some more coins on this side hey hot shot this is happening now you owe the state money this year if you're like me right it's like oh oh and they'll just start to and like what not all my kids aren't walking with the lord there's a little rebellion this isn't going and you'll start to god can kind of balance out that scale thank god for that thank god for the god who balances out life and that's often how he does it the problem is when we start to fill these things we can become bitter and angry i like the scale on this side so do i but it makes you very weak spiritually look at the parallels even with with exercise we like we like the couch go get me crispy cream and now i just saw something that amazes me just this week i saw this guy talk he's he's driving around dropping off like food on people's porches what is that that what do you what's that called door yeah i've never even used it every and like you just drive around and put carl's junior on the door and i watch and this lady goes grabs it goes back in it's like we don't open our garages we don't talk to people now we're dropping off and it's never good food by the way i've noticed and it's it's just it's just this this this we're getting into this um and we can get real lazy with that right i'm on my netflix binge let me get this what'd you call it again door dash okay and i can do this and i can and we can get really lazy really lazy might be my first question how in the world do you make money guys and i mean this guy drunk driving all around but we can god will shake us up shaking us up removes the hindrances in our life that's shaking oh thank god for the shaking thank god for the shaking because then you can truly say like this verse i cast my mind on calvary where jesus bled and he died for me and we cast our cares upon him and we line up again yes lord i'm going through this yes i have a limp that will not leave yes i've been broken yes i've been hurt yes this is going on yes these people are rejecting me this person is lying against me this is a person's accusing me but lord i cast my mind on calvary because there's somebody who will not leave me nor forsake me thank god did you know that there is somebody who will not leave you when all else is failed you cast your mind on calvary and you look where jesus bled and died for me lord whoever believes in me cast your cares upon me and i will forgive you i will set you free you can come at two in the morning you can come as a broken sinner you can come as a transvestite or somebody from the abortion clinic and you can look to him cast your eyes upon him and be saved