WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:05.799 Hey, Jeff, what I left the mark left the beast? 2 00:00:08.560 --> 00:00:11.800 That was shameless. Today we're going to be covering the 3 00:00:11.800 --> 00:00:12.560 mark of the beast. 4 00:00:13.000 --> 00:00:16.039 Okay, he's Chriss and I'm Jeff, and we're the Bible Guides. 5 00:00:19.239 --> 00:00:30.879 H I wonder if any other preacher out there introduces 6 00:00:30.920 --> 00:00:32.399 the mark of the Beast in that fashion? 7 00:00:32.560 --> 00:00:34.079 Probably not, Probably not. 8 00:00:34.359 --> 00:00:36.280 It just it happens. I didn't even know what you 9 00:00:36.280 --> 00:00:37.320 were going to do in that moment. 10 00:00:37.479 --> 00:00:39.640 I know, I know, you just hit me. You never 11 00:00:39.719 --> 00:00:42.000 do no, we never do no, we don't. We just 12 00:00:42.079 --> 00:00:43.479 we go off the seat, you know, fly by the 13 00:00:43.520 --> 00:00:44.159 seat of our pants. 14 00:00:44.679 --> 00:00:46.799 So hey, uh, and our listeners can tell. 15 00:00:49.359 --> 00:00:53.880 For sure, they can for sure. So uh. 16 00:00:54.359 --> 00:00:58.000 Desiree has given us a show sheet and this segment 17 00:00:58.079 --> 00:00:58.679 for today. 18 00:00:59.359 --> 00:01:02.799 She's asking the question. She said, we switched things up last. 19 00:01:02.560 --> 00:01:05.439 Time, so now we're back to normal. So Jeff, here's 20 00:01:05.480 --> 00:01:08.079 the question. What made Jeff happy this week? 21 00:01:08.359 --> 00:01:11.079 Oh wow? So last week they asked what did Chris? 22 00:01:11.079 --> 00:01:11.560 What makes Chris? 23 00:01:11.920 --> 00:01:12.879 And that made me happy? 24 00:01:12.920 --> 00:01:14.959 Well, I was gonna say the answer was the fact 25 00:01:15.000 --> 00:01:15.680 that they asked you. 26 00:01:15.879 --> 00:01:19.599 Yes, because Chris is not always angry conjurary to popular belief. 27 00:01:20.359 --> 00:01:24.319 So this week, man a life. We I grilled one 28 00:01:24.359 --> 00:01:28.640 of the best Rabbi steaks I've had in five years. 29 00:01:28.760 --> 00:01:30.680 Yeah, well, that's what definitely make you happy. It was 30 00:01:30.719 --> 00:01:33.719 wonderful because those who don't know you, you are a g master. 31 00:01:33.560 --> 00:01:37.040 Of grilling man and so U and I did it 32 00:01:37.120 --> 00:01:42.400 over some hardwood, so it was smoky, and I had 33 00:01:42.439 --> 00:01:48.560 some I had black pepper, kosher salt, and granulated garlic 34 00:01:48.640 --> 00:01:51.400 on it. That was it, and man, alive, it was 35 00:01:51.560 --> 00:01:54.079 just perfect. It was charrege just right when you get 36 00:01:54.079 --> 00:01:56.519 a rib by right, you know, it's so good. So 37 00:01:56.560 --> 00:02:00.799 we had that and some potato salad and some really 38 00:02:00.799 --> 00:02:03.000 really good baked beans and it was just one of 39 00:02:03.000 --> 00:02:05.439 those perfect little meals that you know. We had the 40 00:02:05.439 --> 00:02:07.799 family gathered around and it was great. Yeah. 41 00:02:07.840 --> 00:02:10.599 Yeah, kids, your kids, when they grew up and all 42 00:02:10.680 --> 00:02:15.240 move out of the house, they're going to realize that, 43 00:02:16.159 --> 00:02:18.520 you know, that's a pretty good privilege to have dad 44 00:02:18.800 --> 00:02:21.439 say here you go, I made this for you. 45 00:02:21.879 --> 00:02:25.280 Yeah. Yeah, because you know, two of my sons are 46 00:02:25.280 --> 00:02:28.000 out of the house now, and every time they do 47 00:02:28.080 --> 00:02:30.000 come back to visit, it's like, hey, Dad, fire up 48 00:02:30.039 --> 00:02:32.919 the grill, right, Yeah, it's they put in their orders 49 00:02:32.960 --> 00:02:34.120 before they arrive. They do. 50 00:02:34.280 --> 00:02:34.919 That's great. 51 00:02:34.960 --> 00:02:37.039 Yeah, my son would be like, hey, Dad, when are 52 00:02:37.039 --> 00:02:38.800 we going to have that salmon again? Or whatever? 53 00:02:38.879 --> 00:02:40.080 So that's really funny. 54 00:02:40.360 --> 00:02:42.560 So yeah, that made me happy. It was fun. Anytime 55 00:02:42.599 --> 00:02:44.120 you can grill, it's a good good day. 56 00:02:44.159 --> 00:02:45.639 Well good, I'm glad it made you happy. 57 00:02:45.879 --> 00:02:50.360 Yeah. So, hey, we are in the now into the 58 00:02:50.479 --> 00:02:54.280 people in the events, right, and again we're not doing 59 00:02:54.360 --> 00:02:56.560 a ton of order, and we're certainly not going verse 60 00:02:56.560 --> 00:02:59.159 by verse through the Book of Revelation. We're going big 61 00:02:59.199 --> 00:03:03.639 idea by big eyed throughout what the Bible teaching on 62 00:03:04.520 --> 00:03:07.240 the prophetic things, particularly with regard to the New Testament teachings. 63 00:03:07.680 --> 00:03:10.479 But here we are. We just finished up with talking 64 00:03:10.560 --> 00:03:14.479 about the woman and the dragon and the baby, the 65 00:03:14.560 --> 00:03:19.000 woman being Israel, Jesus being the child, the dragon obviously 66 00:03:19.000 --> 00:03:22.719 being Satan, this huge spiritual battle that was happening, the 67 00:03:22.759 --> 00:03:25.719 fact that God protected Israel, the good fact that God 68 00:03:25.759 --> 00:03:30.360 protected the Sun and then threw down Satan. Right, all 69 00:03:30.360 --> 00:03:34.520 those things happened. Well, now Satan's angry and hateful. He 70 00:03:34.599 --> 00:03:38.319 hates this, and so he's always been working against Christ. 71 00:03:38.840 --> 00:03:40.800 And so there are many times in the New Testament 72 00:03:40.840 --> 00:03:44.280 the Bible talks about anti Christs, and that's anybody who 73 00:03:44.280 --> 00:03:48.719 works against Jesus, right, he's anti Jesus. But now in 74 00:03:48.759 --> 00:03:51.560 the Book of Revelation, there's this guy that we call 75 00:03:51.599 --> 00:03:55.400 the anti Christ. The Bible often calls the beast. He's 76 00:03:55.479 --> 00:03:59.479 just the beast, right, or also Paul will call him 77 00:03:59.479 --> 00:04:02.759 the man of life alless and it's the same person, 78 00:04:02.800 --> 00:04:06.759 this Antichrist. So let's just read in Revelation chapter thirteen. 79 00:04:06.800 --> 00:04:09.960 It says, then the beast was allowed to speak great 80 00:04:10.039 --> 00:04:13.080 blasphemies against God, and he was given authority to do 81 00:04:13.159 --> 00:04:15.800 whatever he wanted to for forty two months, that's the 82 00:04:15.840 --> 00:04:18.439 other three and a half years, and he spoke terrible 83 00:04:18.480 --> 00:04:21.680 words of blasphemy against God, slandering his name and his temple, 84 00:04:22.079 --> 00:04:25.439 that is, those who live in heaven. And the Beast 85 00:04:25.560 --> 00:04:28.480 was allowed to wage war against God's holy people and 86 00:04:28.560 --> 00:04:31.240 to conquer them. And he was given authority to rule 87 00:04:31.240 --> 00:04:35.600 over every tribe and people and language and nation. So 88 00:04:35.879 --> 00:04:39.319 this beast rises up, this Antichrist is in the last 89 00:04:39.319 --> 00:04:42.079 three and a half years, becomes evident that he is 90 00:04:42.240 --> 00:04:45.399 the ruler of the world. He takes over Israel, and 91 00:04:45.439 --> 00:04:48.720 then he dominates every group of people, every language on 92 00:04:48.759 --> 00:04:49.600 the entire planet. 93 00:04:49.759 --> 00:04:51.319 Yeah, and these are the three and a half years 94 00:04:51.319 --> 00:04:53.839 that aren't very fun, right. These are rough, Yeah, these 95 00:04:53.839 --> 00:04:57.680 are really rough. And here's the thing about it. Even 96 00:04:57.720 --> 00:05:01.560 though that there's a reason why it's called tribulation, again, 97 00:05:02.000 --> 00:05:06.199 the words in this passage are still comforting even in 98 00:05:06.199 --> 00:05:09.360 the mets of the worst tribulation, because it says he 99 00:05:09.519 --> 00:05:14.040 was allowed, which means that God's in control. That only 100 00:05:14.079 --> 00:05:17.079 what happens is what God allows. And so even though 101 00:05:17.120 --> 00:05:19.319 it may not be good, and it may not be fun, 102 00:05:19.360 --> 00:05:22.480 and it's actually quite terrible, the bottom line is is 103 00:05:22.560 --> 00:05:25.920 God wins in the end. God conquers in the end. 104 00:05:26.439 --> 00:05:28.079 We know that the beast is going to get chained 105 00:05:28.160 --> 00:05:30.240 up and thrown into the lake of fire. 106 00:05:30.600 --> 00:05:31.680 We know that God wins. 107 00:05:32.000 --> 00:05:36.000 And so even through the trying times, God's in control. 108 00:05:36.560 --> 00:05:39.959 And so even though that this is a crazy, crazy 109 00:05:40.040 --> 00:05:44.240 thought about humanity and end times, it still does apply 110 00:05:44.319 --> 00:05:47.240 to today because even in the most trying times in 111 00:05:47.240 --> 00:05:50.600 our lives, God is still in control. So God is 112 00:05:50.639 --> 00:05:53.279 not on the throne right now. Whatever it is that 113 00:05:53.319 --> 00:05:55.480 you're going through, whatever it is that you're dealing with, 114 00:05:55.800 --> 00:05:59.560 circumstances that you cannot control that seem to be thrust 115 00:05:59.639 --> 00:06:02.879 upon you, and you are just worried and stressed and 116 00:06:03.319 --> 00:06:06.519 wondering what's going to happen. Just know that God is 117 00:06:06.560 --> 00:06:10.759 in control of everything. There is nothing beyond his power. 118 00:06:11.240 --> 00:06:11.879 So if we. 119 00:06:11.879 --> 00:06:14.720 Continue to serve him, trust him, prey to him, it 120 00:06:14.759 --> 00:06:16.279 may not end up like we want to. 121 00:06:16.680 --> 00:06:19.519 But just know that God's always the one that we 122 00:06:19.560 --> 00:06:20.160 should run to. 123 00:06:20.480 --> 00:06:26.319 That's right. So in Second Thessalonians, chapter two, Paul says, 124 00:06:26.360 --> 00:06:29.000 for that day will not come until there is a 125 00:06:29.079 --> 00:06:33.519 great rebellion against God, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, 126 00:06:33.800 --> 00:06:36.879 the one who brings destruction, and he will exalt himself 127 00:06:36.920 --> 00:06:41.079 and defy everything that people call God and every object 128 00:06:41.079 --> 00:06:43.399 of worship, and he will even sit in the temple 129 00:06:43.439 --> 00:06:47.040 of God, claiming that he himself is God. This is 130 00:06:47.160 --> 00:06:50.600 he's just He sets himself up as the God of 131 00:06:50.639 --> 00:06:53.319 the planet, and the people are following him by the way, right, 132 00:06:54.079 --> 00:06:58.160 So everything that people call God, he's pretending like he's God. 133 00:06:58.240 --> 00:07:01.160 He's set himself up as worship, but the world is 134 00:07:01.199 --> 00:07:04.199 following after him. It says, there's a great rebellion against God. 135 00:07:04.240 --> 00:07:07.480 It's not just this guy, it's the whole world. That's 136 00:07:07.560 --> 00:07:11.399 following after this guy. And now we've seen in the 137 00:07:11.439 --> 00:07:17.959 past politicians who've had such massive, excited, almost rabid fan 138 00:07:18.040 --> 00:07:22.000 base that those politicians get away with almost anything, and 139 00:07:22.040 --> 00:07:24.720 the fan base still follows them. Right, So in this situation, 140 00:07:24.759 --> 00:07:26.959 he sets himself up as God and goes and sits 141 00:07:26.959 --> 00:07:30.199 in the temple and declares he's God, and the whole 142 00:07:30.199 --> 00:07:33.920 world goes yay, right yeah, because they're defying God. And 143 00:07:33.959 --> 00:07:38.480 then in Second Thessalonians too, you move down to seven 144 00:07:38.519 --> 00:07:41.160 through ten, it says, for this lawlessness is already at 145 00:07:41.199 --> 00:07:43.920 work secretly, and it will remain secret until the one 146 00:07:43.920 --> 00:07:46.399 who is holding it back steps out of the way. 147 00:07:46.800 --> 00:07:49.480 Many people believe that's the Holy Spirit is holding back 148 00:07:49.519 --> 00:07:52.600 this evil. But after Revelation chapter three, there's no mention 149 00:07:52.639 --> 00:07:54.120 in the Holy Spirit, no mention in the church, no 150 00:07:54.240 --> 00:07:56.439 mention anything else after that point. And this is when 151 00:07:56.480 --> 00:07:58.480 the world gets starts to come off the hinges. So 152 00:07:58.800 --> 00:08:00.920 that's one of the references, is why people believe that 153 00:08:00.959 --> 00:08:05.439 it's a pre tribulation rapture. We're not dying on that hill. 154 00:08:05.480 --> 00:08:07.160 I'm just telling you. That's why people would say that, 155 00:08:07.600 --> 00:08:09.879 then the man of lawlessness will be revealed but the 156 00:08:09.920 --> 00:08:12.000 Lord Jesus will kill him with the breath of his 157 00:08:12.079 --> 00:08:14.759 mouth and destroy him by the splendor of his coming. 158 00:08:15.079 --> 00:08:16.800 This man will come to do the work of Satan 159 00:08:16.839 --> 00:08:20.199 with counterfeit power and signs and even miracles, and he'll 160 00:08:20.319 --> 00:08:23.079 use every kind of evil deception to fool those on 161 00:08:23.120 --> 00:08:25.759 their way to destruction because they refuse to love and 162 00:08:25.800 --> 00:08:30.839 accept the truth that would save them. Right, We're going 163 00:08:30.920 --> 00:08:33.320 to talk in just a moment about the mark of 164 00:08:33.320 --> 00:08:35.360 the Beast in sixty sixty six, which is because of 165 00:08:35.440 --> 00:08:38.200 him what he uses his power. But he also brings 166 00:08:38.279 --> 00:08:44.240 up another supporting character that comes in and reinforces him, 167 00:08:44.240 --> 00:08:46.919 called the false prophet. Right, and these two guys together 168 00:08:46.919 --> 00:08:48.480 it is kind of like the president and vice president 169 00:08:48.679 --> 00:08:49.960 doing some pretty crazy stuff. 170 00:08:50.240 --> 00:08:54.440 Yeah, and again, this is the last three and a 171 00:08:54.440 --> 00:09:00.320 half years of the tribulation, and during this time, you know, again, 172 00:09:00.440 --> 00:09:03.200 it's just one of those things where if you're a 173 00:09:03.279 --> 00:09:11.840 Christian and you believe in Jesus Christ, then it is 174 00:09:11.919 --> 00:09:15.399 it is okay to tell people that if as long 175 00:09:15.440 --> 00:09:17.799 as God is on your side, there's no reason to 176 00:09:17.840 --> 00:09:21.399 still be afraid. But for those who are not prepared, 177 00:09:22.639 --> 00:09:26.080 I would just say, man, yeah, good luck, to you 178 00:09:26.159 --> 00:09:27.360 in these three and a half years. 179 00:09:27.159 --> 00:09:30.120 Can be rough. You know. It's that phrase until the 180 00:09:30.120 --> 00:09:32.279 one who is holding it back steps out of the way. 181 00:09:33.960 --> 00:09:37.080 That thought is just how are the Holy Spirit right? 182 00:09:37.159 --> 00:09:39.120 And the fact, you know, we read about this spiritual 183 00:09:39.120 --> 00:09:42.919 war happening between the dragon and the king right, and 184 00:09:44.919 --> 00:09:47.639 this war that's happening around us all the time we're 185 00:09:47.679 --> 00:09:50.559 oblivious to. We're busy trying to race from here to 186 00:09:50.600 --> 00:09:52.559 there and get make a little bit of money and 187 00:09:52.679 --> 00:09:55.480 pay for a vacation, and get our kids through school right, 188 00:09:55.600 --> 00:09:57.799 navigate the doctor's appointments, all that kind So that's what 189 00:09:57.799 --> 00:09:59.600 we do. We spend a time at that with a 190 00:09:59.600 --> 00:10:01.480 little bit awareness that we need God's help, so we 191 00:10:01.480 --> 00:10:06.000 pray sometimes. But there's this NonStop spiritual war happening in 192 00:10:06.039 --> 00:10:09.399 the spiritual realm that becomes more and more evident on 193 00:10:09.480 --> 00:10:14.639 this planet in the physical realm once the Holy Spirit 194 00:10:14.679 --> 00:10:16.799 steps out of the way. So you think the world's 195 00:10:16.799 --> 00:10:19.639 bad today, the Holy Spirit still here. But the Holy 196 00:10:19.679 --> 00:10:24.519 Spirit is works in and through God's people, right, So 197 00:10:25.559 --> 00:10:28.080 it's us, we're the ones that are standing along with 198 00:10:28.120 --> 00:10:30.159 the Holy Spirit. He uses us to speak up, he 199 00:10:30.240 --> 00:10:35.360 uses us to speak out, he uses us to lean 200 00:10:35.399 --> 00:10:38.399 in and to bring light in the darkness. That's what 201 00:10:38.440 --> 00:10:40.519 he wants us to do, to walk in the light 202 00:10:40.519 --> 00:10:41.960 as he is in the light, and we bring light 203 00:10:42.000 --> 00:10:43.480 to the darkness. You are the light of the world, 204 00:10:43.799 --> 00:10:46.679 Jesus said, right, So don't hide it under a bushel. Instead, 205 00:10:46.759 --> 00:10:48.799 let it shine. He says, you're the salt of the earth. 206 00:10:49.159 --> 00:10:51.799 And the Holy Spirit uses God's people because the Bible 207 00:10:51.840 --> 00:10:56.679 says we're his temple. Right. But then at this time, 208 00:10:56.799 --> 00:10:59.360 the Holy Spirit goes, fine, you're on your own. The 209 00:10:59.440 --> 00:11:02.879 Christians are going on, and so the world is on 210 00:11:02.960 --> 00:11:06.639 their own. And from that point on, Satan just goes 211 00:11:07.080 --> 00:11:10.840 wild and he raises up this politician that the whole 212 00:11:10.840 --> 00:11:14.440 world follows this leader, this world dictator, that the whole 213 00:11:14.440 --> 00:11:17.679 world follows not just as a good leader, but as 214 00:11:17.720 --> 00:11:22.200 a god. And dude, how defiant are you of your 215 00:11:22.240 --> 00:11:25.120 of the Creator when you choose a living man in 216 00:11:25.159 --> 00:11:26.200 front of you to be your God? 217 00:11:26.360 --> 00:11:28.519 Right Nikolai remember him? 218 00:11:28.559 --> 00:11:28.720 Yeah? 219 00:11:28.799 --> 00:11:29.639 Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. 220 00:11:29.639 --> 00:11:30.240 From the books. 221 00:11:31.320 --> 00:11:34.039 Hey, So when I lived in Atlanta for ten years, 222 00:11:34.120 --> 00:11:35.480 most of the time that I was there, I was 223 00:11:35.519 --> 00:11:38.320 a pastor of high school students. And in the South, 224 00:11:38.480 --> 00:11:41.519 they thought that Halloween was you know, evil, you know, 225 00:11:41.600 --> 00:11:44.159 so all the Christians down there, they just didn't embrace 226 00:11:44.240 --> 00:11:46.279 any kind of Halloween. So if you were part of 227 00:11:46.320 --> 00:11:49.600 a church, especially a conservative church, you know, you weren't 228 00:11:49.639 --> 00:11:53.039 necessarily allowed to embrace anything that came with trick or 229 00:11:53.039 --> 00:11:55.799 treating or anything like this. And so consequently, there was 230 00:11:55.840 --> 00:11:59.279 a church down the street called Metro Heights Baptist Church 231 00:11:59.679 --> 00:12:02.240 and they had a thing that they had called tribulation Trail. 232 00:12:02.600 --> 00:12:04.840 Have you seen these, Yeah, I've seen things like them. Yeah. 233 00:12:04.919 --> 00:12:05.200 Yeah. 234 00:12:05.279 --> 00:12:07.320 So they basically had a bunch of woods in the 235 00:12:07.360 --> 00:12:10.480 back and they decided to go crazy and like you know, 236 00:12:10.559 --> 00:12:14.080 put like wrecked planes and wrecked buses, and they carved 237 00:12:14.080 --> 00:12:16.679 out this massive part of the woods and you know 238 00:12:16.679 --> 00:12:19.480 with horses and you know, seals and trumpets and all 239 00:12:19.480 --> 00:12:23.320 those kind of things and all this technology. And basically 240 00:12:23.360 --> 00:12:25.360 what they did was they had buses of people come 241 00:12:25.600 --> 00:12:30.000 and I bet you they every Halloween ish time they 242 00:12:30.039 --> 00:12:34.799 probably had I don't know, twenty thousand people from all 243 00:12:34.840 --> 00:12:37.840 around go through the tribulation trail. But basically, you joined 244 00:12:37.840 --> 00:12:40.559 this crowd of people and it started with you know, 245 00:12:41.279 --> 00:12:43.080 the beginning, and it went all the way, you know, 246 00:12:43.120 --> 00:12:45.519 from the rapture all the way to the end, and 247 00:12:45.759 --> 00:12:49.440 somewhere along the way you were pressure to take. 248 00:12:49.279 --> 00:12:51.440 The mark of the Beast. And as we're about to. 249 00:12:51.440 --> 00:12:54.919 Get into this, I'm telling you that the scariest part 250 00:12:55.080 --> 00:12:59.039 of the tribulation trail was they would walk up and 251 00:12:59.080 --> 00:13:01.600 they had this stamp that they put on your hand, 252 00:13:01.759 --> 00:13:03.159 and then you had to go under a neon light 253 00:13:03.440 --> 00:13:05.840 and said sixty sixty six on your hand and people 254 00:13:05.840 --> 00:13:08.840 are just screaming take it, take the mark, and then you're. 255 00:13:08.679 --> 00:13:11.519 Like, no, no, I won't take it. I'm telling you 256 00:13:11.559 --> 00:13:14.279 it was unbelievable and it was just crazy. 257 00:13:14.519 --> 00:13:17.440 Well, so there's two things that happen under the authority 258 00:13:17.440 --> 00:13:20.080 of the Beast. One there's this guy called the False 259 00:13:20.120 --> 00:13:22.919 Prophet who he sets up to take over all the 260 00:13:22.960 --> 00:13:26.960 global religions and the whole world comes to one global religion. 261 00:13:27.320 --> 00:13:30.080 And then he also takes over all the economics of 262 00:13:30.120 --> 00:13:33.399 the planet. There's one global economy, and that's through the mark. 263 00:13:33.440 --> 00:13:36.600 So let me read these two passages. In Revelation chapter thirteen, 264 00:13:37.240 --> 00:13:41.559 verses twelve through fifteen. It says the False Prophet exercised 265 00:13:41.600 --> 00:13:44.440 all the authority of the first Beast, and he required 266 00:13:44.480 --> 00:13:46.799 all the earth and it's people to worship the first Beast. 267 00:13:47.080 --> 00:13:49.879 But then the first Beast gets assassinated and then rises 268 00:13:49.919 --> 00:13:54.600 from the dead, right whose fatal wound had been healed. 269 00:13:55.120 --> 00:13:58.879 He did astounding miracles, even making the fire flash down 270 00:13:59.120 --> 00:14:01.679 to Earth from the sky while everyone was watching. And 271 00:14:01.720 --> 00:14:03.840 with all the miracles he was allowed to perform on 272 00:14:03.919 --> 00:14:06.440 behalf of the first Beast, he deceived all the people 273 00:14:06.440 --> 00:14:08.919 who belonged to this world. He ordered the people to 274 00:14:08.960 --> 00:14:11.120 make a great statue of the first Beast who was 275 00:14:11.320 --> 00:14:14.080 fatally wounded and then came back to life. And he 276 00:14:14.200 --> 00:14:16.679 was then permitted to give life to this statue so 277 00:14:16.720 --> 00:14:19.000 that it could speak. Then the statue of the Beast 278 00:14:19.039 --> 00:14:22.799 commanded that anyone refusing to worship it must die. So 279 00:14:23.039 --> 00:14:27.759 he sets up this this global religion, and then you 280 00:14:27.799 --> 00:14:29.919 know it's he was permitted to give life to the 281 00:14:29.960 --> 00:14:32.799 statue so it could speak. But we can make things 282 00:14:33.000 --> 00:14:35.440 speak through all kinds of technology, now right, you know 283 00:14:35.480 --> 00:14:37.519 what I mean. So it might have been you know, 284 00:14:37.559 --> 00:14:40.559 you take a very simple person like John who could 285 00:14:40.639 --> 00:14:43.559 not fathom the things he was seeing. You know, it 286 00:14:43.600 --> 00:14:46.000 could be just that he was able to make AI 287 00:14:46.600 --> 00:14:49.960 could have made this robot speak right, that's what it 288 00:14:50.000 --> 00:14:52.519 could be, and that it would have some form of 289 00:14:52.519 --> 00:14:54.600 intelligence that it's pretty astounding. 290 00:14:55.039 --> 00:14:55.240 Right. 291 00:14:56.399 --> 00:14:59.240 Then then you go onto the mark of the Beast 292 00:14:59.279 --> 00:15:03.080 in Relationship thirteen, verse sixteen through eighteen. So it's a 293 00:15:03.080 --> 00:15:07.120 false prophet working for the Beast or the Antichrist. And 294 00:15:07.159 --> 00:15:09.879 then the mark of the Beast says he required everyone 295 00:15:10.080 --> 00:15:13.559 small and great, rich and poor, free and slave to 296 00:15:13.600 --> 00:15:15.360 be given a mark on the right hand or on 297 00:15:15.399 --> 00:15:18.240 the forehead, and no one could buy or sell anything 298 00:15:18.279 --> 00:15:20.639 without that mark, which was either the name of the 299 00:15:20.639 --> 00:15:23.759 Beast or the number representing his name. Wisdom is needed here. 300 00:15:23.840 --> 00:15:25.600 Let the one with understanding solve the meeting of the 301 00:15:25.679 --> 00:15:27.279 number of the Beast, for it is the number of 302 00:15:27.279 --> 00:15:30.120 a man. His number is six six six. 303 00:15:30.679 --> 00:15:32.039 There it is. That's where we get it. 304 00:15:32.120 --> 00:15:36.039 So, dude, that number six six six, So numbers really 305 00:15:36.080 --> 00:15:38.200 matter in the book Revelation. We're not going to spend 306 00:15:38.240 --> 00:15:39.000 a ton of time on this. 307 00:15:39.080 --> 00:15:39.759 Throughout the whole. 308 00:15:39.600 --> 00:15:42.279 Bible, actually throughout the whole Bible, but particularly I mean, 309 00:15:42.279 --> 00:15:44.519 it just comes up over and over again, the idea 310 00:15:44.759 --> 00:15:51.240 of that the number seven usually represents God, right, the 311 00:15:51.360 --> 00:15:56.639 number six usually represents man. In a little while we're 312 00:15:56.639 --> 00:15:59.679 gonna talk about one hundred and forty four thousand, twelve 313 00:16:00.159 --> 00:16:02.960 is the number of completeness, and twelve times twelve or 314 00:16:02.960 --> 00:16:04.840 twelve thousand times twelve thousand, one hundred and four four 315 00:16:04.879 --> 00:16:07.320 thousand complete all of the followers of Christ. You're just 316 00:16:07.320 --> 00:16:10.200 going down the line. All these things. Numbers really really matter. 317 00:16:10.600 --> 00:16:14.600 And so this one, the number sixty sixty six, represents 318 00:16:15.080 --> 00:16:18.120 the person of the beast. And somehow you're only going 319 00:16:18.159 --> 00:16:21.440 to be able to do business transactions with a mark 320 00:16:21.559 --> 00:16:25.039 in your hand or in your forehead. And you know, 321 00:16:25.080 --> 00:16:27.200 in old days when you only could do business with 322 00:16:27.279 --> 00:16:29.840 coins and dollar bills, that was kind of confusing. But 323 00:16:29.960 --> 00:16:32.440 now you know, I use my phone, double push the 324 00:16:32.480 --> 00:16:34.600 button on the side, and pay for everything with my phone. 325 00:16:34.960 --> 00:16:37.200 You know what if we just embedded it and we 326 00:16:37.200 --> 00:16:39.679 were able to swipe our hands and scan it whatever, 327 00:16:39.960 --> 00:16:42.240 you know, somebody scan your head. There you go. Right 328 00:16:43.519 --> 00:16:46.799 right now, Elon Musk is working on the neurolinks to 329 00:16:46.840 --> 00:16:49.759 be able to connect computers to our brains. Even now, 330 00:16:49.879 --> 00:16:52.360 right we have tracking chips, there's all those kind of things. 331 00:16:52.440 --> 00:16:54.879 Today this makes way more sense to us even than 332 00:16:54.879 --> 00:16:57.600 when John was writing it. What John was writing about 333 00:16:58.000 --> 00:17:01.360 was not possible in his day, right, apart from a miracle, 334 00:17:02.159 --> 00:17:04.880 But it's completely possible in our day. How did the 335 00:17:04.920 --> 00:17:08.799 guy two thousand years ago write about a global religion 336 00:17:09.319 --> 00:17:11.799 with some kind of statue that could speak. 337 00:17:11.759 --> 00:17:14.279 Well, the whole and the whole world sees one event. 338 00:17:14.680 --> 00:17:17.799 Yeah, the whole world sees an event on a phone 339 00:17:17.880 --> 00:17:22.200 or on something on a screen. The whole world has 340 00:17:22.440 --> 00:17:26.680 a god or is worshiping one religion with some kind 341 00:17:26.720 --> 00:17:30.720 of statue that can speak. And the whole world can 342 00:17:30.839 --> 00:17:34.640 only do business with a technology that requires something embedded 343 00:17:34.680 --> 00:17:37.240 in your body. Well, we can see, we can imagine 344 00:17:37.240 --> 00:17:39.319 all those things being true just a few years down 345 00:17:39.319 --> 00:17:41.279 the road, right, It's pretty amazing. But people get really 346 00:17:41.279 --> 00:17:44.359 excited because they read that verse that says, you. 347 00:17:44.319 --> 00:17:48.039 Know, wisdom is required, you must figure it out, solve 348 00:17:48.119 --> 00:17:49.240 the meaning of the number of the beast. 349 00:17:49.920 --> 00:17:52.880 So so many people get super excited. And if you 350 00:17:52.920 --> 00:17:55.920 watch too long on religious television, there's gonna be somebody's 351 00:17:55.920 --> 00:17:57.000 going to tell you they know the beast. 352 00:17:57.240 --> 00:17:59.920 By the way the best, I'm thirty, I'm thirty one 353 00:18:00.119 --> 00:18:02.559 years in and being a pastor, and I've heard no 354 00:18:02.839 --> 00:18:06.400 less than at least one hundred different versions. 355 00:18:06.599 --> 00:18:10.240 Wouldn't you say, oh, yeah, yeah, proof of what the 356 00:18:10.240 --> 00:18:12.960 mark of the beast is or who the Antichrist is. 357 00:18:13.039 --> 00:18:15.720 Yes, so people, Yeah, I'm referring just to the mark 358 00:18:15.720 --> 00:18:16.039 of the beast. 359 00:18:16.119 --> 00:18:19.759 Yeah yeah, yeah, me too. I would guess you're probably right, Yeah, 360 00:18:19.759 --> 00:18:22.319 one hundred. Probably maybe not that high. 361 00:18:22.359 --> 00:18:24.319 But if it's not one hundred, it's really close. 362 00:18:24.960 --> 00:18:27.200 I would guess. Yeah. I've heard so many people try 363 00:18:27.200 --> 00:18:29.599 to tell or prove what the mark of the beast is. 364 00:18:30.359 --> 00:18:31.920 So Peo. By the way, there's nothing wrong with that. 365 00:18:31.920 --> 00:18:33.559 There's nothing wrong with trying to figure it out, because 366 00:18:33.559 --> 00:18:35.279 the scripture says use wisdom. 367 00:18:35.319 --> 00:18:39.759 Yeah, yeah, sure. So people spend way more time trying 368 00:18:39.759 --> 00:18:41.160 to figure out the mark of the beast than trying 369 00:18:41.200 --> 00:18:42.799 to lead their friends to Jesus. And that's what makes 370 00:18:42.839 --> 00:18:46.119 me nervous, right, right, So Jesus has none of your business. 371 00:18:46.759 --> 00:18:49.039 Go get filled with the Holy spirit. Tell all your friends, right, 372 00:18:49.039 --> 00:18:52.519 that's what he says. But this passage says, hey, you know, 373 00:18:52.599 --> 00:18:55.000 use some wisdom. Maybe if if you're wise, you understand 374 00:18:55.000 --> 00:18:57.559 what six sixty six means. Well, we do know. We 375 00:18:57.640 --> 00:19:01.200 know that seven it represents God. We know twelve represents completeness. 376 00:19:01.200 --> 00:19:03.839 We know six represents man, so this is the king 377 00:19:03.880 --> 00:19:06.000 of men. That that's what this is talking about. But 378 00:19:06.039 --> 00:19:09.079 people will get really slick with numbers. So a while 379 00:19:09.119 --> 00:19:11.000 back I got up and I got really funny with 380 00:19:11.079 --> 00:19:13.480 numbers and proved the Urban Meyer, the former coach of 381 00:19:13.480 --> 00:19:16.799 the Ohio State Buckeyes, was the Antichrist. Right, you've used 382 00:19:16.799 --> 00:19:19.440 the fancy math, but let me do this one. I'll 383 00:19:19.440 --> 00:19:22.880 prove to you that the Disney Corporation is the Antichrist. 384 00:19:22.920 --> 00:19:24.319 Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah sure. So here you go. 385 00:19:24.359 --> 00:19:26.359 There's ten letters in Walt Disney W A L T 386 00:19:26.480 --> 00:19:28.880 D I S N E Y. That equals ten. And 387 00:19:28.920 --> 00:19:30.599 then if you add to that the ten letters of 388 00:19:30.640 --> 00:19:32.400 Donald Duck d O N A L D d U 389 00:19:32.559 --> 00:19:35.400 c K, that equals twenty. But then you add to 390 00:19:35.519 --> 00:19:37.640 that the one hundred and one Dalmatians, that's one twenty one. 391 00:19:37.640 --> 00:19:40.559 But substract the seven Dwarfs and the three ugly stepsisters 392 00:19:40.559 --> 00:19:42.799 and then multiply at times M I, C K, E Y, 393 00:19:43.000 --> 00:19:44.200 and that equals six sixty six. 394 00:19:44.839 --> 00:19:45.279 There it is. 395 00:19:45.359 --> 00:19:48.640 There you go, dude, I proved it. 396 00:19:48.680 --> 00:19:51.160 But isn't that what they do? Isn't that what they do? 397 00:19:51.279 --> 00:19:55.720 They talk fast they grab all these obscure facts and weird, 398 00:19:56.119 --> 00:19:59.400 loosely connected things. Sure, the three Ugly Stepsisters and the 399 00:19:59.440 --> 00:20:02.359 seven dwarfs and one hundred and one Dalmatians, they're all connected. Sure, 400 00:20:02.480 --> 00:20:04.599 I guess it just doesn't mean anything. And a lot 401 00:20:04.599 --> 00:20:09.200