The Great Redeemer Pt.5
REVELATION 13:3-8
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed (The Roman nation of the time of Jesus was eventually destroyed, but the spirit of that Roman kingdom was healed by becoming Papal Rome of the religious Roman Catholic Church. From a Pagan Roman spirit that ruled over the people of the ancient nation of Rome, to a Papal Roman spirit of the Catholic Church hierarchy that would rule over the people of many nations for many centuries): and all the world wondered after the beast. (She (this Roman church) looked so beautiful with all of her golden glinted cathedrals along with all her pomp and ceremony, but yet her hands were red with the blood of all the martyrs of Christ – a beautiful outside, but an ugly inside)
4 And they worshipped the dragon (the dragon is Satan – the old serpent) which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him? (Like the arms race of the cold war – when a nation becomes so powerful with military equipment and might, then that is what deters the people from making war against them – so this verse is showing us to a time of technological advancement – a time of military advancement and false worship)
5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.
6 And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
Finally, Satan has realized his dream of receiving the worship from the human race of which he has desired this worship from the beginning.
He has finally taken up his abode within the hearts of men and women of which that place and throne of the human heart was meant and reserved for God alone. (Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28 speaks of this)
The Great Redeemer Pt.5
Introduction to “The War for Worship”
REVELATION 13:11-12 (continue reading CH13 from verse 11)
11 ¶ And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth (a power risen up out of a great land, this is the nation of America of which her number is thirteen, 13 stars, 13 stipes, 13 colonies, and she appears in Revelation 13); and he had two horns like a lamb (This animal that had two horns like a lamb is actually the American buffalo, and the two horns represent civil and ecclesiastical power), and he spake as a dragon. (The real dragon is Satan, so he would speak with words of deception like what Satan would speak)
12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him (Part of this power includes the power to deceive by human reasoning – Human minds are so easily swayed and tricked by the power of cleaver talk and reasoning), and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, (the atomic bomb of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - since the opening of the bottomless pit of the first woe of WW1, the power of human intelligence is beginning to be worshiped with the increase of knowledge as the book of Danial told us, and technology and the wonders of science has begun to captivated the world, and the people of the world are fallen for it of its lies and deception. Satan is using this technology (especially the technology that allows the easy sharing of information) for the purpose of filling the minds of the people with deception against the truth of the word of God)
14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword (Pagan Rome), and did live (Papal Rome).
We notice that from the beginning, the battle between God and Satan has been the battle for the worship of the human heart - it has been a war for worship, a war for the captivation of the respect and adoration of the human heart. Elvis Presley captured the adoration of the people, he was worshiped because he impressed the people.
*Satan vowed that he would exalt himself to sit upon the throne of a man’s heart and have the rule and leadership over man from that control tower. He wanted to be worshiped by the man as if he was their God, that has been his desire all along. So there must be a deeper reason for this than perhaps we don’t understand fully – and so we want to understand this because the opening of the seven seals exposes these things.
II THESSALONIANS 2:3-4
3 ¶ Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God (The heart of Man), shewing himself that he is God.
**The great plan of God from the beginning was for man to know Him. God wanted man to come to understand the great character of what He truly was of His true nature and spirit.
**God already knew everything about His creation, but His creation didn’t really know much about Him, and so He wanted to make known to man the true character of what He was of His great attributes, and so it would be that when this great revelation of God’s character would be revealed to man, then it would cause a pure and true worship and adoration and respect toward God to come out of a man’s heart, because that is the way that God made a man to be.
JOHN 4:23 (Jesus speaking to the woman at the well)
23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.
But Satan’s desire was to steel that rightful position of worship from God and to receive the worship of man unto himself alone.
But Satan knew that he couldn’t attract the worship of man by the revealing of his character, because God didn’t create man to be attracted to a character that was full of wicked and evil traits of lying and hatred (which is the complete opposite to God’s nature), Satan knew that this would not be attractive to man, and so the only way he could induce man into worshiping him was by the deception of his beauty and wisdom.
EZEKIEL 28:17a
17 Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness:
So right from the beginning, Satan wanted to be like God, and not only just be like God, but to even exalt himself above God and take God’s place, and so he knew that he was beautiful, and he knew that God had made man to be attracted to beauty, and so he was able to use the beauty that he had of what God had made him to deceive man and receive worship from man by that means.
**So God made man to be attracted to beauty, but He also made the heart of man to be attracted to character, especially to all the character traits of God. But Satan’s only chance to receive worship from man was to deceived the people by his beauty and his wisdom of his intellectual powers.
**And this is why the revelation of the character of God of what the opening of the seals has revealed to us in this hour is so important to us, because (by its very nature) it has a far more attractive and powerful force upon us than the deception of the skin-deep beauty of the world of Satan’s Eden - The power of what God has revealed to us in this day is our immunity from the deception of the devil.
We notice how that Satan’s last temptation presented to Jesus was for Him to fall down and worship Him.
MATTHEW 4:8-10
8 Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;
9 And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.
10 Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
*The Bible tells us that the Lamb of God was slain before the foundation of the world, so therefore creation was not created just for the purpose of revealing God as the great creator, but also for the purpose of revealing God as the great redeemer, because the Lamb was slain first in the mind of God before the world was created, so redemption wasn’t an afterthought that resulted in God having to patch up the world after man had fallen and lost his inheritance to the ownership of the world by the deception of the devil.
***It was all for the purpose for God to reveal Himself of the true nature of what He was – because true worship towards God can only come by the revealing of His great character to that person.
REVELATION 5:9
9 And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;
***So the only way for God to show Himself as the great redeemer, He had to create a dimension called time, and then He had to make a creation that could fall by the free choice of man, and because He knew it would fall, then His great character would cause Him to come down to redeem it back, and by this He would be able to show forth this great unknown part of Himself as the great redeemer - this is God’s story.
*This is what has been brought to us in this day through the knowledge of the opening of the Seven Seals. This great revelation of the plan of God of what was in the back part of His great mind has now been placed into our hearts in this hour – God has placed the treasure of His own deepest thoughts and attributes into the earthen vessels of our hearts.
**Adam owned the property that was given to him by His Father (God) – and so the entire earth belonged to Adam.
*But when Adam fell by His wife being deceived by the Devil’s reasoning against the word of God, Adam lost all of what had been given him by God, not only for himself, but for the entire human race of what would come after him.
Satan busted up this beautiful family that God had created – God knows how it feels to have Satan come along and wreck a happy and beautiful family.
**And so it was this very thing that constrained God to find a way to redeem everything that Man had lost back to him again by this great act of Redemption, and by this it would reveal to man the attributes of God’s character that could never have been revealed outside of these conditions.
And so the whole story of the bible from the beginning to the end is the story of this great redemptive act of God, and right now we are now living in the day of the reality of when the earth is to literally come back again into the full possession of man again.
*Redemption means to bring you back to your original state and position.
*So part of this great plan was revealed in the story of Ruth and Boaz, and part was revealed in the story of Joseph, and part was revealed in Moses, and part was revealed in Abraham, and part was revealed in David, but all the combination of the fullness of all those parts were sealed up until this end time age, and this is the understanding that has now been opened to us at this time by the opening of the seven seals.
**So all the way down through the bible, God was slowly letting out the mystery of Himself as the Great Redeemer - but then at the end of this last age, He brings it all together, and the whole Bible becomes clear to a selective group of people of whom God will let see His entire plan, and of whom have been able to received back this title deed of the ownership of what Adam lost by the way of the deed being made known to them, and by their names being shown to them as being written in the will of the deed and of what is the position of their inheritance.
*It’s been the great redeemer that we owe all this too, it has been Him doing this all along of showing Himself from Genesis to Revelation – this is the revelation that God wants to place in each of our hearts at this time.
HEBREWS 11:5-6
5 By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God. (Notice – that before Enoch was translated, God was pleased with the revelation that Enoch had received of God of the revelation of Him as the Great Redeemer. Enoch showed the revelation of God that he had received into his heart by building the pyramid with an empty tomb showing that he had received the revelation of the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ.
He built the pyramid with seven steps of layers showing seven church ages leading to the king’s chamber, he showed that the capstone was rejected. The entire pyramid was displaying the redemptive characteristic of Christ of what had been revealed to Enoch.
*Enoch displayed the revelation of Jesus Christ for his day in the language of the Pyramid, it was the bible in the form of that manifestation called a pyramid, just like with Noah, God gave him the revelation of Christ in the form of the ark. God has many languages that He can reveal Himself in. There’s the language of the stars, and the language of nature and of trees and of the animal kingdom. The great lion in the animal kingdom is a language that reveals Christ, the little lamb is a language that reveals Christ, the eagle is a language that reveals Christ.)
6 But without faith it is impossible to please him:
So in order for you to please God, it requires you to see God of what His true character really is. That is why our maturity in this hour is to come into the clarity of the understating of what Christ has revealed of himself to the level that He has been made known to us for this age.
*Enoch walked with God all the way into the full revelation of the nature of God that was being unveiled before Him for the time that he was living in, and he went on to write that revelation down in the language of the pyramid. If He had written in down with ink and paper, it would not have survived the flood, but God had him right it down in the form of the pyramid, and so it was able pass through the judgment of God unmolested.
*If that same revelation of what Enoch had of Christ has been written in our lives also, then we know that we will also bypass the judgements of God for this day.
*It is this revelation that brings us to walk the same way that Enoch walked. Enoch had the revelation of God in his heart, this is how he was able to write the second bible of the pyramid.
Enoch (the seventh from Adam) knew the secret of how to leave this world and go into that other world by a translation – that secret was that he had access to walk with God and to be able to eat from the tree of life.
***Enoch was the seventh from the first Adam, and we are the seventh age from the second Adam (Christ), and we are also walking with God in this hour by our agreement with the truth that He has sent to us in this day by a vindicated prophet, and so we are also eating from the same tree of life that Enoch ate from, and this is why that we can also be sure that we will be taken up in a rapture without seeing death in this hour.