the beasts of the prophets daniel and john

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The Beasts of Daniel and John



pride of whosever$s head it is worn, their number is morethan there are heads. 5econd, a war in heaven ensued betweenthe angels loyal to 67d against the rebel dragon or 5atan. 1sthe loyalist outnumber the rebels to (, the rebels 3a third ofthe ;stars’ or ‘host’ or inhabitants of heaven4 were 8ung to theearth. Te dragon continued to make war against the %ord of67d 3esus4 on earth and stood at the shores of the sea fromwhence came the rst beast. Te dragon is a picture of a beastwith 0 heads, () horns and 0 crowns on each head while therst beast has 0 heads, () horns and () crowns on each horn.

Tird, the dragon gave the rst beast 3the Roman <mpire4 itsauthority. Te Roman emperor, through his representative in

udea, the =dumaean, "erod the 6reat, 6overnor of 6alileeand later >ing of udea sought to kill the child esus. "e failedto do so, but his subse?uent heirs to the throne followed hispro7Roman policies. 2ourth, the rst beast gave the secondbeast with horns like a lamb and spoke like a dragon itsauthority 3Rev (@'((7(4. During this period, the Romanempire until its revival as the "oly Roman empire 3image ofthe rst beast4 by the pope 3second beast4, chief priest of theRoman !atholic church, the stateAs religion, gave throughRoman !atholic baptism, the mark of the beast on theforeheads andBor the right hand 3priests give the mark ofbaptism or “chrism” on the forehead and on the palm of theright hand of the child being baptiCed4. :o one during thesetimes could live normal lives 3buying or selling4 if one was nota Roman !atholic. nly barbarians living in the fringes of the

empire were free of the mark of the beast but even this wasnot a guarantee that they were safe from the clutches of thebeast as their womenfolk knew that their religiosity wouldcome under scrutiny in public places like the market, whereeveryone converges in keeping with good marketing senseand everything is traded, not the least, gossip and shwives$tales. :or were they secure that their own villages would notbe con?uered and anneEed to the empire$s. Tose who desiredto enFoy the cosmopolitan amenities obtainable within the

boundaries of the empire, most especially those whosebusiness involved in trading within the boundaries of the



do"” Te emperor derived his authority from 67d and thesymbol of this authority, his crown, is set on his head by thebishop of Rome, the pope, as the representative of 67d onearth. Te "oly Roman <mpire aspired to e?ual the width andbreadth of the Roman <mpire, which at the height of itspower encompassed the British =sles from the %est toHesopotamia in the <ast and all of the coastlands around theHediterranean.

Te Mark of the Beast. 1s the beast goes into

ba9le, he will be known by his marks or uniform. Revelation(@'((7(& speaks of the one who gave the mark and who weregiven the mark. %hen the Roman empire 3the rst beast4 fell,the pope found himself as the head of the church 3the secondbeast4 in the tandem of the church and state, the solesurviving authority that could unite the empire$s subFects whowere all Roman !atholics. "is two horns are the %esternRoman !atholic church in Rome and the <astern DrthodoEchurch in ByCantium. Te Roman pope, to prevent the Romanempire from breaking up, crowned kings from the former6ermanic tribes as "oly Roman emperor to revive the Romanempire, thus healing the wound of one of its heads 3Rome4and preventing its total disintegration. "aving done this, henow eEercised the authority of the rst beast, whose image isthe "oly Roman empire. "aving established itself asauthority, it caused ‘#re to come from heaven’ in the=n?uisition that was established to put a stop to heresy.

"eretics who did not renounce their heresies were burned atthe stakes. rue, much of the doctrines of the Roman !atholicchurch during the ;$%&' days’ that the early !hristian churchand saints were given over to, were sound because they werethe work of the saints and the early !hristian church whocontinued even when given over to the Roman !atholicchurch. 2urthermore, authority was given the beast to get thetruth out of the old and new testaments 3Rev (('@7/4 butanyone who tried to harm both by making or even inserting

or taking a word of truth out of it will be destroyed. "owever,once their contribution to doctrine was made, many of them



Te mark of the beast is given to Roman !atholicsduring the rite of baptism when a priest marks the forehead ofthe child and the right hand as is wri9en in Revelation (@'(/.Tus the mark or “chrism” , as the Roman !atholic church callsthis, was given a long time ago. Ten, it was easy to ?uestionthe loyalty of a non7!atholic to the "oly Roman emperor andbe suspected of heresy. 5everal !hristian movements declaredas heretics, ews, and Huslims who did not succumb toRoman !atholic baptism were the subFect of the !rusades. =tis for this reason that everyone who did not receive the mark

‘could not buy or sell’ . Iou could not come to a public placewhere imperial forces were watching for fear ofdiscrimination and persecution once you were identied as abarbarian, not being a Roman !atholic. Tere was absolutefear living under the feudal system then prevailing when youwere not a Roman !atholic. 1ll the members of the royaltywere Roman !atholics saved for those princes who wouldlater ?uestion the authority of the Roman !atholic church butwho were themselves Roman !atholics by convenience, andwhose number were too few and far between. /// is the markof the beast. / is man$s number, opposed to 0 which is thenumber of divinity.i / is man$s number but !hrist is not mereman but the 5on of 67d. Tree /$s is in opposition to !hrist$sthree characteristics' high priest, prophet and king. Te anti7!hrist possesses these three characteristics in opposition to!hrist$s by falsely assuming these characteristics of !hristwith the intention to deceive. "e was Jhannias, a common

man elevated to the high priest by the 5icarii, a Roman puppetspoken of in Tessalonians '(7( in the time of the reign of"erod 1grippa ==. "e did not have the mark of the beast yet,but in the ‘end time’ , the man of lawlessness will have one,even if discreetly. "e is also the pope, and the Romanemperor, his prince and underlings.

1gainst the popular view based on the ‘#rstresurrection’ spoken of in Revelation )'- and the ‘seventy

sevens’ prophecy in Daniel K'-70 believed by so manyJrotestants concerning the rapture and the anti7!hrist who

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must be viewed by suspicion as part of a sinister plot tomislead !hristians, and many such ideas proliferate givingrise to false beliefs espoused by end7time !hristians whoharbor weapons preparing for a literal ght with the risendead amongst the raptured !hristians whom they callCombies and help the anti7!hrist give the mark of the beast tothe remaining !hristians. Te anti7!hrist 3pope4 has longgiven the mark 3Roman !atholic baptism4. 1*er the fall of theRoman empire, the Herovingians, who were 5alian 2ranksand :icean or %estern !hristians beginning with !lovis,

allied with the Roman !atholic bishops and became protectorof the papacy. =n return the pope Fustied and conrmed theirkingship. Te Dstrogoths and other 6ermanic tribes who were1rian !hristians were considered heretics by the Roman!atholic church. Tus, it became politically convenient toconvert to Roman !atholicism and have the support of the de facto ruler of the Roman empire by them who aspired to ruleits breadth and width. %ith the aid of the state, the anti7!hrist by enforced baptism caused the giving of the mark ofthe beast 3the Roman empire4 to all the peoples who fell underthe Furisdiction of the empire. Because the rite of baptism waseEercised by the early !hristian church before it was adoptedby the Romans who gave it its own distinguishing ritual, themark of the beast was given soon as the church was givenover to the Roman empire. Te word GRomanL to describe thisfaith, is so obvious as to make it inconspicuous, that this faithis the faith that worships the ancient Roman empire. Tat is

spoken of in Revelation (@'&, to wit'

“8 All inhabitants of the earth will worshipthe beast – all whose names have not beenwrien in the book of life belonging to theLamb that was slain from the creation ofthe world.” (Rev !"8 #$%&

Te False Prophet. Te following references found

in Revelations (/'(7(-M (K'(K7(M and )'07() speaks of thefalse prophet. Revelation (/ speaks of the dragon or 5atanM theb R ! h li h h d i f ll i d h



of =shmael. 1t the outset, the (r’an perpleEes theologiansand scholars alike, for while it holds so many of the truths of

ews and !hristians, there remains some sticky issues uponwhich are grounded the reason for the Hiddle <ast con8ict.Te ews$ unbelief in esus !hristM some of powerful andin8uential Huslims$ denial of the time of =srael$s restorationMand the maFority of !hristians$ inability to comprehend the(r’an as AcategoricallyA embodying the covenant of 67d with=shmaelM although Huhammad may be the one referred to inthe Book of Revelation in the !hristian Bible as the false

prophet. %ho can fathom the ways of the #ord. 1s !hristianso*en say, “we are but mere clay and the )ord is the poer” 3er(&'/704" Tat is to say that the (r*an may yet evolve its owncanon as the Dld and :ew estaments have. =ts nal formmay be reconciled with the much older two covenants. 1lso,that the terms used are used, e.g. false prophet, because theyserve a purpose which is to dene, albeit limited. "owever, ifviewed as a concept, and in this particular case, to reachbeyond the limits of human language in its denition, we cana9ain an understanding much like the wisdom of 6Nd. %hichis to say that one belief while true to its own set of believers isdened as the enemy of the other. Te more important thingis that we gain an understanding that goes beyond the limitsof doctrine or dogma of a single faith by a+ording us a viewof one faith from the position of another.



i Anti-Christ, from Fausset's Bible Dictionary, Electronic Database Copyright (c)1! by Biblesoft"

Six is next to the sacred seven, which it mimics but falls short of; it is the number of the world given over to judgment. There

is a pause between the sixth and seventh seals, the sixth and seventh trumpets: for the judgments of the world are completed

in six; at the seventh the world kingdoms become Christs. !s twelve is the number of the church, so six, its half, s"mboli#es

the world kingdoms broken. The radicals in Christ are C$, %, and ST &chi, rho, and sigma'; !ntichrists monogramimpersonates it, but falls short of it, Ch ( St &chi, xi, and sigma' &)))'.

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