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Right; so what is happening with this Covid 19, is a trial run.
The Bible does not say that the 'Christians' will occupy the land, in the life to come, nor after Jesus comes. Oh, they 'occupy' many places today, but that does not save anyone. It might make for temporaty peace in this life, but does not save a soul nor give them the peace and joy of salvation in Jesus.
As a follow-up to my previous comment on this subject....
The pandemic is not necessarily a hoax, but President Trump -- who is essentially the leader of the free world -- has handed over the narrative to those who are perpetrating a hoax on America. He made an extremely poor selection of those who would be on his Task Force, and as a result the Leftists have benefited in every way, and so have the enemies of America and freedom.
Your eschatology is all over the place. Your interpretations are from your own imagination and are inconsistent, confused, and wholly guesswork. And being futurist they are in essence Jesuit inspired and designed to hide the Catholic Church from Gods own identification of her as the Antichrist.Why look for another? Simple, because it hasn't fulfilled the scriptures that actually matter concerning the first beast and woman of revelation and their identities, which is clearly not the Roman Catholic Church. Will the RCC play a significant role in the last days or leading up to it? Maybe, but everything you pointed out only proved my point, that the Roman Catholic Church is an easy target for Christians to point the finger at. If the Roman Catholic Church has anything to do with end times prophecy at all it would be the second beast that rises out of the earth. Its made very clear though that the second beast, like the first beast is a specific individual, since he comes on the scene performing miracles. It remains to be seen if that second beast ends up rising out of the RCC, which could the case considering the scripture below.
The first indication we see here is the fact that he rises out of the earth, which means he will likely be human, as opposed to the first beast who I believe is likely the angel Apollyon, the king of the bottomless pit. As far as I see, John identifies the first beast as Apollyon in Rev 11 which is well after the sixth trumpet is sounded and just before the angel blows the last trumpet that ushers in the last 3 1/2 years of the Great Tribulation.
The word "lamb" could be an indication of his identify being related to a religion that purports to have something to do with Jesus, who is also known as the "lamb". The two horns of the second beast could be another indicator since horns symbolize a sort of king or ruler, or someone who is the head of state or the leader of a specific institution. The Pope being called the "vicar of Christ" is another indication that might point to the second beast since John also calls him the "false prophet". So he is like the disciple of the first beast who does his bidding to further deceive the world with miracles into falling head over hills for the first beast even more than they already had at that point. He deceives the world into making an "image" of the first beast and causes the world to take his mark. And when it comes to the "image of the beast", it will basically be the ultimate form of idol worship, and we know that no one today does idol worship better than the Roman Catholic Church.
So like I said, time always tells the truth, this all remains to be seen.
.......Your eschatology of when the Day of the Lord and the last trumpet occurs is all over the damn place and wholly guesswork based on bits and pieces of scripture from prophets who only knew of end times prophecy in part, that includes Jesus. Your eschatology of this big bad Antichrist is wholly guesswork. Every time I see people speak at length about this guy, referring to him as the "beast", they ALWAYS fail to mention that there are in fact two beasts, not one. My point is the events as they are described to occur in revelation are not as cut and dry, or simple as you want it to be, just because you want the whole thing to be about the RCC. I wasn't even going to bother responding to you, seeing that this is the thanks I was likely going to get from you creatures of habit. I honestly could care less about what the Jesuits believe, know very little about them. My attention is focuses on the Bible, yours seem to be elsewhere.
Prayerfully read through those links I gave you. If you don't see where I'm coming from and how the Bible is it's own interpreter, then I cannot help you. To attempt to have one beast represent one type of thing and another beast another type of thing, shows that God Himself is inconsistent. He did not place prophecy in scripture to confuse you. It actually is plain... It is simple... It is clear if you are willing to keep to the basic rules of interpretation. Beasts are all empires. Horns that grow from those beasts are the various Kings or Nations that the empire comprises of. A SYMBOLIC beast/empire in the OT doesn't suddenly become an individual person in the NT. The exception of the dragon himself. He is a beast... Genuine hard core Satan himself... And those empires that resemble him are his creation made in his likeness and his image. They are metaphorically speaking, his babies, established to carry out his will in the war between himself and Christ. And the Antichrist is no exception. First growing as a little horn from the Roman beast in Daniel 7, by the time this power was fully formed in it's own right became a beast itself...a predator just like it's parents... Just like those other powers that preceded her, Babylon, Persia, Greece and Rome.
It is clear Dcopymope you need to get familiar with Christian history since the time of the Apostles. Your ignorance on this matter hamstrings you being evident in the judgements you make here.
....Whenever someone doesn't believe in prophecy as YOU interpret it, the classic vapid response is "you don't know what you're talking about". Here is my suggestion to you, get familiar with the order of events as John plainly lays it out in revelation and then come talk to me about what I don't know.
