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I promote Behold the Beast because I agree that Islam is the beast of Revelation and there's a lot of good information there. It's impossible to promote any site that I completely agree with.
But if you tell me what you're specifically refering to I'll comment.
If you mean this page.
http://www.beholdthebeast.com/temple_of_god.htm
yes I do disagree with him.
Hey Ridgerunner aren't you activetly involved with the website www.beholdthebeast.com ?
Hey Ridgerunner aren't you activetly involved with the website www.beholdthebeast.com ?
Didn't you say in an earlier post tha the two horned beast is islam? Yet beholdthebeast uses Scripture and history to prove islam is the leopard bear and lion beast of Revelation. You might also read the articles on the man of sin and antichrist as they clearly disagree and prove the view you espouse is incorrect!
Well I disagrre with that too!
But there is more that I do agree with than disagree with!
And what exactly do you agree with on that site?
I just removed it!
Like I said. I agree with most of it. But it seems not enough for me to want to keep it as a link. Maybe I disagree with it more than I think...so it's gone!
I like Walid and Ellis Skolfield too but don't always agree with them either!
Maybe you could show us exactly what you agree with from the beholdthebeast website. So far it appears that you view is entirely different concerning which beast is islam, what antichrists are, what the man of sin does, where the temple of God is etc...?
I posted in the following link what many of the early Church fathers understood about the coming Antichrist as a singular entity, a king, sitting in a stone temple in Jerusalem. Their understanding of the coming Antichrist came from the Book of Daniel, from Christ Himself in His Olivet Discourse, from Paul in 2 Thess.2:3-4 and 2 Corinthians 11, and in Revelation 9, 11, 12, 13, 16, and 17.
So, by trying to say God's Word does not teach about the coming a singular Antichrist while so much Scripture evidence exists, of which the early Churches fathers agreed, it makes those who refuse to heed it begin to look very silly.
http://www.christianityboard.com/topic/16501-johns-first-phrase-of-1-john-218/#entry163351
Therefore, somebody along the line, whether it was Darby, or whomever, had to have added "the Antichrist" to the terms "man of sin" and "son of perdition" in 2nd Thess.2.
Daniel 12 doesn't imply that understanding prophecy cannot be understood until after the fact. It implies that our understanding of them comes only during the time of the end. We seek and pray for understanding and the signs are there. If it were true that we would never understand these things until after they pass then the prophecies of Daniel and Revelation were a waste of time.
For instance, take "Babylon the Great" that's described in Revelation 17 and 18.
It took a long period of time for AMERICA to evolve into BABYLON THE GREAT.
Well, I am all for cutting the pop culture fat that surrounds the end times, but as to the antichrist being a fable, let's see:
I John 2:18
Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. Therefore we know that it is the last hour.
John here is obviously referencing the common knowledge that the subjects of the letter would have had about the antichrist. Additionally, though not using the term antichrist, the same being is talked about in II Thessalonians 2:3 as well as in other places.
There are many antichrists plural, but very clearly from the above, there was also the knowledge that a singular antichrist is to come. The last days had already begun in the time of the Apostles. Many are uncomfortable with that because it doesn't fit it to a nice neat eschalogical box, but look at what the Scripture says.
Well, I am all for cutting the pop culture fat that surrounds the end times, but as to the antichrist being a fable, let's see:
I John 2:18
Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. Therefore we know that it is the last hour.
John here is obviously referencing the common knowledge that the subjects of the letter would have had about the antichrist. Additionally, though not using the term antichrist, the same being is talked about in II Thessalonians 2:3 as well as in other places.
There are many antichrists plural, but very clearly from the above, there was also the knowledge that a singular antichrist is to come. The last days had already begun in the time of the Apostles. Many are uncomfortable with that because it doesn't fit it to a nice neat eschalogical box, but look at what the Scripture says.
Rev 18:24 And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.
For the above verse to be true Babylon would have to exist from the time Cain slew Able until the very last person to be slain on this earth is slain. Babylon cannot be constrained by time or location. How can America contain the blood of all that were slain upon the earth if America did not exist while many of those slain on this earth were slain?
But if you study 2nd Thess.2, and Daniel, and Revelation, you'll find that the son of perdition or man of lawlessness is not anti or against Christ at all, but rather against "all that is called God".
Paul wrote in 11Thess.2 that the man of lawlessness would oppose and exalt himself above "all that is called God".
So then, whom are the people that is "called God"?
In chapter 7, verse 24, Daniel described them as that of "the ten kings" out of the 4th kingdom upon the earth. And in Revelation 17:12 the ten kings are clearly a certain people that is upon Babylon the Great. In Revelation 13 John described them as that of "ten horns with crowns on them", ie a people with crowns on them.
Thus, it is "the ten kings", or "all that is called God" that the man of lawlessness opposes.
Rev 18:24 And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.Not true..Babylon the Great did not have to exist from the time of Cain. It is described in Daniel 7:24 as that of "the fourth kingdom" upon earth, and headed by "the ten kings" or a people out of England and out of Europe.
Needless to say, AMERICA is that "BABYLON THE GREAT", and the European Americans are "the ten kings".
America has produced more Christian believers over the years, than have all of the other nations of the modern world. Since its founding many Christian Americans have died in battle...over 600 thousand in the Civil War alone. Thus the meaning of Rev.18:24 which says,
"And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth."
Thus the meaning of Rev.18:24 which says,
"And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth."
Can you show us where in Scripture people or the ten kings are called God? I thought Scripture tells us it is the Word that is called God.
"The ten kings" that are upon Babylon the Great in Rev.17:12, and in Daniel 7:24, represent a people of the ten tribes house of Israel; those that are "called by God's name".
Hense 2nd Thess.2:4 which says,
"the son of perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth himself above "all that is called God."