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24 January 2010 By Reverend Mark Glenn
“Then I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having
ten horns and seven heads. On his horns were ten
crowns, and on his heads, blasphemous names. One of
his heads looked like it had been wounded fatally. His
fatal wound was healed, and the whole earth marveled
at the beast. The people worshiped the beast, saying,
“Who is like the beast? Who is able to make war with
him?” A mouth speaking great things and blasphemy was
given to him and authority to make war for forty-two
months was given to him. He opened his mouth to
blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his
dwelling and against those who dwell in heaven. It was
given to him to make war with the saints, and to
overcome them. Authority over every tribe, people,
language, and nation was given to him. All who dwell
on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has
not been written in the book of life… Then I saw another beast coming up out of the
earth. He had two horns like a lamb, and he spoke like
a dragon. He exercises all the authority of the first
beast in his presence. He makes the earth and those
who dwell in it worship the first beast, whose fatal
wound was healed. He performs great signs and deceives
those who dwell on the earth because of the power and
signs he was granted to perform in front of the beast
and forcing those on earth to make an image of the
beast who had been killed by the sword and yet lived.
It was given to him to breathe life into the image of
the beast so that the beast should both speak and
cause those who refused to worship the beast to be
killed. He causes all, small and the great, rich and
the poor, free and the slave, to be given marks on
their right hands, or on their foreheads so that no
one may buy or sell, unless he has that mark, the name
of the beast or the number of his name. Let he who has wisdom calculate the number of
the beast, for it is the number of a man. His number
is 666.” Book of Revelations, Ch 13 I don’t get much into “prophecy”. I’ve personally
witnessed too many folks come up with too many
completely off-the-wall things, including the recent
epidemic of individuals claiming to see images of
Jesus and His mother in pieces of toast or taco
salads. Nevertheless, I think there have been a few people
who “got it right” over the centuries, and of those
none better than the ones trying to survive the first
century AD who predicted there would come a time in
the future when a power of unspeakable barbarity would
rise up and go on the rampage, destroying all that was
good. They had good reasons for suspecting something like
this must take place eventually. After all, they
personally witnessed what was done to Jesus and His
followers by the Jews. They saw what happened when
Rome–under the direction of a mad emporer named Nero
who converted to Judaism via his Jewish mistress
Poppea–did in assisting the synagogue with its mission
of eradicating the anti-Judaic message preached and
propagated by the hated Jesus of Nazareth. Driven by
an insane ideology positing the notion that they as a
people are divine in nature and destined to rule the
world and given a virtual blank check in exterminating
anyone–including entire civilizations if
necessary–that frustrate or otherwise complicate the
business they envision, it is all-too-understandable
why individuals such as John on the island of Patmos
would draw up a future scenario as he did. When all is said and done, putting aside all the
cryptic descriptions of a giant beast rising out of
the sea, with 7 heads and ten horns and with feet like
this creature and a mouth like that creature and
whatnot, the fact of the matter is it certainly is the
picture of what we see today with regards to the
Jewish state. Clearly, as the last half century has
proven, if there were ever a singular entity that
fitted the description of an absolutely anti-God,
anti-human carnivore with no regard for decency or
human life it is Jewish power and its physical
manifestation known as Israel. One need look no
further than what has recently taken place in Lebanon,
Iraq, Afghanistan, and Gaza as proof. What is even more amazing is how modern-day
Christianity fits into all this as well. In the book
of the Apocalypse describing this future time of
unprecedented barbarity, it describes another beast
that causes the world to worship the first beast
killed by the sword and that helps set up and
facilitate a system where all those who refuse to
worship this first beast are not permitted to function
in society. Enter one John Hagee and his fellow false prophets,
who have made the business of worshipping the Jewish
state and her people a religion all its own. Indeed,
without their efforts of deluding Christians into
worshipping this bloodthirsty creature and suckling it
with money, weapons and perpetual war the world would
be a very different place altogether. In a rather interesting email I received yesterday
from none other than John Hagee’s website “Christians
United For Israel” (found at www.cufi.org) he is
pleading for money to “help the Jewish people help the
people of Haiti“. And while there is nothing new about
Hagee going out and raising money so that Israel can
further her bloodshed against the Arabs living there,
what was very interesting about this particular plea
for money was the following line– “Thank you for your interest in helping Israel
help Haiti. We are asking that you make a contribution
of $18 or a multiple thereof to support Israel’s
humanitarian efforts in Haiti. This special amount —
which symbolizes “life” in Jewish tradition – will be
sent directly to one of the Israeli organizations at
the forefront of these rescue efforts.“ The “variation thereof” of the number ‘18’ that,
according to Hagee has “special significance in Jewish
tradition” just so happens to include three 6’s. This,
coupled with Israel’s Star of David (nothing more than
a collection of sixes) and Jewry’s mad insistenace
upon worshipping the 6 million equation associated
with the holocaust makes for some very interesting
math indeed. Indeed, let those with wisdom calculate the number
of the beast, the number of Israel and of Jewish
power, for the sooner the math on this equation is
completed the better off all mankind will be. |