The beasts from out of the sea. The ten horns are ten kings or ten influential countries of the world. They will continue the formation of the seventh kingdom and rule the world by consensus or accord. Ten kings will assume power after the failure of the global socio-economic system being established now by the
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The beast out of the sea continued. “Then I saw a beast coming up out of the sea. It had ten horns and seven heads, and on its horns were ten diadem crowns, and on its heads a blasphemous name. Now, the beast that I saw was like a leopard, but its feet were like
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The beasts of Revelation Chapter 13 continued. The readers of the Book of Revelation should remember that John observed the vision; he did not participate in it. John did not have to stand on the seashore. He observed an event in progress on the seashore, but he was in heaven. The readers must also notice
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The beasts in Revelation 13 – The dragon became enraged. The two beasts depicted in chapter 13 of Revelation function as one system, one beast, which is the seventh kingdom serving Satan’s final effort to recover from his losses. As one system, what the beasts, described in Revelation 13, will carry out on the earth
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The beasts in Revelation chapter 13; an overview. In his message to the churches, Jesus reminded the believers of his mission while he was in the body here on the earth. He came to liberate humankind from slavery to Satan. He came to save humanity from guilt and punishment for sin. Jesus explained the need
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The benefits we reap because of the Mystery of God. The Cross of Christ is what he suffered on the cross at Golgotha. He separated from his body his perfect life, or spirit, which is the sacrifice for the world’s sin. God then put into the body of Jesus the sinful life of humankind. By
The Cross of Christ. The human spirit, the life of humankind, sinned in the garden of Eden, and it had to die forever as the wage for sin. Such is the righteous requirement by the Moral Law, the foundation of our universe. Sinners could not be helped to become righteous. Sinners had to be re-created
The three categories of temptation. “because all that is in the world (the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the arrogance produced by material possessions) is not from the Father, but from the world.” 1 John 2:16, NET. The lust by the flesh, the lust by the eyes, and the
The temptation of Jesus. Jesus Christ is the Second or Last Adam. He is the representative of the new humankind. We can logically conclude that God informed the first Adam of the Enemy’s presence and that he would try to enlist him in rebellion against God. In like manner, God prepared Jesus for the temptation
The recreation of humankind. The last blog stated that humankind became absolutely helpless because of the decision in the Garden of Eden. The sinful humankind could not change its miserable predicament no matter how much it wanted. God and only he could replace the fallen human spirit – nature. He had achieved the re-creation of
The consequences of the fall of Man. “Then the eyes of both of them opened, and they knew they were naked, so they sawed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.” Genesis 3:7, NET. The first thing that happened was that humankind, in Adam, lost God’s image. The glory of God no longer covered
Humankind sins. In his effort to find a home, Satan approached the woman in the Garden of Eden. He cleverly rearranged the words in God’s command and asked the woman if it was true that God commanded the human pair what fruit they could eat and what not. His goal was to engage her in
The fall of humankind. The deliberate, intelligent decision made by the human spirit that God gave to the first-man Adam could only result in two states. A correct decision would make the human spirit perfect. (This fact has been demonstrated by Jesus in the desert. Hebrews 2:10, 18.) A wrong intelligent decision by the first