KML,
Forgive me for not responding to your lengthy article sooner.
You covered a lot of biblical ground and I will not try to respond to
the majority of it. Your following of the tribe of Dan was
very interesting and the connection you made to the "instead of
Christ" may end up being valid. Maybe John Paul II's family lineage
from Poland were members of the lost tribe of Dan that immigrated
there during Joseph's time, when famine encompassed the Middle
East.
Both you and Nando seem to believe that a pope will be the false
prophet not the antichrist or the instead of christ. And you both
quote prophecies of Malachi a Catholic priest as part of your reasoning
to build your case. I find this quite bizarre that you would reference
or believe a Catholic priest's prophecies as to who the end time
players will be and ignore what God directly tells you from
His words as to who the antichrist or the instead of christ will
be. It seems like you are gleaning information from the opposing team
to make your point. God to me, taken from His words (from which I
based my article) builds a lock tight case as to who this person
is that will appear claiming to be God and performing all manors of
lying signs and wonders to prove it.
As per me taking liberties with the word see instead
of sea, I plead
guilty. When John the apostle wrote the book of Revelation in 95 AD
there was no Catholic Church and there was no political governmental
part of that church called "The Holy See". So when John wrote
that this beast with seven heads and ten horns came of of the sea we
know now that this beast literally doesn't have seven heads, he
literally doesn't have ten horns, and he literally didn't come
from the sea.
How do we know these three things? Because God goes into great detail
in Revelation 17 to explain the seven heads being seven kings, the ten
horns being ten kings and the complete collaboration of this beast with
a harlot drunken woman the Catholic Church whose
political government is called to our present world the
Holy See. So
KML I don't believe I took any more liberties with the spelling or more
importantly the meaning than did John the Revelator.
KML, you said--
"The idea of the world to take up arms against God Himself
is Absurd.
THIS IS A SPIRITUAL BATTLE !"
I agree with half of what you said in that we are in a spiritual
battle and the players of this spiritual battle are the ones you
listed----
1. against principalities
2. against powers
3. against the rulers of the darkness of this world.
4. against spiritual wickedness in High Places.
But the other part of your
statement I completely disagree with. Not only is there a spiritual
battle but a physical one as well. How do I know this? Because in the
same chapter of Revelation it is made very clear that a ten nation
alliance "being of one mind" makes war with the Lamb and the Lamb
overcomes them Rev.17:13-14. My take on this is that this ten king /
nation alliance "being of one mind" will be of the one mind of Islam
and will be fighting for their god Allah. I believe that this
battle is the battle spoken of in Ezek. 38,39 where the bible says God
Himself (the Lamb) personally goes to bat for Israel and wipes out four
fifths of the alliance that is coming against Israel. And I believe
that the one fifth that is left will be the ones who will then realize
Allah is not the true god and then turn on the Roman Catholic
/ then to be, worldwide religion and destroy it as per
Rev.17:15-18. And they will do this because God has put it in their
hearts to do it. Rev.17:17.
As per the false prophet I can't specifically name him as I did
the antichrist or the "instead of christ" who will be John Paul
II, but I do have my personal feelings. The bible says that the
false prophet comes from the earth and makes an alliance with the first
beast the antichrist. If you look at present world events the Muslims
are waiting for the return of a prophet (the false prophet) who is to
come from the earth (he was lost down a well in the ninth century).
When this Muslim prophet (the Madi) comes, the world (as per the
Koran) is supposed to fall under Muslim control. Trouble is the
antichrist comes on the scene first and he is the one with
the greater power. The bible says that the false prophet has great
power as well but only when he is in the presence of the first beast
the antichrist.
So this second beast (the false prophet) who gets his power
from the first beast (the antichrist) who gets his power from the
dragon (Satan) will be subordinate to the first beast the antichrist.
The false prophet the Madi will control all the Muslim countries
that "are of one mind" (Islam) and he will turn over these
countries and their power to the first beast the antichrist as per
Rev.17:12-13. As to putting a name to this person the false prophet,
the bible doesn't seem to give us enough information to do so as it did
with the first beast the antichrist. So pick someone from a Muslim
background and go from there-------there still maybe room for BHO as
the false prophet for all you that think he will play a key role in the
end time scenario.
I'll link my article and yours below---
Bless you guys--- in Christ our soon coming Savior,
John B