Bruce,
Your post yesterday (directly below) concerning
the length of the reign of the antichrist of 42
months is the accepted norm. A norm that I happen
to disagree with. I'll explain below your article.
Dear Doves,
If the rapture were to occur one month sooner that
its appointed time
the anti-Christ would have 43 months of authority,
and if the rapture
were to occur one month later than its appointed
time the anti-christ
would have only 41 months of authority.
Scripture tells us that the anti-Christ has
exactly 42 months of
authority before the Second Coming of the Lord so
we know that the
rapture will occur exactly at its appointed time
thereby releasing the
restrainer who now holds it back exactly 42 months
before the Second
Coming of the Lord .
Come Lord Jesus!
Bruce Warner
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Bruce,
When one reads the text in Rev.13 concerning
the reign of the first beast or the antichrist it
doesn't limit his reign to 42 months. What it says
is that he is a exceptional orator speaking many
blasphemies and was given authority to do that for
42 months. Most people stop there and believe that
that is his total reign without reading farther
into the next verse. The very next word is "then"
meaning a continuation after these 42 months.
Let's look at the verses
involved.........Rev.13:5-7
5 And he was given a mouth speaking great
things and blasphemies, and he was given authority
to continue for forty-two months. 6 Then he opened his mouth in blasphemy
against God, to blaspheme His name, His
tabernacle, and those who dwell in heaven. 7
(Then) It was granted to him to make war with
the saints and overcome them. And (then)
authority was given to him over every tribe,
tongue, and nation.
When this first beast the antichrist arrives on
the world stage right after the rapture of the
church he is going to be a well spoken, well know,
well respected figure who will have all the
answers as to what happened to the millions of
people who have just disappeared. He will seem to
have all the solutions to the worlds immediate
needs. He will covertly formulate the alliances
that are already in place with his Gog system that
is already established within the governments and
key players around the world. (we do not fight
against flesh and blood.....) He will act in
concert with 10 leaders who were not leaders
previously and break the world up into 10 areas
for them to control. He will have control of the
media (he already does) and a head
cheerleader..... the false prophet, they will
praise his every move. He will schmooze the whole
world like the pied piper, all the time scheming
behind the scenes orchestrating and then
accomplishing complete control. This will take him
42 months.
Then, (as per verse 6) after these
42 months the mask comes off so to speak. He
will have consolidated his Gog power structure
around the planet. At this point he will declare
himself to be god, blaspheming the true God,
blaspheming God's holy name and those who dwell
in heaven. He will then display the extreme
demon that he is killing millions of people who
will not take his mark or worship the statue of
him that speaks.
So how long is his reign? I don't know, but I
do know that the 42 months is just a warm up for
the main event. This is very clear to me in
Rev.13:5-7.
For more on the identity of this beast and his
side kick the false prophet....(my beliefs), I
copy below a previous post to Kari.
John B
Hi John,
Shouldn't
the pope be in the category of false prophet
and not antichrist? Who would you
surmise being the false prophet if a pope
was the antichrist?
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Kari,
To answer your question from
above........ John the Revelator with a vision
from God makes it very clear in Rev.13 and 17
that the first beast from the sea is the one we
call the antichrist. And from my letter to you
above I described why I believe this beast to be
the risen sixth pope of the popes since 1929
when the popes actually became kings. But keep
in mind that it will not actually be this sixth
pope but his image indwelled by a demonic being.
It will actually be the ruler of the bottomless
pit a spirit being called Apollo or Apollyon.
When he takes over the reigns of the RCC as the
eighth pope (the next pope) immediately after
the rapture he will already have a world wide
religious system and political system in place.
And with his extraordinary oratory skills and
ability to do miracles he will easily win over
the left behind people....... and as the bible
says he will completely and utterly deceive them
with his bag of demonic tricks.
Everyone realizes that the RCC
is a complex worldwide religious system
consisting of 2 billion people but what most
people don't realize is that the RCC also has a
political wing and an intelligence community
that major governments such as the U.S. and
Russia are envious of. Their political and
intelligence wing headed by the Jesuits have
their tentacles into literally everything
worldwide and are not voted out of office every
few years as other governments are. Remember
from Ephesians that we do not fight against
flesh and blood but we fight against a demonic
Gog system that has it's tentacles inserted in
all the governments of the world at the present
time. So it should be no mental hurdle to see
how this spirit beast disguised as the next pope
will be able to control the planet after we are
gone. This Jesuit system already has the world
broken up into ten areas as the bible has
foretold. And as the bible states in Rev.17:12
there will arise ten kings or leaders who do not
have a kingdom but will be given one by the
antichrist to rule with him. My bet is that ten
of these Jesuits will be given power by the
antichrist to rule the world with him .....a
world that has been broken up into ten areas.
All the nations of the world are presently
monetarily broke. Not so for the RCC who is
beyond rich and if it needs more will petition
it's flock of lost sheep for all the resources
it needs to pull off the great end time demonic
deception.
You asked me who I thought
would be the false prophet? From what God tells
us about this second beast in Rev. 13 we know
that he also will have great oratory skills. He
will be the chief cheerleader and promoter of
the first beast. He will be able to do great
miraculous things but only if he is in the
presence of the first beast which is a dead
giveaway that it's really the first beast who
has the power. It's this second beast who
requires everyone to take the mark of the first
beast on their hand or forehead in order to buy
or sell. The second beast is granted power by
the first beast or Satan to breath life into a
statue of the first beast causing it to speak.
Anyone who would not then worship this talking
statue would be put to death........kind of like
back in the Middle Ages when the RCC murdered
millions of true Christians and Jews who would
not kneel to the authority of the pope and the
papal states of that time frame.
The second beast who we call
the false prophet is described as having two
horns as a lamb and that this beast comes from
the earth. That being said I believe that this
second beast will be the Islamic savior the
Mahdi, the Twelfth Imam, the prophet that all
the Muslims are waiting for. This Mahdi that
they are waiting for is supposed to be a boy who
fell down a well into the "earth" in the ninth
century. Notice the phrase God uses "having two
horns as a lamb".....God could have said two
horns as a ram but instead He chose lamb that to
me denotes someone younger not a man but a boy.
And the two horns to me represent the two
branches of Islam....Shiita and Sunni. So a boy
(lamb) who will become the Mahdi or twelfth imam
is expected to come from the earth (well) to be
the Islamic savior for the two branches of Islam
(two horns).
Satan knows his gig is almost
up and that this is his last chance in this era
to deceive the world and take as many souls to
hell with him as possible. He is pulling out all
the stops in this great deception. He will form
an alliance with the two largest religious
organizations on the planet.....Roman Catholics
(2 billion), Islam (2 billion). The next pope
the eighth who was also the sixth....(was, and
is not, yet is) since the Vatican became it's
own country in 1929 will be what the bible calls
the first beast that comes from the sea....The
Holy See.
He will be joined by a second
beast, the false prophet, that comes from the
earth who I believe will be the Islamic savior
prophet, the Mahdi, the Twelfth Imam.
For those of you who haven't
been paying attention to the present day
workings of the RCC, you need to know that the
RCC has also pulled out all the stops and are in
the process of making multiple alliances with
Islam. To keep up to speed on these developments
I recommend the web site below. Check out all
the links on the right side of the page
concerning the RCC and this topic. If one never
realized how evil this church really is, these
links and articles will convince you and horrify
you. But only if you know what the bible
teaches and not what the RCC teaches.
The common thread that the two
religions have that the RCC is actively pushing
is Mary, the mother of Jesus. But the Muslims
are not attentive to the true Mary but to the
counterfeit Mary. This Mary, the RCC has
literally created over the centuries and have
raised to a level equal to God himself with
titles as....... the Queen of Heaven, sinless,
omnipotent, mediator between God and man (Jesus'
role) and multiple other blasphemous titles
dreamt up by the RCC. Rev.17:3...."I saw a
woman (false RCC Mary) sitting on a scarlet
beast which was full of names of blasphemy"
As I said before Satan is going
to pull out all the stops to deceive as many
souls as he can. So you can also expect
this false Mary to show up on scene displaying
her bag of demonic tricks as she has been doing
around our planet for centuries. This false Mary
and the blood crying statues of her, the
hundreds of demonic apparitions of her around
the planet have been setting the stage for a
major part of this end time deception.
Besides the antichrist and the false prophet you
can expect this false Mary to be playing a huge
role in Satan's end time plan.
Hope this answers your
questions Kari.......
Blessings.......John B