Directly addressing your
faulty interpretation:
You assert that the 666
number refers to "a man" and could not refer to the
antichrist, as that first Beast is a
"spirit" being. Is man not also a spirit
being? The Beast rises out of the "of the
sea" (a reference to the Gentiles) yet
is ALSO said to rise out of the bottomless
pit which, in the Greek is an abyss, a bottomless
well or HELL. WHICH IS IT,
the Sea or Hell? IT'S BOTH,
God is not the Author of Confusion! Rev 13:3
says one of the heads seemed as if it were wounded
to death. In the simplest sense, the spirit of
man lives on, even after the body is dead.
Yes, God tells us that the second
beast, the false prophet comes from the
earth Rev.13:11 (as opposed to the pit) and
is a man Rev.13:18... meaning someone who is
alive. The first beast, the antichrist, comes
from the bottomless pit Rev.17:8 which
appears to be located under the sea Rev.13:1.
I call the antichrist a spirit
being...... call him whatever you want... an
entity, a whatever, but he arises from the
bottomless pit and is not a "live man".
When you read Rev.17:10 you see
that the heads of the first beast represent
kings. So one of the kings was wounded and his
deadly wound was healed. One of these
seven kings was wounded and his wound was
healed. He was shot and survived his wound and
he later died of natural causes but he will
arise from the bottomless pit to become the
eighth king and the antichrist.......as
per scripture
Where does the spirits of the lost go?
THEY GO INTO THE Abyss, the BOTTOMLESS PIT, Sheol,
Hell, Hades, etc.
Revelation 13:3 also says that the DEADLY WOUND WAS
HEALED.
Where does the spirit of the risen-from-the-sea
Beast come from? OUT OF THE BOTTOMLESS
PIT, YET HE'S STILL A MAN. Not
a live man
After the apparent
resurrection of the Beast, he is EMPOWERED by the
dragon, SATAN himself, for 42 months.
This
beast, this non-living spirit being, this
image of a dead pope who arises from the
bottomless pit will be indwelled by Satan himself.
He will schmooze the planet and play nice for 42
months until he consolidates his power. Then, and, as it
says in Rev.13:6 he will reveal his true colors
and declare himself to be the true god of the
universe and demand that all worship him and his
talking likeness. He will demand that all take
either his name, his mark, or his number or
they will be killed. His reign will be nearly 7
years, 42 relative good months and nearly 42
terrible months. And his number is not
666. 666 is a number reserved for a
live man from earth who will become the false
prophet. Some smart guy I know on
Doves proved to me that this false prophet
character will be Obama.
The Sea
BEAST has flesh, lest there could not
APPEAR A WOUND. Can a "spirit" spill the blood
of a deadly wound and be seen by the whole world to
heal?
This
beast from the bottomless pit spilled his
blood when he was alive. He was shot and wounded
and yes the whole world was aware of it.
CHAPTERS are also spent by
Daniel describing the actions of a MAN, the
antichrist, not an apparition.
Finally, there is this:
Whom do you say is the MAN
OF SIN, aka. the SON OF
PERDITION? Is he JUST a man
or ALSO a product of Hell? He was both, he was a living
man and an image of this man will rise from the
bottomless pit to be indwelled by Satan to
become the son of perdition.
2Th 2:3 KJV -
Let no man deceive you by any means:
for [that day shall not come], except there come a
falling away first, and that man of
sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is
called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God
sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that
he is God.
Who is this MAN in 2
Thessalonians 2:3, the Antichrist or the False
Prophet? The
antichrist
Are they, a spirit and a man
separately in
competition with each other for God's throne?
In a manor of
speaking you could say yes. As I stated above a
man who was pope was shot
and mortally wounded when he was alive
but was healed of his wounds. He died of natural
causes. An image of this man will arisen from
the bottomless pit to be indwelled by
Satan to become the eighth king of a world
wide organization that reigns over people,
multitudes, nations and tongues. All the people
on earth will marvel when they see the beast
that... was (alive) and is not (he died) and yet
is (he will rise from the bottomless pit and
appear to be alive again) I say appear because
it is given for a man to live and die once.
Whatever the entity is that rises from
the bottomless pit and assumes the image and
identity of this former pope......will not be a
man, but the image was a man, hence.....man of sin be revealed,
the son of perdition.
Was this pope a man
of sin? you judge...
--His title of Vicar
of Christ on Earth meaning he was god on earth and
was infallible is beyond blasphemous.
--He oversaw the most
blasphemous organization on the planet. RCC
removed God's second commandment from the ten
commandments He gave to Moses about the
adoration of statues. The RCC literally worships
millions of them in their churches all over the
planet. RCC makes a mockery of the sacrifice Jesus
made on the cross for us by re-sacrificing Jesus
thousands of times daily in their Masses around
the planet as if Jesus didn't do it right the
first time. RCC adoration to the false Mary they
have created is also beyond blasphemous. Libraries
could be written on the blasphemy connected to
their false Mary. RCC murdered millions of true
Christians and Jews in the Middle Ages who would
not pledge their allegiance to the popes and
soon millions more will be murdered, when the left
behind after the rapture refuse to take the
mark, number or name of the new eighth pope who will
arise to become the antichrist. Just as it was in
the Middle Ages.
-- He oversaw all
manors of anti-biblical workings and actions
of the RCC past and present.
So you judge, was
he a man of sin?
And he will be revealed...
He will arise from
the ashes of the rapture to reveal himself
and explain to the planet what just happened
with the disappearance of millions of people and
start his 7 year reign. 42 play nice months
and approx. 42 months of hell on earth.
Kevin, again I am sorry I pulled you
into a discussion under false pretenses to force
discussion on a very important topic. But now that
it is front and center the Doves can crack open
their bibles and see for themselves rather than
being force fed that Obama is the antichrist. All
the proof is there in scripture and Obama
absolutely does not qualify to be the antichrist. I
also learned a lot about your character and the
depth of your bible knowledge in this exercise.
Blessings Kevin.......John B
P.S.--Going for some more ice
fishing on Wed. ......I'll be thinking about you and
the Doves in between flags