{BEASTLY OPPOSITION}
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{OLD STORY}
- Babel Rises - -(In the Bible, Babylon is both a historical kingdom and a symbol for the recurring rise of the World Empire) - {PDF Copy}
- The Revolt - (The conspiracy by the earth’s kings to unseat God’s Son is applied by the New Testament to the plot to destroy Jesus) - {PDF Copy}
- A Single Beast - (In Daniel and Revelation, the “Beast” is a single entity that has existed since the dawn of human history) - {PDF Copy}
- Four Beasts or One? - (The single Beast from the sea in Revelation is related to but distinct from the four beasts that Daniel saw rising from the sea) - {PDF Copy}
{THE ABYSS}
- The Beast is Rising! - (To identify the Antichrist, we understand what the relevant scriptures say about him, his methods, and his agenda) - {PDF Copy}
- The Abyss - (The Abyss is the source of satanic attacks against the saints even though it remains under the authority of the Lamb) - {PDF Copy}
- The Beast from the Abyss - (The Beast first appears as he ascends from the Abyss to destroy the Two Witnesses, but only after they complete their testimony – Revelation 11:7) - {PDF Copy}
- The Forty-Two Months - (The forty-two months and 1,260 days both refer to the same prophetic period when the saints are persecuted) - {PDF Copy}
- The Two Witnesses Testify - (The Two Witnesses must complete their testimony before the Beast is unleashed from the Abyss - Revelation 11:3-6) - {PDF Copy}
- Slaying the Two Witnesses - (Persecuted by the impenitent inhabitants of the earth, the Two Witnesses lie dead on the main street of the Great City) - {PDF Copy}
- Gog and Magog - Identity - (Revelation identifies Gog and Magog as the nations from the four corners of the Earth that attack the saints) - {PDF Copy}
{BEAST FROM THE SEA}
- Satan's Short Season - (The Devil will be granted a final short season to persecute the saints before the end of the age) - {PDF Copy}
- Time, Times, Half-a-Time - (The war against the saints will endure only for the allotted time – a time, times, and part of a time) - {PDF Copy}
- Beast from the Sea - (The Dragon began his war on the “seed of the woman” by summoning his “seed,” the beast from the sea – Revelation 13:1-5) - {PDF Copy}
- Ancient Beast - (The “beast from the sea” is the latest incarnation of an ancient entity that has been stalking the “seed of the woman” since the fall of Adam) - {PDF Copy}
- Mouth Speaking Great Things - (The mouth speaking great things in Daniel appears in Revelation in the description of the Beast from the sea and its war against the saints) - {PDF Copy}
- War Against the Saints - (The Beast is authorized to wage war against believers on behalf of the Dragon – Revelation 13:6-10) - {PDF Copy}
- Extent of the Beast's Reign - (In Revelation, “all” means “all.” All rulers and nations that refuse to follow the “Lamb” will render homage to the “Beast from the sea”) - {PDF Copy}
- The Inhabitants of the Earth - (The “inhabitants of the earth” represent the men that are excluded from the “book of life” by their own decisions) - {PDF Copy}
- The Persecuting Beast - (The Dragon and his servants wage war against the saints of the Lamb, the Church, and not against nations or ethnic groups) - {PDF Copy}
- The Dragon's War - (In the book of Revelation, Satan attacks the Lamb by persecuting his followers, those who have the testimony of Jesus) - {PDF Copy}
- Counterfeit Christs - (Since its founding, Satan has been sending hordes of deceivers and false prophets to destroy the church from within) - {PDF Copy}
- Deceivers and False Prophets - (Jesus warns us of coming false prophets, deceivers who will mislead many and disseminate false information about the future) - {PDF Copy}
- The Beast Goes to War - (In Revelation, the language of war is used metaphorically for the persecution of the saints by the Beast from the Sea) - {PDF Copy}
{BEAST FROM THE EARTH}
- The Beast from the Earth - (The Beast from the Earth mimics the Lamb. It is the mouthpiece of the Dragon and propagandist for the first beast) - {PDF Copy}
- Beastly Economics - (The False Prophet employs the economical means to coerce men and women to render homage to the “beast from the sea”) - {PDF Copy}
- Counterfeit Religion - (The Beast from the Earth, the False Prophet, mimics the Lamb and presents a counterfeit of the true faith of Jesus and his apostles) - {PDF Copy}
- Rendering Homage - (The false prophet uses every means necessary to coax or coerce men to render homage to the beast from the sea) - {PDF Copy}
{THE MARK}
- Mark of the Beast - (All men and women must either follow the “Lamb” or render homage to the “Beast” and take its “mark”) - {PDF Copy}
- Welcoming the Beast - (The “inhabitants of the earth” willingly venerate the Beast and receive its mark, although Christians are not immune to its allure) - {PDF Copy}
- Mark or Seal - (In the book, all means ALL. All those who refuse to follow the Lamb will follow the Beast) - {PDF Copy}