Today,
many realize we are living in the "End Times" -
The
"Latter Days", when world events will culminate in the fulfillment of Biblical
end time prophecy.
The
time of Apostasy and Great Tribulation -
The
time of Anti-Christ!
According to Scripture a powerful
charismatic dictator will soon appear in the arena of World Politics and
convince the vast majority of mankind that he is "CHRIST".
Countless millions of fine, hardworking, church going people, will number
among those led astray by this spurious messiah.
Will you be one of the deceived?
Only those with true understanding of the prophetic events revealed in
God's Holy Word, will escape his delusion.
For as Christ himself forewarned those living in this time:
"Even
the very elect may be deceived." [Mt.24:24]
How could this happen?
Why will so many professing Christians embrace the coming false messiah?
The answer is simple -
For as Jeremiah foretold, their shepherds have lead
them astray.
Many people put faith in the interpretations given to "End Time" prophecies
by their own specific church or denomination.
 Some
diligently watch world events for evidence of what they themselves conclude
the Bible says will soon occur. While still others, take solace in
Eastern meditation or trendy new age spiritualism, scouting the heavens
for some astronomical portent they expect will usher in a long impending
doom.
In vain they seek truth where there is none -
Always ignoring the one authoritative source containing all the answers
to their query - The Holy Bible.
Because of their lack of Biblical understanding, mainstream Christians
unknowingly sit poised to embrace this fake Christ upon his appearance.
So steeped are they in the unfounded dogmas and doctrines of their various
denominations, that they are in total ignorance of the pagan origins of
their own religious practices. Oblivious to this truth, they blindly
follow, (in Paul's words) "another gospel", one, that has for centuries
been blended with mystical pagan ceremonies and polluted by symbolic subtleties
that have changed the very nature of Christ's True Message as Paul had
warned. [Gal. 1:6-10]
Thus throughout history, a "False Christianity", that did away with God's
Holy Commandments and changed His "Times, Days and Seasons", has insidiously
paved the way for Satan's ultimate deception.
Matthew 24, sheds some light on this.
As Jesus sat with his disciples on the Mount of Olives, they asked him
what the signs of his second coming and the end of this age would be.
Speaking directly to his disciples Jesus says:
"Take
heed that no one leads you [his apostles] astray. For many shall
come in my name saying, I am the Christ, and they will lead many astray."
[Mt 24:4-5]
This is one of the most misunderstood verses in all of scripture.
Most traditional churches believe that Jesus is referring to the coming
of "false christs" in this passage, but that is an erroneous assumption
that only reinforces the deceptions yet to come.
Jesus was just alerting his disciples, that they themselves, would soon
see his Gospel begin to be changed. [Gal 1:6-10] That within their
lifetime, His Holy Word would be altered by those who would appropriate
His name and exploit it for their own personal gain; calling Jesus (not
themselves) Christ, but perverting His message as it suited their purpose
[Acts 8:9-24] -
And in so doing, mislead many from His Truth.
By the end of the second century A.D., the church claiming to be the one
that Jesus and his disciples had raised up, would not have been recognizable
to them, if not for the fact that the name of Christ was being proclaimed
there:
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Passover,
the memorialization of Christs sacrifice, practiced by the Apostles and
their followers for well over 150 years after Christ's death, was replaced
by Easter (Ishtar), an ancient Babylonian fertility ritual now cloaked
as the "celebration of the resurrection";
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The
Sabbath, God's commanded Holy Day of rest, was changed from Saturday, the
seventh day of the week, to Sunday the first day of the week;
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The
ten commandments were said to be, "nailed to the cross", despite the fact
that throughout scripture, Jesus tells us repeatedly that WE MUST KEEP
HIS FATHERS COMMANDMENTS;
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God's
other commanded Holy Days, that symbolize His plan for humanity, were replaced
by man made traditions based on pagan rituals and their specific days of
observance;
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And
by 410 A.D., a pagan trinity doctrine that is nowhere mentioned in scripture,
and that was never sanctioned by the Apostolic Church, became the foundation
upon which all mainstream churches stand, till this very day.
Now consider these truths in light of prophetic understanding.
Do you suppose that anyone who is unaware of these facts, could possibly
be in proper understanding of what the real "signs" will be?
Of course not!
That's how the Antichrist will deceive the world -
Through Biblical ignorance.
In the second chapter of Daniel, Nebucadnezzar, the king of Babylon has
a dream that none of his soothsayers or magicians can reveal to him.
Finally Daniel, a young man of the Judean captivity, full of wisdom and
the knowledge of God, makes known to the king what he had dreamed and the
interpretation God had revealed to him.
Daniel tells the king that he had dreamt of a great image having a head
of fine gold, with two arms and a breast plate of silver, a belly and thighs
of bronze, legs of iron, and feet and ten toes composed of iron mingled
with clay. He explained that in the dream, Nebucadnezzar had watched,
as a great stone cut from a mountain by no human hand, smote the image
on it's feet of iron and clay, utterly destroying it.
In interpreting the dream for the king, Daniel explained that the image
represented four great kingdoms that would arise on the Earth, telling
him:
"You
oh great king ... are the head of gold." [Dan 2:37-38]
"After you," continues Daniel -
"shall
arise another kingdom, inferior to you, and yet a third kingdom of bronze
that shall rule over all the earth. And there shall be a fourth kingdom,
strong as iron... that shall break and crush all these. [Dan 2:39-40]
The stunningly accurate historical fulfillment of this prophecy serves
as it's own testimony to the certainty of events yet future:
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The
Medo-Persian Empire that conquered ancient Babylon was the nation represented
by the two arms and breast plate of silver.
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Greece,
that conquered the known world of it's day under the leadership of Alexander
the Great, was the nation symbolized in the dream by the belly and thighs
of bronze.
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And
the Roman Empire, with two legs (Rome and Constantinople) strong as iron,
that in fact devoured all the territories once occupied by all these nations,
was undoubtedly, to the letter, the fulfillment of the fourth great empire
that God showed Daniel would arise on Earth.
As the prophecy concerning this fourth kingdom unfolds we are informed
that:
"...it
shall be a divided kingdom ... and as the toes of the feet were partly
iron and partly clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly
brittle ... As you saw the iron mix with miry clay, so they will mix with
one another in marriage, but they will not hold together just as iron does
not mix with clay. And in the days of those kings the God of heaven
will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed." [Dan 2:40-44]
Look at the time period that scripture is referring to here -
The time just preceding Christ's return to establish His Kingdom on Earth
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The time we are presently living in.
You see - the nation composed of the feet and 10 toes of iron and clay
is already a reality.
That's right!
A new Super Power -
A marriage or union of (what will be) ten nations -
All with the common goal and renewed desire to regain a posture of dominance
in shaping world affairs, finance and military might in the first years
of the coming millennium.
All fatefully bound together through their common geography -
The commingled bloodlines of their royal families -
And over a thousand years of shared heritage under the auspices of the
Holy Roman Empire.
Today it is known as the E.E.C. - the European Economic Community.
The "United States of Europe", as it is sometimes referred to in the media,
would be a more accurate description of what "ideally" it will become:
already the restrictive borders that used to exist between adjoining nations,
are gone, making them more like "states" within the new Greater Europe;
and a common currency, the "Euro", which was just put into circulation
in the form of checks and credit cards on January 1,1999, will within three
years be the United Europe's only sanctioned currency, replacing the German
Mark, French Franc, Italian Lira and all other currencies presently in
use by member nations.
Interestingly, just this very evening, 1/3/99, ABC's network news show
"World News Tonight", began their broadcast with the headline -
"Watch
Out Wall Street", the Euro is here!".
 The
broadcast addressed Europe's desire to make the Euro the new world monetary
standard, eclipsing the American Dollar as the world's most valued
currency and putting an end to U.S. domination of world financial markets
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The
event of which, the commentary quoted "the movers and shakers" of the new
Europe to say : "Would be the Icing On The Cake".
Not
addressed on this news broadcast, but also on the agenda of this newly
forming 21st century power, is the "European Defense Initiative", the little
known or talked about plan for ending Europe's dependency on the United
States (ala NATO) for their defense.
Though presently, the union is said to be economically motivated, I tell
you now, that a major build up of their military posture will sooner than
anyone realizes, place them in parity with that of the United States.
To those who have understanding -
This is undoubtedly the feet and 10 toes of the image in Nebuchadnezzar's
dream.
The "End Time" resurrection of the Roman Empire -
The Empire, that in ancient times had trodden the world under with its
legs of iron -
And in numerous incarnations through more then a 1000 years of history,
had ruled over Europe with the sanction of the Roman Church -
Now, in this time, stands tentative, on feet of iron and clay as it strives
toward regaining world prominence in the Twenty First Century.
Potentially strong through it's union - now with a vast collective pool
of assets and resources - yet weak, because the composite nations
are prone to petty ethnocentric disputation.
The "mother church" will once again as it had in Europe's past, play an
important role in the political reconciliations of member nations, for
the "greater destiny" of the Union.
I can remember the responses I used to get 18 years ago when I first told
people there would be just such a Union of European nations -
Oh, the laughter, the ridicule, the sarcasm.
But that was before the Berlin wall came down -
Before the collapse of the Soviet Union -
Before the reunification of Germany -
Before the events of this past week and the last five years that have made
this new nation an unrefutable reality.
Now many of the same people that were quick to chide, stand themselves
chastised, by the very happenings they had so mockingly scoffed at.
What God's Word prophesied has again come to pass.
Today we are watching for the man who will emerge as the powerful dictator
over this soon to be Super Power.
For as those with understanding know -
He is the Anti-Christ.
As Daniel speaking of this man makes clear:
"...
he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the
saints of the Most High, and shall think to change times and laws ..."
[Dan 7:25]
Today, many watch in vain for these exact signs -
Having no understanding of their true meaning.
For though they expect a false messiah to come -
They expect a man who will come and change their present doctrines and
religious practices.
They expect a man who will come and change their days of holy observance.
They expect a man who will come and condemn all they do and believe in.
But is that what the Bible says?
To understand this, you must first know what times, laws and seasons this
prophecy is really referring to.
Daniel who prophesied these things, was an Israelite.
He followed the Mosaic Laws, Sabbaths and Holy Feasts of Israel.
His Sabbath was Saturday.
He obeyed God's 10 Commandments.
He observed God's True Holy Days, such as Passover and the Feast Of Tabernacles
(which as the prophet Zechariah tells us in chapter 14, Christ will demand
be kept by all nations on Earth, after he returns to establish His Kingdom
here).
These are the laws, and days and seasons, that Daniel was talking about.
The laws, days and seasons that Jesus himself, who is our example, observed
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The same laws, days and seasons that Jesus warned his Apostles back on
the Mount of Olives, would already begin to be changed in their own life
time.
The same laws, days and seasons that professing Christians have for centuries
been mislead to believe have been abandoned by the very God that instituted
them.
The very things that Christ, the creator of the universe, and God of Israel,
had himself established as a never ending covenant to the descendants of
Abraham.
Of whom, Paul says:
"If
you are Christ's then you are Abraham's offspring and heirs according to
the promise" [Gal 3:29]
So in total spiritual blindness traditional Christian churches have been
caught in the snare set by Satan eons ago, when he devised the scheme that
has led one quarter of the World's population down a path whose "sign post"
said Christianity -
But in realty was the path to the Devil's ultimate deception.
For soon, ONE WILL COME NOT TO CHANGE the beliefs of mainstream churches
as they expect, but rather to confirm these lies as God's truth - Convincing
them that he is Christ.
So that when Jesus comes to re-establish His Father's Commandments, True
Sabbath, and Commanded Holy Days -
THEY WILL REJECT HIM!
FOR HE WILL APPEAR TO BE THE "FALSE CHRIST" THEY HAVE BEEN EXPECTING, WHO
WOULD COME AND CHANGE THEIR BELIEFS -
AS SATAN HAS SO BRILLIANTLY PLANNED.
THAT'S
HOW THE ANTI-CHRIST WILL DECEIVE THE WORLD.
WILL
HE DECEIVE YOU?
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