FALSE PROPHETS

THIS IS THE WORD OF THE LORD:

"ye there hunt the souls to make them fly, and I will tear them from your arms, and will let the souls go, even the souls that ye hunt to make them fly.
 Your kerchiefs also will I tear, and deliver my people out of your hand, and they shall be no more in your hand to be hunted; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
 Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life:
 Therefore ye shall see no more vanity, nor divine divinations: for I will deliver my people out of your hand: and ye shall know that I am the LORD." EZEKIEL 13: 21-23
 Those of you who are not called by God to be a Prophet or prophetess, becare how you use the name of the Almighty God of Israel. A profet is one who hears from God. It's like a manager giving dictation to his Secretary. Woe unto those who using the name of the Lord in vain to obtain money and fame.
Live right and live bless.

Revelation KJV Chapter 13:11-14
Second Beast Prophet

Rev 13:11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth;
and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon

It seems like the TV makes the laws of life and conduct for us.
Its like a little devil with an angel mask on
sitting in our living room
continually spitting sin into our faces
with its warm glow

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Rev. 13:1­2

Then [NU changes I to he] stood on the sand of the sea. And I saw a beast rising up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his horns ten crowns, and on his heads a blasphemous name. Now the beast, which I saw was like a leopard, his feet were like the feet of a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a lion. The dragon gave him his power, his throne, and great authority…

THE BEAST WHO ARISES OUT OF THE SEA

We are still in the third interlude here in chapters 12 and 13. Chapter 13 is a new vision, but the scene is still down on the earth. I must admit that NU’s correction of the text threw me a bit of a curve at first. I had always assumed that it was John who was standing on the seashore when he saw this vision but the better reading here is not I but he, referring back to Satan in chapter 12. So, the last verse in chapter 12, combined with the first verse of chapter 13, reads,

And the dragon was enraged with the woman, and he went to make war with the rest of her offspring, who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus. Then he stood on the sand of the sea… Revelation 12:17-13:1a

So, it was Satan who John saw standing on the seashore. Then, as John watched, slowly, ten horns with ten crowns upon them began to rise up from the sea. Eventually, seven grotesque heads were exposed from which the ten horns protruded. Furthermore, each dripping head was emblazoned with its own blasphemous name. Finally, the entire beast came wading out to Satan like a great frankensteinian monster coming home to its master. In appearance, its body was like a leopard, its feet like a bear, and its mouth was like a lion. If you are a student of the prophet Daniel, you will sense that there is something quite familiar about this beast because each of the animals that make up its body, are also found in Daniel 7:18. There, using the imagery of four different beasts, God revealed to Daniel that, in the future, four great world dominating empires would arise upon the Earth. Daniel described them as follows:

The first was like a lion. It was explained to Daniel that the lion represented the Babylonian Empire under which he was living at the time having been taken there as a captive by Nebuchadnezzar.

The second was like a bear. It represented the Medo-Persian Empire that followed Babylon. Daniel lived during the reign of that empire as well.

The third was like a leopard. In retrospect, we know that it symbolized the next empire to step out on the stage of world history. That would be the Grecian Empire.

The fourth beast Daniel said was dreadful and terrible. It symbolized the fourth empire that would come … the Roman Empire … in both of its future stages. Its first stage manifested itself a couple of hundred years before and then, well past, Jesus' day. Daniel’s vision of that beast included its second stage, as well, when it will rise up once again, far down in history during days of the Tribulation. In Daniel’s vision, this second stage was symbolized by the beast’s ten horns along with its little horn that Daniel saw. So, the prophecy of Daniel 7 not only foretold the rise of the Roman Empire but it also prophesied that it would reappear on Earth at the end of the last days. This second stage of the Roman Empire is very important to our study here in Revelation.

The beast, that John saw stalk up out of the sea to Satan, is a composite of all four of the beasts from Daniel’s vision. The significance of its composite nature is that this last world-dominating kingdom will contain elements of all four of the great and dominating Gentile empires that preceded it. As such, it will be the epitome of Gentile reign on Earth. This is the political/governmental side of the beast symbol here in Revelation 13. However, we will discover that it represents even more than that. It also represents a person. This second meaning of the symbol is its personality/dictator side. Let’s break it down. The beast John saw:

… came out of the Mediterranean sea. This is