Study on Daniel 9:27 "... and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate." (Part 5)
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This bible-study continues from where I have left off at Study on Daniel 9:27 "… and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate" (Part 4), where I have discussed from scripture the prosperity gospel based on "the love of money" (1 Timothy 6:10) underpinned by the system of doctrine of dispensationalism in what they call “dispensation of Grace,” an artificially coined term which postulates that the current age we are living in is a period in the history of mankind where Christians are no longer “under Law” but “under Grace.” That is the gospel message that has been used to fuel the rapid overspreading of Christianity worldwide, as a sign that the world is fast coming to an end, which according to Jesus:
Matthew 24:14 "And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come."
The gospel must first be published among all nations, as a witness of the kingdom of God on earth, before the end of the world shall come. Moreover, this is an event that must precede the implementation of the mark of the beast in accordance to the sequence as denoted by the next verse:
Matthew 24:15 "When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)"
The gospel of Jesus Christ must be preached in all the world before the implementation of the mark of the beast, the abomination of desolation stand in the "holy place" (temple of God) as prophesied by Daniel the prophet. The mark of the beast is the technology which will allow "that Wicked" of 2 Thessalonians 2:8 who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, to sit in the temple of God shewing himself that he is God. This is an event that is set to happen in what Paul describes in 2 Thessalonians 2:3 as "falling away." The Greek word for "falling away" is "apostasia," and the root meaning of “apostasia” is derived from “apostasion,” which is translated as “divorcement” in Matthew 5:31, Matthew 19:7 and Mark 10:4. Therefore, the “falling away” will be signified by the idea of betrayal. It will be Christ giving a writing of divorcement to put away those Christians who would receive the mark of the beast, so that they should not be killed for the testimony they once held as believers, and that they may continue to buy or sell like everyone else who likewise, have received the mark. It will be Christ blotting out their names from under heaven (Deuteronomy 9:13-14). I have talked about that in many of my previous articles. Consider the Ten Commandments:
Exodus 20:2-6 "I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. 3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me. 4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: 5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; 6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments."
Here, the bible tells us that God is a jealous God, which is to say, he will not tolerate betrayal. This connects to what I have shared earlier about the “falling away” (Greek: “apostasia”). So, by this, we know that the mark of the beast is to put a little-g god in the temple of God to replace the Spirit of God which dwells in every believer. That is the greatest betrayal of all, the ultimate betrayal that will damn any person into hell and the lake of fire for eternity. The words “thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth…" tells us that the mark of the beast is like a graven image placed in the temple of God, as what Jesus tells us in Matthew 24:15 “When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)” It is through the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place, that that man of sin, the son of perdition, can sit in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
Malachi 3:6 "For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed."
The bible tells us in this verse that God do not change. His personality do not evolve with time. What he has stated in the Ten Commandments remains unchanged: God is still a jealous God, the same God from the Old Testament to the New Testament, the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. Unlike the little-g god of dispensationalism who pretends to be God, the requirements of God are progressively revealed throughout the history of the Holy Bible. God’s requirements do not evolve with time, or what dispensationalism calls “ages” (or dispensations). Only the little-g god of dispensationalism, the same mind behind the theory of Evolution "think to change times and laws." (Daniel 7:25) The God of the Holy Bible does not change his requirements over time, otherwise, his commandments would cease to be applicable at some point in the history of mankind, and there will be no more hope for us. Jesus assures us with these comforting words:
Mark 13:31 "Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away."
The will of God is embedded in the written word of God which liveth and abideth for ever, and the will of God for mankind has remained the same ever since Creation. God does not change his will. Every act of sin committed will incur a penalty: it is either you pay for it in hell and the lake of fire, or Jesus paid for it when you repent and believe in him. The bible has repeatedly warned us that taking the mark of the beast will incur a damnable and irreversible consequence, and the reason for that has to do with betrayal, as what I have illustrated in the above. While I believe in “eternal salvation” (Hebrews 5:9), the bible also warns us in Jude 1:5 "I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not." There are people whom God has saved out of the land of Egypt, but afterward, he destroyed them because they continued not in the faith. It will be the same with those Christians who decide to go for the mark of the beast. The “falling away” (Greek: “apostasia”) will be Jesus blotting the names of those Christians out of the book of life, or Christ giving those Christians who crucify him afresh a writing of divorcement, like what the writer of Hebrews tells us in this passage of scripture:
Hebrews 6:4-8 "For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, 5 And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, 6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame. 7 For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God: 8 But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned."
Notice the words "fall away" in verse 6? That is the bible telling us that it is "impossible" to renew those Christians who shall receive the mark of the beast again unto repentance. Just like Judas Iscariot, their heart is set to betray Jesus, despite the fact that they have been once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, and have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come. Yet, at the behest of the false prophet, they will still turn their back on their Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. The word here is "seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame." That means those Christians never believed in Jesus on the first place, for if they have believed in him, they would have never taken the mark of the beast, and put the Son of God to an open shame. Since they have never truly believed in Jesus, that means they have never been saved on the first place. Verse 8 compares those Christians to that which beareth thorns and briers. They are like the tares in the Parable of the Tares and the Wheat, which end is to be burned. Only God's elect people (the wheat) who truly believe in the written word of God and keep God's commandments will reject the mark of the beast even unto death. Though they may have died physically, yet they shall live forever. They shall receive blessing and obtain mercy from God. In the first resurrection, Jesus shall raise them from their sleep, so that they shall be with their Lord and Saviour forever.
Revelation 20:4-6 "And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. 5 But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. 6 Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years."
Over the years of my sharing on social media, I have people who came to me privately, and asked me what it takes to be saved from the mark of the beast. As much as it is a hard thing to say, the answer to this question is found in the above passage of scripture. Notice that believers were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the written word of God? To deny the written word of God is to deny Jesus: the implementation of the mark of the beast will require you to deny the written word of God.
John 6:66-67 “From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him. 67 Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away?”
The question to ask is the same as that which Jesus asked the few who stayed behind, after the great multitude went back and walked no more with him: "Will ye also go away?" No doubt many Christians will "fall away" as dead branches from the "true vine" (Jesus). Only the few who have not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands, get to partake in the first resurrection and reign with Christ for a thousand years. BTW, there are only two resurrections in the Holy Bible, which according to Acts 24:15 "… there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust." The first resurrection is the resurrection of the just, and the second resurrection is the resurrection of the unjust. The book of Daniel tells us:
Daniel 12:1-3 "And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book. 2 And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. 3 And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever."
The dead in Christ shall awake unto everlasting life in the first resurrection, and the rest of the people shall awake unto shame and everlasting contempt at the second resurrection which will happen a thousand years later, at the end of the 1,000 years millennium reign. The second resurrection, the resurrection of the unjust, will be for their second death in the lake of fire. Partakers of the second death, Christians included, will be those that have worshipped the beast and have received his mark in their foreheads or in their hands. Earlier, I’ve shown from scripture (Revelation 20:4-6) that the mark of the beast will require believers to deny the written word of God. In fact, we have a picture of that in Daniel 3:
Daniel 3:16-18 “Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter. 17 If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king. 18 But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.”
A genuine believer will be like the three Hebrew young men Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego who stood against the king's order to fall down and worship the golden image. There must have been many other Jews with them in the Kingdom of Babylon, yet, none of them dared raise a protest. That is the difference between real Christians and fake ones: real Christians fear God more than they fear man, and to fear God is to fear the word of God, because “the Word was God.” (John 1:1). To fear God is to fear the commandments of the Lord in the 66 books of the Holy Bible:
Exodus 20:3 "Thou shalt have no other gods before me."
In bowing down to worship the golden image, this goes to show that the great majority of Jews who quietly complied with the king’s order feared man more than they feared God. Of course, they must have somehow justified themselves for denying the commandment of God, as did King Saul who justified himself for his disobedience (1 Samuel 15:23), or as did Adam and Eve who justified themselves for taking from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (Genesis 3). The same scenario will likewise be played out when it comes to the mark of the beast: the great majority of Christians will choose the mark of the beast over the written word of God, and they will justify themselves for it. The truth be told: to receive the mark of the beast means that the fear of man is greater than the fear of the Lord. That explains why the great majority of Christians would rather deny the written word of God in favour of the mark of the beast. They would rather call the Spirit of God a liar than to suffer for standing on the commandment of God.
Matthew 12:31-32 "Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men. 32 And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come."
Blasphemy against the Holy Ghost is speaking against the Holy Ghost. Notice the penalty for speaking against the Holy Ghost is that "it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come." The written word of God is inspired by the Holy Ghost. Not too long ago, I did an article titled "Divine authority in the written word of God, the Holy Bible." In this article, I have discussed from scripture, showing that every word of God in the 66 books of the Holy Bible is the written word of God inspired, preserved and translated for us. That is the ministry of the Holy Ghost. So, for a Christian to receive the mark of the beast, he must be prepared to deny the written word of God he profess to believe in. In Genesis 3, Eve doubted the word of God when she fell for the lies of the serpent. It led to the first death. That is also a figure of the second death which is to come for Christians who shall receive the mark of the beast at the behest of the false prophet, despite clear repeated warnings in the Holy Bible by the Spirit of God.
Psalms 19:12-14 "Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults. 13 Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression. 14 Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer."
The context of this passage of scripture is about the written word of God. Here, the psalmist asked God to keep him from "presumptuous sins," and let them not have dominion over him, so that he could be upright. One commits presumptuous sin when he presumes the will of God in things that the Spirit of God did not inspire in scripture. For example, where did the bible say there will be a secret pre-tribulation rapture? Well, if it did not come from the Holy Bible, why then is the secret pre-tribulation rapture taught in churches all over the world? The truth be told, there is a systematic hijacking of Christianity taking place in our midst: a strategic subversion of Christianity by the top levels of Satanism mainly through the works of John N. Darby and Cyrus I. Scofield, whose doctrine undergirds the teachings of almost every single church in the world, from the leftwing Charismatic or Pentecostal to the rightwing I.F.B churches. Dispensationalism is a system of doctrine that governs the interpretation of scripture. Well, since they could not destroy the 66 books of the Holy Bible, they want to be able to govern your interpretation of the written word of God.
Psalms 56:5 “Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil.”
It was an orchestrated assault on the church by the Rothschilds in the 19th century. They had a plan for world dominion, and knew they had to first subjugate the church before they could succeed, and they figured out that the best way to prevent the church from opposing world tyranny was to convince them that their own bible predicted this reign of evil. In this way, millions upon millions of Christians would voluntarily surrender their God-given liberty without getting into a fight.
2 Corinthians 3:17 "Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty."
The written word of God is the physical form of the Spirit of the Lord: one cannot be decoupled from the other, just like how Jesus is "the Word" (John 1:1). Liberty is the opposite of tyranny: in order for them to impose tyranny, the written word of God must be removed from the church. That was why the attack is on the written word of God. When the written word of God is no longer the single Authority over the body of Christ, it becomes easy to manipulate the church into doing the will of the Devil. Then, the Rothschilds had attracted a criminal lawyer who specialized in forgery, by the name of C.I. Scofield. This convicted expert in fraud produced the famous Scofield Study Bible, with the system of doctrine of dispensationalism subtly embedded in the footnotes. The Scofield Study Bible was then sent freely to thousands upon thousands of young pastors, who inadvertently became their tool for spreading the new mindset all over America, from whence, it was exported to the whole world. Are you aware that dispensationalism promotes a form of Jewish elitism? That was why the modern Zionist nation of Israel had to be created in order to mimic the fulfillment of "bible prophecy." It was a clever sleight of hand by the Zionists to convince the great majority of churches into adopting their system of eschatology, which asserts that the world will experience worsening tribulations until the Messiah comes, and then the gentile church would be secretly raptured and transferred to heaven right before the seven years of tribulation comes, so that physical Israel can be the focus to God.
2 Thessalonians 2:7 "For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way."
The Devil is "wiser than Daniel" (Ezekiel 28:3), and Paul tells us in this verse that the "mystery of iniquity doth already work" to take the Spirit of the Lord out of the way: the Devil’s "wisdom" is already at work through the wicked of mankind to take the Spirit of the Lord out of the way. Dispensationalism is a Jesuit doctrine. In 1591 AD, the Jesuit Ribera invented a "futurist" view. He taught that Revelation would not be fulfilled until the end of the Christian Era. Ribera also taught of a rebuilt Babylon: a rebuilt temple in Jerusalem and an end-time Antichrist, near the end of the age of the "three-and-a-half years" when the books of Daniel and Revelation would be fulfilled. The Antichrist would be a person to rise in the future. He also brought forth the idea of a rapture, but not at the beginning or end of Daniel’s "70th week." He wrote that the church would be taken to heaven 45 days before the end of the three and a half years.
Psalms 64:5-6 "They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them? 6 They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, is deep."
After more than a century later, in 1767, a Chilean-born Catholic Priest, Manuel de Lacunza y Díaz, SJ (1731 – 1801) came to Imola, Italy, when the Jesuits were expelled from Spain because of their brutality. There, he claimed to be a converted Jew named Rabbi Juan Jushafat Ben-Ezra. Under that alias, he wrote a 900 page book titled, "The Coming of Messiah in Glory and Majesty." In his book, Lacunza theorized that the church would be caught up to be with the Lord to escape the reign of Antichrist in the last three-and-a-half years, some 45 days before Jesus’ final return to Earth. During that 45 days (while the gentile church was in heaven), God would pour out his wrath upon the wicked remaining on Earth.
Then, in 1828, "The Coming of Messiah in Glory and Majesty" was translated into English by a radical cultist London preacher named Edward Irving. Lacunza’s views could have died there, for most in England saw Irving as a heretic. But at around the same time, Margaret MacDonald from Port Glasgow, Scotland, claimed she received divine revelations from God about a rapture. According to MacPherson, Miss Margaret had occultic ties, including a friendship with a girl who was into psychic powers and automatic writing. She sent her vision in a letter to Irving and, shortly thereafter, her revelation showed up in print. In September, 1830, The Morning Watch, a periodical put out by Irving’s church, published "Commentary on the Epistles to the Seven Churches in the Apocalypse." The MacDonald clan, according to James Whisler, was intimately associated with the Knights Templar: Margaret’s hometown being in one of the main areas that the Templars sailed to and settled in when they left France. He added, these "Satanic bloodlines" often chose the Christian religion as a cover to hide their origins and true religion.
About the same time as Margaret Macdonald’s vision, John Nelson Darby (1800-1882) was toying with the idea of dividing the history of mankind into ages or "dispensations." Many prophecy teachers of today credit John N. Darby with the origin of these teachings because he was a well-educated man who authored many books. In fact, Darby went to see Margaret and her family shortly after she gained notoriety for her vision, and in later years, claimed them as his own. Darby then headed out promoting, improvising and adding to his new doctrine. He travelled to America several times and across the country to preach dispensationalism. Darby had links to the satanic high priest Aleister Crowley from the Plymouth Brethren Movement. He even created his own reference bible, altering the words of the LORD as he went along. Later, he also discipled conman Cyrus I. Scofield (1843 - 1921), who also created his own reference bible, still altering the words of the LORD.
Cyrus I. Scofield was a conman and small time crook who along with Jewish lawyer John J. Ingalls was sent to prison for a railway scam. While in prison Scofield took to studying the works of John Darby of the Plymouth Brethren and began to form an idea for his bible and once out of prison left his wife and two daughters to pursue this quest. He had many connections in the right places, shall we say, and took up residence in New York where he had many Jewish Zionist followers to help him conceive his version of the bible which has influenced Zionist Christians ever since. While mixing with Samuel Untermeyer a Jew who would later be famous for being in the American Jewish Committee, Scofield took a mistress and he could operate as a lawyer because his friend John J. Ingalls had pulled some strings for him even though Scofield himself had no formal training. Later, he would abandon his wife and children and refuse to support them. Untermeyer introduced Scofield to numerous Zionist and socialist leaders, including Samuel Gompers, Fiorello LaGuardia, Abraham Straus, Bernard Baruch and Jacob Schiff. These Jewish Zionist elites took Scofield under their wings and financed his trips to Oxford where the first Scofield Study Bibles were printed.
Deuteronomy 18:22 "When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him."
The psalmist tells us in Psalms 19:13 that presumptuous sins will eventually lead to the great transgression. To presume things that the written word of God did not say is presumptuous sin, and so we could see where the pre-tribulation rapture lie is leading to. The bible tells us in Deuteronomy 18:22 that a false prophet is a deceiver who falsely claim revelation from God in that the thing he prophesied follow not, nor have it come to pass, because the LORD hath not spoken it. In this regard, he hath spoken presumptuously. In Part 4, I have talked about the modern apostles and prophets of the Charismatic Church, and how they have presumed revelation from the Spirit of God. The liar is one thing and the believer of the lie is another: one commits presumptuous sin when he acts upon the words of a false prophet without first checking with the written word of God. In fact, that was what happened with Eve, who acted upon the words of the serpent to take from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil without first checking with the word of God. BTW, the serpent did not ask Eve to take from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. He only justified the transgression with a lie. It will be the same with the mark of the beast:
Matthew 24:4-5 "And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. 5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many."
Many false prophets shall arise, and shall deceive many. It will be a slow erosion leading to the "falling away" (Greek: "apostasia”), just like what the bible tells us in Daniel 7:25 "wear out the saints of the most High." To wear out something means it will take time. However, the time will come when the written word of God will finally be divorced from the church. 2 Thessalonians 2:7 tells us that the "mystery of iniquity" is at work to take the Spirit of the Lord out of the way, with permission from God. When the Spirit of the Lord is finally taken out of the way, that will be when the church as a whole is ready for the "falling away" (Greek: "apostasia") that Paul has prophesied in 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4. That in itself is also a prophecy that Christendom as a whole, except for God's elect, will deny the inerrrancy of the written word of God in order for them to justify themselves for receiving the mark of the beast.
Already, we've seen how modern bible versions have changed the word "in" to "on" in Revelation 13:16 regarding how the mark of the beast is to be administered in the temple of our body. Just like what happened in the garden of Eden with the woman Eve who did the will of the serpent in taking from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, the great majority of churches too, will do the will of the false prophet in taking the mark of the beast. That is how the entire Christendom, except for God's elect people, has been set up to commit the act of blasphemy against the Holy Ghost, so that they shall not receive forgiveness for their transgressions, neither in this world, nor in the world to come. To continue in Part 6.
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Good stuff pointing out the danger and evils of dispensational Zionism. I myself a preterist found myself leaning from your article. Well done.