Jesus is coming. . .soon! Are you ready?

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Jesus is coming. . .soon! Are you ready?
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Do we truly know Who we are worshiping . . .
and why?
We build temples and churches, but will not
worship in them we hire spiritual advisors, but
refuse to heed them we buy Bibles, but will not
read them believing in God, we do not fear Him.
Harold Bell Wright
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Who is theonetrue god?
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Curious Ancient Symbol666
Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding
count the number of the beast for it is the
number of a man and his number is Six hundred
threescore and six. Revelation 1318
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Curious Ancient Symbol666
And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with
fire and them that had gotten the victory over
the beast, and over his image, and over his mark,
and over the number of his name, stand on the sea
of glass, having the harps of God. Revelation
152
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Curious Ancient Symbol666
To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the
hidden manna, and will give him a white stone,
and in the stone a new name written, which no man
knoweth saving he that receiveth it. Revelation
217
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Trademark of Ancient Paganism
Berlin Museum, photographs of amulets taken in
1910
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Trademark of Ancient Paganism
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Trademark of Ancient Paganism
At length Imperial Rome bequeathed his power
and his seat, and great authority to the Church
of Rome. World paganism was baptized, and with
little more than a change of name . . .
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Trademark of Ancient Paganism
. . . was adopted and incorporated into the
papal system and to this princely church
Scripture prophecy bids us look to find written
upon her the name and superscription of
paganism666. The Dawn of A New Day, Roy
Cottrell, p. 328 (1934)
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Beast from the Earth
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. And he exerciseth all the
power of the first beast before him, and causeth
the earth and them which dwell therein to worship
the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
Rev. 1311, 12
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Beast from the Earth

• Comes up out of the earth
• Has two horns like a lamb
• Speaks as a dragon
• Exercises all the power of the first beast
  (Papal Rome)
• Causes all the world to worship the first beast
  (Papal Rome)

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Beast from the Earth

• TIME appears within the time frame of 1798
  (the time of the end Dan. 124)
• PLACE out of the earth in contrast to out
  of the sea (131) or bottomless pit (178)

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Beast from the Earth

• CHARACTER
• lamb-like separate from the first beast
  later it speaks like a dragon
• POWER is a super world power that is unlike
  any before

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Beast from the Earth

• POWER is wielded in conjunction with the
  healing of the deadly wound that the first
  beast suffered (vs. 3)

Is there a power that meets all these criteria?
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Beast from the Earth
There has been only ONE world power that meets
these criteria Came into being in a territory
of sparse population Arose in power in the era
of 1798
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Beast from the Earth
Rapidly became a world super power and has
remained so Politically, it was different from
every other nation that had ever appeared on
earth
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Beast from the Earth
Religiously, it was originally different from
the papacy Second beast is also called a
false prophet in Revelation 1920
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Beast from the Earth
Several identification marks help us decide
that this two-horned beast must symbolize . . .
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Beast from the Earth
. . . the democratic Protestantism of the
Occidental world,
most typically seen in the United States of
America.
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Beast from the Earth
The Reformation was preceded by the discovery of
America, as if the Almighty graciously meant to
open a sanctuary to the persecuted. D.E.
WheelerLife and Writings, vol. II, p. 38
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Beast from the Earth
The prophet saw it in a vision, the lamblike
features two horns that stand well for the
beneficent principles of religious and civil
liberty. W.A. SpicerBeacon Lights of Prophecy,
p. 286 (1935)
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Beast from the Earth
A horn is sometimes used to denote a nation as a
whole, as the four horns of the goat, the little
horn in Daniel 8, and the ten horns of the fourth
beast in Daniel 7, and sometimes . . .
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Beast from the Earth
. . . some particular feature of the government,
as the first horn of the goat, which denoted not
the nation as a whole, but its civil power, as
centered in Alexander the Great. Uriah
Smith The Marvel of Nations, p. 160 (1901)
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Beast from the Earth
The remarks I have made will suffice to display
the character of Anglo-American civilization in
its true light. It is the result of two distinct
elements, which in other places have been in
frequent hostility . . .
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Beast from the Earth
. . . but which in America have been admirably
incorporated and combined with one another. I
allude to the spirit of religion and the spirit
of liberty. Alexis de TocquevilleDemocracy in
America, vol. 1, p. 42 (1835)
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Beast from the Earth
The object of those who first sought these
shores was to found what the world had not seen
for ages viz., a church without a pope, and a
state without a king. . . .
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Beast from the Earth
. . . Expressed in other words, this would be a
government in which the Church should be free
from the civil power, and civil and religious
liberty would reign supreme. Uriah SmithThe
Marvel of Nations, p. 161 (1901)
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Beast from the Earth
The interpretation of the two horns like a
lamb refer to the principles of civil and
religious liberty. Republicanism and
Protestantism are also given as an equivalent
expression. George McCready PriceTime of the
End, p. 50 (1967)
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Beast from the Earth
The dictionary definition of a horn, as used in
the Bible, is that it is a symbol of strength,
pride, and glory . . . it is highly appropriate
that freedom of thought and of conscience . . .
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Beast from the Earth
. . . the liberty to order our lives as we like,
should be chosen by divine Inspiration to
characterize that giant power rising out of the
earth in the West just as the leopard beast . . .
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Beast from the Earth
. . . was going into captivity, receiving its
deadly wound, at the close of the eighteenth
century. George McCready PriceTime of the End,
p. 52 (1967)
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Beast from the Earth
Two Horns Civil freedom Religious liberty
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Beast from the Earth
Two Horns Republicanism Protestantism
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America was founded on5 God-given principles

1. Freedom of religion
2. Freedom of speech
3. Freedom of expression
4. Freedom to assemble togetherwithout harassment
5. Freedom to petition the government for redress
   of grievances

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God-given principles
That Constitution which so definitely separates
church and state was the fruit of a long struggle
for liberty and also an intensive study of great
minds. . . .
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God-given principles
. . . Its greatness lies in this It protects
the divine right of man against the so-called
right of kings and dictators . . .
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God-given principles
. . . It is a stumbling block in the path of
ambitious and designing men who would destroy
true liberty. . . .
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God-given principles
. . . It protects the weak against the strong,
the minority against the majority. It upholds the
sovereignty of the individual. Roy Allan
AndersonUnfolding the Revelation, p. 140 (1953)
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Beast from the Earth
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. And he exerciseth all the
power. . .
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Beast from the Earth
. . . of the first beast before him, and causeth
the earth and them which dwell therein to worship
the first beast, whose deadly wound was
healed. Revelation 1311, 12
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Lamb-like Beast
Speaks like the dragon Exercises all the
power of the first beast
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Lamb-like Beast
Causes all the earth to worship the first
beast Which results in the healing of the
deadly wound suffered by the first beast
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Deadly Wound
The deadly wound and its healing make clear that
the system of anti-Christianity represented by
the leopard beast . . . .
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Deadly Wound
. . . was to exercise its despotic, persecuting
power during two distinct periods of time. . . .
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Deadly Wound
The first would be long 1260 years. The second
will be short when he cometh, he must continue
a short space. (Revelation 1710). . . .
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Deadly Wound
. . .These two periods of beastly dominance
(persecution) are separated by a period of
inaction . . .
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Deadly Wound
. . . called captivity in Revelation 1310
the period of the deadly wound. George McCready
PriceThe Time of the End, p. 64 (1967)
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Deadly Wound
These two freedoms, civil and religious, without
possible contradiction, are the real cause of the
deadly wound. . .
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Deadly Wound
. . .and are the continuing cause of its still
remaining unhealed. George McCready PriceThe
Time of the End, p. 70 (1967)
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First AmendmentUnited States Constitution
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Separation ofChurch and State
God requireth not an Uniformity of Religion to
be inacted and inforced in any Civill State
Roger Williams
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Separation ofChurch and State
As the government of the United States of
America is not in any sense founded on the
Christian Religion . . .
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Separation ofChurch and State
. . .I contemplate with sovereign reverence that
act of the whole American people which declared
that their legislature should make no law
respecting an establishment of religion . . .
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Separation ofChurch and State
. . . or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,
thus building a wall of separation between Church
and State. Thomas Jeffersonto the Danbury
Baptist Association, 1802
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First AmendmentUnited States Constitution
Congress shall make no law respecting an
establishment of religion, or prohibiting the
free exercise thereof or abridging the freedom
of speech, or of the press or the right of the
people to peaceably assemble, and to petition the
Government for a redress of grievances.
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Deadly Wound
This deadly wound will not be healed until the
old power of persecution is restored. . . .
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Deadly Wound
. . . Not until Rome again has the power to make
her will and doctrines effective through
cooperating legislative enactments. . .
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Deadly Wound
. . . and judicial decrees will the wound be
healed. But such a day is coming on
apace. George McCready PriceThe Time of the
End, p. 74, 75 (1967)
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Deadly Wound
When restoration of the power to deal with
heretics does take place, when the deadly wound
is really healed. . .
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Deadly Wound
. . . the prophetic time of the end will be near
its close, and the climax of the ages will
follow. George McCready PriceThe Time of the
End, p. 76 (1967)
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