Revelation Chapter 13
Chapter 13 – Is about the beast (anti-christ), the false prophet, the image of the beast and the name or mark of the beast. The beast (anti-christ) rises from the sea and the false prophet from the land. [Is the sea like 17:15 – representative of the nations and the land representative of just one nation?] Without the mark no one can buy or sell anything. “Here is wisdom, let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast; for it is the number of a man: his number is 666.” Is 666: man was created on the sixth day of creation, man was redeemed on the sixth day of the week, man’s reign on the earth is for six Biblical days (six thousand years)? By the current Jewish calendar we are in the Biblical year of Tammuz, 5780 (August 2020 in the Gregorian calendar) which means there are two hundred and twenty years before we get to the Millennial Reign of CHRIST (the sixed day of humanity) that will be followed by the Sabbath Day of one thousands earth years of Rest. Daniel 2:1-45, 7-8; Ezekiel 1; Jeremiah 15:2, 43:11.
:1 Then I stood on the sand of the sea; and I saw a beast (anti-christ system - singular) rising out of the sea (multitudes of people?), having seven heads and ten horns and on his horns ten crowns (Daniel 7:7-14, 19-27; Revelation 17:9-17) and on his heads a blasphemous name.
:2-3 Now the beast that I saw was like a leopard, his feet were like the feet of a bear and his mouth like the mouth of a lion (Daniel 7:3-7). The dragon (satan) gave him his power, his throne and great authority; and I saw one of his heads as if it had been mortally wounded and his deadly wound was healed; and all the world marveled and followed the beast (Revelation 17:8).
:4 So they worshiped the dragon that gave authority to the beast; and they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast? Who is able make war with him?”
:5 And he was given a mouth speaking great things and blasphemes (Daniel 11:36-37), and he was given authority to make war for forty-two months (3 ½ years, Revelation 11:2-3, this is happening at the same time).
:6-7 Then he opened his mouth in blasphemy against GOD, to blaspheme His Name, His Tabernacle and those who dwell in Heaven. It was granted to him to make war with the Saints and to overcome them; and authority was given him over every tribe, tongue and nation (Daniel 7:21-22; Revelation 12:17).
:8 All who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of The Lamb slain before the foundation of the world (Deuteronomy 32:32-33; Ephesians 1:1-4; 1 Peter 1:17-20).
:9 If anyone has an ear, let him hear (Matthew 11:15; Mark 7:14-16; Luke 8:8, 14:34-35; each of the seven letters ends with the statement, “He who has an ear let him hear what the SPIRIT is saying!”).
:10 He who leads into captivity shall go into captivity; he who kills with the sword must be killed with the sword (Jeremiah 15:1-3. Here is the patience of the Saints (Hebrews 6:15; 2 Thessalonians 3:5; Revelation 1:9, 1 Peter 2:18-25; Revelation 14:12-13).
:11 Then I saw another beast coming up from out of the earth and he had two horns like a lamb and spoke like a dragon (the false prophet, Revelation 16:13).
:12 He exercises all the authority (2 Thessalonians 2:8-12) of the first beast (anti-christ) in his presence and causes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast; whose deadly wound was healed.
:13 He performs great signs so that he even makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men (Matthew 24:24-25).
:14 He deceives those who dwell on the earth by those signs which he was granted to do in the sight of the beast the false prophet has no power of his own, he can only do signs while in the presence of the anti-christ), telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image (Exodus 20:1-6) to the beast who was wounded by the sword and lived.
:15 He was granted power to give breath (not the breath of life that only comes from GOD, Genesis 2:7) to the image of the beast, and cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed (Revelation 16:2).
:16-17 He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads (remember we are sealed with The HOLY SPIRIT, (Ephesians 1:13-14; Revelation 7:3), and no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name (Revelation 14:9-11).
:18 Here is Wisdom! Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: his number is 666*
*The number of the anti-christ
is 666: man was created on the sixth day of creation (Genesis 1:26-27, 31), man
was redeemed on the sixth day of the week (he was crucified on Thursday, Friday
He was redeeming the captives and taking the keys of death and hell – the sixth
day of the week, Saturday He rested – the Sabbath, seventh day and he rose on
Sunday the first day of the next week), man was supposed to have dominion over
creation for six creation days (6,000 years).
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