11th Meeting Revelation 13 Con't & Chapter 14:8

We continued discussing the differences between the Holy Trinity and the satanic trinity. The Holy Trinity represents The Most High God who created the heavens and the earth and everything in it.
Satan is the great deceiver and as such, will try to trick people into believing that he is God. The created can never be greater than the creator. He will do this by having the anti-christ be struck with a fatal looking blow that will look like it will kill him. Then the anti-christ will recover and the unbeliever's will start to follow him. This anti-christ will be able to do incredible things, and many of the things he does will look like the miracles of God of old. The unbeliever's will be flocking to him and calling him savior. To the elect(the chosen people of God who are here during this time), the ones that Daniel and John talks about as doing battle with satan during this time. To these people, God gave them His Word (the Bible) and it is through this Word, that they will be able to see the truth; and unmask the devil's plot and expose it for what it is. This will make satan angry and as the Jews and Romans did to Christ's follower's after Christ's death, they will try to round up all of them and kill them. We talked about how God was going to protect His own during this time. The Jewish believer's were sealed in Revelation chapter 7, I asked why only the Jewish believer's were sealed? Christians are sealed at the time they are indwelt with the Holy Spirit when they first believe. The elect are already sealed by God.

The last part of Chapter 13 deals with the mark of the beast. Nero the Roman leader, satisfys this requirement of the number 666. Does this mean that we dismiss this as fulfilled? Maybe. But, prophecies can come true over and over again. Look at chapter 28 of Deuteronomy, that states that the Isrealites will eat their children. This has happened more than once. In order for it to occur again all of the factors that made it occur in the first place must be exactly the same. For this reason, you can't count out things that happened as not being able to happen again.
We started chapter 14 of Revelation, this is a transition chapter that introduces the characters for the next part of the story. We got as far as verse 7. We will look at this chapter totally next week.