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It would not take a lot of effort on my part to wane the attention of many examining this article, for as ravaging dogs; we growl and grind our teeth over bones of contention in the plethora of interpretation over passages of biblical prophecy. For a number of years, I have attended studies on the prophetic books of Scripture, concentrating on Daniel and Revelation and related Old and New Testament texts. Why do we finally settle on certain doctrine and dogma? In America, over 90% claim professed religion; church attendees become mired and rutted, especially those whom have their own coveted shelf or assigned parking places, while the majority of others revel in their sugar, caffeine, fats, alcohol, fast and refined foods and extra-curriculums, brain waves truncated by electronic devices, and propelled by pharmaceuticals. It is disconcerting that most diseases, such as arthritic, diabetes and cancer, are dietetic. (refer to Ex 15:26; Deut 7:15) What may be more disturbing is the fact that the youth of this group believe in the “Left Behind Series” as they live the “Harry Potter” series, taking a break from daily hours of video games.

This simplistic article will not provide the literally hundreds of documented references for substantiation, as they are readily available in concordance or on the internet. Our task is to identify with characters of Revelation; who or what are the beasts and what is their purpose, their function, symbolism. Let us start with my NASB Rev 17:3---John sees a woman sitting on a scarlet beast. The woman is apostate religion, and is also called Babylon; Rev 18:2,3; 17:4-6. We notice in Rev 12:1 there is a picture of a pure woman, God’s people, who is reflecting the sun; Son. In Rev 12:1-6 we see the nation Israel giving birth to the Son, and see the birth of the church, the changing of the guard of the Word of God from the nation Israel to the NT church. John refers to this pure woman in
2 John 1. Isaiah 45:10-13; among others, such as six times in Jeremiah, and many times in Ezekiel described in the church of Thyatira where  Jesus compared this blasphemous woman to Jezebel; Rev 2:20. Hosea 5 sounds judgment against a prostitute, this time it is Jerusalem. Please note that Jesus calls Jezebel a ‘false prophetess,’ because she commits acts of spiritual immortality.

If a woman represents false religion, then we would wonder if the beast she is sitting on is also false religion. Actually, Revelation tells us that she is: “many waters!” (17:1) In order to perceive a better understanding of this beast, we must follow the path of history of beast in Scripture. In Rev 13 we find two beasts as the earth beast gives (spirit) breath to the image of the sea beast for worship. It is imperative that all recognize that the issue of the whole Bible is “worship”. This worship is a battle for the human mind influenced by either Jesus or Satan, and everything historically in every ones life is defined by choice of one of the other.

The OT relates the story of a family, a chosen family by God, and the trails and tribulations up to the time of the origin of the “Seed.” Some follow Lord God, while most choose any other course, which is Satan worship. Notice that John the revelator uses the geographical terms of earth and waters, (Gen 1:1) sea, (Gen 1:9) and others such as trees and mountains as people, kingdoms and types of people. There was a precedence set by Jesus, (green tree, fig tree, etc) and we remember the tree of Daniel 4 symbolizing the king. The same type of interpretation is used in the Revelation seals and trumpets as images of types of people. As we travel the vicarious lives of this family through God’s word, we arrive at Daniel, while in captivity in Babylon, sets the standard for understanding the history of the world and the crisis of choices in worship. Our Daniel texts will be in chapters 2, 3, 7 , 8 and we must include 9:24-27, simply because it pedestals the key of all Scripture, the gospel of Jesus to its earthly conclusion, and directs us to the end of the Revelation beasts in a worship scenario.

Daniel 2 visions that statue of powers of world history. After the iron thighs and legs of Rome, there is no longer a world dominating power, as the feet are of iron and clay. *** It is critical to note the deciphering of the identity of the beast of Rev 17 that is holding up the apostate woman. The 90’ x 9’ image of this statue, created by the kind for self (Satan) worship, must by a precursor to the image of Rev 13:14, and will reveal understanding. The beasts of Dan 7, again a description of the same world powers of Dan 2, now introduces another character; that of the “Little Horn,” which will dominate the earth for a times, times and ½ time. (dividing of time) We notice that the time periods of 3 ½ days, years, 42 months, 1260 days, years, all equal the 3½ years of Christ’s ministry on earth. Of course they do, since Satan will imitate and role play every occurrence of the life of ministry of Jesus. We pray that one also notices that the symbols of the world beasts replicate those of the flags of the tribes of the Nation Israel. Every beast, although a world power, also embellishes false religion. We were created to worship, and all humanity shall and does worship something or someone.

Please note who bows down to the image in Dan 3 and compare them to those that makeup the beasts of Revelation, especially the earth beast, the false prophet, and to the characters in Rev 18. More on this later, but this clues us to let Revelation reticulate interpretation itself, and to re-examine many denominational conclusions. It is noteworthy that most medieval reformers, if not all, agreed on the identity of the Rev 13 & 17 beasts, based on the prophecies of Daniel, and this was not contested until Catholic scholars in the 16th century infused first and last century time and person applications of  the Roman church (refer to http://www.aloha.net/~mikesch/antichrist.htm)

The Little Horn appears again in Dan 8, probably a little more controversial, as the origin becomes a “bone”. Does this little horn originate from one the four horns of Alexander, or from the four winds? Whatever your conviction, this little horn assumes the same position as the one in Dan 7, and is far too prominent to be a small, self-pronounced king that precedes the time of Christ. These is a point to be made here, that this is more than one world religion born in this geographical setting that has as much a murderous history and world domination today as does the Papacy.

Our focus in this article is to determine who the beasts are and who holds them up, who supports them. After Abraham left his birthplace, he in fact became his own general, and his own king. He won his own battles and ruled his own ‘kingdom’. This grew and expanded all through the history of Israel, which included millions of people. Each king was upheld by his army and his supporters. They were all to worship the true God of heaven; some failed. During this time, there were pagan nations and their kings that worshipped ‘other gods’ and opposed those who worshipped our Lord.

I like to use Hammurabi as an example, because his kingdom parallels the scenario of the United States as a two-horned lamb beast. As the kind of Babylonia, during the same time period as that of Jacob, about 2000 BC, he declared himself ruler of all heaven and earth. He demanded all types of pagan religious ceremonies, and engraved a coin bearing his image. We remember him as the promulgator of the Code of Hammurabi, which is a precursor to the 13th century Magna Carta, and even our own US Constitution, as it secured liberty and rights. This was imaged by Rome. (refer to Mark 12:16)

As we follow the beasts from Dan 2, 7, & 8 we find the same situation, where the kings worshipped pagan gods, upheld by their constituents, which you can find listed as those bowing down to the image in Dan 3, and Rev 17 & 18. Again, this is direct Satan worship, and they all know it. In turn, Rev 12-18 tells us precisely who the beasts are and who holds them up, who bows down to their gods, It is interesting to note that in the last few centuries, the money people are the occultists; they are worshippers of Lucifer, and they know it!

Rev 17:1 – false religion sits on many waters vs 3; beast of blasphemous names with seven heads and ten horns; those who enforce bulls and edits of their own program of worship; vs 9; seven heads are seven kings; vs 12; ten future kings; vs 15; waters are peoples, multitudes, nations, and languages; vs 18; woman is the city who rules over kings of the earth. Rev 18 describes who all these people are, those who prescribe to the dictates of religion by the Mother of Prostitutes and her harlots. During the execution of the plagues #6 & #7, we must see that this control is over the population of earth, world wide. We have identified the kingdoms and kings of Daniel’s beasts, and we must do so with the beasts of Rev 13, 17, & 18.

Time has been set. The church age described in Revelation runs concurrently from chapter one through chapter 14, where earth’s final warning goes forth for all to accept the precious eternal gospel of Jesus. (Rev 14:6) The sea beast description in Rev 13 parallels that of the fourth dreadful beast of Dan 7, the iron part of the statue of Dan 2. It has the same hardware. The sea beast represents the Roman Empire, and consequent mouth that uttered blasphemies the same as the little horn of Dan 7, which is the religious system that emerges from the political one. We are now looking at earth’s clock around the 5th and 6h century. We need to examine formations of religions during that time period. Did the pure lady of Rev 12 become impure by Rev 17? Did the church become Babylon? No! In the 5th seal those of the true church are still keeping God’s commandments and keeping the testimony and faith of Jesus. (Rev 12:17 & 14:12) The church has split---how can this be?

We noticed that Hammurabi followed the teachings of Nimrod, and we can follow the kings of pagan nations as well Israel in this pursuit. Remember King Saul went to find counsel from witch of Endor. Remember Solomon had hundreds of wives who brought in their idols and pagan worship practices, as written about Jezebal, and even of Rachel, with her hidden idol; which by the way, Jacob had knowledge. Caesar declared himself God on earth, and the Roman Popes followed suit, raising themselves to the height of Commander of heaven. These are the obvious and visible characters that most scholars and commentators address as fulfillment of Scripture prophecies. Let us examine others.

The witch of Endor conjured up the spirit of Samuel; I Sam 18. Obviously, since man does not have an immortal soul, and soul sleeps until resurrection, this image was a spirit, a demon, occulted. This brings us into the world of the enlightened ones, known in the last two millennium as Gnostics, Free Masons, Illuminati, Bones, Fabians, Rosicrucians, Knights Templar, Bilderbergers, Skull and Bones, Committee of 300, Bohemian Grove, Cabala, (Khaballa) Wahhabism and scores of other occult names. Any internet search engine will “conjure up” thousands of web sites on this subject, with history of dates, names and applications to every event in our written history. We are most interested in the time period of 17th though today, with special attention in the late 1700’s to the middle of the 1800’s. Here we find the activity of those that control all the nations of the world today. As I have mentions, those how control the money control the governments, and most known Lucifer worshippers, and those that consist of the beast holding up the woman Babylon.

Since some readers here will never research this perspective, let me just mention a one. Dr Walter Veith, in his Total Onslaught audio and DVD series, has a very good Christian comprehensive review. The whole worldwide program is to either create of continue a total feudalistic society, a predominately caste system. They are identified by many ‘isms’; fascism, socialism, communism, federalism, and others. All have the same goals. And their elitists’ leaders all belong to pyramided secret organizations, and most participate in sacred sexual activities.

They are Theosophists (wisdom of God) in nature, and one will find the names and writings of Blavatsky, Pike, Bailey, and Tesla consistently appearing. For example, Thomas Wright wrote The Worship of Generative Powers in 1865. Hundreds of others explored Mithra and other forms of mysticism. It is noted that 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence were Masons, some of which were blood-drinking Satanists.

Another example, Hitler became “the Child of Illuminism” following instruction from Weishaupt who became the founder of the most recent Illuminati in 1776. During this time of the formation of the American government there was much activity in Europe as the ‘secret societies’ merged, especially in the 1770’s in Paris and Versailles. Here were mapped out strategies for world domination and control for a new world order. For centuries the Catholic Church has publicly opposed these societies, while its leadership were among the heads of those organizations. Mayer Amschel  Baur was reborn Rothschild, and the network of the world’s controlling bankers was created. An interesting story tells how the real ‘red baron’s’ carriages transported gold across France to finance Wellington for the Battle of Waterloo. We see the culmination of this type of activity in the formation of the Federal Reserve, the creation of the fiat money, where wealth in calculated as debt.

During this time Prescott Bush was active in the creation of the Nazi Party. House and Warburg were encapsulating European government heads in a web of indebtedness. Aldrich, McCormick, Carnegie, Luce, Mellon, Peabody, Schiff, Rockefeller, Morgan, Harriman, Rhoades, Milner, Norman and many others were amassing personal fortunes, and dabbling in and finally controlling feudalistic societies. We really need to pause from the generalities of this article for a spell, and look at some specifics. I should recommend a couple of books that one can buy from Amazon.com or read from your public library. As Christians, we should not delve too deeply into the occult system, but awareness is essential for proper identification. In that area I have already recommended Walter Veith’s series which one can obtain from Amazing Discoveries. Out of hundreds of books, I recommend the book, Rule Secrecy by Jim Marrs. As for the financial picture, I recommend Creature of Jekyll Island by G Edward Griffin. The two books meld.

In 1912 the bankers put up Woodrow Wilson as their presidential candidate against incumbent Wm Howard Taft, and then encouraged ‘the’ Bull Moose, the past president, Teddy Roosevelt, to run as a third candidate. It worked. On Christmas Eve, 1913, Wilson signed a bill that gave birth to the Federal Reserve System, which was the beginning of the end of our constitutional form of government. The 1920’s monetary debacle was the created when the Fed decided to save the Bank of England rather than bolster the failing American economy, which was struggling to pay off the expenses of WWI. Until the 1930’s the Masonic American dollar was backed by precious metal. Now the Fed introduced ‘fractional money’, which meant that only a percentage was backed by gold, and soon only 10% was backed by gold. Nixon removed the gold standard Aug 15, 1971.

Now a commercial bank could have $100 dollars in gold and lend out $900 in loans. Soon is became all fiat money, meaning that the dollar had no intrinsic value, but was guaranteed by the FDIC; this inflated loans multiplied as they compounded, and the net worth of any lending institution was the amount of the debt loaned to others. We remember bailouts for banks of Illinois, Cincinnati, and many in New England, as well as industrial moguls, Penn Central, Lockheed, and Chrysler. Smaller loans and bonds called Junk Bonds were allowed to sink or swim on their own. As I write this in Aug,. 2007, this Fed system is in deep trouble, as international scripts are forcing US dollars into inflation. Mentioning 1971, 70’s Trilateral Commission documents reveal efforts to destroy and replace the dollar, implode our economy, keep the Middle East in a state of was, (Orde et Chao) influx population with millions of aliens, and expand Marshall law from its concept formed in 1933 to a complete military type of society.

Next week the leaders of Mexico, United States and Canada will hold their third meeting to upgrade their previous agreement called the North American Security and Prosperity Program which is in fact the North American Union, which eventually will displace our Constitution by global rule. Their new ‘super-highway’ running from El Paso to Deluth will mass transport un-customed Asian exports and expedite the world drug market. This falls in line (parallels) with the World Bank displacing other banks. This last week, the Fed and its European counterpart in Europe contributed $400B to bolster the declining world currencies. It will be like a huge snowball, and the downward spiral is imminent, only the speed of decent is unpredictable. Although this control seems improbable, we should learn from those of Lenin in Russia, Hitler is Germany, Mussolini in Italy, (who revived the wounded head Holy See) Mao in China, among others; all orchestrated by these moneychangers. (I remember that Jesus confronted the moneychangers at the beginning and the end of His earthly ministry)

Christians should concentrate on the things of heaven, and on their incredible Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. All of these subjects we have touched on did not happen in a closet. They are occurrences accomplished in the light of day, in front of all of us. Organizations such as Focus on the Family and The Moral Majority, who have daily communication with millions of people, have recommended to voters to promote and vote for local candidates and those for Congress, Senate and President. Most, if not all there candidates are members of the CFR, Trilateral Commission, Masons, Bones, Illuminati, Bohemian Groove, and other occult societies. Many of these are homosexuals, frequent prostitute services and even have places for sex with children. This is documented in mainstream press, even though most news agencies are owned and controlled by four groups. Professed Christian agencies are unreliable, as many of them are among the leaders of these occult systems, and knowingly engage in direct Luciferian worship. These ‘Christians’ would shudder to see a new born placed in the arms of a white hot Mayan stone idle, but continue to support politicians who condone, or at least tolerate, 50M abortions. (ref Romans 1:32)

The eugenics program, born in England in the 1880’s to create a super race, was greatly enhanced by IMB founder Thomas Watson, and skyrocketed by protégé Bill Gates’ contributions by tens of billions of dollars. Vatican 2 has spawned Marriage Encounter. Contemporary Mass, Promise Keepers, and eagerly embraced by protestant churches, resulting in a Pentecostalism form of worship, which shows its true form in programs like the Toronto Blessing and Brown Street Church. There are many others. We must be aware that this whole unbelievable system is to control realism, to change reality, to control the human mind. Please, is this not the object of the prophecy of the beasts? They not only want to change minds, but to control the mind?

The feudal system is headed by circles; the most prominent modern one was headed by Cecil Rhoades, called Circle 13. The c-13 now has 12 families who control most of the world of finances, religion and government. When they meet, the head chair is always vacant; it belongs to Lucifer. Underneath is an octopus network of Masons, Illuminati, Jesuits, Bones and others. They plan all strategy for wars, disease outbreaks, (such as aids, etc) and financial conditions. They control world intelligence agencies, military and monetary systems. Noncompliance begets extinction. They commonly direct ‘false flag’ occurrences where countries and/or agencies destroy targets which are blamed on others to promote their agendas.

We mentioned Weishaupt in his modern adaptation of Illuminati. His motto; ‘the end justifies the means’ was illuminated by “to achieve synthesis requires two opposing forces!”. Masonic answer was Ordo et Chao—Order out of Chaos. They provide the chaos and then the solution of order. In fact, it truly means the ‘order’ of Lucifer will replace the ‘chaos’ of God. The Hegelian concept is that crisis leads to opportunity, and that’s leads to the populace needing a new order, a new World Order. We have many purveyors of Scripture with a Nostradamus style of prognostication on our biblical beasts. Notwithstanding, out of Rome comes Catholicism, that little horn of Dan 7; and out of Dan 8 comes a little horn from Macedonia, which eventually becomes Islam. I guess I should not assume that you, the reader, know The Osama Bin Laden is a 33* Mason and a friend of Bush’s, that Saddam Hussein was also a Mason and in the employ of the CIA. Again a reminder, they are all connected, and all publicly or privately bow down to a Pope. Both Catholicism and Islam each control ¼ of the world’s population, but neither at this writing has visible world domination. Both are false worship, which in recorded history has clamed millions of lives. The result of the activities of the NWO societies in the 20th century clamed 200 million lives. Protestantism controls another ¼ of the world, but has little influence concerning world affairs and forced worship.

The last day church members of Laodicea are in a coma, transfixed by worldly attractions. Students should know that John’s epistles contribute to the understanding of the book of Revelation, as 1 John 2:15 addresses the issue. There is a remnant, but by in large the church is mesmerized by the activity of the 5th trumpet, as Jesus has given Satan the key to the pit, and earthly and fallen heavenly demons are combing the earth with damnable influence. This time period is after the middle age domination of the papacy; now out attention is drawn to agencies such as the CFR and Trilateral Commission, Federal Reserve, and European Central Bank, and yet these groups made up of secret societies are all motivated by religious beliefs, bowing down to images other than God. In the Bible, the gospels, Paul, Peter, and John all refer to this age and the scarcity of true worship.

It appears that not just one world power is our beast of Rev 17, holding up the whore of false religion, but a consortium, a cartel. It seems that herein is represented all false religion and all groups that support ‘her’. We see a portrait of all the enemies of Jesus revealed in these characters, controlled by Satan. The battle of Har-mageddon is fought for the thought process of the human mind. A concordance study of 666 reveals the following: 1 Kings 10:14; “The weight of gold that Solomon received yearly was 666 talents, not including the revenues from merchants, traders and from all the Arabian kings and the governors of the land.”

We are exactly right back where we started in this article; please re-examine those who bow to the image in Dan 3, and those that hold up false religion in Rev 17 & 18. The European kings held up and supported and even murdered for the Pope of the Roman Catholic Church during the time period of the 1260 years of the dark, Middle Ages. Today, these kings are merchants, who rule the ‘beasts from the earth’, (Dan 7:17) their heads, and their horns. All oppose “The Most High God”! They uphold not only false religion, but direct Luciferian religion. New world protestants have joined hands with spiritualism and worship hand in hand with Catholicism, Islam, Buddhists, and all forms of anti-Christian sects, and this has been completely accomplished throughout the 20th century. They not only oppose Jesus and His gospel, but attempt to destroy His people, those who keep all of His commandments, and have the testimony and faith of Jesus, in the most intense, personal manner obtainable, and share it with every fiber of their soul.