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The Beast Out Of The Earth--SOLVED!
Revelation chapter 13:11-18 is one of the most well read chapters in the Bible. This beast, of course, is the power of the Antichrist. But before we dive into the meaning of this chapter we need to look deeper into other chapters to gather up clues that will help us identify this Antichrist power. So the first verse will explain some very important attributes of the beast.
“Then the king shall do according to his own will: he shall exalt and magnify himself above every god, shall speak blasphemies against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the wrath has been accomplished; for what has been determined shall be done. He shall regard neither the God of his fathers nor the desire of women, nor regard any god; for he shall exalt himself above them all. But in their place he shall honor a god of fortresses; and a god which his fathers did not know he shall honor with gold and silver, with precious stones and pleasant things. Thus he shall act against the strongest fortresses with a foreign god, which he shall acknowledge, and advance its glory; and he shall cause them to rule over many, and divide the land for gain" (Daniel 11:36-39).
The Antichrist has no tolerance for any religion. So as much as some people despise the Roman Catholic Church this passage excludes them from the beast power, as the RCC can be accused for being too tolerant towards other religions. The beast shall worship a false god not known by their fathers. This means there will be no history prior to the arrival of this god to support the ancestry of those who should have known this god. So far a very good candidate for this beast is Islam, as there is no history of Islam before Islam yet the Qur'an makes the claim that Adam, Abraham, Moses, Alexander the Great, Jesus and His disciples, and many many others, were all muslims. Yet nobody in the ancient world recognizes Islam's existence prior to Muhammad. Islam also has zero tolerance for other religions or any worldview that exist apart from Islam.
The next verse is very important because this provides us insightful information of the destructive attributes of Satan's power:
“How you are fallen from heaven,
O Lucifer, son of the morning!
How you are cut down to the ground,
You who weakened the nations! (Isa.14:12).
The ESV translates the end of the verse as "you who laid the nations low!" So the power of Lucifer working through his followers will weaken the nations to the point of laying them low. In other words, the once greatness of these gentile nations that came to the light of the Messiah (Isa.60:3) will be brought low through the act of apostasy caused by atheism which will leave the door wide open for the ultimate invasion which will destroy everything great about those nations who once lived by the law and commission of Christ. Thus Satan will gather his followers of the occult for the purpose of destroying everything good ever accomplished by God's faithful. They will persecute them and even kill them as if they were doing it for God. So the Antichrist power will be connected to a religious movement of the diabolical kind.
1John 2:18-23 is an indirect reference to the Gnostic movement which had been trying to infiltrate the church. The Apostle John says that we will know the last hour before Judgment by seeing how the power that infiltrates the early church becomes a world power in the last hour before Judgement.
1John 4:1-3 explains more about the attributes of the Antichrist, as many antichrists were in the world already. They rejected the reality of the crucifixion of Christ and do not believe God came in the flesh (John 1:1-14).
Qur'an 5:110 is plagiarized from two Gnostic works: The First Gospel of the Infancy of Jesus Christ, and Thomas the Israelite Philosopher's Account of the Infancy of the LORD. These are early Gnostic accounts which Muhammad plagiarized into the Qur'an, Muhammad also rejected the crucifixion and did not believe that Jesus Christ came in the flesh (meaning, the word made flesh (John 1:1-14; Isa.9:6).
For the purpose of time and space it would be fruitful to you readers if we jump back to Revelation chapter 13.
Now the beast out of the sea, as I believe, is evolution theory: the belief that life evolved from the watery chaos. Case and point: Romans 1:18-32 clearly speaks about God's wrath on those who rejected God's existence in hopes they can attain a state of wickedness upon the earth and establish a name for themselves (Gen.11:4). So in the name of narcissism there will be people living in the Christian lands who will harlot around with the beast in hopes they may become great by betraying their nations with the help of a foreign god (neither muslims or progressives have history of Islam before Muhammad, and Islam was not well known in the west until 9-11). So, again, the power of the beast will be the combined powers of the occult waging war against the Lamb of God.
Here is where this becomes a little more clear:
"Then I saw another beast which rose out of the earth; it had two horns like a lamb and it spoke like a dragon" (Rev.13:11).
The lamb represents Jesus. There is a Jesus ('Isa) in Islam, which was borrowed from the fictional Jesus of Gnostic mysticism. But this Jesus of Gnosticism/Islam speaks like a dragon, and offers strange fire to the LORD thy God. This lamb-like beast is often mistakenly identified with the Roman Catholic Church, though the attributes of this beast fit Islam very well as further readings will absolutely prove. Simply stated, in the name of a false Christ will the beast speak blasphemies.
Now verse 12 speaks about how the beast of the earth will force everyone to worship the first beast...the beast out of the sea. Some may say that perhaps I got it the other way around and how Islam is the beast out of the sea and the progressive movement is the beast out of the earth. Well if that be the case the verdict still doesn't change as this verse is to be understood as the occult uniting against all God's faithful. Remember, the power of the Antichrist is one power...a power of Satan who unites the world under occult minded rulers who have lost their souls. So even where the details are still a little unclear, the verdict is accurate. Today we see how progressives (who follow Satan) are uniting with Islam (who also worship Satan).
Under the sharia, a Christian or a Jew cannot be seen in public unless dressed a certain way. They have no rights other than what the Islamic states decides to give them which isn't much in all. So essentially they are marked and branded for being Christians or Jews.
Rev.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 Greek for 666 is χξϛ. If we are to ever understand this mystery it would be wise to look at the Greek in which it was written in. Now I've had the experience where I discussed this with muslims and former muslims. This made for very interesting conversation on both sides of the discussion. For the muslims see χξϛ and they are reading Arabic. So what does this say to the muslim in Arabic?
ϛ - This is associated with the Arabic "In the name of Allah."
ξ - While this is turned some, it looks very much like the Arabic name of Allah.
χ - This represents the crossed swords of Islam which symbolizes Islamic power through jihad.
I decided to put all this in a sentence to see if any muslim would agree with how I rendered this from Arabic to English.
χξϛ - "In the name of Allah--Fight!"
This was an approved reading to those Arabic speaking muslims I held this discussion with.
So now lets look at the evidence from the Islamic texts themselves.
Noble Qur'an 27:82 (Mushin Khan),
"And when the Word (of torment) is fulfilled against them, We shall bring out from the earth a beast* for them, to speak to them because mankind believed not with certainty in Our Ayat (Verses of the Qur'an and Prophet Muhammad."
*Footnote: "(V.27:82) See the footnote of (V.6:158)."
I'll return to the footnote later, but as for right now lets focus on this verse from two more translations:
Mawdudi,
"And when the time for the fulfilled of Our Word against them will come, We shall bring for them a beast from the earth who will speak to them because people did not believe in Our Signs."
Bewley,
"When the Word is justly carried out against them, We will produce a Beast from the earth which will speak to them. Truly mankind had no certainty about Our Signs."
The signs of the beast. Sounds like were reading Rev.13 again! But lets be fair and examine this from the Tafsir scholars of Islam since only they are allowed to interpret the Qur'an.
Tafsir al-Jalalayn (Aisha Bewley translation),
"When the Word is justly carried out against them -- when the punishment befalls the unbelievers -- We will produce a Beast from the earth which will speak to them in Arabic to those present when it emerges. Truly (read as anna and inna) mankind -- particularly the unbelievers of Quraysh -- had no certainty about Our Signs. They did not believe in the Qur'an which contains mention of the Resurrection, the Reckoning, and the Punishment. When the Beast emerges, commanding people to do what is correct and forbidding them what is bad will stop. No unbeliever will believe after that: as Allah revealed to Nuh, "None of your people are going to believe except those who have faith already." (11:36)"
Here in the Bewley translation of Tafsir Al-Jalalayn, there is a reference point made towards the Quraysh whom Muhammad conquered and slaughtered many unbelievers among (which was the norm for Muhammad and his company of pirates). Yet, this "Sign" of the beast has always been clearly reserved for something that will happen in the final hour, as this is one of the Major Signs of Islamic Tribulation.
Lets move on to one of the most favorite and trusted Tafsir scholars of all time--Ibn Kathir. For the Signs before the day of judgment is his specialty and nobody in the Islamic scholarly world has more knowledge about these Islamic signs than he does.
Tafsir Ibn Kathir,
"This beast will emerge at the end of time, when humankind will be totally obsessed in corruption and will have then forsaken the commands of Allah and distorted the true religion. Imam Ahmad recorded that the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said: "The Hour will not be established until you have seen ten signs: the rising of the sun from the west; the smoke (Ad-Dukkan); emergence of the beast, the emergence of Yajuj and Majuj; the appearance of Isa bin Maryam, (peace be unto him); the Dajjal, and three (devastating) land debacles, one in the west, one in the east and one in the Arabian Peninsula; and a Fire which will come out from the midst of Yemen, and will force people to hasten forward or gather them, stopping with them whenever they stop for the night or to rest during the day." This is the wording of Imam Muslim and Sunan compilers. Jurayl recorded Ibn Az-Zubayir described the meant beast saying: "Its head is the head of a bull, its eyes are the eyes of a pig, its ears are the ears of an elephant, its horns are the horns of a stag, its neck is the neck of an ostrich, its chest is the chest of a lion, its color is the color of a tiger, its haunches are the haunches of a cat, its tail is the tail of a ram, and its legs are the legs of a camel. Between each pair of its joints is the distance of twelve cubits. It will bring out with it the staff (stick) of Moses and the ring of Solomon. It will leave no believer but that it will make a white spot on his face, which will spread until all his face will be shinning white as a result, and it will leave no disbeliever but that it will make a black spot on his face, which will spread until all his face will become black as a result; to the extent it will be that when the people trade with one another in the markets, they will say, 'How much is this, O believer?' 'How much is that, O disbeliever?' it will be that the same household, when sitting for food, they will know who among them is a believer and who is a disbeliever. Then, the beast will say to them, 'O so-and-so, be delighted; for you are among the people of Paradise.' And it will say, 'O so-and-so, you are among the people of the Fire.'"
Ibn Kathir, "Book of the End," p.163,
"When we discussed the Tafseer of this verse, we explain it and mentioned those Ahaadeeth that pertain to it. Ibn 'Abbaas, Al-Hasan, and Al-Qataadah said, " 'Speak to them' means address them verbally.'" Ibn Jareer holds that the beast will speak to them, saying, "Because mankind believed not with certainty in Our Ayaat (Verses of the Qur'an and sayings of Prophet Muhammad)." Ibn Jareer related this view from 'Ataa and 'Alee, but this is not certain, and requires further study. It is also revealed from Ibn 'Abbaas that "speak to them" means, write Al-Kaafir (disbeliever) on the forehead of the kaafir, and Mo'min (believer) on the forehead of a believer. It is also related from Ibn 'Abbaas that "speak to them" means both addressing them verbally and writing on their foreheads. This last saying is in harmony with both views; it is strong, good, and it combines both views in a suitable manner. And Allah knows best."
Continued...
Revelation chapter 13:11-18 is one of the most well read chapters in the Bible. This beast, of course, is the power of the Antichrist. But before we dive into the meaning of this chapter we need to look deeper into other chapters to gather up clues that will help us identify this Antichrist power. So the first verse will explain some very important attributes of the beast.
“Then the king shall do according to his own will: he shall exalt and magnify himself above every god, shall speak blasphemies against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the wrath has been accomplished; for what has been determined shall be done. He shall regard neither the God of his fathers nor the desire of women, nor regard any god; for he shall exalt himself above them all. But in their place he shall honor a god of fortresses; and a god which his fathers did not know he shall honor with gold and silver, with precious stones and pleasant things. Thus he shall act against the strongest fortresses with a foreign god, which he shall acknowledge, and advance its glory; and he shall cause them to rule over many, and divide the land for gain" (Daniel 11:36-39).
The Antichrist has no tolerance for any religion. So as much as some people despise the Roman Catholic Church this passage excludes them from the beast power, as the RCC can be accused for being too tolerant towards other religions. The beast shall worship a false god not known by their fathers. This means there will be no history prior to the arrival of this god to support the ancestry of those who should have known this god. So far a very good candidate for this beast is Islam, as there is no history of Islam before Islam yet the Qur'an makes the claim that Adam, Abraham, Moses, Alexander the Great, Jesus and His disciples, and many many others, were all muslims. Yet nobody in the ancient world recognizes Islam's existence prior to Muhammad. Islam also has zero tolerance for other religions or any worldview that exist apart from Islam.
The next verse is very important because this provides us insightful information of the destructive attributes of Satan's power:
“How you are fallen from heaven,
O Lucifer, son of the morning!
How you are cut down to the ground,
You who weakened the nations! (Isa.14:12).
The ESV translates the end of the verse as "you who laid the nations low!" So the power of Lucifer working through his followers will weaken the nations to the point of laying them low. In other words, the once greatness of these gentile nations that came to the light of the Messiah (Isa.60:3) will be brought low through the act of apostasy caused by atheism which will leave the door wide open for the ultimate invasion which will destroy everything great about those nations who once lived by the law and commission of Christ. Thus Satan will gather his followers of the occult for the purpose of destroying everything good ever accomplished by God's faithful. They will persecute them and even kill them as if they were doing it for God. So the Antichrist power will be connected to a religious movement of the diabolical kind.
1John 2:18-23 is an indirect reference to the Gnostic movement which had been trying to infiltrate the church. The Apostle John says that we will know the last hour before Judgment by seeing how the power that infiltrates the early church becomes a world power in the last hour before Judgement.
1John 4:1-3 explains more about the attributes of the Antichrist, as many antichrists were in the world already. They rejected the reality of the crucifixion of Christ and do not believe God came in the flesh (John 1:1-14).
Qur'an 5:110 is plagiarized from two Gnostic works: The First Gospel of the Infancy of Jesus Christ, and Thomas the Israelite Philosopher's Account of the Infancy of the LORD. These are early Gnostic accounts which Muhammad plagiarized into the Qur'an, Muhammad also rejected the crucifixion and did not believe that Jesus Christ came in the flesh (meaning, the word made flesh (John 1:1-14; Isa.9:6).
For the purpose of time and space it would be fruitful to you readers if we jump back to Revelation chapter 13.
Now the beast out of the sea, as I believe, is evolution theory: the belief that life evolved from the watery chaos. Case and point: Romans 1:18-32 clearly speaks about God's wrath on those who rejected God's existence in hopes they can attain a state of wickedness upon the earth and establish a name for themselves (Gen.11:4). So in the name of narcissism there will be people living in the Christian lands who will harlot around with the beast in hopes they may become great by betraying their nations with the help of a foreign god (neither muslims or progressives have history of Islam before Muhammad, and Islam was not well known in the west until 9-11). So, again, the power of the beast will be the combined powers of the occult waging war against the Lamb of God.
Here is where this becomes a little more clear:
"Then I saw another beast which rose out of the earth; it had two horns like a lamb and it spoke like a dragon" (Rev.13:11).
The lamb represents Jesus. There is a Jesus ('Isa) in Islam, which was borrowed from the fictional Jesus of Gnostic mysticism. But this Jesus of Gnosticism/Islam speaks like a dragon, and offers strange fire to the LORD thy God. This lamb-like beast is often mistakenly identified with the Roman Catholic Church, though the attributes of this beast fit Islam very well as further readings will absolutely prove. Simply stated, in the name of a false Christ will the beast speak blasphemies.
Now verse 12 speaks about how the beast of the earth will force everyone to worship the first beast...the beast out of the sea. Some may say that perhaps I got it the other way around and how Islam is the beast out of the sea and the progressive movement is the beast out of the earth. Well if that be the case the verdict still doesn't change as this verse is to be understood as the occult uniting against all God's faithful. Remember, the power of the Antichrist is one power...a power of Satan who unites the world under occult minded rulers who have lost their souls. So even where the details are still a little unclear, the verdict is accurate. Today we see how progressives (who follow Satan) are uniting with Islam (who also worship Satan).
Under the sharia, a Christian or a Jew cannot be seen in public unless dressed a certain way. They have no rights other than what the Islamic states decides to give them which isn't much in all. So essentially they are marked and branded for being Christians or Jews.
Rev.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 Greek for 666 is χξϛ. If we are to ever understand this mystery it would be wise to look at the Greek in which it was written in. Now I've had the experience where I discussed this with muslims and former muslims. This made for very interesting conversation on both sides of the discussion. For the muslims see χξϛ and they are reading Arabic. So what does this say to the muslim in Arabic?
ϛ - This is associated with the Arabic "In the name of Allah."
ξ - While this is turned some, it looks very much like the Arabic name of Allah.
χ - This represents the crossed swords of Islam which symbolizes Islamic power through jihad.
I decided to put all this in a sentence to see if any muslim would agree with how I rendered this from Arabic to English.
χξϛ - "In the name of Allah--Fight!"
This was an approved reading to those Arabic speaking muslims I held this discussion with.
So now lets look at the evidence from the Islamic texts themselves.
Noble Qur'an 27:82 (Mushin Khan),
"And when the Word (of torment) is fulfilled against them, We shall bring out from the earth a beast* for them, to speak to them because mankind believed not with certainty in Our Ayat (Verses of the Qur'an and Prophet Muhammad."
*Footnote: "(V.27:82) See the footnote of (V.6:158)."
I'll return to the footnote later, but as for right now lets focus on this verse from two more translations:
Mawdudi,
"And when the time for the fulfilled of Our Word against them will come, We shall bring for them a beast from the earth who will speak to them because people did not believe in Our Signs."
Bewley,
"When the Word is justly carried out against them, We will produce a Beast from the earth which will speak to them. Truly mankind had no certainty about Our Signs."
The signs of the beast. Sounds like were reading Rev.13 again! But lets be fair and examine this from the Tafsir scholars of Islam since only they are allowed to interpret the Qur'an.
Tafsir al-Jalalayn (Aisha Bewley translation),
"When the Word is justly carried out against them -- when the punishment befalls the unbelievers -- We will produce a Beast from the earth which will speak to them in Arabic to those present when it emerges. Truly (read as anna and inna) mankind -- particularly the unbelievers of Quraysh -- had no certainty about Our Signs. They did not believe in the Qur'an which contains mention of the Resurrection, the Reckoning, and the Punishment. When the Beast emerges, commanding people to do what is correct and forbidding them what is bad will stop. No unbeliever will believe after that: as Allah revealed to Nuh, "None of your people are going to believe except those who have faith already." (11:36)"
Here in the Bewley translation of Tafsir Al-Jalalayn, there is a reference point made towards the Quraysh whom Muhammad conquered and slaughtered many unbelievers among (which was the norm for Muhammad and his company of pirates). Yet, this "Sign" of the beast has always been clearly reserved for something that will happen in the final hour, as this is one of the Major Signs of Islamic Tribulation.
Lets move on to one of the most favorite and trusted Tafsir scholars of all time--Ibn Kathir. For the Signs before the day of judgment is his specialty and nobody in the Islamic scholarly world has more knowledge about these Islamic signs than he does.
Tafsir Ibn Kathir,
"This beast will emerge at the end of time, when humankind will be totally obsessed in corruption and will have then forsaken the commands of Allah and distorted the true religion. Imam Ahmad recorded that the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said: "The Hour will not be established until you have seen ten signs: the rising of the sun from the west; the smoke (Ad-Dukkan); emergence of the beast, the emergence of Yajuj and Majuj; the appearance of Isa bin Maryam, (peace be unto him); the Dajjal, and three (devastating) land debacles, one in the west, one in the east and one in the Arabian Peninsula; and a Fire which will come out from the midst of Yemen, and will force people to hasten forward or gather them, stopping with them whenever they stop for the night or to rest during the day." This is the wording of Imam Muslim and Sunan compilers. Jurayl recorded Ibn Az-Zubayir described the meant beast saying: "Its head is the head of a bull, its eyes are the eyes of a pig, its ears are the ears of an elephant, its horns are the horns of a stag, its neck is the neck of an ostrich, its chest is the chest of a lion, its color is the color of a tiger, its haunches are the haunches of a cat, its tail is the tail of a ram, and its legs are the legs of a camel. Between each pair of its joints is the distance of twelve cubits. It will bring out with it the staff (stick) of Moses and the ring of Solomon. It will leave no believer but that it will make a white spot on his face, which will spread until all his face will be shinning white as a result, and it will leave no disbeliever but that it will make a black spot on his face, which will spread until all his face will become black as a result; to the extent it will be that when the people trade with one another in the markets, they will say, 'How much is this, O believer?' 'How much is that, O disbeliever?' it will be that the same household, when sitting for food, they will know who among them is a believer and who is a disbeliever. Then, the beast will say to them, 'O so-and-so, be delighted; for you are among the people of Paradise.' And it will say, 'O so-and-so, you are among the people of the Fire.'"
Ibn Kathir, "Book of the End," p.163,
"When we discussed the Tafseer of this verse, we explain it and mentioned those Ahaadeeth that pertain to it. Ibn 'Abbaas, Al-Hasan, and Al-Qataadah said, " 'Speak to them' means address them verbally.'" Ibn Jareer holds that the beast will speak to them, saying, "Because mankind believed not with certainty in Our Ayaat (Verses of the Qur'an and sayings of Prophet Muhammad)." Ibn Jareer related this view from 'Ataa and 'Alee, but this is not certain, and requires further study. It is also revealed from Ibn 'Abbaas that "speak to them" means, write Al-Kaafir (disbeliever) on the forehead of the kaafir, and Mo'min (believer) on the forehead of a believer. It is also related from Ibn 'Abbaas that "speak to them" means both addressing them verbally and writing on their foreheads. This last saying is in harmony with both views; it is strong, good, and it combines both views in a suitable manner. And Allah knows best."
Continued...