Image of the beast...

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Peace in Christ.

There is a “war” going on….and we must earnestly contend for the faith that was once delivered to the saints.

Rev 13:7 KJV
(7) And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.


The good news of Christ is not being preached currently in this “war” being waged by Satan and his “ministers” against those who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus…the true Jesus the Christ.

We must HEAR the Word of truth: the good news of our salvation….the salvation of our mortal body (the redemption of the purchased possession).

We are sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise which is the earnest of our inheritance UNTIL THE REDEMPTION OF THE PURCHASED POSSESSION which is our mortal body.

That is the endpoint of our faith: the redemption of our mortal body IN THIS LIFE that we are living in now….NOT after we “die and go to Heaven” as universally being “preached” by those who do not know the good news as the gospel is "hid" from their understanding by the god of this world.

Eph 1:13-14 KJV
(13) In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,
(14) Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession,
unto the praise of his glory.


With that receiving of the “earnest” of the Spirit, we then are to mortify/kill the deeds of the body so that our mortal body shall live. We use the sword of the Spirit to slay sin out of our lives unto the redemption of our mortal body. This is the keeping of the "daily sacrifice" of the Lamb in our mortal bodies.

That life that is to be made manifest by doing so is the eternal life of Jesus.

We are to believe INTO Him…..the end point of our faith is His eternal life being made manifest in this mortal body which will then bring forth praise to God from those of the outside world who will see in us what it really means to do His will. We are saved THROUGH Him....as it is His life that manifests outwardly in our mortal flesh.

We must contend for the faith…for the good news of Christ is not being preached by the many false prophets who are leading many AWAY from the Way that leads to His manifest eternal life in their mortal bodies. MULTITUDES are not hearing the true gospel…and so that manifest eternal life is being cut off from this earth.

Joh 3:15-17
(15) That whosoever believeth in (INTO) him should not perish, but have eternal life.
(16) For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in (INTO) him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
(17) For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.


If we continue to live after the flesh (AFTER receiving His Spirit), we shall die…..our mortal bodies shall die. The wages of THE (definite article) Sin is THE death.

Rom 6:22-23
(22) But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.
(23) For the wages of THE sin is THE death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.


But the false prophets are cutting off this eternal life from being made manifest in this earth.

This is where the false teachers come in and persuade many to continue to live after the flesh...to continue to serve sin... by receiving and serving their “another jesus” and receiving their “another gospel”.

They want you to worship their “jesus” with the keeping of their written teachings and commandments of men whereby many JUDGE others which is still SERVING “THE” SIN.

The handwriting of church ordinances (dogmas) is a graven “IMAGE” that is being worshipped and served rather than keeping the commandments of God.

It is a “likeness”…a SHADOW….of things in Heaven as they are ordinances selectively wrested out of the Scriptures themselves and put into man’s handwritings to keep.
Exo 20:4-5 KJV
(4) Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:


We must not bow down to the church fathers’ handwritings of ordinances. This iniquity of the church fathers is then passed down to future generations of those who continue to keep their church fathers’ written church laws.

(5) Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;

They are “standing” images because they are firmly established in every church gathering. They move not from their positions. We are not to “bow” down to them….serving church handwritings which are “standing” images….standing where they ought not be standing.

Lev 26:1 KJV Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God.

They…..the “principalities and powers”…are standing against us. They are against us.

Col 2:14-17 KJV
(14) Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;

(15) And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

People JUDGE others over what is written in their handwritings of ordinances. This is still serving sin.

Let no man judge you according to his handwritings of ordinances which he trespassed into the Scriptures to take out of them things that he thought he saw that needed to be kept by their congregations.

They are a SHADOW…a “likeness”….a graven/written IMAGE. They are a "likeness" of things in Heaven. We must not make them for ourselves to keep.

(16) Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:
(17) Which are a shadow of things to come;
but the body is of Christ.


Let no man defraud you of your reward….ETERNAL LIFE….by having you keep and serve “angels” (messengers)…the handwritings of ordinances written by the church scribes who wrested selective ordinances out of the Scriptures for one to serve. They thought that they “saw” something in the Scriptures when they wrote out their handwritings.

Col 2:18 KJV
(18) Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,


You may not drink, smoke, commit adultery, cuss nor any of those other “vices” and go to church regularly but continue to JUDGE others who do not keep your particular church handwriting of ordinances.

But this is still serving sin…and it is the worst sin possible: THE Sin whose wages is the death.

Judging others supposedly for God (supposedly in His authority) is THE SIN It is the practicing of the “original sin” if you will.

We are not “gods” (Elohim)…that is, JUDGES …for God. We are not acting in His authority.

The serpent : “You shall not surely die” should be literally translated as “Dying, you shall not die”….or rather: “KILLING, you shall not die”.

When we judge others, we “kill” them….being judge, jury and executioner of others who do not conform to our “religious” handwritings of dogmas.

Gen 3:4-5 KJV
(4) And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:

We are not “gods”…judges…for God (the lie: for God does know). Your eyes shall be opened= you shall be seen as “wise”. You shall be as “gods”….JUDGES…who know what is and who is “good and evil” in your own wise eyes.

(5) For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

We are not “gods”…that is, JUDGES…for God. Many judge others by their handwriting of ordinances (their church laws/dogmas/commandments/teachings).

Yet, we are told there is only ONE Lawgiver who is able to save and destroy. Who are we to judge another?

We are not then a doer of the law of Christ who commanded us to have love for one another.

Jas 4:11-12 KJV
(11) Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.
(12) There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?


When we speak evil of another ….judging them as “evildoers” who are going to “hell” for not keeping our church ordinances, we are not having love for our brother.

He that does not love his brother is a “murderer”. “Killing” another via our judging them is not having love for another. We then abide in death and have no eternal life abiding in us. By "killing, we shall die".

1Jn 3:14-15 KJV
(14) We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.
(15) Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.


We must not eat of that “tree”. Out of the same mouth proceeds blessing of God and also cursing of men.

Jas 3:8-12 KJV
(8) But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
(9) Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.
(10) Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
(11) Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?
(12) Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fres
h.

The fruit of that is death. Death and life are in the power of the tongue. If you love judging others, then the fruit of that is death The wages of THE sin is the death.

Pro 18:20-21 KJV
(20) A man's belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth; and with the increase of his lips shall he be filled.

(21) Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

We are being tricked by Satan and his ministers into serving THE Sin….and so they have the power of death.

They are leading many into captivity…into the bondage of the serving and worshipping of church handwritings. He that kills with the sword (judging) must be killed with the sword (be judged…death).

Rev 13:10 KJV
(10) He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.

Those who “dwell upon the earth” (those who are not focusing on the things above) are being deceived by the false prophets (the second beast) into worshipping “another jesus” (the first wild beast) instead of THE Jesus who is the LAMB slain.

If we worship their “jesus the wild beast”, we continue to serve the sin.

If we worship the true Jesus who is the Lamb slain, we die to the sin daily as the “wound” is then not healed.

The false prophets say that we must worship their “jesus”…the first wild beast… by following after their church handwritings of ordinances which is the IMAGE of the beast. But we are to remember: "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image,"

According to them, we are to make/DO their “image” to the beast (another jesus). This “image” is their church handwriting of ordinances (dogmas). A “dogma” is what one thinks or believes in their own mind is what is true.

Multitudes go to a “church” where they preach what they think themselves in their own minds is the truth to keep. They go to a church where there are other like-minded “believers” of what they think is true to keep and is written down in the church’s handwriting of dogmas to serve. And then they go about judging others via that dogma.

The “wound by the sword” is the keeping of the daily sacrifice of the Lamb in our lives. We use the “sword of the Spirit” to mortify/slay/kill the deeds of the body. If this is ceased, then the “wound” is healed.

The first beast had the wound by the sword and did live. The lie is believed: you shall surely not die….by “killing” another, you shall not die. You shall live…supposedly.

Rev 13:14-15 KJV
(14) And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.


And he had power to give “life”…that is, spirit or breath….unto the image of the beast.

It is our breath that is being used to speak and “kill” others (judging them) via the handwriting (the image) that is being used to serve the first beast (“another jesus”).

This "killing" is about JUDGING others via the image ....the church handwriting....that is used to serve the "beast" (another jesus).

(15) And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
 

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IT is a bit more straightforward I suspect.

1. The Image of the beast is referenced in Rev 13 and Rev 14 (the third angel's message).

2. When it speaks of "The image of the beast" it is a reference to the "First beast" in Rev 13.

Rev 13:11 Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spoke as a dragon. 12 He exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence. And he makes the earth and those who live on it worship the first beast, whose fatal wound was healed. 13 He performs great signs, so that he even makes fire come down out of the sky to the earth in the presence of people. 14 And he deceives those who live on the earth because of the signs which it was given him to perform in the presence of the beast, telling those who live on the earth to make an image to the beast who *had the wound of the sword and has come to life. 15 And it was given to him to give breath to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast would even speak and cause all who do not worship the image of the beast to be killed. 16 And he causes all, the small and the great, the rich and the poor, and the free and the slaves, to be given a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads, 17 and he decrees that no one will be able to buy or to sell, except the one who has the mark, either the name of the beast or the number of his name. 18 Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for the number is that of a man; and his number is six hundred and sixty-six.

There will be a death decree issued against anyone that does not worship the image of the beast (which is an image to the first beast ... which means doing something that looks like what the first beast does)

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Rev 14 - the third angels of the 3 Angels in Rev 14 -- has a message about those who worship the image to the beast - vs-- the saints

9 Then another angel, a third one, followed them, saying with a loud voice, “If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives a mark on his forehead or on his hand, 10 he also will drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is mixed in full strength in the cup of His anger; and he will be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb. 11 And the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever; they have no rest day and night, those who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name.” 12 Here is the perseverance of the saints who keep the commandments of God and their faith in Jesus.

Keeping "the commandments of God" is the actions of the saints - as contrasted to those who worship the beast in Rev 14.
 
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