One World Religion is Almost Here

We just experienced, this last week, another attempt at assassination of Donald Trump. Now then, I'm going to read to you some of the words of my thoughts after that occurred, and what we are looking at.

The more that we see how they get into explaining this and the lack of information that is given, the more that we realize this was not a one-off individual and that it was not accidental.

This is something the FBI and CIA must prove to us. We don't have anything to prove to them, and that is based upon just a few remarks that Tulsi Gabbard made. She was put on the terrorist watch list. They had a silent surveillance team that followed her, went on every plane with her, kept track of her, what she was saying, what she was doing. All because she said some things about what Biden was doing, and he didn't like it, so he reported it. Homeland Security then sent the investigators out to follow her.

This man Ryan Routh, wherever he went and wherever he has gone, the FBI and CIA need to prove to us that they didn't know that he was outside the fence for 12 hours waiting for Trump to come by to kill him.

As we see with Tulsi Gabbard, they also had access to her phone, so, someone like this Ruth, who traveled the world, went to the Ukraine, tried to hire mercenaries:

• Where did he get his money?
• How did he go there?

You can add the same thing to Crooks for the first assassination try. And if they have Tulsi Gabbard under surveillance for everything that she does:

• Don't you think that they had this guy Routh under investigation?

They said when they looked at his phone, he had been there for 12 hours. Well, the CIA and FBI knew!

• they can't tell me they didn't know he was there

• they can't tell me that they weren't following him, that they didn't have him tracked for whatever he did

If he wasn't on the terrorist watch list, that was planned negligence! That's how they do it, planned negligence!

What is this? You look at everything that was done, you look at all of the things that was confessed as negligence and errors in the first assassination attempt, and it was planned so that an assassination could take place and no official fingerprints would be on it. That's how they do it!

Isn't that how they entrap criminals and spies? By having access and information that they get surreptitiously, and the one that they're supposedly supporting doesn't know anything about it!

The FBI and CIA are masters of intrigue, deception, and duplicity. And they expect us to be stupid idiots to think that they didn't plan this, this way. Of course, they did!

President Biden along with Kamala Harris and all the leading mainstream media in varying degrees are all complicit. So, I have no idea what Congress can do, because they won't report the facts to them. Isn't it convenient that the ones who were guilty of causing this to be done are the ones who are investigating it to find out what happened?

That tells you they're all a bunch of liars. They knew that Routh was there for 12 hours. So, they have to prove to us they didn't.

Then I got a report from Jim Records about it, who used to be in the CIA, and I sent all of that to all of the elders, one of the elders—Bob Lewis—who is an elder with the First Century Fellowship Group in Florida, who are associated with us. He used to be in the upper echelon of the guarding of dignitaries and presidents and prime ministers and so forth, said:

Hi, Fred: Valuable information you sent and certainly spot on. I thought I would share some insights and thoughts of the whole election and turmoil that is only escalating. Our nation is at war with evil and uncivil war. As only one side is present at present is firing any shots, and you know the war has already been won—that is Christ is in charge of all!

How's this is going to affect the election? Let's look at some things here.

Now we have to look at this, because God looks at the whole picture. He looks at everything!

Now, I mentioned some of this in my letter that was just mailed out, which some of you may have already received.

Ezekiel 22:23: "And the Word of the LORD came to me, saying,"

It's interesting in light of what Michael has said, which is this: 'The Word of the Lord'; that's what it is.

When it says the Word of God, that means everything that God has said, whether it's broken down into laws or commandments, statutes or judgments or whatever.

Verse 24: "'Son of man, say to her, "You are a land that is not cleansed, nor rained upon in the day of indignation." There is a conspiracy of her prophets…'" (vs 24-25).

So, the first ones responsible for any morality or immorality in the land go to the religious leaders. It starts there, especially those that have the Word of God and stand there and say, 'We don't have to believe it.'

"…of her prophets in her midst, like a roaring lion tearing the prey. They have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made many widows in her midst. Her priests have done violence to My Law and have profaned My Holy things…." (vs 25-26).

Notice how God charges them, because this is important. You watch all of those false prophets that are on television or wherever they may be—online, whatever— they debunk:

• the Laws of God
• the Truth of God

and say, 'We have grace; we can do anything we want to.' That is a lawless lie of coming straight from the mouth of Satan the devil. Here's why:

"…They have put no difference between the Holy and the profane, and have not taught the difference between the unclean and the clean, and they have hidden their eyes from My Sabbaths, and I am profaned among them" (v 26)—that's the prophets!

• that's why we have God-haters
• that's why we have atheists
• that's why we have people who don't believe in God

because there are too many liars in the pulpit! How can we believe any of them? That's what it is!

We're living in the end times that Jesus said would be like it was in the days of Noah before the Flood. Now think about this: That whole civilization before the Flood was so evil. 'Every thought of the imagination of the heart of everyone was only evil continually.'

God didn't do it just to cause the Flood just because of their actions. He caused it because of their thoughts and their actions. What did He do? He destroyed everything except Noah, his family, and the animals that God sent to Noah to take on the ark!

Now think about how much evil that must have been for God to do that. It's so evil that God just gave us a little summary in the first five chapters of the book of Genesis, but that covers 1,575 years. So, we need to keep that in mind!

The thing we need to understand is God means business!

Verse 27: "Her rulers…"—all:

• the politicians
• the kings
• the presidents
• the prime ministers
• the senators
• the representatives
• the governors
• city councils

Sidebar: Here in Hollister, we have a corrupt city council, a corrupt board of supervisors; they give gifts of dismissing important things they need to do in developing, so we have in Hollister the worst roads in California!

Verse 27: "Her rulers in her midst are like wolves tearing the prey, to shed blood and to destroy souls, to get unjust gain."

• Sound like the Democrat party?
• Where do all the billions and trillions go?

Not into the things they say it's going into, it goes into the pocket of these so-called green developers, and then they take the money and use all the money and then declare bankruptcy and keep the money; taxpayer money!

Verse 28: "And her prophets have covered themselves with whitewash, seeing false visions and divining lies unto them, saying, 'Thus says the Lord GOD,' when the LORD has not spoken. The people of the land…" (vs 28-29).

Now then, we have the prophets, the rulers, the people! All the people of the land are also responsible, especially today since we have the Bible.

How many people have the Bible today, especially in America.

Verse 29: "The people of the land have used oppression and committed robbery, and they have troubled the poor and needy. Yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully. And I sought for a man among them who should build up a wall for the land, and stand in the breach before Me, so that I should not destroy it. But I did not find one" (vs 29-30).

Now then, he says if there is not one, here's what's going to happen"

Verse 31: "'Therefore, I have poured out My fury on them. I have burned them up with the fire of My wrath. I have recompensed their own way upon their heads,' says the Lord GOD." That's what we have today!

Now then, let's look at what has happened with Trump, because he may be the one man to give us a little small space in which to work and preach the Gospel. Here's what he said after the first attempt on his life. Trump said at the convention; the first words out of his mouth, 'I stand here before you tonight by the grace of Almighty God!'

God's not dealing with him necessarily in a point of conversion,  but in a point of leadership for the country. He said, 'I shouldn't be here.'

Here are his comments after this last one, the second attempt:

'God has now spared my life not once, but twice. These encounters of death have not broken my will. They've only hardened my resolve to use my time on earth to make America great again for all Americans.'

Now we will see, the election is coming up, and there are 61-million evangelicals who say they believe in God, If all 61-million get out and voted plus all of the others who vote, then there's no way that Donald Trump is going to lose.

• God is giving all of us a choice
• God is giving all of us a time to do what He wants us to do

We need to understand that this is really quite a thing that has happened and that He, as I mentioned in my letter for September/October that Trump is the only one, as a leader, who has been humbled by God how many times with all the lawfare and everything that has gone against him. You think about what you would do. You think about how you would stand up if all of these things had been brought against you that had been brought against him.

Then you go back to the way that the deep state treated him after he got elected: and they had two impeachments, they had spying, they had all of these things and all of those going on, and then the four lawsuits that came out to try and keep him from running for president. Now the two assassination attempts that have come against him.

We need to pray for the will of God to be done! So, people say, well, we shouldn't get involved in politics. Well, if God is dealing with a man like Trump and dealing with him the way that Trump is, and what he wants to do, if all of that would be in accord with God's will and doing good, it may be keeping the door open for us to preach the Gospel.

The one-world Religion is almost here! It's been developing for years, and the Catholic Church has led the universal ecumenism of bringing all religions together.

I want you to write in for this booklet at truthofGod.org}: A Tribute to William Tyndale.

William Tyndale was the very first one in the 1530s to translate the Bible out of the original Greek and original Hebrew. He certainly was called of God. He had to stand alone, and virtually do everything alone all of his life. He did have certain helpers to help him.

But what got him started was this: There was a learned man who said, 'We had better be without God's laws than the pope's laws.' Here is what Tyndale replied: I defy the pope!

That's what we need to do. We must defy any false teaching! We have in the end-times there will arise false prophets, false christs, who will do great signs and wonders!

That's why it's so important in keeping the commandments of God and using the Holy Spirit of God correctly, because Satan comes along and he gives benefits. Remember the benefits that he promised Christ?

• turn the rocks into bread; that's a benefit
• jump off the height of the temple, and God's angels will spare You; that's a benefit
• bow down and worship me, and I will give you this whole world, for it's been delivered unto me, all the glory of them, and I will give it to You; that's a benefit

So when these false prophets come along and have miracles and wonders, you have to look to what they say about the Word of God. What did Jesus say about himself?

John 14:6: "Jesus said to him, 'I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life; no one comes to the Father except through Me." And no one comes to Jesus unless the Father draws him!

Tyndale said:

I defy the pope and all his laws. If God spares my life ere many years, I will cause even a boy that drives the plow that he shall know more about the Scriptures than you do.

This learned man who brought it up. That's where we are today.

Now, when I was doing my translating for the New Testament and later when Michael Heiss was doing his for the Old Testament, that's exactly how we felt with everything. There were many, many, many people who had come before us who were honest. It gets back to what Jesus told the disciples:

John 4:33: "Then the disciples said to one another, 'Did anyone bring Him something to eat?' Jesus said to them, 'My meat…'" (vs 33-34).

That's interesting, isn't it? Food, spiritual food! It says in one of the Psalms: 'Taste and see that the word of God is good.' That means:

• bring it into your mind
• think about it
• apply it
• see that it's good

"…'My meat is to do the will of Him Who sent Me, and to finish His work….[that applies to us] …Do not say that there are yet four months, and then the harvest comes. I say to you, look around. Lift up your eyes and see the fields, for they are already white to harvest. And the one who reaps receives a reward, and gathers fruit unto eternal life; so that the one who is sowing and the one who is reaping may both rejoice together. For in this the saying is true, that one sows and another reaps" (vs 34-37)

This is important, because the only way we could do what we have done with the things with the Bible and the literature that we have is this:

Verse 38[transcriber's correction]: "I sent you to reap that in which you have not labored…"

Now all the Lexicons, all the detailed information about how the Greek and Hebrew works; that has all been done. It's interesting that God kept a lot of them absolutely accurate for the benefit of those of us today.

"…others have labored, and you have entered into their labor" (v 38).

Now even Tyndale said that he used a Hebrew Lexicon back in his days. We don't know how much it was that they had, but it's an amazing thing that we all have the Bible today. It's an amazing thing that it's in all the languages that we have today. That's because God said it would be published, and now it has to come the time to finish preaching.

In the meantime we have the false prophet rising up and declaring Satan's ultimate goal! He said this:

Pope Francis says "all religions are a path to God."
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"They are like different languages in order to arrive at God, but God is God for all," the pope said, who had set aside his prepared text and spoke largely off the cuff.

"Since God is God for all, then we are all children of God."

That can't be!

Who are the children of God? The called, the chosen the faithful! You're chosen because you answered the call! The faithful—the called, the chosen, the faithful—those are the children of God!

Now, shows that he is from Satan the devil, because he never mentioned the other half of that equation: there are the children of Satan!

Now, there was an interfaith meeting. Notice what else he says here:

"If you start to fight…"

Okay, Pope Francis, what about all of the inquisitions and killings of Christians that you did in the Catholic Church down through time?

William Tyndale, who first wanted to translate the Bible in English, was martyred by the Catholic officials in Catholic Church for translating the Bible!

"If you start to fight, 'my religion is more important than yours, mine is true and yours isn't,' where will that lead us?" he asked aloud. "There's only one God, and each of us has a language to arrive at God. Some are Sheik, Muslim, Hindu, Christian, and they are different paths to God."

For the inter-religious dialogue among people, " it takes courage because youth is the time of courage in our lives. You can also have this courage and use it for things that don't help you. You can use it to move toward and engage in dialogue, and that is to serve everything that there is."

2-Cor. 4—this is what we are dealing with.

Revelation 12:9: "…the Devil and Satan, who is deceiving the whole world…"—actively doing it!

The only ones who are not deceived are those who have the Spirit of God, and amongst them there are those who don't take things seriously enough. They need to take the stance like William Tyndale, "I defy the pope."

Well, I defy him in what he has said when compared to the Word of God, because it says here:

2-Corinthians 4:1: "Therefore, having this ministry, according as we have received mercy, we are not fainthearted." We can't be weak!

Verse 2: "For we have personally renounced the hidden things of dishonest gain, not walking in cunning craftiness, nor handling the Word of God deceitfully…"

That's the way that they all do. All Orthodox Christianity beginning with Sunday-worship is handling the word of God deceitfully!

Very soon, right after the Feast of Tabernacles and the Last Great Day, what comes up? Halloween! Satan's celebration of death!

Verse 3: "But if our Gospel is hidden, it is hidden to those who are perishing; in whom the god of this age…" (vs 3-4)—or this world!

That's what Satan is called. So it is true in one sense that all religions are a pathway to Satan! The Truth of God through the Gospel of Jesus Christ is the pathway to Truth and eternal life, and it's not a religion. It is a way of life.

Verse 4: "In whom the god of this age has blinded the minds of those who do not believe…" They have used their free choice:

• to reject the Word of God
• to replace it with their own thoughts

So, what happens?

"…lest the Light of the Gospel of the glory of Christ, Who is the image of God, should shine unto them" (vs 4). They won't understand it!

Now, God has blinded them so that later He can have mercy on them. But today, in the world we are living in, we have to have the same attitude as Tyndale.

Verse 5: "For we do not preach our own selves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake." So that's what we are to do!

Here we have it, the Babylonian one-world religion is almost here.

Rev. 17—this was prophesied. We will see it goes clear back to Isa. 47. That is almost 3,000-years-old. But the Babylonian religion goes back to where? The Tower of Babel (Rev.11) and Nimrod, Semiramis, and Tamuz, and coming down to us today in all the satanic religions, which the pope says 'leads to God'! NO! That leads to Satan, because the whole world has been deceived!

Revelation 17:1: "And one of the seven angels who had the seven vials came and spoke with me, saying to me, 'Come here; I will show you the judgment of the great whore who sits upon many waters; with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication…'" (vs 1-2),

• the leaders go along with all of it
• they practice it
• they're a part of it

That's called spiritual fornication!

"…and those who dwell on the earth were made drunk with the wine of her fornication'" (v 2).

All of the false teachings have been mixed in with little nuggets of little Truth here and a little Truth there to make it look like it's authentic.

Remember this: In order for a lie to succeed, you have to have a certain amount of Truth. But that Truth is distorted like Satan always does with all Scripture. So, their minds are also closed!

Verse 3: "Then he carried me away in the spirit to a wilderness; and I saw a woman sitting upon a scarlet beast that had seven heads and ten horns, full of names of blasphemy."

Everything against God! We're seeing that now with all this digital control of speech. Amazing!

Verse 4: "And the woman was clothed in purple and scarlet, and was adorned with gold and pearls and precious stones; and she had a golden cup in her hand, filled with abominations and the filthiness of her fornication"—every evil thing!

Now, Randy Vild—who is our producer and editor for Church at Home, and also the messages that we have for the sermons—has a lot of clips on Church at Home showing the sacrament of the Catholic Church. That goes back centuries into paganism:

• the round disk
• the sun disk
• the serpentine pillars

Verse 5: "And across her forehead a name was written: MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH." Every filthy thing coming from Satan the devil!

Verse 6: "And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus…."—that is identified as the Catholic Church.

"…And after seeing her, I wondered with great amazement" (v 6). John was looking at this and he was saying:

• How can this be?
• What is this going to happen?

Of course, John couldn't understand it. He had to write it, but he couldn't understand it! We look at it today and we find the news, and we know what comes and we can understand it!

Verse 7: "Then the angel said to me, 'Why are you amazed? I will tell you the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carries her, which has the seven heads and the ten horns. The beast that you saw was, and is not, but is about to come up out of the abyss and to go into perdition…." (vs 7-8).

And it had seven resurrections of it, as we find in Dan. 7!

"…And those who dwell on the earth, whose names are not written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world, shall be astonished when they see the beast that was, but is not, and yet, is" (v 8).

It's going to be an amazing thing! Look at all the wars and all of the things that we have today. Look what the Jews did to Hezbollah. They sold them all of these phones and different hand-carried apparatuses and they put explosives in there. And then at a certain signal, bang, they all went off. Some lost their hands, some lost their lives, and terror through all of Hezbollah. What can you trust?

So you see, we're living in an age when things can come about that are absolutely unknown to what Paul and the other apostles and John knew or could know. Amazing thing!

Verse 9: "Here is the mind that has wisdom: The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits. And there are seven kings; five are fallen, and one is,  [tie in Dan. 7] …and the other has not yet come; and when he has come, it is ordained that he remain a little while. And the beast that was, and is not, he is also the eighth, and is from the seven, and goes into perdition" (vs 9-11). Now that's what's going to happen when Christ returns!

Verse 12: "'And the ten horns that you saw are ten kings, who have not yet received a kingdom, but shall receive authority as kings for one hour with the beast. These all have one mind, and shall give up their power and authority to the beast. These will make war with the Lamb, but the Lamb shall overcome them; for He is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those who are with Him are called, and chosen, and faithful.'Then he said to me [John], 'The waters that you saw, where the whore sits, are peoples and multitudes and nations and languages'" (vs 12-15)—one-world religion!

It's quite amazing and God has given us these things to understand today which can only be understood at the end-times. Just like Daniel was told, at the time of the end, ' the wise shall understand,' Who are the wise? The ones who:

• believe God
• obey God
• love God

They are the wise and—as we know with the New Testament] …have the Spirit of God!

But none of the wicked will understand. They won't! When they see a miracle that the pope does. Remember of the ten plagues that came against Egypt the first three were replicated by the magicians of the Pharaoh.

Isaiah 47:1: "Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon… [a sarcastic remark because she's not a virgin] …sit on the ground. There is no throne for you, O daughter of the Chaldeans, for you shall no more be called tender and delicate. Take the millstones and grind meal. Push back your veil, draw up your skirt, uncover your leg, pass over the rivers. Your nakedness shall be uncovered…" (vs 1-3).

That's what Tyndale did! He uncovered the nakedness and the evil of all the things that the Catholics did.

When I was translating the New Testament, I did a lot of reading concerning Tyndale and was greatly inspired at:

• what he did
• what he had to go through
• what he had to put up with

Likewise, we had our little share of that in doing what we did. So ,we have to expose it.

"'…yea, your shame shall be seen; I will take vengeance and I will not meet you as a man.' As for our Redeemer, the LORD of hosts is His name, the Holy One of Israel" (vs 3-4).

That's who's going to do it; Christ is going to do it! Remember, the first thing that Christ does, He destroys the armies of the beast and the false prophet. Then as an angel, take the beast and false prophet and throw them into the Lake of Fire. Then bind Satan the devil.

Verse 5: "Sit silent, and go into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans; for you shall no more be called the lady of kingdoms. I was angry with My people, I have polluted My inheritance, and given them into your hand. You showed them no mercy; you have very heavily laid your yoke upon the aged" (vs 5-6). We'll see this repeated in Rev. 18!

Verse 7: "And you said, 'I shall be a lady forever'; so you did not lay these things to your heart, nor did you remember the latter end of it. Now then, hear this, O lover of pleasures, who sits securely; who says in her heart, 'I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, nor shall I know the loss of children'" (vs 7-8). That is all the religions of the world!

So they're all coming back, and the Catholics have had liaisons between them for decades, waiting for this moment of time.

Verse 9: "But these two things shall come to you in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood. They shall come upon you in their fullness for the multitude of your sorceries, and for the great abundance of your enchantments."

That's exactly what's going to happen as we read Revelation!

Verse 10: "For you have trusted in your wickedness; you have said, 'No one sees me.' Your wisdom and your knowledge has perverted you; and you have said in your heart, 'I am, and there is no one else.'"

Now there are a lot of things going on in the news, but how many heard what the Pope said on the nightly news? Here's the judgment that's going to come. Let's read it and see how that this magnifies and brings to the full Isa. 47.

Revelation 18:1: "And after these things I saw an angel descending from heaven, having great authority; and the earth was illuminated with his glory. And he cried out mightily with a loud voice, saying, 'Babylon the Great is fallen, is fallen, and has become a habitation of demons, and a prison of every unclean spirit, and a prison of every unclean and hated bird; because all nations have drunk of the wine of the fury of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich through the power of her luxury'" (vs 1-3).

• What do they say today about Halloween? That the merchants make more money on Halloween than they do on Christmas!
• That celebrates what?
• death
• sorcery
• witchcraft
• evil
• indoctrinating children
• lies to children

to bring into them incrementally the sin of Babylon the Great to indoctrinate them into Satan's way!

What comes after that? Christmas! 'Oh, what a wonderful thing.' Jesus was never born anywhere near December 25th.

We have a booklet on that: Christmas, the Greatest Story Never Told. Jesus was not born then. 'Oh, but we have a wonderful time with the tree.'

I remember one woman who left the Church after having been in a Church for a number of years and went back into the world. She said, 'You know, all these years I missed having the smell of the Christmas tree in my house, and I'm so happy to have it back.' Amazing!

What does that do? That indoctrinates children to look for presents and gifts from Santa Claus, which is a lie!

If you grew up, or you kept Christmas, how did you feel when your parents told you Santa Claus would come and bring presents, and you found out it was a lie?

I know in my case, whenever I lied, I got switched. And I had to go out and pick the switch, and if the switch wasn't good enough, my mom said to go out and get another one!

So, when I found the presents that I asked Santa Claus to bring hidden in the closet of our house way before Christmas time, I confronted my mother and said, 'There's no Santa Claus. I found a presents; you lied to me. You know what her answer was? It was a white lie!

What does this do? This teaches you to lie, because there are 'good' lies! A benefit comes! That's how the merchants got rich!

Verse 3: "'Because all nations have drunk of the wine of the fury of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich through the power of her luxury.' And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, 'Come out of her, My people… [we must not be living in the world the way that the world lives] …so that you do not take part in her sins, and that you do not receive of her plagues, for her sins have reached as far as heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities. Render to her as she has rendered to you; and give to her double… [this time the judgment is going to be awesome] …even according to her works. In the cup that she mixed, give her back double. To the degree that she glorified herself and lived luxuriously, give to her as much torment and sorrow. For she says in her heart… [tie in Isa. 47] …"I sit a queen enthroned, and am not a widow; and in no way shall I experience sorrow." For this very reason, her plagues shall come in one day…'" (vs 3-8).

Quite a thing, isn't it? So, we see that developing. Then we see at the same time the development of the one-world religion. This tells us there's coming a one-world government. 

I'll have to bring a special message on that. I've got a thick outline this, of government or agency or whatever business that are all behind this one-world movement. I suspect that's one of the reasons they want to get rid of Trump, because he doesn't want to get into any one-world system.

Revelation 13:4: "And they worshiped the dragon, who gave his authority to the beast. And they worshiped the beast, saying, 'Who is like the beast?….'"

We've covered that many times; 2-Thess. 2 and the 'abomination that makes desolate.'

"'…Who has the power to make war against him?'" (v 4).

What is the number one problem today? War! Potential WWIII! I don't think it's going to come! Speculation: I don't think it's going to come, because the world has to be configured in to this whole system before that comes!

Verse 5: "And a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies was given to him; and authority was given to him to continue for forty-two months. And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme His name, and His tabernacle, and those who dwell in heaven. And he was given power to make war against the saints…" (vs 5-7).

Now, that's coming! So, we need to be prepared! We need to be ready! Let's understand this: the war against the saints. We know this. Let's look at the timing because we need to look at what is also going to be there going on at the same time.

We know that right here the first thing going on in v 11 has to do with the false prophet who will end up being the pope. I expect that this pope is going to die in not too far distant future. And there will come on one who will be able to do miracles.

Then there will come a world leader who will have great dynamic success. This is going to look like finally we have all of our world problems solved. But they won't be! We know this one here, enforcing the mark of the beast!

Let's look at the two witnesses. When you look in the book of Revelation you find in chapter 12:

• 1260 days, then it's 1260 years
• times, times and half of times, that's three and a half years
• 1260 days, which are days

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You will see that approximately the same time—I'll just phrase it this way—those few who go to a place of safety will be taken to the place of safety, and they will be there for times, times and half of time—3-1/2 years.

Now, three and a half years is different than 1260 days because years are calculated by months, and months have 30 days, 29, 30, 29. So in any Biblical Hebrew calendar year, what do you have? You have six 29 days and six 30 days!

So that doesn't quite equal the same as times, times and half of time. So, let's understand about that.

The two witnesses will come on the scene probably right after those taken to a place of safety arrive at where the place of safety is. Then the two witnesses come on.

Revelation 11:1: "Then the angel gave me a measuring rod like a staff, saying, 'Arise and measure the Temple of God, and the altar, and those who worship in it.'"

Now this is at the end-time, and this is why we know that there is going to be a third temple built, because that has to be built in order for there to be the 'abomination of desolation.'

Verse 2: "But leave out the court that is within the temple area, and do not measure it because it has been given up to the Gentiles; and they shall trample upon the Holy city for forty-two months."

Now again, forty-two months is different than three and a half years.

Verse 3: "And I will give power to My two witnesses…"

Now, there's one man in a Church of God who says that he and his wife are the two witnesses. The two witnesses, as we will see, will not come from the Church. Yet, there are still people who follow him. Amazing!

Verse 4: "These are the two olive trees, and the two lampstands that stand before the God of the earth." No man in between!

• Where do we find this listed?
• Where do we find this in prophecy?

This will tell us who will be one of the two witnesses and who will be the other of the two witnesses, because God is going to select them! They will be right in the face of the beast and the false prophet.

There's going to be a constant battle between the two witnesses and the beast and the false prophet during this time period that the two witnesses are there.

Zech.—here we find that one of the two witnesses will be the coming high priest at the temple that is to be built.

And then we will look in chapter 4 and then we will see that this tells us who the two witnesses will be. And they will be confronting the false prophet and the beast day in, day out, day in, day out, just like it was with Moses, Aaron and Pharaoh and his group.

Zechariah 3: "And He showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him."

Here he is right at the brink and Satan wanting to get a hold of him.

Verse 2: "And the LORD said to Satan, 'May the LORD rebuke you, Satan! May even the LORD Who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Is this not a brand plucked out of the fire?'"

In other words, he is saved from his sin so that he doesn't go into the Lake of Fire." So that's got to be a priest to come! Now, at that time it was Joshua.

Verse 3: "Now, Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and stood before the angel."

It shows that this man is pulled out of the depths and pit of Judaism! That's what it shows.

Verse 4: "And He answered and spoke to those who stood before him, saying, 'Take the filthy garments from off him.' And to him He said, 'Behold, I have caused your iniquity to pass from you, and I will clothe you with ceremonial robes.'

And the ceremonial robes as we find out in Rev. 11 is sackcloth and ashes!

Verse 6: "And the angel of the LORD charged Joshua, saying, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts, "If you will walk in My ways, and if you will keep My charge, then you shall also judge My house, and shall also keep My courts, and I will give you places to walk among these who stand by. Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, you and your fellows who sit before you; for they are men wondered at, for behold, I will bring forth My Servant the Branch!"'" (vs 6-8).

So this tells us this is the return of Christ, and this is one of the two prophets!

Come here to Zech. 4, and then we will see they are named exactly as Rev. 7 names them. What I want us to understand is this. God is the one who is going to choose them! They are not going to be anybody in the Church. It's going to be the high priest from the house of Aaron and it's going to be the governor of Judea from the line of David! That's what we have here:

Zechariah 4:1: "And the angel that talked with me came again and awakened me, as a man that is awakened out of his sleep. And he said to me, 'What do you see?' And I said, 'I see, and behold, a lampstand, all of it gold, and a bowl on its top, and its seven lamps upon it, and seven pipes to the seven lamps on its top; and two olive trees beside it, one on the right side of the bowl, and the other on the left side of it.' And I answered and spoke to the angel who talked with me, saying, 'What are these, my lord?' Then the angel who talked with me answered and said to me, 'Do you know what these are?' And I said, 'No, my lord.' Then he answered and spoke to me, saying, 'This is the Word of the LORD to Zerubbabel…" (vs 1-6).

Zerubbabel was one of the governors when they came back out of the captivity of Babylon.

"…saying, 'Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit,' says the LORD of hosts" (v 6).

Now why does he have to say that? Because right now the Jewish armies are relying on their battle plans that they are doing, their armies, their equipment and everything else!

That's their might and their power. When the second of the two witnesses come on the scene, they're going to know that God is going to fight.

Verse 7: "Who are you, O great mountain?…."  Now the great mountain is the coming one world government and the leader of the beast.

"…Before Zerubbabel you shall become a plain; and he shall bring forth the head stone with shoutings, 'Grace! Grace unto it!'" That is Christ coming!

Verse 8: "And the Word of the LORD came to me, saying, 'The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house. His hands shall also finish it.' And you shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you" (vs 8-9).

In other words, the one who's going to be the second of the two witnesses will be the governor!  The temple that will be built, he will be responsible for making sure it's done.

Verse 10: 'For who has despised the day of small things? For they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel. These seven are the eyes of the LORD, which run to and fro through the whole earth."

That goes clear back to Rev. 4 & 5, the seven spirits of God.

Verse 11: "And I answered and said to him, 'What are these two olive trees on the right side of the lampstand and on its left side?' And I answered again and said to him, 'What are the two olive branches beside the two golden pipes, emptying the golden oil out of themselves?' And he answered me and said, 'Do you not know what these are?' And I said, 'No, my lord'" (vs 11-13).

Now notice v 14; this tells us exactly who the two witnesses will be:

• the high priest of the coming third temple.
• the governor of Judea.

Verse 14: "And he said, 'These are the two anointed ones who stand by the LORD of the whole earth.'" The two olive trees, v 11!

Let's see how this connects perfectly and that there can be no mistake that these are going to be the two who will be confronting the beast and the false Prophet!

Now, we have to wait and see how long it's going to take for Europe to develop because it will develop, and who the leader will be. We will just have to wait and see how it comes together.

Revelation 11:3: "And I will give power to My two witnesses… [personally selected by God] …and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth. These are the two olive trees, and the two lampstands that stand before the God of the earth" (vs 3-4).

Isn't that what we read in Zech. 3 & 4? Yes, indeed! Stand before the God of the earth! Now these two witnesses are going to torment the beast and the false prophet. No one is going to be able to harm them or kill them because fire goes out of their mouth.

Now, you talk about a powerful witness! This is going to be something!

Then you know the rest of it. When the 1260 days are over, God finally lets them be killed. The world is going to rejoice. But three and a half days later, guess what? After their bodies lie in Jerusalem in the streets and the world is rejoicing, then starts the first resurrection!

So this is a powerful thing because these two witnesses are the last two who are martyred and the first two to be resurrected.

Now you'll have to come for the Feast of Trumpets to get the rest of this story, because there's a whole lot more to the book of Revelation. Right now we see the things set up:

• coming one world religion
• coming magnificent pope

We have yet to see the beast and world government come up. It will come up and it will have a magnificent leader, one who will bring peace.

This is what we need to keep our mind focused on. How that fits in with the election that's coming up, we can't determine that until we see how it turns out.

Let's keep watching the prophecies and watching the news and see what things happen!

Scriptural References:

• Ezekiel 22:23-32
• John 14:6
• John 4:33-38
• Revelation 12:9
• 2 Corinthians 4:1-5
• Revelation 17:1-15
• Isaiah 47:1-10
• Revelation 18:1-8
• Revelation 13:4-7
• Revelation 11:1-4
• Zechariah 3:1-4, 6-8
• Zechariah 4:1-14
• Revelation 11:3-5

Scriptures referenced, not quoted:

• Genesis 1-5
• Daniel 7
• 2-Thessalonians 2
• Revelation 7; 4-5

Also referenced:

Booklets:

• Tribute to William Tyndale {truthofGod.org}
• Christmas, the Greatest Story Never Told

In-Depth Study: Daniel/Revelation {truthofGod.org}

Article:
Pope Francis says "all religions are a path to God."
{https://www.reddit.com/r/eformed/comments/1fg6psg/pope_francis_says_all_religions_are_a_path_to_god/?rdt=55680}

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Transcribed: 9/27/24

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