Jesus is coming. . .soon! Are you ready?

1. Jesus is coming. . .soon! Are you ready?

2. What is “The Mark of the Beast”?

3. What the Beast is NOT . . . • A computer in Belgium • A powerful political leader

4. What the Beast is NOT . . . • A computer in Belgium • A powerful political leader • A child born in the Middle East • A single religious leader

5. What the Beast is NOT . . . • A computer in Belgium • A powerful political leader • A child born in the Middle East • A single religious leader • A conquering general

6. What is the Beast?

7. What is the Beast?

8. What is “The Mark of the Beast”?

9. What the Mark is NOT . . . • A tattoo on the forehead

10. What the Mark is NOT . . . • A computer chip embedded under the skin

11. Revelation 13:4, 8, 12, 15 Vs. 4 – “and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?” Vs. 8 – “And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him”

12. Revelation 13:4, 8, 12, 15 Vs. 12 – “And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast”

13. Revelation 13:4, 8, 12, 15 Vs. 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.”

14. Revelation 13:4, 8, 12, 15 Vs. 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.”

15. Worship . . . Who? Why? When? How?

16. Worship – Who?

17. Baal Worship “. . .and let us make us a name. . .”

18. Baal Worship “It is written that the people said one to another: ‘Let us build us a city and a tower.’ And the name which they then gave to the city was ‘Babel.’ . . .”

19. Baal Worship “. . . At that time the meaning of the word ‘Babel’—its original meaning—was ‘Gate of God.’ Accordingly, they said: ‘Let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven.’ ” A.T. Jones“What is Babylon?”Review and Herald, Feb. 6, 1900

20. Baal Worship “. . . because of their pride and self-exaltation, their whole enterprise was turned so utterly into confusion that the word ‘Babel’ lost its original meaning of ‘Gate of God,’ and bore only the meaning of ‘confusion.’ ” A.T. Jones“What is Babylon?”Review and Herald, Feb. 6, 1900

21. Baal Worship “The word Babylon as we have seen, signifies confusion, and comes from Babel, the place where men, in their impious attempt to build a tower that should reach unto heaven, had their language confounded.” J.N. AndrewsThe Three Messages of Revelation 14:6-12, p. 47 (1892)

22. Baal Worship “Since the great apostasy, the majority of the professed followers [of Christ] have busied themselves in attempting to climb up to heaven some other way.” J.N. AndrewsThe Three Messages of Revelation 14:6-12, p. 48 (1892)

23. Baal Worship “. . .and let us make us a name. . .”

24. Baal Worship Molech or Baal

25. Baal Worship Asherah, Ishtar, Astarte, Isis

26. Baal Worship Gaia

27. Worshipping Another God In pantheism, God is the whole; however, in panentheism, the whole is in God.

28. Worshipping Another God In pantheism, God is the whole; however, in panentheism, the whole is in God.

29. Worshipping Another God “If God is love, and if love means sympathy (“suffering with”), then it would appear that God is affected by what happens in the world—that God ‘suffers change.’. . . because love is a ‘sharing experience,’ God’s love for the suffering must include God’s real participation in that suffering.” Kevin J. VanhoozerFirst Theology, p. 87 (2002)

30. Worshipping Another God • From the One emanates the Divine Mind (nous) • The Cosmic Soul (psyche) • And the Logos (word)

31. Worshipping Another God “That ye be not soon shaken in mind” (nous) “The first man Adam was made a living soul” (psyche) “In the beginning was the Word (logos), and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”

32. Worshipping Another God Panentheism has formulated a god that is a being who can become “more perfect” through the experiences of his creatures

33. Worshipping Another God • Hinduism • Taoism• Buddhism • Sufism (Muslim)• Theosophists • Muslims• Baha’i • New Age • Native American Indians• Unitarian Universalists• Animists of various types

34. Worship – Who? “And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, saying with a loud voice. . .

35. Worship – Who? “. . .Fear God, and give glory to Him; for the hour of His judgment is come: and worship Him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.” Revelation 14: 6, 7

36. Worship – Why? “. . .Fear God, and give glory to Him; for the hour of His judgment is come: and worship Him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.” Revelation 14: 6, 7

37. Worship – Who/Why? “O LORD God of Israel, which dwellest between the cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven and earth.” 2 Kings 19:15

38. Worship – Who/Why? “By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of His mouth.” Psalm 33:6 “My help cometh from the LORD, who made heaven and earth.” Psalm 121:2

39. Worship – Who/Why? “Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee.” Jeremiah 32:17

40. Worship – Who/Why? “. . .they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, Lord, thou art God, which hast made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all that in them is.” Acts 4:24

41. Worship – Why? The Creator and Sustainer of all things

42. Worship – Why? The Creator and Sustainer of all things

43. “And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the LORD be God, follow Him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.” Elijah on Mount Carmel

44. Baal Worship “It is now about twenty-eight centuries since the Lord called Elijah to stand for truth and denounce Baal-worship in high places. It would seem logical that ancient history of that sort could be filed away in the archives and forgotten . . . .”

45. Baal Worship “The problem is when pride and self-seeking masquerade as devotion to Christ, there we have Baal-worship. And it has penetrated all levels of the church body. . . .Christ cannot come until Baal is completely unmasked.” Donald K. ShortBaal-Worship and the Long Delay

46. Baal Worship “. . .and let us make us a name. . .”

47. Worship – Who? “I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside Me.” Isaiah 45:5

48. Worship – Who? “Look unto Me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.” Isaiah 45:22

49. Worship – Who? “And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people . . .

50. Worship – Who? “. . .saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to Him; for the hour of His judgment is come: worship Him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.” Revelation 14:6, 7