136 - Les Feldick Bible Study Lesson 1 - Part 4 - Book 12 - Anti-Christ - "False Prophet"

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 1 * PART 4 * BOOK 12 ANTI-CHRIST - "FALSE PROPHET" In verse 3 remember we are talking about this great religious system that is going to come on the world. Which particular religious system ends up heading it up I don't know. There are a lot of world-wide huge religious organizations on the scene tonight who have tremendous wealth, and political power. It has always been that way, even back in the Old Testament the pagan idolatrous world was always making life miserable for the true people of God. So as this great religious system comes on the scene, it will of course be satanic. It will be a satanically inspired organization under the guise of religion, which will be headed up by this one-world religious leader, the false prophet, who could very easily be an apostate Jew. That didn't mean that they didn't want God in government. Revelation 17:4 Remember all the religions of the world will come under this one. Verse 5. Revelation 17:5 II Thessalonians 1:7 "For the mystery of iniquity doth already work:..." It's been working since God scattered them from the Tower of Babel. And it has been a constant adversary of the true worship of Jehovah God. Going into idolatry. And on this side of the Cross you have the Apostle Paul going out into the Gentile world. As Paul is now taking the Gospel of the Grace of God to the Gentile world, and as he and Barnabas have come into Ephesus, multitudes of those pagans are being converted. Look what happens when Christianity begins to make inroads into idolatrous worship of these pagan religions. Paul's way. Greed. Come back to Revelation Chapter 17. Here we have this great religious system. Verse 5 again takes us all the way back to ancient Babylon, the Tower of Babel. Even though idolatry is basically dealing in the realm of the dark side of the spiritual, yet idolatry is dealing with man's desire to worship something. But when you get into a study of pagan worship, especially at the time of the Apostle Paul, remember that part and parcel of their worship was gross immorality. All in the name of their religion. Now verse 6. Revelation 17:6 I suppose that John marveled at wealth, and pomp and circumstance and power. Revelation 17:7 "And the angel said unto me, `Wherefore didst thou marvel? The Anti-christ. If you've got a beast of burden carrying something, then it's supporting it. What you really have here is this revived Roman Empire; this great political world-wide system headed up by the man Anti-christ is going to subsidize, and support this world church. Revelation 17:8 "The beast that thou sawest was (and again I'm holding to the fact that this is the Roman Empire. Revelation 17:9-11 The seven heads are seven mountains (Kingdoms or nations), on which the woman sitteth." Now verse 10. Now in verse 11 we come to the rise of the Anti-christ. Verse 12: Revelation 17:12,13 The Anti-christ. Revelation 17:14-16 "These (all these nations under the headship of the Anti-christ and the false prophet) shall make war with the Lamb (Christ), and the Lamb shall overcome them (at Christ's Second Coming): for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful." It's a world wide religious system. Verse 16: Remember in verse 7 this religious system is riding on the back of the beast but now) shall hate the whore (or religious system), and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire." What is the Anti-christ going to do with the religious system? II Thessalonians 2:4 "Who (the Anti-christ) opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God." He's going to set himself up as God and won't let the world religion have anything to do with him anymore. Verse 27, where the prince that shall come in verse 26 shall: Daniel 9:27 In order for temple worship to cease, it has to be going. So it stands to reason that if the Anti-christ is going to go into the temple in the middle of the Tribulation, then the temple must be operating. So at the mid-point of the Tribulation the Anti-christ will go into the temple and suddenly turn on the Jew. And he will set himself up as God and force the Jew to worship him rather than the God of the Old Testament which they think that they worship. Just because Israel gets her temple back at the beginning of the Tribulation doesn't mean that God will be working in their lives. It will be much the same kind of religion as Judaism was during Christ's earthly ministry. They had the temple, the priest, the sacrifices. Was God in it? Revelation 17:17,18 "For God hath put in their hearts to fulfill his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast (the Anti-christ), until the words of God shall be fulfilled." #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible