The Antichrist — J.B. Buffington

The Antichrist and the Lateness of the Hour

1 John 2, verse 18, for our text to commence with tonight as we speak upon that subject, the Antichrist. I've been speaking the last few weeks on the subject of the return of our Lord and things connected with it.

We spoke on Israel, the budding of the fig tree. Now, 1 John 2, verse 18, little children, it is at last time, and as ye have heard that Antichrist shall come, that was future, even now are there many Antichrists whereby we know that it is the last time.

Shall we pray now? Father, help us to realize the lateness of the hour, Lord, with anticipation that we might go to bed each night and rise each morning in our hearts, perhaps tonight, perhaps today. Thank you, Heavenly Father, that this world is not all there is to life.

Thank you that this world is not our home. We thank you, Lord, the best is yet to come. Thank you, Lord, for the glory that awaits us. Thank you for the inheritance that we have reserved in heaven. Lord, as we look ahead, we thank you, Lord, for saving us and keeping us.

We come to thee tonight and pray now that thou would help us as we open the word that we might study, we might understand the times, and not only be just scanning the sky, but, Lord, busy until you call us home.

Use the message tonight to motivate us to urgency and reap in the harvest, and perchance those who are unsaved here may be here tonight, we pray, Lord, that you would use this to bring them conviction of their lostness and their urgency of the need of getting saved tonight.

Fill us with thy Spirit, honor your Son, we plead thy blood over the service and over the message and over the hero, and we'll give you the thanksgiving and praise because we ask it in Jesus' name and for his sake, amen.

The Spirit of Antichrist in John's Epistles

The word Antichrist is only found in the epistle of John. If you have your Bible still open there, if you look over in that same chapter in verse 22, here's another reference to this, Who is a liar? But he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ, he is Antichrist that denieth the Father and the Son.

Now turn over to chapter 4 and verse 3, and there's only one other passage that uses the word Antichrist. Chapter 4, verse 3,. And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God, and this is that spirit of Antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come, and even now already is it in the world.

Now the second epistle of John, verse 7,. For many deceivers are entered into the world who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an Antichrist. Now John in his epistles is not concerned about dealing with a person of the Antichrist, but he was concerned about dealing with a spirit of Antichrist that was already prevalent in the day and age in which he lived, and so he brought about and revealed and gave to us now that that system of Antichrist was already at work in the hour in which he wrote.

When we come to the word Antichrist, it has two meanings, and it can be a meaning instead of Christ, or on the other hand, the word could be used as opposed to Christ. Scripturally, it's not used as instead of Christ, but it's used as absolutely opposed to Jesus Christ.

The text that we've already read, if you want to look at them again, then this proves it. And verse 22 of the second chapter of 1 John, it said, Whosoever he is Antichrist that denieth the Father and the Son.

It's in opposition to. He's not coming as a substitute for Christ. He's coming in absolute opposition against Christ, and that's found in the verses that I read in the book of 2 Thessalonians chapter 2 and verse 4.

False Christs and the Antichrist's Titles

Let me read there. Who opposeth and exalted himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped, so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. Now he is anti, in opposition to God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

There's another word that's a similar word, but they're not synonymous. You find it in the gospel according to Matthew chapter 24, where it speaks about false Christ. Now here is an assumption of being the Christ, and many folks have done that, but that's not referring to the Antichrist.

And I read in Matthew 24, 24,. For there shall arise false Christ and false prophets and shall show great signs and wonders. I think Father Divine, as he called himself in Chicago, called himself the Christ, and they worshipped him as a Christ.

Now there have been many false Christs, but there will be only one Antichrist. Now as we study this passage tonight, and as we study this particular subject tonight, let's look at some names of this individual.

We don't have time to go into detail and exhaust it, else we'd have to preach through the book of Daniel and through the book of Revelation. And I'll assure you, you don't have time, and I don't have time.

That'd take a lot of time. But a glimpse of this man, the Antichrist. Now in 2 Thessalonians, if you'll turn there, chapter 2, the second epistle to the church at Thessalonica, 2 Thessalonians, chapter 2, and we'll get several of his names.

We'll give you an index as to his character and his personality. 2 Thessalonians, chapter 2, and verse 3, Let no man deceive you by any means, or that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed.

He's spoken of as a man of sin. What a title, a man of sin, a man in whom sin has found its fullness and its essence, a man of sin. You ought to shudder and tremble when you think about a title being applied to an individual, man of sin.

The next verse gives another title of his, verse 4, Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped, so that he has God sitting in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God, excuse me, I read ahead of myself, the latter part of verse 3, that man of sin, the son of perdition.

Now he's called the son of perdition in the scripture. In John, chapter 17, the Lord Jesus, in praying, referred to Judas Iscariot and called him a son of perdition. None of them is lost except the son of perdition, that it may be fulfilled that is spoken in the scriptures, and so on.

Now there are folks who believe that the man of sin, the Antichrist, will be Judas Iscariot resurrected. I do not believe that. Now there are a lot of good men, Dr. M. R. DeHaan, believed that Judas Iscariot would be the Antichrist.

Now the reason I do not believe that is because of the fact that the Antichrist, or the man of sin, is a political figure and will play a part in the head of the Roman Empire in the past and in the future, and Judas Iscariot never was a political figure, he was a religious figure.

Now when he calls him the son of perdition, this refers to his character, the character of hell, the character of the damned. James and John, the disciples, were called sons of thunder. Now that did not mean that thunder was their father, but it meant that they were men of temper and high strung, and you see that in their life, sons of thunder, and it pointed to their character.

And this man, the son of perdition, the son of damnation, the son of hell, then he's spoken of in 2 Thessalonians chapter 2 and verse 8, look down a few verses, he's spoken of as that wicked one or lawless one.

And then shall that wicked or lawless one be revealed whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming. Over in Daniel 9, I won't ask you to turn there, but in Daniel 9 and verse 27, he's spoken of as the prince of the covenant, and we'll talk about that a little later.

In Revelation chapter 13 and verse 4 and 17, he's spoken of as the beast. In Daniel 7 and verse 8, he's spoken of as a little horn. Now there are many other titles that I'll not read tonight, but these are some of his titles, the man of sin.

The Antichrist as a Human and Satanically Empowered Ruler

Consider secondly, his person. Now who is he? Well in Revelation 13 and verse 18, the last part of the 13th chapter, I discover first of all that he is a man. And there are some who do not believe that he was a man, that he was a devil himself.

When Jesus said to that group that day, he said, I've chosen you 12 and one of you is a literally a demon. That's John chapter 6, the last verse. But the Bible says that he's a man. Look at it in Revelation 13 and verse 18, I'll begin in verse 17.

And that no man might buy or sell, save he that hath the mark of the name of the beast or the number of his name. And here is wisdom that him that hath understanding count the number of the beast, for it is a number of a man.

And his number is 600, three score and six. Now six is man's number. Oh, six is man's number. God created man on the sixth day. And after 6 ,000 years of man's attempt to bring in the kingdom, the son of God is going to set up a kingdom that shall never pass away on the 7 ,000 years.

Now that's prophetic. Now, 6 ,000 years, man has tried to bring in peace and the way of peace ain't no not. And they're no closer to finding peace tonight than they did, they were thousands of years ago.

They don't know how to find peace. They can find it in their own heart, in their own life. That'll be proven with the newspaper. This person now, he's a man. Secondly, he's not only a man, but he's a man that has supernatural power.

Look at Revelation chapter 13, and I'll read now verse 2, and this refers to the system and refers also to the man. That empire will be a composite of all the empires, the four empires that God gave the image to Daniel.

It'll be comprised of that, the whole Roman, the Babylonian empire, the head of gold, and the arms of silver, the Medes and the Persians, and the belly of brass, the Grecian empire, and the legs of iron, the Roman empire.

And in verse 2 of Revelation 13, this is a cross-reference with Daniel chapter 7, and the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, that was the Grecians, and his feet as were the feet of a bear, that referred to the Persians, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion, that referred to the Babylonians.

And the dragon gave him his power, and the dragon is the devil, as the Scripture says, and his seat and great authority. Here's a man endued with satanic power. Here's a man that comes to a position of authority, and he doesn't get it from God, he gets it from the devil, but God's in the saddle.

And God's guiding, and God's directing, and God keeping him away from the scene until the hour of God says it's time to reveal him, and God will pull back the restrainer and allow him to step forward, but he can't put his foot on the scene until God allows him to do so.

I'm glad God's ruling. And so here, look down a little farther about this man and his powers. I read that in Revelation chapter 13, verse 2. If you turn back to 2 Thessalonians chapter 2, and 2 Thessalonians chapter 2 has much to say about this man.

Look at him in verse 9. Now, people today are madly concerned about miracles. We sang about miracles. But wait a minute, the greatest miracle that God ever did was when he saved somebody. Now, that cost him something.

No other miracle cost God anything but his Word. I repeat that again, no other miracle cost God a thing, but salvation cost him something. He just didn't speak a word. It cost him his son on Calvary's cross before he could speak the word of miracle, of life to his soul.

And here's a world that's concerned about miracles and signs and wonders, and they'll travel for miles to see something curious, but they won't walk across the street to hear the Word of God preached about the Son of God and about where sinners get saved.

They're concerned about it. It's a curious age, want to see something, want to have their ears tickled, and the Word said they'll turn away their ears from the truth, and they'll turn them on to fables, and they'll heap to themselves, teachers have an itch in ears, and they'll tell the preachers, tickle my ears.

Deceptive Miracles and Satanic Signs

All right, that's a good setup for this guy. Now, I read in 2 Thessalonians 2, 9, even him who's coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, and I'm here to tell you that Satan can work miracles and signs and wonders.

Oh, we had a miracle! Yeah, man, if Satan can come along and perform a miracle and you automatically, because you see a miracle, you call it of God? Brother, he puts his stamp of approval, you put, and that's what he'd like for you to believe that God did it.

Now, what'll he do? He'll come in, what, with all of lying power and signs and lying wonders, but he's a man with supernatural power. Jesus Christ faced the devil in the wilderness, and the devil said to the Son of God, all these, showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and a moment's time, he said, all these things will I give thee, if thou will bow down and worship me, I'll give it all to you.

And there's a man that'll come on the scene, and he'll take this and the devil up on his agreement, yes, sir, I'll give you my worship if you'll give it all to me, and the devil's gonna give it all to him, but he's only give it to him for three and a half years, and God's gonna say, that's all.

What a price to sell your soul for, what a price. He's a man of sin, he's a man, he's a supernatural power, but a man has sold himself to Satan. And something else about this person, that he'll be a Roman, now, if you wanna turn to Daniel chapter nine, he'll be a Roman.

The Antichrist, Rome, and the Western World

Now, let me say something here, you say, is the United States in prophecy? Could be. The United States came out of the Roman Empire, our forefathers, where they came from, who do you think they were? Europe.

Now, I'm not gonna pick up the Bible and say, this talks about the United States, I'd be a fool. I just made a statement about the fact. Now, in Daniel nine, and verse 26, and those of you who've been in our studies before have heard this verse again and again, but here's a key verse, in verse 26 and 27, and if you'll circle the little word, Prince, in verse 26, and then circle the little word, He, the second word in verse 27, those two little words refer to the same individual.

And this individual, now, will be a Roman, and here, this verse proves it. And after three score and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, that was Calvary, but not for himself, and the people of the Prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary.

Now, the people destroyed the city, not the Prince, the Prince was to come. Who destroyed the city and the sanctuary? The Romans under Titus in A .D. 70, the Roman general, that's past tense, that's the people.

All right, now, the people of the Prince that shall come, who's this people? The Romans. What'll he do? Verse 27, and he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week, and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease.

Now, he is a Roman, that's clear, that's unmistakable. If you look over in the 11th chapter and verse 37, here's a passage that seems to indicate that he'll be a Jew, and I won't be dogmatic about this, I'll be dogmatic about the fact that he'd come out of the Roman Empire, he'd be a Roman.

But in Daniel chapter 11 and verse 37, talks about the same individual, in verse 37, it says, neither shall he regard the God of his fathers. Now, practically everyone that I've read after refers, and you find that phrase again and again in the Old Testament, oh, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, God of our fathers.

You hear that used again and again, and when it talks about that in Jewish content, it's always talking about Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and that's a basic way that those three words are used in the Scripture, and on the basis of that, there are many folks who say now that neither shall he regard the God of his fathers identifies him as Jewish, and it's referring to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

He'll not regard the God of his father Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and so they say he's a Jew. I'd leave that as a question mark, I'm not positive, but I am positive that he'll come out of the Roman Empire, he will come out of the Western world.

He will not come out of the Eastern world, and neither will he come out of Russia. Neither, let me repeat again, neither will he come out of Russia, and neither will he come from the vast hordes of the Asiatic people.

He comes out of the Western world. How tragic, how tragic in the Western world's enjoyed the blessings of God more than in any other portion of the globe, and how tragic out of the heart of the world it's enjoyed the favor of the gospel of God, that out of it should come the man of sin, out of it shall come the Antichrist.

But it so, but you take the word and it arouses the enmity of the human heart, it either brings that heart in submission to the Son of God, his personal Savior, or it hardens that heart in absolute defiance against the Son of God.

He's a Roman, possibly a Jew, but he's a man that demands worship. 2 Thessalonians 2 verse 3, we've already read that, and I'll not go into detail, but he's a man who demands worship. And when men, let's turn there, turn to Revelation 13 verse 4.

The Antichrist's Demand for Worship

Now this ought to tell you something. Across our country there has rushed to the front, and you find book after book in the newsstands and airports and bus stations and 7-Eleven stores and grocery stores and drugstores, and you find book after book on the occult, the newspapers feel that every day has something to do about the occult and about the stars and the signs and all of this.

What are you moving toward? Moving toward the worship of the devil himself, and that's the thing that he wants, worship. You see, in Isaiah chapter 14, when he sinned, he said, I will exalt my stars above the stars of God.

I'll demand worship of a universe, and that one driving passion that he's had to have the worship of angels and the worship of men and the worship of mankind, he wants worship, and he's going to get worship from a world of fallen men and women.

And I'll read about it in Revelation chapter 13, and we'll look at it now. And verse 4, and they worship the dragon, that's Satan, which gave power or authority unto the beast, that's the Antichrist, and they worship the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast?

Who is able to make war with him? There's Satan bibles and Satan cults, and you find it read in your newspapers of them offering sacrifices to Satan, you just as well buckle your seatbelt, you're going to find it increasing as we approach the coming of our Lord and our Savior, Jesus Christ, as coming away from the truth and the belief of a lie.

That's the direction we're moving, that's something about his person. Now let's look at his appearance, turn it back to Daniel now. This man will appear on the scene, and he'll appear in an insignificant way that may be already history.

Don't know, but I read in Daniel chapter 7, time will not permit us to go into great detail, but Daniel chapter 7 and verse 8, you'll hold your hand there and turn to Daniel chapter 2 and verse 44, and let me read that, Daniel saw a dream, Daniel the Nebuchadnezzar had a dream, you remember his dream of a giant man, head of gold, arms and chest of silver, belly of brass, thighs and legs of iron, feet of iron and clay, and the ten toes on that image.

Now this is that image, and it started up here, and we talk about, boy, we got the best government, no, this has been, the government's been deteriorating ever since the Babylonians. It said after these shall rise a kingdom inferior, and you have gold, and you have silver, and you have brass, and then you have iron, and you and I live in iron and clay age, that's not too hot in quality of government.

The Little Horn and the Final Kingdom

Now look at Daniel 2 and verse 44, and in the days of these kings, that's the ten toes on that image that Nebuchadnezzar saw, in the days of these kings, there'll come ten kings out of the western world, a revived Roman empire, ten kings will arise, and in the days of these kings shall a God of heaven set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed, and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever, forasmuch as I sawest the stone that was cut out of the mountain, that refers to Christ, without hands, that it break in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold, the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter, and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof is sure, and anybody who's read the newspapers, you see the common market of Europe juggling around to get into position, and the kings and the kingdoms that are already in existence, in order to tell us that the Son of God is coming and coming soon.

He said in the days of these ten kings, the Son of God will set up a kingdom that'll never be removed, and one of these days, the Democrats and the Republicans and all the rest of them, brother, God's going to shatter the whole caboodle right at his feet.

That's what God thinks of the politics of this world. One of these days, you say you hit my favorite party, well, God's going to drop a big old stone on your favorite party, and everybody else's favorite party.

There ain't going to be no parties when he comes. The precincts will be closed. There's not going to be any more democratic form of government. He's going to rule with a rod of iron. He's not going to pass out and ask your opinion about anything.

He's coming to rule and reign in righteousness for a thousand years. He's not going to ask anybody how to do it. Now, Daniel chapter 7. Daniel had a dream. Nebuchadnezzar had a dream, and it was in the form of a man.

That's the way man views the governments of this world. God's man has a dream. He sees the same identical thing, but he sees the governments of this world in the form of beasts. Isn't that strange? Not a man.

All right. Now, look at verse 8, and this refers to the same period of time, only the fact that Daniel is seeing them in the form of a beast. Verse 8 of Daniel 7, And I consider the horns, and behold, there came up among them another little horn among those ten kingdoms.

There's a little horn, an ill insignificant fellow, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots. He'll destroy. He'll overcome. He'll conquer. He'll do something with three of his original horns, and he'll rise to power from obscurity to a place of world premiership.

And three of the first horns plucked up of the root, and behold, in this horn were eyes like the mouth of a man, and a mouth speaking great things. And I could say tonight, Brother, you could call him Super Mouth, because you read he's identified in the book of Daniel again and again and again about his mouth.

Read it. I mean, a mouth speaking great things, a mouth speaking blasphemy, and here's a man with a mouth like nobody else's had, a mouth that others claimed that nobody else had ever uttered. He's a little fellow.

Now, he may be on the scene tonight, I don't know, but you rest assured I believe this, that he's hale and hearty and well and living on planet earth tonight. I believe that. Now, he may not be, but I believe it, so that he'll come in obscurity.

And then something else, turn to Daniel 7 and verse 25, and oh, Brother, listen, he'll come in, excuse me, Daniel 8, excuse me, Daniel 8 and verse 25, beginning of verse 23, and I want you to see how he destroys many.

And this may be the way he eliminates three in his rise to power, and in turn, he becomes a head, and then there's three more he takes his place for in the end of the tribulation period, there are ten again.

Now read it. And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance and understanding, dark sentence, they shall stand up, and his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power, and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper in practice, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people, and through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand, and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many.

The Antichrist's Peace Covenant and Israel

If you'll hold your hand there and turn to Revelation chapter 6, this fellow comes riding on a white horse, and I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and, Brother, chapter 6 begins after the rapture and the catching away of the bride, and then the fourth chapter of the book of Revelation, John said, I heard a voice saying, Come up, hither, that's the rapture.

Chapter 5 follows us around the throne. Chapter 6, Brother, here's a man of sin beginning to move out. All right, watch him. And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and heard as it were the noise of thunder, one of the poor beasts said, Come and see.

And I saw, and behold, a white horse, and he that sat on him had a bow, and a crown was given unto him, and he went forth conquering, and to conquer, Daniel said, and by peace shall he destroy many. Isn't it strange that that word peace and the peace sign, the peace symbol, have rushed like wildfire across our world?

Isn't it strange that peace is the most often repeated thing? Brother, every meeting in Washington, what are we doing after peace, whether it was kissing you over your after peace, and around the world, peace, peace, peace, when they shall say peace and safety, not when they haven't, when they shall say peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh upon them as a woman with child, and they shall not escape.

This is not the hour of peace, this is the hour before the storm breaks. He'll come in in the peace program, and Daniel 9 .27, I've already read that he'll come in as the defender of Israel and make a seven-year covenant with them.

He shall confirm the covenant with many for one week, and his platform as he comes in, I'll repeat again, he will come as a defender of Israel, a covenant that allows him to have their land and build their temple, and these eagles sit there dwelling in cities with unwalled villages, and listen, dwelling in security and safety.

That turns to Isaiah 28, and about that covenant, let's see what God said about it. The book of Isaiah, chapter 28, that's page 737, verse 15, at the same time I look at verse 18. God said, And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand, for it will not defend you when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then shall ye be trodden down by it.

God said, You've made a covenant with hell and a covenant with death, and your covenant that guarantees you liberty and protection will not stand when the overflowing scourge marches through the land, and oh, how tragic that Israel is back in the land in unbelief, and they're not back there waiting for the Lord God to come from heaven as a whole, they're back there in unbelief to sign a covenant and a contract with the Antichrist, the man of sin.

And that group that's gone back is not a fulfillment of the prophecy, listen, of the return of the Lord. That's a fulfillment of the prophecy, that they'll go back in unbelief, and God said, I'll purge out from among you the rebels, and they've gone back, and two-thirds, according to the book of Zechariah, chapter 12, two-thirds of them will die in the land, and nine-tenths of them outside of the land will perish when the Lord said, I'll bring you into the bond of a covenant, and I'll cause you to pass under the rod.

That's nine for the slaughter and one for the Lord, nine for the slaughter and one for the Lord. And God is saying, the day of Israel's trouble and Jacob's troubles in the future, two-thirds in the land will perish, nine-tenths out of the land will die.

Don't read the Jews, better do it now. This fellow will appear as a defender of Israel, and you read the book of Revelation, chapter 12, I'll not read it. The brother when Satan is cast out of the heavens at the middle of the tribulation period, and that's when the man of sin goes in and manifests himself to a world that he's in, a Christ, a man of sin.

And then, brother, he turns and persecutes a woman that brought forth a man-child, and that's Israel. Brother, he's not Israel's defender, he hates Israel and all that she stands for. If he's a Jew, he's an apostate Jew that hates Christ and hates God and hates the promises of his fathers.

Apostate Religion and the Antichrist's Worldwide Authority

Something else about this man, let me just name these, United Europe will give power to him. Revelation 17, 12 to 13, with a voluntary consent, it says, these ten kings, they have not arisen as yet, but they will give their power and authority unto the beast without any coercion.

They will gladly give their backing and support to the beast. Then again, he'll be turned to Revelation 17, did you know, do you know where there are more atheists and infidels hatched than any other place in rotten religion?

Many infidels and atheists are atheists today because they went off somewhere, supposedly to a Christian school or seminary, but they went off into the cults or something, and they discovered no reality for the human heart.

And brother, they become apostate, they become hard, they become atheists and infidels, and hear me now, the antichrist will come riding on sponsored by religion. And let me say this without fear of anybody contradicting me, brother, he'll come riding into power sponsored by the ecumenical movement of the World Council of Churches.

And if you don't agree with that, you swallow that and chew on it for a while, and time will bear me out. Now read Revelation 17, verse 3, and here he is, and a woman, and this woman is apostate religion beginning way back at the tower of Babylon, Babylon the mother of harlots, the mother of every false system that ever began in the world, every false religion finds its beginning, listen, not in the days of Christ, but it finds its beginning way back during the days of Nimrod, and God's son, listen, says, I know who you are, you're a mystery Babylon the great, you call yourself the bride of Christ, but he said you're the mother of harlots, I know who you are, and he pulls a veil off of her.

Now I'll read in Revelation chapter 17, and verse 3, so he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness, and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet-colored beast, and I proved that that woman is apostate religion, and it's a certain city that sits on seven hills, verse 18, and the woman which thou sawest is that great city which reigneth over the kings of the earth.

All right, now, verse 3, so he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness, and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet-colored beast, and this beast what had pools of names of blasphemy having seven heads and ten horns, and this is that system of which the beast at the head, and listen, religion today, hear me now, false religion has always wanted to dictate the government and does not believe in the separation of church and state, always.

And once again, as in the days, listen, gone by in the dark ages, there's a religious system comprised of all apostates, listen, and every denomination and every religion in the world are going to get together, and they're going to get this guy under their thumb.

She comes riding in on him, and a person that's riding something is in control of him. Now look, Revelation chapter 3, the Lord said to the church at Laodicea, I'll spew you out of my mouth, and God's son, listen, will vomit a half-hearted, lukewarm church into the tribulation period, and brother, that thing, it's dead and no life in it all, within it all, and he's on the outside.