Good morning and welcome…
We are Americans and there are times when our American perspective can cloud our understanding of Biblical prophecy.
Our American perspective can get in the way of us properly discerning what is going on in different parts of the world.
The current crisis in Afghanistan being a case in point.
When this crisis first started to appear on our media we were flooded with images of the tragedy and the poverty of the Afghanistan people and this aroused our compassion.
Compassion is good but we must understand that there are going to be people who will die for Christ.
We often are not aware of the sufferings of our other brothers and sisters in Christ. Many of them will have their heads cut off, many will be shot, or many will be starved to death for the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Perspective… We must not let our American compassion override Biblical prophecy that must be fulfilled.
American politics is working right now and I want to caution every one to really seek the Lord for direction as you pray.
We need to understand that the things that are happening in our Nation, are stepping stones to bringing America into alignment with the rest of the world.
What do I mean? I mean that at times our media and government officials are being used by the enemy to change our belief systems.
I find it fascinating that our media right now, at this moment, is really holding Biden accountable for what he did in Afghanistan.
Something is wrong with this and we need to be praying about this… the enemy has told us what his plan was from the very beginning.
The enemy started out talking about the 25th amendment… They started this because they were trying to say that President Trump was incompetent and unable to run the country. Now there is a possibility that they will try and use this against Biden.
We have to be paying attention. Isn’t it amazing that the love for Biden is dwindling down? Watch the reporting and how it is changing.
The enemy is working at pushing the United States into a scenario where the people will say that Biden is incompetent. The enemy is working to install Kamala Harris as President.
From the very beginning of time, we have been in a battle with the antichrist spirits who have been trying to create opportunities for themselves to gain power.
In this past week we have learned the role that was played by the United States in Afghanistan.
So far, we have lost 13 of our Soldiers due to mismanagement on the part of Biden.
We have betrayed our own people who were working for us in Afghanistan and those people who were helping us militarily while we operated in Afghanistan. We made promises to them that we did not keep.
More loss of life is coming…
We're dealing with major spiritual warfare going on right now. This warfare is on a level that has never been seen before.
We must not use humanistic or conventional wisdom; we must use the wisdom of God in each and every situation from this moment forward.
The battle is real, it's a battle between light and darkness.
The church must step up and be God's voice in this season tell the truth no matter how ugly it is and then be prepared to die with Christ.
We have been dealing with a very aggressive form of the Antichrist spirit since the year 2008.
The entire world makes up the Babylonian religion and the system created by satan in opposition to God.
All that exists in the world which is not of God falls under the control and evil influence of Babylon satan’s empire.
You cannot walk between the two. Either you serve God, or you serve mammon.
Revelation 18: 1 – 8 {NKJV}; The Fall of Babylon the Great
18 After these things I saw another angel coming down from heaven, having great authority, and the earth was illuminated with his glory. 2 And he cried mightily with a loud voice, saying, “Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and has become a dwelling place of demons, a prison for every foul spirit, and a cage for every unclean and hated bird! 3 For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich through the abundance of her luxury.”
4 And I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues. 5 For her sins have reached to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities. 6 Render to her just as she rendered to you, and repay her double according to her works; in the cup which she has mixed, mix double for her. 7 In the measure that she glorified herself and lived luxuriously, in the same measure give her torment and sorrow; for she says in her heart, ‘I sit as queen, and am no widow, and will not see sorrow.’ 8 Therefore her plagues will come in one day—death and mourning and famine. And she will be utterly burned with fire, for strong is the Lord God who judges her.
Antichrist represents far more than a different Jesus, it is a worldwide spiritual power and system which entraps.
The antichrist is a veritable Egypt that sucks people back into sin.
How often did the Hebrews want to go back into captivity and bondage after God took them out of Egypt?
The flesh makes bondage look appealing at times
In the church, the spirit manifests through constant deception and the distortion of doctrine.
Seducing spirits entice groups into following leaders who seem to be charismatic and natural.
This spirit works to twist the true Gospel of the Kingdom into a worldly religion of prosperity and good works.
1 John 2: 18 - 22 {NKJV}; Deceptions of the Last Hour
18 Little children, it is the last hour; and as you have heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come, by which we know that it is the last hour. 19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; but they went out that they might be made manifest, that none of them were of us.
20 But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you know all things. 21 I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and that no lie is of the truth.
22 Who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist who denies the Father and the Son.
1 John 4: 1 – 3 {NKJV}; Love for God and One Another
4 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, 3 and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world.
II John 1: 7 – 11 {NKJV}
Beware of Antichrist Deceivers
7 For many deceivers have gone out into the world who do not confess Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist. 8 Look to yourselves, that we do not lose those things we worked for, but that we may receive a full reward.
9 Whoever transgresses and does not abide in the doctrine of Christ does not have God. He who abides in the doctrine of Christ has both the Father and the Son. 10 If anyone comes to you and does not bring this doctrine, do not receive him into your house nor greet him; 11 for he who greets him shares in his evil deeds.
The prefix ‘anti’ means “instead of” and therefore, we can see that the spirit of antichrist brings a different Christ from the one found in God's word.
It is a deception that creates a false Jesus.
One need not look far to find a “different” Jesus.
We need to be aware not only of the physical world but of the demonic power behind it.
Beyond everything in the world that is not of God hides a demonic power, the antichrist spirit.
Every time we touch the things of the world, we touch the demonic power of the antichrist spirit.
Afghanistan – population – 99.7 % muslim beliefs – made up of 89% Sunni and 10% Shia
Iran – population – 99.4 % made up of 90 % Shia and 9% Sunni
Pakistan – population – 96% made up of 90 % Sunni and 6% Shia
Taliban is Sunni Muslim
Al-Qaeda is Sunni Muslim
Isis is Sunni Muslim
· Sunni Muslims include 84%–90% of all Muslims. Sunni means “tradition,” and Sunnis regard themselves as those who emphasize following the traditions of Muhammad and of the first two generations of the community of Muslims that followed Muhammad.
A number of movements to reform Islam have originated mainly in the 20th century. Some are limited to one country and others have a broader influence. Most are Sunni movements, such as the Wahhabis, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Jama`at-i-Islami.
· Shi`ite Muslims comprise 10%–16% of all Muslims. Shi`ites are the “party of `Ali,” who believe that Muhammad’s son-in-law `Ali was his designated successor (imam) and that the Muslim community should be headed by a designated descendent of Muhammad. Three main subgroups of Shi`ites are Twelvers (Ithna-`Asharis), Seveners (Isma`ilis), and Fivers (Zaydis).
· Sufis are Islamic mystics. Sufis go beyond external requirements of the religion to seek a personal experience of God through forms of meditation and spiritual growth. A number of Sufi orders, comparable to Christian monastic orders, exist. Most Sufis are also Sunni Muslims, although some are Shi`ite Muslims. Many conservative Sunni Muslims regard Sufism as a corruption of Islam, although most still regard Sufis as Muslims.[i]
John 15: 18 – 27 {NKJV}; The World’s Hatred
18 “If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you. 19 If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. 20 Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they kept My word, they will keep yours also. 21 But all these things they will do to you for My name’s sake, because they do not know Him who sent Me. 22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin. 23 He who hates Me hates My Father also. 24 If I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would have no sin; but now they have seen and also hated both Me and My Father. 25 But this happened that the word might be fulfilled which is written in their law, ‘They hated Me without a cause.’
The Coming Rejection
26 “But when the Helper comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify of Me. 27 And you also will bear witness, because you have been with Me from the beginning.
Matthew 5: 10 – 12 {NKJV}
10 Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, For theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
11 Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake. 12 Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
Matthew 24: 3 – 14 {NKJV}; The Signs of the Times and the End of the Age
3 Now as He sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be? And what will be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age?”
4 And Jesus answered and said to them: “Take heed that no one deceives you. 5 For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will deceive many. 6 And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for [a]all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. 7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, [b]pestilences, and earthquakes in various places. 8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
9 “Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for My name’s sake. 10 And then many will be offended, will betray one another, and will hate one another. 11 Then many false prophets will rise up and deceive many. 12 And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold. 13 But he who endures to the end shall be saved. 14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.
Rev 22: 6 – 11 {Amp}; You Are Invited to be Blessed
6 Then he said to me, “These words are faithful and true.” And the Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, has sent His angel [as a representative] to show His bond-servants the things that must soon take place.
7 “And behold, I am coming quickly. Blessed (happy, prosperous, to be admired) is the one who heeds and takes to heart and remembers the words of the prophecy [that is, the predictions, consolations, and warnings] contained in this book (scroll).”
8 I, John, am the one who heard and saw these things. And when I heard and saw them, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel who showed me these things. 9 But he said to me, “Do not do that. I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers the prophets and with those who heed and remember [the truths contained in] the words of this book. Worship God.”
10 And he said to me, “Do not seal up the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time [of their fulfillment] is near. 11 Let the one who does wrong, still do wrong; and the one who is filthy (vile, impure), still be filthy; and the one who is righteous (just, upright), still be righteous; and the one who is holy, still be holy.”
John the Revelator is authenticating the truth of the word of God.
We have reached the point in time where God is no longer striving with the Gentile Nations.
What I mean by this is His heart, His purposes, and His direction are changing towards the Jewish people.
[i] https://www.dummies.com/religion/islam/muslims-adhere-to-different-islamic-sects/
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