December 17, 2025 • 69 mins
In the shadows of the story of Hanukkah we see the outlines of the coming Antichrist. Its overarching message encourages spiritual preparation, discernment, and unwavering faith in God’s sovereignty, emphasizing that the reign of darkness is temporary and will be overcome by the light of Messiah.
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You know what a crucial hour this is.
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How it is high time now for you to wake
up out of your sleep, to rouse your reality for salvation.
Final deliverance is nearer to us now than when we
had first believed, when we first adhered to trust it
in and relied on the Messiah. The night is far gone,
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the day is almost here. Let us drop, let us
fling away the works in deeds of darkness and put
on the full armor of light. Romans thirteen eleven and twelve.
Paul is beseeching the church to wake up. What a
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crucial hour.
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This is well, I say the same to you. Now.
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It's time to wake up, time to get ready for
the final battle between night and day, between light and darkness.
It's nearer now than when we first believed. And you
are a part of it. No matter who you are,
where you are, how old young and you are, how
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long you've been saved, it doesn't matter. Because you believe
in Him, and your names are written in the Lamb's
book of life.
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You are a part of it.
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So drop all the cares and the ways of this world,
and let's get battle ready. Let's get sanctified and spiritually fit.
That's the call, that's the message. That's what the Lord
wants you to hear. Today's been speaking this to me
for a week. Paul is depicting believers as being asleep
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or inactive. I was written a very long time ago,
but some things never change. Spiritual slumber is a part
of the human condition. Second Thessalonians, chapter two, verse three says,
let no one deceive or beguile you in any way,
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for that day will not come except that apostasy comes first,
unless the predicted great falling of way of those who
are professed to be born again believers has come, and
the man of lawlessness, the man of sin, is revealed.
Who is the son of doom, the son of tradition,
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and in this case, the Antichrist, the apostasy, the great
falling away a postagia. It's a defection. It's a revolt
from the truth, a revolt from religious truth. To forsake
the truth and to forsake the spirit of truth. It's
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falling away from the Lord as a form of divorce.
It's a violation of the marriage covenant that we made
with him. It's interesting to me that this has been
something the Lord is expressing over these last couple of weeks.
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We should take heed. So the tradition of moral instruction
in the ancient world always associated light daytime with good
and darkness and nighttime with evil. By the Greeks, the Romans,
and the ancient Jews all used the same contrast. In
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Matthew four sixteen, we see the people who sat in darkness,
enveloped in darkness, have seen a great light, and upon
those who sat in the region and the shadow of
death light has dawned. Well, that's a quote from Isaiah
nine about the coming Messiah. And this is the perfect
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time of the year with many celebrating Hanukkah and others Christmas.
To talk about this, we're in the mist Honica right now.
Isaiah chapter nine, I must talk verse two. The people
who walked in darkness have seen a great light. Those
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who dwelt in the land of the shadow of death,
upon them a light has shined. You have multiplied the
nation and increased its joy. They rejoice before you according
to the joy of the harvest, as men rejoice when
they divide the spoil. For you have broken the yoke
of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the
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rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian.
For every warrior's sandal from the noisy battle, and garments
rolled in blood will be used for burning and fuel
of fire. For unto us, a child is born, unto us,
a son is given, and the government will be upon
his shoulder, and his name will be called wonderful counselor
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Mighty God, everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase
of his government and peace, there will be no end
upon the throne of David and over his kingdom to
order it, to establish it with judgment and justice. From
that time forward, even forever. The zeal of the Lord
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of Host will perform, this zeal for judgment and justice,
zeal for his people, for his children, the same zeal
he will have at the end. So the light was
bringing the Messiah who would dispel the darkness. And that's
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what Hanikah is. It's a festival of light. It's a
feast of dedication. We know that Yeshua celebrated it because
according to John chapter ten, starting verse twenty two. Now
it was the feast of Dedication in Jerusalem, and it
was winter, and Yashua walked in the temple in Solomon's porch,
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and the Jews surrounded him and said to him, how
long do you keep us in doubt? If you are
the Messiah, tell us plainly. I find it interesting that,
of course he's walking in Solomon's porch, which is an
enclosed portico on the left side of the temple if
you're facing the gate, so he's surrounded he's walking. Then
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they come all around him and they want to know
if you are the Messiah. Just tell us, and he
answers them, and he says, I told you, and you
do not believe the works that I do. In my
father's name. They be a witness of me. But you
do not believe, because you're not of my sheep. And
as I said to you, my sheep hear my voice.
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And I know them, and they follow me. And I
give them eternal life, and they shall never perish. Neither
shall anyone snatch them out of my hand. My father,
who has given them to me, is greater than all,
and no one is able to snatch them out of
my father's hand. My father are one, so he is
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the one bringing justice. He is the one bringing judgment
and illumination to his people for the father Hanika. The
Feast of Dedication was important to Israel. It was an
important memorial. It's the Jewish festival. It commemorates the purification
and rededication of the temple by Judas maccabists on Ghizlev
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twenty five, which is one sixty five BC. And it's
usually in December. It's winter. You know what's interesting about winter.
The symbolism of winter. Winter is the.
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Time of cold.
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It's a time where people have gone spiritually cold, and
that's exactly what has happened in Israel during that time.
So three years prior, in one sixty two BC, Antiochus
the fourth, the cell you said, Syrian king defiles the
temple here, erects an idol to beel Schaman, which is
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the Canaanite counterpart for the Greek god Zeus, and that's
who he intends to worship.
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Of Zeus.
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He sacrifices a pig on the altar in the temple,
and he proclaims himself to be God. Definitely demonic, purely demonic,
purely satanic. Now, how did he get into power? How
did we get here? Well, in Alexander the Great deed
of a young Age's kingdom was broken into four parts,
and two of the four parts of the kingdom were
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the Ptolemies of Egypt and the Soucaids of Babylon and Syria. Now,
when you think about that Egypt, Babylon, Syria, you think
Middle East. But Alexander the Great, that's his kingdom, and
his generals are the ones that go to lead it.
That means his Greek blood in the mick in the
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Middle East. And it's important to remember so Israel happens
to be located right between the Syrian and the Egyptian
Greek sub empire and was fought over everybody wanted it.
For the next two hundred years, nothing's changed, and it
eventually came under the control of the Cellucid based in Syria.
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People of Judah had just returned from exile to Babylon
and they were living with the rebuilt temple in their mists.
A historian Nehemiah eight first temple destroyed five eighty b C.
The Jews are exiled the Babylon for their disobedience to God.
He didn't do it, He let it happen, and as
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a reminder, he lets things happen to wake up his children,
to bring them to repentance, and then he rescues them.
Seventy years later, they are allowed to go back. They
rebuild the temple, but they're still under foreign oppression. Eventually,
around three twenty two BC, Alexander the Great comes through
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and conquers the area, including Judea. So the world around
Judah was changing. Hellenism and religious compromise were the fashion
of the day. Everybody wanted to compromise to go along.
To get along. Cities had built hippodromas for public chariot
races and horse races, and stadiums for games and athletes
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that would participate in various games, and they did it
without clothes. So you have the races, you have the wrestling,
you have the games. People are being entertained. That's what
their focus is. The focus is on merriments and all
the things that go with it. And the ancient Greek
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city states, they were filled with libraries and courts and
temples and places for discussion and learning. It was a
state of the mind, gnosis, knowledge. Everybody wanted it. God
not so much. The mind was being fed, the spirit
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was being starved. Now Judah wanted nothing to do with this.
They wanted nothing to do with the Olympian Zeus. They
wanted nothing to do with the nude games or the
Greek way of life. But among the nobility, the ones
with power and influence, they would compromise people. They wanted
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to see the old traditions disappear. Nothing's changed. We have
people today. All the Church needs to rewrite the Bible,
we need to update things, We need to come into
the modern times. Circumcision they considered was barbaric. Oh, we
got to stop doing this because our Jewish Men cannot
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participate in the games, because everybody would see this circumcision.
I'm astounded every time I read that or think about that,
Embarrassed by the sign of the covenant with God, a
covenant made on the eighth day of a child's life.
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They wanted to reverse that circumcision. And I don't even
want to think how they tried to do it. Many
wanted to see the end of actual tourist study. In
the use of Hebrew and Aramaic writing and conversation, the
common Greek was becoming the world language, the language of
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sophistication on the correlation for today is so powerful, so obvious,
so religious. War of the observant Jews who wanted to
keep the Torah and the other progressive Hellenized Jews who
wanted to assimilate into the Greek culture around them began.
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They were disconnected from the Temple and the things of God.
Now never forget both sides claimed to be Jews. The
call was the compromise to fit in, to become like
the world. So Antiochus, the Syrian king, he defiles the temple,
he erects the statue of Zeus, He sacrifices the pig
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in a deliberate an attempt to defile and demean the Jews.
But more than that, he declares himself to be a god.
He mint coins with his features on the face of
Zeus along with the words of theus Fiphides, meaning the
God manifest. Now, if you think about that, he put
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his features on the face of Zeus, kind of like
the Antichrist will be imprinted upon the spirit of Satan.
He was called Antiochus Epiphanies for short, which meant Antiochus
the visible God. The Jews called them Antiochus Epimenes, which
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was Antiochus the crazy one. He was the four chef
sadowing of the Antichrist, And that's what I want you
to see. Among other things, in the shadow of Hanukkah,
he decreed that the Torah, the law of God, could
not be studied under penalty of death. Circumcision was forbidden,
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and the Sabbath was not to be kept. And is
so frightening and sad to realize that the supposed Church
did the exact same thing almost three hundred years after
the death and resurrection.
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Of the Lord.
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The outlawed the Torah, They outlawed anything Jewish, The outlawd
the Sabbath, and anyone who did so was excommunicated for
being a Judaizer. Anytime a demonic leader is in place,
there will be a war against the word and against
those following that word. And this exposed an internal struggle
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within Jews. And again nothing has ever changed. Raul Hilberg
and he was a political scientist in the nineteen seventies.
He wrote a book in nineteen seventy three called the
Destruction of the European Jews. The Missionaries of Christianity has that,
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in effect, you have no right to live among us
as Jews. The secular leaders who followed proclaimed you have
no right to live among us, and then the German
Nazis at last decreed you have no right to live.
This is twenty twenty five, and this spirit, the spirit
of the Antichrist, which Paul and John and Peter and
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James all knew about and expressed was alive and well
in their day, has exploded in power. We're seeing that
exact same sentiment going on in the world like a
news for you. We've been grafted into the vine of Israel.
The Church has been grafted into the same persecution the
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Jews felt then to experience at the end.
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And we are.
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Because while our Jewish brothers and sisters are being attacked,
being killed for who they are, are believing brothers and
sisters in other countries are being attacked for believing in
the Lord. So Antiochusin's troops from village to village with
the statue of himself, ordering people to bow down to it.
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And one day they arrive in the village of Modayin.
It's about twenty miles northwest of Jerusalem, and a Syrian
officer ordered the Jewish high priest Mattathias to take part
in the ceremony. He says no, unequivocally no. Well, an
elderly man, another one of the priests steps forward to comply.
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With the order.
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You know, get along, go along, we'll keep the peace.
But Matthathias of the Hasmonian family, he kills him with
the spear, and then kills one of the soldiers. He
tears down the Greek altar with the battle cry, whoever
is for the Lord, follow me, and with the point
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of the spear and a battle cry, the Maccabean revolt began.
Matthathias's five sons and others fled into the Govna hills
and conducted a guerrilla warfare against the Solustads. No direct confrontation,
but little guerrilla warfare attacks kind of like the Resistance
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did in World War Two, and wore down the enemy
fighting against insurmountable odds. They had a Their banner was
Mi komoche Blaim. I don't know who is like you
a lord? Which is from Exodus fifteen eleven. Who is
like you a lord amongst among the gods?
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Smolder?
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Who is like you glorious and holiness, fearful and praises
doing wonders? Think about that? Who is like him? Who
is like the lord among the gods that people worship?
Who is like him glorious in holiness, fearful, in praises,
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doing wonders. So the battle rages on. Methathized dies. He
leaves his son, Judah Maccabee, not his oldest but his
best general in charge. And the name Maccabee is probably
more a title given to him Aramaic Machaba the hammer ferocious,
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and he trains farmers. And they fought with farm tools
and whatever swords they had, and they fought the better
equipped Syrian army, and his victory inspired others to follow
of them, and with each victory they took the Syrian
army weapons and the stories of his victories and ferocity
traveled to other nations. Judah Maccabee the hammer. So after
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three years of fighting one sixty five PC, they win.
Juda is liberated, but the temple was defiled. You want
to read about that, you can read about it in
First Maccabees one in four and second Maccabees six and ten.
So they go to the temple, they find it defiled,
articles missing or broken, and I'm sure it was disgusting,
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because I doubt that was the only pig they slaughtered
in there. When the Hasmonians defeated them, they searched and
they found only one, only one cruise of oil that
had been sanctified, and that was proper to rededicate the temple.
One day of burning. But we know the story. A
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miracle came to pass and it lasted eight days. And
there are many that say, oh, it never happened. They
built a minora, and it was small enough that the
one cruise lasted eight days. I believe that it did.
You can believe what you want. And the following year
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those days were declared to holiday, and it was celebrated
by saying halal, which is psalms one thirteen through one
eighteen and Thanksgiving prayers and celebration. So the miracle of Hanukkah.
Basically there's a few with God on their side triumphed
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over a much more powerful enemy. But there was more
to it than that. Oh, they remember eight day celebration.
We dedicate the temple every kidslav twenty five December, sometimes no,
but almost always December. Eight days of oil a day
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eight the number of new beginnings, supernatural oil for a
supernatural need and a supernatural time on the state. Jews
all over the world and Messianic believers as well, celebrate
the winning back of Jerusalem, the rededication of the Temple.
Now I know that there is no temple. I am
the temple, you're the temple. God doesn't dwell in temples
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made by man's hands, and he won't, which is why
the coming temple that everybody's clamoring about is not for him.
It's for the Antichrist. And this should have been a
beginning of a new time, a new time of power
and freedom for Jerusalem. Something went wrong because that didn't happen.
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They had some problems. First, the understanding of Torah and
the uncompromised way of the Jews had been forgotten, no
one to teach the people. So Judah doing the right thing.
He brings together men who would separate themselves from the
rest for the teaching of the law. And that's where
the name Pharisee comes from. It means the separated ones,
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that they had separated themselves from the masses and would
dedicate themselves to the study and interpretation and the teaching
of the law. Most were the descendants, the spiritual descendants
of the hasidin, the loyal fighters, the religious fighters that
fought with Jude Maccabee, And they were responsible for the
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transformation of Judaism from a religion of sacrifice to one
of law. They were the developers of the oral tradition,
the teachers of the twofold law written in oral. They
say that the way to God. They saw it as
a way to be through obedience to the law rather
than through the sacrifice. They were the progressives of the day,
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willing to adopt new ideas and adapt the law to
new situations. And what you see there is the drip
of worldly delusion, diluting the word, diluting the relationship with God,
not following his commandments. Oh, that was then this is now.
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But the fighting with Syria didn't stop. The enemy doesn't
just give up because you defeat them. They want to
take back what was stolen from them, even though it
was never theirs to begin with. But Jude mccabee kept winning.
But he gets tired of fighting, and that's easy to do.
He got tired of fighting, so he sends his nephew
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to Rome, requesting an alliance with Rome for protection, thinking
I'll bring in someone bigger, they'll protect us and we
won't have to fight anymore. Well, let me tell you,
brothers and sisters, that kind of compromised God won this
battle for you supernaturally. You do not make an alliance
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with the world, especially with people like that, thinking they're
going to do for you what God did. So the
Romans agreed, They agreed to a little, and took a
lot absolute allegiance to Rome. This began the Roman occupation
of the Jews, and all they did was trade one
oppressor for another. So the outcome of the deal wasn't
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what Judah intended. The Romans did only as little as
what they had to do and what was in their
best interests, and the Syrian forces were numerically so superior,
and the Roman helped so little that most of Judah's
men left the field of battle and advised advised him
to do the same and let's wait for a more
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favorable opportunity. But Judah, I think, just indoctrinated into war,
fitted and how to put down the sword, decided to
keep fighting, and the result was inevitable. Judah and those
who remained faithful to him were killed. His body was
taken by his brothers from the battlefield and buried in
the family suppulcha in Mota, in a sad end to
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a great beginning. And I do believe that the reason
God did not step in and rescue them is they
decided they wanted their allegiance with Rome to be their
protector and he will back off like he did in
the days of Noah. They wanted the worship and the
help of the watchers and the fallen watchers and all
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that they brought with him, and he just took his
hands off everything and said, if that's what you want,
that's what you can have. From Simon Maccabee, his brother,
the Hasmonian dynasty gave us Herod the Great one hundred
years later. So the compromise has consequences for Judah Maccabee,
for the Jews, and for the Church.
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The East is.
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Appointed, it's commemorated, it's celebrated. It's not specified in the
Hebrew Bible. It's the only Jewish festival not specifically specified.
But we know that the Lord celebrated it, and so
do we. The number eight new beginnings a new light
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in a new season. See the thing about light. It
brings shadows, and in the shadows of Hanukkah we see
the coming Antichrist. Antiocha's epiphanies is often seen as the
foreshadowing of the Antichrist due to his extreme cruelty and
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his persecution of the Jewish people as described in the
Book of Daniel. Both figures are depicted as powerful rulers
who oppose God and his people, and Antiocho service as
the historical example of this villain, the Antichrist that has
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prophesied for the end times. Interestingly enough, about this message,
I said, it's been bubbling inside of me like a
new wine for the last week. At the same time,
he's been speaking to me about the Antichrist, and I've
mentioned him periodically over the last couple of months. Because
the Lord has been showing me things. Last week, the
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Lord had Larry first read Daniel eight and Daniel ten,
in which the Antichrist is mentioned, and then the whole
book of Daniel. We need to understand the signs of
the times. We need to wake up and see.
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What he's been telling us.
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So Daniel eleven stands as one of the most detailed
and challenging prophetic chapters in the Bible. It prevents a
remarkable prophetic narrative that begins with historical events of the
Persian and Greek empires and then transitions to described the
future Antichrist. Now, these chapters with historical prophecies about key
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figures like Antiocha's Epiphanes, whose actions I've already pointed out
to you and will continue to lay out before you,
foreshadow the Antichrist. The prophecy they focus on the Antichrist's
future rain He ties it all together. But the great
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thing is, even though the prophet Daniel is showing us
things which could concern us and should, He's also demonstrating
God's sovereignty over history and future events. Never forget God
is in control. Let's take a look at the prophetic
overview being given to us. We're going to cover a
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lot here. So the great thing is you can download
this and stop it and take notes and look things
up as I've been doing over the last couple of days,
and begin to understand and what I want you to
also do. First of all, pray before you do it.
Ask for the Lord to open your eyes, open your mind,
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open your heart to hear what he has to say,
both to the church and to you personally. But more
than that, ask him to show you how that correlids
into things going on right now. So Daniel Levin gives
us detailed prophecy. It begins with the historical events involving
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the Persian and Greek empires and shifts from telling a
contemporary story to foretell the future Antichrist rise and rain.
So if we look at Antiochus as a foreshadow, he's
a historical precursor to the Antichrist. His actions of deceit
really religious persecution, and self exaltation are prophetic templates for
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the Antichrist's future behavior, and we see that through other
examples like Hitler and others. But Antiochus is probably the
purest example of the coming Antichrist. Like antioch the Antichrist
will gain power through intrigue, through flattery and political manipulation.
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During a time of peace, both the Antiochus and the
Antichrist use military force and distribute wealth to secure loyalty.
This distribution of wealth you see in everybody clamoring for
right now, and you know, the young and the disenfranchise,
the falling for it. Every time I see that, every
time I see what they say, every time I see
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what they do. My comment on social media almost always
is when I look at you, I see someone who
will offer no resistance to the coming Antichrist. Matter of fact,
you will fall right in line with him. It's being
set up for that through manipulation. The spirit of the Antichrist,
the spirit of Hostitan Satan, and the fallen in their
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demonic offspring are setting the stage for the rebuilding of
their kingdoms. Remember, they're going to come out of the pit,
and when they come out of the pit, they're going
to want their kingdoms back.
Speaker 2 (37:20):
They're going to want their rule back.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
The Antichrist is going to establish a global economic system
favoring those that follow him Daniel eleven twenty four. Without warning,
he will enter the richest areas of the land, and
then he will distribute amongst his followers the plunder and
wealth of the rich, something his predecessors had never done.
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He will plot the overthrow of strongholds, but this will
last only for a short while, taking the wealth of
the rich. You hear that a lot today, don't you.
Revelation thirteen, Verses sixteen and seventeen. He the Antichrist fires
everyone small and great, rich and poor, free enslave to
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be given a mark on the right hand or on
the forehead, and no one goodbye or sell anything without
that mark, which is either the name of the beast
or the number representing his name. And he believe, as
I do, it'll be some kind of a chip, some
kind of a digital code. Everything's going to digital anyway.
You won't be able to buy or sell, but you
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won't be able to get that ability to do so
until you pledge allegiance to the Antichrist. You know, when
you look at this control of economics, that's exactly what
Hitler did. He blamed the Jews for Germany's economic distress.
He accused them of hoarding wealth and conspiring to control
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the country's financial institutions. What do you see on social
media NonStop from all these influencers. I did that finger
thing influencers. Yeah, you're influencing Evil went sing the Satanic
and becoming Antichrist. How the Jews control all the bank
they control all the money.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
Look at them.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
Every problem we have is because of them. Every time
you hear that, I want you to hear whose voice
that really is. And this was happening during the time
when Germans were dissatisfied due to hyperinflation and unemployment, and
Hitler played on that. He used propaganda to promote the
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idea that the Jews were not only responsible for the
country's woes, but they were actively working to undermine German society,
and escapegoating resonated with the populace. They were desperate for
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explanations for the suffering. They were desperate to understand the
economic stability and the widespread poverty and despair, and instead
of looking at the leaders and those who had been
making the decisions, they needed a scapegoat. And by painting
a picture of the Jews as malevolent puppeteers behind the
financial crisis, Hitler Fosteredy's sense of unity among those who
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felt this enfranchised, and they redirected their frustration toward a
common enemy. That's why I will stand against what I'm
seeing happening right now, pointing out to these people when
they promote this hoose voice is coming out of their mouth.
Then he added religious persecution to the financial one. Antiochus's
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attack on Jewish worship and religious leadership prefigures the Antichrist's
future persecution and believers, including the abomination of desolation. So
Antiochus was the Antichrist. No, no, he's not. See the
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reason I said that, because there are many that when
they hear teaching like this. No, no, no, the Antichrist
already came and went. Daniel was describing Antiochus Epiphany, the
Cellucid king, the Syrian king. He described him to a
letter all that has happened, Well, I have a little
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problem with that, and now you're wrong, And let me
tell you why you're wrong if you think that. So
Antiochus won seventy five to one sixty four BC. The
Antichrist is the final world rulery hasn't happened yet, he sure.
He speaks of him in a future tense in Matthew
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twenty four fifteen, saying perilous times will come. So when
you see the abomination of desolation, the appalling sacrilege that
astonishes and makes desolate, spoken of by the prophet Daniel
standing in the Holy Place. Let the reader understand, but
he's talking in a future tense. And second Thessalonians two
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four Paul talks about the Antichrist in a future tense,
who opposes and exalts himself so proudly and so instantly
above every so called God or object of worship, so
that he actually enters and takes his seat in the
Temple of God, publicly proclaiming that he himself is God.
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John writes in Revelation thirteen fifteen a future event, that
the Antichrist has given power to give breath to the
image of the beast, so that the image of the
beast the dragon. I'm sorry if you want to know
when the spirit had me, that was it. And now
I'm going to try to hold it together so that
i can get this across to you, because I'm getting excited,
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because even as I'm speaking, I'm seeing things and trying
to keep calling it and be cohesive and understandable. So
forgive me if that at any time doesn't happen. Revelation
thirteen fifteen. And he has given power to give breadth
to the image of the Beast, so that the image
of the Beast will even appear to speak. Because of
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those who do not bow down, and the worship the
image of the Beast to be put to death. Well,
just like Antiochra's epiphanies, if you didn't worship the statue
of him, you will put to death. Now, when that
was written, the technology wasn't there for that to happen.
So I believe that the technology is not only there,
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but that Satan and the fallen and the demons already
know how. They're going to imprint themselves upon the robots
and the ai that is being created, and the machine
will come to life. We see in Revelation fourteen, verses
nine and eleven a future statement about those who worship
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the Beast, and then another angel, the third one, followed them,
saying with a loud voice, whoever worships the Beast and
his image and receives the mark of the Beast on
his forehead or on his hand, he too will have
to drink of the wine of the wrath of God
mixed undiluted into the cup of his anger. And he
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will be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence
of the Holy Angels and in the presence of the Lamb,
and the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever,
and they have no rest day and night. Those who
worship the Beast and his image, and whoever receives the
mark of his name, well, that can't be what happened
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under Antiocha's epiphanies. It's a future event. And because of
what they do, that statement about the mixing of the
wine and the raft and equal amounts is not watered down.
There's nothing watered down here. You're getting a full blast.
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You're getting the full whine of the wrath, its full strength,
and the Prince who is to come will make a
covenant with Israel and then break that covenant in the
middle of the seven year period Daniel talks about in
Daniel nine twenty seven the Prince who is to Come.
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So this prophecy highlights the deceitful negotiations and alliances, just
like Antiochus did. He made alliances with other generals and
other people that help him, and then once they did
he did not honor that and in many cases overcame
them it's just like the Antichrist will do with diplomacy
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and financial wrangling, And faithful believers, just like then will
resist persecution, and their suffering will serve to refine and
purify them, because they will suffer a look at revelation.
You look at what but leavers have gone through since
the Lord came around. We live in a fallen world.
This is not our home. The god of this world
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is Satan. Well, then he will not only be the
god of this world. He will be corporeal and terrestrial
on this world. He won't be in the heavenly, so
he'll be down here Daniel eleven, starting verse thirty two,
with smooth words of flattery and praise, he will turn
to godlessness those who are willing to disregard the Mosaic Covenant.
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But the people who are spiritually mature and know their
God will display strength and take action to resist. They
who are wise and have spiritual insight among the people
will instruct many and help them understand. Yet, from many days,
some of them and their followers will fall by the
sword and by the flame, by captivity and by plunder.
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Now when they fall, they will received little help, and
many will join with them in hypocrisy, meaning it won't
be sincere, and some of those who are spiritually the
wise and have insight will fall as martyrs in order
to refine, to purge, and to make those among God's
people pure until the end time, because it is yet
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to come at the time appointed by God. But we
see that depicted in Revelation seven, starting verse thirteen. Then
one of the twenty four elders asked me, meaning John
the reveler. They asked him, who are these who are
clothed in white? Where did they come from? And I
said to them, sir, you are the one who knows.
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And he said to me, these are the ones who
died in the Great Tribulation. They have washed their robes
in the blood of the Lamb and made them white.
I'm sorry. I wish I could tell you something better.
Wish I could tell you we weren't going to suffer.
There are people out there tickling years to name it,
and the claimants and the Gospels and the Prosperity Gospel
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and all that. You're never gonna suffer. This isn't gonna happen.
Seven mountains of influence. You're gonna take power back. You're
gonna take the wealth back. I believe that God will provide,
and I believe that he will take care of his own.
But I believe it's gonna get tough. It's gonna get ugly,
it's gonna get dark. But when it gets dark, we're
gonna shine brighter. We're gonna stand taller so that those
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who are weak.
Speaker 2 (48:27):
And confined us. You gotta be willing to be found.
Speaker 1 (48:32):
And then the display of absolute power and blasphemy that
Antiocha's Epiphanes did Epimenes, the little crazy one, the Antichrist
will do the same thing. You will exalt himself above
all gods. He will demand worship and blaspheme, the one
true God. And I believe some coming out of the
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pit were once worshiped as God's small gee, but he
will exalt himself above them as well.
Speaker 2 (49:04):
They're gonna come.
Speaker 1 (49:04):
Out out of prison, finally free. They're gonna re rebuild
their kingdoms, They're gonna get back in control. And then
the Antichrist, I'm gonna say, oh, by the way, you're
gonna worship me the way you worshiped God. Of course
there'll be Satan speaking through him, because he will have
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possessed him by that point, and these fallen angels, fallen watchers,
these were well once gods of Rome and Greece and
other places, are gonna go oh yeah, no, no, no,
we just spent thousands of years in prison. We're not
gonna worship and serve you. And I believe that begins
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a battle on earth in which humanity is caught in
the middle. The king will do as he pleases, exalting
himself and claiming to be greater than every god, and
even blaspheming the God of gods. He will succeed, but
only until the time of Brath is completed. What has
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been determined will surely take place. He will have no
respect for the gods of his ancestors, or for the
God loved by women, or for any other god. For
he will boast that he is the greater of them all.
He's greater than them all. Boy, that's just say I
will ascend on high, i will sit on the mount
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of the congregation. I'm just as good. Revelation That was
Daniel eleventh, thirty six and thirty seven, which correlates directly
to Revelation thirteen five through eight. Then the beast was
allowed to speak great blasphemies against God, and he was
given the authority to do whatever he wanted for forty
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two months, and he spoke terrible words of blasphemy against God,
slandering his name and his dwelling, that is, those who
dwell in heaven. And the Beast was allowed to wage
war against God's holy people and to conquer them. And
he was given authardi rule over every tribe and people
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in language and nation. And all the people who belonged
to this world worshiped the Beast. They were the ones
whose names were not written in the Book of Life,
that belonged to the Lamb who was slaughtered before the
world was made frightening, dark, demonic times, and they will
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gladly worship the Beast. He'll use power, just military power.
He'll use wealth, he used influence. He'll create global conflict
and domination and anybody who opposes him first, he will
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create alliances and then he will conquer them. But interestingly enough,
the Antichrist won't conquer the regions of Eatam a Moab
or Aman, which is current day Jordan. There's something about Jordan,
and there's something about the people of Jordan. They are appeasers.
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They stay out of trouble, they stay out of everybody's way.
But I think there's something else going on here, because
in Jordan is Petra, and Petra is a safe haven
for the end times. And I believe the reason he's
allowed to make a treaty with Jordan and to not
do any harm to them is so that those who
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are in Judea can flee to the mountains Matthew twenty
four only verse sixteen. Then those who are in Judea
flee to the mountains. Then let those who try and
hold it together Matthew twenty four to sixteen. Then let
those whoor in Judea fleet of the mountains. Let him
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it was on the house. Stop not go down to
take anything out of his house, and let him it
was in the field. I go back to get his clothes.
But what are those who are pregnant and those who
are nursing babies in those days? And pray that your
flight may not be in winter or on the sabbath.
So in Jordan's Petra, the ancient n Aberteen city, it's
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carved into the rose Red cliffs. It's referenced in biblical
prophecy as a place of refuge for the Jewish remnant
during the Tribulation, during the time of Jacob's trouble mentioned
in Jeremiah thirty, verse seven. It's situated within towering canyons,
and this historic site is noted for the distinctive landscape
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and has been identified in theological discussions as a possible
sanctuary with a significant role in end time events. Believe
that to be the case, for otherwise how would the
Jewish remnant survive those three and a half years. This
is one of the greatest miracles that has yet to happen,
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when the remnant of the Jews are rescued by God,
the Judean Jews and the supernaturally protected for three and
a half years during the second half of the Tribulation,
the worst part of the Tribulation. So, after three and
a half years of peace, just as Satan is evicted
from the Second Heaven and cast down to Earth, the
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Antichrist breaks his covenant with Israel and he launches an
unexpected invasion of the Jewish state. Remember when they say
peace peace, sudden destruction will be upon them and this
blitzkrieg like invasion and the horrible details of what have
happened what will happen are described in Zechariah fourteen. And
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as a result, the Antichrist and his ten kingdom empire
will recapture most of the land which is Ruel one
during from Jordan in the Sixth Day War of nineteen
sixty seven, the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and the Temple mount,
and they will take possession of the new Jewish Temple.
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It's not four gods, children, It's a setup to draw
him to his destruction, to put a hook in his mouth,
to bring him to the place where he can be destroyed.
And his reign will end on God's holy, beautiful Mountain
of Jerusalem, where he will be defeated by Messiah's return
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Daniel eleven forty five. And he will stop between the
glorious Holy Mountain and the sea and will pitch his
royal tents. But while he is there, his time will
suddenly run out, and no one will help him. Of course,
they can't help him because they're all going to turn
their weapons on the sky. They're all going to be
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fighting the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords,
and the angels and the saints that are coming. They
don't have time to help him. Then I saw the Beast,
and the kings and political leaders of the earth, and
their armies gathered to make war against him, who was
mounted on the white horse, and against his army and
the beast. The Antichrist was seized and overpowered, and with
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him the false prophet, who in his presence had performed
amazing signs by which he deceived those who had received
the mark of the Beast and those who worshiped his image.
These two were hurled burnt alive into the lake of Fire,
which blazes with brimstone, and the rest were killed with
the sword which came from the mouth of him who
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sat on the horse, and all the birds fed ravenously
and gorged themselves with their flesh. I've shared this with you,
but if you haven't heard it, got to Orlando about
we got here in May of June of nineteen ninety five.
Between nineteen ninety five and two thousand, Lord gave me
a dream, and in that dream he gave me a vision.
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And in that vision I saw him cracking the sky
and coming into Jerusalem, putting his feet down on the
Mount of Olives, and I saw him begin to speak.
He could have been speaking in tongues, or he could
have been speaking in the original Hebrew language, or he
could have been speaking in whatever words he spoke to
begin all things.
Speaker 2 (57:26):
And while he was speaking.
Speaker 1 (57:28):
I saw the breath come out of him, and I
saw the air began to shimmer and coagulate and take form,
kind of like a blast, kind of like a liquid.
And as he spoke, that blast, that form, whatever was
that vibration, the ripple across the battlefield of Armagad and
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ripped across everyone who was there, and the ones who
were fighting in his name, and the ones who were
fighting against the beasts and the fallen. And then all
the people, all their wounds were healed, but everybody else
were consumed by the breath of his mouth. They were
consumed by the sword of the word. It will happen.
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I believe it to be so as he showed me,
because I never would have imagined what I saw. Warriors
standing knee deep in blood, up to the bridles of horses,
battling humans, battling humans, nephelim, fallen angels. It was just
it was brutal. And then you hear a boom and
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the sky splits, and there he is on the white horse. Yeah,
the antichrist empire will be just like Antiochus's empire. It
will emerge from the Middle East, north of Israel, not
from Europe as some belief. And here's what I believe
about that. I'm going to share with you my take
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on the origins of the Antichrist and the origins of
the kingdom of the Antichrist. I believe he's going to
come out of the tribe of Dan. Scripture never explicitly
says that the Antichrist is from the tribe of Dan,
but there is strong, circumstantial and typological evidence that has
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led many Jewish and Biblical scholars, ancient and modern, to
consider it possible. See Dan is missing from the list
of the twelve tribes in Revelation seven. It's not there.
They're absent, and many believe that Dan was omitted because
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of a future apostasy, not because of past sins alone.
We see Jacob's prophecy in Genesis forty nine, starting verse sixteen.
He prophesies over each of the tribes, over his sons,
and he said, Dan shall judge his people as one
of the tribes of Israel. And we know Samson was
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one of the judges that came out of Dan shall
judge his people as one of the tribes of Israel.
Dan shall be a serpent by the way, a viper
by the path that bites the horse's heels.
Speaker 2 (01:00:18):
Gee, who else do we know? By heals.
Speaker 1 (01:00:21):
So that its riders shall fall backward. And then Jacob,
almost as a flea, I have waited for your salvation,
O Lord. It's the only tribe that is compared to
a serpent. The prophecies of the tribes switch from a
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blessing to a warning of danger, and it ends with
Jacob's cry, I wait for your salvation, O Lord, And
we know who the salvation is. Jeremiah in eighth chapter eight,
verse sixteen prophesies, the snorting of his horses was heard
from Dan. The whole land trembled at the sound. This
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indicates some kind of an invasion or judgment, and one
of the scriptures used by rabbis in the Early Church
Fathers as end Times imagery. See the Early Church Fathers Araneus,
Hippolytus Victorious and others and those that had a millennial
mindset believed that the Antichrist would arise out of Dan.
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You have the serpent imagery you have Dan's mission in Revelation.
You have the Antichrist as a counterfeit judge used to
bring judgment upon God's children. You got to remember those
early church fathers I mentioned lived much closer to the
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Apostolic mindset and the original sources of Peter and Paul
and James and John. That gets watered down later on
the Bible and the books of the Bible and the
things they admit, like Enoch, they pushed all that knowledge away,
but God has brought it back. According to the Hebrew Bible,
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the tribe of Dan settles in the hill lands bordering
the frime In Benjamin's properties on the east, and Judah
and the Philistines on the south. But the Amorites lived there,
and for whatever reason, they.
Speaker 2 (01:02:24):
Couldn't defeat them. So what do they do.
Speaker 1 (01:02:26):
They flee to the north, They get away from their enemies,
and they settle in Leish that it become known as
Dan at the base of Mount Hermon.
Speaker 2 (01:02:36):
And what took place on.
Speaker 1 (01:02:37):
Mount Herman follow what fallen watchers have come down. This
is the past saw the daughters of Adam Genesis six.
The whole bit. You've heard me talk about it, Pans grotto,
that's where they set up shop. But it goes a
little further. There's archaeological evidence from the Aegean period, which
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is the Bronze Age of Greece, that there are connections
to Greeces and the Song of Deborah Judges five. The
tribe is said to have stayed on their ships with
their belongings. Well, is there are people that left the
land and stayed on their ships with their belongings. Yes,
the Phoenicians who began in the Mediterranean and took over
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most Mediterranean, planted colonies and people in places all across
the Mediterranean. They took their beliefs with them. They actually
built the temples of ay Elberith in Sicily, not too
far from where my grandfather is from. So, if this
is true, and I believe it is, the Antichrist will
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be able to show Jewish lineage, show Jewish bloodline, and
will be allowed to walk into the new Temple. So
I don't believe the priests would allow just anybody to
walk in there and get close to the Holy of Holies.
Speaker 2 (01:03:52):
But because of who he is and.
Speaker 1 (01:03:53):
Both power and influence and proven bloodlines, they will allow
him in. And then they'll just keep going and declare
himself as God. Somebody will kill him with the wound
in his head, and then he will rise from the dead,
and Satan will have possessed him. I also believe that
because of his blood lineage, he will be able to
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show a connection not just to the Jews, but to
the Muslim world through the Syrian aspects, and to the
Church world because of his ties to Greece. Because in
Daniel eleven, I won't read the whole thing Daniel eleven,
I think I read. If he'll have no regard for
the gods of his fathers, for the desire of women,
nor he will regard any other god, he will magnify
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himself above them all. Instead, he will honor a god
of fortresses, a god whom his fathers did not know.
He will honor him with gold and silver, with precious stones,
with expensive things. He will act against the strongest fortresses
with the help of a foreign God. Well, who could
that foreign god be the one that they do not know?
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It'd be Satan.
Speaker 3 (01:05:01):
Satan.
Speaker 2 (01:05:03):
You see, Zeus is Satan.
Speaker 1 (01:05:07):
And all you have to do is go to the
Church of Zeus and their website, and they admit that
that Zeus is all the god. He's Satan, he's Belzibob,
He's the Egyptian god U Toum, He's Jupiter. He's the
child of Cronus and Rhea, which means he's created. And
who did Antiochist worship Zeus? Whose statue did he erect
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in the temple?
Speaker 2 (01:05:32):
Zeus?
Speaker 1 (01:05:33):
So what we see is just like Antiochus's rise and
his actions and his geographical origin. It's a template for
us to identify the coming Antichrist and for the Jews
to pay attention, especially during the tribulation period. But you
know what, we know that God's sovereignty over history and
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future events shows us that the antichrist reign is temporary
end with God's ultimate victory at arm Again, this is
warning us to be vigilant, to pay attention to the
prophetic patterns, and to have discernment among believers and not
be fooled. Do not be deceived. The Lord said Johnny twelve.
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I am the light of the world. He who follows
me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light
of life. You need the light of life right now,
and you need to shine, and you need to be purified.
You need to be cleansed, and you need to be committed.
The feast of dedication, a feast of renewal and renovation.
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So why not during this time, why not during this period,
set a time aside to be renewed, to shine brighter,
and do this knowing the time, knowing it's high time
to wake out of our sleep. For now our salvation
is nearer than when we first believed that night, as
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far spent the day as at hand. Therefore, let us
cast off the works of darkness and let us put
on the armor of light.
Speaker 2 (01:07:08):
I will, I am.
Speaker 1 (01:07:10):
This is the heart's cry, This is the stance I've taken.
This is what the Lord has spoken to me, and
it's more vibrant and vital and alive than ever before.
I pray that you would pray to see if that's
what the Lord would ask of you. Father Abbah, Papa,
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You've always made a remnant, and for that remnant, you've
always made a way.
Speaker 2 (01:07:36):
Where there was no way.
Speaker 1 (01:07:37):
I pray that we are prepared and ready.
Speaker 2 (01:07:40):
I pray that we can do what you need us
to do.
Speaker 1 (01:07:43):
More than anything, I pray that we would worship you
as you deserve to be worshiped. That we would love
you the way you deserve to be loved, and that
we would glorify you and shine the light of the Lord,
the light of you. Sure that we would be the light,
that we will reflect his light, that we would not
hide his light. That in a time of new beginnings,
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as Honikah is celebrated in the miracle of the oil,
the oil that's inside of us, the oil of the
Holy Spirit, would cause us to shine and to glow,
and to not run out, and to do what you
need us to do in this time. Help us burn
off of us anything that is not of you. Stir
up our hearts in our minds, stir up the love
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You know what a crucial hour this is.
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How it is high time now for you to wake
up out of your sleep, to rouse your reality for salvation.
Final deliverance is nearer to us now than when we
had first believed, when we first adhered to trust it
in and relied on the Messiah. The night is far gone,
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the day is almost here. Let us drop, let us
fling away the works in deeds of darkness and put
on the full armor of light. Romans thirteen eleven and twelve.
Paul is beseeching the church to wake up. What a
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crucial hour.
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This is well, I say the same to you. Now.
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It's time to wake up, time to get ready for
the final battle between night and day, between light and darkness.
It's nearer now than when we first believed. And you
are a part of it. No matter who you are,
where you are, how old young and you are, how
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long you've been saved, it doesn't matter. Because you believe
in Him, and your names are written in the Lamb's
book of life.
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You are a part of it.
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So drop all the cares and the ways of this world,
and let's get battle ready. Let's get sanctified and spiritually fit.
That's the call, that's the message. That's what the Lord
wants you to hear. Today's been speaking this to me
for a week. Paul is depicting believers as being asleep
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or inactive. I was written a very long time ago,
but some things never change. Spiritual slumber is a part
of the human condition. Second Thessalonians, chapter two, verse three says,
let no one deceive or beguile you in any way,
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for that day will not come except that apostasy comes first,
unless the predicted great falling of way of those who
are professed to be born again believers has come, and
the man of lawlessness, the man of sin, is revealed.
Who is the son of doom, the son of tradition,
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and in this case, the Antichrist, the apostasy, the great
falling away a postagia. It's a defection. It's a revolt
from the truth, a revolt from religious truth. To forsake
the truth and to forsake the spirit of truth. It's
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falling away from the Lord as a form of divorce.
It's a violation of the marriage covenant that we made
with him. It's interesting to me that this has been
something the Lord is expressing over these last couple of weeks.
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We should take heed. So the tradition of moral instruction
in the ancient world always associated light daytime with good
and darkness and nighttime with evil. By the Greeks, the Romans,
and the ancient Jews all used the same contrast. In
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Matthew four sixteen, we see the people who sat in darkness,
enveloped in darkness, have seen a great light, and upon
those who sat in the region and the shadow of
death light has dawned. Well, that's a quote from Isaiah
nine about the coming Messiah. And this is the perfect
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time of the year with many celebrating Hanukkah and others Christmas.
To talk about this, we're in the mist Honica right now.
Isaiah chapter nine, I must talk verse two. The people
who walked in darkness have seen a great light. Those
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who dwelt in the land of the shadow of death,
upon them a light has shined. You have multiplied the
nation and increased its joy. They rejoice before you according
to the joy of the harvest, as men rejoice when
they divide the spoil. For you have broken the yoke
of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the
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rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian.
For every warrior's sandal from the noisy battle, and garments
rolled in blood will be used for burning and fuel
of fire. For unto us, a child is born, unto us,
a son is given, and the government will be upon
his shoulder, and his name will be called wonderful counselor
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Mighty God, everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase
of his government and peace, there will be no end
upon the throne of David and over his kingdom to
order it, to establish it with judgment and justice. From
that time forward, even forever. The zeal of the Lord
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of Host will perform, this zeal for judgment and justice,
zeal for his people, for his children, the same zeal
he will have at the end. So the light was
bringing the Messiah who would dispel the darkness. And that's
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what Hanikah is. It's a festival of light. It's a
feast of dedication. We know that Yeshua celebrated it because
according to John chapter ten, starting verse twenty two. Now
it was the feast of Dedication in Jerusalem, and it
was winter, and Yashua walked in the temple in Solomon's porch,
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and the Jews surrounded him and said to him, how
long do you keep us in doubt? If you are
the Messiah, tell us plainly. I find it interesting that,
of course he's walking in Solomon's porch, which is an
enclosed portico on the left side of the temple if
you're facing the gate, so he's surrounded he's walking. Then
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they come all around him and they want to know
if you are the Messiah. Just tell us, and he
answers them, and he says, I told you, and you
do not believe the works that I do. In my
father's name. They be a witness of me. But you
do not believe, because you're not of my sheep. And
as I said to you, my sheep hear my voice.
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And I know them, and they follow me. And I
give them eternal life, and they shall never perish. Neither
shall anyone snatch them out of my hand. My father,
who has given them to me, is greater than all,
and no one is able to snatch them out of
my father's hand. My father are one, so he is
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the one bringing justice. He is the one bringing judgment
and illumination to his people for the father Hanika. The
Feast of Dedication was important to Israel. It was an
important memorial. It's the Jewish festival. It commemorates the purification
and rededication of the temple by Judas maccabists on Ghizlev
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twenty five, which is one sixty five BC. And it's
usually in December. It's winter. You know what's interesting about winter.
The symbolism of winter. Winter is the.
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Time of cold.
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It's a time where people have gone spiritually cold, and
that's exactly what has happened in Israel during that time.
So three years prior, in one sixty two BC, Antiochus
the fourth, the cell you said, Syrian king defiles the
temple here, erects an idol to beel Schaman, which is
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the Canaanite counterpart for the Greek god Zeus, and that's
who he intends to worship.
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Of Zeus.
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He sacrifices a pig on the altar in the temple,
and he proclaims himself to be God. Definitely demonic, purely demonic,
purely satanic. Now, how did he get into power? How
did we get here? Well, in Alexander the Great deed
of a young Age's kingdom was broken into four parts,
and two of the four parts of the kingdom were
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the Ptolemies of Egypt and the Soucaids of Babylon and Syria. Now,
when you think about that Egypt, Babylon, Syria, you think
Middle East. But Alexander the Great, that's his kingdom, and
his generals are the ones that go to lead it.
That means his Greek blood in the mick in the
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Middle East. And it's important to remember so Israel happens
to be located right between the Syrian and the Egyptian
Greek sub empire and was fought over everybody wanted it.
For the next two hundred years, nothing's changed, and it
eventually came under the control of the Cellucid based in Syria.
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People of Judah had just returned from exile to Babylon
and they were living with the rebuilt temple in their mists.
A historian Nehemiah eight first temple destroyed five eighty b C.
The Jews are exiled the Babylon for their disobedience to God.
He didn't do it, He let it happen, and as
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a reminder, he lets things happen to wake up his children,
to bring them to repentance, and then he rescues them.
Seventy years later, they are allowed to go back. They
rebuild the temple, but they're still under foreign oppression. Eventually,
around three twenty two BC, Alexander the Great comes through
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and conquers the area, including Judea. So the world around
Judah was changing. Hellenism and religious compromise were the fashion
of the day. Everybody wanted to compromise to go along.
To get along. Cities had built hippodromas for public chariot
races and horse races, and stadiums for games and athletes
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that would participate in various games, and they did it
without clothes. So you have the races, you have the wrestling,
you have the games. People are being entertained. That's what
their focus is. The focus is on merriments and all
the things that go with it. And the ancient Greek
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city states, they were filled with libraries and courts and
temples and places for discussion and learning. It was a
state of the mind, gnosis, knowledge. Everybody wanted it. God
not so much. The mind was being fed, the spirit
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was being starved. Now Judah wanted nothing to do with this.
They wanted nothing to do with the Olympian Zeus. They
wanted nothing to do with the nude games or the
Greek way of life. But among the nobility, the ones
with power and influence, they would compromise people. They wanted
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to see the old traditions disappear. Nothing's changed. We have
people today. All the Church needs to rewrite the Bible,
we need to update things, We need to come into
the modern times. Circumcision they considered was barbaric. Oh, we
got to stop doing this because our Jewish Men cannot
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participate in the games, because everybody would see this circumcision.
I'm astounded every time I read that or think about that,
Embarrassed by the sign of the covenant with God, a
covenant made on the eighth day of a child's life.
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They wanted to reverse that circumcision. And I don't even
want to think how they tried to do it. Many
wanted to see the end of actual tourist study. In
the use of Hebrew and Aramaic writing and conversation, the
common Greek was becoming the world language, the language of
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sophistication on the correlation for today is so powerful, so obvious,
so religious. War of the observant Jews who wanted to
keep the Torah and the other progressive Hellenized Jews who
wanted to assimilate into the Greek culture around them began.
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They were disconnected from the Temple and the things of God.
Now never forget both sides claimed to be Jews. The
call was the compromise to fit in, to become like
the world. So Antiochus, the Syrian king, he defiles the temple,
he erects the statue of Zeus, He sacrifices the pig
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in a deliberate an attempt to defile and demean the Jews.
But more than that, he declares himself to be a god.
He mint coins with his features on the face of
Zeus along with the words of theus Fiphides, meaning the
God manifest. Now, if you think about that, he put
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his features on the face of Zeus, kind of like
the Antichrist will be imprinted upon the spirit of Satan.
He was called Antiochus Epiphanies for short, which meant Antiochus
the visible God. The Jews called them Antiochus Epimenes, which
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was Antiochus the crazy one. He was the four chef
sadowing of the Antichrist, And that's what I want you
to see. Among other things, in the shadow of Hanukkah,
he decreed that the Torah, the law of God, could
not be studied under penalty of death. Circumcision was forbidden,
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and the Sabbath was not to be kept. And is
so frightening and sad to realize that the supposed Church
did the exact same thing almost three hundred years after
the death and resurrection.
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Of the Lord.
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The outlawed the Torah, They outlawed anything Jewish, The outlawd
the Sabbath, and anyone who did so was excommunicated for
being a Judaizer. Anytime a demonic leader is in place,
there will be a war against the word and against
those following that word. And this exposed an internal struggle
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within Jews. And again nothing has ever changed. Raul Hilberg
and he was a political scientist in the nineteen seventies.
He wrote a book in nineteen seventy three called the
Destruction of the European Jews. The Missionaries of Christianity has that,
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in effect, you have no right to live among us
as Jews. The secular leaders who followed proclaimed you have
no right to live among us, and then the German
Nazis at last decreed you have no right to live.
This is twenty twenty five, and this spirit, the spirit
of the Antichrist, which Paul and John and Peter and
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James all knew about and expressed was alive and well
in their day, has exploded in power. We're seeing that
exact same sentiment going on in the world like a
news for you. We've been grafted into the vine of Israel.
The Church has been grafted into the same persecution the
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Jews felt then to experience at the end.
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And we are.
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Because while our Jewish brothers and sisters are being attacked,
being killed for who they are, are believing brothers and
sisters in other countries are being attacked for believing in
the Lord. So Antiochusin's troops from village to village with
the statue of himself, ordering people to bow down to it.
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And one day they arrive in the village of Modayin.
It's about twenty miles northwest of Jerusalem, and a Syrian
officer ordered the Jewish high priest Mattathias to take part
in the ceremony. He says no, unequivocally no. Well, an
elderly man, another one of the priests steps forward to comply.
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With the order.
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You know, get along, go along, we'll keep the peace.
But Matthathias of the Hasmonian family, he kills him with
the spear, and then kills one of the soldiers. He
tears down the Greek altar with the battle cry, whoever
is for the Lord, follow me, and with the point
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of the spear and a battle cry, the Maccabean revolt began.
Matthathias's five sons and others fled into the Govna hills
and conducted a guerrilla warfare against the Solustads. No direct confrontation,
but little guerrilla warfare attacks kind of like the Resistance
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did in World War Two, and wore down the enemy
fighting against insurmountable odds. They had a Their banner was
Mi komoche Blaim. I don't know who is like you
a lord? Which is from Exodus fifteen eleven. Who is
like you a lord amongst among the gods?
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Smolder?
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Who is like you glorious and holiness, fearful and praises
doing wonders? Think about that? Who is like him? Who
is like the lord among the gods that people worship?
Who is like him glorious in holiness, fearful, in praises,
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doing wonders. So the battle rages on. Methathized dies. He
leaves his son, Judah Maccabee, not his oldest but his
best general in charge. And the name Maccabee is probably
more a title given to him Aramaic Machaba the hammer ferocious,
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and he trains farmers. And they fought with farm tools
and whatever swords they had, and they fought the better
equipped Syrian army, and his victory inspired others to follow
of them, and with each victory they took the Syrian
army weapons and the stories of his victories and ferocity
traveled to other nations. Judah Maccabee the hammer. So after
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three years of fighting one sixty five PC, they win.
Juda is liberated, but the temple was defiled. You want
to read about that, you can read about it in
First Maccabees one in four and second Maccabees six and ten.
So they go to the temple, they find it defiled,
articles missing or broken, and I'm sure it was disgusting,
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because I doubt that was the only pig they slaughtered
in there. When the Hasmonians defeated them, they searched and
they found only one, only one cruise of oil that
had been sanctified, and that was proper to rededicate the temple.
One day of burning. But we know the story. A
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miracle came to pass and it lasted eight days. And
there are many that say, oh, it never happened. They
built a minora, and it was small enough that the
one cruise lasted eight days. I believe that it did.
You can believe what you want. And the following year
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those days were declared to holiday, and it was celebrated
by saying halal, which is psalms one thirteen through one
eighteen and Thanksgiving prayers and celebration. So the miracle of Hanukkah.
Basically there's a few with God on their side triumphed
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over a much more powerful enemy. But there was more
to it than that. Oh, they remember eight day celebration.
We dedicate the temple every kidslav twenty five December, sometimes no,
but almost always December. Eight days of oil a day
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eight the number of new beginnings, supernatural oil for a
supernatural need and a supernatural time on the state. Jews
all over the world and Messianic believers as well, celebrate
the winning back of Jerusalem, the rededication of the Temple.
Now I know that there is no temple. I am
the temple, you're the temple. God doesn't dwell in temples
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made by man's hands, and he won't, which is why
the coming temple that everybody's clamoring about is not for him.
It's for the Antichrist. And this should have been a
beginning of a new time, a new time of power
and freedom for Jerusalem. Something went wrong because that didn't happen.
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They had some problems. First, the understanding of Torah and
the uncompromised way of the Jews had been forgotten, no
one to teach the people. So Judah doing the right thing.
He brings together men who would separate themselves from the
rest for the teaching of the law. And that's where
the name Pharisee comes from. It means the separated ones,
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that they had separated themselves from the masses and would
dedicate themselves to the study and interpretation and the teaching
of the law. Most were the descendants, the spiritual descendants
of the hasidin, the loyal fighters, the religious fighters that
fought with Jude Maccabee, And they were responsible for the
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transformation of Judaism from a religion of sacrifice to one
of law. They were the developers of the oral tradition,
the teachers of the twofold law written in oral. They
say that the way to God. They saw it as
a way to be through obedience to the law rather
than through the sacrifice. They were the progressives of the day,
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willing to adopt new ideas and adapt the law to
new situations. And what you see there is the drip
of worldly delusion, diluting the word, diluting the relationship with God,
not following his commandments. Oh, that was then this is now.
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But the fighting with Syria didn't stop. The enemy doesn't
just give up because you defeat them. They want to
take back what was stolen from them, even though it
was never theirs to begin with. But Jude mccabee kept winning.
But he gets tired of fighting, and that's easy to do.
He got tired of fighting, so he sends his nephew
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to Rome, requesting an alliance with Rome for protection, thinking
I'll bring in someone bigger, they'll protect us and we
won't have to fight anymore. Well, let me tell you,
brothers and sisters, that kind of compromised God won this
battle for you supernaturally. You do not make an alliance
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with the world, especially with people like that, thinking they're
going to do for you what God did. So the
Romans agreed, They agreed to a little, and took a
lot absolute allegiance to Rome. This began the Roman occupation
of the Jews, and all they did was trade one
oppressor for another. So the outcome of the deal wasn't
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what Judah intended. The Romans did only as little as
what they had to do and what was in their
best interests, and the Syrian forces were numerically so superior,
and the Roman helped so little that most of Judah's
men left the field of battle and advised advised him
to do the same and let's wait for a more
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favorable opportunity. But Judah, I think, just indoctrinated into war,
fitted and how to put down the sword, decided to
keep fighting, and the result was inevitable. Judah and those
who remained faithful to him were killed. His body was
taken by his brothers from the battlefield and buried in
the family suppulcha in Mota, in a sad end to
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a great beginning. And I do believe that the reason
God did not step in and rescue them is they
decided they wanted their allegiance with Rome to be their
protector and he will back off like he did in
the days of Noah. They wanted the worship and the
help of the watchers and the fallen watchers and all
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that they brought with him, and he just took his
hands off everything and said, if that's what you want,
that's what you can have. From Simon Maccabee, his brother,
the Hasmonian dynasty gave us Herod the Great one hundred
years later. So the compromise has consequences for Judah Maccabee,
for the Jews, and for the Church.
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The East is.
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Appointed, it's commemorated, it's celebrated. It's not specified in the
Hebrew Bible. It's the only Jewish festival not specifically specified.
But we know that the Lord celebrated it, and so
do we. The number eight new beginnings a new light
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in a new season. See the thing about light. It
brings shadows, and in the shadows of Hanukkah we see
the coming Antichrist. Antiocha's epiphanies is often seen as the
foreshadowing of the Antichrist due to his extreme cruelty and
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his persecution of the Jewish people as described in the
Book of Daniel. Both figures are depicted as powerful rulers
who oppose God and his people, and Antiocho service as
the historical example of this villain, the Antichrist that has
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prophesied for the end times. Interestingly enough, about this message,
I said, it's been bubbling inside of me like a
new wine for the last week. At the same time,
he's been speaking to me about the Antichrist, and I've
mentioned him periodically over the last couple of months. Because
the Lord has been showing me things. Last week, the
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Lord had Larry first read Daniel eight and Daniel ten,
in which the Antichrist is mentioned, and then the whole
book of Daniel. We need to understand the signs of
the times. We need to wake up and see.
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What he's been telling us.
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So Daniel eleven stands as one of the most detailed
and challenging prophetic chapters in the Bible. It prevents a
remarkable prophetic narrative that begins with historical events of the
Persian and Greek empires and then transitions to described the
future Antichrist. Now, these chapters with historical prophecies about key
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figures like Antiocha's Epiphanes, whose actions I've already pointed out
to you and will continue to lay out before you,
foreshadow the Antichrist. The prophecy they focus on the Antichrist's
future rain He ties it all together. But the great
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thing is, even though the prophet Daniel is showing us
things which could concern us and should, He's also demonstrating
God's sovereignty over history and future events. Never forget God
is in control. Let's take a look at the prophetic
overview being given to us. We're going to cover a
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lot here. So the great thing is you can download
this and stop it and take notes and look things
up as I've been doing over the last couple of days,
and begin to understand and what I want you to
also do. First of all, pray before you do it.
Ask for the Lord to open your eyes, open your mind,
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open your heart to hear what he has to say,
both to the church and to you personally. But more
than that, ask him to show you how that correlids
into things going on right now. So Daniel Levin gives
us detailed prophecy. It begins with the historical events involving
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the Persian and Greek empires and shifts from telling a
contemporary story to foretell the future Antichrist rise and rain.
So if we look at Antiochus as a foreshadow, he's
a historical precursor to the Antichrist. His actions of deceit
really religious persecution, and self exaltation are prophetic templates for
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the Antichrist's future behavior, and we see that through other
examples like Hitler and others. But Antiochus is probably the
purest example of the coming Antichrist. Like antioch the Antichrist
will gain power through intrigue, through flattery and political manipulation.
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During a time of peace, both the Antiochus and the
Antichrist use military force and distribute wealth to secure loyalty.
This distribution of wealth you see in everybody clamoring for
right now, and you know, the young and the disenfranchise,
the falling for it. Every time I see that, every
time I see what they say, every time I see
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what they do. My comment on social media almost always
is when I look at you, I see someone who
will offer no resistance to the coming Antichrist. Matter of fact,
you will fall right in line with him. It's being
set up for that through manipulation. The spirit of the Antichrist,
the spirit of Hostitan Satan, and the fallen in their
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demonic offspring are setting the stage for the rebuilding of
their kingdoms. Remember, they're going to come out of the pit,
and when they come out of the pit, they're going
to want their kingdoms back.
Speaker 2 (37:20):
They're going to want their rule back.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
The Antichrist is going to establish a global economic system
favoring those that follow him Daniel eleven twenty four. Without warning,
he will enter the richest areas of the land, and
then he will distribute amongst his followers the plunder and
wealth of the rich, something his predecessors had never done.
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He will plot the overthrow of strongholds, but this will
last only for a short while, taking the wealth of
the rich. You hear that a lot today, don't you.
Revelation thirteen, Verses sixteen and seventeen. He the Antichrist fires
everyone small and great, rich and poor, free enslave to
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be given a mark on the right hand or on
the forehead, and no one goodbye or sell anything without
that mark, which is either the name of the beast
or the number representing his name. And he believe, as
I do, it'll be some kind of a chip, some
kind of a digital code. Everything's going to digital anyway.
You won't be able to buy or sell, but you
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won't be able to get that ability to do so
until you pledge allegiance to the Antichrist. You know, when
you look at this control of economics, that's exactly what
Hitler did. He blamed the Jews for Germany's economic distress.
He accused them of hoarding wealth and conspiring to control
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the country's financial institutions. What do you see on social
media NonStop from all these influencers. I did that finger
thing influencers. Yeah, you're influencing Evil went sing the Satanic
and becoming Antichrist. How the Jews control all the bank
they control all the money.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
Look at them.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
Every problem we have is because of them. Every time
you hear that, I want you to hear whose voice
that really is. And this was happening during the time
when Germans were dissatisfied due to hyperinflation and unemployment, and
Hitler played on that. He used propaganda to promote the
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idea that the Jews were not only responsible for the
country's woes, but they were actively working to undermine German society,
and escapegoating resonated with the populace. They were desperate for
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explanations for the suffering. They were desperate to understand the
economic stability and the widespread poverty and despair, and instead
of looking at the leaders and those who had been
making the decisions, they needed a scapegoat. And by painting
a picture of the Jews as malevolent puppeteers behind the
financial crisis, Hitler Fosteredy's sense of unity among those who
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felt this enfranchised, and they redirected their frustration toward a
common enemy. That's why I will stand against what I'm
seeing happening right now, pointing out to these people when
they promote this hoose voice is coming out of their mouth.
Then he added religious persecution to the financial one. Antiochus's
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attack on Jewish worship and religious leadership prefigures the Antichrist's
future persecution and believers, including the abomination of desolation. So
Antiochus was the Antichrist. No, no, he's not. See the
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reason I said that, because there are many that when
they hear teaching like this. No, no, no, the Antichrist
already came and went. Daniel was describing Antiochus Epiphany, the
Cellucid king, the Syrian king. He described him to a
letter all that has happened, Well, I have a little
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problem with that, and now you're wrong, And let me
tell you why you're wrong if you think that. So
Antiochus won seventy five to one sixty four BC. The
Antichrist is the final world rulery hasn't happened yet, he sure.
He speaks of him in a future tense in Matthew
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twenty four fifteen, saying perilous times will come. So when
you see the abomination of desolation, the appalling sacrilege that
astonishes and makes desolate, spoken of by the prophet Daniel
standing in the Holy Place. Let the reader understand, but
he's talking in a future tense. And second Thessalonians two
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four Paul talks about the Antichrist in a future tense,
who opposes and exalts himself so proudly and so instantly
above every so called God or object of worship, so
that he actually enters and takes his seat in the
Temple of God, publicly proclaiming that he himself is God.
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John writes in Revelation thirteen fifteen a future event, that
the Antichrist has given power to give breath to the
image of the beast, so that the image of the
beast the dragon. I'm sorry if you want to know
when the spirit had me, that was it. And now
I'm going to try to hold it together so that
i can get this across to you, because I'm getting excited,
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because even as I'm speaking, I'm seeing things and trying
to keep calling it and be cohesive and understandable. So
forgive me if that at any time doesn't happen. Revelation
thirteen fifteen. And he has given power to give breadth
to the image of the Beast, so that the image
of the Beast will even appear to speak. Because of
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those who do not bow down, and the worship the
image of the Beast to be put to death. Well,
just like Antiochra's epiphanies, if you didn't worship the statue
of him, you will put to death. Now, when that
was written, the technology wasn't there for that to happen.
So I believe that the technology is not only there,
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but that Satan and the fallen and the demons already
know how. They're going to imprint themselves upon the robots
and the ai that is being created, and the machine
will come to life. We see in Revelation fourteen, verses
nine and eleven a future statement about those who worship
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the Beast, and then another angel, the third one, followed them,
saying with a loud voice, whoever worships the Beast and
his image and receives the mark of the Beast on
his forehead or on his hand, he too will have
to drink of the wine of the wrath of God
mixed undiluted into the cup of his anger. And he
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will be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence
of the Holy Angels and in the presence of the Lamb,
and the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever,
and they have no rest day and night. Those who
worship the Beast and his image, and whoever receives the
mark of his name, well, that can't be what happened
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under Antiocha's epiphanies. It's a future event. And because of
what they do, that statement about the mixing of the
wine and the raft and equal amounts is not watered down.
There's nothing watered down here. You're getting a full blast.
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You're getting the full whine of the wrath, its full strength,
and the Prince who is to come will make a
covenant with Israel and then break that covenant in the
middle of the seven year period Daniel talks about in
Daniel nine twenty seven the Prince who is to Come.
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So this prophecy highlights the deceitful negotiations and alliances, just
like Antiochus did. He made alliances with other generals and
other people that help him, and then once they did
he did not honor that and in many cases overcame
them it's just like the Antichrist will do with diplomacy
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and financial wrangling, And faithful believers, just like then will
resist persecution, and their suffering will serve to refine and
purify them, because they will suffer a look at revelation.
You look at what but leavers have gone through since
the Lord came around. We live in a fallen world.
This is not our home. The god of this world
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is Satan. Well, then he will not only be the
god of this world. He will be corporeal and terrestrial
on this world. He won't be in the heavenly, so
he'll be down here Daniel eleven, starting verse thirty two,
with smooth words of flattery and praise, he will turn
to godlessness those who are willing to disregard the Mosaic Covenant.
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But the people who are spiritually mature and know their
God will display strength and take action to resist. They
who are wise and have spiritual insight among the people
will instruct many and help them understand. Yet, from many days,
some of them and their followers will fall by the
sword and by the flame, by captivity and by plunder.
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Now when they fall, they will received little help, and
many will join with them in hypocrisy, meaning it won't
be sincere, and some of those who are spiritually the
wise and have insight will fall as martyrs in order
to refine, to purge, and to make those among God's
people pure until the end time, because it is yet
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to come at the time appointed by God. But we
see that depicted in Revelation seven, starting verse thirteen. Then
one of the twenty four elders asked me, meaning John
the reveler. They asked him, who are these who are
clothed in white? Where did they come from? And I
said to them, sir, you are the one who knows.
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And he said to me, these are the ones who
died in the Great Tribulation. They have washed their robes
in the blood of the Lamb and made them white.
I'm sorry. I wish I could tell you something better.
Wish I could tell you we weren't going to suffer.
There are people out there tickling years to name it,
and the claimants and the Gospels and the Prosperity Gospel
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and all that. You're never gonna suffer. This isn't gonna happen.
Seven mountains of influence. You're gonna take power back. You're
gonna take the wealth back. I believe that God will provide,
and I believe that he will take care of his own.
But I believe it's gonna get tough. It's gonna get ugly,
it's gonna get dark. But when it gets dark, we're
gonna shine brighter. We're gonna stand taller so that those
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who are weak.
Speaker 2 (48:27):
And confined us. You gotta be willing to be found.
Speaker 1 (48:32):
And then the display of absolute power and blasphemy that
Antiocha's Epiphanes did Epimenes, the little crazy one, the Antichrist
will do the same thing. You will exalt himself above
all gods. He will demand worship and blaspheme, the one
true God. And I believe some coming out of the
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pit were once worshiped as God's small gee, but he
will exalt himself above them as well.
Speaker 2 (49:04):
They're gonna come.
Speaker 1 (49:04):
Out out of prison, finally free. They're gonna re rebuild
their kingdoms, They're gonna get back in control. And then
the Antichrist, I'm gonna say, oh, by the way, you're
gonna worship me the way you worshiped God. Of course
there'll be Satan speaking through him, because he will have
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possessed him by that point, and these fallen angels, fallen watchers,
these were well once gods of Rome and Greece and
other places, are gonna go oh yeah, no, no, no,
we just spent thousands of years in prison. We're not
gonna worship and serve you. And I believe that begins
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a battle on earth in which humanity is caught in
the middle. The king will do as he pleases, exalting
himself and claiming to be greater than every god, and
even blaspheming the God of gods. He will succeed, but
only until the time of Brath is completed. What has
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been determined will surely take place. He will have no
respect for the gods of his ancestors, or for the
God loved by women, or for any other god. For
he will boast that he is the greater of them all.
He's greater than them all. Boy, that's just say I
will ascend on high, i will sit on the mount
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of the congregation. I'm just as good. Revelation That was
Daniel eleventh, thirty six and thirty seven, which correlates directly
to Revelation thirteen five through eight. Then the beast was
allowed to speak great blasphemies against God, and he was
given the authority to do whatever he wanted for forty
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two months, and he spoke terrible words of blasphemy against God,
slandering his name and his dwelling, that is, those who
dwell in heaven. And the Beast was allowed to wage
war against God's holy people and to conquer them. And
he was given authardi rule over every tribe and people
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in language and nation. And all the people who belonged
to this world worshiped the Beast. They were the ones
whose names were not written in the Book of Life,
that belonged to the Lamb who was slaughtered before the
world was made frightening, dark, demonic times, and they will
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gladly worship the Beast. He'll use power, just military power.
He'll use wealth, he used influence. He'll create global conflict
and domination and anybody who opposes him first, he will
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create alliances and then he will conquer them. But interestingly enough,
the Antichrist won't conquer the regions of Eatam a Moab
or Aman, which is current day Jordan. There's something about Jordan,
and there's something about the people of Jordan. They are appeasers.
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They stay out of trouble, they stay out of everybody's way.
But I think there's something else going on here, because
in Jordan is Petra, and Petra is a safe haven
for the end times. And I believe the reason he's
allowed to make a treaty with Jordan and to not
do any harm to them is so that those who
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are in Judea can flee to the mountains Matthew twenty
four only verse sixteen. Then those who are in Judea
flee to the mountains. Then let those who try and
hold it together Matthew twenty four to sixteen. Then let
those whoor in Judea fleet of the mountains. Let him
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it was on the house. Stop not go down to
take anything out of his house, and let him it
was in the field. I go back to get his clothes.
But what are those who are pregnant and those who
are nursing babies in those days? And pray that your
flight may not be in winter or on the sabbath.
So in Jordan's Petra, the ancient n Aberteen city, it's
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carved into the rose Red cliffs. It's referenced in biblical
prophecy as a place of refuge for the Jewish remnant
during the Tribulation, during the time of Jacob's trouble mentioned
in Jeremiah thirty, verse seven. It's situated within towering canyons,
and this historic site is noted for the distinctive landscape
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and has been identified in theological discussions as a possible
sanctuary with a significant role in end time events. Believe
that to be the case, for otherwise how would the
Jewish remnant survive those three and a half years. This
is one of the greatest miracles that has yet to happen,
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when the remnant of the Jews are rescued by God,
the Judean Jews and the supernaturally protected for three and
a half years during the second half of the Tribulation,
the worst part of the Tribulation. So, after three and
a half years of peace, just as Satan is evicted
from the Second Heaven and cast down to Earth, the
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Antichrist breaks his covenant with Israel and he launches an
unexpected invasion of the Jewish state. Remember when they say
peace peace, sudden destruction will be upon them and this
blitzkrieg like invasion and the horrible details of what have
happened what will happen are described in Zechariah fourteen. And
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as a result, the Antichrist and his ten kingdom empire
will recapture most of the land which is Ruel one
during from Jordan in the Sixth Day War of nineteen
sixty seven, the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and the Temple mount,
and they will take possession of the new Jewish Temple.
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It's not four gods, children, It's a setup to draw
him to his destruction, to put a hook in his mouth,
to bring him to the place where he can be destroyed.
And his reign will end on God's holy, beautiful Mountain
of Jerusalem, where he will be defeated by Messiah's return
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Daniel eleven forty five. And he will stop between the
glorious Holy Mountain and the sea and will pitch his
royal tents. But while he is there, his time will
suddenly run out, and no one will help him. Of course,
they can't help him because they're all going to turn
their weapons on the sky. They're all going to be
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fighting the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords,
and the angels and the saints that are coming. They
don't have time to help him. Then I saw the Beast,
and the kings and political leaders of the earth, and
their armies gathered to make war against him, who was
mounted on the white horse, and against his army and
the beast. The Antichrist was seized and overpowered, and with
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him the false prophet, who in his presence had performed
amazing signs by which he deceived those who had received
the mark of the Beast and those who worshiped his image.
These two were hurled burnt alive into the lake of Fire,
which blazes with brimstone, and the rest were killed with
the sword which came from the mouth of him who
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sat on the horse, and all the birds fed ravenously
and gorged themselves with their flesh. I've shared this with you,
but if you haven't heard it, got to Orlando about
we got here in May of June of nineteen ninety five.
Between nineteen ninety five and two thousand, Lord gave me
a dream, and in that dream he gave me a vision.
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And in that vision I saw him cracking the sky
and coming into Jerusalem, putting his feet down on the
Mount of Olives, and I saw him begin to speak.
He could have been speaking in tongues, or he could
have been speaking in the original Hebrew language, or he
could have been speaking in whatever words he spoke to
begin all things.
Speaker 2 (57:26):
And while he was speaking.
Speaker 1 (57:28):
I saw the breath come out of him, and I
saw the air began to shimmer and coagulate and take form,
kind of like a blast, kind of like a liquid.
And as he spoke, that blast, that form, whatever was
that vibration, the ripple across the battlefield of Armagad and
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ripped across everyone who was there, and the ones who
were fighting in his name, and the ones who were
fighting against the beasts and the fallen. And then all
the people, all their wounds were healed, but everybody else
were consumed by the breath of his mouth. They were
consumed by the sword of the word. It will happen.
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I believe it to be so as he showed me,
because I never would have imagined what I saw. Warriors
standing knee deep in blood, up to the bridles of horses,
battling humans, battling humans, nephelim, fallen angels. It was just
it was brutal. And then you hear a boom and
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the sky splits, and there he is on the white horse. Yeah,
the antichrist empire will be just like Antiochus's empire. It
will emerge from the Middle East, north of Israel, not
from Europe as some belief. And here's what I believe
about that. I'm going to share with you my take
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on the origins of the Antichrist and the origins of
the kingdom of the Antichrist. I believe he's going to
come out of the tribe of Dan. Scripture never explicitly
says that the Antichrist is from the tribe of Dan,
but there is strong, circumstantial and typological evidence that has
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led many Jewish and Biblical scholars, ancient and modern, to
consider it possible. See Dan is missing from the list
of the twelve tribes in Revelation seven. It's not there.
They're absent, and many believe that Dan was omitted because
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of a future apostasy, not because of past sins alone.
We see Jacob's prophecy in Genesis forty nine, starting verse sixteen.
He prophesies over each of the tribes, over his sons,
and he said, Dan shall judge his people as one
of the tribes of Israel. And we know Samson was
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one of the judges that came out of Dan shall
judge his people as one of the tribes of Israel.
Dan shall be a serpent by the way, a viper
by the path that bites the horse's heels.
Speaker 2 (01:00:18):
Gee, who else do we know? By heals.
Speaker 1 (01:00:21):
So that its riders shall fall backward. And then Jacob,
almost as a flea, I have waited for your salvation,
O Lord. It's the only tribe that is compared to
a serpent. The prophecies of the tribes switch from a
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blessing to a warning of danger, and it ends with
Jacob's cry, I wait for your salvation, O Lord, And
we know who the salvation is. Jeremiah in eighth chapter eight,
verse sixteen prophesies, the snorting of his horses was heard
from Dan. The whole land trembled at the sound. This
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indicates some kind of an invasion or judgment, and one
of the scriptures used by rabbis in the Early Church
Fathers as end Times imagery. See the Early Church Fathers Araneus,
Hippolytus Victorious and others and those that had a millennial
mindset believed that the Antichrist would arise out of Dan.
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You have the serpent imagery you have Dan's mission in Revelation.
You have the Antichrist as a counterfeit judge used to
bring judgment upon God's children. You got to remember those
early church fathers I mentioned lived much closer to the
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Apostolic mindset and the original sources of Peter and Paul
and James and John. That gets watered down later on
the Bible and the books of the Bible and the
things they admit, like Enoch, they pushed all that knowledge away,
but God has brought it back. According to the Hebrew Bible,
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the tribe of Dan settles in the hill lands bordering
the frime In Benjamin's properties on the east, and Judah
and the Philistines on the south. But the Amorites lived there,
and for whatever reason, they.
Speaker 2 (01:02:24):
Couldn't defeat them. So what do they do.
Speaker 1 (01:02:26):
They flee to the north, They get away from their enemies,
and they settle in Leish that it become known as
Dan at the base of Mount Hermon.
Speaker 2 (01:02:36):
And what took place on.
Speaker 1 (01:02:37):
Mount Herman follow what fallen watchers have come down. This
is the past saw the daughters of Adam Genesis six.
The whole bit. You've heard me talk about it, Pans grotto,
that's where they set up shop. But it goes a
little further. There's archaeological evidence from the Aegean period, which
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is the Bronze Age of Greece, that there are connections
to Greeces and the Song of Deborah Judges five. The
tribe is said to have stayed on their ships with
their belongings. Well, is there are people that left the
land and stayed on their ships with their belongings. Yes,
the Phoenicians who began in the Mediterranean and took over
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most Mediterranean, planted colonies and people in places all across
the Mediterranean. They took their beliefs with them. They actually
built the temples of ay Elberith in Sicily, not too
far from where my grandfather is from. So, if this
is true, and I believe it is, the Antichrist will
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be able to show Jewish lineage, show Jewish bloodline, and
will be allowed to walk into the new Temple. So
I don't believe the priests would allow just anybody to
walk in there and get close to the Holy of Holies.
Speaker 2 (01:03:52):
But because of who he is and.
Speaker 1 (01:03:53):
Both power and influence and proven bloodlines, they will allow
him in. And then they'll just keep going and declare
himself as God. Somebody will kill him with the wound
in his head, and then he will rise from the dead,
and Satan will have possessed him. I also believe that
because of his blood lineage, he will be able to
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show a connection not just to the Jews, but to
the Muslim world through the Syrian aspects, and to the
Church world because of his ties to Greece. Because in
Daniel eleven, I won't read the whole thing Daniel eleven,
I think I read. If he'll have no regard for
the gods of his fathers, for the desire of women,
nor he will regard any other god, he will magnify
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himself above them all. Instead, he will honor a god
of fortresses, a god whom his fathers did not know.
He will honor him with gold and silver, with precious stones,
with expensive things. He will act against the strongest fortresses
with the help of a foreign God. Well, who could
that foreign god be the one that they do not know?
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It'd be Satan.
Speaker 3 (01:05:01):
Satan.
Speaker 2 (01:05:03):
You see, Zeus is Satan.
Speaker 1 (01:05:07):
And all you have to do is go to the
Church of Zeus and their website, and they admit that
that Zeus is all the god. He's Satan, he's Belzibob,
He's the Egyptian god U Toum, He's Jupiter. He's the
child of Cronus and Rhea, which means he's created. And
who did Antiochist worship Zeus? Whose statue did he erect
(01:05:31):
in the temple?
Speaker 2 (01:05:32):
Zeus?
Speaker 1 (01:05:33):
So what we see is just like Antiochus's rise and
his actions and his geographical origin. It's a template for
us to identify the coming Antichrist and for the Jews
to pay attention, especially during the tribulation period. But you
know what, we know that God's sovereignty over history and
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future events shows us that the antichrist reign is temporary
end with God's ultimate victory at arm Again, this is
warning us to be vigilant, to pay attention to the
prophetic patterns, and to have discernment among believers and not
be fooled. Do not be deceived. The Lord said Johnny twelve.
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I am the light of the world. He who follows
me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light
of life. You need the light of life right now,
and you need to shine, and you need to be purified.
You need to be cleansed, and you need to be committed.
The feast of dedication, a feast of renewal and renovation.
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So why not during this time, why not during this period,
set a time aside to be renewed, to shine brighter,
and do this knowing the time, knowing it's high time
to wake out of our sleep. For now our salvation
is nearer than when we first believed that night, as
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far spent the day as at hand. Therefore, let us
cast off the works of darkness and let us put
on the armor of light.
Speaker 2 (01:07:08):
I will, I am.
Speaker 1 (01:07:10):
This is the heart's cry, This is the stance I've taken.
This is what the Lord has spoken to me, and
it's more vibrant and vital and alive than ever before.
I pray that you would pray to see if that's
what the Lord would ask of you. Father Abbah, Papa,
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You've always made a remnant, and for that remnant, you've
always made a way.
Speaker 2 (01:07:36):
Where there was no way.
Speaker 1 (01:07:37):
I pray that we are prepared and ready.
Speaker 2 (01:07:40):
I pray that we can do what you need us
to do.
Speaker 1 (01:07:43):
More than anything, I pray that we would worship you
as you deserve to be worshiped. That we would love
you the way you deserve to be loved, and that
we would glorify you and shine the light of the Lord,
the light of you. Sure that we would be the light,
that we will reflect his light, that we would not
hide his light. That in a time of new beginnings,
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as Honikah is celebrated in the miracle of the oil,
the oil that's inside of us, the oil of the
Holy Spirit, would cause us to shine and to glow,
and to not run out, and to do what you
need us to do in this time. Help us burn
off of us anything that is not of you. Stir
up our hearts in our minds, stir up the love
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inside of us. Let it bubble, Lord, Let it bubble
like a new wine which cannot be contained. And I
pray all these things, and you shoe his name. Amen.
May the Lord bless you and keep you. May the Lord,
may I don't know I make his face to shine
upon you and be gracious to you. May the Lord
I don't know you show a hamashiak Jesus, the Messiah,
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the Light of the world, lift up his countenance upon
you and give you peace. Give you shalloam. I'm Richard Grund.
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Two Guys (Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers). Five Rings (you know, from the Olympics logo). One essential podcast for the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics. Bowen Yang (SNL, Wicked) and Matt Rogers (Palm Royale, No Good Deed) of Las Culturistas are back for a second season of Two Guys, Five Rings, a collaboration with NBC Sports and iHeartRadio. In this 15-episode event, Bowen and Matt discuss the top storylines, obsess over Italian culture, and find out what really goes on in the Olympic Village.