The Anit-Chirst.

Let discuss Biblical truths of the Who, When and Where of the anti-christ.

There's a lot to say about the man of lawlessness, who could even come to power in our life time. Lets start with the When. Daniel 9:24-27 tells us about Seventy-weeks that are to take place. "Weeks" in the ancient day is a group of seven, sort of like saying a dozen (12). These Seventy-weeks are specifically Seventy groups of sevens years. Starting from Persian Emperor Artaxerxes Longimanus decree for the Jewish temple to be rebuilt (Nehemiah 2) and going 69-sevens or 483 years until Messiah the Prince comes, Daniel 9:25. (You think the Hebrews would have been counting down!)

At that point the "Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself; And the people of the prince who is to come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary." Daniel 9:26. Jesus came about 483 years after the decree by Artaxerxes' decree and was crucified. The rest of verse 26 talks of war until the end, then in verse 27 it says, "Then he shall confirm a covenant with many for one week; But in the midst of the week he shall bring an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of abominations shall be one who makes desolate..." This 'he' is the anti-christ. He will make a peace treaty with many, probably the whole world, but break it in the 'midst' of the seven years, a little before half way. The reason I say a little before half way is because of Daniel 12:11, “And from the time that the daily sacrifice is taken away, and the abomination of desolation is set up, there shall be 1290 days. Blessed is he who waits, and comes to the 1335 days." Ancient Jewish calendar was on a 360 days per year cycle so 1335 days is 3 years 8 months and 15 days. So the peace treaty is broken a little before half way. This will be the last 1335 days in natural history as we know it! :-)
The Anti-christ will take away daily sacrifices and set up what is called the "Abomination of Desolation." This is what is talked about in 2 Thessalonians 2. (I included the whole passage because its all so GOOD! I underlined the parts we're focusing on.)

¹ "Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him ,... ³ Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, ⁴ who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.⁵ Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things? ⁶ And now you know what is restraining, that he may be revealed in his own time. ⁷ For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way. ⁸ And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming. ⁹ The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, ¹⁰ and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. ¹¹ And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, ¹² that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness." 2 Thes. 2:1-12

This passage tells us that the man of lawlessness or the anti-christ will set himself up as god in the temple. This is the abomination of desolation. Verse 1 tells us this happens before the Second coming of Jesus and our gathering to Him or the rapture! (Let no one deceive you.)

That's the When, how about the Who.
 Lets start in Revelation 13:1-9.
"And I saw a beast rising up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his horns ten crowns, and on his heads a blasphemous name. ² Now the beast which I saw was like a leopard, his feet were like the feet of a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a lion. The dragon gave him his power, his throne, and great authority. ³ And I saw one of his heads as if it had been mortally wounded, and his deadly wound was healed. And all the world marveled and followed the beast. ⁴ So they worshiped the dragon who gave authority to the beast; and they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast? Who is able to make war with him?” ⁵ And he was given a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies, and he was given authority to continue for forty-two months. ⁶ Then he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme His name, His tabernacle, and those who dwell in heaven. ⁷ It was granted to him to make war with the saints and to overcome them. And authority was given him over every tribe, tongue, and nation. ⁸ All who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.  ⁹ If anyone has an ear, let him hear."

Here we find that the anti-christ, the beast from the sea, is given authority, a throne and power by satan himself. (I think that the anti-christ will be fully possessed by satan.) He also suffers a head wound and is killed but then comes back to life. This is also talked about in other places.
Here's a few:
Rev 13:12, "the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed"
Rev 13:14, " the beast who was wounded by the sword and lived"
Rev 17:8, "the beast that was, and is not, and yet is"

He will continue for 42 months or 3 1/2 years or 1260 days. (This is 30 days before 1290, Dan 12:11, mentioned earlier.)

He also has seven heads and ten horns. Revelation 17:9-11 says, "The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits. ¹⁰ There are also seven kings. Five have fallen, one is, and the other has not yet come. And when he comes, he must continue a short time. ¹¹ The beast that was, and is not, is himself also the eighth, and is of the seven, and is going to perdition." 
Here we learn that the seven heads are seven kings; probably seven kingdoms who persecuted Israel. The five that have fallen are Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Medio-Persia and Greece. The one that is, is Rome, since they were presently ruling at the time. The seventh I believe is Nazi Germany. In think this because compared to the rest of the kingdoms Hitler's 10 or 11 year rule was a "short time." The anti-christ will be "of the seven" meaning he will be a mixture of all those kings/kingdoms. Rev 13 expresses that the beast from the sea(anti-christ) is a lion, a leaopard and a bear. These are a combination of the beasts in Daniel's vision in Daniel 7. These beast are a prophecy of Babylon, Medio-Persia and Greece.

The ten horns are talked about in Revelation 17:12-14, ¹² “The ten horns which you saw are ten kings who have received no kingdom as yet, but they receive authority for one hour as kings with the beast. ¹³ These are of one mind, and they will give their power and authority to the beast. ¹⁴ These will make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, for He is Lord of lords and King of kings; and those who are with Him are called, chosen, and faithful.”
The ten horns are also ten kings. But these kings weren't alive yet. Verse 12 tells us they will be alive and ruling at the time that the anti-christ is alive. They will be of one mind and give their authority to the anti-christ. This will be the "many" the anti-christ makes a peace treaty with. (Daniel 9:27) I believe this treaty is probably with the whole world meaning that the world would be one a One World Government system.


The anti-christ will have authority from the dragon and from the kings of the earth. He will set himself up as god, to be worship by all. Any who deny will be killed. 

To be Continued...

Unite My Heart.

Ps 86:11, Teach me thy way, O LORD; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name.

What is this verse talking about?

Its a prayer that the Lord would teach us His way. In Hebrew when David says His 'way' (deh'-rek in Hebrew) he means God's road or His course of life for us.

We know God's faithful to anwser our prayers but we also knows it a process to learn the ways of Yah. David proclaims in the next part of the verse that as God reveals to him deh'-rek that David would walk in truth. The word truth in Hebrew is eh'-meth meaning stability, certainty, truth, trustworthiness, establishment.

David is saying that if You, God, will teach me Your way then I will live a life that is leaning on Your stability and not my own.

Calling truth what You call truth. Loving what You define as righteousness and not what emotions or the world around me defines as righteousness.

Daivd ends the verse with a prayer. That God would unite His heart to fear His name. One verson says it this way, "Give me an undivided mind to fear Your name."

Here David is saying, 'All the places in my heart that doesn't desire to fear You unite it with the rest and teach it Your ways.'

Abba, Teach us Your ways so we can walk in the realness of TRUTH. Bring unity to our hearts so we can fear You in fulliness!

Abiding ... So Simple Its Hard

There has been a lot of talk about Abiding around IHOP. It seems that its something Lord is doing in a lot of people. Personally the Lord has been teaching about this word "Abide".  Here are my thoughts on it. The dictionary says the word abide means to remain, continue or to stay; to have one's abode or dwell.

The word abide in the New Testament isn't something that can be defined simply in words but more in concept. Jesus teaches us about abiding through out His life with parables. Also in teaching us how His relationship with the Father was.


In John 14:10-11, Jesus teaches us that He doesn't do anything or speak in His own authority but in His Father's. He goes on to say that the Father is in Him and that He is in the Father.  "Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on My own authority; but the Father who dwells in Me does the works. Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me"


Later Jesus tells us that if we keep His word then He and the Father will come make their home with us. This is through the Spirit of Truth that Jesus says will come and dwell with us and in us and will abide with us forever. John 14:15-17


In John 15:1-6 Jesus teaches us how this works with a metaphor of a vine. He says that He is the vine and we are the branches. Here Jesus establishes that we can not bear fruit without remaining connected to Him. Just as the branch of a vine can not bear fruit if it isn't connected to the vine. Jesus says, in verse 4, "Abide in Me, and I in you." We are to rely on Jesus like a branch relies on the vine to give it life and substance. If we find ourselves ever out of that place of full reliance and are leaning on our own abilities we must correct it. Jesus is wanting us to live in like manner as He did with the Father. John 14:10-11, "I am in the Father and the Father is in Me." Not living in our own authority but only in His. Continually receiving love from Him. 


Jesus even takes it a step further. He tells us in verse 6 that if we don't continually abide in Him that we will be cast out as a branch is thrown into the fire and are burned. This is a very heavy statement. I believe it speaks on two levels. First, I believe that Jesus is speaking of an eternal punishment that will be rewarded to all who don't abide in Him. I also think that Jesus is teaching us how to keep ourselves from, as we say, "burning out." If we rely on our own abilities while trying to produce we will always fail. 


The good news is found in verse 1 and 2. Jesus identifies God as the vine dresser. When reading these verses and mediating on the concept of abiding its easy to loose hope and think that there is no chance that you could be fully surrendered to Jesus here is where hope is revived. God is the vine dresser who is going to prune us into the very brach that we need to be. Even if it hurts a little and for a short time, the end product is amazing. 


I think that we make this whole abiding thing really complex in our heads when it really shouldn't be. Jesus says in verse 5 that without Him we can do NOTHING. So we need to stop trying so hard. 


Luke 18:17, "Assuredly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will by no means enter it.” Here Jesus teaches us that only those who receive the kingdom as a child will enter it. But what kind of child. The kind of child is found in verse 15, "Then they also brought infants to Him that He might touch them; but when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them." An infant. Not a five year old or a ten year old but an infant. An infant is a person who is fully reliant on their parents. They can't feed themselves, clothed themselves, or even wipe themselves. We must be like infants to enter into the kingdom. If we aren't fully reliant then like in John 15 we will be cut off. 


Since Katrina is pregnant, lately I have been looking at it like an unborn baby. An unborn baby is abiding in it's mother's womb. The baby is connected, literally, to the mother and fully reliant on the mother for nutrition and life. 


So, in conclusion we must FIRST receive love from Jesus, taking moments in our day to just let Him speak to our hearts, love on us and wash us with His word (Eph 5:25). Then in response to that love, love God with ALL our being. Then, and ONLY then, we can in turn love people. 

The Simple But Great Things The Lord Has Done

I recently have been starting some new ventures in my life.

 For one I just started drawing! It's actually a pretty cool story. I never thought I could draw before. In fact every time I tried it just flopped, looking something like a infant's attempt at coloring with a piece of broke chalk on the concrete :( The story starts a few years ago when I started having these incredibly overwhelming desires to be creative. Sometimes I would feel my insides shaking from the stored up "creative juices" ready to be released. I would sit and plot an idea for a song, a collage or even a simple drawing. Most things I tried just wore me out. I made a few collages that turn out pretty nice but besides that everything else hit the trash.

I started praying that God would give me a way to release these passions, with seemingly no answer. Just recently I had these desires flood my person again. I had an idea! But again I wasn't sure if it was going to work. I decided instead of just trying an having no idea of how to draw that I would ask a friend for some advice.

I asked her how to draw a simple cube. She grabbed a tissue box put it in front of us and showed me how to look for the angles, lines and things. Simple. Over the next few days I tested these new learned skills out on some "boxy" shaped objects.

One day when I was in the prayer room I decide to try drawing one of the chairs. I just did the simple things my friend showed me. After finishing I almost freaked out.

I CAN DRAW!!!

What do you think?



Since then I have drawn a bird, a man, a lily and a few other things. God is so faithful and so kind.

Another venture I recently started is like the first. An answer to the same prayer. I have been wanting to learn to play bass for years. I just never had the rhythm to do so. Three years ago, with little skill, I started playing on the Master's Commission worship band. I played for two years but I had very limited understanding of music or how to play bass at all.

Since I have been at the house of prayer the Lord has really increased my desire to play music. I am now playing between 2 and 5 sets a week and am taking bass and guitar lessons. I have learned so much about how to play and some about music theory. I now feel that, for the first time,  I can actually consider myself a musician!

Again the Lord is so KIND. He cares about those things that may be seemingly unimportant. I believe He puts these desires in our hearts SO that we will come to Him and fellowship with Him. Asking Him to teach us.

These are great things the Lord has done in my life. Very simple but meaningful and great things.
And I know He CAN do them in your life toooo!