Life-study msg 43 - The Beast Out of the Sea (3)

Opening Word: 

(Brother Lee was burdened to illuminate the saints to identify this anti-Christ)  

1. Oppose God, 

2. Pursecute all God's people (Jews+Christians) 

3. Smart in mind intellectually 

4. Capable

5. Superpower - the verse shows how powerful and evil he is. 

(Rv 13:2 And the beast which I saw was like a leopard, and his feet like those of a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a lion. And the dragon gave him his power and his throne and great authority) 

When we refer to the book of Daniel - the anti-Christ is the totality of all wild beasts. 

- a leopard - Alexander the great (the 3rd beast in Dan 7)

- a bear - middle Persia empire (destroying) (the 2nd beast in Dan 7) 

- a lion - Babalonion empire with devouring mouth (the 1st beast in Dan 7)

The man of lawlessness ---> sin = lawlessness 

We need to pray that Lord, we don't want the law of lawlessness operating in me but the law of Godliness operates in us. Lord, I don't wanna dethrone you- I want to make you the throne in my heart. When God came with His overcomers, He slays the anti-Christ with His breath, that is, the Word of God.  

Daniel, Paul, and John all share the same thing even though they were in different times in history. They all love the Lord, and they all describe how the end time will be like and who is the anti-Christ. 

6. Touch the stars and heavens

7. So strong and attractive in appearance 

• We are not in darkness (because we have these words) - we know what kind of person that the anti-Christ and is and will not be attracted to him. 
• We should not be people who pursue miracles and wonders- we should focus on the source even if there are miracles and wonders. Christ is whom that we pursue. 

Solid Ground: 2 Cor life-study (Meeting) - The Ministers of the New Covenant (1)

2Co 3:3 Since you are being manifested that you are a letter of Christ ministered by us, inscribed not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone but in tablets of hearts of flesh.

2 Co 3:4 And such confidence we have through Christ toward God,

2 Co 3:5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God,

*sufficient - or, competent, qualified, fit, worthy. The apostle's sufficiency comes from his knowing God inscribing on him as every letter.  

Christ is every alphabet - I am the Alpha and Omega. 

Paul knows Christ as alpha, beta... etc. - he knows Christ as every letter. 

Writing this letter with ink (oil) - that is we need to be filled with Christ, the life-giving Spirit 

Solid Ground: 1 Thes 5 (sisters gathering) - To Be Sanctified Wholly with Our Spirit, Soul, and Body Preserved Complete

Blessed are those who can say "I don't know" (XD)

- The only thing you need to learn is to say "I don't know". 

- Blessed are the poor in spirit and pure in heart. 

What it means to be sanctified wholly? 

- May your spirit, and soul, and body be preserved wholly. 

- Three parts need to be preserved from any dead works. 

Heb. 9:14 How much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

- In fellowship with the Lord via the following means (singing, praying, rejoicing, praising etc.) 

1 Thes. 5:16 Always rejoice,
1 Thes. 5:17 Unceasingly pray,
1 Thes. 5:18 In everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

How to be preserved complete? 

How to preserve these parts: 

1. Spirit 

- To fellowship with God (exercise this by praying with God) - this will help our spirit living! 

To rejoice, to pray, to give thanks are the ways to exercise our spirit. 

- intuition "knowing" whether we are right or wrong 

- conscience being justified 

2. Soul - 

3. Body - 

Life-study msg 42 - The Beast Out of the Sea (2)

Opening word

Two stages of the anti-Christ's manifestation

Prior to his assassination (emerge as a remarkable leader) - highly intelligent and capable of gaining a lot of followers. 

After his assassination - the spirit of Nero entered into him and he'll become anti-Christ - declare himself as God and want to be worshipped as God. (Judaism, Catholicism, and Christians will be persecuted). 

Bible reading: 

Rev. 13:1 And I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads, and on his horns ten diadems, and on his heads names of blasphemy.

Dan. 9:26 And after the sixty-two weeks Messiah will be cut off and will have nothing; and the people of the prince who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end of it will be with a flood, and even to the end [there will be] war; desolations are determined.

Dan. 9:27 And he will make a firm covenant with the many for one week; and in the middle of the week he will cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease and will replace the sacrifice and the oblation with abominations of the desolator, even until the complete destruction that has been determined is poured out upon the desolator.

In the beginning, the Jews are still able to practise Judaism, but afterwards, the anti-Christ will exalt himself and want the Jews to worship him. Abominations and desolations will be brought into the temple. Other religions and beliefs will be destroyed as well. 

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In Dan 11, there were two kings 

North King: Syria (Persia) - the type of the anti-Christ 

South King: Egypt

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Anti-Christ

> his source comes from the Greek race 

> Macedonian 

> Not from the west Roman Empire

> But from the East Roman Empire

> From the middle east (???)

What is young people's attitude towards all these prophecies? 

2 Pet. 1:19 And we have the prophetic word [made] more firm, to which you do well to give heed as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts;

A careful study from the shining of the divine life.