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. 

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

Quantitatively, God sanctifies us wholly; 

Qualitatively, God preserves us complete, that is, He keeps our spirit, soul, and body perfect

Be preserved - active-passive :)

1. Our default situation - a deadened condition 

• We must keep our spirit in a living condition - exercising (rejoicing, praying, and giving thanks) 
•  "exercising" means to put in some effort (on the one hand, God is doing it; on the other hand, we need to cooperate by putting in some effort).  
• Why our spirit sometimes feel heavy? We can see something, listen to something, etc. to deaden to our spirit 
• Being passive - just to do nothing 
• We need to be saved from this passivity 
• Sometimes, we might be "saying too much" yet without any reality and content. The Lord 

1 Thes Life-study 20 - Our Heart to be Established Blameless in Holiness and our Body to be Preserved Clean in Sanctification

Our heart needs to be sanctified, our body needs to be preserved in sanctification. 

Two hearts - 

1. Physical heart 

2. Psychological heart - 

All spiritual illness comes from this psychological heart (Three arteries: mind, emotions, and will). 

Have blockages in our psychological arteries - taking things other than Christ in our mind, emotion, and will. 

Romans 12: 1-2  - Presenting our Body and our inner heart being renewed. 

Rom. 12:1 I exhort you therefore, brothers, through the compassions of God to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, well pleasing to God, [which is] your reasonable service.

Rom. 12:2 And do not be fashioned according to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of the mind that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and well pleasing and perfect.

Having rooted and grounded in love

Mark 12:30 And you shall love the Lord your God from your whole heart and from your whole soul and from your whole mind and from your whole strength."

To be saturated with the Lord,

Secret: Hymnal 572 

Thy Spirit will me saturate
Every part will God permeate,
Deliv’ring me from the old man,
With all saints building for His plan.

Excercise our spirit, opening/turning of our heart: So that the Lord can transform us. 

Fornication is the most defiling sin. Have our body be preserved clean. Inward being represented by our heart in blameless; our body clean in sanctification. 

Before God: we need to be sanctified. 

Before man: we need honour. 

How fornication can destroy/damage us. It does affect our being saturated with the Lord

Rom. 12:1 I exhort you therefore, brothers, through the compassions of God to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, well pleasing to God, [which is] your reasonable service.

Rom. 12:2 And do not be fashioned according to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of the mind that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and well pleasing and perfect.

Rom. 12:11 Do not be slothful in zeal, [but] be burning in spirit, serving the Lord.

Life-study msg 41 - The Beast Out of the Sea (1)

Bible verses: Rev. 13

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.

Sea: mediterranean sea 

Beast: anti-Christ (Daniel 2; 7; 8 firstly mentioned and developed all the way to Revelation) 

Intellectual (the insights, political science, scientific knowledge, marvelously smart) 

Charismatic (attractive, eloquent, persecuting the saints, making wars with the saints, to wear out God's people)

Why do we need to be watchful? 

Dan 8 - the ram (Persia) and the goat (Greece) 

Ram- ?

Goat - Alexandar the great - break into four kingdoms 

A little horn rises up - grow exceedingly towards Egypt (South), Asia Minor (East), Judea (west), 

Source- Greece and Macedonia but not quite sure where exactly he will rise up.