Banned and Censored Preaching on the Antichrist - 2 Thessalonians 2

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2nd Thessalonians chapter 2 verse number 1, the Bible reads, Now we besiege you brethren by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and by our gathering together unto Him that you be not soon shaken in mind or be troubled neither by spirit nor by word nor by letter as from us as that the day of Christ is at hand. Let no man deceive you by any means for that day shall not come except they are coming a falling away first and that man of sin be revealed to the Son of Tradition who oppose it and exalt it himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped so that he as God siteth in the temple of God showing himself that he is God. Now these four verses are very important to tell us that the day of Christ is not at hand and not only that but it's so important that he almost uses similar language to what he uses at the beginning of Galatians chapter 1 when he warns them about another gospel and he says if any man preach any other gospel and he says though we or an angel from heaven preach any other gospel look what he says here you know don't be troubled neither by spirit nor by word nor by letter as from us he's saying even if you get a letter that seems like it's coming from us and it says that the day of Christ is at hand you know Jesus can come back at any moment he's saying do not be deceived by any means not by a spirit not by a word not even by a letter that seems like it's coming from us should you ever be deceived as to think that the day of Christ is at hand he says for that day shall not come in verse 3 except there come a falling away first and that man of sin be revealed the Son of Tradition who oppose it and exalt it himself above all that is called God of this worship so there are a couple of things that need to happen before the day of Christ happens okay these are the things that have to happen first of all there has to be a falling away and second of all the man of sin has to be revealed and it says the one who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worship so that he as God sit at in the temple of God showing himself that he is God this is who we would commonly know as the anti Christ okay it's saying that the anti Christ has to be revealed and how is he going to be revealed by sitting in the temple of God and claiming to be God he's going to show himself that he is God unto the world that has to happen first so this teaching that the day of Christ can happen at any moment and that Jesus Christ can return at any moment and there will be no signs of his coming all prophecies have been fulfilled there's nothing on the next event on God's prophetic timeline is the rapture it's a false teaching because he says don't let anyone deceive you with that and by the way that is a deception if somebody tells you hey the day of Christ is at hand Christ returns in they are a deceiver because the Bible says let no man deceive you with that now a lot of people who teach that are not trying to be deceptive they're just repeating the deception that they've heard from someone else they're just repeating lies that they've heard and so they are unwittingly just being a part of this deception and the Bible tells us that the day of Christ is not at hand not just to help you understand what the day of Christ is let's look up versus that use the term day of Christ in the Bible go to 1 Corinthians chapter number one first Corinthians chapter number one and while you're turning there let me just mention to you that the modern Bible versions completely twist this passage which shouldn't surprise us because if it's that important of a passage of course they're going to change it right and it's so important that we use the King James Bible there are so many things that these modern versions twist where they call Joseph Jesus' father where they remove 16 entire verses in the New Testament alone where they sit there and complicate salvation and make it difficult and hard when the Bible talks about it being narrow as in few or saved they say salvation's difficult like you'd have to work your way into heaven instead of just trusting Jesus Christ as your Savior but there are so many things that these modern versions do well one of the things that they do here where the King James Bible is really clear saying do not let anyone tell you that the day of Christ is at hand that day shall not come until x, y and z happens first you know what the new verses do the ESV the NIV they'll change it to don't let anybody tell you that the day of the Lord has already happened so the King James is saying hey don't let anybody tell you that the day of Christ is at hand meaning that it's about to happen they change it to well just don't let anybody tell you that it's already happened okay in order to make it compatible with a pre-tribulation rapture now look if you would at first Corinthian chapter 1 verse 8 it says who shall also speaking of the Lord who shall also confirm you under the end that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ so whatever the day of the Lord Jesus is it's a day where we want to be found pure on that day okay flip over to first Corinthians chapter 5 verse 5 first Corinthians chapter 5 verse 5 it says to deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus so it's a day of salvation okay flip over to second Corinthians chapter 1 verse 14 second Corinthians chapter 1 verse 14 we're looking at every single mention of the day of Jesus Christ in the New Testament look at second Corinthians 1 14 as also you have acknowledged us in part that we are your rejoicing even as ye also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus now let's just look at some things that we've learned from these three mentioned so far in the first mention it said that God would confirm us under the end that we would be blameless in the day of the Lord Jesus so that's the end of something isn't it confirm us under the end so that will be blameless in the day of the Lord Jesus first Corinthians 5 talked about the spirit being saved in the day of the Lord Jesus second Corinthians 1 14 talks about we are your rejoicing he's talking about people that he had one to Christ he said we are your rejoicing even as ye also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus sounds like a reunion of the person who got you saved with the person who got him saved and it's a day of salvation and it's a day that's the end of something and it's a day when we want to be found blameless before him okay sounds like we're gonna see Jesus on that day day of Jesus Christ the day of the Lord Jesus look if you went at Philippians chapter 1 verse 6 you'll see something similar Philippians 1 6 says being confident of this very thing that he which had begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ so when we got saved the Lord began a good work in us and he's gonna perform that good work until the day of the Lord Jesus so again it's the end of something isn't it I'll tell you what it's the end of our life on this earth and he's going to continue working in our lives until the day of the Lord Jesus because at that point we're caught up together to be with him in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air and social we ever be with the Lord you see sanctification is the good work that he has begun in us he wants to make us holy as he is holy so he works in our lives he chastises us and chastises us the Bible says and he brews 12 that we might be partakers of his holiness so he works in our lives but once we are caught up together with him in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air we're gonna be changed in a moment between you and I we don't need sanctification anymore at that point because when we see him we shall be like him for we shall see him as he is we will at that point be glorified with him so the sanctification work is complete the good work that was begun in us he will perform until the day of the Lord Jesus Christ it makes perfect sense flip over to Philippians 2 verse 16 it says holding forth the word of life that I may rejoice in the day of Christ that I have not run in vain neither labored in vain so this day of Christ is when the apostle Paul is gonna see the fruits of his labor on that day he's gonna sit back and say hey I didn't labor in vain I didn't run in vain he's going to see the fruits of his life of soul winning in ministry and winning people unto Jesus Christ and the evangelism that he had done he's gonna see that all come to fruition and then of course we have the seventh mention which is the one that we already looked at in second Thessalonians 2 where it says don't let anybody tell you that it's at hand so all this fits perfectly with the rapture with Christ coming in the clouds and us being caught up together with every mention fits perfectly with that now let me say this as well the day of Christ is the same day as the day of the Lord now a lot of people try to complicate this and say oh there's a different day of Christ and the day of Lord no Christ is the Lord okay and the day of Christ and the day of the Lord of the same day two different names for the same day that's why it's sometimes even called the day of the Lord Jesus all right so the difference is that when we talk about the day of the Lord in the context of the unsaved being judged it's usually mentioned as the day of the Lord and then we we talk about it from a perspective of somebody who's saved it's often referred to as the day of Christ or the day of Jesus Christ because of the fact that as the saved that's what we're looking forward to we're looking forward to seeing Jesus Christ and meeting Jesus Christ in the clouds whereas the unsaved are looking forward to the day of the Lord's wrath being poured out upon them so they see it from a different perspective and we've already talked about this in the previous weeks but this just reinforces that now back in 2nd Thessalonians chapter 2 it says now we besiege you brethren by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and by our gathering together unto him now I already proved to you back in 1st Thessalonians 4 that the rapture is called the coming of the Lord Jesus that's what it's called the coming so doesn't it make sense that we looked at all these scriptures on the day of Christ they all fit perfectly with Christ coming in the clouds at the rapture and us being caught together with him then he starts the chapter by saying now we besiege you brethren by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and by our gathering together unto him which is again talking about the same event that you be not soon shaken in mind or be troubled now either by spirit nor by word nor by letter as from us that as that the day of Christ at him let no man deceive you by any means for that day shall not come except they're coming falling away first and that man of sin be revealed the son of tradition and on and on now this verse alone demolishes the idea of a pre-tribulation rapture I mean not to mention the fact that we have the crystal clear scriptures in Matthew 24 mark 13 Luke 21 they talk about the rapture being quote after the tribulation as if that were not enough right here this scripture alone demolishes it saying that it is a deception to say that the day of Christ is at hand and that first we're going to see these look he's setting the believers mind to these saying you will see these things happen first don't get all worried and shaken and all it's about to happen it's happening any moment he said look these are the things that you're going to see why would he tell them about stuff that that's going to happen after they're gone oh don't lay away to see because this other stuff is going to happen after you're gone it makes absolutely no sense he's telling him no first you're going to see these things happen so don't let anybody tell you it's at hand because this other stuff has to happen first that you're going to see first of all there's going to be a great falling away and then you're going to see the anti-Christ revealed as such declaring himself to be God and so forth that's what you're going to see first but because this scripture is so damning to this false doctrine of the pre-tribulation rapture which is loved by so many evangelical Christians today you've got the left behind movie the board game the video game the action figure and they're really attached to this doctrine and there are so many churches where this is preached literally almost every Sunday morning or at least once a month he's coming again he's coming today any moment you know this is such a big theme that people don't like you to show them this second that's only two so they have to find some way to answer this right and it's pretty hard to come up with anything because it's so open and shut it's just so cut and dried just telling you that day shall not come except this other stuff happens or how do you get around that well they're always going to come up with something aren't they here you're not even going to believe this here's what they say they say oh well the falling away that's the rapture that's what people are saying I mean I've heard it from a whole bunch of different people that say that the falling away happens first when they hear first they're like well whatever happens first that's got to be the rapture right because that's the next event on God's prophetic timelines the rapture so they literally say that the falling away is the rapture now here's a little tiny problem with that things usually fall down not up I mean how could you call believers being caught up into the clouds yeah that's the falling wow how do you fall up you know there's a sink all gravity that brings things down so this is just the kind of nonsense where people are just grasping at straws to try to make something fit that just doesn't fit they're just trying to jam that round peg into a square hole so then they just get a drill and they just want to drill out that square hole and shove you know just whatever they can do to make this thing work it doesn't work it's false it's a lie but they say no the falling away that's the that's the rapture and you're like well how do you think you're how does that work and they say well you know if you go back to the Greek if you go back to the Greek you go back to the geek you know he'll tell you some doctor fat bottom and some university he's going to tell you what the Greeks but here's the thing about that okay we shouldn't have to go back to the Greek to get the true meaning of God's word whenever somebody teaches you a doctrine that relies upon going back to the Greek that's a huge red flag right there because the Bible here is translated into plain English it's been translated over 400 years ago it stood the test of time it's an accurate trustworthy translation the King James Bond it says the same thing in English as it says in Greek and here's what I always challenge people with and you ought to do this too when someone comes at you with this you know well what does the Greek say or let me tell you what the Greek says I always come at him with this cut the Leventa and the reason I come at him with that is because they usually don't speak a lick of Greek right and so even you could just say one little sentence you know you could see Thelete at the Tatlite don't speak to Muftal Salvador and they're just like huh they don't even know what you're saying and then they'll try to lie to you and say oh well that's modern Greek I speak ancient Greek no you don't you're a liar you know how to open a Greek dictionary and look things up and these people couldn't even order food in a Greek restaurant and if old test them I'm sorry and if New Testament Greek is so different than modern Greek then how come 15 million people who live over in Greece today when they look at a Bible guess what they read mostly they read the old you know the the actual coin a Greek I mean the Greek Orthodox church to this day preaches out of the Texas receptus Greek text I I get emails all the time from Greek people living in Greece saying don't listen to these liars who tell you it's a totally different language I go to church every Sunday and we read from the Texas receptus and we understand it just fine but there's this fraud out there that tries to say that modern Greek and coin a Greek or two completely different language no you know why they lie about that because they don't want to expose the fact that they don't know the language right and if they admitted that it was the same language then they'd have to explain why they can't talk to Greek people right and then instead of being able to tell us ooh this mystical magical going back to the Greek and we find all these hidden truths they'd have to admit that there's 15 million people who understand the language perfectly and that it's just like any other language that's a magical language it's just like English or Spanish or anything else but they want to put it on this pedestal so that they can teach lies they can teach lies because they talk in a foreign language that nobody knows that they don't even know and then basically they can deceive people that way you got to be careful with this stuff that's why I know enough Greek and Hebrew to where when these people come up to me and start talking Shalom Hachflam Yeshua Yahweh I could come at them with a little bit of Hebrew and then all of a sudden they get this deer and the headlights look when I actually start using conversational Hebrew with them because they don't know the language and it's so funny how you can sit there and say well here's what the Greek really means like you know more than the people who translated the King James Bible because you looked it up in a dictionary or looked it up in a lexicon or you took two semesters in college look the people who translated the King James Bible some of them literally spoke over 20 languages and when they translated the Old Testament from Hebrew they didn't just know Hebrew they knew Arabic and they knew Arabic which is very closely related with Hebrew they knew all the surrounding languages they didn't just know Greek they spoke 15 languages 10 languages I mean these guys are in books all day these guys were very smart men who were very educated who had read just thousands and thousands and thousands of pages in Greek but you think that you're just going to turn all that on its head say unfortunately the 54 genius scholars who translated the King James were wrong on this because my strong concordance said this it's ridiculous you couldn't even order food you couldn't even get a taxi cab in Greece and you're going to tell us what it really means so anytime there's a doctrine that relies on going back to the Greek you better run from that okay so let's just compare scripture with scripture in plain English and see what falling away means go to Luke chapter number 8 Luke chapter number 8 but anyway back to what I was saying about how modern Greek and coin a Greek are the same language now I'm not saying they're identical okay for example someone from Australia doesn't speak the same as someone from America but would you say that that's a completely different language of course not it's a different what dialect of the language okay what about this do we talk the way they talk in the King James Bible in 2015 America no but would you say this is a foreign language absolutely not it's just a different dialect of the same language so obviously there are differences between coin a Greek and modern Greek but they are not completely different languages just to illustrate it for you I bought a box of Greek flashcards okay and it had the thousand most commonly used words in the Greek New Testament which is 80% of the Greek New Testament is using these thousand words so I got the thousand most commonly used words and they're arranged in order from the most commonly used to the least commonly used so I took the hundred words that were the most commonly used in the Greek New Testament and I pulled out a modern Greek dictionary and then I pulled out the New Testament coin a Greek dictionary and then I got these flashcards and out of the first one hundred ninety five of them out of a hundred were identical in modern Greek and coin a Greek but you're going to tell me that's a completely different language but this is the fraud that's out there of just trying to hide behind this and the only people who teach this are people in America because I get I get emails all the time from these American professors telling me you're totally wrong about the Greek but I get hundreds of emails from people in Greece telling me that I'm spot on so who should I listen to some guy and some Baptist cemetery or seminary or should I listen to people from Greece that are saying I'm a Greek Orthodox I go to church every Sunday you are nailing it on Greek you're pronouncing it right you're saying and so forth so don't be deceived by this going back to the Greek stuff whenever somebody says well in the Greek I just turn off shut them down unless they unless their name is popodopolis you know what I mean and they are just fresh on the oh unless they're popodopolis and they're fresh off the boat from Greece you know then I'll listen to what they have to say I'm going to listen to some American university guy who took a couple semesters of Greek tell me but anyway look at Luke chapter 8 verse 13 where we have another biblical usage of the term falling away it says in verse 13 they on the rock or they which when they hear receive the word with joy and these have no root which for a while believe and in time of temptation fall away so what are we talking about a spiritual falling away a doctrinal falling away okay we're not talking about the rapture are we nonsense okay now flip over to the book of Acts chapter number 21 because here's what's funny they'll come at you with this thing of oh if you go back to the Greek here's what they say falling away in the Greek they say is a departure so because the Greek word here for falling away remember this coming from the amateur armchair Greek scholars of America they say because the word falling away in the original Greek means departure that's sort of like the rapture because we're going to depart right wrong because here's what they don't tell you they'll deceptively say well if you go back to the Greek it's departure but here's what they forget to tell you what the Greek word is a postacia which guess what that is where we get our English word apostasy and what is apostasy mean departing from the faith turning away from the faith falling away from the faith so what is falling away mean when we look it up in English what's falling away mean falling away from the faith okay departing from doctrine okay now look that word apostasy is used twice in the New Testament here's the other time it's used look at Acts 21 21 and they are informed of the that thou teachest all Jews which are among the Gentiles to forsake and that word forsake is that same Greek word forsake Moses saying that they ought not to circumcise their children neither to walk after the custom so what are they departing from here what are they forsaking doctrine customs of the Bible so whether you read in English or in Greek guess what it means the same thing you're turning away from the faith you're falling away from doctrine and even if it were departure the Bible says that in the last days some shall depart from the faith giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of delus so trying to turn falling away into the rapture is to turn the Bible on its head to turn the English language on its head to turn the Greek language it's just to live in a fantasy land no reasonable intelligent person thinks that the falling away is being caught up into the clouds i mean if that's what how can we understand anything in the Bible if the Bible is that cryptic where falling away means you go up i mean what nonsense but if you would go back to second psalonian chapter number two i'm just addressing everything that they try to pull out here they might try to pull out the ESV and show you whoa that's just that it already happened you know from a text that's so corrupt that is calling Joseph Jesus' father you know a text that's so corrupt is removing the blood it's twisting salvation it's no i say you know or they'll come out you well you know the falling away that's the rapture what in the world no friend there's no way around it the Bible is clear here that day should not come except the falling away come first and watch this and the Son of Man be revealed or i'm the man of sin i'm sorry and that man of sin be revealed the Son of perdition who opposes and exalt to themself above all that is called god or that is worship so that he as god sit at the temple of god showing himself that he is god this event is commonly referred to as the abomination of desolation okay now in order to understand this event and learn more about it let's go to revelation 13 because in revelation 13 we see this event actually taking place look at revelation 13 let's start reading verse number one it says and i stood upon the sand of the sea and saw a beast rise up out of the sea having seven heads and ten horns and upon us horns ten crowns and upon his heads the name of blasphemy and the beast which i saw was likened to a leopard and his feet was the feet of a bear and his mouth is the mouth of a lion and the dragon gave him his power and his seat and great authority and i saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death and his deadly wound was healed and all the world wondered after the beast now this is written in a little bit of a cryptic language right a little bit symbolic and you're kind of white you know the beast the head the horns well let's put our finger over in revelation 17 because in revelation 17 god explains this now we're getting into the strong meat of the word here this isn't exactly the easiest book of the bible this isn't exactly the gospel of john but when we read revelation it's designed to where we understand it so it's not this unattainable book it's not a book that's impossible to understand you just have to take a little time and study so let's just do a little bit of comparison between revelation 13 and revelation 17 and see if it all comes clear okay revelation 17 says this in verse number nine and here is the mind which hath wisdom the seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman siteth and there are seven kings five or fallen and one is and the other is not yet come and when he comes he must continue a short space and the beast that was and is not even he is the eighth and is of the seven and goeth into tradition and the ten horns which thou sawst are ten kings which have received no kingdom as yet but receive power as kings one hour with the beast so if we look at the scripture in revelation 17 we see that the seven heads of the beast are seven kings and then when we see the the ten horns the ten horns are ten kings as well so obviously it's without the scope of this sermon to sit here and go into every detail of revelation 13 and we go back to Daniel and look at the beast and all these different things but just to break it down to you in a simple way the beast that rises out of the sea having the seven heads and the ten horns is basically a great kingdom or a governing body or a world government okay that's going to rule over the whole world and these horns and heads represent different people in that system and in that kingdom okay so we see here that the Bible is defining itself it's telling you the seven heads here they represent seven but then the seven heads also represent seven kings and then the ten horns represent ten other kings and these are ten leaders or kings that will give all of their power unto the beast okay onto one man so let's go back to revelation 13 with that in mind keep your finger in revelation 17 because we're going to be back there so when it talks about him seeing this great beast with the seven heads and ten horns that represents the whole system the whole governing structure we already see this world government in progress in the form of the united nations that's the embryonic world government okay now in chapter 13 here it says and I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death now what are these heads again these are kings right these are leaders so it says I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death and his deadly wound was healed and all the world wondered after the beast so the term the beast is referring to both the whole system and also to the individual man the antichrist he's also referred to as the beast now what does it mean here when it says that he received a deadly wound his deadly wound is healed and all the world wondered after the beast well look at revelation 17 for the answer again verse number eight it says this the beast that thou sawest was and is not now what does that mean is not well in the Bible the term is not is used to refer to someone who is dead for example when they thought that Joseph had died in the book of Genesis they said Joseph is not okay so it says here the beast that thou sawest was meaning he was alive and is not meaning he's dead now he was alive now he's dead and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit and go into perdition and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder remember we saw that in Revelation 13 they all wondered wondered means that they were amazed by it it says they shall wonder whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world when they behold the beast that was and is not and yet is now what does that mean he was meaning he was alive he is not meaning he's dead but yet he still is what does that mean he is not but yet he is why because he's what we would call undead all right you know I don't you know to use kind of a crass term there but undead meaning that he basically died and came back now who is someone else who died and came back Jesus but here's the thing Jesus wouldn't be described as is not because Jesus is alive Jesus Christ died he said I was dead and behold I am alive forever more amen and have the keys of all this guy is not alive this guy is not yet he is okay so what this is is a counterfeit resurrection see the real resurrection is Jesus he was alive he died he was dead for three days and three nights and then he rose again and he said I am he that liveth and was dead and behold I'm alive forever more this guy is not alive this guy just is after he already died and he still is not in a sense okay he's dead but he's there talking acting and so now you say what in the world it's a counterfeit of the resurrection see the devil is a great counterfeiter so the devil in order to have the anti Christ is going to have a counterfeit of the death barrel and resurrection this guy is going to die one of these world leaders this great man is going to die and the devil is going to bring him back which is why the but but it's not really him because he's dead okay so what does the Bible say here in verse eight the beast that thou saw us was and is not and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit what's the bottomless pit hell okay so the beast the anti Christ is coming out of hell okay is that does it really understand that so he died so I don't want you to misunderstand and revelation 13 when it says he receives a deadly wound and his deadly wound was healed a lot of people would just read that as oh he got a deadly wound that would have killed him but he miraculously survived listen the whole world wouldn't wonder about that I mean there's a congressman down in Tucson that was shot in the face at point blank range and everybody was just amazed that she survived because it was a deadly wound and yet it was healed but here's the thing the whole world's not wondering about that they're not all worshipping her and saying who is like under Kathy Giffords you know who is who is able to make war with her why but when somebody actually died and then comes back say three days later yeah people are gonna wonder at that aren't they and they're gonna say it's Jesus it's the second coming of Jesus Christ that's what they're gonna say that's what the whole goal of the anti Christ is the term anti Christ is bound in the books of first John and second John and a lot of people misunderstand the word anti Christ the prefix anti we think of anti as being against something but in this case actually anti Christ the anti there means in the place of Christ that's a different use of the prefix anti it's a different prefix the Greek prefix anti in the place of okay so what we have here is a counterfeit of the resurrection now go back to Revelation 13 Revelation chapter 13 it says and I saw one of his heads verse three as it were wounded to death and his deadly wound was healed and all the world wondered after the beast and they worshiped the dragon who's the dragon Satan so they worship Satan they worship the dragon which gave power under the beast so what's powering this undead beast you know this undead man it's Satan it says they gave and they worshiped the dragon which gave power into the beast and they worshiped the beast saying who is like under the beast who is able to make war with him and there was given on him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies and power was given on him to continue 40 in two months and he opened his mouth and blasphemy against God to blaspheme his name and his tabernacle and them that dwell in heaven and it was given on him to make war with the saints and over you know all the people that are already gone according to preacher rapture who are the who are the saints that he's making war with if supposedly they've all been taken out makes no sense does it no but it makes perfect sense if you realize that this happens first before the rapture okay that's why he's making war with the saints because they're still here and it says it was given under to make war with the saints and over come them and power was given him over all kindreds you say well how where do you get this one world government thing okay what's the Bible say power is given over all kindreds and tongues and nations is that not a one world government if you have one guy raining over all kindreds all tongues tongues are languages and all nations that's a one world government and where did he get this power in revelation 17 it says from 10 kings who gave their power and strength to be so these are 10 great world leaders that relinquish their sovereignty under this one guy and they give him their power and they put him in power over the entire world you can't just do that without first having the infrastructure in place of a world government world currency that's why we're moving toward that right now and then it's all going to be ready the stage will be set for the anti-grise to come on the scene for the world to already be consolidated to where 10 people can just sign that document and just put this guy in power and the infrastructure is already in place for him to rule over the entire world and then it says that not only that verse 8 all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him so remember this guy is exalting himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped so that he is as God sit at the temple of God showing himself that he is God so we see that here he's being worshiped by the entire world it says whose names are not written in the book of life of the lamb slain from the foundation of the world now it says in verse 11 I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth and he had two horns like a lamb and he spake as a dragon and he exercises all the power of the first beast before him and cause it the earth and then which dwell there into worship the first beast whose deadly wound was healed and he doeth great wonders so that he make a fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men and deceive at them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast saying to them that dwell on the earth that they should make an image to the beast which had the wound by a sword and did live and he had power to give life unto the image of the beast now this isn't really that far fetched to give life unto an image of the beast this could be some kind of a hologram I mean who knows what this is but the technology is there to create a lot of images that are alive and speak and so forth but it says that he gave life to the image of the beast and it says that he would cause verse 15 it says that the image of the beast should both speak and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed and he causes all both small and great rich and poor free and bond to receive a mark in their right hand or in their foreheads and that no man might by herself save he that had the mark or the name of the beast or the number of his name here is wisdom let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast for it is the number of a man and his number is 600 three score and six so with all that background let's go to second Thessalonians now second Thessalonians chapter number two when we say that there's going to be a one-world religion what are we talking about everybody in the world worshipping the beast that's a one-world reason not not every single person because obviously the saints are worshipping the beast that's why he's going after the saints okay but here's the thing Buddhism is going to accept this beast they're going to accept the anti-Christ Hinduism will accept the anti-Christ Islam will accept the anti-Christ and apostate Christianity the false Christianity look Roman Catholicism folks and other false branches of Christianity will embrace the anti-Christ and worship him okay it's only the saved okay amongst Christians who are not going to be deceived the elect will not be deceived according to Matthew 24 so what we see here is one-world religion one world government raining over all the nations controlling the money and so forth and a one-world you know financial system and we can see that already being put in place right now so let's go to second Thessalonians chapter two with that in mind because remember those who believe in this pre-trib rapture or a rapture that comes before the tribulation that can happen at any moment they grasp it straws and one of their favorite verses to use to prove beyond any shadow of a doubt their pre-trib rapture you say show me a clear verse on it they say I got a clear verse for you second Thessalonians two seven now what's funny about this is that they pick a verse that's three verses after he just told us let no man deceive you this can't happen at any moment this other stuff has happened first so I guess when they show people they kind of have to cover up the Bible like where don't don't look at verse one through four what do you do I said verse seven look at verses six and seven don't let verses one through four confuse you that that tell you over and over again it can't happen at any moment but here's their clear verse verse seven for the mystery of aniquity to thalready work only he who now let it will let until he be taken out of the way I mean case closed I mean it's right there pre-trib rapture it says right there before the tribulation the rapture is going to happen Jesus can come back at any moment everybody see it oh you don't have a school field reference Bible that's the problem okay yeah you have to have a school field reference Bible you have to have this Bible with all these notes and commentaries that will explain it to you friend no I wouldn't would you would you base a doctrine on that verse would you base any doctrine on that verse and say oh this verse I'm going to hang my hat as a clear look that's not a clear verse about anything now it's a wonderful verse I mean all scripture is given by inspiration of God is probable for doctrine but not every verse is a clear verse is it this is not a clear verse this is a cryptic verse this is a verse that's hard to understand because it uses pronouns he and you have to wonder what are the he's referred to so this isn't some crystal clear verse that they make it out to be once you understand the verse it makes sense but it's not an easily understood verse the Bible says that there are things in Paul's epistles that are hard to be understood so look what the Bible says let's back up to verse number five he just finished us telling us don't let anybody tell you that this can happen in any moment first the antichrist is going to be revealed he's going to be sitting in the temple of God saying he's God okay that's the context look at verse five remember you not that when I was yet with you I told you these things and now you know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time for the mystery of iniquity to already work only he who now let it will let until he be taken out of the way and then shall that wicked be revealed whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming even him who's coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish because they receive not the love of the truth that they might be saved now let's look at this and let's figure out who the he's are okay he is a pronoun and a pronoun has an antecedent you remember this in English class the antecedent is the word that goes before the pronoun that tells you what the pronoun is it'd be like if I just walked into a room and without saying anything else said he is a piano player he is a piano player it's like well who you can't just come out with he when you haven't stated who you always have to state who it is once and then after that you can refer to him as he I can say mad Adams is sitting in the front row he is a piano player his wife is named Shanae and I and I don't have to just keep saying like mad Adams is in the front row mad Adams is a piano player mad Adams has a wife names it the whole purpose of pronouns is to not have to keep restating who you're talking about because we already know who you're talking about because of the antecedent and the ante in antecedent means before so it's something that comes before the pronoun to tell us who we're talking about okay so when we see the word he in the Bible we can't just insert whoever we want just pick somebody that you want insert and just stick it in there no no we look for the antecedent okay now look at verse six first of all because we have a he inverse six where it says that he might be revealed in his time and then we have a he inverse seven he who now let it to a let until he be taken out of the way okay now first of all let's deal with verse six because that's a little easier isn't it it says and now you know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time now who's being revealed we'll go back to verse three let no man deceive you by any means for that day shanae come except they're coming falling away first and that man of sin be revealed to son of tradition so who are we talking about being revealed here okay and how is the man of sin revealed he's revealed by sitting in the temple of God exalting himself as God showing himself that he is God that's how he's revealed meeting this we will not know who the anti-Christ is until he does that you know you got seven guys here you got ten guys here how do we know who the anti-Christ is it's the guy who receives a deadly wound the deadly wound is healed and he's declared to be God in the flesh he's declared to be the second coming of Jesus Christ he's declared to be the Messiah of the Jews think about it that's how he's revealed I mean we're not going to know him when he's a teenager on you know that oh this guy is going to be the anti-Christ someday let's watch him grow up no that's not what he's revealed when he does what the anti-Christ does okay and that's why the Bible says how he's revealed explains how he's revealed in verses three and four so it says now you know what with holdeth that he might be revealed in a time so something is stopping the anti-Christ from being revealed he's going to be revealed when that person is taken out of the way okay so in verse seven it says for the mystery of iniquity to thalready work only he who now leteth will let until he be taken out of the way then so that wicked be revealed who's that wicked the anti-Christ okay so basically if we study this the he that's being revealed is clearly the anti-Christ I don't think anybody would dispute that that's pretty obvious so the question is who is taken out of the way so that the man of sin can be revealed as anti-Christ who is being taken out of the way now those who believe in the preacher of rapture they just they think this is like a mad lib where you know you just insert a noun who knows what mad lives are you know you just give me a verb give me a noun give me an adjective they think they can just put whatever noun they want and he give me a noun the holy spirit that's what they say now here's the problem with putting the holy spirit there number one the holy spirit's not mentioned anywhere in this passage anywhere near this passage so how can you say that he is referring to the holy spirit when the holy spirit has not been mentioned whatsoever that's where dick I mean might as well put Mickey mouse in there if you're just gonna put people in that aren't even mentioned in the passage okay but here's the other problem with that number two is that the holy spirit is God so you can't just take him out of the way I mean think about how ridiculous that yeah let's just get the holy spirit out of the way and then we get how do you get him out of the way he's God I mean it's blasphemous to say you're gonna take him out of the way he's God he's everywhere with or shall I flee from thy spirit if I ascend into heaven behold thou art there if I make my bed and hell the whole out there God's spirit is everywhere so to say it's gonna be rude and here's what they say well the holy spirit's gonna be taken out and if the holy spirit's taken out since the holy spirit dwells in believers that means all the believers are gonna be taken out so therefore this is the rapture I mean it's a lot of logical leaps to say well the he is the holy spirit was there an antecedent no but just shut up believe it because I said so but anyway the holy spirit is the he and since the holy spirits inside the believers well then you know we can't stay if the holy spirit's got and look I'm telling you I've sat in a pre-trib church for five years where the pastor said about once a month literally when the holy spirit's taken out I'm taken out and that was pretty much the only teaching he gave on the pre-trib rapture he never could prove from the Bible that it's pre-trib he just say you know if you're calling Jesus a liar because he said it can happen at any moment and when the holy spirit's gone I'm gone amen amen it was just always like when the holy spirit's taken out I'm gonna be taken out so this is their big proof text right here he who now let it will let until he'll be taken out of the way and he said well he who let it that's who allows things to happen the holy spirit that's not what let means let means to hinder okay this isn't the 2015 texting language definition of let okay where you let someone do something no no this is actually let it which is an older definition which still exists today but let means to hinder and it's parallel with the withholding now you know what withholdeth you know he who now let it will let until he's taken out of the way he's no longer hindering anything because he's taken out of the way whoever this is so they say well it's the Holy Spirit if you look up the scofield reference Bible it says this can be none other than the Holy Spirit being removed and he dwells in the church so when the church is removed in the rapture the Holy Spirit's being removed here's the problem with that number one the Holy Spirit's not mentioned number two the Holy Spirit's God so you don't just remove him and number three if removing the believers somehow removes the Holy Spirit okay well what about all the people that they claim are going to be saved after the rapture that they call the tribulation saints how are these people getting saved without the Holy Spirit can somebody explain that to me when the Holy Spirit is necessary for you to be saved the Holy Spirit is the one who quickens you and saves you no one can be saved without the Holy Spirit so to sit there and say well the Holy Spirit's removed from this earth well how can anyone be saved but yet they claim that all these people are going to be saved and you know what here's the thing there will be people saved after the rapture after the rapture there's going to be the 144,000 the two witnesses and people will be saved through the power of the Holy Spirit the only way anybody's ever gotten saved through the Holy Spirit who works through the word of God so this teaching is ridiculous to say it's the Holy Spirit and it's borderline blasphemous to like you're just going to take God out of the way yeah get him out of the way God doesn't just get taken out of the way I mean if God does something he chooses to do something somebody else doesn't you know get him out of the way as it were that's a really weird way to talk about God but anyway you say okay well then who is the he referring to then huh since it's not the Holy Spirit well who is it well here's the thing pretty much any explanation makes more sense than the Holy Spirit you know anything here's the thing even if I didn't give you an explanation it's still not the Holy Spirit that doesn't just make it the Holy Spirit because I don't have an it but I do have an explanation because I believe this is talking about someone who's actually mentioned in the passage believe or not that the he is actually referring to an antecedent because think about it who is it just just stop and think about we read Revelation 13 we read Revelation 17 okay who has to be taken out of the way before the man of sin can be revealed as the anti-Christ and can rule and reign over the whole world here's who has to be taken out of the way the human being the man of sin himself right because that's who is going to be killed so that the other can take over think about it because if you look at let's look at some scripture to kind of understand this flip over to Luke chapter 22 because remember the anti-Christ is called the son of tradition now the reason that that makes sense is because the man of sin is mentioned in the passage so it makes sense to mention the man of sin and then say he about the man of sin that's an antecedent for your pronoun but here's why I believe that the he who now let it will let shall be taken out of the way is referring to the human being the man of sin himself so that someone else can another spirit from hell can take over his body because remember he is not right he's dead but he's still acting and functioning and ruling it's not really him anymore folks he didn't really rise from the dead what it is is that this guy is going to receive a wound of a sword he's going to die right his body is going to be re-vivified with a spirit from hell a spirit that ascends out of the bottomless pit the spirit of anti-Christ okay is going to endure this guy and control his body and this guy is going to live and breathe and function by the power of Satan I don't believe that Satan can resurrect life Satan is not all powerful if you go back to Exodus you'll see that when the plagues were being done water is turned into blood pharaoh sorcerers through the power of Satan were able to turn water into blood Moses threw down his rod it became a serpent pharaoh sorcerers were also able to throw down their rods and make them into serbans of course Moses rod eight they're serbans you know but they're able to duplicate it but when it came to creating life when it came to the point where Moses took the dust of the earth and sprinkled it and it became lice lice is what a living thing okay they couldn't do it and they said this is the finger of God see God can form of the dust of the earth man and breathe into his nostrils and he becomes a living soul God can take dust and turn it into creatures lice the devil can't do that the devil had no power to create lice I don't think that the devil can give life to someone who's already died okay so it's a fraught it's not a resurrection in the sense of he's coming back to life it's just a evil spirit taking control of this guy's body and everybody thinks he's resurrected look the real guy the real soul is gone he's out of the way folks he's taken out of the way he's killed he's murdered it's a false flag you know what I mean he's killed but they kill him take him out of the way so they can use his body you understand use his body to be the vessel of the anti-Christ which is not the same person because that guy's dead now it's this spirit from the bottomless pit that has entered the sky and now he's the anti-Christ okay now if you would look at Luke 223 it says then entered Satan into Judas surname to scarier being of the number of the 12 now the reason this interesting is because Judas is scarier it is referred to as the son of tradition two people in the Bible are called the son of tradition Judas is scarier and the anti-Christ well isn't it interesting that when Judas betrayed Jesus the Bible says that Satan entered him and prompted to do that so he was what we would commonly refer to as demon possessed okay then over in John chapter 13 verse 27 it says something very similar and after the sawp Satan entered into him then said Jesus unto him that thou doest do quickly and you don't have to turn there but in Matthew 27 3 after where he comes to his senses the human being Judas is scarier and he brings the money back he gives the money back it says I've betrayed the innocent blood and they say what does that to us see that out of that and then Judas goes and hangs himself right because he's still a human being he felt bad about what he'd done but he did it because he was being controlled by Satan that's what the Bible says Satan entered into now he was already a bad guy I'm not saying he's a good guy okay he was a bad guy he was stealing money from Jesus the whole ministry he had the bag and stole from it the Bible says he believed not from the beginning you know a Christian person who's a believer in Christ Satan's not going to enter and take over their body okay this is a bad guy but he was still human okay and he still had feeling of repentance there in Matthew 27 3 he died and went to hell because he was an unbeliever but we see that when he betrayed Jesus Satan was controlling him he satan entered into him I mean I just showed you in two different places now you say okay well then why does this other guy have to die why does he have to be taken out of the way in in Revelation 13 well number one because the job that the Antichrist has to do is a much bigger job than Judas is scary to have to do Judas is scary it all he had to do was just betray Jesus just you know go to the Pharisees make a deal give Jesus a kiss done pretty simple task right pretty easy to do the Antichrist is going to be ruling over the entire world for 42 months that's a pretty big job not to just give to a person but rather that the devil is going to make sure that he's got full control of this guy okay by basically taking over his body with this evil spirit that's under his control okay that's why all of his workings are through the power of Satan but number two the reason the guy has to die and to come back is because that's the only way to get the whole world to worship him because that miracle has to take place that will amaze the whole world where even the atheist who say well if you show me proof I'll believe it even they'll be convinced when they see this guy die deadly wound of the sword and he's healed and he's back to life quote unquote life they think he's back to life he's really undead okay that's what the Bible's teaching I hope I make a sense to you tonight but if you study Revelation 13 and Revelation 17 I don't see how you could come to any other conclusion but that this guy is dead and that a spirit from the bottom of his pit takes over his body so that makes sense when you think about the fact that somebody's got to be taken out of the way so that this guy can take over you know the whole the this evil spirit from hell now go back to second that's all needs to and this is where people get confused they get confused by this part where it says in verse seven for the mystery of aniquity that's already work only he who now let it will let until he be taken out of the way the now there it I don't believe it's the apostle Paul saying now as in first century AD I think he's telling the story okay about that and he's saying now as in at this point in the story like okay the antichrist is now revealed when this that happens see a lot of times the Bible use the present tense about things in the past and future because it's storytelling for example it says in Revelation 13 he causes all both small and great rich and poor free and bond to receive a mark in the right it so it speaks about it in the present because you're in the story okay and there's a lot of places we could show that grammatical example so it says for the mystery of aniquity that's already work meaning at this point in the story but he who now let it will let until he be taken out of the way then shall the wicked be revealed whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth and shall destroy with the brightens of his coming now that doesn't happen right away that happens 42 months later because power is given unto him to continue 40 in two months or three and a half years after three and a half years the Lord's going to consume him with the spirit of his mouth and destroy him with the brightness of his coming even him who's coming after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders those are the wonders that the false prophet does where he brings fire down and so forth from heaven and then it says with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish because they receive not the love of the truth that they might be saved for this cause God shall send them strong delusion that they should believe a lie that they all might be damned who believe not the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness okay now there are other theories here about the he who now let it will let because not everybody buys into this crazy holy spirit and dwelling the believers being taken out thing some people have put forth the theory that says hey the he who now let it will let is Michael the Archangel okay which I think that that's actually a legitimate theory you know there's scripture to support that when you compare Daniel and Revelation different things Michael's part in the end times I can see that theory okay one of the big problems I have with that theory is that he's not mentioned in the passage no antecedent okay but at least that theory makes sense so if somebody has that theory you know I wouldn't criticize that theory because I can see scriptural support for it I believe that it makes more sense though that the he who now let it will let is the man of sin the human being so that the beast can be revealed so that the anti-Christ can be revealed which is a spirit from hell and is not a human being because the human being is taken out of the way frankly so that this guy can take over the reigns of the world government but it says here that they will believe a lie and it says in verse 10 because they receive not the love of the truth now what does it mean when it says they didn't receive the love of the truth well what it means is that there are people who love the truth and people who don't love the truth there are some people who don't care what the truth is you can show people the truth till your blue in the face and they just won't accept it they don't even care they just want to believe a lie they want to believe that which is false then there are other people who love the truth and they just want the truth they don't really care what the truth is they just want to know what it is and believe it and when you show them that they're wrong they're willing to change because they love the truth and whatever the truth is they want to know it they love it but there are people who receive not the love of the truth and they believe not the gospel and the Bible says in verse 11 for this cause God shall send them strong delusion that they should believe a lie now this is nothing new in the Bible there are all kinds of places in the Bible where God hardens people's heart God darkens their eyes blinds their mind there are all kinds of scriptures where it gets too late for people to be saved and they become what the Bible calls a reprobate and people don't want to accept this doctrine today but it's all through the Bible tons of places here God is sending people a strong delusion now it's not that God just hates people for no reason and just sends them a delusion and just dams them to hell just for no reason no these are people who receive not the love of the truth these are people have already rejected the truth so he sends them a strong delusion that they believe the lies of the anti-Christ so basically when the anti-Christ comes along you say well how's the whole world gonna believe on him because God's gonna send a strong delusion on the people who did not believe the truth and who received not the love of the truth and had pleasure and righteousness God will send them a strong delusion that they'll believe a lie that's what the Bible says that they all might be damned who believed not the truth but had pleasure and unrighteousness they didn't love the truth they took pleasure in lies they took pleasure in that which is wrong that which is false that which is wicked and it says but verse 13 we're bound to give thanks all the way to God for you brethren beloved of the Lord because God is from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification and belief of the truth we're untoly called you by our gospel to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ therefore brethren stand fast and hold the traditions which he have been taught whether by word or our epistle now our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God even our father which has loved us and has given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace comfort your hearts and establish you in every good word and word I'm running out of time but let me just point out a few things about these verses first of all the Bible says here in verse number 14 we're untoly called you by our gospel to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ that reminds me of literally just about an hour and a half ago when I was out knocking door soul winning we talked to this guy and he was saved he gave us the right testimony of salvation through faith he said he believed on Christ and that you know he didn't believe he could lose your salvation he didn't believe it was by works he thought it was all finished by the blood of Jesus on the cross but he had this attitude of well you know whoever's going to get saved is going to get saved no matter what we do and he kept focusing on out well you know God calls people God's doing the drawing and God draws people unto him and so you can go out and knock all these doors he said but at the end of the day the same amount of people are going to get saved whether you go out and do it or not and I told him I said why wouldn't he even be here then why would I he said well you do it out of obedience and I'm thinking to myself yeah one was last time you knocked the door buddy he's going to some big mega church liberal fund center this guy is not knocking doors he's talking to me about obedience to the great commission of go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature but I said look if I didn't think I was making a difference I'd go out and do the minimum I just go out do a little soul winning knocks and doors chalk it up that I preach the gospel and then enjoy life you know I do the minimum but when we think about the fact that souls are in the balance and that people are dying and going to hell the Bible says and others save with fear pulling them out of the fire hate even the garment spotted by the flesh you know when I go out so when I believe I'm pulling people out of the fire Paul said I've become all things to all men that I might by all means save some he's not just going through the motions he's trying to pull these people out of fire trying to get people saved this guy oh you know God does the calling God does the drawing and they'll point out this verse where Jesus said in John you know no man can come on to me except the father drawing but you know what's funny is they never like to talk about the verses a few chapters later where Jesus said