The Dragon, the Beast, and the Prophet

Ok, I am about to break down what I believe to be the answer to who the characters are within the scriptures of Revelation 16:13-14.

I already see them at work but was curious as to what their role was toward the end of times. Also there is a conspicuously missing entity that is not a part of the 3 amigos.

First let us have the scripture.

¹³And I saw coming out of the mouth of the dragon and out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits like frogs;

¹⁴for they are spirits of demons, performing signs, which go out to the kings of the whole world, to gather them together for the war of the great day of God, the Almighty.

OK, to get a better idea of the meaning of "unclean spirits" the NWT describes the same words as "inspired expressions". With the fact that these spirits or expressions come from the mouth of these creatures, this can only mean it is some sort of function or motivational mechanism that each creature creates and that manifests itself in the world. Apparently the leadership of the world will be familiar with them and utilize these "things" to a degree. These "things" will apparently be related because they all look like frogs but they serve different purposes.

I can only think of 3 main things that would ultimately fit the bill.

#1 The dragon is discussed at Revelation 12:15 disgorging water from his mouth to drown the woman. It is describing the birth of the Christian religion. At the birth of this religion lies Catholicism which took on all of the qualities of true Christianity and molded it into a more widely accepted religion by incorporating pagan practices. The first frog is Catholicism and it is a direct expression from the dragon.

#2 The beast is the multi-colored mixed up animal with the 10 horns and seven heads that depicts the nations on earth. Lets be more specific. It depicts the system that makes up the behind-the-scenes leadership of the nations. Most leaders are part of a multifaceted hodge podge of fraternities with the most popular being Freemasonry. If we were to investigate, we would find that most leadership around the world are members of one of these various fraternities. These secret fraternities usually incorporate paganism into their practices. They compose the second frog.

#3 The false prophet will begin to act lastly but he was there since the beginning. This was probably the easiest because of the fact that the name is prophet. The prophet specifically is Mohammad and the third frog is Islam. Islam was born in the seat of paganism and incorporates paganism into its process subtly.

There is one missing that I found interesting. That is the Jews or more specifically the Zionist movement. Well they ultimately are different because they spew from Babylon. The law that guides them is heavily derived from the exile in Babylon. The Jews, in this instant, are more readily related to Babylon the Great which is dealt with prior to this scriptural description. Still a couple of verses after these God says he "remembered" her.

So there we have it. The frogs are as follows:
1) Catholicism
2) Secret Fraternal Organizations
3) Islam

They are all related through their hatred for the "true" expression of Christianity. They are related through their ties to early ancient esoteric knowlege. They all promote practices that ultimately have no baring on salvation. They are all expressions of the same devil.

Modern Judaism and its interesting origins

Judaism has this tendency to be accepted as this group of humble people who just want to be treated fairly.

Why in the world have the gotten such a bum rap?

Please, if you will, explore the following article. It may shed some light as to why the many people they have come into contact with just want them to go away.

THE PHARISEES, THE TALMUD,
AND MODERN JUDAISM

The Material World and Satan's Machinations

This seems like an awsomely big subject but I am going to try my hand at explaining what has been swirling through my mind on this very thing.

Machinations is defined as an act of plotting or a conspiracy.

Material world is defined as all things not of the spiritual world or fleshly.

To understand why Satan's machinations exist I guess it would be good to reflect upon the character of Satan himself.

We can determine Satan's character from a few sources. The Bible, the Koran, and other less popular books of the time such as the book of Enoch.

The first notice of Satan in the bible is in the garden of Eden and the conversation he had with Eve. To paraphrase what occurred, we can say he offered Eve fruit that would make her "like God" knowing good and bad. This simple statement of Satan gives us incite into the creature and what makes him tick. Recognizing this will allow us simple humans to be aware of where this may be evident in our lives and avoiding the same line of reasoning.

Let us look a little deeper into the creature. It is good to also imagine Satan as a dangerous animal like a lion, shark, or alligator that we are discovering his reactionary tendencies.

Satan was born or created into an angel that was beautiful, full of light, and intelligence. Ezekiel 28:17 brings this out. The interesting thing is that God saw fit for Satan to be care taker of mud.

Think about it this way. You are given a fully paid for home, car, expense account, and education of the very best quality but you have the task of being a sheep herder. Surely you benefactor has gone off his rocker. "The old man has finally lost it", you would probably mutter to yourself.

In comparison we are like the mud that Satan was assigned to look after and teach God's ways. He resented the task as is always represented in his interactions with God in regards to us. Consider Job.

Satan was assigned as an expert on the material world. If humans were the amazing material creations of God then Satan was like the holder of the material world's knowledge that was supposed to be dispersed among mankind in an orderly God ordained fashion. Satan wanted different.

The book of Enoch discusses how the angels from above taught humans about various material world concepts such as math, science, agriculture, and astronomy. All of these things would have more than likely been apart of the human condition anyway. Unfortunately Satan perverted it with his first words to Eve, "You will be like God".

Satan has no choice but to do what he was designed to do. He has no choice but to follow God's original plan of dispersing material world knowledge BUT he omits that it is God ordained. He would rather humans focus on their own greatness as he does himself.

That simple statement of being like God gives him away. It is a comparative statement. Remember, Satan is a master of the material world. Comparisons are strictly used in a material world environment. Comparisons are also the root of human problems.

Think about the 10 commandments. 1) You must not have any other gods against my face, 2)You must not create an image of anything and bow to it. 3)Do not use God's name in vain. 4) Remember the sabbath. 5) Honor your mother and father 6) Don't murder 7) Don't commit adultery 8) Don't steal 9)Don't testify falsely against your brother 10) Don't desire things that don't belong to you.

At the root of these is our human tendency to compare ourselves, or what we have, against some ideal that has what we want to be or has what we want. This is the heart of sin. It is rooted in this material world which is being manipulated by the expert, Satan himself.

The most interesting part is that Satan is a spirit creature who can never truly be a part of this material world. This is where his jealousy lies. He is hysterically envious of humans but alas, he has never loved us. This is why in revelation we see an image of the beast, but not the beast itself.

Satan's machinations are a direct result of him being able to manipulate the material world but he cannot use holy spirit. We know that Jesus is able to pour holy spirit upon us and use holy spirit to influence things spiritually. Satan on the other hand cannot because he is locked in this material world. So how does he influence people?

I have a theory. Jesus is to holy spirit as Satan is to secrecy. Satan has to use the material world or humans to have an influence within the confines of this material world. It makes sense because talking snakes can only go so far. Humans are at the top of the food chain in this world so Satan is going to use the most influential in this material world. This being the case we have to point to all positions of power as being a possible haven for Satanic activity.

You are probably thinking, what the heck are you talking about Chris? Well I know it is a bit surprising but why on earth would Satan pick a no named, isolated dreamer as someone he would directly try to manipulate. The payoff is very little. Again we have to keep in mind that this is a material world and Satan is a material genius.

The places of leadership have the most effective locations for Satanic activity. Open discussion of possible Satanic or even unchristian activities are not well accepted by people so if someone is practicing anything like that, it is best to keep it on the hush. Thus secrets are kept. From this are born societies of secret keepers.

Secret societies such as the Freemasons or Rosecrucians are accepted as clubs to a degree. Some find that these clubs house more sinister plans. I fall into the latter group.

The members of the groups don't necessarily know what goes on in the higher echelons of the organization. I see these groups kind of like this. There are many parts of a car that make it a car. The exterior of a car hides the type of engine that runs it. The car may look innocent enough but the engine may make it a monster on the roads. You just won't know it till someone decides to rev the engine. I don't think these secret societies have decided to rev their engine yet.

If we were to look at just the leadership within the US presidency over the US history, we would discover that Freemsonry is represented over 80%. A deeper look into secret societies starts to reveal a network of people that regard esoteric and ancient teachings in high esteem. You don't have to look far to determine that it is definitely a machination of the devil. Remember the definition.

Within the structure of these many groups lies the key to how Satan manipulates the greater material world. On a personal level though we are manipulated because of our inherited sin. We often are persuaded by our eyes and our desires because we want this or that. That is our material tendency arising. Sadly Satan is ready for us to want to indulge in our material desires.

We must remember though that there is nothing we can build upon in this material world that will help us in our spiritual pursuits.

I strike a difference between simple materialism and the material world. Materialism has a monetary connotation. The material world is anything that holds a value within this material world. We can sometimes value things but we also value people, relationships, class distinctions, or family ties. God cares not about who your parents are but he cares about how you treat your parents. God does not care about how much money you have but he would rather you use your funds to help your fellow man.

The material world is not intrinsically valuable to God but conciencious humans are. Humans have the distinction of being able to utilize both the material world and the spiritual to an extent. This may be the unique and wonderful thing about us and why Jesus found us so precious.

We are not JUST mud as Satan thinks and considers. We were valued enough for God to give his only begotten Son on our behalf.

Satan continues to lie to us by having us focus on the material aspects of us and calling truth science, math, and calculable elements. This is not truth. It is a distraction from the real truth.

The real truth is God's love, ultimately. As long as God loves us, Satan will always be proved a liar.

Obama, Zionism, the World

I know it is extremely difficult to try and put the world's state into a nutshell. I like to try because it puts a kind of snapshot on where my thoughts are on things in general.

I have increased my focus on the status of the Jews as of late. This has brought me into closer understanding of the Zionist movement.

Looking at the outward appearance of the world we see the middle east war and Obama repairing relations with his neighbors. If we change our focus and strip that off and look at the underlying societies that run things it will simplify the undercurrents to gather what is happening.

Let us go back a bit. In my book I describe that the final period we are in is controlled by masonic elements. As I have researched I have gathered further understanding that these elements are in a struggle. In the 1700's these elements became more Alchemicaly unified but also included the rising money moguls of Zion. Since then due to economic influence, the Zionists began to run the show to chagrin of the other societies. What appears to be happening now is a struggle to retake control of the world from Zionism. The Zionist grip is very strong. The only way to do this would be to have a very controlled destruction of societal structure to break the chain. Kind of like the twin towers falling symbolically speaking.

To use the towers as a metaphore, the USA and Britain are going to be hit by something and pulled down so that they no longer are towering over the world. This will in affect break the Zionist strong hold on the world. The other secret societies will no longer be held back but can start to rebuild it their way but at the same time eliminate the Zionist influence from ever raising its head again.

I think Obama was a huge step in this direction. He is in office due to the compromising of a select few Zionist followers (possibly within Bilderberg) to agree to let go of their Zionist leanings for some better deal. They know the Zionist ideals are antiquated and no longer will serve the proper purpose. So it must be cut off. If you really look at the direction Zionism is being led, you will see the brains no longer guide it. Just the brawn remains. Zionism has lost its philosophical direction because the philosophers have left for greener pastures.

In this light Obama represents change but a change from a Zionist led world to a world without Zionist control. Of all the foreign dignitaries Obama has had to speak with, our own allies, Israel, were the most pensive. Obama will have a very difficult road to tread in this regard. Unfortunately this change will come at a sever price. Economic failure, A major war, and maybe world peril.

The biblical account of Babylon the Great from Revelation provides the structure for this scenario. Zionist Israel must be Babylon the Great. The beast Babs rides will eventually tire of her, kick her off, strip her, then burn her with fire.

If Zionism coincides with Babs then the economic destruction is just a tool to eliminate the strong hold of Zionists. In essence stripping them. Afterwhich the faithful Zionists will be eliminated. The land of Israel will then be in the hands of some other party.

If this sounds a little preposterous then you must look at my book which describes where we are in the stream of time. It is available online. I describe several of the final day prophecies and how they link together. GET IT HERE

My Feelings about the Body of Christ

The body is the body of Christ. The spirit is the Holy Spirit. The One hope is salvation. Grace is oh so important.

Jehovah's Witnesses (like the Catholics) say there is an unbroken connection between the 1st century Christians and today's witness congregation. This is false. The congregation of today's witnesses is a hierarchy. This goes against the simple principle at Eccl 8:9 and Mat 10:41-45. The system within churches, corporations, and governments is similar to a pyramid shaped hierarchical system. This includes the Watchtower with its levels of authority in the system. I don't care how much it is said the brothers are all on the same level. The structure cannot be denied. Hierarchical structures do not belong in a religious setting if it is saying it follows Christ.

Now Paul was given his commission directly by Jesus himself. One of the seven congregations that Revelation 2 talked about was visited by Paul. The others grew under the Holy Spirit. Are you willing to deny that Holy Spirit is able to do this?

This is dangerous because then you would contradict the very words of Jesus when he spoke of what the Holy Spirit would allow us to accomplish. (John 14:26) We have this one spirit not because we are in the same club or fraternity. We are unified because we share the same Holy Spirit and it is expressed in more ways than Jehovah's Witnesses will ever dream to know. Because each accomplishes their dynamic ministry through their particular ability or gift whatever that may be. Not just door to door and informal. Come on!

Let me tell you about my congregation. The body of Christ can be everywhere because it is not bound by knowledge, walls, race, laws, time, generation, or red tape. It is accepting of all people and each member can recognize each other by how they talk about Jesus. You can tell when someone is "not" part of the body because they have no love for Jesus. We are protected as a group because we are not a physically organized group so cannot be zeroed in on. Physical groups like Jehovah's Witnesses can be infiltrated by unsavory characters like pedophiles who obtain positions of authority due to hierarchical structure. Spiritual groups such as the body of Christ can meet together and may even have a congregation but don't need to be highly organized because it is a spiritual thing and we all have a responsibility at the end of the day to Jesus not a group structure.

We in essence are unified in Christ. ANYONE who continues to use the history of the Watchtower as a crutch to confirm they have a special relationship with Jesus (such as faithful and discreet slave) will hold the same judgment as Pharisees because it is the same reasoning. ANYONE who places more emphasis on their own personal qualifications than on Jesus will ultimately deny him. Although they say they follow Jehovah God alone. This is key.

Holy Spirit is not bound by time nor history but it is now at work within the whole body of Christ. I have to get more than a simple history of some off shoot group of people that promotes the name Jehovah which they themselves say is not necessarily the proper pronunciation. I have to get more than your personal qualifications as to how you may be an authority due to your many experiences. The way you discuss our ONE mediator to God is the indicator if you are a part of this body. If you disregard him then you do service with your lips which leads to cold mechanical responses that tend to always relate back to some needed bible study. Why not turn someone with questions to the bible? Why not pray that the Holy Spirit will work with that person? A witness does not have to do all the work from heathen to Savior. Yet most pioneers and Watchtower supporters would rather have someone who weakly accepts their doctrine than someone who intensely wants to find answers to their questions. Its less dangerous to train a puppy than a lion.

Jewish heritage

The question of the Jewish population's heritage is getting clearer. The Israelites within the occupation of Palestine claim heritage from 2000 years ago. There was a genetic study completed to confirm this.


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Study: Most Ashkenazi Jews From Four Women

By MALCOLM RITTER
AP Science Writer

January 12, 2006, 7:01 PM EST

NEW YORK -- Some 3.5 million of today's Ashkenazi Jews -- about 40 percent of the total Ashkenazi population -- are descended from just four women, a genetic study indicates.

Those women apparently lived somewhere in Europe within the last 2,000 years, but not necessarily in the same place or even the same century, said lead author Dr. Doron Behar of the Rambam Medical Center in Haifa, Israel.

He did the work with Karl Skorecki of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and others.

Each woman left a genetic signature that shows up in their descendants today, he and colleagues say in a report published online by the American Journal of Human Genetics. Together, their four signatures appear in about 40 percent of Ashkenazi Jews, while being virtually absent in non-Jews and found only rarely in Jews of non-Ashkenazi origin, the researchers said.

They said the total Ashkenazi population is estimated at around 8 million people. The estimated world Jewish population is about 13 million.

Ashkenazi Jews are a group with mainly central and eastern European ancestry. Ultimately, though, they can be traced back to Jews who migrated from Israel to Italy in the first and second centuries, Behar said. Eventually this group moved to Eastern Europe in the 12th and 13th centuries and expanded greatly, reaching about 10 million just before World War II, he said.

The study involved mitochondrial DNA, called mtDNA, which is passed only through the mother. A woman can pass her mtDNA to grandchildren only by having daughters. So mtDNA is "the perfect tool to trace maternal lineages," Behar said Thursday in a telephone interview.

His study involved analyzing mtDNA from more than 11,000 samples representing 67 populations.

Mike Hammer, who does similar research at the University of Arizona, said he found the work tracing back to just four ancestors "quite plausible... I think they've done a really good job of tackling this question."

But he said it's not clear the women lived in Europe.

"They may have existed in the Near East," Hammer said. "We don't know exactly where the four women were, but their descendants left a legacy in the population today, whereas ... other women's descendants did not."

Behar said the four women he referred to did inherit their genetic signatures from female ancestors who lived in the Near East. But he said he preferred to focus on these later European descendants because they were at the root of the Ashkenazi population explosion.
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2000 years ago there were four main Jewish groups that today's Jews could possibly be the descendants of. 1)The Zealots, 2)The Jewish rebels, 3)The Idumeans or Edomites, or 4)the Jews that went north into Pella. At the time of Rome's destruction of Jerusalem 70ad, all of these groups were in and around Jerusalem. To understand these groups is to also understand the influence of Jesus affect on the Jews. When Jesus was preaching he advised his followers that when they see Jerusalem surrounded by encamped armies, they need to head for the mountains. In this case, Pella.

Rome first approached Jerusalem in 66 ad but stayed, encamped, then left. At this point the 4 groups had to make a decision. Their were some Jews that heeded the warning by Jesus and took off for Pella. The rebels decided that Rome has probably left and will not return. The Zealots were Jewish extremists that did not even respect Jewish worship and ended up killing the rightful high priest of the temple and installed one of their own men. This caused a huge uproar by the existing residents and caused severe infighting. The Zealots then called in an army of Idumeans who were to their south to come in and help get them out. They end up dispatching many of the leaders within Jerusalem leaving the Zealots to lead against the incoming Roman army. Herod, the king of the Jews, was Idumean and a loyal Roman puppet who longed for the Jewish marker as God's chosen just like his ancestor Esau. By the time Rome had come back he was safely back in Rome.

Rome eventually decimated Jerusalem on 70ad and all that were in the city which meant the Zealots and their followers. Who were left? There were some scattered groups of Jews for years after this that managed to gather and create another up rising. The Herodian dynasty maintained their power on into the 90s ad but melted into Roman society. There was another Jewish rebellion in 132 ad called Bar Kochba. Rome decimated whatever was there then abolished Jewish religious practice throughout all of the Roman kingdom.

So how did Jewish culture survive? Of the groups that started this out it can only be one of the two groups left. The Pella Jews were following Jesus direction because they were told the Jewish system of religion would end. I don't think they would have put their lives in danger for an unacceptable form of worship that was no longer acceptable even by Rome.

The Idumean Jews were the only ones that could have even had a small chance to carry on Jewish teachings underground. After the prohibition of Judaism, Christianity would have taken over that area. Idumaens would then either decide to conform to Christianity or leave. Being that Rome prohibited Judaism, I believe they left and eventually reemerged into society keeping the Talmud as their guidebook. Where did they go?

The greater percentage of Jews today come from Ashkenazim which descends from western European sources. This could have only happened by a flow of Talmud keepers out of the Byzantine areas north from the area of Turkey which then split on either side of the black sea. To the east of the sea went Jews who would become the Khazarian Jews and to the west of the black sea went the Askenazi Jews who would eventually settle into lands like Hungary, Poland, and Germany.

If the genetic tests are right then I am about 85% positive that the Jews of today more than likely descended from the Idumean-Edomite-Esau line.

Byzantium. Christianity's first nation.

Byzantium surrounded the Jerusalem area back in the 1st century into the 8th century. If Christianity was spread anywhere it was spread fully into this territory. There was an obvious incorporation of national leadership with worship practices.

" Byzantine Christianity was a substantially different religion and cultural practice than Latin Christianity. One of its predominant characteristics was the role of the emperor in matters of faith. The Latin church had battled emperors for control of the church and with the disintegration of centralized authority in Europe and the proliferation of European kingdoms, the primacy of the Pope in matters of faith was relatively solidified.

The Byzantines, however, inherited the Roman idea that the emperor was near divinity and practiced a form of Christianity where enormous ecclesiastical and theological authority was vested in the emperor. This would eventually create a permanent breach in the world of Christianity between west and east and the event that would produce this breach was the Iconoclastic controversy.

The Iconoclastic theologians believed that the worship of images, or icons, was a fundamentally pagan belief. Products of human hands should not be worshiped, they argued, but only Christ and God should be the proper objects of veneration. The movement was inaugurated by Leo the Isaurian. It was Leo, remember, that turned the tide against the Muslim in 717. Islam is itself opposed to the worship of images, icons, and idols—one of the founding acts of Islam is Muhammad's destruction of all the idols and images in the sacred Ka'aba in Mecca. There is no doubt that the Iconoclasts were in part inspired by the religious purity of the Islamic faith. There is also little doubt that Iconoclasm would help the Byzantines regain territory conquered by the Muslims since it made Christianity more in line with the Islamic faith.

Iconoclasm, however, was fiercely opposed by the papacy which saw it as a threat not only to Latin ecclesiastical practices, but to the authority of the pope himself. When Leo's son, Constantine V even more zealously carried out the Iconoclastic program during his reign (740-775), the breach between the Latin and Byzantine church became permanent. Eventually, Iconoclasm would be abandoned in the ninth century—the breach, however, would never be healed.

The most significant result of the Iconoclastic controversy was the adoption of a strict traditionalism in the Byzantine church. The eastern church had long been characterized by speculation and innovation, but the Iconoclastic controversy was too disorienting. Almost overnight, the Byzantine church became averse to innovation and speculation. This created a more or less static religious culture and it also permanently ended the intellectual dynamism of Byzantine life. "