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Behold! The Rider of the Seven Headed Beast is Coming !!!

"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 his horns ten crowns, and upon his
heads the name of blasphemy.

And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the
feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him
his power, and his seat, and great authority." Revelation 13:1, 2.

"So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman
sit upon a scarlet-colored beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven
heads and ten horns.

And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet color, and decked with gold
and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of
abominations and filthiness of her fornication." Revelation 17:3, 4.

Arnold Joseph Toynbee, noted historian says: "We can forsee world government
... and see when it comes, the need for it will have been so desperate that
mankind will not only be ready to accept it even at the most exorbitantly high
price in terms of loss of liberty, but it will deify it and its human
embodiments as an excruciated Greece-Roman world once deified Rome and
Augusta."

Now listen to God's Word! Take a good look at this world government in
Revelation 13:1, 4, 7, and 8 and the world Church in Rev. 13:11-18.

"And I saw a beast rise up (world powers are represented by beasts in the Word
of God) ... and all the world wondered after the beast ... and they worshipped
the beast, saying "Who is like unto the beast? And who is able to make war
with him?" He is a world civil leader - a world military leader - a world
dictator. He has such power that no one is able to make war with him, at
least, that is the boast. This boast is directed emphatically against God and
His Christ ... and Christ answers the boast by making war with him. (In
Revelation 19:11 to 21. Read it for yourself.) "And he opened his mouth in
blasphemy against God, to blaspheme His name, and His tabernacle, and them
that dwell in heaven ... and power was given him over all kindreds and
tongues, and nations. And all that dwell on the earth shall worship him whose
names are not written in the Lamb's book of life." This is world government -
without liberty - without God - pure naked slavery to the devil - the dragon
of this Book of Revelation.

"And I saw another beast coming up ... and he had two horns like a lamb ...
but ... he spake as a dragon .. and he exerciseth all the power of the first
beast and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first
beast ... and he doeth great wonders so that he maketh fire to come down from
heaven on the earth in the sight of men ... and deceiveth them that dwell on
the earth by 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 of the beast ... and he had power to give life unto the image of the
beast ... and causeth all both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond,
to receive a mark in their right hand or in their foreheads ... that no man
might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the
number of his name." This is world tyranny at the hands of a lamb-like beast
in coalition with the first beast.

Take a good look at this second beast because "he causeth the world to worship
the first beast."

Notice: "He has two horns like a lamb! " Remember, only (Rev. 13:8) those
escaped his deception whose names are written in the Lamb's Book of Life! He
is a beast but posing as a lamb and not only a lamb, but as the slain Lamb of
God! He is the arch-deceiver! Posing as a lamb - he is a religious world
leader. Who poses as the vicar of Jesus Christ?

Notice: "He exerciseth all the power of the first beast," (the civil or
military leader) if you doubt the power of this lamb-like beast, "and he
causeth the earth and they that dwell therein to worship the first beast."
These two beasts work together. The second beast - which is the religious
world leader - heads the great apostate church.

Notice: "He doeth great wonders" ... "He maketh fire to come down from heaven"
(as Elijah did) - to establish his claims - "and deceiveth them that dwell on
the earth." In I Thess. 2:9, these great wonders of the wicked one are called
"lying wonders." Who was the Miracle man of all ages? Who is this religious
beast imitating, then?

"He causeth all both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond to receive
a mark in their right hand or in their forehead, that no man might buy or sell,
save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his
name."

Read Revelation 14:1, and you will find that God put a mark on His people in
their foreheads.

"And I saw a woman, (churches are always represented by a woman in God's Word)
sit upon a scarlet colored beast and the woman was arrayed in purple and
scarlet color, decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a
golden cup in her hand full of the abominations and filthiness of her
fornication. And upon her forehead a name written, "The Mother of Harlots and
Abominations of the Earth." "...I will shew thee the mystery of the woman and
the beast that carried her ... the beast shall ascend out of the bottomless
pit ... and shall go into perdition." Revelation 17.

Look at this woman! She is dressed in scarlet, the color of sin in God's Book.
Remember God said: "Though your sins be as scarlet ... though they be red like
crimson?" Sin is red like scarlet - red like crimson. She rides the scarlet
beast of sin, the devil's Christ.

Look at her array! Her clothes are gold, and pearls, and precious stones.
These are rich and attractive to get the attention of men and women and boys
and girls. So does sin get their attention. It is attractive until it ends in
death. Then it has lost its attraction - , but too late to save the soul.

Look at the cup in her hand! Golden! It is golden, it is attractive, it is
delightful - until you drink its wine with its sting of death in it - then it
is too late, its attraction is gone, but too late! The cup is full of
abominations (that is all sinful things that God hates) and filthiness of her
fornication (that is all unfaithfulness to our holy God). It is sinful
pleasures. And she offers it to all the world to drink! She is the devil's
church; the sinning church.

The woman is drunken and she makes the world drunken with the golden cup of
sin which she offers them. They drink it and go on sinning, even knowing that
they are lost and riding on the devil's back with this scarlet woman into
perdition with them. They are drunk with her sinful wine - they think that
they are saved because they belong to some church, but they are so drunk with
the sinful pleasurable wine of her golden cup that they do not know the
scarlet beast, who is the devil's Christ, and the scarlet woman, who is the
false church, are deceiving them and carrying them into hell.

This golden cup in her hand is the so-called 'gospel' of the false church. It
is what she offers men and women to drink. The true Church offers `pure water
of life,' no gospel of sinning religion in it! He makes men and women and boys
and girls who come to Him and drink as He called them all to do, pure. Their
lives are pure; their hearts are pure after they come to Jesus and drink to
the full of His pure life-giving water of life.

Oh, how good God is! O, how much He loves you! O, how much He wants you to be
pure, to be free from sin and belong really and truly to Him. This is God
talking in this picture, Will you listen to Him?

"And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their
testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death." Revelation 12:11.

"And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had
gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and
over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of
God." Revelation 15:2.