And if you find it, don't cast it before swine!
Have you ever invested some time to compare Satan's creations with those of the Elohim? If the answer is no, you are invited to think about this because it will help you to choose much more easily in which way to go at each cross-point of your life.
Devil’s creation are always ugly and with a bad design!
The book of Revelation is forecasting us that very soon the whole world is going to live under the yoke of an exceptional personality, a personality often considered to be the masterpiece of Satan.
This future ruler of the world will be incarnated by Satan, the Devil, who will give him all his power and his throne. This future powerful King is better known by his name in the book of Revelation:
The Beast !
In several places in the Bible, there are additional descriptions of this dreaded man and of his deeds as he will be enabled to kill the vast majority of the saints. In addition to the book of Revelation, we are told about him in the books of Daniel and Isaiah. It is worth reading some of these passages to have a better understanding about this "masterpiece" of Satan.
First, let's read Revelation in chapter 13, verses 1 to 10:
“1Then I stood on the sand of the sea. And I saw a beast rising up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his horns ten crowns, and on his heads a blasphemous name. 2 Now the beast which I saw was like a leopard, his feet were like the feet of a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a lion. The dragon (i.e. Satan as written in Revelation 12: 9) gave him his power, his throne, and great authority. 3 And I saw one of his heads as if it had been mortally wounded, and his deadly wound was healed. And all the world marveled and followed the beast. 4 So they (note: the whole world) worshiped the dragon who gave authority to the beast; and they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast? Who is able to make war with him?”
5 And he was given a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies (note: very similar to what is written in Daniel 7: 8, 11 and 25 and in chapter 8: 9-12 and 25), and he was given authority to continue for forty-two months (note: About the biblical precise meaning of months, you are invited to read in this website the article about the Calendar of Yehoah). 6 Then he opened his mouth in blasphemy against Elohim, to blaspheme His name, His tabernacle, and those who dwell in heaven. 7 It was granted to him to make war with the saints and to overcome them. And authority was given him over every tribe, tongue, and nation. 8 All who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
9 If anyone has an ear, let him hear. 10 He who leads into captivity shall go into captivity; he who kills with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.”
The description given to us of the beast is revealing a horror with a monstrous appearance. We see a confusing mixture, made with a very bad taste, of a part of a leopard with those of a bear and a lion. The beast will speak violently and use threatening words.
Satan, since his rebellion against Elohim, has never sought to create things intended to last because his only goal is to destroy. But as we can read in chapter 12 of Revelation, in verse 12, he has a very short time left to destroy:
“Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and the sea! For the devil has come down to you, having great wrath, because he knows that he has a short time.”
Satan therefore will not invest too much time to create the beast, his spiritual son; the beast is badly designed by a personality who seeks to do everything bad.
The prophet Daniel will reinforce our commentary on the abominable ugliness and the bad conception of the beast by Satan; let's read it in chapter 7, verses 7 and 8 and then 19 to 25:
“7 “After this I saw in the night visions, and behold, a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, exceedingly strong. It had huge iron teeth; it was devouring, breaking in pieces, and trampling the residue with its feet. It was different from all the beasts that were before it, and it had ten horns. 8 I was considering the horns, and there was another horn, a little one, coming up among them, before whom three of the first horns were plucked out by the roots. And there, in this horn, were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking pompous words. …
19 “Then I wished to know the truth about the fourth beast, which was different from all the others, exceedingly dreadful, with its teeth of iron and its nails of bronze, which devoured, broke in pieces, and trampled the residue with its feet;
20 and the ten horns that were on its head, and the other horn which came up, before which three fell, namely, that horn which had eyes and a mouth which spoke pompous words, whose appearance was greater than his fellows.
21 “I was watching; and the same horn was making war against the saints, and prevailing against them, 22 until the Ancient of Days came, and a judgment was made in favor of the saints of the Most High, and the time came for the saints to possess the kingdom.
23 “Thus he said: ‘The fourth beast shall be a fourth kingdom on earth, which shall be different from all other kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, trample it and break it in pieces.
24 The ten horns are ten kings who shall arise from this kingdom. And another shall rise after them; He shall be different from the first ones, and shall subdue three kings. 25 He shall speak pompous words against the Most High, shall persecute the saints of the Most High, and shall intend to change times and law. Then the saints shall be given into his hand for a time and times and half a time.”
Fragile!
If we refer to the dream of the statue whose the Lord revealed the meaning to king Nebuchadnezzar through Daniel (Daniel chapter 2), we will see that his reign initiated by Elohim, with the intention to punish the treacherous Judah, is represented by the splendid head of gold. But the following kingdoms will gradually degenerate under the growing influence of the seductions of Satan to become at the end a vile and abominably destructive kingdom, that of the beast of which we spoke above. But the revelation made in the book of Daniel will make us discover a new aspect of the works of Satan:
Their fragility and their lack of eternity.
Let us read in particular verses 33 to 35 of Daniel chapter 2:
"... 33 its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of clay. 34 You watched while a stone was cut out without hands, which struck the image on its feet of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces. 35 Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were crushed together, and became like chaff from the summer threshing floors; the wind carried them away so that no trace of them was found. And the stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth. …”
Then follows the explanation of this part of the vision in verses 40 to 45:
“40 And the fourth kingdom shall be as strong as iron, inasmuch as iron breaks in pieces and shatters everything; and like iron that crushes, that kingdom will break in pieces and crush all the others. 41 Whereas you saw the feet and toes, partly of potter’s clay and partly of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; yet the strength of the iron shall be in it, just as you saw the iron mixed with ceramic clay. 42 And as the toes of the feet were partly of iron and partly of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly fragile. 43 As you saw iron mixed with ceramic clay, they will mingle with the seed of men; but they will not adhere to one another, just as iron does not mix with clay. 44 And in the days of these kings the Elohim of heaven will set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed; and the kingdom shall not be left to other people; it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever. 45 Inasmuch as you saw that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold—the great Elohim has made known to the king what will come to pass after this. The dream is certain, and its interpretation is sure.”
The fragility represented by the mixture of iron and ceramic clay is somehow confirmed in chapter 13 of the book of Revelation by the wounded head which is like a mortal wound for the whole beast.
And yet the whole world will love and admire
this fragile horror, the work of Satan!
All the inhabitants on earth will be dazzled and seduced by this kind of resurrection of the beast, one of the seven heads which existed during antiquity and that history considered as definitively dead. If you want to know more about the means made available to you by Yehoah Elohim to identify the beast, you are kindly invited to read the article on the identity of Babylon the Great and the mystery of the beast in this website, in the Prophecy section. This article is intended to warn you and encourage you to be careful in order to avoid the danger of being seduced.
Indeed, the second part of chapter 13 of the book of Revelation reveals the apparition of a second beast often associated with the false prophet. This beast, disguised as a lamb to make it appear to be associated with Yeshuah the Christ but speaking like the Devil, will excite the world to worship the first beast with its seven heads and ten horns.
This false lamb, in other words the false prophet, will perform another important action which we will read in verses 16 to 17:
“16 He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, 17 and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.”
All trade, whatever it may be, will be channeled by the beast and anyone who does not obey his law will be unable to buy or sell. This obedience to the beast will be manifested by the possession of its mark, or its name or the number of its name. When we realize the importance that trade has today in the life of everyone essentially confined in cities and therefore with the impossibility to get his food without buying it, we understand better what means the danger of this mark.
Why then does the daughter of Zion laugh
and despise the beast?
All the world will submit to the beast, all the world except those who have chosen to be part of the Kingdom of our Lord rather than that of the beast. These people will be like the daughter of Zion in the time of the prophet Isaiah! Indeed, the prophecy in chapter 37 of the book of Isaiah reveals to us that the daughter of Zion despised and made fun of the Assyrian beast during the time of King Hezekiah. It is this same Assyrian beast who will find life for a short time and whose resurrection will cause a big surprise and admiration for the whole world. Let's read how Isaiah sees these events, which will soon galvanize our Father's people to resist, in Isaiah 37, verses 22 to 35:
“22 This is the word which the Yehoah has spoken concerning him:
“The virgin, the daughter of Zion, has despised you, laughed you to scorn;
The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head behind your back!
23 “Whom have you reproached and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice, and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel.
24 By your servants you have reproached Yehoah, and said, ‘By the multitude of my chariots I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the limits of Lebanon; I will cut down its tall cedars and its choice cypress trees; I will enter its farthest height, to its fruitful forest. 25 I have dug and drunk water, and with the soles of my feet I have dried up all the brooks of defense.’
26 “Did you not hear long ago how I made it, from ancient times that I formed it?
Now I have brought it to pass, that you should be for crushing fortified cities into heaps of ruins.
27 Therefore their inhabitants had little power; They were dismayed and confounded; They were as the grass of the field and the green herb, as the grass on the housetops and grain blighted before it is grown.
28 “But I know your dwelling place, your going out and your coming in, and your rage against Me.
29 Because your rage against Me and your tumult have come up to My ears, therefore I will put My hook in your nose and My bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way which you came.” ’
30 “This shall be a sign to you: You shall eat this year such as grows of itself, and the second year what springs from the same; also in the third year sow and reap, plant vineyards and eat the fruit of them.
31 And the remnant who have escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
32 For out of Jerusalem shall go a remnant, and those who escape from Mount Zion. The zeal of Yehoah of hosts will do this.
33 “Therefore thus says Yehoah concerning the king of Assyria: ‘He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor build a siege mound against it.
34 By the way that he came, by the same shall he return; and he shall not come into this city,’ Says Yehoah.
35 ‘For I will defend this city, to save it for My own sake and for My servant David’s sake.’ ”
But why does the daughter of Zion laugh at the Assyrian beast? The answer to this question is vital because the same answer will explain the reasons for the choices of people who in the end times will refuse the mark of the beast and the number of its name! This is the pearl that must be found and not thrown before the pigs. The answer is very simple, the daughter of Zion prefers to give everything to stay with Yehoah and she does not attribute any importance to the wealth and money that the henchman of Satan, in the person of the resurrected Assyrian beast will offer in order to trap the world. Indeed, if you read once more what is written in Isaiah 36, verses 16 and 17, you will see that the king of Assyria, like Satan, tries to confuse the daughter of Zion by making her believe that Hezekiah, the anointed of Yehoah, tells nonsense while the king of Assyria promises happiness and abundance if she submits to him and his laws. But Zion’s daughter is not going to follow Eve’s example this time and she will listen to Hezekiah and put all her faith in Yehoah.
It will be the same in the end times, several people who will be offered to be able to trade and live comfortably thanks to the acceptance of the mark of the beast and the number of its name will refuse and will mock and laugh at the beast. Indeed, to be able to trade, buy and sell, you must have money: the world in which we live today is essentially based on the laws imposed by money and trade. But the believers who had been warned, as well as the daughter of Zion, will have prepared themselves for the situation that the beast will set up. They will follow the very good advice given by our Lord Yeshuah Christ in Luke, chapter 12, verses 22 to 34:
“22 Then He said to His disciples, “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat; nor about the body, what you will put on. 23 Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing. 24 Consider the ravens, for they neither sow nor reap, which have neither storehouse nor barn; and Elohim feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds? 25 And which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature? 26 If you then are not able to do the least, why are you anxious for the rest? 27 Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 28 If then Elohim so clothes the grass, which today is in the field and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will He clothe you, O you of little faith?
29 “And do not seek what you should eat or what you should drink, nor have an anxious mind. 30 For all these things the nations of the world seek after, and your Father knows that you need these things. 31 But seek the kingdom of Elohim, and all these things shall be added to you.
32 “Do not fear, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom. 33 Sell what you have and give alms; provide yourselves money bags which do not grow old, a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches nor moth destroys. 34 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”
This is the key that allows you to find the pearl that is the kingdom of our Father and to acquire it by getting rid of all that is money or sellable goods while it is still time to do it. Having no more money, you put yourself in a situation where the mark of the beast and its number will no longer concern you because you will have nothing left to trade! You will no longer have any material goods on earth and as a result all the laws of the beast whatever they are will no longer have any hold over you.
You will have made your choice between Elohim and Mammon because we cannot serve both (Luke 16:13):
“No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other.
You cannot serve Elohim and mammon.”
Paul writes the same kind of advice to Timothy and is asking him to send his warning to his entire audience, in I Timothy 6, verses 3 to 19:
“3 If anyone teaches otherwise and does not consent to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Yeshuah Christ, and to the doctrine which accords with godliness, 4 he is proud, knowing nothing, but is obsessed with disputes and arguments over words, from which come envy, strife, reviling, evil suspicions, 5 useless wranglings of men of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. From such withdraw yourself.
6 Now godliness with contentment is great gain. 7 For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. 8 And having food and clothing, with these we shall be content. 9 But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition.
10 For the love of money is
a root of all kinds of evil,
for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
11 But you, O man of Elohim, flee these things and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, gentleness. 12 Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which you were also called and have confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses. 13 I urge you in the sight of Elohim who gives life to all things, and before Christ Yeshuah who witnessed the good confession before Pontius Pilate, 14 that you keep this commandment without spot, blameless until our Lord Yeshuah Christ’s appearing, 15 which He will manifest in His own time, He who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings and Lord of lords, 16 who alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see, to whom be honor and everlasting power. Amen.
17 Command those who are rich in this present age not to be haughty, nor to trust in uncertain riches but in the living Elohim, who gives us richly all things to enjoy. 18 Let them do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to give, willing to share, 19 storing up for themselves a good foundation for the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.”
Now you have discovered here above the precious pearl of which Yehsuah spoke in Matthew, chapter 13, verses 45 to 46:
“45 “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant seeking beautiful pearls, 46 who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had and bought it.”