THE GENUINESS OF JESUS AS HE IS
COUNTERFEITED BY THE BEAST FROM THE PIT.
Revelation 13
Part 6
WHAT IS THE ENDING WE CITIZENS OF HEAVEN AWAIT?
* CHRIST’S INTIMACY: WE ARE GIVEN A NAME, BECAUSE WE ARE A LOVE GIFT FROM THE FATHER TO THE SON!
John 17:24 Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory,
which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world. (KJV)
* CHRIST’S ADOPTION: Romans 8:17
And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with [him], that we may
be also glorified together. (KJV)
* CHRIST’S CLOTHING: Then what indescribable joy to hear our Father say, “Bring the best
robe and put it on him.” Think of it, a robe of white, bright as the day, pure as the light! When the Lord Jesus was
transfigured on the mount, something happened not only to His countenance, something happened also to His clothes. His
raiment became white as the light. What a reward for faithfulness, to have a robe like that draped around our shoulders
and to be invited to walk the shining ways of glory in light transfigured clothes. Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed
like one of these
*CHRIST’S CONFESSION: Revelation 3:5 “He who overcomes shall be clothed in white garments, and I will
not blot out his name from the Book of Life; but I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels. What an
unbelievable promise! Jesus with His nail-scarred hands outstretched, welcomes us through the door of death, walks with us
through the dark valley and welcomes us to Glory. But not as the fluttering host that slips away, no, He walks by us down
the golden streets. He leads us up the broad main street of the River of the Water of Life, and all around us the saints of
all the ages look on in wonder as again Jesus leads one of His precious blood-bought brothers and sisters, up to meet their
Father in Heaven. And then, on the Throne in blazing light, with a river of fire flowing out before Him, and billions of
angels standing around Him the Ancient of Days looks upon His Beloved Son walking toward Him. And there holding the hand of
Jesus we hear Him call us by our new name, the one He gave us, our name. And standing there before the Throne, God will hear
Jesus present us by name as His beloved and precious one.
CONCLUSION: So, this Antichrist is the sum of counterfeit
Christianity; endued with the spirit of the Devil, he seeks to counterfeit the truth. This day—are you seeking outward
signs or trusting in a mere outward conformity and profession, rather than in an inward change? Let us look to the Lamb slain,
this day, and be set free from Satan’s grasping after our attention with his counterfeits!
One Leader or the other Is preparing your future. Only one way Is true and leads to life.
Three issues are at stake in your soul right now.
1. The first issue has to do with YOUR RESPONSE. You can either believe or disbelieve the Word of God,
2. The second issue has to do with YOUR DESTINY, which hangs in the balance. Again, God only gives
two choices – eternal life or eternal death, Forgiveness or doom, hope or horror, deliverance or doom.
3. The final issue is the critical area of YOUR CHOICE. You must choose to receive the free gift of
Christ or you reject it. Take the nail pierced hand or turn away, bow and give up everything for
Him or miserably fail in your vain attempts to rescue yourself.
I know Whom It is composed of the five counterfeits of Revelation 13:
If the world is being overrun with counterfeits of God:
1.Examine yourself (2 Cor.13:5) Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves.
Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
2.Pass the test(1 Jn.4:1-15)
1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets
are gone out into the world.
2 Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:
3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that
spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.
4 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
5 They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.
6 We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth,
and the spirit of error.
7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world,
that we might live through him.
10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
12 No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.
13 Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.
14 And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.
15 Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.
CHRIST came from heaven (John 6:38) For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.
The Antichrist will come from Hell (Rev. 11:7) And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth
out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.
CHRIST came in His Father’s name (John 5:43)I am come in my Father’s name, and ye receive me not: if another
shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.
The Antichrist will come in his own name (John 5:43) I am come in my Father’s name, and ye receive me not: if another
shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.
CHRIST humbled Himself (Phil. 2:8) 8And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became
obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
The Antichrist will exalt himself (2 Thess. 2:4) 4Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is
called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
CHRIST was despised and afflicted (is. 53:3) 3He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted
with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
The Antichrist will be admired and lauded (Rev. 13:3,4) 3 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.
4 And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is
like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?
CHRIST came to do His Father’s will (John 6:38) For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will
of him that sent me.
The Antichrist will come to do his own will (Dan. 11:36) And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall
exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and
shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
CHRIST came to save (Luke 19:10) For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.
The Antichrist will come to destroy (Dan. 8:24) And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power:
and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
CHRIST is the Good Shepherd (John 10) 1 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold,
but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.
2 But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.
3 To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out.
4 And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.
5 And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.
6 This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them.
7 Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep.
8 All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them.
9 I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.
10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that
they might have it more abundantly.
11 I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.
12 But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth
the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep.
13 The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep.
14 I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.
15 As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.
16 And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and
there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.
17 Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.
18 No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take
it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.
19 There was a division therefore again among the Jews for these sayings.
20 And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him?
21 Others said, These are not the words of him that hath a devil. Can a devil open the eyes of the blind?
22 And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, and it was winter.
23 And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon’s porch.
24 Then came the Jews round about him, and said unto him, How long dost thou make us to doubt? If thou be the Christ,
tell us plainly.
25 Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father’s name, they bear witness of me.
26 But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you.
27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
29 My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand.
30 I and my Father are one.
31 Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him.
32 Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me?
33 The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man,
makest thyself God.
34 Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?
35 If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken;
36 Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said,
I am the Son of God?
37 If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not.
38 But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me,
and I in him.
39 Therefore they sought again to take him: but he escaped out of their hand,
40 And went away again beyond Jordan into the place where John at first baptized; and there he abode.
41 And many resorted unto him, and said, John did no miracle: but all things that John spake of this man were true.
42 And many believed on him there.
“Only one life to live and soon is past
Only what’s done for Christ will last!”
Hoping to make the time I have left count for the glory of God.
THE GENUINESS OF JESUS AS HE IS COUNTERFEITED BY THE BEAST FROM THE PIT. Revelation 13 Part 6