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The Daily Word of Righteousness
The Word of Their Testimony, continued
Don't let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the man doomed to destruction. (II Thessalonians 2:3—NIV)
We hear of people praying to the Holy Spirit. This is unscriptural. We hear of people praying to their guardian angel or commanding the angels to perform some work or get money for them. This is unscriptural.
We are putting the head of man on the Body of Christ. We are trying to be like Christ instead of becoming branches from the one true Vine.
This is the False Prophet who is to come. This is he who will work together with Antichrist to govern people in the last days. This is the spirit of lawlessness.
The great powers of the last days will be Antichrist (self-will in the political sphere); the False Prophet (self-will in the spiritual realm); and money (the image of the beast). The symbol 666 in the hand and head means people will act and think according to self-will and money.
This scenario already is full blown in America. We have self-will in the political realm, self-will in the Christian churches, and we worship money.
We are self-willed, lawless people who look to money to save us from every pain, to protect us from every evil, to solve every problem, to insure our happiness. Now tell me this is not so!
Listen to me: the only protection from the deception prevalent in the land is the position of death in the Lord. This is why Revelation speaks of dying in the Lord, of remaining faithful in the prison in which we are placed, and of those who have been beheaded because of their testimony for Jesus and because of the Word of God.
The night is coming in which no individual can work the works of God. Only those who have committed themselves to death in Jesus will be kept from deception; only those will be able to do God's works during the age of moral horrors that is at hand.
Then I heard a voice from heaven say, "Write: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on." "Yes," says the Spirit, "they will rest from their labor, for their deeds will follow them." (Revelation 14:13—NIV)
As long as we choose to remain alive, to save our "life," to maintain our own way, even in Christian work, we are in danger of becoming the False Prophet, that is, of attempting to use the power of the Lamb to accomplish what we think might be God's will.
Overcoming by the blood of the Lamb has to do with Jesus Christ.
Overcoming by the word of our testimony has to do with the Holy Spirit.
Overcoming by loving not our life to the death has to do with stern obedience to the Father.
All of the problems of the world began when Satan rebelled against the Father. The rebellion can only be overcome by people who choose to obey the Father to the point of death.
When Jesus said "It is finished" He was referring to the entire adamic creation. The new world of righteousness began with Jesus' resurrection from the dead.
To be continued.