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And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire. (Revelation 17:16)

Antichrist is the effort to make man the center of the universe. The False Prophet is the spirit of religious deception, the attempt of people acting in their own soulish wisdom and strength to imitate the power and righteousness of Christ. The False Prophet will assist Antichrist in setting up a one-world government.

The False Prophet is Christianity minus the personal cross of the believer.

In the end, the kings of the earth who give their power and strength to Antichrist will make Babylon "desolate and naked, and will eat her flesh, and burn her with fire." This means that the forces of the world finally will turn against the huge Christian organization. By that time the worldly church will have become wealthy and powerful, a threat to Antichrist. Until then, Babylon and Antichrist will join hands in the effort to corrupt the Wife of the Lamb.

Laodicea received no praise from the Lord. Yet it was one of the seven lampstands of God and can attain the throne of Christ if it repents and serves Christ.

Antichrist, the False Prophet, and the institutional spirit of Babylon never were and never shall be of God. The spirit of Babylon is revealed in the Catholic Church and in her daughters, the Protestant churches. They all are spiritual prostitutes, selling their favors in the attempt to please the world.

None of the seven churches of Revelation, Chapters Two and Three, is the Wife of the Lamb. The members of the Wife of the Lamb are the victorious saints in the seven churches, and in the last days these victorious saints will be separated from the churches on the earth.

The purpose of the great tribulation is to pressure each of the Lord's chosen people to such an extent he or she becomes part of the holy minority. Those who do not become part of the end-time holy remnant will take their place in the Laodicean majority, will become part of Babylon, and will "drink of the wine of the wrath of God" (Revelation 14:10).

No middle ground is acceptable or even possible. The way of the Lord must be made straight.

The Lord Jesus appears in a different manner to each of the seven churches. The way in which He comes to each church has to do with the issues associated with the particular church.

Notice how the Lord Jesus appears to Laodicea:

As the Amen.

As the faithful and true Witness.

As the Beginning of the creation of God.

The Amen

The Lord Jesus Christ is the "Amen" of God. Jesus always affirms all that God Is, all that God has spoken, all that God wills and plans. In Christ there is no wavering whatsoever. "For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, to the glory of God by us" (II Corinthians 1:20).

We Christians also are to be the Amen of God. Whatever God has stated, that is what is true as far as we are concerned. There is to be no doubting, no wavering. No matter what our surroundings seem to indicate is true we are to hold fast to what God has spoken.

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-. . . These are they which came out of [the] great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. (Revelation 7:14)
+And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire. (Revelation 17:16)
-Those who may have been taught there will be no Christian churches on the earth during the great tribulation may wish to consider the above verse.
+Antichrist is the effort to make man the center of the universe. The False Prophet is the spirit of religious deception, the attempt of people acting in their own soulish wisdom and strength to imitate the power and righteousness of Christ. The False Prophet will assist Antichrist in setting up a one-world government.
-The concept of the verse is that the "great multitude, that no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues" (Revelation 7:9) were pressured by the great tribulation into developing righteous behavior through the authority and power of the blood of the Lamb ("washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb"). The purpose of the great tribulation is to make the Wife of the Lamb perfect and complete in preparation for her marriage to the Lord.
+The False Prophet is Christianity minus the personal cross of the believer.
-Also, the twenty-fourth chapter of the Book of Matthew, the principal scriptural description of the coming of the Lord, reveals that Christ's coming will take place "immediately after the tribulation of those days."
+In the end, the kings of the earth who give their power and strength to Antichrist will make Babylon "desolate and naked, and will eat her flesh, and burn her with fire." This means that the forces of the world finally will turn against the huge Christian organization. By that time the worldly church will have become wealthy and powerful, a threat to Antichrist. Until then, Babylon and Antichrist will join hands in the effort to corrupt the Wife of the Lamb.
-As for the saints living on the earth during the reign of Antichrist, it is clear that Antichrist has been on the earth since the first century and that in the closing days of this age he will wage war against the saints and will overcome them (I John 2:18; Revelation 13:7).
+Laodicea received no praise from the Lord. Yet it was one of the seven lampstands of God and can attain the throne of Christ if it repents and serves Christ.
-The Laodicean church, the last of the seven golden lampstands, is wretched in the sight of the Lord. Such a church never could be termed "the Wife of the Lamb." But a remnant will come out of the Laodicean churches and buy the refined gold of faith purified by suffering.
+Antichrist, the False Prophet, and the institutional spirit of Babylon never were and never shall be of God. The spirit of Babylon is revealed in the Catholic Church and in her daughters, the Protestant churches. They all are spiritual prostitutes, selling their favors in the attempt to please the world.
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+None of the seven churches of Revelation, Chapters Two and Three, is the Wife of the Lamb. The members of the Wife of the Lamb are the victorious saints in the seven churches, and in the last days these victorious saints will be separated from the churches on the earth.
-My dove, my undefiled is but one; she is the only one of her mother, she is the choice one of her that bare her. The daughters saw her, and blessed her; yea, the queens and the concubines, and they praised her. Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners? (Song of Solomon 6:9,10)
+The purpose of the great tribulation is to pressure each of the Lord's chosen people to such an extent he or she becomes part of the holy minority. Those who do not become part of the end-time holy remnant will take their place in the Laodicean majority, will become part of Babylon, and will "drink of the wine of the wrath of God" (Revelation 14:10).
-So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: (Revelation 3:16,17)
+No middle ground is acceptable or even possible. The way of the Lord must be made straight.
-What possibly could take place on the earth to convert her who is destined to be so undefiled and precious in her Lord's eyes into one who is "wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked"?
+The Lord Jesus appears in a different manner to each of the seven churches. The way in which He comes to each church has to do with the issues associated with the particular church.
-The world, Satan, and our own lusts and self-will continually attempt to keep us blind and naked. The ready availability of all forms of sin will cause the majority of the people of the last days to become cold in their attitude toward God and His Christ.
+Notice how the Lord Jesus appears to Laodicea:
-Also, Babylon (man-directed Christianity), Antichrist, and the False Prophet will be major forces of corruption in the end-time. Babylon is the spirit of religious organization, that is, of man attempting to build the Kingdom of God in his own wisdom and strength. The spirit of Babylon is the worship of churches.
+As the Amen.
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+As the faithful and true Witness.
+As the Beginning of the creation of God.
+The Amen
+The Lord Jesus Christ is the "Amen" of God. Jesus always affirms all that God Is, all that God has spoken, all that God wills and plans. In Christ there is no wavering whatsoever. "For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, to the glory of God by us" (II Corinthians 1:20).
+We Christians also are to be the Amen of God. Whatever God has stated, that is what is true as far as we are concerned. There is to be no doubting, no wavering. No matter what our surroundings seem to indicate is true we are to hold fast to what God has spoken.
+Continued. [[Man-centeredness 4]]