The IMAGE OF THE BEAST:

I was asked a very good question and I would like to offer some insight on the matter.

What do I think the IMAGE of BEAST would be?

LET me get you thinking for a moment: 

Do you remember the prophecy's of CHRIST? They expected so much grandness to happen. HE was to come out of Bethlehem, born of a virgin, and RULE like a KING.

And it was through their GRAND IDEALS they missed it all together. They from their own PERCEIVED GRAND IDEALS were confused and deceived.

That is kinda the idea I have about the BEAST and the IMAGE.

Do you really believe the enemy has your best interest in mind?

Satan is selfish,  deceiving, and a liar. seeking whom he may devour, to bring to DEATH and Separation from GOD.

 He is not POWERLESS, as in he is able to perform miraculous of his own. But that isn't what he is offering his people. He offers them RULER SHIP of this EARTH, through INFLUENCE and TEMPTATION, and his LIES.

Through his "LIES" and "VANITIES" he separates people from the MOST HIGH.  For it is through his FLATTERIES that he is able to TEMPT them. Dan 11: 32  against the covenant shall he "CORRUPT by FLATTERIES.

HE is not planning on giving them a KINGDOM in the end, for he knows their END is the lake of FIRE. 
REV 12: 12 because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.  


Any power of the miraculous that he GIVES, is all about his gain. He ULTIMATELY is not interested in man, but rather the DISTRUCTION of man, through WORSHIP.  What he did not or could not succeed in stopping CHRIST as the sacrificial lamb, now is he is after man. 

He knows that WHEN MAN succeeds they will take his garments away from him. REV 12: 19 the stones of of NEW JERUSALEM.

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Luke 1: 51  He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.

Dan 12: 7  And I heard the man clothed in linen, which [was] upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever that [it shall be] for a time, times, and an half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these [things] shall be finished

So with that, here are my thoughts on the IMAGE of the BEAST

Many are looking for an IMAGE to be  build that REALLY HAS LIFE IN IT:

SO Let’s start with WHAT the PROPHET does.

  

HE takes a WOUNDED HEAD--- now I think of the wounded head as a KINGDOM, not a man.

So he builds an IMAGE to the WOUNDED HEAD.

What is an IMAGE, exactly?

 Well  if you take the thoughts that we are to be IN THE IMAGE OF CHRIST, then we are to be CONFORMED to the IDEALS of CHRIST in character and behaviorism.

So what KIND of IMAGE do you think the PROPHET would Build?

ONE that promotes and displays his IDEALS and CHARACTER. of lust,  greed, prosperity, vanity etc.

I believe the PROPHET is doing TWO things here.

1. HE is PROCLAIMING his IDEALS to the PEOPLE, and they are getting on BOARD with the IDEAS/bring LIFE to the EMPIRE he wants to build.

This is GIVING LIFE to an IDEAL, by getting the people to BELIEVE in the IDEAL.

2. HE will build an IMAGE, something like the ALL seeing EYE (like lady liberty), like on the DOLLAR that represents his IDEAL'S of what he is presenting.

A Focal point, most likely set up in the CITY/ HARLOT

Now please allow me to express further thought on the matter: 

I believe what he is asking them to do is BUILD an EMPIRE upon those PRINCIPLES and CONCEPTS that he has laid out.

IS is not that I do not believe the PROPHET has POWERS, but MOST of what he uses is the POWER and AUTHORITY that satan himself has over THIS WORLD.

EXAMPLE: .

. "let us build the NWO order with these ideals in mind. One world govenment, one world economic system.. etc".

Eventually he gets the people to come into agreement with him, and that begins the bring the LIFE to the IMAGE/IDEAL.

REV 13: 14  saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.

REV 13: 5  And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast/ EMPIRE, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.

LIFE:

c) a spirit higher than man but lower than God, i.e. an angel

1) used of demons, or evil spirits, who were conceived as inhabiting the bodies of men

According to scripture:

Wood, stone, IDOLS etc. do not have LIFE in themselves, but can be INHABITED and possessed by demonic forces through Worship..

REV 9: 20 And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:

Personally, I beleive the POWER and AUTHORITY come from the EMPIRE (BEAST) to force the people to take the MARK. IE  enforced by Armies, laws, etc.

For me this was one of the most PROFOUND verses that I thought was REVEALING to that matter.

REV 13: 14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had POWER to DO "IN THE SIGHT OF THE BEAST", saying to them that dwell on the earth........

His miracles were performed ONLY while he was IN THE SIGHT OF THE BEAST.

AGAIN what BEAST, the EMPIRE BEAST. the PROPHET had POWER as long as HE had access to the BEAST EMPIRE.

It is very POSSIBLE that what JOHN saw was WAR MACHINES with fire, coming in from the SKY. And preceived them to be MIRACLES. In his day he had never WITNESS such a things as BOMBS and NUCLEAR weapons.  To HIM they appeared to be MIRACLES.

A few more scriptures to think about:

Psalms 115: 4-8

Their idols [are] silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not:

They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not:

They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat.

They that make them are like unto them; [so is] every one that trusteth in them.

Here are a couple of questions I would like you to ask yourself:

IS a person of today TRULY going to bow down to an IMAGE?

1. Only if he is getting something in RETURN for that submission and humbiness.

 ie PROSPERITY, LUST, VANITY... 

In this CASE the thing the PEOPLE are truly WORSHIPING is the GOODS/idols that they can get from the EMPIRE/ HARLOT.

They are WORSHIPING the DRAGON/SATAN, through the WORSHIP of their DESIRES, LUST, vanity and GREED. etc.

Those that TAKE the MARK are left "DESOLATE" separated from GOD, and the HOLY SPIRIT, JESUS. There is NO ROOM for REPENTANCE. Their HEARTS are COLD. And THEY TOTALLY become SELFISH, MEAN and DEMONICALLY influenced by their FATHER the DEVIL.

THINK OF IT LIKE THIS:

The HARLOT will be a PART of the IMAGE of the BEAST.  The POWER that she will have will be the MARK itself.. FORCED UPON EVERYONE. THOSE that will not take the MARK, will be KILLED by the SWORD/armies, HELD CAPTIVE/ in camps, DIE the death of a MARTYR.

CONCLUSION:

The IMAGE Is the WHOLE IDEAL brought to LIFE:

The IMAGE is the WHOLE IDEAL presented by the PROPHET.. Coming from the IMAGINATIONS of his heart. Brought to LIFE/ by being EMPOWERED by the EMPIRE.  by ALL those that agree to his IDEALS.

Build LIKE a NWO, one economic system and one WORLD government. EMBRACED by the PEOPLE and empowered by the DEMONIC.INFLUENCED ARMIES of the WORLD.

Also, ask yourself today.. IS that NOT what we are seeing today. MANY in our POLITICAL WORLD are promoting a NWO. IT will not be very LONG before ALL will be on BOARD/ bring LIFE with this ideal, through ECONOMIC failure. 

blessings donna