In this week’s study, I begin Chapter 13.
NOW WE COME TO THE WRATH OF SATAN
13:1-18.
The Result of the "War in Heaven" as regards the Earth at large.
We have seen and considered the result of the "War in Heaven" as it concerns Israel. We have now to consider its further effect as it concerns the Earth at large.
This effect is twofold, inasmuch as it results in the rise of the Two Beasts:
The one from the Sea (verses -1-10).
The other from the Earth (verses 11-18).
We now begin in this Chapter 13. I personally find this chapter 13 most interesting. I believe that this chapter 13 shows us what we can expect during this period of The Wrath of Satan. Matter of fact we will be creating another chart showing this Wrath of Satan. So follow along as we Unravel this chapter 13!!!!!
In chapter 12 we discussed the long career of Satan, in chapter 13 we will move on to discuss the much shorter careers of Satan’s human cohorts in the end times. Specifically, Antichrist, the False Prophet, and their followers.
We see in this Chapter 13, 2 different beast systems. We must ask ourselves who are they and what are they up to.
Also we read of a “mark”. We need to find out what is this “mark” and is this “mark” in effect today?
I comment on Rabbi Ariel Bar Tzadok the founder of “Kosher Torah School” as he stated on a recent Episode of Ancients Aliens, “When the Messiah comes back he won’t be coming from the sky, but from the inner earth!”
This quote is taken from his essay “Secrets of Hebron, Eden and Inner Earth”, The Zohar states that the Garden of Eden is a real physical place existing in Inner Earth. In the “Garden” there are said to be numerous “palaces.” This indicates that the Garden is no mere botanical location. It seems to imply that the Garden might not be a botanical domain at all, but rather a built-up domain similar to a modern city. One of the “palaces” in the Garden is said to be the Palace of Mashiah. The Zohar teaches that Mashiah resides here and from here receives “powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men.” It is from here in the Garden that Mashiah sets out to Outer Earth to there fight the wars of HaShem and to conquer the surface for Him.”
Keep in that he is a diehard Kabbalist! A student of the Zohar!
I stood = There seems to be a conflict on the first part of this verse. So the big issue is the fact that some manuscripts like the NA28 have “ἐστάθη/his-tay-e”, meaning "and he/ it stood," rather than ἐστάθην/his-tay-mee (e.g KJV, meaning "and I stood."
upon the sand of the sea = where the four winds were to be seen striving upon the great sea (Dan. 7:2).
beast = Greek, “wild beast.” Man becomes “brutish” when he severs himself from Yahweh
out of the sea = (Dan. 7:3; out of the troubled waves of peoples, multitudes, nations, and tongues. The earth (Rev. 13:11), on the other hand, means the consolidated, ordered world of nations, with its culture and learning.
seven heads and ten horns = The ten horns are now put first (contrast the order, Rev. 12:3) because they are crowned. Now I want you to notice the likeness of the beast to the one who empowers him. And at the end of verse one he has “10 horns and seven heads.” It is interesting. We have almost an identical description of Satan in chapter 12 and verse three where we read the, “great red dragon having seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads were seven diadems.”
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