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Mark Finley

Mark of The Beast War On Worship: What’s the Real Truth?

The final conflict in this age-long controversy between good and evil is over worship.

When Lucifer rebelled against God in heaven, the issue was, is God worthy to be worshipped?

That was the central issue in that conflict.

A rebel angel challenged the government of God.

And this rebel angel claimed that God's commands were arbitrary, that they couldn't be obeyed.

Does God really have the angelic beings best interest in view?

Isn't God a vindictive judge and a wrathful tyrant?

That God was authoritarian, that God's law could not be kept, that God did not have the best interest of his creatures in view.

Now in every generation, the evil 1 has led men and women to disobey God.

He led a third of the angels to disobey God and they were cast out of heaven.

He led Adam and Eve to disobey God and they were cast out of Eden.

But you think about the fact of Adam and Eve in Eden, could it be possible that once it isn't God rather narrow because didn't God say to them, you should need that tree and wasn't that just a little thing?

You look at it the other way, they could eat of every tree of the garden.

And so God was not restrictive at all when it came to the freedom that they had of eating the trees of the garden.

But that 1 tree revealed a test, a test of their loyalty, a test of their obedience.

In every generation, faith in God always leads to obedience.

Trust in God always leads to keeping God's commandments.

But you look at Israel, worshipping around the golden calf.

Again, the issue is obedience or disobedience.

You look at Elijah on Mount Carmel, where he calls down fire from heaven to consume the altar, where the prophets of Baal entered into their disobedience to God.

So in every generation, the test has been the same.

Will we be faithful to God and obey Him as He's outlined in His Word as a symbol of our trust and loyalty to God?

So it shouldn't surprise us that in the book of Revelation, the final book of the Bible, that as Earth comes to its climactic close, as we come focusing on the last days of verse history, The issue again would be worship.

The issue again would focus on loyalty to God and loving God enough to obey God.

Revelation 12 verse 17, would you read it together with me please?

And the dragon was wroth with the woman and went to make war with the remnant of her seed which keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ." So the dragon, who is the dragon?

Well, earlier in the chapter it says, and the dragon is what?

In Bible prophecy, a pure-chaste woman represents what?

So the devil is angry with the church, goes to make war.

Will he make war with God's last day church?

A remnant is the last part of a bolt of cloth that's left over that's exactly like the original.

So if you are making a tie like this tie, and you want to give Pastor Martin a matching tie, you have to look for the remnant of this bolt of cloth that's exactly like the original.

So God would have a remnant, a last day people, and how are they characterized?

They keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.

So if you're looking for God's remnant, his last day church, You look for a people that love Christ enough to obey him, including all of his commandments.

They may not be the largest group in the community.

They may not be the largest church in the community.

They may not be in the majority at all, but truth never subjects itself to a majority.

Truth is truth whether a pastor believes it, Whether a rabbi believes it, whether a priest believes it, truth can stand on its own 2 legs, right?

So here is an end time conflict, a last day war.

We find this also in Revelation 17, verse 12 to 14.

The 10 horns which you saw are 10 kings who have received no kingdom yet.

What are the 10 horns represent on this beast in Revelation chapter 17?

These kingdoms will receive authority for 1 hour as kings with the beast.

These are of 1 mind and they'll give their power and authority to the beast.

So the beast rising in Revelation 13, as I shall show a little later, many of you are aware, is the papacy.

So here, the Bible is very clear that the kingdoms of this earth, political powers, will unite with the beast power, a religious power.

At a time when the earth is in calamity and crisis, when there is an economic crisis, a political crisis, where there is natural disasters, These are of 1 mind.

They give their power and authority to the beast.

Did we read about Satan making war with God's last day church in Revelation 12, 17.

Now we're reading about the fact of how that war takes place.

Political powers and religious powers unite.

These will make war with the Lamb, But the Lamb will what?

Overcome them, for He is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those that are with Him are what?

You are chosen by God, and God invites us to remain faithful to Him.

Here's a dragon, and this dragon is huge, and he's got claws and teeth, and this dragon's breathing out fire.

And here's a little lamb, and the dragon fights against the lamb.

Now, if you were logically thinking who would win, who would you think would win if a dragon is fighting against a lamb?

Although it appears that God's people will be attacked, oppressed, persecuted and even killed, the incredible good news is that with Jesus we're going to be victorious.

With Jesus we are going to triumph at last.

Now in the last days, God is going to demonstrate that His glorious commands are always for our best good.

In these last days, we come to a crisis point.

We come to a focal point where every human being will have to make their final irrevocable choice.

That's why Revelation 22 ends, he that is righteous, let him be righteous still.

He that is unrighteous, let him be unrighteous still, and he that is unholy, let him be unholy still.

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