As if hijacking a planet at the Garden of Eden were not enough, the devil still has a burning desire to subvert the worship that belongs to Christ alone. Learn about one of the ways he has schemed to accomplish this!

<p>As if hijacking a planet at the Garden of Eden were not enough, the devil still has a burning desire to subvert the worship that belongs to Christ alone. Learn about one of the ways he has schemed to accomplish this!</p>

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Unlocking Prophecy

Chester Clark

1- Fools Who Fight the Future- Part 1

2- Fools Who Fight the Future- Part 2

3- Revelation’s Greatest Climax

4- Lamb on the Altar, Lion on the Throne

5- The Hero of Revelation’s Seals

6- A Game of Thrones and Revelation’s Answer to Evil

7- Revelation’s Ultimate Message

8- Humanity, Morality, and Society

9- Revelation’s Call to Worship

10- The Beast’s Greatest Conspiracy

11- How to Escape the Seven Last Plagues

12- The Certain, Unavoidable Identity of the Antichrist

13- Making a New Start

14- Facing Death Unafraid

15- Good News About Hell

16- Messages from Beyond the Stars

17- Prophecy Predicts a People

18- The Best is Yet to Come!

19. Daniel’s Worst Nightmare

20. Daniel 9 and Jesus

21. Daniel 9 and the Rapture

22. Revelation’s First Beast

23. The Seal of God

24. The Mark of the Beast

We're going to be looking at the beast's greatest conspiracy.

And so as we continue in our study of the prophecies, we're going to continue to unravel or unpack some of these predictions of what would be in the last days.

And we're going to be looking at the sure and certain identification of the Antichrist next weekend, I believe it is.

We'll compare Daniel chapter 7 and Revelation chapter 13, the first few verses.

But what we see in Revelation 13, what I think is very apparent in Revelation 13, these first few verses we looked at this evening, is that there's a beast who tries to usurp the worship that belongs to God, right?

There's a beast who tries to even persecute God's people.

He tries to, he doesn't try, he does speak blasphemies against God, right?

And all that dwell on the earth, it says in verse 8, shall worship him except, we talked about this last night, didn't we?

Except those whose names are written in the Lamb's Book of Life.

I don't know about you, but I want my name written there.

That's where I want my name to be written, Right there in the Lamb's Book of Life.

I don't want to be found worshipping this power, because just like Babylon of ancient times, we talked about in night 2 of our series, Babylon of ancient times tried to hijack God's plan for planet Earth.

Remember that image, head of gold, chest and arms of silver, belly and thighs of brass, legs of iron, feet of iron and clay, the stone cut out without hands, destroys the image, becomes a great mountain.

God is the 1 who will set up an everlasting kingdom.

By the way, He is the only 1 who is worthy of worship, right?

And Nebuchadnezzar said, I don't like God's version of history.

And so Nebuchadnezzar said, God says, but I think Babylon's gonna last forever, and so he creates his own image made entirely of gold and tries to subvert the worship that should be going to God.

He asks for him and His image, Babylon, to receive that worship.

This is a symbol of what happens in the last days.

So last night we talked about, we talked about how Revelation 13 demands worship on pain of death of the image or the beast.

God says, wait a minute, just in this first angel's message, Revelation 14, 7, God says, wait a minute, worship the Creator, right?

And we saw that language borrowed right from God's, from the heart of God's law of love, right from the 10 Commandments, From the fourth commandment, the language, worship Him who made heaven and earth, the sea and the fountains of waters.

The sea and all that in them is, Exodus 20 tells us.

And so last night, just a little bit of a review, we'll talk about what we saw last night.

Last night we saw how the beast at the end of time demands worship just like Babylon of old, literal Babylon.

Spiritual Babylon in the book of Revelation demands worship as well.

This should not be a surprise to us because who is really behind, who is really behind the Antichrist power in the last days, who is it?

It's not some new entity that comes around, it's really Satan.

You see, just like Nebuchadnezzar said, I'm going to build an image on the plain of Dura, command that everyone bows down and worship it.

In reality, it was Nebuchadnezzar being worshipped, wasn't it?

Because he was symbolized, his empire, his country, his kingdom was symbolized by that image.

And so in the last days there is somebody who is actively seeking, he's in competition with Jesus Christ, he wants to have the worship that belongs to him alone.

We talked about that a few evenings ago, didn't we?

We talked about that great conflict between Lucifer, the fallen angel, and Christ, and how it began in heaven, how it continues here on earth.

And the great conspiracy of the devil, working through the beast and other agencies in the last days, the great conspiracy of the devil is to try to divert the worship that's supposed to go to Jesus and instead have it go to 1 of his entities.

When we start talking about these things, people start wondering, well, wow, you know, that's going to, there's no way this is going to happen without people being involved.

Who might be, who might be, we might even have some of our own conspiracy theories cropping up as we go through these studies.

Listen, it's not about the people, it's about the systems.

It's about the false worship, the teachings.

In fact, when I think of deception, I think there's more than 1 type of deception, isn't there?

There's some people who are deceiving or being deceptive who don't even know that they're being deceptive.

I mean, there's some very honest and sincere people who are teaching things that aren't true.

I have, I even have friends that teach things in the ministry that I don't agree with and I don't think they're quite what the Bible teaches, but I think they're sincere.

I can separate the message from the messenger.

When I see, in fact, just this morning in my neighborhood, there was a couple of people I saw walking around.

You ever, they ever walk around your neighborhood?

And Sometimes they knock on my door, usually I'm not home, but sometimes I've been home once or twice and they've knocked on my door and they want to share some word with me, a truth.

No, I believe these people are very sincere.

They call themselves Jehovah's Witnesses, right?

I believe, and by the way, I'm a Jehovah's Witness.

Not literally, but I witness for Jehovah, right?

And so I can tell them, look, I'm glad you are Jehovah's Witnesses.

At least I'm glad you're, let me put it this way, I'm glad you're witnessing for Jehovah, right?

Because I want to witness for Jehovah too.

Jehovah is the provider God of the Old Testament.

That's 1 of the favorite names of God, Yahweh.

And so this is, these are very sincere people.

Now I think there's a second type of deception where people try to deceive someone else, right?

And hopefully that doesn't happen too much in the religious world.

Sometimes you wonder, you know, when you see business become, or religion becoming a big business, or business becoming big religion, You wonder, do they really believe what they're saying, or is this just for the effect, you know, on television or whatever, I don't know.

But I hope that no 1 in religion is actually intentionally deceiving someone else.

A third type of deception is self-deception.

That's where we convince ourselves of something that's true.

And it doesn't matter which type of deception you have, it can be pretty dangerous, right?

Jesus, when he talks about the last days, Matthew chapter 24, we looked at it briefly on our third night.

Matthew chapter 24, Jesus said, when they asked what should be the signs of your coming, you know what the first words out of Jesus' mouth were?

Take care, be careful, that no 1 deceives you.

Now if Jesus starts with that, you know it's going to be bad, right?

So it doesn't matter whether it's intentional deception that someone's deceived you, someone who's very sincerely deceived, someone who's self-deceived, it doesn't matter.

Now how many of you are deceived tonight?

Well that doesn't prove a thing, does it?

No 1 raised their hand, but if you're deceived you wouldn't realize that you're deceived, right?

And so this is why it's so important for us to study our Bibles, right?

It's why it's so important for us to pray and ask God to please lead us into all truth.

He promised to do that through His Spirit, didn't He?

And so Lucifer is at war with Jesus Christ.

He's going to try to deceive as many people as possible into thinking they are worshipping doing the right thing when really their worship is being diverted to him.

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