Who Is the Antichrist Beast?

 The majority of God’s people have always been wrong on any given issue, so we dare not look for the truth in tradition. The people of God have been deluded by the traditions of men concerning the antichrist. While they are waiting for the handsome, charismatic, Satan-possessed leader to rise up and conquer the world, it is happening under their noses in the spirit. When Jesus came, those who had eyes only for the letter missed Him. In the same way, today they do not see Him in His second body. As religious as the Jews were, they also did not see that they themselves were antichrist and were fornicating with the world by receiving the seed of the beast kingdom.

 

SPIRIT OF THE BEAST

The term I have used for a title, “Antichrist Beast”, will cover the broad spectrum of Christians who use various terms to identify the same character. However, antichrist and beast are not synonymous. The Scriptures teach that “antichrist” speaks of the unregenerate spirit, while “beast” speaks of a nature that is born from the abyss and a body that this spirit and nature abides in. If you are not willing to add to or take away from the Word, look up the term “antichrist” everywhere it is used in the Bible and you will get a revelation. In fact, you will wonder where the traditional idea of him as an individual came from if you respect only the Scriptures. Among these verses we are told how to tell who the antichrist is. (1Jn.4:1) Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets are gone out into the world. Notice that God speaks of discerning the spirits, plural, in men. (2)…[E]very spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: (Notice that the question is not has Christ come in the flesh but is He presently in the flesh of the people you are discerning.) (3) and every spirit that confesseth not Jesus is not of God: and this is the [spirit] of the antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it cometh; and now it is in the world already. We see here that “every spirit” that is false is “the spirit of the antichrist”. The antichrist incorporates all whose spirit does not confess that Christ is in them. (4) Ye are of God, [my] little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world. We see here that there are only two corporate spirits, “he that is in you”, the Spirit of Christ, or “he that is in the world”, the spirit of the antichrist. On the one hand all are one in Christ because they have His Spirit (Gal.3:28)…[Y]e all are one [man] in Christ Jesus. (Rom.8:9)…[I]f any man hath not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. On the other hand, Solomon showed that the corporate body of the beast has one common, unregenerate spirit. (Eccl.3:18) I said in my heart, [It is] because of the sons of men…that they may see that they themselves are [but as] beasts… (19) yea they have all one breath (Hebrew: “spirit”).

The Holy Spirit first recreates in one corporate man the born again “life giving spirit” (1Cor.15:45) of Jesus from heaven and then fills that spirit with Himself. A corporate body of unholy spirits also recreate in one corporate man a corporate spirit born from the abyss, the antichrist. (1Jn.5:19) We know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in the evil one. The beast is the body of man that is filled with the spirit and nature from below (Rev.17:8). In Daniel’s vision of future great kingdoms that would rule the world, “four great beasts came up from the sea”. Scripturally there have been many corporate beasts but there is also coming the One World corporate beast of Revelation. We can see these opposing corporate men in Jesus’ teachings concerning the bodies of Christ and antichrist. (Mt.12:30) He that is not with me (Christ) is against me (antichrist).

(1Jn.4:2) [E]very spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God. I have witnessed Christians testing a totally demon-possessed man with this verse. This tormented man thought he was a woman, and demonstrated his gift to read minds. Why any Christian would have to test him, I do not know. Misquoting the verse, they would tell him to say, “Jesus Christ has come in the flesh”, and the demons would freely repeat those words. The Chrisnas, Meitrayas, and other antichrists of this world freely confess with their mouth that Christ is come in their flesh and that Christ came in the flesh. A lying mouth confessing that Christ is come in the flesh is not the same thing as a spirit confessing Christ as He taught. (Mt.15:8) This people honoreth me with their lips; But their heart is far from me. Lips can lie but the Holy Spirit in us discerns the spirit in a man. (Rom.8:16) The Spirit himself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are children of God. Sometimes, even before speaking to an individual, we are able to discern that their spirit is not the Spirit of Christ. After speaking to them, it is even easier to tell whether they are born of God or not. The spirit in that demon-possessed man was clearly confessing to my spirit and the Holy Spirit that Christ was not in his flesh.

The spirits of those who live constantly in willful sin are born of the devil and they are therefore members of his body. (Jn.8:44) Ye are of [your] father the devil, and the lusts of your father it is your will to do. (1Jn.3:8) [H]e that doeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning…. (10) In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God. These are the corporate body of antichrist. Those in whom the Spirit of Christ lives are His corporate body. (Rom.8:9)…[I]f any man hath not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. Notice that every true Christian has the born again Spirit of Christ. (10) And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the spirit is life because of righteousness. The Words of Christ reproduce His Spirit and life in His obedient people. (Jn.6:63) It is the spirit that giveth life; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I have spoken unto you are spirit, and are life. In the same way the words from Satan reproduce his spirit in the disobedient. (Eph.2:2) [W]herein ye once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the powers of the air, of the spirit that now worketh in the sons of disobedience. Satan is not omnipresent but rules all lost men through his legions of demons. As Christ leads a body of angel spirits from heaven in the work of reproducing His Spirit in the righteous, so the devil leads a body of demon spirits from hell to reproduce his spirit in the wicked. This creates in the righteous a corporate spirit of Christ born “from above” and in the wicked a corporate spirit of the devil born “from beneath” as Jesus said. (Jn.8:23) And he said unto them, Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world. We see that the spirit of the beast comes from the abyss, or bottomless pit, and inhabits all of the sons of perdition. (Rev.17:8) The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and is about to come up out of the abyss, and to go into perdition. It should not surprise any that this spirit from the abyss is corporate because all the other symbolic characters in Revelation are corporate, too, as we have seen and will continue to see in following chapters.

 

UNITED BEAST BODY

In this way the spirit of the beast from the pit inhabits, is worshipped by, and has authority over, all lost mankind, who will make war on the saints. (Rev.13:7) And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and there was given to him authority over every tribe and people and tongue and nation. (8) And all that dwell on the earth shall worship him, [every one] whose name hath not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb that hath been slain. These are all members of the beast body and they worship him. Americans are members of the body of the U.S. and they through the spirits of nationalism and patriotism worship it. The coming beast is just a U.S. of the world. Christians are members of the body of Christ and they worship him. His spirit inhabits and has authority over them. Just as the antichrist spirit has a beast body of all nations, Christ has a body delivered out of all nations. Just as Israel in her apostasy is being gathered out of all nations, so the Church in apostasy is being gathered out of all nations. They come out of captivity in antichrist into Christ. (Jer.29:14) And I will be found of you, saith Lord, and I will turn again your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations.

We have established a New Testament witness that “Ye all are one [man] in Christ Jesus” and “the whole world lieth in the evil one”. We are commanded to have two witnesses to establish every word but we do not even have one that describes the beast or antichrist as an individual, although he inhabits individual bodies, even some through whom he rules the world. The Old Testament agrees with the New Testament concerning this one corporate man principle. Many times the beast kingdom, which comes against God’s people is called “a man”. (Jer.6:22)…Behold, a people cometh from the north country; and a great nation shall be stirred up from the uttermost parts of the earth. (23) They lay hold on bow and spear…and they ride upon horses…as a man to the battle, against thee, O daughter of Zion. Notice that one corporate “man” comes against one corporate “daughter”. The nations who fight against Zion are called, “a hungry man” and “a thirsty man” in Isaiah 29:8. The nations which come against Babylon are called a “mighty man” in Jeremiah 50:9 and “a man” in 41,42. Babylon is called “a man” in Daniel 7:4 and “a haughty man” in Habakkuk 2:5. Egypt is called “a drunken man” in Isaiah 19:14. Also God’s people are “one man” in many texts; some, where they warred with the beast. (Jdg.6:16) And Lord said unto him, Surely I will be with thee, and thou shalt smite the Midianites as one man. You can see this truth also in Numbers 14:15; Judges 20:1,8,11; 1 Samuel 11:7; 2 Samuel 19:14; Ezra 3:1; Nehemiah 8:1; Jeremiah 30:6; Zechariah 9:13,10:7; Malachi 3:17, etc. In other cases too numerous to mention Israel was spoken of as one woman or the nations were called by the name of their father as if they were one man. Example: Israel, Edom, Moab, etc. Since these things are clearly so, why are God’s people so blind to this one corporate beast in Revelation, which is obviously written to hide the truth? As Jesus said, “thou didst hide these things from the wise and understanding, and didst reveal them unto babes.” Without a love for truth, it is easier to accept the traditions of men than to look for it yourself. Also the churches are in spiritual idolatry with respected false leaders and ideologies. Jesus called them “blind leaders of the blind”.

Many make the mistake of teaching that Daniel chapters 8 and 11 speak literally of the end time antichrist. These chapters were literally fulfilled by Antiochus Epiphanes. The books of Maccabees and Josephus, among many, relate the history of how he fulfilled these Scriptures. Since he was the literal fulfillment, what is the spiritual fulfillment for the New Covenant? Now we are told that “the letter killeth but the spirit giveth life”. Antiochus was an individual antichrist type in the Old Covenant of the letter, whose corporate spiritual seed will walk in his steps in the New Covenant of the spirit. Likewise, Jesus came in the end of the Old Covenant as an individual type of a corporate spiritual seed who now walk in His steps. Christ is opposite of antichrist. Antiochus was an individual type in the Old Covenant that became a corporate body in the New Covenant. So it is with Christ. He came in the end of the Old Covenant, but as soon as the blood of the New Covenant was shed, He became a corporate body, the body of Christ. Many ask at this point, “What about the king of the north’s battles with the south in Daniel?” All nations will come as the beast kingdom against Jerusalem to battle (Zech.14:2) and God will divide them by civil war (13). This is where these wars come in. We will discuss this in depth in chapter sixteen, Fall of the World. Antiochus Epiphanes is an individual type of what the corporate end time antichrist beast will do, which is conquer the apostate people of God and rule in their temple as an “abomination that maketh desolate”.

Although antichrist is in the entire world outside of Christ, there is a religious portion of him in the worldly temple, the apostate Church. (1Jn.2:18) Little children, it is the last hour: and as ye heard that antichrist cometh, even now have there arisen many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last hour. (19) They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us: but [they went out], that they might be made manifest that they all are not of us. We see in this case they had heard that “antichrist cometh” but he corrected them by saying that the apostates among them were “many antichrists” in the present. Notice that He was only speaking of the antichrists that were coming out of the true body. Jesus never said that there would be one false Christ, as men often do, but that there would be many. (Mt.24:24) For there shall arise false Christs (plural). (Lk.21:8)…Take heed that ye be not led astray: for many shall come in my name, saying, I am [he]; and, The time is at hand: go ye not after them. There are many individual members of the antichrist’s corporate body and many religious leaders among them who attempt to deceive God’s people to join them. On the flip side, there are many individual members of Christ’s corporate body and many religious leaders among them who attempt to convert the worldly to join them.

Notice carefully that in all these verses the antichrist inhabits a corporate body that has been around since the beginning. In these days the body of antichrist is coming to maturity just as the body of Christ is coming to maturity. As we saw in Revelation 13:8, everyone who is not in the book of life worships the antichrist beast. Everyone who is in the book of life worships Christ. We worship a Christ Spirit from heaven and are members of His body. They worship an antichrist spirit from the Pit (Rev.17:8) and are members of his body. There are only two men in this world. (Mt.24:40) Then shall two men be in the field; one is taken, and one is left. Jesus said the “field is the world” in Matthew 13:38. The one which is taken is the body of Christ and the one left to go through the wrath is the body of antichrist. The body of the first Adam are they that are born once and the body of the second Adam are they that are born again. In Daniel’s vision of the image or a picture of the beast, all world-ruling kingdoms and their vassal kingdoms from his day on are identified in one body. (Dan.2:28) [B]ut there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, and he hath made known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days…. (31) Thou, O king, sawest, and, behold, a great image. This image, which was mighty, and whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the aspect thereof was terrible. (32) As for this image, its head was of fine gold (Babylon), its breast and its arms of silver (Medo-Persia), its belly and its thighs of brass (Greece), (33) its legs of iron (Roman Empire), its feet part of iron (corporate world-wide Roman Empire now seen as the United Nations (U.N.), then as the dragon of Revelation 12, then as the Beast of Revelation 13), and part of clay. The clay here represents the seed of all the nations that were not part of the original Roman Empire. This makes up the whole world. Daniel identified the first head in his day as the king of Babylon and his kingdom in verses 37 and 38. The other kingdoms followed unto this day. This image of the beast is also revealed as an end time prophecy. The seed of all these kingdoms is alive in the last kingdom as an image of the end time beast.

(Dan.3:1) Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore (60) cubits, and the breadth thereof six (6) cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura (600), in the province of Babylon. The image of the beast was 60 cubits in stature and 6 cubits in scope. As we saw, adding up the Greek or Hebrew letters in a word, which are also numbers, gives us an important prophetic equivalent. The image was on the plain of Dura, which in Hebrew means “circle” and “dwelling”, symbolizing the “world” which has a gematria of 600. Notice that all the kingdoms of the world make up the full measure of the beast; 600 + 60 + 6 = 666. In Revelation 13:18 the words “Six hundred and sixty and six” were originally written with three Greek letters. In Greek the word “world” equals 600, and the word “earth” equals 60, and 6 is the number of fallen man. Indeed, man and the beasts were made on the sixth day, for as Solomon said, “Man hath no preeminence above the beasts”. From this we see that 666 identifies men who are “in the world” and “earthly” and are of the fallen creation. The gematria for “in the world” in John 1:9 equals 666. As we see, “The whole world lieth in the evil one”.

The seed of the seven world-ruling heads that we saw in the image of the beast are in the last one world kingdom. (Rev.17:3)…I saw a woman sitting upon a scarlet-colored beast…having seven heads and ten horns. (15)…The waters which thou sawest, where the harlot sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues. The gematria for “where the harlot sitteth” equals 666. Notice that the harlot sits on three things that are synonymous, 666, “peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues”, and the “beast”. In other words, all mankind outside of Christ is the beast. Now you know why the useless practice of adding up names like Kissinger, the Pope, Prince Charles, etc., all added up to 666. The whole text of Revelation 13:18 makes it clear that God is giving us a riddle that only those with understanding from God can solve. He says, “Here is wisdom. He that hath understanding, let him count the number of the beast; for it is the number of a man: and his number is Six hundred and sixty and six.” Indeed, 666 is the “number of a man,” the corporate antichrist beast. If you look in the sixth book, the sixth chapter, and the sixth verse of the New Testament you will see that 666 identifies the corporate “old man”. (Rom.6:6) [K]nowing this, that our old man was crucified with [him]. Also “man” here is the sixth word in the verse, which makes four six’s, 6666. So no matter which set of three six’s you use, you still come up with 666, which is the corporate “old man” and the fleshly enemy of God. (Rom.8:7) [B]ecause the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can it be. The righteous take up their cross and follow Jesus to the death of the old man. The wicked will continue to walk as the corporate old man to their own disastrous end. Solomon taught that all lost men are beasts and not a higher creation. (Eccl.3:18) I said in my heart, [It is] because of the sons of men, that God may prove them, and that they may see that they themselves are [but as] beasts…. (19) yea they have all one breath (Hebrew: “spirit”); and man hath no preeminence above the beasts.” Fallen man is “one spirit” with the beasts and in their persecution of the righteous will prove to be a corporate beast.

The harlot rode the beast with the seven heads identified in Revelation 13:1,2 and Daniel 7:4-7. Each of the heads were symbols of world-ruling beast kingdoms. For example: the lion was the symbol of Babylon, the leopard of Greece, and the bear of Medo-Persia. (Rev.17:9) Here is the mind that hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sitteth (These are not the seven hills of Rome as is traditionally taught, which is a lesser type, but seven kingdoms.): (10) and they are seven kings; the five are fallen (Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Medo-Persia, and Greece), the one is (Rome), the other is not yet come (The corporate worldwide Roman Empire of the dragon in Revelation 12.); when he cometh, he must continue a little while (3-1/2 years). (11) And the beast that was and is not is himself also an eighth and is of the seven. Many falsely believe that because the eighth beast “is of the seven” that it is only one of the seven. The seventh and eighth beast are truly a staged revival of the Roman Empire on a world-wide scale, which is the beast in Revelation 13. But also from the description of the beast we can see that he plainly is made up of the entire world outside of Christ. The body of the eighth beast is made up of the seed of all “of the seven” world ruling beast kingdoms because “the woman sitteth” on all seven. These beasts historically have lost their individual dominion, but their lives were prolonged until now in their seed. (Dan.7:12) And as for the rest of the beasts, their dominion was taken away: yet their lives were prolonged for a season and a time. These beasts are still with us exercising dominion in the corporate end time beast. The coming of Christ’s end time kingdom will “consume all these kingdoms” “together”. (Dan.2:34) Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon its feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them in pieces. (35) Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken in pieces together. Then we see the interpretation. (44) And in the days of those (ten) kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed, nor shall the sovereignty thereof be left to another people; but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever. Since the end time Kingdom of Christ consumes all these kingdoms together, then they all still exist. Notice that the last beast will “consume all these kingdoms” and so “of the seven” also means that all “of the seven” world ruling kingdoms, including the clay peoples in the seventh, are present in the eighth. Truly, “the whole world lieth in the evil ONE”. Here we see that wording like “of the seven” is very important to hold fast to so that we may get all of the meaning God has for us.

 

THE TRADITIONAL EUROPEAN UNION (E.U.) BEAST

In Daniel’s revelation, he deals with the beasts from his time and forward, but Revelation starts with Egypt and Assyria, which were before him. In this we see that Daniel’s fourth beast is Revelation’s sixth beast. (Dan.7:23)…The fourth (6th) beast shall be a fourth (sixth) kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all the kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth. Notice, this last beast is “different” because it is the first to “devour the whole earth” and as such to become corporate in nature. In its present form it is a U.S. of the world. Inside this beast are all of the peoples of “the whole earth”, which is the seed of all previous kingdoms. There is only one corporate kingdom that has within it the seven heads and the ten horns of all nations, and it is not the European Union (E.U.) but the U.N. It is the foundation for the coming dragon and beast kingdoms. The E.U. is only a lesser type of the greater type of the U.N. The end time beast of Revelation 13 will have within it every tribe, people, tongue, and nation whose name is not written in the Lamb’s book of life as Revelation 13:7 shows. The traditional E.U. beast kingdom theory came up as they grew towards ten nations, which they thought were the ten kings, but when they continued to grow to 25 it was dis-proven. That false theory envisioned the original territory of the Roman Empire being reborn but the end time Roman Empire will be spread through the earth and divided by the clay, which are nations that were not a part of the original empire. Daniel said that the entities of the original empire would no longer “cleave one to another”, meaning they would no longer be in one geographic location but would “mingle themselves with the seed of men” in other parts of the earth or other nations. (Dan.2:43) And whereas thou sawest the iron (of the Roman Empire) mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men; but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron doth not mingle with clay. Notice that the original iron of the Roman Empire is now separated by clay, which is made of peoples and nations that were never a part of the original empire. As we saw, Daniel showed that the last beast would be different in that it would incorporate the “whole earth”, which is now the iron and the clay. If we follow the languages, culture, and religion of the original Roman Empire we see that their seed has spread throughout the earth. Daniel envisioned the Roman Empire dividing into two legs with two feet. (Dan.2:33) [I]ts legs of iron, its feet part of iron, and part of clay. It is clear that the eastern leg was at first Eastern Europe and Western Asia and the western leg was Western Europe. The more these two multiplied, the more their seed, language, culture, and religion circled the globe separated only by the clay. Obviously they will never return to the ancient locations that the E.U. theorists proclaim. Now all of the dispersed Roman Empire seed and the clay is united in the U.N. The eastern block countries with their scattered seed, and western block countries with their scattered seed, along with the clay that separated, each made peace in the U.N. at the end of the cold war. That was the eastern foot and the western foot of Daniel’s vision of the beast temporarily coming together. (Dan.2:33) [I]ts legs of iron, its feet part of iron, and part of clay. It is clear now that the ten toes will be the ten continental divisions of the “whole earth” with their kings, which we will speak of in the next chapter. When God again divides this Roman Empire it will be a three-way split: the iron of the eastern foot, the iron of the western foot, and the clay, which shall be divided from both. (Dan.2:41)…[P]art of potters’ clay, and part of iron, it shall be a divided kingdom…. History repeats. God will separate this modern day Babel as He did original Babel.

 

THE CATALYST FOR THIS UNITY

What will motivate the world to come into this kind of unity since there is at this time so much disagreement? History tells us. The aftermath of WWI brought the world together in fear of worse holocaust. They decided they needed a “man of peace” and the League of Nations was born. They gave no teeth to that beast and the aftermath of WWII brought renewed fear and unity, which brought a revision to that beast, which is now called the United Nations. The approaching war of which we will speak in following chapters will bring forth the next revision in the beast, which will be the dragon. The world will become angry at the United States, especially when unilateral actions bring nuclear and biological warfare. War will force the world through fear to unite in the body of the dragon in order to put a stop to the bullies on the block and make a united front against terrorism.

The U.S. has been preparing for this One World Order for some time. The Department of State Publication 7277 spells out their so-called Freedom from War agenda. They plan to decrease the military of all nations and increase the military of the United Nations until they have the only military. The reasoning goes that with no national militaries there will be no war. That way an international military will be able to enforce peace! Then who will be able to make war with the beast? (Rev.13:4)…Who is like unto the beast? And who is able to war with him? To the natural mind it sounds wonderful but suppose that of the three main designers of this plan, two, Russia and China, feign compliance, and one, the U.S., gullibly complies with reduction and redeployment of its military. The danger in this unity for the dominance of America is that there will be a corporate coup to overthrow the hated head, America. And suppose American citizens rebel against this plan and the mark of the beast? That is why top secret annexes A, B, & C, were added to 7277. They involve a total gun recall; doing away with the national security wheat reserves which was already done to control any uprising; creating GATT, NAFTA, the national ID, and the Trilateral Alliance of Russia, China, and the U.S. to implement these measures by force.

 

OBJECTIONS?

Some object that the beast body could not be the whole earth because he is separated from the kings and their armies, whose flesh is killed in Revelation 19 when the Lord returns with His saints. We will see in this text below that this actually proves my point. Here is the key that they have missed. When this beast is destroyed by the Lord, his corporate body will be destroyed on earth while his corporate spirit will be thrown into the lake of fire. (Dan.7:11)…I beheld even till the beast was slain, and its body destroyed, and it was given to be burned with fire. Notice that through death God is separating the beast, which is a corporate antichrist spirit, from his corporate earthly body. Isn’t this exactly what happens when one is killed? The body is destroyed on earth while the spirit goes to the pit from whence it came. (Rev.19:17) And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in mid heaven, Come [and] be gathered together unto the great supper of God; (18) that ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses and of them that sit thereon, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, and small and great. Just as the flood destroyed “all flesh”, the end time flood of destruction will put to death the flesh of the beast of mankind, leaving a few survivors to satisfy the rainbow covenant. (19) And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat upon the horse, and against his army. (20) And the beast was taken, and…cast alive into the lake of fire that burneth with brimstone: (21) and the rest (the body of the beast) were killed with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, [even the sword] which came forth out of his mouth: and all the birds were filled with their flesh. (20:1) And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven… (2) And he laid hold on the dragon, the old serpent, which is the Devil and Satan… (3) and cast him into the abyss…. Notice that the body of Christ with its head, Christ, makes war with the body of the antichrist beast with its head, Satan. The beast body is killed on earth as the corporate antichrist beast spirit is thrown into the lake of fire and their lord Satan into the abyss. In like manner, some of the Christ body is killed on earth during the tribulation while their spirits are taken to heaven to be with their Lord Jesus. In John 3:3-5 we are told that only he that is born from above will see the kingdom. And in verse 13 we are told that “no one hath ascended into heaven, but he that descended out of heaven,” Who is Christ.

On the other hand, only those who are born of Satan and hell will return to him. (Jn.8:44) Ye are of [your] father the devil, and the lusts of your father it is your will to do. (Mt.23:15)…[Y]e compass sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he is become so, ye make him twofold more a son of hell than yourselves. Satan is “the deceiver of the whole world” and rules in them through a body of demons from hell, who recreate in each of them his own fallen antichrist spirit. In this way the corporate body of beast demon spirits are being birthed upon the earth in a corporate body of beast human spirits and souls. The body of antichrist is from beneath and the body of Christ is from above, as Jesus said; “Ye are from beneath; I am from above”. This wicked world body is coming to maturity; first as the ten-horned dragon in the first 3-1/2 years of the tribulation and then as the ten-horned beast of the second 3-1/2 years. (Rev.12:3)…a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns…. (13:1)…a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns, and seven heads…. We will see in the next chapter that these ten horns are the leadership of the ten continental divisions of the “whole world”. The corporate beast spirit from the abyss will rule the “whole world” through the ten horns of the corporate beast body. Some are receiving true revelations of this, but many do not understand them, being blinded by the letter of tradition. In her book, A Divine Revelation of Hell, Mary K. Baxter relates how in 1976 Jesus took her to hell in a vision and showed her the corporate beast spirit out of which was flowing hordes of demons through his horns to rule “all over the earth”. My notes are in parentheses.

Jesus said, “Tonight, My child, we will go to different parts of the heart of hell. I want to tell you about the horns and show you how they will be used to funnel evil spirits and demon forces up to the surface of the earth.”…

I saw an old farmhouse, dead and gray-looking…. There was no life there. Death was everywhere. I knew this farmhouse was part of hell…. I watched as a huge man with extremely large muscles came out of the door…. He was about six feet tall, with the bulky build of a weight lifter. (This “strong man” is the corporate body of demons that Jesus cast out and bound for the sake of believers in Luke 11:19-26.) His color was the same dead gray as the surroundings…. His flesh was like scales (dragon) and…his head was so large that his legs were bowed from carrying such a great load. (Demon principalities over the nations are the head of this body of evil spirits.) His feet were hoofed like the feet of a pig. His face was stern and evil and he looked to be very old….

The earth shook as he moved, and horns were growing out of the top of his head; large horns…. I saw that his head was like a beast; a powerful evil beast, full of destruction. … I saw the horns as they wound their way upward and ended in homes, churches, hospitals, offices and buildings of all kinds all over the earth. The horns did great damage throughout the land. I saw the beast speak and evil spirits were spit out on the earth. (Out of this one corporate spirit body many demon spirits will come upon the world through its horns.) I saw many people seduced by these demonic forces and fall into Satan’s snares…. “We are in a war,” I heard the Spirit of the Lord say. “Good against evil.”

I saw kingdoms arising out of the earth, and millions of people began to follow these evil forces…. I heard Jesus say, “This is beginning to happen now! These things are, and were, and will be.” … They that worshiped the beast were many…. I saw the world in the midst of a great tribulation, and I began praying with all my heart. “O Lord, help us,” I cried out.

Need I say that if Jesus said this was happening in 1976, there was no individual human ruling the earth at that time, especially one that sent demons up from hell to rule “all over the earth” through men. Notice that the head of the corporate spirit beast is the corporate principality leadership, which sends up demon forces out of hell to rule in and through all lost mankind. In the next chapter we will see that under Satan the principality of Rome is returning to lead other principalities and hordes of demons to revive the Roman Empire worldwide. In this way, “The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and is about to come up out of the abyss, and to go into perdition” (Rev.17:8). The beast rules in the sons of perdition but not the truly saved. (Heb.10:39) But we are not of them that shrink back unto perdition; but of them that have faith unto the saving of the soul.

 

WHERE DO WE HIDE?

I would like to share a word of encouragement and direction before we go on. I had a dream years ago about how the saints are going to be protected from this antichrist beast body.

I saw a group of Christians running from a dragon. At first they were in a house. When they were discovered by the dragon, they ran to a cave. They were discovered again, so they ran out the back of the cave to a body of water. They jumped into the shallow water next to the bank to escape the dragon. Then they received a revelation that they must get out into the deep water or the dragon could step on them.

The dragon is the first beast of the tribulation in Revelation 12. In the beginning the Christians will leave their fleshly comfort zones, symbolized by the house, for more primitive hiding places in a spiritual wilderness, symbolized by the cave. Here they will learn that not even this is a place of true safety but abiding in the Word is. Here they will seek “the washing of water with the word” as was spoken through Paul in Ephesians 5:26. A “shallow water” experience in the Word will not protect them from being “trodden under foot of men”, which is the dragon’s body. Only the “deep water” of the Word that buries and puts to death the old man can do that. The “deep water” washes not only the feet but also the head. Some do not walk in deep sin but their mind is not renewed to believe that Jesus bore the curse of sin and death (Gal.3:13,14). Getting into the “deep water” of the Word and believing in the protection that is promised will save many from moral and physical death. (Ps.91:7) A thousand shall fall at thy side, And ten thousand at thy right hand; [but] it shall not come nigh thee.


Your Servant David Eells   http://www.unleavenedbreadministries.org/