Worship Whose Image ?
"And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, 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.-Book of Revelation
13 ..."The
inhabitants of the earth whose names have not been written in the book of life from the creation of the world will be ASTONISHED
when they see the beast, because he once was, now is not, and yet will come."
-Book of Revelation 17
...It is no
secret that Roman Catholicism has no problem encouraging its followers
to worship graven images and to outright promote idolatry...I was
personally brought up in a hard-core Catholic country where I was indoctrinated
into "Venerating" graven images, to me these images and statues became
holy objects...To Roman Catholics the images of Mary and the numerous statues of Roman
"Saints" are the equivalent to the Jew's Ark of the Covenant in that it would
be blasphemous to: spit, destroy or misuse such "holy"objects handcrafted and painted by the hands of men...
...As
a student of Bible Prophecy I have numerous times pondered on
Revelation 13: "that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed" ...I know
for a fact that the Jews do NOT have any graven images
in their Temples-Synagogues to this day, and even though I've never been inside
an Islamic Mosque I have seen television footage and photographs that prove that Muslims
also do NOT kneel in worship before any images as Roman Catholics do...You and I know
that neither true Jews or Muslims consume Pork products, the same is true of them NOT
worshipping images it just is one of the top NO-No's in their religion in fact
Muslims get outraged when anyone tries to draw or paint an image
of Mohammed...
...As technology advances more and more hard to comprehend Prophecies
are getting easier to decipher...For example the Book of Revelation
tells us that the Image of the Beast will be given power
to Speak !!! I used to interpret this particular Prophecy as though
a super-natural apparition would be responsible for it, now with technology
this Prophecy could very well be a digital 3 dimensional or hologram interactive
Image...
...ALL this brings me to conclude that the coming FALSE
PROPHET who will promote IMAGE worship of the Beast doesn't
appear to me that he will end up being a Jew or a
Muslim religious leader, things drastically could change in the religious scene and I'm open to
that possibility...
Judaism and Islam outright reject the worship of Images as
"Idolatry" this is not true of most of the other world religions : Hindus, Buddhists and Catholics and
most tribal religions tend to kneel down before IMAGES of their deities be these in the
form of statues, Icons or paintings...Let's get this straight : NOT everyone in the world during
the Great Tribulation will worship the Image of the Beast according to the Prophetic passage some
will be killed for NOT worshipping the Image of the Beast...
...Another
amazing Prophetic insight is found in the 17 chapter of the Book of Revelation this verse tells us
that the inhabitants of the world will be ASTONISHED when they see the beast,
because he once was, now is not, and yet will come, this tells me that this Beast of a man has somehow
lived before or looks like an infamous world leader of the past...If we interpret this
Prophecy literally then this individual once was an infamous Ruler before
the Apostle John's time, this disqualifies Hitler and other recent global
dictators and qualifies dictators such as previous : Roman Caesars and
other infamous figures such as Nimrod, Antiochus Epiphanes etc...( for
example we still have statues of : Julius Caesar, Nero, Antiochus Epiphanes and other past
dictators when people compare the image of the the endtimes Totalitarian
to that of a past Dictator they will very possibly be amazed at the similiarities
)
...In other words when they look upon this endtimes
Beast of a Man and they compare him to an
image of a previous world dictator it appears that they will
indeed be ASTONISHED !!! this is how I presently interpret this Prophecy
but I'm still open to other possibilities as time passes on...
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....TO
BE CONTINUED......
