Isaiah 21:9. Look, here comes a man in a chariot with a team of horses. And he gives back the answer: “Babylon has fallen, has fallen! All the images of its gods lie shattered on the ground!”
Endnote 51 (back): Revelation 13:16-18. It [the second beast] also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the [first] beast or the number of its name. This calls for wisdom. Let the person who has insight calculate the number of the [first] beast, for it is the number of a man. That number is 666.
Endnote 52 (back): Revelation 14:9-11. A third angel followed them and said in a loud voice: “If anyone worships the beast and its image and receives its mark on their forehead or on their hand, they, too, will drink the wine of God’s fury, which has been poured full strength into the cup of his wrath. They will be tormented with burning sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb. And the smoke of their torment will rise for ever and ever. There will be no rest day or night for those who worship the beast and its image, or for anyone who receives the mark of its name.”
Endnote 53 (back): Revelation 13:8. All inhabitants of the earth will worship the beast—all whose names have not been written in the Lamb’s book of life, the Lamb who was slain from the creation of the world.
Endnote 54 (back): Compare Daniel 7:8 and Revelation 13:1 with Revelation 17:12-13 (below). The three horns uprooted by the little horn in Daniel 7:8 have been replaced by the time of Revelation 17:12 where we see the ten kings giving their power and authority to the beast. Thus the Security Council has been restored to ten members.
Daniel 7:8. While I was thinking about the horns, there before me was another horn, a little one, which came up among them; and three of the first horns were uprooted before it. This horn had eyes like the eyes of a human being and a mouth that spoke boastfully.
Revelation 13:1b. And I saw a beast coming out of the sea. It had ten horns and seven heads, with ten crowns on its horns, and on each head a blasphemous name.
Revelation 17:12-13. The ten horns you saw are ten kings who have not yet received a kingdom, but who for one hour will receive authority as kings along with the beast. They have one purpose and will give their power and authority to the beast.
Endnote 55 (back): Revelation 13:7a. It [the beast] was given power to wage war against God’s holy people and to conquer them. [The response of the Security Council is to give authority to Christopher to kill the followers of Christ.]
Endnote 56 (back): Revelation 12:17. Then the dragon was enraged at the woman and went off to wage war against the rest of her offspring—those who keep God’s commands and hold fast their testimony about Jesus. [The dragon and the woman were depicted in Chapter 1 (see endnote 39). This scene depicts the first obvious evidence of that war. It should be no surprise that the war will be justified with trumped-up charges of terrorism.]
Endnote 57 (back): Quoted from a letter from Thomas Jefferson to William S. Smith, dated Nov. 13, 1787.
Endnote 58 (back): Micah 2:12. I will surely gather all of you, Jacob; I will surely bring together the remnant of Israel. I will bring them together like sheep in a pen, like a flock in its pasture; the place will throng with people. [It is believed that Petra was in Old Testament times known as Bozrah, meaning sheep pen, because of its narrow opening and expansive interior.]
Endnote 59 (back): See Exodus 16.
Endnote 60 (back): Revelation 3:10. Since you have kept my command to endure patiently, I will also keep you from the hour of trial that is going to come on the whole world to test the inhabitants of the earth.
Isaiah 57:1-2. The righteous perish, and no one takes it to heart; the devout are taken away, and no one understands that the righteous are taken away to be spared from evil. Those who walk uprightly enter into peace; they find rest as they lie in death. [The Disaster, in which many appeared to die, was in fact, the devout being taken away (or raptured) to be spared from evil. And no one took it to heart; no one understood.]
Endnote 61 (back): 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17. [Quoted in text.]
Endnote 62 (back): 1 Corinthians 15:50-53. [Quoted in text.]
Endnote 63 (back): allasso.
Endnote 64 (back): Romans 1:23. …and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles.
Endnote 65 (back): See for example, here (1 Corinthians 15:53) and here:
Hebrews 1:12. You will roll them up like a robe; like a garment they will be changed…
Endnote 66 (back): 2 Corinthians 5:1-4. For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands. Meanwhile we groan, longing to be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling, because when we are clothed, we will not be found naked. For while we are in this tent, we groan and are burdened, because we do not wish to be unclothed but to be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.
2 Peter 1:13-14. I think it is right to refresh your memory as long as I live in the tent of this body, because I know that I will soon put it aside, as our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me.
Endnote 67 (back): 1 Corinthians 15:35-44. But someone will ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?” How foolish! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. When you sow, you do not plant the body that will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or of something else. But God gives it a body as he has determined, and to each kind of seed he gives its own body. Not all flesh is the same: People have one kind of flesh, animals have another, birds another and fish another. There are also heavenly bodies and there are earthly bodies; but the splendor of the heavenly bodies is one kind, and the splendor of the earthly bodies is another. The sun has one kind of splendor, the moon another and the stars another; and star differs from star in splendor. So will it be with the resurrection of the dead. The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable; it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.
Endnote 68 (back): See Genesis 6:8—7:7 and Genesis 19:15-25 for Noah and Lot, respectively, and 2 Peter 2:5-9 for both.
Endnote 69 (back): See 2 Thessalonians 2:1-7, but in particular 2:6-7. And now you know what is holding him [the Antichrist] back, so that he may be revealed at the proper time. For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work; but the one who now holds it back will continue to do so till he is taken out of the way. [The “one who now holds it back” appears to reference the Holy Spirit and, therefore, the Church, which the Spirit inhabits and empowers.]
Endnote 70 (back): John 4:16-18. He told her, “Go, call your husband and come back.” “I have no husband,” she replied. Jesus said to her, “You are right when you say you have no husband. The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true.”
Endnote 71 (back): The story of Muhammad, as retold by Francis Bacon, in Essays, 1625. It is unknown where Bacon acquired this story, but no written record of it appears anywhere in the Islamic Ahadith.
Endnote 72 (back): Joseph Smith Jr., History of the Life of Joseph Smith, 1832.
Endnote 73 (back): Book of Mormon, Book of Ether. Relevant examples follow:
Book of Mormon, Book of Ether 6:4. And it came to pass that when they had prepared all manner of food, that thereby they might subsist upon the water, and also food for their flocks and herds, and whatsoever beast or animal or fowl that they should carry with them -- and it came to pass that when they had done all these things they got aboard of their vessels or barges, and set forth into the sea, commending themselves unto the Lord their God.
Book of Mormon, Book of Ether 6:19. And
thus they were driven forth; and no monster of the sea could break them, neither whale that could mar them; and they did have light continually, whether it was above the water or under the water.
Endnote 74 (back): See for example Thomas D.S. Key, PhD., ScD, EdD., The Book of Mormon in the Light of Science, 27th Edition, 2005. See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeology_and_the_Book_of_Mormon.
Endnote 75 (back): See, for example, Losing a Lost Tribe: Native Americans, DNA, and the Mormon Church, Simon G. Southerton, PhD.
Endnote 76 (back): Joseph Smith Jr., History of the Life of Joseph Smith, 1832, p. 8.
Endnote 77 (back): Fawn M. Brodie, No Man Knows My History, The Life of Joseph Smith, second edition, revised and enlarged (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977), pp. 67-82. See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Mormon_witnesses#cite_note-11.
Endnote 78 (back): Siddhartha Gautama, founder of Buddhism.
Endnote 79 (back): Guru Nanal Dev, founder of Sikhism.
Endnote 80 (back): Isaiah 46:9b-10a. I am God, and there is none like me. I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come.
Endnote 81 (back): Isaiah 11:1-2. A shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse; from his roots a Branch will bear fruit. The Spirit of the LORD will rest on him—the Spirit of wisdom and of understanding, the Spirit of counsel and of might, the Spirit of the knowledge and fear of the LORD… [Jesse was King David’s father. This prophecy has always been considered by the rabbis to refer to the Messiah. For examples, see Alfred Edersheim, The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah, Appendix 9 (Peabody, Massachusetts, Hendrickson Publishers, 1993 pp. 994). Jesus fulfilled this prophecy by being born in the linage of David.]
Isaiah 11:10. In that day the Root of Jesse will stand as a banner for the peoples; the nations will rally to him, and his resting place will be glorious.
Endnote 82 (back): Jeremiah 23:5. “The days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, a King who will reign wisely and do what is just and right in the land.
Endnote 83 (back): Isaiah 7:14. Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel. [While this prophecy was initially fulfilled in the time of Isaiah with the birth of Isaiah’s son (Isaiah 8:3), taken together with Isaiah 9:2-7 and especially 9:6-7 (see endnote 85) its complete fulfillment can only be explained as it is in Matthew 1:23.
Matthew 1:23. All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: “The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel” (which means “God with us”).
Endnote 84 (back): Micah 5:2. But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come for me one who will be ruler over Israel, whose origins are from of old, from ancient times. [Note that in Israel there were two towns names Bethlehem; Micah specifies Bethlehem Ephrathah, which was in Judah, and in which Jesus was born. This prophecy has always been considered by the rabbis to refer to the Messiah. For examples, see Alfred Edersheim, The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah, Appendix 9 (Peabody, Massachusetts, Hendrickson Publishers, 1993 pp. 1005).]
Endnote 85 (back): Isaiah 9:6-7. For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the greatness of his government and peace there will be no end. He will reign on David’s throne and over his kingdom, establishing and upholding it with justice and righteousness from that time on and forever. The zeal of the LORD Almighty will accomplish this.
Endnote 86 (back): Isaiah 9:1-2. Nevertheless, there will be no more gloom for those who were in distress. In the past he humbled the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the future he will honor Galilee of the nations, by the Way of the Sea, beyond the Jordan— The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned.
Endnote 87 (back): Isaiah 35:5-6. Then will the eyes of the blind be opened and the ears of the deaf unstopped. Then will the lame leap like a deer, and the mute tongue shout for joy. Water will gush forth in the wilderness and streams in the desert.
Endnote 88 (back): Daniel 9:25-26. Know and understand this: From the time the word goes out to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Anointed One, the ruler, comes, there will be seven ‘sevens,’ and sixty-two ‘sevens.’ It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of trouble. After the sixty-two ‘sevens,’ the Anointed One will be put to death and will have nothing. The people of the ruler who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood: War will continue until the end, and desolations have been decreed. [The Anointed One means literally the Messiah. “Sevens” refers to a period of 7 years, thus “seven ‘sevens’ (7x7) plus sixty-two ‘sevens’ (62x7), equates to 69 periods of 7 years each, or 69x7=483 years. For a detailed explanation of this passage, see In His Image, Chapter 22, endnote 63.]
Endnote 89 (back): Artaxerxes I served as emperor from 464—424 b.c. According to Ezra 7 (especially 7:6-7), Artaxerxes issued this decree in the seventh year of his reign, i.e., 457 b.c. [For a detailed explanation of this passage, see In His Image, Chapter 22, endnote 63.]
Ezra 7:6-7. …this Ezra came up from Babylon. He was a teacher well versed in the Law of Moses, which the LORD, the God of Israel, had given. The king had granted him everything he asked, for the hand of the LORD his God was on him. 7 Some of the Israelites, including priests, Levites, musicians, gatekeepers and temple servants, also came up to Jerusalem in the seventh year of King Artaxerxes. [For a detailed explanation of this passage, see In His Image, Chapter 22, endnote 63.]
Endnote 90 (back): John 2:19-20. Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days.” They replied, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and you are going to raise it in three days?” [Jesus first preached in the temple approximately 46 years after Herod had begun its renovation. This would place the event in A.D. 27. For a detailed explanation of this passage, see In His Image, Chapter 22, endnote 63.]
Endnote 91 (back): Zechariah 11:12-13. I told them, “If you think it best, give me my pay; but if not, keep it.” So they paid me thirty pieces of silver. And the LORD said to me, “Throw it to the potter”—the handsome price at which they valued me! So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them to the potter at the house of the LORD. [According to Matthew 26:15, 27:5, and 27:7, respectively, Judas betrayed Jesus for thirty pieces of silver, threw the money into the Temple, and the priests used it to buy a potter’s field.]
Endnote 92 (back): Isaiah 53:7. He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before its shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth. [These were all fulfilled in the sham trials to which Jesus submitted prior to his crucifixion.]
Endnote 93 (back): Psalm 22:7-8. All who see me mock me; they hurl insults, shaking their heads. “He trusts in the LORD,” they say, “let the LORD rescue him. Let him deliver him, since he delights in him.”
Psalm 16:18. Dogs surround me, a pack of villains encircles me; they pierce my hands and my feet. All my bones are on display; people stare and gloat over me. They divide my clothes among them and cast lots for my garment.
Endnote 94 (back): Isaiah 53:8-9. For he was cut off from the land of the living; for the transgression of my people he was punished. He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death, though he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth.
Endnote 95 (back): Isaiah 53:4-6. Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed. We all, like sheep, have gone ast
ray, each of us has turned to our own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Isaiah 53:8b. For he was cut off from the land of the living; for the transgression of my people he was punished.
Endnote 96 (back): Isaiah 53:10-11. Yet it was the LORD’s will to crush him and cause him to suffer, and though the LORD makes his life an offering for sin, he will see his offspring and prolong his days, and the will of the LORD will prosper in his hand. After he has suffered, he will see the light of life and be satisfied; by his knowledge my righteous servant will justify many, and he will bear their iniquities.
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