It was 1994. The Barclay family in San Antonio, Texas, frantically searched for their missing 13-year-old son, Nicholas. They could find no trace of him—he seemingly disappeared into thin air.
Three years later, however, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children received the call that the Barclay family had been waiting for: their son had been found. The boy was then flown back to Texas for an emotional reunification with his family.
For a few months, everything seemed to be back to normal. However, a private investigator started to harbor some doubts about the identity of Nicholas, and eventually it came to light that the boy was not Nicholas, but rather a 23-year-old French con artist named Frederic Bourdin. Bourdin excelled at his devious profession, becoming known as “the Chameleon” because of his exceptional ability to impersonate other people, especially children. He is said to have assumed 500 different identities in his life.
While Bourdin seemed to be the real Nicholas, he was nothing more than a liar and a fraud.
As we come to the second part of Revelation 13, we see a fraud show up on the world scene. His motives are much more sinister than those of Bourdin–he will claim to represent the ultimate religion—one that finally unites the whole world in peace. However, his religion is fraudulent.
We have already been introduced in the first part of chapter 13 to the first beast, who turns out to be the Antichrist under the power of the Devil. Now a second beast appears; a false prophet luring the world into a fraudulent religion.
Why will people fall into his trap? Be he is going to fix a huge problem in the world—the incompatibility of different religions. He will do away with religions and denominations, convincing the world to worship the Antichrist.
And the world will fall for it.
The good news is that we will not be here. However, like most things we read in Revelation, there is an important lesson for us. We face “false prophets” in our day who would like draw attention away from God and onto other things—things like unity and social issues. Or maybe they just leave God out of it altogether and simply operate a religious social club.
We may not face the Antichrist and his false prophet, but we do face their agenda, which is rejection of God and His Son, Jesus Christ. Anyone who does that is a fraud, offering nothing more than an empty religion.
What will you do with:
• Thus said יהוה , “Do not learn the way of the gentiles, and do not be awed by the signs of the heavens, for the gentiles are awed by them.”
• “For the prescribed customs of these peoples are worthless, for one cuts a tree from the forest, work for the hands of a craftsman with a cutting tool.
• “They adorn it with silver and gold, they fasten it with nails and hammers so that it does not topple.”
(Yirmeyahu/Jeremiah 10:2-4)
And now we continue this and bow down to it (the ashera pole, as we retrieve the gifts from under it, a pagan practice: gift-giving.)
Our Messiah will come back keeping, doing His Father’s Torah (read Matt.5:17-19,use ‘Torah’ as it was originally worded, instead of ‘law’). And observing YHWH’s Feasts, and Sabbaths which we are commanded to keep, (as Yahusha did when He walked this earth). Not the man made up ones, i.e. xmas, ishtar, hanukkah, st.patricks, valentines, flag day, halloween, (the extremely most evil one) on and on.
RCC brag that they changed the day of worship. By Scripture we are commanded to keep YHWH’s 7th day Sabbath “a *law forever, in all your dwellings”. Not the 1st day of the week which was enforced so that they could force others to worship their sun gods. Why so you think its called sunday?
When you begin to pray to YHWH, and worship Him, so many more Truths He will reveal to you from the Scriptures!!
“Our fathers (church fathers) have inherited only lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.”
The Jews removed יהוה , His Name, over 6,800 times from all Scripture; includes bables, as they were and still do follow a pagan idea that His Name is too set-apart to speak. By refering to Him as lord or god, titles that the pagans call their mighty ones, you are bringing His Name to naught! How many commandments does this break? More than 1.
All my references come from The Scriptures ISR ’98, an actual translation, NOT a man’s ‘version’ of what YHWH said! He tells us in multiple
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He tells us in multiple places, “Do not add to nor take away from My words”!! (paraphrased; found in: Deut. 4:2; 12:32; Prov.30:6; Rev.22:18-19)
*”a law forever” “in all your dwellings” “throughout your generations”. How many times did YHWH say these words in Leviticus 23? What do you suppose He meant by these words? i have failed to find where HE said, “I really didn’t mean that”, or “I changed my mind about that”.
We need to be very careful what we say is His Truth, and teach to others as such! Matt. 5:19.
And of course, you cannot just throw this out. you must look these Scriptures up and ‘test’ to see if these Truths line up with YHWH’s words.
i felt compelled to share these Truths with you. i, too was not raised knowing these Truths. but i am eternally grateful that YHWH revealed them to me! the path is narrow and becomes narrower with each newly revealed Truth!
Once your spirit receives the Truth of His Name (Isa.52:6; Jere.16:21; Amos4:13; Prov.30:4; Yehezqĕl 39:7; Psalm83:18; Isa.42:8, and more) you will not be able to stand to hear those calling on, and praying to ba’al!! nor do it yourself! Which is what you do when you pray to a god.
In John 17:26, Yahusha promises He will make His Father’s Name known to us.
p.s.
What caught my eye to go to your web-site as one of the choices for something i had googled?
Your name, Hammond. my maternal GrandMother was a Hammond. she grew up in Kansas City, Mo. as did then, my Mama.
The Scriptures mentioned:
(from The Scriptures ISR ’98)
Mattithyahu 5:17-19
• “Do not think that I came to destroy the Torah or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to complete.
• “For truly, I say to you, till the heaven and the earth pass away, one jot or one tittle shall by no means pass from the Torah till all be done.
• “Whoever, then, breaks one of the least of these commands, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the reign of the heavens; but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the reign of the heavens. ”
Debarim 4:2
• “Do not add to the Word which I command you, and do not take away from it, so as to guard the commands of יהוה your Elohim which I am commanding you.”
Debarim 12:32
• “All the words I am commanding you, guard to do it – do not add to it nor take away from it.”
Proverbs 30:6
• Do not add to His Words,
Lest He reprove you,
and you be found a liar.
Revelation 22:18-19
• For I witness to everyone hearing the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds to them, Elohim shall add to him the plagues that are written in this book,
• and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, Elohim shall take away his part from the Book of Life, and out of the set-apart city, which are written in this Book.
Mattithyahu 5:19.
• “Whoever, then, breaks one of the least of these commands, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the reign of the heavens; but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the reign of the heavens. ”
Yeshayahu 52:6
• “Therefore My people shall know My Name, in that day, for I am the One who is speaking. See, it is I.”
Yirmeyahu 16:21
• “Therefore see, I am causing them to know, this time I cause them to know My hand and My might. And they shall know that My Name is יהוה !”
Amos 4:13
• For look, He who forms mountains, and creates the wind, and who declares to man what His thought is, and makes the morning darkness, and who treads the high places o
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Amos 4:13b
• . . . who treads the high places of the earth, יהוה Elohim of hosts is His Name.
Mishlĕ 30:4
• What is His Name,
And what is His Son’s Name,
If you know it?
Yehezqĕl 39:7
• “And I shall make My set-apart Name known in the midst of My people Yisra’ĕl, and not let My set-apart Name be profaned any more. And the gentiles shall know that I am יהוה , the Set-apart One in Yisra’ĕl.”
Tehillim 83:18
• And let them know that You,
Whose Name is יהוה ,
You alone are the Most High over all the earth.
Yeshayahu 42:8
• “I am יהוה , that is My Name, and My esteem I do not give to another, nor My praise to idols.”
Yohanan 17:26
• “And I have made Your Name known to them, and shall make it known, so that the love with which You loved Me might be in them, and I in them.”