Synopsis of Bible Study 08/10/11

Delivered by
Bishop Walker III

Revelation 12:1 says ¹And there appeared a great wonder in heaven: a woman clothed
with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve
stars.

1. There are many organizations who have tried to
   identify who this woman really is. As a matter of fact, Roman Catholics claim
   this to be Mary (mother of Jesus). They picture her to be the queen of heaven. Often
   in their idol artwork, you will see this image of Mary with 12 stars around her head.
2. Know
   that this woman clothed with the sun is not Mary. Scripturally we will prove
   that this women mentioned in verse 1 is a symbol of Israel. This woman
   represents Israel.
3. You
   might recall Joseph in the Old Testament. In Genesis
   37:9-11 says ⁹And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his
   brethren and said, “Behold, I have dreamed one dream more; and behold, the
   sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me.” ¹⁰And
   he told it to his father and to his brethren; and his father rebuked him and
   said unto him, “What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy
   mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the
   earth?” ¹¹And his brethren envied him, but his father observed
   the saying. – . Joseph had a dream that got him in trouble. He shared this dream with his brothers and they
   hated on him as a result. Joseph dreamed that the sun and the moon and the
   11stars bowed down to him. When he told his brothers, they were like, “Are you
   kidding me. Do you think this whole world is going to bow down to you?” In the
   dream, the sun represented Jacob. The
   moon represented Joseph’s mother, Rachael.
   The 11 stars represented the sons of Israel
   which were to bow to Joseph, so the 12 stars represent the fact the Joseph now
   is among the 12 tribes of Israel (11+1),
4. Throughout scripture Israel has been referred to
   as a woman in many instances. In Isaiah
   54:1-6 it says ¹“Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear! Break forth
   into singing and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child! For more
   are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife,”
   saith the LORD. ²Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch
   forth the curtains of thine habitations; spare not, lengthen thy cords, and
   strengthen thy stakes. ³For thou shalt break forth on the right hand
   and on the left, and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate
   cities to be inhabited. ⁴“Fear not; for thou shalt not be
   ashamed; neither be thou confounded, for thou shalt not be put to shame: for
   thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach
   of thy widowhood any more. ⁵For thy Maker is thine husband” the
   LORD of hosts is His name” and thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; the
   God of the whole earth shall He be called. ⁶For the LORD hath called
   thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou
   wast refused,” saith thy God. – This is God referring to Israel as a woman. Jeremiah 3:20 says ²⁰Surely
   as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have ye dealt
   treacherously with Me, O house of Israel,” saith the LORD. – She (Israel)
   is seen as a wife that leaves treacherously from her husband and he says, “… so
   ye have dealt treacherously with me “Here again, Israel is seen as a woman. In Ezekiel 16:8-14 it says ⁸“`Now
   when I passed by thee and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of
   love; and I spread My skirt over thee and covered thy nakedness. Yea, I swore
   unto thee and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord GOD, and thou
   becamest Mine. ⁹Then washed I thee with water; yea, I thoroughly
   washed away thy blood from thee, and I anointed thee with oil. ¹⁰I
   clothed thee also with embroidered work and shod thee with badgers’ skin, and I
   girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk. ¹¹I
   decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy hands and a chain
   on thy neck. ¹²And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings in
   thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon thine head. ¹³Thus wast thou
   decked with gold and silver, and thy raiment was of fine linen and silk and
   embroidered work. Thou didst eat fine flour and honey and oil; and thou wast
   exceeding beautiful, and thou didst prosper into a kingdom. ¹⁴And
   thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty; for it was perfect
   through My comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord GOD. –Here
   again, we see Israel again referred to as a woman. Probably the most
   powerful example of this is found in Hosea
   2:19-20 where it says ¹⁹And I will betroth thee unto Me for ever; yea, I will
   betroth thee unto Me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness,
   and in mercies. ²⁰I will even betroth thee unto Me in faithfulness,
   and thou shalt know the LORD. -20- Hosea gives us this story about Gomer
   (which is who the previous scripture is talking about) who is a prostitute. Hosea represents God who falls in love
   with the prostitute who is Israel.
   Hosea keeps on loving this prostitute, but every time he loves her, she keeps
   tipping out at night being unfaithful to him. He keeps going back to Gomer and
   in the middle of the night, he looks for her and calls for her again, because
   she has once again snuck out. She comes home night after night bloody and
   beaten, because she has been out prostituting and whoring, yet he still cleans
   up her wounds, cleans for her, cooks for her, and loves her, but she would
   continue to go out night after night despite it all. It is a marvelous story of
   how God is in love with a prostitute and guess who that prostitute is? It is us.

Revelation 12:2 says ²And she, being with child, cried, travailing in birth and in
pain to be delivered.

1. The
   bible says the woman who represents Israel in verse two was with child. She
   cried out in labor and in pain and she gave
   birth. The baby represents Jesus.
   Why would she be in travail with a child? Why would she cry out in labor? It is
   because when Jesus was born, he was born during a time in Israel’s history when
   they were under Roman occupation and oppression.
   During the time Jesus was born, he was not born during a favorable time for the
   people of God (or the Jews). They were under an incredible census and they had
   to go and be counted. Jesus was also crucified if you remember under Roman
   persecution. So when Jesus is born, Israel (the woman) is crying out and morning.
   Remember it is in travail that Jesus comes to these people.

Revelation 12:3 says ³And there appeared another wonder in heaven: behold, a great
red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.

1. Here
   the dragon shows up. – Now we have this dragon. The dragon represents Satan. He has great power and claims royal
   authority (the 7 diadems). His crowns represent his presumptuous claims of
   royal authority against the true king. The dragon wants to be king. He is
   saying he is greater than the king.
2. John
   gets a dispensational view of history
   wrapped up in one vision. In other words, he sees periods of times at which God
   has been moving. He goes all the way back, before the beginning even began. In
   the vision that he sees, he is seeing things that happened before the beginning
   began (when God was with the heavenly host on the throne). He sees this and
   brings this to light along with current
   reality and the apocalyptic age
   when the Lord shall come back.

Revelation
12:4 says ⁴And his tail drew a third part of the stars of heaven, and
cast them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was ready to
be delivered to devour her child as soon as it was born.

1. His
   tail (the dragon) drew a 3^rd of the stars from heaven. The dragon
   had a tail and the dragon’s tail grabbed a 3^rd of the stars.
   Remember we taught earlier in this series that stars represented angels. In heaven, before the beginning began,
   Lucifer (now Satan) who was God’s praise and worship leader got upset because all the glory was going to God. He told God
   that he thought they needed term limits. Lucifer/Satan thought that maybe
   somebody other than God should get the glory. As a result, God cast Lucifer out of heaven, before the
   beginning began. This is how he shows up in the book of Genesis as a snake. When
   Lucifer left, he got a 3^rd of the angels, who rebelled with him,
   kicked out as well. They fell to the earth with him (Note: These angels are
   called fallen angels or demons). John saw in this vision that Satan got a 3^rd
   of the angels (3^rd of the stars) to come with him.
2. Here
   is something that you might not get right now. It might be later tonight, next
   week, or a month from now. It doesn’t matter when, but you will eventually get
   it. Now the dragon represents Satan and John get a dispensational view. John shows us how the dragon worked back then
   and we see this is how the dragon still works right now. Satan represents
   everything that is evil. He is a
   dragon. The stars represent the messengers. The dragon got a 3^rd of
   the stars with his tail, because there is toxicity
   in his tail. Stars, people who make it and do well, are always taken down
   by tail. Now you might get it today, next week, or next month. Our prayer is
   that you get it before you meet the toxicity in the tail.
3. The
   Dragon now has come down. He has all these heads and all these horns. Remember the
   bible speaks of this fiery red dragon with 7 diadems on his head, 7 heads, and
   10 horns.

Revelation
12.5 says ⁵And she brought forth a manchild, who was to rule all
nations with a rod of iron; and her child was caught up unto God and to His
throne.

1. In
   verse 5, woman bore a child. What this dragon was waiting to do was to devour
   the child as soon as he was born. Remember when Jesus was born, Herod asked the
   wise men to show him where Jesus was. Herod in Matthew 2 wanted to kill Jesus
   as soon as he was born. Let’s imagine how this might have looked like. You got
   this woman who has the moon under her feet. She is clothed in the sun and she
   represents Israel. This dragon knows she is about to give birth. The dragon
   which represents Satan comes with one objective. He wants that child. He doesn’t
   want that child to live and he
   doesn’t want that child to make it. This woman knows that this child has
   destiny and the bible says the child is caught up into the throne of God as
   soon as he is born.

Revelation 12:6 says ⁶And the woman fled into the
wilderness, where she hath a place prepared by God, that they should feed her
there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.

1. The
   woman takes off and flees to the wilderness, because there is a place prepared by God for her.  She stays there 1260 days. The woman wasn’t
   Mary (Jesus’ mother) running in the wilderness. This was Israel. God was
   protecting Israel.
2. Major
   conflict- There is going to be a major
   conflict in heaven. Many of you may have seen this movie “The Apocalypse”
   which deals with this war between Michael the angel and the demons. It tries to
   depict the whole idea of this war for this child.

Revelation
12:7 says ⁷And there was war in Heaven: Michael and his angels fought
against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,

1. Michael,
   the head of the angelic hosts (the 2/3 of the angels that remained) and the angels
   fought with the dragon (which was Satan) and his angels (who were demons or
   fallen angels).

Revelation
12:8 says ⁸and prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in
Heaven.

1. There
   is a battle that will take place that will deny Satan access to heaven.
   Understand something; there is a literal
   battle that’s going to take place. Michael is the leader of the angelic
   host. When Paul writes, in Ephesians 6:12:¹²For we wrestle
   not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against
   the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high
   places. , Paul declares that we are not wrestling with flesh blood. We instead wrestle
   with principalities and spiritual wickedness in high places. Where did this battle
   take place? According to the bible, it took place in heaven, so wrestle not
   with flesh and blood. We wrestle with principalities and spiritual wickedness
   in high places. There is this war going over our head that has been going on
   before the beginning of time. The enemy wants to get us to participate in war
   with people. If you think it is just the people and the flesh that doesn’t like
   you, then you will never be effective with this war that is going on over your
   head. It is much bigger than the issue you have in your flesh. There is a war
   going on over your head and if you are not spiritual, you will be a pawned pimp in the game of the devil.
2. This
   war is so real that took place and going to take place that we had to put this
   in. John Milton writes about “Paradise Lost”. He spends an amazing amount of
   time talking about the battle where
   Michael is fighting with these demons. He says there is this indistinguishable
   rage and all of heaven resounded and even the center of the earth shuck as a
   result of it. When you look at that verse again about the war, it says” … and
   there was no more place in heaven… (NKJV)”
   1. Ex1-The
      bible shows that Satan had access to heaven even in his fallen state. How can
      the devil go to heaven even after he had been cast out? In Job 1, there was a
      day when the sons of God presented themselves before the Lord and guess who
      showed up too. It was Satan. The Lord says to Satan, where have you come from? Satan
      responds that he has been going to and fro on the earth seeking who he may
      devour. Now this takes place in heaven. Satan more or less says he had been looking
      for somebody to attack. The Lord asks him if he had considered his servant Job,
      but Satan complains that he didn’t bother him only because God had a hedge
      around him. Satan complains that this was the only thing that kept Job
      faithful. He further claims that if God would remove the hedge, Job would curse him to his face. God then releases
      Satan to attack Job, but bides him not to touch Job’s soul. Satan immediately
      went down and attacked Job. Job was down here on earth serving God and hadn’t
      done anything wrong, but over Jobs head, the Devil has negotiated for Job’s
      destiny. You can be doing everything right, but know that the Devil will
      negotiate for your destiny. Everyone is looking at you, but know there are principalities
      that are waiting to take you out. You got to be spiritual to understand this.
   2. Ex 2-
      The devil is an accuser. He tells God, he doesn’t know why he continues to
      bless us after we half come to church and are reluctant to give him praise.
      This is why when Jesus died and rose again, he is now seated at the right hand
      of the father. He is now our advocate.
      This means that he is our attorney.
      He now pleads our case, before the Judge. This is why you don’t just pray and say
      amen. You pray in your attorney’s name (in Jesus’ name).

Revelations
12:9 says ⁹And the great dragon was cast out — that serpent of old
called the Devil and Satan, who deceiveth the whole world. He was cast out onto
the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

1. Satan
   who deceived the whole world was cast out of heaven and the angels who followed
   him were cast out with him.
2. Four
   falls of Satan:
   1. He
      fell from a glorified state to a
      profane state- He was an angel of worship and he fell to a profane state. Ezekiel 28:14-16 says¹⁴Thou art the anointed cherub that
      covereth, and I have set thee so; thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou
      hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. ¹⁵Thou
      wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was
      found in thee. ¹⁶By the multitude of thy merchandise they have
      filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned; therefore I will
      cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God; and I will destroy thee, O
      covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.
   2. He
      fell from having access to heaven to
      the restriction to the earth- Job 1:12 says ¹²And the LORD
      said unto Satan, “Behold, all that he hath is in thy power; only upon
      himself put not forth thine hand.” So Satan went forth from the presence
      of the LORD., 1 Kings 22:21 says ²¹And there came forth a
      spirit, and stood before the LORD and said, `I will persuade him.’, Zechariah 3:1says ¹And he showed me Joshua the high
      priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right
      hand to resist him.
   3. He fell from the
      earth to bondage- This was from earth to bondage in the bottomless pit for
      1000yrs.
   4. From the pit to the Lake of fire- This is found
      in Revelations 20. Even in Luke
      10:18 it says¹⁸And He said unto them, “I beheld Satan as
      lightning fall from heaven., – In other words, Satan -fell like lightening from
      heaven.

Revelation
12:10-12 says ¹⁰And I heard a loud voice saying in Heaven, “Now have
come salvation and strength, and the Kingdom of our God, and the power of His
Christ; for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, who accused them before
our God day and night. ¹¹And they overcame him by the blood of the
Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they loved not their lives unto
the death. ¹²Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in
them! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and of the sea! For the devil has
come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a
short time.”

1. When
   Satan fell, this meant that the devil has come down to us as mentioned in verse
   12.
2. 3
   ways believers have overcome the dragon:
3. By
   the blood of the lamb- When Jesus
   died and shed his blood on the cross and we entered into relationship with him,
   we came into a blood covenant with him. In the Old Testament, the covenant of
   blood was for the remission of sins and when it became no longer affective, Jesus
   became the ultimate sacrifice. Jesus Christ became the ultimate sacrifice, the lamb
   of God who was slain from the foundations of the world. Jesus shed his blood,
   we came into relationship with him, and therefore, we are covered in the blood.
   Ex – Jesus is sitting at the right of
   the father. Imagine the scene: God is the
   judge. The devil is the prosecuting attorney.
   Jesus is the dream team defense lawyer.
   Here comes the prosecuting attorney (the devil) and he is speaking to the judge
   (God) saying “they have done this and they have done that”. We are sitting
   there knowing that most of what he is saying is true. We are nervous, because we
   are trying to figure out what is going to happen. After all we are guilty of
   some of it. The judge looks at us and asks us, “How do we plead?” and then our
   attorney who is the Christ, the Lamb slain, stands in front of us and says, “We
   plead the blood”. We are not here because we have been so good. We are here, because of the blood. It reaches to the
   highest mountain and flows to the lowest valley. The blood that gives me strength!
4. By
   our testimony– This means even when
   strenuous and difficult times came, these believers under martyrdom and stress,
   held their testimony. Jesus says if we are ashamed of him before this adulterous
   generation, then he will be ashamed of us, before his father. Even when you are
   going through seasons where nobody wants to hear about Jesus, you still got to
   share your testimony. Don’t let God bless you and you get in front of people
   and say you are fortunate. You better
   say you are blessed! Remember where
   you came from. God didn’t raise you up to be quiet. He wants you to tell people
   where you came from.
5. By
   not loving your lives to death- It is
   fundamental to being a Christian that you can’t love your life that much. He,
   who tries to hold on to his life, is the one who loses it. He, who loses his
   life, is the one who will gain it. The whole idea behind Christianity is to
   deny yourself and take up your cross and follow him. Too many of us are trying
   to hold on to ourselves and we wind up losing everything. This is why we can’t serve God too. We try to hold on to too
   much of ourselves. Remember Paul wrote in Philippians 1:21 ²¹For
   to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.-To die is to gain life.
6. Verse
   12 says that Satan was in the earth. He knew his time was short. He knew from
   the beginning of the scheme that his time was temporary, but he doesn’t want
   you to know that. The closer we get
   to the end of age, the more aggressive Satan
   will get. The devil is like a cornered dog that has nowhere to go. He is violent and viscous.
7. The
   dragon went after the child and the child got away. There was war in heaven,
   Michael and his angels fought Satan and his angels, and Satan did not prevail.

Revelations
12:13-14 says¹³And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he
persecuted the woman who brought forth the manchild. ¹⁴And to the
woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the
wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time and times and
half a time, from the face of the serpent.

1. After
   being flung to the earth, Satan, the Serpent, decided to go after the woman
   that had the male child. Now the woman was given two wings so that she could
   fly to that wilderness prepared for her.

Revelations 12:15-16 ¹⁵And the serpent cast out of his
mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried
away by the flood. ¹⁶And the earth helped the woman; and the earth
opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his
mouth. There is no secret that Satan has always attacked the Jewish
brothers and sisters since the beginning of time. Satan has always had issues
with the Jews. He hates Israel, because from the beginning, God had a plan of redemption for the Jews. It was
the Jews that would bring forth the redeemer. In Matthew 23:39 it says ³⁹For
I say unto you, ye shall not see Me henceforth till ye shall say, `Blessed is
He that cometh in the name of the Lord!'”

1. 1.
   When the woman fled to the wilderness, the
   dragon/serpent spewed water out of his mouth. Since God fixed it so Israel
   could get away, Satan tried another tactic.
   He says he would send after her what he couldn’t do himself. He sent a flood.
   The bible says the earth helped her, because the earth swallowed up the water. Isaiah
   59:19 says ¹⁹So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the
   west and His glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in
   like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.- Here,
   even Isaiah got a glimpse of how the devil was going to try and attack us. This
   is all a symbol. If the woman is a symbol (of Israel), it suggests then that
   the water is a symbol too. The water is a symbol of that which tries to overtake us all at one time
   trying to drown us. It is the devil that sends us the things that try to
   overtake us. When Satan sends all these things at one time to try and over take
   us, God said he will lift up a standard against him. God says he will always take care of his children.

Revelation
12:17 says ¹⁷And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and he went to make
war with the remnant of her seed, who keep the commandments of God, and have
the testimony of Jesus Christ.

1. The
   dragon was ticked off. The dragon says since he can’t beat Michael and the
   angels, he can’t get the woman, and he can’t get the baby, he says he will make
   war with her offspring that keep the
   commandments of God. This seed or offspring represent the Gentiles that will be
   converted during the tribulation. Just because you defeated the devil in one
   area of your life doesn’t mean he is not coming at you with something else.
   Just because you overcame drinking don’t think he ain’t coming with something
   else.
2. What
   is important to understand is this thing is about to shift

Chapter 13

Revelation 13:1says ¹And
I stood upon the sand of the sea. And I saw a beast rise up out of the sea,
having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his
heads the name of blasphemy.

1. In
   modern times, the sea is a place of retreat or refreshment. In ancient Israel,
   the sea was viewed as evil. It was viewed as chaotic, Psalm 74:12-13 says ¹²For God is my King of old, working
   salvation in the midst of the earth. ¹³Thou didst divide the sea by
   Thy strength; Thou breakest the heads of the dragons in the waters. ¹⁴Thou
   breakest the heads of Leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the
   people inhabiting the wilderness. Isaiah 57:20 says ²⁰“But
   the wicked are like the troubled sea when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up
   mire and dirt.
2. The
   beast comes out of the sea. The first beast represents the antichrist. He has 7
   heads and 10horns. This means he will be hard to kill, because if one head is
   killed, he has 6 more. Antichrist means
   opposite of Jesus or instead  f Jesus. 1
   John 2:18 says ¹⁸Little children, it is the last time. And as ye
   have heard that Antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists,
   whereby we know that this is the last time. – An Antichrist is coming, but many
   small antichrist have already come.
   This beast mentioned in verse 1 is not a literal beast, but the characteristics
   of the beast will be synonymous with a world leader that will come. This will
   be a real world leader. We know throughout history, there has been a lot of
   small antichrist. We have seen so many people like Hitler come who are smaller
   antichrist. Daniel 7:8 says ⁸I
   considered the horns, and behold, there came up among them another little horn,
   before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots. And
   behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great
   things. – The main Antichrist is called a little horn. Daniel 8:23 says ²³And in the latter
   time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of
   fierce countenance and understanding dark sentences shall stand up. – Here the
   antichrist is called king of a fiery countenance.
   Daniel 9:26says ²⁶And after threescore and two weeks shall
   Messiah be cut off, but not for Himself; and the people of the prince who shall
   come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. And the end thereof shall be
   with a flood, and until the end of the war desolations are determined.- Here
   the antichrist is called a prince that
   shall come. Dan 11:46:45 Daniel 11:45 says⁴⁵And he shall
   plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy
   mountain. Yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him. –Here the
   antichrist is portrayed as the willful king. . John 5:43 says ⁴³I
   have come in My Father’s name, and ye receive Me not; if another shall come in
   his own name, him ye will receive.- Here the antichrist is referred to as one that comes in his own name, 2
   Thessalonians 2:3 says ³Let no man deceive you by any means, for
   that Day shall not come, unless there come a falling away first, and that man
   of sin be revealed, the son of perdition, – Here the antichrist is referred to
   as son of perdition, the man of sin.
3. Ten
   horns will represent that the beast will rule over 10 groups of nations. Daniel
   chapter 7 and Daniel chapter 2 connects the government represented by the 10
   crowns.
4. The
   beast has blasphemous names on his head. He is advertising blasphemy against God.

Revelation 13:2 says ²And
the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of
a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion. And the dragon gave him his
power, and his seat, and great authority.

1. The
   bible says in verse two that the beast was like a leopard and had feet like a bear,
   with the mouth of lion- The antichrist then gets his power and authority from
   the devil. The 3 animals used to describe this beast, represent the empires which this beast will rule. It
   will have a cat like vigilance like a
   leopard, crushing power like bear,
   and authority ferocious like a lion.
2. This
   Antichrist will be given power by the dragon (Satan). He will not be an
   ordinary man. He will be the antichrist. He will look like a man, talk like a man,
   present himself as in a way to make you believe that he is God, but he is not.
3. Bishop
   Walker states: “I stand before you as a man called by God, anointed by God, and
   my power comes from God.” You know this, because the Holy Spirit inside of you
   can bear witness to it. The spirit bears witness to the truth, but if you are
   not saved, anybody can come before you sounding good and you have no way of
   judging if a person is anointed or of the
   devil. “ The bible says that in the last days, people will have itchy ears
   and run after all kinds of stuff.

Revelation 13:3 says ³And
I saw that one of his heads was, as it were, wounded to death, and his deadly
wound was healed. And all the world wondered after the beast.

1. He
   had seven heads and one was wounded, but not literally. This leader that is
   going to rise up in the last day and will be wounded in such a way that society
   will say that there is nothing that can be done and there is no way he will
   recover from this. He will later get up as though it never happened and the whole world is going think that he must be God
   because of this. Remember, he gets his power from Satan. This is how he will
   get people to follow him.

Revelation 13:4says ⁴And
they worshiped the dragon which gave power unto the beast, and they worshiped
the beast, saying, “Who is like unto the beast? Who is able to make war
with him?”

1. They
   will worship the dragon that gave the beast power. This is devil worship. “Who is able to make war against him, “they will
   say..

Revelation 13:5 says ⁵And
there was given unto him a mouth, speaking great things and blasphemies, and
power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.

1. He
   will say great things to get you in, but once you are in, he will begin to
   speak blasphemies against God.

Revelation 13:6-8 says ⁶And he opened his mouth in blasphemy
against God to blaspheme His name, and His tabernacle, and them that dwell in
Heaven. ⁷And it was given unto him to make war with the saints and
to overcome them; and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and
nations. ⁸And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose
names are not written in the Book of Life of the Lamb, slain from the
foundation of the world.

If anyone has an
ear, let him hear. One who leads into captivity, shall go into captivity. He who kills with the sword, must be killed with the sword.

There will be a
real antichrist that will come and he will do miracles. Christ says many will
do miracles in his name, but they are not of him. He will do this great stuff
and people will say he must be the one. They will run after him not knowing he
is going to pull them in just to deceive them. We don’t know what he will look like;
we just know people will be awe struck.
We want know (those who are really saved), because we will be gone. The world
will be looking for somebody to believe in and we will be gone (caught up/raptured).
We will have no idea, but he will be here (on the earth) teaching and ruling
over kingdoms. Even though the antichrist will come and blaspheme the name of
God, there will be people at the throne still giving him glory. There is no
name like the name of Jesus.