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When I embarked on this portion of my 2010\u00a0study<\/a>, I struggled with even how to start. I\u2019ve been studying Scriptures since I was eleven. No other part of Scripture has seemingly been more elusive than Revelation 13 especially verse 18. When I learned the truth, I really had to struggle with what I\u2019ve been taught all my life; to go against far more learned and respected men than myself.<\/p>\n

Proverbs 22:6 <\/strong>“Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”<\/em><\/p>\n

However, I have a more pressing desire to know the truth and nothing but. The Lord put within my heart discernment. I\u2019ve grown up spiritually with the King James Bible and I\u2019ve been very content with using it however; I began finding wonderful gems within the Hebrew Scriptures\u2019s original language of Hebrew. The more I learn from Scriptures the more awesome and clearly divine it becomes. The devil has been trying since the first scrolls to mock the written Word by creating varying versions and minor adjustments, but the Almighty has allowed for those wishing to know the truth to do so. I\u2019ve written a lot of things in this study, but the fundamental issue is: you must do your own homework. Just as parents cannot live the lives of their children, I cannot walk in your journey to the truth. I can only pray that I can be a tool to help you get there. I am not implying that I have presented everything accurately and without error \u2013 by now you should have found several typos. I am only presenting what I feel I have been taught by the Lord to the satisfaction of my intellectual desire and yearning of spirit.\u00a0 Truth has no agenda.<\/p>\n

Since I accepted the Lord Jesus into my heart, I knew I was in the last days. Even Hollywood is a believer with all their end-time and end-of-the-world movies and TV shows. There is a doom-and-gloom over the Earth especially with what is going on over the entire planet; major earthquakes, wars, rumors of war, countries against countries, ethnic groups against ethnic groups, crime, famine, floods, plagues: one need only to scan the headlines. 2011 alone has seen a rise to all those things just mentioned, but not with just its “happening” but that everything is breaking all-time records and not just by a little. The recent tornados in the south surpassed the previous record by twice as many tornados in a single day. No month in recorded history has had as many tornados as April 2011.<\/p>\n

But Jesus says in Matthew 24:8 <\/strong>“All these are the beginning of sorrows.<\/em><\/span>”<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been taught just like everyone else a lie, not intentionally by the speakers or writers, but conceived by the devil over 400 years ago or more to hide the truth. I speak about the kingdom of the antichrist. 400 years ago the Roman Catholic Church was very powerful. They had the Spanish Inquisition and made and destroyed kings. They were indeed the most feared entity on the planet, and remained so for a very long time. So 400 years ago, stating that the kingdom of the antichrist was the Roman Catholic Church was only offensive to Catholics. However, today, they do not behead non-believers. They still hold, to some degree, that Jesus is God and that as a man He died on the cross for us, and rose from the dead and ascended to heaven. Although a mix of old pagan beliefs and New Testament teaching, they don\u2019t diminish Jesus to mere mortal as Islam does today. In fact, if they knew Scripture well enough, no one, including me who used to be Catholic, would have been deceived by this lie.<\/p>\n

I John 2:22 <\/strong>“Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

Catholics will still admit that Jesus is the Son of God and that He is God. So by the definition laid out in Scripture, they cannot be the kingdom of the antichrist.<\/p>\n

Matthew 12:30 <\/strong>“He that is not with me is against me; …”<\/em><\/p>\n

Luke 9:49-50 <\/strong>“And John answered and said, Master, we saw one casting out devils in thy name; and we forbad him, because he followeth not with us. And Jesus said unto him, Forbid him not: for he that is not against us is for us.<\/em>”<\/p>\n

This should be a warning to all the Christian denominations that their division is not what the Lord intended for His bride. It is from all the misinterpretations of Scripture by unprepared preachers, scholars, and evangelists, and mostly the lazy believers that falsely allow others to live their spiritual lives, to be deceived resulting in division. I am most certainly not an ecumenicalist (doctrine of the ecumenical movement that promotes cooperation and better understanding among different religious denominations) but I believe if we stop judging one another, live by the Word of God, and be obedient to the Holy Spirit, the outcome can only be unity. The one thing I really despise are labels.<\/p>\n

Psalms 133:1 <\/strong>“Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!<\/em>”<\/p>\n

Hearing this from Walid Shoebat, a former PLO terrorist who accepted Jesus as his Savior, I started doing my homework. Since I didn\u2019t have any problems with Islam being the kingdom of the antichrist, I had a hard time fitting in the “mark of the beast” and the illusive “666”. But let\u2019s start at the beginning.<\/p>\n

Isaiah 14:12-14<\/strong> “How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!<\/span><\/strong> how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.<\/em>”<\/p>\n

Lucifer, son of the morning = \u05d4\u05b5\u05d9\u05dc\u05b5\u05dc \u05d1\u05bc\u05b6\u05df-\u05e9\u05c1\u05b8\u05d7\u05b7\u05e8<\/strong> (literal meaning – Morning star son of black<\/em> [as in just before the dawn]) \u2013 pronounced helel ben shahar<\/em><\/p>\n

Lucifer<\/em> in Hebrew is pronounced heylel<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Heylel<\/em> means:<\/p>\n

“Morning star” in Hebrew \u05d4\u05b5\u05d9\u05dc\u05b5\u05dc<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Light Bearer” in Latin<\/p>\n

“Crescent Moon” in Arabic \u0647\u0644\u0627\u0644<\/strong> (copy and paste this into Google images and you’ll get a crescent moon)<\/p>\n

\"CresentIf you type into Google translate, hilal bin shahar<\/em> (\u0647\u0644\u0627\u0644 \u0628\u0646 \u0634\u0631<\/strong> ) you’ll get Crescent Moon son of Evil<\/strong><\/span>!<\/p>\n

The crescent moon is the symbol and the image of Islam.<\/p>\n

Arabic uses metathesis (vowel substitution and same consonant shuffling) to generate variations of the same theme. For example, the same is done when transliterating Hebrew word for “Festival of Lights” Hanukah<\/em>, or Hanukkah<\/em>, or Chanukah<\/em>. In Arabic, a great example is Mohamed<\/em>, Muhammad<\/em>, Muhammed<\/em>, and Mahomet<\/em>. Metathesis first starts in pronunciation. For example in English, the proper pronunciation is “TO”, but most Americans say “TA”. “LATER” but most say “LADER”. UK English still spells it CENTRE but is pronounced CENTER which is the American spelling.<\/p>\n