Compiled by Apollos from the writings of David Brandt Berg with further editing by the webmaster.
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WHEN THE ANTICHRIST REACHES THE "MIDST OF THE WEEK" and TRIES TO WIPE OUT ALL RELIGIONS and ESTABLISH HIS WORLD RELIGION OF SELF-WORSHIP OF THE DEVIL and HIS IDOL, THIS IS WHEN HE REALLY STARTS GETTING INTO TROUBLE--both with the peoples of the World and the religions of the World and their followers--and he begins having all kinds of wars, some of which we just read about in Daniel 11. He has wars with different areas and nations and peoples--no doubt with those who are the most religious--and he has a lot of problems in those last days of his reign.--And God will give him a lot of problems, too!
THAT FINAL 3-1/2 YEARS WILL BE THE MOST DIFFICULT, AS JESUS HIMSELF SAID, "Then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the World to this time, no, nor ever shall be." (Mt.24:21.) Many will refuse to accept the Mark of the Beast, obey him or bow down to his Image, and as a result many will be slaughtered. It says many shall "fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity and by spoil." (Dan.11:33.) Multitudes, no doubt millions, will be killed!--There will be 3-1/2 years of horrible persecution of Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, etc. All religions will be forbidden, banned and persecuted! (See Dan.11:36,37.)
WHEN HE FIRST ARISES AS A GREAT WORLD LEADER, THE WHOLE WORLD THINKS HE'S GREAT and FOLLOWS HIM, except, of course, we who really know God's Word and will recognise who and what he really is. Millions will believe in the Antichrist and follow him. It even says, "all the World wondered after the Beast!" (Rev.13:3.)--Well, they may all be deceived by him and wonder and wander after him for awhile, at least until the middle of his reign.
BUT WHEN HE SUDDENLY INVADES JERUSALEM, sets up an idol of himself in the Holy Place and sits in the Temple of God saying that he is God--"fall down and worship me and my idol and accept my brand or you're going to be killed!"--At that point, obviously, many millions of people will reject the Mark, refuse to worship him and his Image, and will rebel against his Satanic kingdom, resulting in nothing but trouble from then on according to the Bible.
THERE WILL BE LITERALLY MILLIONS WHO WILL REJECT THE MARK OF THE BEAST and refuse to fall down and worship his Image, and who will even as nations rebel against him and fight him, which accounts for some of those wars and turmoil we just read about in Daniel. So the whole World is not going to be in perfect peace during those last 3-1/2 years, and he's not going to have absolute control. There will be all kinds of people who will rise up and realise that he's not the right guy and he's not good for them or the World, that he's the Devil himself and devilish and demonic and the worst thing that ever happened to the World!--And they're going to rebel and refuse to follow his orders. They're going to refuse to take the Mark of the Beast!
REMEMBER BACK IN REVELATION 12 WHEN SATAN WAS FINALLY CAST OUT OF HEAVEN down to Earth, "having great wrath because he knoweth that he hath but a short time"? (Rev.12:12.)--What was the first thing he immediately began to do?--"And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the Earth, he persecuted the woman"--the Bride of Christ, the Church--"and the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ!" (Rev.12:13,17.)--He's particularly going to be out to get you and me and anyone who loves Jesus and is a part of His Bride!
THE BIBLE SAYS THAT ANYBODY WHO ACCEPTS THE MARK OF THE BEAST IS GOING TO BE DAMNED, SO OBVIOUSLY NO TRULY SAVED CHRISTIAN IS GOING TO ACCEPT IT! "If any man worship the Beast and his Image, and receive his Mark in his forehead, or in his hand, the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of His indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the Beast and his Image, and whosoever receiveth the Mark of his name." (Rev.14:9-11.)
SO OF COURSE THE TRUE CHRISTIANS, THE TRUE BELIEVERS IN GOD, WILL NOT ACCEPT THAT MARK!--Because the Bible says that we who love Jesus will already have the invisible Mark of God in our foreheads--faith in Jesus Christ! The rest of the World, at least those who are following the Antichrist, this horrible Beast, will have the Mark of the Beast in their foreheads and in their hands as they follow and worship him.--But we who love the Lord cannot accept that Mark of the Beast, and we will not! If you love Jesus, you will refuse the Mark of the Beast, because you'll have God's Mark in your forehead already! (See Revelation 7:2,3; 9:3,4.)
AND ALTHOUGH THE BEAST COMMANDS THAT NO ONE CAN BUY NOR SELL WITHOUT THE MARK and that anyone who refuses to worship his Image should be killed, we will refuse! We will refuse both the Mark and the worship of the Image, and therefore they will try to kill us, and we will not be able to buy nor sell food or clothing or shelter or the necessities of life. We will undoubtedly have to flee into the "wilderness" for survival, to prevent our being killed for not worshipping the Image of the Beast and to survive without being able to buy or sell.--But God is going to take care of us!
JUST BECAUSE THEY TELL YOU TO STOP WORSHIPPING THE LORD and to worship the Beast, to worship the Antichrist, to worship the Devil, do you have to?--Even if they tell you that unless you get his Mark, 666, in your forehead or in your hand you can't buy or sell anymore, you can't go to the grocery store and buy groceries, and if you're a farmer you can't sell your produce, does that mean you have to?--No! He only threatens to kill everybody! Well, the Devil's been trying to kill all God's people for thousands of years, but he's never succeeded! He's managed to kill a few, sometimes quite a few, but he's never managed to kill them all! So he may get a few of us--if he can catch us!
THIS TRIBULATION PERIOD WILL BE THE END OF ANY KIND OF ASSOCIATION WITH THE SYSTEM WHATSOEVER FOR TRUE CHRISTIANS, any connection or any survival with its approval. It will be impossible to survive except by miracles of God and faith and living by faith in a survival situation, totally and entirely independent from the System, without its Mark and without its approval and without its benefits, unable to buy or sell. We will have to subsist in a survival situation, underground, and do the best we can to survive and continue to witness, much like the Early Christians did from the catacombs during the Roman persecutions.
IN THESE COMING DAYS, THE DISOBEDIENT and UNDEDICATED CHRISTIANS WILL NO LONGER BE ABLE TO TRY TO SERVE BOTH "GOD and MAMMON"! (Mt.6:24.)--Because it will be impossible to live within the System unless they accept the Mark of the Beast. At last the Church will be forced to obey God's call to "come out from among them, and be ye separate, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you!" (2Co.6:17.) But how much better if they'd "forsake all and take up their cross daily and be not conformed to this World, but be transformed" now, when it's purely voluntary! (Lk.14:33; 9:23,24; Rom.12:1,2.)--Do you?
AS THE WORLD SLIPS INTO THIS NEW DARK AGE OF ANTI-CHRIST, ANTI-GOD SAVAGERY, if we, as Christians, do not hole up in the "catacombs" beneath "Rome", we're not going to survive! We will have to go underground! The time of suffering and persecution under the Roman Empire during the early days of the Church was very similar to what will happen under the coming Antichrist Empire, because Rome was also very anti-Christ. So if you want to know what it's going to be like under the Antichrist, just read the stories and accounts of the Early Church under the anti-Christ Roman Empire.
THERE'LL BE LITTLE CHANGE FOR THE CHRISTIANS IN RUSSIA TODAY WHO ARE LEARNING HOW TO SURVIVE UNDER A COMMUNIST GOVERNMENT. There'll be very little change for those living under governments which the Communists have taken over and where they've already learned to exist and survive and work and thrive under a totalitarian government of some kind, where open witnessing or literature distribution is totally forbidden, and even secret witnessing is dangerous but possible. Of course, if you're really following the Lord, your very life and your light and your example and your love are a constant witness in themselves and sufficient and all that God may expect of you, until they come to you and ask you why.
THEN, OF COURSE, WHEN THEY SEEK YOU OUT and you know that they're sincere and they really want to know, you're going to have to tell them, and they too may become secret believers and continue to work under their government just as you do, but secretly believing, as literally tens of thousands, if not perhaps even millions, of Russians do today! You will then have to heed Christ's admonition, "Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves. Be ye therefore wise as serpents and harmless as doves!" (Mt.10:16.) You'd also do well to take a tip from the wise father in East Germany who advised his son, while living under that Communist regime, "You only need to be red like a radish: Just appear to be red on the outside, but all white on the inside!" (Continue on to part 9)
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