The First and Second Witness', the Beast's and Christ's ArrivalSeptember 15, 2005 Article By: Tom Demeter Dear Friend, Christians are human and learn to think like God in a progressive manner, as they are willing to "sacrifice" their "human way" of thinking Mat.16:25, to "God's way" of thinking. We are told that "there is a way that seems right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death" Prov.16:25. If you think as a human, you will not gain eternal life, only death. We are warned that "God's thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, saith the Lord" Isa.55:8. Our thoughts determine who we are Prov.23:7. It is not natural for humans to think like God, for to us to think God's way is "foolishness" ICor.2:14. To learn to "think like God," you must learn and use as many principles of the Bible as possible. The Bible gives you Godís three different laws, which are progressively more difficult to learn and to live by. You must choose which laws of the Bible you want to obey. Learning is a difficult and a time consuming task! Add to this, God has for His followers on these three laws, three religions in the Bible. On these three religions rests Godís three very different governments for His people to live by. Godís plan of salvation uses these three steps, to lift us into His family of the "Godkind," from the angelkind and humankind. This is why we must grow progressively in ěgrace and knowledge.î The practice of God's "highest" law, religion and government allows us to be in the resurrection to eternal life without dying IThes.4:17. The "higher" laws and religion of God you "obey," the fewer people will be with you in this age or dispensation Eph.1:10. In this age of God, only a "few" Mat.7:14 are "given" Lk.8:10 to find "the way" to eternal life! When you consider that the "whole world," including Christianity is deceived Rev.12:9, and that we are like the people in Noah's day Mat.24:37, when the people only knew the Anti-god as God, not our Creator, you see how the above scriptures come into focus. To bring the "few" Christians out from worshipping the Anti -god, who is Satan the Devil Jn.8:44, to worship our Creator, Jesus our Christ Eph.3:9 at the End of the World Mat.24:37, God has sent His First Witness of His Two Witnesses Rev.11:3. This is why if you don't follow God's First Witness, you have no access to eternal life without dying. Only the First Witness teach you Christ's full " knowledge of salvation" Lk.1:77, which is the "restored" gospel Mat.17:11 of Apostle Paul Rom.2:16, the "mystery" of God Eph.3:3. God's "WORK" at the End of the World is done by God's First Witness, who is one man Acts.13:41! He is followed by a very few, as Noah was followed by a few Mat.24:37. The function of God's First Witness was to "restore" Mat. 17:11 God's highest law, and highest religion, and His highest government. His other functions are to set the time line of the End of the World, and to prepare for the Second Witness of God, identifying him, and to "hold back" the arrival of the Biblical Beast. When the First Witness' "testimony is finished" Rev.11:7, can only come the Second Witness, to take over from the First. The First Witness must STOP his "work" voluntarily, based on Mat.16:25, that he may continue later, when his second phase of "work" begins! As Jesus had two phases to His work; a suffering stage and the coming glorious stage, and as Apostle Paul has a two stage work the same type, so is the First Witness, following Paul. The second stage of the First Witness' work comes AFTER the Second Witness prepared for him, to "warn" the world, as God's Ambassador, and to "call" God's Elect Mat.24:22, that these may "flee" into God's Kingdom of Heaven's Embassy, set up legally on this earth now, to qualify them to "flee" to God's Place of Safety in the Middle East, and later into the wilderness of Moab. This must be done that the "ELECT" may be in the "resurrection" ICor.15:52, without dying IThes.4:17. This is Christ's true "operation" of salvation Col.2:12, which involves the saving and salvation of human and the angelkinds. The Second Witness' ArrivalWe don't know when The First Witness arrived. We know that he did before the 9/11 in 2001. He was sent before Satan was "cast down to the earth," to warn us, as Noah was sent to warn the people of the earth of the Flood coming. Nobody listened to Noah, as now to the First Witness in his first stage of his work. Satan was "cast down to the earth" during the US/UK vs. IRAQ war, in April of 2003 Rev.12:9. God "hides" some of the truth from us Mat.13:34, that we may use our faith, for we are "saved through our faith" Eph.2:8. Now we will see the arrival of Christ's Second Witness. God's First Witness' work is finished. This SHUT the doors to God's Place of Safety, as a warning to the true Christians, God's Elect, for a while. Later, when the Second Witness' work is finished, Christ "MIDNIGHT CRY" will be done Mat.25:6, and the "door will be SHUT" to God's Place of Safety to the followers of the Second Witness Mat.25:10! The Second Witness will come to Israel, and He will start to "restore" the Old Testament truth to Israel. He will separate the religion of the Jews who obey the Cabala, and the Torah. The leaders of Israel are the Zionists, believers of the Cabala. The Second Witness' coming will take the political power from the Zionists, to build the New Temple of God. This will bring a huge political upheaval in Israel, which will affect the USA and the world. The followers of the Second Witness will be the 144,000 Israelites Rev.7:4, who will warn the world of the Beast's coming, while "holding back" 2Thes.2:6 the arrival of the "man of sin" V.3 who is the Biblical "Beast" Rev.11:7. The "whole world is deceived" Rev.12:9 so when the Second Witness and his truth meets deception, it will create a huge CONFLICT. This conflict will upset our world by exposing our religions as of the Anti-god, it will show that we are not lawful but lawless, and that we do not have God's money but the Anti-god's credit system without money. We will see "God's Way" collide with the ěAnti-godís way.î There can be no greater conflict, because the two God's are involved who are opposites! Our Creator "Jesus is the truth" Jn.14:6, and the "god of this world" 2Cor.4:4 is Satan, the Devil, "has no truth in him" Jn.8:44. This conflict will be so great that it would "destroy" the world. To give a "testimony" to the world of its "deception," God's Second Witness will be given great power, to stand up to the power of Satan and his government Rev.11:5,6. Christ to allow His pre-ordained plan of salvation to work, will allow His Two Witnesses, the Second Witnesses' two Prophets to be killed V.7. This will be at the arrival of the "man of sin" the Beast, who is also known as the Assyrian, who will make a "covenant" with Ephraim Hose.12:1, as Daniel tells us Dan.11:28. Christ to have mercy on the population of the world, is giving only three and a half years for the Two Witnesses Rev.11:3 to "testify," because Christ is giving them power to "torment" the carnal population of the world V.10. The Beast is also only given three and a half years to rule the world Rev.13:5. (Be careful, we don't know at the present if the Two Witnesses' time is counted separate or together.) Considering that when the First Witness came there was a devastating war, we can look forward now, to a cataclysmic event, when the Second Witness will arrive. He will "hold back" the coming of World War III, but that does not preclude an Islamic attack on the USA and other Christian nations, to warn us. If I got it right, the Second Witness will arrive in October or November of 2005. The signs in the heavens, and on earth giving us confirmation. The First Witness' Second ArrivalNow we need to discuss the plight of the Christians, who are the followers of God's First Witness. The followers of God's First Witness are God's Elect Mat.24:22. These are the "wave sheaf" offering to God in the Old Testament Lev.23:15. In the New Testament this group is represented by the 120 at the time of the first Pentecost. The bigger group of the "firstfuits" of God Rev.14:4 are the Christians who will be the followers of God's Elect. These two groups will follow Apostle Paul's gospel the "mystery" Rom.2:16; Eph.3:3. The "Great Multitude" Rev.7:9 of the Christians will follow the New Testament as it was given to the Twelve Apostles. We have seen that God's First Witness, in his first phase of work was like Noah, without followers. The second phase of God's First Witness has "many" followers as Christ will. Carnal people can't follow spiritual leaders, because their agenda or message is "foolishness" to them ICor.2:14. This is why when Jesus started to preach His real message "all His disciples have 'forsaken Him" Mat.26:56. Apostle Paul experienced the same complaining that "all men forsook me" 2Tim.4:16. This was the story of all the Apostles. Now things will change. After the Second Witness and the 144,000 are doing their witnessing, the Christians will see that they have a "better" message than the Old Testament. This is when they will look for God's First Witness, as the People of Babylon and Persia looked for Daniel, God's Prophet. This was the case with Apostle Paul, after his conversion. It was Barnabas who introduced Paul to the Apostles and the disciples Acts.9:27. This is when the division or separation of the Christians will take place. As the Anti-god will unite his people, Christ will divide His. We must remember that the "gifts and calling of God is without repentance" Rom.11:29. Our "calling," or when we are called, to be saved was pre- ordained by Christ and our Father 2Tom.1:9, and so was which church or religion or group of God's seven churches we are called into in this age. The understanding of Christ's "highest" gospel, the mystery will help God' people recognize the need for God's First Witness, to eliminate the contentions, and the different Biblical interpretations of God's children. Knowledge is power and the "soft answers of this man will brake the bones" of contention, bringing peace through understanding Prov.25:15 and love. This is when God's First Witness will work with God's Elect, showing them how to "come out" of this world religiously, legally and financially Rev.18:4. This is when his gospel will be accepted, and the different groups will be divided according to our Father's calling. Most likely Christ will use the internet to accomplish this work. The question is how long will be the time when the First Witness will stop his work, and start it again? In the case of Jesus the wait was two thousand years. After Paul was converted to Christianity, he went into the wilderness to learn from Christ. When he returned he immediately started to preach in Damascus Acts.9. Our answer will be hinging on the appearance of God's Second Witness, and the conditions in the USA. It looks that the three and a half years will not allow a long wait to find the First Witness. The wait will not be long, because the "work" of the First Witness is complex. He is bringing new laws, new religions and new governments, three of each to his followers. To make the changes takes time. To change one's thinking, and value system is most difficult, not to mention that God's spirit is needed and received, and the new knowledge must be tried and proved by experience. The Beast's and Christ's Second ComingWe are told that Christ's second coming will be as the days of Noah were Mat.24:37, when the population of the earth was killed, except those who listened to Noah. The Killing of all humanity is needed again, to prepare for the "reconciliation" of the angelkind. This task is given to Satan and God's angels. Satan is given the task to do his job in three segments, the Bible calls this the three "WOES" of Revelation. At the present it looks that the Two Witnesses "tormenting" the world Rev.11:10, and the coming of the Anti-christ or the Beast will be the "First Woe" Rev.9:12. During this time the "slaying a third part of men" V.15 will be accomplished! This is why the next three and a half years will be the most cataclysmic time since the Flood. We are told that the whole Bible is "written for our admonition, upon whom the End of the World are come" ICor.10:11. This is why Paul tells us that "let him that think he stands, (or have the right religion and its understanding) take heed lest he falls" or killed V.12. We are warned to "flee from our idolatry" for we are ALL serve and obey the Anti-god, not our Creator V.14. Why we are looking forward to such a cataclysmic time? We do because the Two Witnesses will perform true miracles as Moses did in Egypt. Satan the Anti-god will match these miracles with his false miracles. This confrontation devastated Egypt as the USA will be this time, being the forerunner of Babylon. After the Two Witnesses are killed, Satan must deceived the remaining population that the Beast is the Christ. To do this he will need to imitate Christ's coming, which will appear that the world is destroyed! All those who are righteous, will be killed, being branded as the enemies of God. The earth cleansed this way from all the righteous, it will be ready for Satan's millennial rule. After this destruction, Satan will bring out new science and technology, to re-build the world, and to bring in his millennium for humanity. Toward the End of his reign, the Beast will have a conflict with the ten kings, who gave their power to the Beast, seeing their deception. The Beast will go to the East and bring an army of 200,000,000 to the Middle east. This is when the "second woe" will come, and another "slaying a third part of man" who are left on the earth. Soon after this, we will enter the "Day of the Lord" Joel 2:11, which is the "seventh seal" of Revelation 8:1, and its seven trumpets, destroying the world as it was in Noah's day. If you will not be in God's Place of Safety Rev.12:6, as a righteous or be a holy person, you will not make it into Christ's physical millennial kingdom, and certainly will not be in the resurrection without dying. The world at this time will be destroyed more than in Noah's day. This is when we will experience the north and the south poles to shift. The poles will be moved in a different location, freezing certain areas like in the poles now, and others will become tropical. Christ will remove all the mountains, change the continents, the seas and the rivers. The earth will be re-created for the "ages to come," when humanity and the angelkinds will not be "alienated" from our Creator. The age of evil is finished and righteousness will rule the earth. The angels reign over humans will be changed to the rulership of qualified humans over the angels. To do this Christ has to destroy all humanity. We will see a new earth, with new weather world wide, like we experience now in California. Christ will give a new spirit to hmanity, that they will want to obey God's laws. The nature of animals will be changed too, that the lion will play with the lamb Isa.11. Children will be able to play with snakes because they will not harm them. We are going to have again a one language as before the tower of Babel was built. People will synergize their energies to create utopia on the earth, like we always long for. Humanity will experience peace, health and prosperity. Good will and love will rule, to give us satisfaction, to desire to be better and to be lifted into the Godkind, without going through all the pain we all have to endure in this life. I pray that knowing this you will make all efforts to look for God's First Witness. I pray that you may show that you have God's sacrificial love, and to share it with others to save them from the evil to come, and to receive the blessings, protection and eternal life without dying. In the reality of God's eternal love, |