Daily Devotional, Year 4 – January 11 (Cuttlefish & The False Prophet, Part 8: “And He Spake As A Dragon!”)
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Daily Devotional, Year 4 – January 11
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Cuttlefish & The False Prophet,
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Part 8:
“And He Spake As A Dragon!”
To read Part 1, go here…April 1 (Cuttlefish & The False Prophet)
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“And I beheld another beast
coming up out of the earth;
and he had two horns like a lamb,
and he spake as a dragon.“
Revelation 13:11
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CUTTLEFISH: SYMBOL OF SATAN
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Well, God has created this little predator to give us further insight into the inner working of the kingdom of Satan.
(As this little 26 second video below shows, the Cuttlefish has the ability to paralyze his potential victims, by using his hypnotizing strobe-light effect! Amazing!)
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Certainly, Satan and his unseen armies love to make themselves invisible!
That way, they can work their misery and woe upon this unsuspecting world, without its inhabitants becoming alarmed, causing us to rebel against Satan’s kingdom, as we flee to God!
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And isn’t true that the pleasures and riches of this world, like the cuttlefish’s strobe-hypnotizer, have a mesmerizing effect upon us?
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“THE KISSES OF AN ENEMY ARE DECEITFUL!”
Proverbs 27:6
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Truly it can be said, we live in a “Cuttlefish World”.
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Yes, just like that incredible impostor, so much of this world has been changed into a seemingly benign and beneficent society to a great degree.
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Oh yes, there are many underlying dangers and evils still lurking out there!
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But just look around at all the humanitarianism going on today!
Why, it just seems as if this is such a caring and compassionate world!
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Giant Cuttlefish – cropped image – Wikimedia – Creative Commons Attribution
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“…AND HE SPAKE AS A DRAGON”
Revelation 13:11
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But in recent decades, this Revelation 13 False Prophet has begun speaking openly like a dragon (Satan).
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Yes, this enraged fallen angel is now using the mass media to provoke various people-groups to hate one-another, persecute one-another.
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Yes, this Revelation 13 False Prophet is nothing less than the Spirit of Antichrist, spreading its deceptive & hateful tentacles into the four corners of the globe!
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TV – The Image of the Beast – www.theheavensdeclare.net – Not for commercial uses
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“and all the world…worshipped the dragon…that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan”
Revelation 13:3, 4 & 20:2
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We must understand that the False Prophet of Revelation 13 now “speaks as a dragon”, that is, he speaks like Satan, as this above passage reveals.
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Well, just listen to the television, radio, and Internet!
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What do we hear each day? Lust? Violence? Revenge? Hate? Perversion? Lies? Hypocrisy? Greed? Pride? Murder? False witnessing against others? Atheism? False religions?
Yes, yes, yes!!!
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And all that on a 24/7/365 basis!
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TV – The Image of the Beast – www.theheavensdeclare.net – Not for commercial uses
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“God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar”
Romans 3:4
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And this fallen world is on-board with so much of these evils!
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This is because fallen mankind is indwelt with “the spirit of error…antichrist”, Satan, who also is called, “…a liar, and the father of it”.
(1st John 4:3, 6, & John 8:44)
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And yet, Satan realizes he must cover all his hatred with a thin veneer of pretentious goodness.
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And so, the media is populated with countless light-hearted programs, presenting his dark kingdom, this selfish world, in the best light possible!
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ABOVE PICTURE: TV indoctrination – www.signsofheaven.org – not for commercial uses
TV – Family watching television – c. 1958 – Wikipedia – public domain
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“Every kingdom divided…shall not stand”
Matthew 12:25
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Yet, in spite of this nation’s achievements over its past injustices, Satan is now on the march, spreading his hatred, lies, and deceptions!
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Yes, just like the deceptive cuttlefish, Satan has transformed this Revelation 13 False Prophet from his former lamb-like façade, into the maniacal beast which now speaks openly as a dragon!
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And it just may be that he will eventually bully all humanity to choose: “Either bow down and capitulate to the selfish-tokens of my antichrist world-system…or be killed.”
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Cuttlefish – Wikimedia – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license
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GOOD NEWS FROM A FAR COUNTRY
Proverbs 25:25
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Well, with all this negativity, it’s hard to imagine that there could be any Good News found here!
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But the fact is, there’s much Good News!
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Yes, God is only allowing all these horrible events and dystopian paradigm shifts for a number of wonderful and eternal purposes!
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First, God is very painfully aware that He must finally take away our comfortable blissful lethargy, so that His people will at last let go of our tight grip on this Kingdom of Selfishness.
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Yes, as a result of our incredible prosperity, the greater portion of churchgoers are not properly armored-up, nor prepared for the final conflict!
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But God will have a people all armored up, to “withstand in the Evil Day” (Ephesians 6:13).
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And each and every circumstance coming our way will require each and every soldier of Christ to walk by all the, “exceeding great and precious promises”, which we have stored up in our hearts!
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Barbecue – Dutch family – cropped image – Wikimedia – Share-alike License
ABOVE PICTURE: The armor of God – theheavensdeclare.net -use by permission only
ABOVE PICTURE: The True Upward Pathway www.signsofheaven.org
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And we need not despair of these soon-coming trials,
because God has promised…
“For in the time of trouble
He shall hide me in His pavilion:
in the secret of His tabernacle shall He hide me;
He shall set me up upon a Rock.
And now shall mine head be lifted up
above mine enemies round about me…”
Psalm 27:5, 6 & 37:39
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TO READ THE CONTINUATION OF THIS ARTICLE CLICK HERE…
January 29 (Cuttlefish & The False Prophet, Part 9: “And He Spake As A Dragon!” CONTINUED)
Giant Cuttlefish – Wikimedia – Creative Commons Attribution
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WATCH THIS SHORT BUT AMAZING VIDEO ON CUTTLEFISH…
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TODAY’S PRAYER…
“Dear Lord, Help me to not be fooled by this very deceptive world…
Family Prayer Before Meal – Wikimedia – US-Govt. – Public-Domain
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READ MORE…
To explore deeper into this subject, please read…October 4 (And The Nations Were Angry! Part 3: “Summer of Love, Winter of Hate”)“…
…or you can also read… January 26th: The False Prophet: (“And I beheld another beast (The False Prophet)”) ALSO READ: (Buying & Selling The Gospel)
Question book magnify svg – Wikimedia – GNU license
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THE END
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TODAY’S FEATURED HEAVENLY SIGN
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7 HEADS, 10 HORNS, & 7 CROWNS OF THE DRAGON
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“And there appeared another wonder in heaven;
and behold a great red dragon,
having seven heads and ten horns,
and seven crowns upon his heads.”
Revelation 12:3
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In Revelation, the Dragon of Revelation 12 is described as having seven heads, ten horns, and seven crowns.
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However, the Dragon Constellation up in the night sky does not.
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But God has faithfully created the wave of water, in such a way, as to illustrate this same concept of the seven heads, ten horns, and seven crowns.
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Because this wave of water is basically composed of ten stars.
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The main body of the wave has seven stars (#‘s, 1 thru 7).
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And the tip of the crest of the wave has the other three stars (#’s, 8, 9 & 10).
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READ MORE…
Flood Waters of Satan-Introduction
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TOMORROW…
JANUARY 12 (How a Joke Killed! Part 2-b: “An Antichrist Spirit”)
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THE GREAT CONTROVERSY BY ELLEN G.
WHITE
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ALL ‘NOBLE BEREANS’ (open-minded seekers of Bible truth) are invited to listen to this 44 chapter audio book, is a brief history of the Church, from the Cross of Christ forward to the Return of Christ.
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Chapter 9 – The Swiss Reformer
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Martin Luther – 95 Theses – Wikipedia – US Public Domain
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EXCERPTS FROM THE OPEN FORUM
QUESTION/ANSWER RADIO TALK-SHOW…
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ALL ‘NOBLE BEREANS’ (open-minded seekers of Bible truth) are invited to listen to this small 30-minute sampling of the late Harold Camping’s nearly 50-year-long series of 90-minute nightly talk shows…This is Open Forum Show #60
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ABOVE PICTURE: Holy bible – Wikimedia – Creative Commons lic.
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