Daily Devotional, Year 4 – October 21 (And He Spake as a Dragon! Part 4 “How to Read the News in an Increasingly Dishonest World”)
By admin On November 12th, 2023.
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Daily Devotional, Year 4 – October 21
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And He Spake as a Dragon!
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Part 4
“How To Read the News in an Increasingly Dishonest World”
To read Part 1, click here…October 1 (And He Spake as a Dragon! Part 1: “Internet: The Ultimate Great Tribulation Weapon!”)
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“And I beheld another beast
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coming up out of the earth;
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and he had two horns like a lamb,
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and he spake as a dragon.“
Revelation 13:11
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A conservative television talk-show host remarked how his very liberal mother who scoured an extremely thick newspaper each and every day, and yet, had no idea that certain various world events had even occurred.
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In other words, as he quizzed her about various recent news-worthy events, it became evident that her particular politically biased news-source completely omitted various stories which one might easily find in other publications which she refused to read.
Announcer with microphone – svg – Wikimedia – Public-Domain
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“And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.”
Matthew 24:12
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Truth-be-told, in the increasingly divided and polarized western societies, the various news services have more-or-less devolved into little more than ideological warriors, each jealously fighting for their own political cause.
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It is a veritable war between two very different ideologies. One side claims to be the ideology of love and compassion while the other stands for morality and justice.
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The Puppetmaster of Politics – Property of www.theheavensdeclare.net – exclusive copyrighted
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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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Of course, this website reveals these two power sources to actually be the “two horns like a lamb”, spoken of in the Book of Revelation, concerning the False Prophet Beast. Yes, Revelation 13 reveals this beast as having “two horns like a lamb, and spake as a dragon”?
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And as this website points out, the Lamb of God, Jesus, has two horns of power, spoken in various places, such as Psalm 85:10…“Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.” And so, while one political ideology claims to be the arbiters of mercy and peace, the other claims to be the arbiters of righteousness and truth.
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“And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and 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” Revelation 13:1
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Now, this website further reveals this second Beast, the False Prophet, to be aligned with the first Beast’s 6th and 7th heads.
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The 6th head of the 1st Beast (the Antichrist Beast) is the dominance of mankind as being the supreme ruler of this world. Hence, this 6th head embraces atheism, the religion of mankind being their own ruler, since God does not exist, or so they believe.
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But the 7th head acknowledges the existence of God, and is aligned with Christianity to a large degree.
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ABOVE ENGRAVING: Whore – Babylon – Burgkmair – 1523 AD – this old engraving shows that the Church once realized that the Babylon Mother of Harlots was actually the apostate churches – Wikimedia – US Public Domain
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THE TWO BEASTS OF REVELATION 13
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And thus, these two Beasts, the Antichrist Beast and the False Prophet happen to be Satan’s two war machines in his kingdom of darkness, which this fallen world is. Of course, the apostate churches erroneously teach that these two beasts are merely two individual humans, in spite of the fact that the Bible speaks of beasts as being kingdoms. (See Daniel 7:23, for example).
ABOVE ENGRAVING: Whore – Babylon – Burgkmair – 1523 AD – this old engraving shows that the Church once realized that the Babylon Mother of Harlots was actually the apostate churches – Wikimedia – US Public Domain
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THE FALSE PROPHET of REVELATION 13 & 17
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Now that these two beasts have been introduced, we can focus on the second beast, with two horns like a lamb, and speaks as a dragon. The Dragon of course is revealed in Revelation 20:2 as “the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan”.
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And so, because the False Prophet Beast speaks as a dragon, Satan, it is no surprise that we are now witnessing just how evil that the major voices in America are becoming. And being called by Jesus, “the father of lies”, it shouldn’t be surprising just how dishonest these major voices are! (John 8:44)
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Yes, whether it be our school systems, or the music industry, or the social media, government, or the news services, the level of dishonesty is nothing short of amazing!
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But for the sake of brevity, let’s confine ourselves to today’s topic: “How to Read Today’s News in an Increasingly Dishonest World”.
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YELLOW JOURNALISM: THE NEW NORMAL!
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With the major voices in the world becoming so dishonest, just how can a person read or listen to the daily news, without being misled?
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As the opening little story in this article told of a politically biased mother being quizzed by her TV Host son, and being wholly uninformed concerning various news stories, should tell us the answer to our question. Simply put, the mother was confining herself to news sources which aligned with her own political biases. Thus, those biased sources were omitting news stories which most news sources didn’t want the public to know.
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And as is commonly said, “While it once was true that newspapers printed ‘all the news that fits’, yet today, those same newspapers print ‘all the news that fits their political biases!'”
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The Yellow Press by L.M. Glackens – Wikimedia – Public Domain
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“A Man Hears What He Wants to Hear and Disregards the Rest!”
(Lyric from “The Boxer” by Paul Simon)
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Now, it may be true that a good portion of the populace really doesn’t want to hear news which they don’t like to hear, regardless which side of the political isle they reside!
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But for those who want to truly know what’s happening in the world, must get their news from various sources. In other words, to get the full spectrum of what’s happening in the world, one cannot rely on merely a one-sided perspective. One must go to both sides of the political divide to get closer to what is actually going on.
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The 6th Head of the Beast
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For some reason, the 6th head of Antichrist (which includes the left horn of the False Prophet) is largely in control of the media. And, unfortunately, it is this 6th head which is aggressively attempting to stamp out freedom of speech.
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And so, we can expect to find it increasingly difficult to get the true state of affairs from news sources.
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Duct Tape Mouth – Wikimedia – Share-alike license
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THE BIBLE EXPLAINS TODAY’S NEWS
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But the very best source of news is, of course the Bible! This is because it was inspired by a God of infinite knowledge, who reveals the end from the beginning…“Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done” Isaiah 46:10
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And the wonderful thing about the Bible is that it explains what is happening, but also, WHY all these current events are occurring!
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TO READ THE NEXT “And He Spake as a Dragon” article, click here… January 11 (Cuttlefish & The False Prophet, Part 8: “And He Spake as A Dragon!”)
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Pair Of Cuttlefish – Wikimedia – the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license- Cropped image
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TODAY’S PRAYER…
“Dear Lord, Help me to not be fooled by this very deceptive world…
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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… August 26: The False Prophet, Part 34 (“And I beheld another beast (The False Prophet)”)
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THE END
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TODAY’S FEATURED HEAVENLY SIGN
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“Multitudes, multitudes in the ‘Valley of Decision’…
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for the day of the Lord is near in the ‘Valley of Decision’.”
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“The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining…
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“The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter His voice from Jerusalem…
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“And the heavens and the earth shall shake…
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“But the LORD will be the hope of His people, and the strength of the children of Israel.
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Joel 3:14-16
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LOCATING THIS CONSTELLATION GROUP…
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“Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and He will teach us of His ways, and we will walk in His paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.” Micah 4:1, 2
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Look eastward in the early summer through fall. Find the Cassiopeia Constellation. Cassiopeia is the Mount of Blessing. In this sketch, it is the farthest mountain to the left. In the sky, it is the northernmost of these three mountains when facing eastward. It somewhat resembles a pyramid, as do the other two.
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Then find the second pyramid to its right (south).
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Then go a little further south to the next third pyramid. The third snow-cap is the Destroying Mountain Constellation.
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These three pyramids are the snow-capped portion of these three mountains in this sketch. (of course, you won’t see the snow-caps in the sky. They are just an embellishment in this sketch to present a concept-EDITOR).
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THE VALLEY OF DECISION CONSTELLATION GROUP.
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They appear in mid-summer in the eastern skies in pre-dawn hours. These are made of Cassiopeia (mount on left), and various stars from the Andromeda Constellation (valley) and Pegasus (Mount of Cursing (middle mount) and the “Destroying Mountain” (right)), and Pisces (“The Broad Way to Hell”). The galaxy which appears to be climbing the Mountain of Blessing is the Andromeda Galaxy.
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The above Wikipedia star-chart shows this amazing constellation group as it appears from June to fall, just prior to the winter constellation group. Actually, these Valley of Decision Constellations appear in early summer in the pre-dawn hours. (Editor of this website has sketched in this constellation group onto this above Wikipedia star-chart.)
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READ MORE…
“The ‘Valley of Decision’ Constellation“
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TOMORROW…
October 22 (SQUIRRELING-AWAY MONEY)
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THE DESIRE OF AGES, BY ELLEN G. WHITE
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Dear Lover of Truth, this is a chapter of the audio book about the Gospel of Jesus Christ in His life and ministry.
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Chapter 20 – Except Ye See Signs and Wonders
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Sign of the Son of Man Constellation – made of the various constellations on this website
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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 series of 90 minute nightly talk shows…This is Open Forum Show #114
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