Do you agree or disagree and why? Can you give another example of the government and the false church aligning to persecute the true Church, those who are “in Christ?”
Comment on the opening and the three examples of “the unholy Trinity” from the last century.After reading the opening, can you explain the three parts of the unholy trinity, whom they counterfeit, and what they do?.As you reflect on this Thanksgiving weekend, for what are you particularly thankful in regard to moments with God or with loved ones anything new God taught you that is helpful, or something else?.Packer says the Incarntion is the most important truth - for if God became flesh, then the miracles and the resurrection are not hard to believe! I pray for us all to stay close to our Lord. (I was unable to upload a word document but will keep trying!) Sunday: Getting Started
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(I recommend Washed and Waiting by Wesley Hill.) You may think this is a stretch as an example, so feel free to say why! The LGBT+ Agenda in the World: Inspired, I believe, by the dragon, governments and deceived and nominal Christians have aligned in an attack against God’s plan for marriage and the family. (I recommend Escape from North Korea by Melanie Kirkpatrick.) People are starving, hundreds of thousands are in cruel labor camps, and conditions are primitive. Christians are particularly persecuted, and Bibles are banned. North Koreans are isolated and lied to without any access to news from the outside world. This false government and religion spreads lies about North Korea being a utopia and Kim Jong-un being a wonderful cherished leader and even of supernatural origin. Huge pictures of his father and himself are in every home and there are stories of North Koreans risking or even giving their lives to save these portraits in a fire. The last 60 years in North Korea: Inspired, I believe, by the dragon, the family line of Kim Jong-un demands the worship of North Koreans. Each time they thought that must mean the return of Christ was near, as they didn’t realize this pattern would keep repeating over both time and geography. Nazi Germany: Inspired I believe, by the dragon, Hitler and his leaders got the worship of the people, and also began a false “German Church,” aligning the “beast” and the “false prophet.” (In the biography Bonhoeffer, Eric Metaxis tells how Hitler’s German church proclaimed that the Bible said the Jews were an inferior race and used Jesus’ words against the Pharisees as evidence.) Just as the early Christians thought Nero might be the anti-Christ, many believers during World War II thought Hitler the anti-Christ. These are just three illustrations from the last century. It helps me to put historical pictures to this, where I suspect, both because of the madness and atrocities, and also because I see the government and the false church aligning, that the dragon is behind it all.
The pattern keeps repeating both in time and in pockets throughout the world and will continue until Christ’s return. We can see this unholy Trinity repeating this pattern throughout history, as early as the Greek leader Antiochus Epiphanes who demanded universal worship of himself and sacrificed a pig on the altar.īut after Christ’s resurrection, the dragon’s rage increases, for he sees his time is short. the beast from the land or the false prophet (false religion or the counterfeit church) spreads lies.the beast from the sea (human governors) execute the plan.Now as the visions continue to unfold, we see how the dragon executes his evil plan. In Revelation 12 we saw the dragon pursuing the woman (Christ and His seed).
Here is one chart to show the unholy Trinity and their roles. False religion, which includes counterfeit Christianity, is also called the false prophet later in Revelation. When they align against believers, we can suspect the dragon behind them. Dragon Head in Australia His human helpers are the beast of the sea (government) and the beast of the earth (false religion). He is the counterfeit of God the Father, but instead of creating good, he originates evil. The dragon is Satan, who in the 1st verse of Revelation 13 looks out over the sea, over the Gentile world, to see how he can bring harm. It is helpful in in understanding these “visions of conflict,” to see how the members of the unholy trinity are identified and what they do. Unlike the holy Trinity, the unholy Trinity of Satan cannot create, but can only counterfeit the true Trinity in order to bring evil instead of good, and to persecute and deceive believers.
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