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We should
always remember that God uses earthly things to express His thoughts.
He uses the lamb to describe the innocent personality of His Son
Jesus Christ, He uses goats to describe the rebellious people, He
uses trees with good fruits to describe the true disciples and trees
with bad fruits to describe those who are not His disciples. God
uses
stars to describe His sons (Daniel 12:3) and snakes to describe
the offspring of the devil (Matthew 23:30-33). As we grow in the
faith we will discover that the very thoughts of God are revealed in
all things created in the physical realm. It is important that we
understand this truth if we really want to understand God's secret
coded language.
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Romans 1:20
20 For since the creation of the world His invisible
attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the
things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead,
so that they are without excuse, |
ORIGIN OF THE MARK OF THE BEAST
The mark of
the beast is a spiritual mark that is inscribed on all men that are
descendants of Adam. It is the number of Man since man was created on
the six day. When the bible says that 666 is the number of a man,
the man used here is in the context of mortal or human. That man
here talks about a lower being that is below and actually of the
earth. All men in this world have the mark and continually have it
inscribed over and over again on their foreheads and their right
hands. The forehead talks of the mind and the right hands talks of
your works.
Right from the
beginning in the garden of Eden there was the beast who deceived Adam
into receiving this mark. Let us read Genesis 3:1
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Genesis 3:1
3:1 Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of
the field which the LORD God had made. And he said to
the woman, "Has God indeed said, 'You shall not eat of
every tree of the garden'?" |
Do we see the
beast mentioned in the book of Genesis, it was the serpent also
known as the devil, Satan or the dragon. We see this in Revelations
12:9-10
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Revelation 12:9-10
9 So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old,
called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole
world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were
cast out with him. |
Do you see,
that old serpent the most cunning of the beasts is the devil, Satan
or the dragon. We can therefore say the mark of the beast (most
cunning beast) is the mark of the serpent or the mark of the devil
or the mark of the dragon.
The devil is/was
a liar from the beginning and He struck Adam through His wife by
causing both of them to disobey God and eat of the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil.
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Genesis 3:1-8
3:1 Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of
the field which the LORD God had made. And he said to
the woman, "Has God indeed said, 'You shall not eat of
every tree of the garden'?" 2 And the woman said to the
serpent, "We may eat the fruit of the trees of the
garden; 3 but of the fruit of the tree which is in the
midst of the garden, God has said, 'You shall not eat it,
nor shall you touch it, lest you die.' " 4 Then the
serpent said to the woman, "You will not surely die. 5
For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes
will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good
and evil." 6 So when the woman saw that the tree was
good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a
tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit
and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he
ate. 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and
they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig
leaves together and made themselves coverings. 8 And
they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the
garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid
themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the
trees of the garden. |
The fruit of
the knowledge of good and evil is a fruit or knowledge that feeds
the carnal flesh man, it feeds the self and egoistic aspect of man.
This fruit causes us to deny God by viewing His creation with a
spirit that is not of God. It causes man to see and understand
things after the carnal senses, so that the original purpose of
their being created by the creator is hidden from us.
When we eat
this fruit that feeds our carnality we become offspring of the Devil,
having our minds and works given over to Him. It is here that lusts
of all sorts emerge, because in this state we seek to gain the world
and the glories of this world.
Listen to what
Jude says
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Jude 10-11
10 But these speak evil of whatever they do not know;
and whatever they know naturally, like brute beasts, in
these things they corrupt themselves.
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He is saying,
here that when we see the creation and perceive things after our
carnal mind we will be like brute beasts, or offspring of the
serpent who is the chief of the beasts. That corruption that Jude
speaks about is the endless depth of iniquity that that proceeds
from the inner heart of man because His treasure is exchanged from
the spiritual glory of God into that carnal glory of the world.
Always remember that the natural things that are created were
created for us to occupy ourselves with in fellowship with God. We
are supposed to view projected images of God in the things that are
created.
When we view
and treasure projected images of anything other than God and His
kingdom it breeds corruption through lust. Out of the lusts of this
world comes forth all manner of evil and wicked thoughts that defile
and destroy men.
Read carefully
what Paul is saying to the Romans
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Romans 1:20-23
20 For since the creation of the world His invisible
attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the
things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead,
so that they are without excuse, 21 because, although
they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were
thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their
foolish hearts were darkened.
22 Professing to be wise, they became fools, 23 and changed
the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made
like corruptible man--and
birds and four-footed animals and creeping things. 24
Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the
lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among
themselves, 25
who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and
worshiped and served the creature rather than the
Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. 26 For
this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even
their women exchanged the natural use for what is
against nature. 27 Likewise also the men, leaving the
natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one
another, men with men committing what is shameful, and
receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which
was due. 28
And even as they did not like to retain God in their
knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do
those things which are not fitting; 29 being filled with
all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness,
covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder,
strife, deceit, evil-mindedness; they are whisperers, 30
backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud, boasters,
inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31
undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving,
unmerciful; 32 who, knowing the righteous judgment of
God, that those who practice such things are worthy of
death, not only do the same but also approve of those
who practice them. |
You see what
Paul is saying, He is saying that God's Glory is to be perceived and
understood by the things that have been created, but man has
exchanged that glory into an image projected by our carnal minds
embedded in our humanity. For this reason the heart or the deep part
of mankind is darkened. Jesus spoke about this:-
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Mark
7:20-23
20 And He said, "What comes out of a man, that defiles a
man. 21 For from within, out of the heart of men,
proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
22 thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lewdness,
an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness. 23 All these
evil things come from within and defile a man." |
The thought
process of the carnal unregenerate man is continuously wicked
because He has the mark of the beast imprinted on His Forehead and
minds. The minds of men are so defiled, that no matter how they try
they can never feel any sense of justification before God. So mortal
man continuously withdraws from the light of life because of that
guilt. Man always feels this guilt and condemnation because of this
corrupted state of the mind generated from the mark of the beast,
that is why Adam felt this nakedness before God.
DECEPTION IN THE SPIRITUAL MARKET PLACES
Understand
that the Devil is constantly tempting and constantly giving that
mark to the deceived, this is a continues process. It is a spirit of
delusion and lies that constantly operates on those that are not
partaking of the salvation of God. The deceiving continues among
those who have the mark, so that they continually sell and buy the
lie from each other. The theories, the laws, the concepts, the
imaginations from the men of this world who have the mark are sold
in the spiritual market place of the world. This who buy this lies
and those who sell this lies are deceivers, and the deceived.
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2
Timothy 3:13
13
But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse,
deceiving and being deceived |
That deception
or lies sold at the market places comes from the devil and it denies
the knowledge of God and gives you a carnal knowledge which says
there is no God.
Man with the
mark of the beast is like that foolish man that says there is no God.
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Psalms 14:1-3
The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God." They
are corrupt, They have done abominable works, There is
none who does good. 2 The LORD looks down from heaven
upon the children of men, To see if there are any who
understand, who seek God. 3 They have all turned aside,
They have together become corrupt; There is none who
does good, No, not one. |
You do
not have to literally say "There is no God"; you say this by
your thought pattern, because your mind constantly speaks. You
say there is no God when your mind is stayed on earthly and
carnal things. These are the things that corrupt the world today;
think about the wars, the hate, the lack of faith, the lusts
etc. All this evil is brought about by the image of the beast
projected from carnal minds of men. The projected images of the
glories of the world and self consciousness denies the true
knowledge and thought pattern of God so that no one is good in
the sight of God.
While deception unto ignorance
of the truth reigns in the market place there is a stall that is
dedicated to the truth. The owner of this stall sells the truth
without price. Those who buy this truth will be healed and
receive of the tender mercies of God.
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Isaiah 55:1-3
"Ho! Everyone who thirsts, Come to the waters; And
you who have no money, Come, buy and eat. Yes, come,
buy wine and milk Without money and without price. 2
Why do you spend money for what is not bread, And
your wages for what does not satisfy? Listen
carefully to Me, and eat what is good, And let your
soul delight itself in abundance. 3 Incline your ear,
and come to Me. Hear, and your soul shall live; And
I will make an everlasting covenant with you-- The
sure mercies of David. |
The stall of truth was first
opened by the Lord Jesus and continues to this day, though the
forces of iniquity have decreed that He may not sell His goods
in this market place. They have vowed and set out to kill and
cast out those who run this stall of truth so that they may not
sell the truth to the people. How do people of this world kill
and stop those who sell the truth ? By persecution, rejection,
slandering all with the aim of shutting them up. God has decreed
no matter how they try the truths of the kingdom will be sold.
As people buy the knowledge of
the truth from this stall of truth that old mark, the image of
the beast and the name of the number is converted to the seal of
the Father, the name of the Father and the image of the glory of
God.
Before now we bought that
which gave us the mark or the seal of the devil, the name of the
devil over us and projected images of the glory of the world.
If we want to partake of that
glory that millions have sought after in times past we have to
come to the marketplace to buy from the stall of Christ. It is
only as we do this that separation from God that we all felt is
abolished. He gives us His thoughts and His ways so that we
ascend into the heights of creation with Him.
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Isaiah 55:8-9
8 "For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are
your ways My ways," says the LORD. 9 "For as the
heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways
higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your
thoughts. |
As we buy understanding,
knowledge and wisdom from the Lord those thorns and briers of
sorrow pain and death are abolished. The Lord replaces all this
with the fruits of Joy unspeakable, peace that man can not
understand and eternal life.
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Isaiah
55:12-13
12 "For you shall go out with joy, And be led out
with peace; The mountains and the hills Shall break
forth into singing before you, And all the trees of
the field shall clap their hands. 3 Instead of the
thorn shall come up the cypress tree, And instead of
the brier shall come up the myrtle tree; And it
shall be to the LORD for a name, For an everlasting
sign that shall not be cut off." |
BATTLE OF THE TWO SEEDS
There are
two seeds on the face of the earth today one seed is the
offspring of Christ having the seal and the name of their
Father (God) written on their foreheads. While the other seed
are the offspring of the Devil having the seal or mark of the
beast inscribed on them and the number of His name. That seal we
talk about is a spiritual seal, those on the side of Christ are
sealed with the Holy spirit while those on the other side are
sealed with the spirit of the world.
Jesus
identified the seed of His serpent in the days of His ministry
in the flesh.
John 8:42-45
42 Jesus said to them, "If
God were your Father, you would love Me, for I
proceeded forth and came from God; nor have I
come of Myself, but He sent Me. 43
Why do you
not understand My speech? Because you are not
able to listen to My word. 44
You are of
your father the devil, and the desires of your
father you want to do. He was a murderer from
the beginning, and does not stand in the truth,
because there is no truth in him.
When he
speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for
he is a liar and the father of it. 45 But
because I tell the truth, you do not believe Me. |
All men on
the face of the earth (including religious people of all
denomination) are actually offsprings of the Devil who also is
the beast or serpent. The carnal man is a beast, He is an
offspring of the Devil, having the mark of the beast imprinted
on them. The carnal man is of the dust of the earth, just like
the serpent is of the dust beneath and feeds on the dust so also
is the man [(Genesis 3:17-19
), (Genesis
3:14-15
)]. Dust
talks about worthless, garbage, vanity and darkness. As
offspring of the Devil mortal man feeds on and lives in this
vanity. It is in this state that man yields thorns in the likes
of poverty, pain and death instead of good fruits of peace, joy
and life that God intends for all mankind.
Those who
receive a revelation of the truth, accept it and continue in it
are taken out of this world and are not of this world even
though they might be in this world. Those who are Christ's dwell
and walk in the heavens, above those that be offspring of the
Devil.
There is a
known enmity between this seeds; The offspring of the serpent
seeks to stop the offspring of Christ from walking in that
revelation of the truth that they have gotten from the Father. The
offspring of
Christ comes forth to destroy the power and wisdom in the head
of the offspring of the serpent.
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Genesis 3:14-15
14
So the LORD God said to the serpent: "Because you have
done this,You are cursed more than all cattle,And more
than every beast of the field;On your belly you shall
go,And you shall eat dust All the days of your life. 15
And I will put enmity Between you and the woman,And
between your seed and her Seed;He shall bruise your
head,And you shall bruise His heel." |
Who are those who killed
the Lord Jesus? Who are those who persecuted Him? Who are those
who tried to stop Him while He preached the good news? Who were
those were offended by Him? Who are those who couldn't
comprehend Him? This are people with the inscription of the mark
of the beast on them; they are offspring of the Devil.
No wonder Jesus called them
brood or offspring of vipers (BEASTS)
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Matthew
12:33-37
33 "Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or
else make the tree bad and its fruit bad; for a tree
is known by its fruit. 34 Brood of vipers! How can
you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the
abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. 35 A good
man out of the good treasure of his heart brings
forth good things, and an evil man out of the evil
treasure brings forth evil things. 36 But I say to
you that for every idle word men may speak, they
will give account of it in the day of judgment. 37
For by your words you will be justified, and by your
words you will be condemned."
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Off springs of the devil, a
generation that has it mind stamped with the mark of
carnality so that all they see is the glory of man. Jesus
assured them that the same idle or ignorant words they confess
condemns them, those same words that they speak after their
thoughts destroys them as we continually stand in judgment
before God.
Make no mistakes those high,
high things of men that seek to negate the words of truth that
reveal the true God and Father of all are evil. Christ is here
today and He is battling the seed of the wicked on by
bruising His Head. The head is where the knowledge of good and
evil resides. When the head is crushed, the voice or whisper
from the double tongued beast is no more; the poison that flows
from it's mouth is stopped so that no more damage can be done to
humanity. Understand that when the head is Crushed the Lord now
becomes our head; we know that from Him all wisdom concerning
life and prosperity flows.
So we see from all this that
the battle is a spiritual battle, it has nothing to do with
going to crush the heads of individuals. The battle we fight in
Christ is to stop that fountain of lies that flows from the
mouth of the serpents. So it will not help you if you go out
pointing your fingers at people calling them offspring of beast,
if you do this you still have a problem. Always remember that
all these are spiritual realities and they have to be received
with maturity. We also seek salvation from God, so we ought to
be humble and never develop that attitude of pointing fingers.
OVERCOMING THE BEAST
The aim of
God is to get us back to the place of victory and power; His
plan is to restore health, joy, peace and all the glory we lost
after the deception we partook of. Oh yes we all partook of that
deception, we all identified with the beast and the mark of His
name; we once saw and perceived things after the projected image
of the beast. We once exalted ourselves as gods, we once
spoke the lies of the devil and as a result found ourselves
falling into a bottomless pit of destruction.
Thank God
for the revelation of the truth that is coming forth today from
the tree of life (Christ), by the revelation of the truth we are
being set free from the bondage to corruption that the mark of
the beast gave us. Remember the Vision John saw in (Revelations 15:1-4),
He saw a vision of the glorious church, a church that had
overcome the mark of the beast, the name of it and it's image.
These ones had been literally snatched from the jaws of death
and taken into the realms of life. These ones had been exalted
from the lower dust realm of the serpent to the higher heavenly
realms of God kingdom. The stood on a transparent sea of glass
mingled with fire; this same sea that was once tosses to and fro
by the raging of iniquity is now pure and peaceable. The sea
(heart) in these ones that once had the deep out of which flowed
wickedness ( Mark
7:20-23) is
now purified by the enlightening that flows from God's throne.
That same light that shone in the beginning and went forth to
enlighten the deep has shoe on these ones so that the sing the
song of deliverance before the nations.
Brethren
this is Joy unspeakable, this is victory beyond the
comprehension of man, this is the way back to all power and
authority in Christ Jesus. Those who hear the message of God's
kingdom, understand and set out towards the glory are given all
power to reign and rule with Christ
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Revelations 20:4-5
4 And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment
was committed to them. Then I saw the souls of those who
had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the
word of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his
image, and had not received his mark on their foreheads
or on their hands. And they lived and reigned with
Christ for a thousand years.
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The one
worthy for this glory are for those lose their head and put on a
new head (Christ). The former head was one with the beast. The
head is the governing part of our bodies, in it is the mind and
right from when we were born into this world that head has been
driven into an oneness the beast. Our old head has been
programmed and stamped with the mark, image and knowledge of
beast. We got this stamping from the world, from family, from
religion, from societies, from government etc. We have to lose
that head with it's mark and knowledge and take up the new head
which is Christ. This is the only way we can rule and reign with
Christ. We have to confess Him, take His word and confess them;
we have to live in the new reality of Christ and walk in
relation with our true Father. We have to share in His
sufferings of death by the cross by killing that old man of
flesh and blood if we are to reign in life with Him.
2 Tim 2:11-13
11 This is a faithful saying: For if we died with
Him, We shall also live with Him. 12 If we endure, We
shall also reign with Him. If we deny Him, He also will
deny us. 13 If we are faithless, He remains faithful; He
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Before now were of this world, we thought and imagined things
like the world did. We conformed to the ways of this world, for
this reason we were conformed into the image of the beast. This
is evident in the fruits we once bore, fruits of wickedness,
fruits of hate and death. We grew worse by the days because we
were viewing the projected glory of the beast who in Himself has
no light.
As we hear
the message of the kingdom and come in to behold the glory of
God that is projected to us by the spirit of God we are
transformed into that new image that is Christ. When we behold
the glory of God by the eyes of the spirit the glory burns away
every imprint of the beast in us. The glory causes us to be
regenerated so that we become spiritual beings after the
likeness of Christ.
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Romans 12:1-2
2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be
transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may
prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will
of God. |
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2
Corinthians 3:18
18 But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a
mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into
the same image from glory to glory, just as by the
Spirit of the Lord. |
We behold the glory of God as we begin to perceive and see the
things that be of God. This is given to us by the spirit of God,
He speaks to us in a way that can not be expressed with words.
The spirit opens our eyes so that we begin to understand the
true thought of God as we behold the creation. Before now we
only saw the creation with a carnal eye but we now begin to
perceive and see things with the eye of the spirit. For this
reason Jesus always said, He that has eyes let Him see and He
that has ears let Him hear.
The spirit
of God is a free gift for all, if we ask we receive , if we
leave the vanities of this temporal world and begin to see
things after the true revelation of His glory projected to us by
God's spirit we will live.
Trevor
Eghagha
To be
continued.....
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