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			Nov. - Dec. 2000
		Word of Prophecy NEWSLETTER
	A MONSTER FROM HELL -- Is On This Earth --
	"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. And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon [devil] gave him his power, and his seat [throne], and great authority." Rev. 13:1-2. A monster out of hell BIBLE EVIDENCE Here's the interpretation: "The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and *shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder [i.e., follow], whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was [i.e., he was here before], and is not [was gone for a period of time], and yet is [he has come back again]." Rev. 17:8. What a profound revelation! This was the apostle of Jesus Christ, John's vision. A PARALLEL* REVELATION The prophet Daniel received the same vision and revelation from the Lord about the monster from hell. "After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; *and it had ten horns. I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots [this little horn is the Antichrist]: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things." Dan. 7:7-8. THE UNVEILING OF THE MONSTER* The sea monster of Revelation 13 possesses all the composite parts that agree with the sea monster's revelation in Daniel's vision, thusly: "Four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another. The first was like a lion … And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear … After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard … After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible …" Dan. 7:1-8. Cf.



	Rev. 13:1-3. The angel said to Daniel, "These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, which shall arise out of the earth … Then I would know the truth of the fourth beast, which was diverse from all the others, exceeding dreadful, whose teeth were of iron … And of the ten horns that were in his head, and of the other which came up [the little horn], and before whom three fell; even of that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spake very great things, whose look was more stout than his fellows. I beheld, and the same horn [the antichrist] *made war with the saints, and prevailed against them … And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time," Dan. 7:17-25, that is 3 ½ years. THE KINGDOM OF THE* ANTICHRIST The ten horns symbolize the nations in the kingdom of the antichrist. The terrible sea monster, so terrible that Daniel could not name it, symbolizes the terror of the antichrist's kingdom _ possessing the characteristics of a lion, a bear, a leopard, and the sea monster _ the brutality and voraciousness toward God's people. Note this carefully: the lion of Daniel 7 symbolizes the Babylonian Empire of Nebuchadnezzar; the bear symbolizes the Medo-Persian Empire, and the leopard is symbolic of the Greek Empire of Alexander the Great. The most barbaric of all world empires is symbolized by the terrible sea monster, the fourth beast _ Rome, ruled by god-emperors, which were here, are gone now, but will be revived through the ten kings and kingdoms represented by the ten horns on the terrible beast out of hell. THE LITTLE HORN This great vision about prophecies for our generation is verified by this key scripture: "Gabriel, make this man to understand the vision. So he came near where I stood: and when he came, I was afraid, and fell upon my face: but he said unto me, Understand, O son of man: *for at the time of the end shall be the vision." Dan. 8:16-17. "Out of one of them [the large horns] came forth a little horn, which waxed exceeding great … and it cast down the TRUTH to the ground; and it [little horn] practiced, and prospered … And in the latter time of their kingdom [the ten horns], when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance [antichrist], and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up. And his power shall be mighty … And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand … and by peace shall destroy many … wherefore shut thou up the vision; for it shall be for many days [i.e., many days from now]." Dan. 8:9-26. THE SEA MONSTER* REVIVED Now, continuing the Apostle John's vision of the endtime in the book of Revelation Chapter 13: "And I saw *one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world* wondered after the beast. And they worshipped the dragon [devil]." Revelation 13:3-4. The monster is out of hell or the bottomless pit _ he has been on earth before _ he was gone for a season, and he will return at the time of the end. That monster was the old Roman Empire with its Babylonian religion (pagan gods with god-emperors).



	Rome's political power was broken in 310 A.D. by Constantine, but its religious power was not broken until 1513 A.D. by Martin Luther and the Reformation. This was the wound upon one of the monster's seven heads. The heads are symbolic of the world's major religions, which will unite into one religion, the world church described in Revelation 17 and symbolized by the harlot sitting upon the monster out of hell. Thus, the monster out of the sea represents an empire and an emperor _ a revived Roman Empire and its god-emperor, the antichrist. The healing of one of the seven heads is now in process. Ecumenicism or a merger of all religions into one church is the hue and cry of dead Protestantism _ crying for a return to Rome! When the World Council of Churches joins the Roman Catholic Church, the deadly wound will be healed on the monster _ he will very quickly regain his world power. God gave Martin Luther the vision and courage to lead a Reformation _ a revolt against Rome and papal supremacy. This broke the long, long night of dark ages and the light of God's true word began to enlighten the world. The monster from hell retreated before the true Word of God, for its light exposed him for the fraudulent bible and counterfeit Christ it presented to a spiritually darkened and superstitious world. This was the wound upon the head of the monster, which broke his power. The Lord revealed to me: "My son, declare this to my people _ the Episcopal, Lutheran, Presbyterian, most Baptist, Christian Science, Greek and Russian Orthodox with many other sects and religions will soon be swept into the Roman Catholic and world church by a mighty pincer movement of the antichrist. Those churches have been used as a buffer zone to keep persecution and the guillotine from my true saints until the time of the end. Soon the buffer zone will be gone, then severe persecution and even martyrdom will come upon my saints to purge them _ perpetrated by the monster out of hell." Amen! THE MONSTER'S EMPIRE We in America are living in a relative calm before the storm. The question is asked, "How can the Roman Empire, if it is revived and ruled by the antichrist, be over the entire world of today, as Rome and these former empires were only Asian, European, and African in their greatest extent?" The answer lies in the fact that these great empires of history ruled over the known inhabited world of their times. The antichrist will rule over the inhabited world of today as a god-emperor. There will still be presidents, kings, prime ministers and heads of state over the nations of the world _ the antichrist will be a king of kings as was Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon, the first of the world empires. "Thou, O king, art a king of kings: for the God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory," (Daniel 2:37), so said Daniel to the great pagan emperor of Babylon. In the days of the Roman Empire, there were many kings of small states, nations, and provinces who reigned under the dominion of the Caesars, who had absolute power. In the days of Jesus and the apostles, Rome, characterized by the sea monster, ruled the known civilized world. Augustus Caesar, Tiberius Caesar, Nero and others were emperors of the empire, but under their authority King Herod, King Agrippa and many others were appointed kings of the nations within the empire. So will it be in the kingdom of the beast and antichrist. The ten horns represent only the first nations who merge their power under the antichrist's control. All other nations will follow their example. Kings, presidents, and prime ministers of all nations will give their power and authority to the beast (antichrist and his system). Rev. 17:12-13; Rev. 13:7-8. However, this honeymoon between the monster out of hell and world statesmen will not last long. Dan. 11:40-45. THE MONSTER'S POLITICAL POWER Now, continuing Daniel's vision of the sea monster he said: "I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots:



	and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things." Dan. 7:8. This completes his vision of the four beasts, which are the composite parts of the terrible monster of Revelation 13:1. The Bible is written to God's people, and here God is showing His people what they will face in the time of the end. The vicious monster of prophecy has been "dead" for over 350 years _ but he is back again "And shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces." Dan. 7:23. Again, let me repeat, this monster out of hell is a world system of the devil _ religious and political, headed by the antichrist and false prophet, which will unite all present day political and religious systems. This monster out of hell is the same brutal system of repression that killed Jesus and John the Baptist, the early church disciples and apostles _ that suppressed God's saints with barbaric torture and death until well into the 16th Century A.D. THE MONSTER'S RELIGIOUS POWER The great monster will receive his greatest strength from religion, which its seven heads represent. Rev. 13:1. Can you imagine the pagan and barbaric persecution to saints of God as symbolized by the slashing seven heads of the monster from hell? The world church of the antichrist system is revealed in Revelation 17, symbolized by a harlot, named Mystery, Babylon the Great, riding upon the monster out of hell _ riding to world power over God's true saints. The Apostle John in this vision said, "And I saw the woman drunken with the *blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus."* Rev. 17:6. There is a world religion arising through the World Council of Churches that is going to persecute and kill real Christians in the spiritual darkness of the rising Gathering Storm. I want to warn you, Christian friend, you will not escape the rising purging fires unless you die! Do not let soothsaying preachers lull you into a false complacency. You must be willing to die before you are ready to fly (that is, be raptured). The antichrist will be the god-emperor of the empire of the beast out of hell. "So that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God." II Thess. 2:4. "And the king [antichrist] shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god …" Dan. 11:36. The false prophet will be his minister who proclaims the antichrist's deity with miracles and an image to which he gives life: "And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth [false prophet]; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast [antichrist] before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live. *And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast,* that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that *as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed."* Rev. 13:11-15. CHRIST'S CHURCH FACES THE MONSTER One of the great purposes of the monster and the antichrist is to purge the church _ not just to bring about the conversion of Israel. "For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him." Rom. 10:12. The angel said to Daniel, "Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end. *Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried;* but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but *the wise shall understand*." Dan. 12:9-10.



	Theologians may theorize and twist the scriptures to teach a soothsaying message of an easy rapture to God's saints _ but it is no conjecture that Jesus, the prophets and apostles predicted that a terrible storm would arise against them in this end-time. If we Gentiles of this church age were grafted into Israel's good olive tree through God's covenant of grace, which was given to Israel, then why are we so immunized from tribulation? Rom. 11:17-24. The same covenant of grace has promises of a severe repression of God's saints before we are taken out of the world in this end time. Matt. 24:8-10. Jesus predicted: "These things I have spoken unto you, that in me [this is grace] ye might have peace. *In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world." John 16:33. I look at many preachers and Christians and tell them, "The only suffering you do is because of eating too much." CHRIST'S EARLY CHURCH FACED THIS MONSTER* The early church in Jesus' day and in the Apostles' day _ even until the 16^th century _ had to make war with the monster out of hell. The saints of those fifteen centuries were harassed, and tortured _ they "had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented; (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth." This is recorded in Hebrews 11:36-38. Who inflicted this cruel, inhumane, and torturous suffering upon God's saints in the early church and until the 16^th century? The monster out of hell _ and now he is back again and is regaining his full power. He was once on earth _ he was gone for about 400 years _ and he is back! Rev. 17:8. Saints of God, we are facing severe trials and purgings. The Apostle John wrote in the Book of Revelation while in severe tribulation caused by the great sea monster: "I John, who also am your brother, and companion *in tribulation,* and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, *for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ." Rev. 1:9. He saw in his vision the tribulation that would come to God's saints in the end-time for the same cause: "And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held: And they cried with a loud voice saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth? And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled" Rev. 6:9-11. SPIRIT OF ANTICHRIST IN THE U.S.* "Little children [i.e., Christ's saints], it is the last time [endtime]: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time. They went out from us, but these were not of us [i.e., true Christians]: for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us." I John 2:18-19. And to be more clear about this revelation, the apostle continues: "Every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world." I John 4:3.



	Satan is conquering the masses with this hypnotic delusive spirit through religion that will not honor, respect and believe the word of God in our Holy Bible. God has warned us by His apostle thusly: "And then shall that Wicked [antichrist] be revealed … Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the TRUTH [God's Word], that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, *that they should believe a lie* [i.e., of the false prophet & antichrist]: That they all might be damned [lost in hell]." II Thess. 2:8-12. Amen! This antichrist spirit that deludes men with lies and not the truth is working feverishly in our nation's capitol _ and our nation's leaders are following this antichrist spirit that's leading us into the antichrist system and God's terrible judgments that will soon follow. "Evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived." II Tim. 3:13. A STORM OF GREAT VIOLENCE God's saints are fully involved into the fulfillment of all future prophecy except the day of God's wrath. Where will the Bride of Christ be as God's judgments begin to fall _ when persecution arises against God's saints _ when violence and moral corruption overflow? They will be right here on this earth being purged, tried, and made white. God is going to bring His true people into a unity we have never known as the early church was: "And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common." Acts 4:32. God's spirit is grieved with the division, weakness, lack of love, and worldliness among His people _ and He will not accept it. The church of this age will be severely purged and sorely tried by fiery trials and persecution before Jesus will have it. We must come to the unity of the faith and be purged of all spots and blemishes of the world! The monster out of the bottomless pit is arising, and God will use him to do the job of purging the church, and unifying God's saints. I Pet. 1:7; 4:12-13. THIS IS A WARNING FROM THE HOLY GHOST. It is also scriptural _ not a heresy nor a theory! There are grave dangers ahead for God's people in our nation as the storm and spiritual darkness approaches. Gospel broadcasting will soon be a lost freedom along with freedom of the press. The monster from hell will suppress the printing and distribution of the Word of God. "And it [little horn or antichrist] cast down the truth to the ground; and it practiced, and prospered." Dan. 8:12. Natural disasters of earthquakes, storms, epidemics, floods, drought _ together with crippling strikes, violence, race riots, and lawlessness will bring curfews and restrictions in our nation enforced by federal troops. We must be led by the Holy Ghost to avoid much of this trouble over storms, terrorism, plagues, bombings, and even hunger that will come upon us very soon. Psalms 33:18-19; Rev. 3:10. WE HAVEN'T PASSED THIS WAY HITHERTOFORE False prophets and false teachers will continue to produce counterfeit Christians who will rise up against God's true saints and be leaders in the persecution. Charismatics will try to assert themselves as leaders of God's Spirit-filled people. These Charismatics are mostly counterfeit _ they are not truly converted to Jesus Christ and they are not Spirit-filled. Most of them are possessed with seducing spirits. I Tim. 4:1-3. The antichrist will soon make his initial appearing as a man of peace. Beware, saints of God, "For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape." I



	Thess. 5:3. Of the antichrist the Prophet Daniel warns: "And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes [Christ]; but *he shall be broken* without hand." Dan. 8:25; II Thess. 2:8. Praise God and Amen!

	MY 79th BIRTHDAY By Bro. Ray Pringle, Sr.

	I was honored by a great company of friends, Oct. 22, 2000, on my 79th Birthday with gifts and a wonderful dinner -- and the guests included my wife, children, in-laws, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. This honorarium event was filmed on video cassette, including a short message and our children's choir in concert. Jesus was a silent and honored guest, as is evidenced by the praise and worship throughout the service. You can receive a video of this service by your request.

	Word of Prophecy Newsletter Published by: Word of Prophecy Fellowship P O Box 10200, Jacksonville, FL 32247 Editor Bro. Ray Pringle, a prophet of God and an ordained minister of the Calvary Chapel Church of God, Inc. Associate Editor ... June Carpenter Copyrighted - All rights reserved