7, 16, O troubled heart, there is a
balm to heal thy every wound.
In thy Redeemer's bleeding side, that balm alone
has found, the hidden anguish of the soul,
the burning tears that fall, the thigh that
rends thy aching breast.
Thy Savior knows them all.
716, please.
And we're going through to the end of
the chapter this evening.
In this chapter, last week, we looked after
this first beast.
And again and again in the chapter, he
is called the first beast.
And I said that this was the last
dictator in this world.
And we're looking at this second beast this
evening.
And I've called this second beast the last
dictator's friend.
And I want to read a verse or
two to just assure you of why I
said that.
We're at verse eleven.
John says, And I beheld another beast coming
up out of the earth, and he had
two horns like a lamb, and he speak
as a dragon, and he exercises all the
power of the first beast before him.
And causes the earth and them which dwell
therein to worship the first beast.
That's one of the reasons that I said
he's the last dictator's friend, because he's causing
the earth and them which dwell therein to
worship the first beast.
That's one of the reasons that I stick
tight to the first beast being the Antichrist.
Because the men that say the second beast
is the Antichrist, they're saying that the Antichrist
will try to get the world to worship
someone else.
They cannot accept that, of course.
Now, I think that this is the last
dictator who is the Antichrist, this is the
last dictator's friend.
You see, verse thirteen, And he doeth great
wonders, this second beast, 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 medicals, mind you
this is all deception, by the means of
those medicals which he had power to do
in the sight of the beast.
That is, in the sight of the first
beast.
Saying to them that dwell on the earth
that they should make an image of the
beast which had the wound by a sword
and did live.
And the people who say the first beast
is the Roman Empire, surely you don't make
an image of an empire, do you?
You ever see one?
And he goes on here, he had power
to give life unto the image of the
beast, that the image of the beast should
go speak, and cause that as many as
would not worship the image of the beast
should be killed.
And because of all those small and great
and rich and poor and free and bond,
to receive a mark in their right hand
or in their foreheads, that no man might
buy or sell save he that had the
mark or the name of the beast, or
the number of his name, herein is wisdom.
Let him that hath understanding count the number
of the beast, for it is the number
of a man.
I don't know how they worked empire into
this, because this image and this number has
to do with man.
It's the number of a man.
And so I'm calling this second one, The
Last Dictator's Friend.
Now, when you look at the whole chapter,
looking at it broadly, you'll find that there
are three great personalities in the chapter.
The way up there, up verse 2, we
notice the first beast, John says, which I
saw was like unto a leopard, and his
cheek were as the feet of a bear,
and his mouth as the mouth of a
lion.
And the dragon gave him, and the word
him would tell us it's a personality, and
the dragon, that's the first personality.
And then this first beast is a person.
And then this last one, this second beast
is a person.
So that we have three great personalities in
the chapter.
And of course we know that the dragon
is the old devil.
And I believe that the first beast is
the Antichrist.
Now, we must be sure about who this
second one is.
Let's try to be sure.
Let's go to the book of Revelation 19
for a moment.
Revelation 19.
Now, this is the place and the time
where the Lord Jesus leaves heaven and comes
back to earth.
Verse 11.
John says, And I saw heaven opened, and,
behold, a white horse, and he that sat
upon him was called Faithful Untruth, capital F,
capital T.
And in righteousness he doth judge and make
war.
It's the Lord Jesus.
And down the chapter John said, verse 19,
And I saw the beast and the kings
of the earth and their armies gathered together
to make war against him that sat on
the horse and against his army.
And the beast was taken, and with him
the false prophets that wrought miracles before him,
with which he deceived them that had received
the mark of the horse.
So that you can see that this third
one is called the false prophets.
And these three great personalities are in chapter
13.
I believe that this is a satanic trinity.
That's what I believe.
I believe that Satan has always wanted to
be like God.
I will be like the Most High is
the very statement where sin began.
And you see, he himself wants to be
the anti-God.
And the first beast is the anti-Christ.
And the false prophet, this one that we're
looking at this evening, is the anti-spirit.
For the work of the spirit in this
dispensation is to get everybody to bow down
and worship Christ.
His great work is to glorify Christ.
And the work of this second beast is
to get the whole world to bow down
and worship the first one.
So I'm sure that this is a satanic
trinity that we have in this dispensation.
But we're not thinking any more about the
first beast or the satanic trinity.
We're thinking about this second beast this evening,
commencing at verse 11 and going through to
verse 18.
First of all, you'll notice that in verse
11 that he had two horns like a
lamb.
And I think it's this word, lamb, that
has thrown a great many of the expositors
away from the truth.
But we'll find out that this is a
deceptive lamb.
All the thieving that's going on here.
You'll find that he's a leader.
And he's a very persuasive leader.
We'll find him speaking and persuading the people
this evening.
And I've got a lot to say about
this oratory and this eloquence.
We've got to be very careful about it.
And we'll find that he's not only a
lamb and a leader, but he's a great
lecturer.
And he demonstrates as a lecturer.
He makes a fire to come down and
he pretends to give life to the very
image.
I'm sure tonight that both the fire and
the light are only deceptions.
But he's a very demonstrative lecturer.
And we'll find that he's a great labourer.
He labours hard.
He labours to get the whole world.
He conscripts the world.
He causes all, both small and great and
rich and poor, causes them to bow down
before the beast.
So we're looking at this second beast this
evening.
The lamb, the leader, the lecturer, the labourer.
Now, in all these studies, there's something I've
got to do all the time.
I must remember the flock that's around me.
And you know, we have a great many
lambs in the flock, just young believers, not
long saved.
And each week I've got to take a
portion somewhere and have a special portion for
the young folks because they need milk, the
milk of the word.
Oh, I know that we'll come to the
meat after that, but here's something for you
young folks to get your teeth into and
then to think about.
You know, it would be an easy study
for you to contrast God's love with Satan's
love, because I'm sure that this one is
Satan's.
And I think this would be a very
easy contrast for you.
If I started you off, maybe you could
do the rest of the study on your
own.
You see, if you think of God's lamb,
John the Baptist said, Behold the lamb of
God, which taketh away the sin of the
world.
And you can see quite clearly that he
is the subtracting lamb.
He's taking away the sin of the world.
But if you contrast God's lamb with the
devil's lamb, you'll find that while God's lamb
taketh away and subtracts sin, this one multiplies
it.
He multiplies sin on the earth.
He doesn't take it away.
He just multiplies it.
You're bound to see the contrast.
I'm just starting you on a little study
that's a very interesting one.
You know this, I think you know this,
that Peter said, For we know that we
are not redeemed with corruptible things, such as
silver or gold, but with the precious blood
of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish
and without spot.
And God's lamb redeems.
But Satan's lamb enslaves.
He just makes slaves out of everybody around
him.
And if you don't get a mark of
the beast that he's trying to exalt, then
you're for it.
I think you can see the sort of
contrast that you can make.
Maybe I can take time to do more
for you.
You know, our Lord Jesus was led as
a lamb to the slaughter, and the New
Testament says, As a lamb before her shears
of dung.
You know, you can see him standing there
where man spat in his face.
You can see the soldiers slapping him on
the chest.
You can see him being struck on the
head with the reed or the chain.
And the uttered never a word.
I think that this dumbness that was there,
it's just teaching us the humanity of our
wonderful Lord.
He humbles himself, you know.
But you know, there's a difference between the
dumbness of God's lamb and the dragon, the
voice that speaks like a dragon here.
Because this is what it says.
He had two horns like a lamb, and
he speaks as a dragon.
You can see the contrast.
In the one you get the humility, in
the other you get the ferocity.
Have I done enough for you?
Can you go on with the subject?
And I assure you, you know, you can
do it about twenty times.
Do another one for you.
You know, this one here, see, because I'm
only pretending to give life.
Ah, but Christ is the life.
Him, Him, was the life.
And I can tell you it's life, more
abundant.
And after you fill it all in, you
can end it like this.
You can see God's lamb in the glory.
And all heaven bows.
And all the creatures bow.
And he's blessed forever, in eternity.
And if you see the end of the
devil's lamb, he's burned forever.
In eternity.
Have you got the contrasts now?
Or you can fill the rest of it
in.
Yes, I think that you can see that
this is a deceptive lamb.
You know, the Lord Jesus, when he was
preaching about these days, you remember what he
said in Matthew 24?
Let's go back to Matthew 24.
Matthew's gospel, chapter 24.
And he's talking here about the great tribulation.
The great tribulation is what we have been
looking at in these chapters right through from
chapter 6.
Verse 21, we're at Matthew 24, 21.
For then shall the great tribulation, as such
ours was not since the beginning of the
world to this time, no, nor ever shall
be.
It's easy to mark up a tribulation period,
you know, because there was never anything before
like it.
And there will never be anything like it
after it.
It's just one period, you know.
Actually 42 months long.
And it's quite easy to get the period
if you go through the Scriptures.
But it will be so wicked that it
says, and except those days of tribulation should
be shortened.
There should no flesh be saved.
But for the elect's sake, because God will
have an elect remnant, of course, in those
days, and we'll see them next week, won't
we?
The 144,000, they're still there, you know,
on Mount Zion.
And for the elect's sake, those days shall
be shortened.
Then, just at that time, if any man
shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ,
or there, believe it not.
For there shall arise false Christs and false
prophets.
And I wonder that some of the expositors
don't see the difference.
Because they've switched it around, you know, and
make the false prophet the false Christ.
Are you listening?
Because I think the first one is the
false Christ, and the second one is the
false prophet.
And that's exactly how it's put before you
here by the Lord Jesus.
He says, there shall arise false Christs and
false prophets, and shall show great signs and
wonders.
Didn't the Lord tell them all about it
long before the book of Revelation was written?
In so much that, if it were possible,
they shall deceive the very elect.
The 144,000 were in danger of being
deceived, but it was not possible.
You see, the Lord had foretold of these
days.
So I think that you can see quite
clearly that this Lamb that we're thinking about,
this second beast, is the false prophet, and
he's not the false Christ.
And I think that you can see quite
clearly that he hath all kinds of deception.
But we'll come to that just in a
moment.
Now, let's leave the thought of the deceptive
Lamb and have a look at this persuasive
leader.
You see, he speaks as a dragon in
verse 11.
He seems to have great oratorial powers.
Speak out loud.
I'll have to be careful here, won't I,
lest I get mixed up with him.
Well, we've got to expand this.
It says in verse 14, I'm deceived of
them that dwell on the earth by 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 hath the wound by a sword underneath.
You know, he's persuading, and I think he
hath great persuasive powers.
I think he hath great oratorial powers.
A real eloquent speaker.
Now, I want to say that sometimes I've
been labelled as an eloquent speaker and as
a narrator of one kind and another.
And I want to say this very carefully.
It doesn't make a matter how eloquent a
man may be or what oratorial powers he
might possess.
Don't you let him rush you and saying
that about me.
You make sure that I'm taking you to
the Scripture every time.
That I'm not just talking you into something.
And you make sure about that and that
about every other preacher too.
Because I can tell you, you know, the
devil has mighty powers.
Let me show you something that happened almost
all on the one day.
Let's go back to Matthew's Gospel.
And we're at chapter 16.
Matthew's Gospel.
Chapter 16.
Verse 13.
When Jesus came into the coast of Caesarea
Philippi and I can remember the day when
I was down at Caesarea Philippi.
Just on the coast of the Mediterranean there.
Sat on the rocks down at the shore
and washed my feet or at least bathed
them in the blue waters of the Mediterranean.
And it was down there one day the
Lord Jesus asked his disciples saying Who do
men say that I the Son of Man
am?
Just asking a simple question.
Look around.
Who do men say?
And they said, they answered him Some say
that thou art John the Baptist.
Some Elias.
And others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.
He said unto them But whom say ye
that I am?
And they're all silent and then Peter stood
forward and Simon Peter answered and said Thou
art the Christ, the Son of the Living
God.
That's a mighty statement you know.
I don't think it would give us the
quiver in saying it this evening.
But I think you know that if you
saw a man standing with a long eastern
robe and sandals and a long beard and
he looks as if he's just flesh and
blood and no more It might have taken
a bit out of you to stand up
and say Thou art the Messiah Thou art
the Christ Thou art the King of Israel
And then to go a bit further and
say Thou art the Christ, the Son of
the Living God That might have taken the
starch out of you if you had to
do it.
It was the great saying.
And I assure you there was real eloquence
and oratory there just at that moment.
Verse seventeen And Jesus answered and said unto
him You know the Lord was thrilled with
him Blessed art thou Simon Bar-Jonah For
flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto
thee He didn't get this in a Bible
school you know Nor a college Oh I'm
not saying anything about them We've got the
Bible school and Saturday we'll have about plenty
of the preachers around me here out there
And it's just to help them a little
bit But Peter didn't get this at the
school And he didn't get it at a
college And a degree didn't mean anything to
him He was a normal and ignorant man
He had been alone with God And the
Lord is saying to him Blessed art thou
Simon Bar-Jonah For flesh and blood hath
not revealed it unto thee But my Father
which is in heaven You know if you
get along with God sometime He'll tell you
wee things Tell you a whole lot of
wee things And the trouble with some of
you You don't get along with God You're
too busy Now that's Peter talking It's God
that's talking to him It's the Father talking
to him It's my Father The Father was
using his lips just then As you go
down the chapter we come to verse 21
From that time forth began Jesus to show
unto his disciples How that he must go
unto Jerusalem And suffer many things of the
elders and chief priests and scribes And be
killed And be raised again the third day
Then Peter, same Peter, same day Took him,
began to rebuke him saying Be it far
from me Lord This shall not be unto
thee But he the Lord Jesus turned and
said unto Peter Get thee behind me sitting
As the devil is talking to him now
As not many are later is it And
you know it was almost as eloquent and
oratorial wasn't it Be it far from me
Lord This shall not be unto thee It
was the old devil that was talking now
So you've got to watch the talkers haven't
you I plead with you to watch the
talkers My only defense in this place is
this book And if I can keep you
aloof to the page you can't argue very
much James McKendrick you know took me in
hand when I was a small boy as
far as preaching was concerned Some of our
students out of the school when I took
the ears off them They think the old
man is terrible You want to be brought
up where I was brought up I'll tell
you James McKendrick would have taken no nonsense
with you And he said to me one
day you know he used to shake me
He's a boy shaking me now wouldn't he
Used to shake me I want you to
get the hold of this when you're preaching
Preaching is like a picture on the wall
And the whole picture inside must be the
word of God And the frame must be
as thin as you can make it That's
your own words The frame must be your
own words Make it a wee thin frame
That's good preaching you know Because when I
listen to some of them it's all frame
and no picture Yes if you don't watch
the old devil I'll talk through you Let
me stop now Go back through the day
from early morning to now Did the Lord
speak through you today Tell me yes did
the devil speak through you Did you ridicule
some brother today Did you pull somebody's character
apart Yes the old devil was using the
lips Yes I want you to get the
hold of that Look over in Matthew again
it's not many days later Matthew 26 The
Lord Jesus is talking about going to the
cross again Verse 31 Matthew 26 verse 31
Then said Jesus unto them All ye shall
be offended because of me this night For
it is written I will smite the shepherds
And the sheep of the flock shall be
scattered abroad But after I am risen again
I will go before you into Galilee Peter
he's talking again Peter answered and said Though
all men shall be offended because of thee
Yet will I never be offended Then quickly
Jesus said Verily I say unto thee that
this night Before the cock crowed Thou shall
deny me thrice You know who was talking
now It was the old man inside him
that was talking His old self that was
talking Some big fellows around you know They're
all both It's all I I I I
will never do it you know It's all
I hear it all the time I hear
it even in testimony I tell you you
need to watch you know Cause the devil
can talk through you And the old self
that's within you can talk through you And
if you would get alone with God Why
God would talk through you You don't think
we run these meetings without getting alone with
God I've been alone with God from five
this morning Friend watch the talkers Watch the
talkers And watch your talk Cause I'll tell
you that we're going to have a bit
of talk in this world In the day
that's to come Because there's a very persuasive
leader coming And he's going to talk the
world Into making an image of the man
It can't be an image of an empire
It's the image of a man he wants
to exalt He's a very persuasive leader And
I think he's a very demonstrative lecturer It
says in verse twelve of our chapter this
evening And he exercises all the power of
the first beast before him The old dragon
was given them both power And causes the
earth and them which dwell therein to worship
the first beast Whose deadly wood was he
And he doeth great wonders So that he
maketh fire come down from heaven And dwell
on the earth in the sight of men
I'm deceived at then That dwell on the
earth by the means of those medicals which
he imparted us I don't think he makes
fire come down at all I think it's
a deception And I'm sure we're coming to
the spot now Where we're going to see
a lot of deceptive demonstrations Why it has
been rampant in America for years I think
I told you once of one of these
great healing meetings in America Don't for any
sake go out and say that I said
that God cannot heal I would be a
fool to say that Of course I know
that God can heal And I know more
I know that God can heal miraculously It's
like that And I know that God can
heal medically too He can use medicine The
book says that they that are sick have
needed a physician And I know that he
can heal perfectly And of course I know
that he can do without healing Because there
are people who are incurable diseases This book
talks about it But you know in some
of these great healing campaigns in America The
picture big turns to New York And California
is 3000 miles from New York you know
It's exactly 3000 miles from here to New
York Where it's the same from New York
to California And these clever boys send a
train down Yes, charter it Down to California
and get a lot of the trumps and
the bums as they call them down there
Bring a load of them up in the
train And at the healing meeting at night
they give these men 20 or 30 pounds
And some of them come in on a
fetcher Carried in on a fetcher Some of
them come in with a white stick you
know Being laid up there And if you
saw a man coming off that isle the
night being laid up and brought up here
And he stands here And somebody says Have
you been blind from birth?
Yes sir You've never seen the light of
day?
No sir And then he says hallelujah and
amen and cobs a buzz a bit And
then touches them And he throws the stick
down and he's firmed up He can see
now You know you would be bluffed You
wouldn't know what was happening There's a rise
from hell Let's look at this There's good
statues And you need to watch all the
demonstrations That's what I'm trying to say I'll
tell you we're going to get a lot
of demonstrations before long And they're not right
you know You just need to be very
careful Oh I saw God's healing you know
I led a lady to the Lord once
She was a sister in the Royal there
Number 21 or 22 And I got a
telegram from her To go to Montgomery House
to see her You know when I knew
she was in Montgomery House I knew she
was in trouble Being a sister she was
in a little cubicle of her own I
went through the door she said Do you
know why I'm here?
Yes I do I said and so do
you I said where is it?
She says it's under my breast Opened her
breast and lifted her breast She says you're
married look at that It was a lump
as big as an egg It was cancer
it was a secondary from cancer It was
somewhere in her lung but it's thrown out
of secondary And there's no surgeon in this
world Would put a knife on a woman
with a secondary She knows right well she's
finished She said to me I'm finished And
Mr. Monmouth if it was you what would
you do?
He says it's easy talking when you're standing
where I am dear But I feel it
might come my turn one day and if
it did I would always believe that death
Would be my last act of faith down
here And by the grace of God I'll
make it as good a woman as I
can I may have to stand over that
yet Which somehow the way I said it
to her You know she shifts it up
in the bed You know all down under
the dumps and no wonder She says this
is my last act of faith And he
says that's how I see it Well by
the grace of God I will make it
the best And you know she brightened up
And we talked together and prayed together and
I went home And three or four days
later she sent me a telegram In fact
it came on the phone It called as
quick as it could I thought she was
dying And then she's sitting on the edge
of the bed She says it's gone I
says what's gone?
She says look at that It's away you
know Look there She says where did that
go?
She says in the middle of the night
He says were you praying?
She says I wasn't praying She says I
was dying Look there She says I sent
for a doctor this morning He sent over
to the royal for the old surgeon He
came over and looked at her and said
dear God has been at work Oh make
no mistakes about it I believe that God
can heal Well I also believe you know
that the devil can bless you I believe
both things And we're going to have to
face A lot of what is called lying
wonders You
know that the devil can bless you I
believe both things And we're going to have
to face A lot of what is called
lying wonders Terrible things you know Lying wonders
Medicals that are not right The word medicals
are there But it's deceptive medicals I don't
believe that the fire was right I think
it was a deception And it says here
Verse 15 He hath 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 first beast to be
killed I don't believe he gave the image
any life of course I think the whole
thing is deception In fact I think it's
all part of that great delusion My the
death and resurrection of the boy last week
was only delusion Ah well a fire and
a life is a bit more delusion I'm
sure that all these demonstrations So called medicals
are only to deceive the people And so
you can see this deceptive lamb This persuasive
leader This demonstrative lecturer I want you to
see this conscriptive leader Because he works hard
And he calls it all That's the great
wee word you know He calls it all
What should both small and great Both rich
and poor Free in bond To receive a
mark in the right hand or in the
forehead You know this man is going to
wedge Business and religion together I know that
our Mr Heath Seems to be awake damn
night just to Get the common market going
I know it's all business with him It's
all economic as far as he's concerned It's
the European economic community that he dreams about
But before it's there much longer There's not
only going to be an economic community There's
going to be a religious community We're getting
together over here now I was going to
say that Santa Claus over last week But
that wouldn't be nice would it If things
happen inside me I can't help it I'm
sure the Lord will forgive me You know
somebody said Mr Heath There are three things
about him He's the market man He's the
music man He's the marine man Yes and
you both every Christmas Of course Wilson thinks
he's the mad man And when I gaze
at him I know He's not the marine
man And as sure as the next election
comes He'll be the middle man Well you
know This labourer is going to unite He's
going to wedge religion and business together And
mind you no class will be spared Because
of all both small and great Rich and
poor Free and bond There's nobody going to
get out of it You'll notice that because
of all To receive a mark in the
right hand or in the forehead You know
some people Will wear their blouse for me
proudly Well for some of the pagan cops
Do things on their foreheads all the time
Just to let you see what they're at
Because for some the boys will have to
bow to it And not be just so
wholeheartedly in it But they'll take it on
their hand just the same Some will be
in their foreheads Some will have it on
their hands And you'll find this out That
because of all To receive a mark in
the right hand or in the forehead That
no man might buy or sell You see
he's wedding religion and business together Says he
that hath the mark Or the name of
the beast Or the number of his name
Here is wisdom Let him that hath understanding
count The number of the beast For it
is the number of a man If you're
looking at that as carefully as I hope
you are You'll notice this three times At
the end of verse seventeen The number of
his name Then in verse eighteen The number
of the beast Then again the number of
a man Did you get that?
You know the number is six, six, six
Of course you know that Now I said
to you once upon a time Not very
long ago, just a few weeks ago That
you need to be careful with numbers You
know you can almost do anything with numbers
Anything at all And I've seen some of
the craziest ideas Worked out on six, six,
six You know during the war when Hitler
was Really taking everything by storm One of
the prophetic lecturers in America He worked a
thing out and I'll show you He worked
it out like this He took the ABCs,
the alphabets And he made A represent one
hundred And he made B one hundred and
one And he made C one hundred and
two Made B one hundred and three And
then he went on through the whole letters
And he went up them one by one
A hundred and four, a hundred and five
A hundred and six and right on through
the alphabet Now if you take the alphabet
when you go home tonight And put down
A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H,
J and so on Right down to the
end And you put the numbers up like
that Now if you took the word Hitler
You would find the H would be one
hundred and seven You would find I would
be a hundred and eight That follows H
You would find the T would be a
hundred and nineteen You would find the L
would be a hundred and eleven You would
find the E would be back at a
hundred and four You would find that R
would be a hundred and seventeen And if
you add them up it's six, six, six
Just done like that Of course that's the
greatest lot of bologna anybody ever worked with
I mean if he's alive now he must
know how big a fool he was Hitler
wasn't the antichrist Do you see what you
could do with it?
If we were in the middle of that
war and Hitler was going about And I
did this tonight it might really stir you
See a lot of nonsense that's what it
would be Just don't you go running to
everything you know that everybody works out You
can take the Roman figures and you can
work out Nero Six, six, six You can
take the Latin figures and you can work
out the Pope Six, six, six I'm going
to say something but then I'll I can't
ask the Lord to forgive me twice in
the one night Now this number you know
It's the number of his name I want
you to get that, the number of his
name And it's the number of beasts And
it's the number of a man That's why
I'm sure that the first beast is a
man I don't know how they get out
of it It's the number of a man
I honestly believe this That only when this
day dawns Only when the church is gone
Only when the tribulation is at its height
Only when the Antichrist is trotting through the
land Demon possessed Will the saints or the
remnant in that day know exactly what this
means I'm sure they'll know then You know
we always want to know far too much
But I'm sure we'll know then the way
that God wants us to know But I
believe it's here to make us think Of
course it's faith, faith, faith And the number
is mentioned three times The number of his
name The number of the beast The number
of a man I don't want you to
swallow this just too quickly But I'll tell
you what I think And I'll tell you
this You can buy all the books in
the world And all the commentaries And you
won't see it in one of them You
see this is the number of his name
You know six is just short of seven
Seven we all believe of course is the
perfect number Well I believe that he will
want his name to be above everything There'll
just be one ahead of him Just be
one ahead of him The Lord Jesus names
above every name I think when it says
not only the number of the name I
think when it says the number of the
beast We were looking last week at the
mouth of this beast And it's the same
mouth that is in the king The king
of fierce countenance and dandle And I think
that this man will not only want his
name to be above every name But he'll
want to be king of kings In fact
he'll have ten kings under him But there's
one that'll be above him There's one who
is really the king of kings And I
think when it says the number of his
name He may want to have his name
above every name When it says the number
of the beast he may want to be
king of kings When it says the number
of a man I think he'd want to
be the God man Because he's going to
sit in the temple showing himself that he
is God There is only one who is
the God man I believe each six is
just falling short of perfection I think he's
going to find out and the whole world
is going to find out how far short
he comes The Lord Jesus will have the
preeminence in all things His name is above
every name, he's the king of kings And
bless God he's both God and man Read
chapter for next week It's the Lamb on
Mount Zion And the 144,000 are there
with him We're singing together 676 please, it's
a short hymn, we'll sing it all 676
get on the sword and armour Go raise
the banner high The captain of salvation to
thee is Ebenezer 676 The Lord
part us in thy fear And with thy
blessing for thy holy name's sake Amen