K083. The beast is the Lawless One who will come in the flesh

Since I have I written on the Word who came in the flesh 5 times, I hope that I will just need to write on the beast only once. I believe that I don't have to write too much about the beast. Why? It is because the beast is the opposite of the Word. Since I have written so much on the Word (5 times), we can just go back to the previous posts on the Word and think of the other side of the Word as the Beast. For example,
1. The Word has the law or commandment of God and He is God's laws in our hearts, but the beast has no law and he is lawlessness in the hearts of his believers
2. The Word gives the mark of God; but the beast gives the mark of the Beast
3. The Word has the Spirit of God like a dove; but the beast has the spirit of the devil like a frog (Rev 16:13)
4. The Word speaks life; but the beast speaks lies and speaks like the dragon (Rev 16:11)
5. The Word has the cross and commandments which are the sword of the Spirit (Rev 19:13-15,  Eph 6:17); but the beast is the enemy of the sword (Rev 13:14)
6. The Word will correct, rebuke, and judge; but the beast will flatter, boast, and seduce: Dan 11:31-32 LITV  And forces will stand away from him, and they will profane the sanctuary, the fortress. And they shall remove the regular sacrifice, and they will place the abomination that desolates.  (32)  And he will defile by flatteries those who do evil against the covenant. ..
7. The Word will transform, separate, and take away those who are the doers of God's words (Mat 22:9-14); but the beast will crave to control the lives of all who remain in the world (Rev 13:16-17)
8. The number of the Word is the Cross or 十 ; but the number of the beast is xxxxxx xxxxxx xxxxxx or 666
9.  The 'trinity' of the Word is revealed in God's life, God's commandments, and God's power; but the 'trinity' of the Beast is revealed as the dragon, the beast, ad the false prophet ((Rev 16:13)
10. The Word is Christ; but the beast is antiChrist


The beast will come as a man in the end time
The beast is a man because he has both the number of a man and the name of a man - '666' or 'man man man'. It is a name greatly honoured by the people of the world :
1. the 1st name is a great name or title among all the Christians,
2. the 2nd name is greatly honoured by all the Jews,
3. the 3rd name is the name of the ruler of the world
Hence, 666 is not the name of a computer, a company, an empire, or kingdom, although I do not rule out the possibility of different 'kingdom beast' which could have come in the past. But in the present or the future, the so called 'kingdom beast' or the spirit of the beast will come as a man and he has a name which was counted (clearly and easily) by John as '666'. However, '6' is also the number of man because man was created on the sixth day. So, if the number of the name is counted as 6, it could also be counted as 'xxxxxx  xxxxxx  xxxxxx'. Of course, this was very likely what John could read when he could not understand an English name, and so he would just count the number of the name (and the title) and interpret it as numbers:
Rev 13:18 KJV  Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.

The mark of the beast is the mark of falling
Many people like to associate or label the evil men or those they do not like with the name of the beast. So, they would say that Hitler, Roman emperor Nero, some presidents, or the terrorists, are the beast. But, of course, we do not say that they are the beast. Yes, Hitler or Nero could be thousand times more evil than the murderers, but they could not fit the description of the beast in Rev 13. In fact, the Bible did not say that the beast will kill millions of people although it did say that it will 'kill' many who refuse to worship the image of the beast (Rev 13: 15), Hence, the beast may not be that evil as we think. Yes, he could be used by Satan, but he could also be the mark of Satan which marks the beginning of corruption or falling of the believers and churches. The number of 666 appeared in the Old Testament too, when the kingdom of Solomon started to fall:
1Ki 10:13-14 KJV  And king Solomon gave unto the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked.. (14) Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred threescore and six talents of gold,

But immediately after that, in the next chapter, king Solomon fell, the judgement of God came, and the kingdom of Solomon split in two: Judah and Israel:
1Ki 11:1-11 KJV  But king Solomon loved many strange women, ..  (6)  And Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD.. (9)  And the LORD was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned from the LORD ..  (11)  Wherefore the LORD said unto Solomon, Forasmuch as this is done of thee, and thou hast not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded thee, I will surely rend the kingdom from thee, and will give it to thy servant.

Similarly, in the next chapter immediately after Rev 13 or 666, many fell because of the mark of the beast, God's judgement came, and the churches split in two: the first reaped by the sickle of harvest, and the remaining by the sickle of judgement:
Rev 14:8-19 KJV  And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, ..  (9)  And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand,  (10)  The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God.. in the presence of the Lamb: .. (16) And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped .. .. (17) And another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle .. (19)  And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.

Hence, the mark of the beast is not only the mark of lawlessness; it is also the mark of end time. That's why I said that Hitler or king Nero can never fulfil the prophecies as the beast in Revelation 13 and 14.

See also: Sound doctrine Vs Radical grace ?: Is the Beast in the book of Revelation 13 a man, a beast, or a computer? 

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