Search for the Pearl!
And if you find it, don't cast it before swine!
Have you ever invested some time to compare Satan's creations with
those of the Elohim? If the answer is no, you are invited to think about this because
it will help you to choose much more easily in which way to go at each
cross-point of your life.
Devil’s creation are always ugly and with a bad design!
The book of Revelation is
forecasting us that very soon the whole world is going to live under the yoke
of an exceptional personality, a personality often considered to be the
masterpiece of Satan.
This future ruler of the world will
be incarnated by Satan, the Devil, who will give him all his power and his
throne. This future powerful King is better known by his name in the book of
Revelation:
The Beast !
In several places in the Bible,
there are additional descriptions of this dreaded man and of his deeds as he
will be enabled to kill the vast majority of the saints. In addition to the
book of Revelation, we are told about him in the books of Daniel and Isaiah. It
is worth reading some of these passages to have a better understanding about
this "masterpiece" of Satan.
First, let's read Revelation in
chapter 13, verses 1 to 10:
“1Then I stood on the
sand of the sea. And I saw a beast rising
up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his horns ten
crowns, and on his heads a blasphemous name. 2 Now the beast which I saw was like a leopard, his
feet were like the feet of a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a lion. The
dragon (i.e. Satan as written in Revelation 12: 9) gave him his power, his throne, and
great authority. 3 And I saw one of his heads as if it had been
mortally wounded, and his deadly wound was healed. And all the world marveled
and followed the beast. 4 So they (note: the whole world) worshiped the
dragon who gave authority to the beast; and they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who
is like the beast? Who is able to make war with him?”
5 And he was given a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies (note:
very similar to what is written in Daniel 7: 8, 11 and 25 and in chapter 8:
9-12 and 25), and he was given authority to continue for forty-two months (note:
About the biblical precise meaning of months, you are invited to read in this
website the article about the Calendar of Yehoah). 6
Then he opened his mouth in blasphemy against Elohim, to blaspheme His name,
His tabernacle, and those who dwell in heaven. 7 It was granted to
him to make war with the saints and to overcome them. And authority was given
him over every tribe, tongue, and nation. 8 All who dwell on the
earth will worship him, whose names have not been written in the Book of
Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
9 If anyone has
an ear, let him hear. 10
He who leads into captivity shall go into captivity; he who kills with the
sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the
saints.”
The description given to us of the
beast is revealing a horror with a monstrous appearance. We see a confusing mixture, made with a
very bad taste, of a part of a leopard with those of a bear and a lion. The
beast will speak violently and use threatening words.
Satan, since his rebellion against Elohim,
has never sought to create things intended to last because his only goal
is to destroy. But as we can read in chapter 12 of Revelation, in verse 12, he
has a very short time left to destroy:
“Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and
you who dwell in them! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and the sea! For the
devil has come down to you, having great wrath, because he knows that he has
a short time.”
Satan therefore will not invest too
much time to create
the beast, his spiritual son; the beast is badly designed by a personality who
seeks to do everything bad.
The prophet Daniel will reinforce
our commentary on the abominable ugliness and the bad conception of the beast
by Satan; let's read it in chapter 7, verses 7 and 8 and then 19 to 25:
“7 “After this I saw in
the night visions, and behold, a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible,
exceedingly strong. It had huge iron teeth; it was devouring, breaking in
pieces, and trampling the residue with its feet. It was different from all the
beasts that were before it, and it had ten horns. 8 I was
considering the horns, and there was another horn, a little one, coming up
among them, before whom three of the first horns were plucked out by the roots.
And there, in this horn, were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking
pompous words. …
19 “Then I wished to know the truth about the fourth beast, which was
different from all the others, exceedingly dreadful, with its teeth of
iron and its nails of bronze, which devoured, broke in pieces, and trampled the
residue with its feet;
20 and the ten horns that were on its head, and the other horn which
came up, before which three fell, namely, that horn which had eyes and a mouth
which spoke pompous words, whose appearance was greater than his fellows.
21 “I was watching; and the same horn was making war against the
saints, and prevailing against them, 22 until the Ancient of Days
came, and a judgment was made in favor of the saints of the Most High, and the
time came for the saints to possess the kingdom.
23 “Thus he said: ‘The fourth beast shall be a fourth kingdom on
earth, which shall be different from all other kingdoms, and shall devour the
whole earth, trample it and break it in pieces.
24 The ten horns are ten kings who shall arise from this kingdom. And
another shall rise after them; He shall be different from the first ones, and
shall subdue three kings. 25 He shall speak pompous words against
the Most High, shall persecute the saints of the Most High, and shall intend to
change times and law. Then the saints shall be given into his hand for a time
and times and half a time.”
Fragile!
If we refer to the dream of the
statue whose the Lord revealed the meaning to king Nebuchadnezzar through
Daniel (Daniel chapter 2), we will see that his reign initiated by Elohim, with the intention to
punish the treacherous Judah, is represented by the splendid head of gold. But
the following kingdoms will gradually degenerate under the growing influence of
the seductions of Satan to become at the end a vile and abominably destructive
kingdom, that of the beast of which we spoke above. But the revelation made in
the book of Daniel will make us discover a new aspect of the works of Satan:
Their fragility and their lack of eternity.
Let us read in
particular verses 33 to 35 of Daniel chapter 2:
"... 33 its legs of
iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of clay. 34 You watched
while a stone was cut out without hands, which struck the image on its feet of
iron and clay, and broke them in pieces. 35 Then the iron, the clay,
the bronze, the silver, and the gold were crushed together, and became like
chaff from the summer threshing floors; the wind carried them away so that no
trace of them was found. And the stone that struck the image became a great
mountain and filled the whole earth. …”
Then follows the explanation of this
part of the vision in verses 40 to 45:
“40 And the fourth
kingdom shall be as strong as iron, inasmuch as iron breaks in pieces and
shatters everything; and like iron that crushes, that kingdom will break in
pieces and crush all the others. 41 Whereas you saw the feet and
toes, partly of potter’s clay and partly of iron, the kingdom shall be divided;
yet the strength of the iron shall be in it, just as you saw the iron mixed
with ceramic clay. 42 And as the toes of the feet were partly of
iron and partly of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly
fragile. 43 As you saw iron mixed with ceramic clay, they will
mingle with the seed of men; but they will not adhere to one another, just as
iron does not mix with clay. 44 And in the days of these kings the Elohim
of heaven will set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed; and the kingdom
shall not be left to other people; it shall break in pieces and consume all
these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever. 45 Inasmuch as you saw
that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it broke in
pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold—the great Elohim
has made known to the king what will come to pass after this. The dream is
certain, and its interpretation is sure.”
The fragility represented by the
mixture of iron and ceramic clay is somehow confirmed in chapter 13 of the book
of Revelation by the wounded head which is like a mortal wound for the whole
beast.
And yet the whole world will love and admire
this fragile horror, the work of Satan!
All the inhabitants on earth will be
dazzled and seduced by this kind of resurrection of the beast, one of the seven
heads which existed during antiquity and that history considered as definitively
dead. If you want to know more about the means made available to you by Yehoah Elohim to identify the beast, you are kindly invited
to read the article on the identity of Babylon the Great and the mystery of the
beast in this website, in the Prophecy section. This article is intended to
warn you and encourage you to be careful in order to avoid the danger of being seduced.
Indeed, the second part of chapter
13 of the book of Revelation reveals the apparition of a second beast often
associated with the false prophet. This beast, disguised as a lamb to make it
appear to be associated with Yeshuah the Christ but
speaking like the Devil, will excite the world to worship the first beast with its
seven heads and ten horns.
This false lamb, in other words the
false prophet, will perform another important action which we will read in
verses 16 to 17:
“16 He causes all, both
small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their
right hand or on their foreheads, 17 and that no one may buy or
sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his
name.”
All trade, whatever it may be, will
be channeled by the beast and anyone who does not obey his law will be unable
to buy or sell. This obedience to the beast will be manifested by the
possession of its mark, or its name or the number of its name. When we realize
the importance that trade has today in the life of everyone essentially confined
in cities and therefore with the impossibility to get his food without buying
it, we understand better what means the danger of this mark.
Why then does the daughter of Zion laugh
and despise the beast?
All the world will submit to the beast,
all the world except those who have chosen to be part of the Kingdom of our Lord
rather than that of the beast. These people will be like the daughter of Zion
in the time of the prophet Isaiah! Indeed, the prophecy in chapter 37 of the
book of Isaiah reveals to us that the daughter of Zion despised and made fun of
the Assyrian beast during the time of King Hezekiah. It is this same Assyrian
beast who will find life for a short time and whose resurrection will cause a
big surprise and admiration for the whole world. Let's read how Isaiah sees
these events, which will soon galvanize our Father's people to resist, in
Isaiah 37, verses 22 to 35:
“22 This is the word
which the Yehoah has spoken concerning him:
“The virgin, the daughter of Zion, has
despised you, laughed you to scorn;
The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head behind your back!
23 “Whom have you reproached and blasphemed? Against whom have you
raised your voice, and lifted up your eyes on high? Against
the Holy One of Israel.
24 By your servants you have reproached Yehoah,
and said, ‘By the multitude of my chariots I have come up to the height of the
mountains, to the limits of Lebanon; I will cut down its tall cedars and its
choice cypress trees; I will enter its farthest height, to its fruitful forest.
25 I have dug and drunk water, and with the soles of my feet I have
dried up all the brooks of defense.’
26 “Did you not hear long ago how I made it, from ancient times that
I formed it?
Now I have brought it to pass, that
you should be for crushing fortified cities into heaps of ruins.
27 Therefore their inhabitants had little power; They were dismayed and confounded; They
were as the grass of the field and the green herb, as the grass on the
housetops and grain blighted before it is grown.
28 “But I know your dwelling place, your
going out and your coming in, and your rage against Me.
29 Because your rage against Me and your tumult have come up to My
ears, therefore I will put My hook in your nose and My bridle in your lips, and
I will turn you back by the way which you came.” ’
30 “This shall be a sign to you: You shall eat this year such as
grows of itself, and the second year what springs from the same; also in the
third year sow and reap, plant vineyards and eat the fruit of them.
31 And the remnant who have escaped of the house of Judah shall again
take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
32 For out of Jerusalem shall go a remnant, and those who escape from
Mount Zion. The zeal of Yehoah of hosts will do this.
33 “Therefore thus says Yehoah concerning
the king of Assyria: ‘He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow
there, nor come before it with shield, nor build a siege mound against it.
34 By the way that he came, by the same shall he return; and he shall
not come into this city,’ Says Yehoah.
35 ‘For I will defend this city, to save it for My own sake and for
My servant David’s sake.’ ”
But why does the daughter of Zion
laugh at the Assyrian beast? The answer to this question is vital because the
same answer will explain the reasons for the choices of people who in the end
times will refuse the mark of the beast and the number of its name! This is
the pearl that must be found and not thrown before the pigs. The answer is
very simple, the daughter of Zion prefers to give everything to stay with Yehoah and she does not attribute any importance to the
wealth and money that the henchman of Satan, in the person of the resurrected Assyrian
beast will offer in order to trap the world. Indeed, if you read once more what
is written in Isaiah 36, verses 16 and 17, you will see that the king of
Assyria, like Satan, tries to confuse the daughter of Zion by making her
believe that Hezekiah, the anointed of Yehoah, tells
nonsense while the king of Assyria promises happiness and abundance if she
submits to him and his laws. But Zion’s daughter is not going to follow Eve’s
example this time and she will listen to Hezekiah and put all her faith in Yehoah.
It will be the same in the end
times, several people who will be offered to be able to trade and live
comfortably thanks to the acceptance of the mark of the beast and the number of
its name will refuse and will mock and laugh at the beast. Indeed, to be able
to trade, buy and sell, you must have money: the world in which we live today
is essentially based on the laws imposed by money and trade. But the believers
who had been warned, as well as the daughter of Zion, will have prepared
themselves for the situation that the beast will set up. They will follow the
very good advice given by our Lord Jesus Christ in Luke, chapter 12, verses 22
to 34:
“22 Then He said to His
disciples, “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will
eat; nor about the body, what you will put on. 23 Life is more than
food, and the body is more than clothing. 24 Consider the ravens,
for they neither sow nor reap, which have neither storehouse nor barn; and Elohim
feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds? 25 And
which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature? 26 If you
then are not able to do the least, why are you anxious for the rest? 27
Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say
to you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 28
If then Elohim so clothes the grass, which today is in the field and tomorrow
is thrown into the oven, how much more will He clothe you, O you of little
faith?
29 “And do not seek what you should eat or what you should drink, nor
have an anxious mind. 30 For all these things the nations of the world seek
after, and your Father knows that you need these things. 31 But seek
the kingdom of Elohim, and all these things shall be added to you.
32 “Do not fear, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure
to give you the kingdom. 33 Sell what you have and give alms;
provide yourselves money bags which do not grow old, a treasure in the heavens
that does not fail, where no thief approaches nor moth destroys. 34
For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”
This is the key that allows you to
find the pearl that is the kingdom of our Father and to acquire it by getting rid
of all that is money or sellable goods while it is still time to do it. Having
no more money, you put yourself in a situation where the mark of the beast and
its number will no longer concern you because you will have nothing left to
trade! You will no longer have any material goods on earth and as a result all
the laws of the beast whatever they are will no longer have any hold over you.
You will have made your choice
between Elohim and Mammon because we cannot serve both (Luke 16:13):
“No servant can serve two masters;
for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to
the one and despise the other.
You cannot serve Elohim and mammon.”
Paul writes the same kind of advice
to Timothy and is asking him to send his warning to his entire audience, in I
Timothy 6, verses 3 to 19:
“3 If anyone teaches
otherwise and does not consent to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord
Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which accords with godliness, 4 he
is proud, knowing nothing, but is obsessed with disputes and arguments over
words, from which come envy, strife, reviling, evil suspicions, 5
useless wranglings of men of corrupt minds and
destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. From
such withdraw yourself.
6 Now godliness with contentment is great gain. 7 For we
brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. 8
And having food and clothing, with these we shall be content. 9 But
those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many
foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition.
10 For the love
of money is
a root of all kinds of evil,
for which some have strayed from the
faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves
through with many sorrows.
11 But you, O man of Elohim, flee these things and pursue
righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, gentleness. 12
Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which you were also
called and have confessed the good confession in the presence of many
witnesses. 13 I urge you in the sight of Elohim who gives life to
all things, and before Christ Jesus who witnessed the good confession before
Pontius Pilate, 14 that you keep this commandment without spot,
blameless until our Lord Jesus Christ’s appearing, 15 which He will
manifest in His own time, He who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of
kings and Lord of lords, 16 who alone has immortality, dwelling in
unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see, to whom be honor and
everlasting power. Amen.
17 Command those who are rich in this present age not to be haughty,
nor to trust in uncertain riches but in the living Elohim, who gives us richly
all things to enjoy. 18 Let them do good, that they be rich in good
works, ready to give, willing to share, 19 storing up for themselves a good foundation for the
time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.”
Now you have discovered here above the
precious pearl of which Yehsuah spoke in Matthew,
chapter 13, verses 45 to 46:
“45 “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant
seeking beautiful pearls, 46 who, when he had found one pearl of
great price, went and sold all that he had and bought it.”