We are in the process of considering Revelation chapters eleven through thirteen, where we find all the antagonists in the final probationary battle of the great controversy that occurs on the battlefield of the first heaven. The antagonists are the one hundred and forty-four thousand and the great multitude that comes out of Babylon as a secondary force, against the United Nations, the Catholic Church, the United States and Satan himself. The one hundred and forty-four thousand and the great multitude are God’s army, representing the third angel’s message, and both sides in the warfare are also confronted with the army of God’s judgment, represented not by the third angel, but by the third woe.
Urang ayeuna keur nalungtik Wahyu pasal sabelas nepi ka tilu belas, tempat urang manggihan sakabéh pihak anu silih lawan dina perang panungtungan masa pangujian dina kontrovérsi agung anu lumangsung di medan perang langit kahiji. Pihak-pihak anu silih lawan éta nyaéta saratus opat puluh opat rébu jeung jalma réa anu kaluar ti Babul minangka pasukan sékundér, ngalawan Perserikatan Bangsa-Bangsa, Garéja Katolik, Amérika Sarikat, jeung Iblis sorangan. Saratus opat puluh opat rébu jeung jalma réa téh mangrupa balad Allah, anu ngawakilan amanat malaikat katilu, sarta dua pihak dina peperangan éta ogé sarua-sarua nyanghareupan balad panghukuman Allah, anu dilambangkeun lain ku malaikat katilu, tapi ku cilaka anu katilu.
In order to identify certain characteristics that contributed to the murder of the Republican and Protestant horns in 2020, we are seeking to identify prophetic characteristics that occur in the battle of mankind in the first heaven, from the Sunday law until Michael stands up. In that history the entire world is forced to erect an image to the beast. That history is a repetition of the history of the United States from September 11, 2001, until the soon coming Sunday law, which divides those two parallel histories. As parallel histories they both represent a witness to the other history. What takes place in one of those histories, will also take place in the other history. It is the second history that is the focus of Revelation chapters twelve and thirteen, and we intend to understand the second witness, in order to shed prophetic light upon the first history, which is now almost finished.
Pikeun nangtukeun sababaraha ciri nu nyumbang kana dipaéhanana tanduk Républikan jeung Protestan dina taun 2020, urang keur neangan pikeun ngaidéntifikasi ciri-ciri profétis nu kajadian dina peperangan umat manusa di sawarga kahiji, ti hukum Minggu nepi ka Mikhaél nangtung. Dina sajarah éta, sakuliah dunya dipaksa pikeun ngadegkeun hiji arca pikeun sato galak éta. Sajarah éta mangrupa pangulangan tina sajarah Amérika Sarikat ti 11 Séptémber 2001 nepi ka hukum Minggu nu enggal datang, nu ngabagi dua sajarah anu sajajar éta. Salaku sajarah anu sajajar, duanana ngawakilan hiji kasaksian pikeun sajarah nu séjénna. Naon anu lumangsung dina salah sahiji sajarah éta, bakal ogé lumangsung dina sajarah nu séjénna. Sajarah nu kadua éta nu jadi puseur perhatian Wahyu pasal dua belas jeung tilu belas, sarta urang miharep ngartos kasaksian nu kadua, supaya méré cahya profétis kana sajarah nu kahiji, nu ayeuna geus ampir réngsé.
The three powers that lead the world to Armageddon are represented in chapters twelve and thirteen. The dragon power is first mentioned.
Tilu kakawasaan anu mingpin dunya ka Armageddon digambarkeun dina pasal dua welas jeung tilu welas. Kakawasaan naga disebatkeun heula.
And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born. Revelation 12:3, 4.
Tuluy aya mujijat anu séjén di sawarga; jeung ieu, aya hiji naga beureum anu gedé, boga tujuh sirah jeung sapuluh tanduk, sarta tujuh makuta dina sirah-sirahna. Jeung buntutna nyéréd sapertilu béntang-béntang di sawarga, tuluy ngalungkeunana ka bumi; sarta naga éta nangtung di hareupeun éta awéwé anu geus deukeut kana ngalahirkeun, pikeun ngahakan anakna pas geus lahir. Wahyu 12:3, 4.
Sister White informs us that the dragon in this chapter is Satan, but in a secondary sense it is pagan Rome. Both Satan and pagan Rome typify the United Nations. The beast’s ten horns represent the evil confederacy of ten kings in Revelation seventeen. Those ten kings are represented in Revelation seventeen, and they are there identified as the seventh kingdom of Bible prophecy. The beast is represented as having seven heads with seven crowns, marking it as the seventh kingdom of Bible prophecy. In Daniel two they are represented as spiritual Greece, and they are also Ahab in the testimony of Mount Carmel, and they are the ten enemies of Psalms eighty-three.
Suster White ngawartoskeun ka urang yén naga dina ieu pasal nyaéta Iblis, tapi dina harti kadua nyaéta Roma kapir. Boh Iblis boh Roma kapir mangrupa tipé tina Perserikatan Bangsa-Bangsa. Sapuluh tanduk sato galak éta ngagambarkeun pakumpulan jahat tina sapuluh raja dina Wahyu tujuh belas. Sapuluh raja éta digambarkeun dina Wahyu tujuh belas, sarta di dinya maranéhna diidéntifikasi minangka karajaan katujuh tina nubuat Alkitab. Sato galak éta digambarkeun miboga tujuh sirah jeung tujuh makuta, anu nandaan éta minangka karajaan katujuh tina nubuat Alkitab. Dina Daniel dua maranéhna digambarkeun minangka Yunani rohani, sarta maranéhna ogé nyaéta Ahab dina kasaksian Gunung Karmel, sarta maranéhna nyaéta sapuluh musuh dina Jabur dalapan puluh tilu.
The second earthly power of the enemy mentioned in Revelation chapters twelve and thirteen, is the beast that comes out of the sea, who Sister White directly identifies as Catholicism.
Kakawasaan dunya anu kadua ti musuh anu disebutkeun dina Wahyu pasal dua welas jeung tilu welas, nya éta sato galak anu kaluar tina laut, anu ku Sister White sacara langsung diidentipikasikeun minangka Katolikisme.
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 gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority. 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. Revelation 13:1–3.
Jeung kami nangtung di basisir laut, tuluy ningali hiji sato galak naék ti laut, boga tujuh sirah jeung sapuluh tanduk, sarta dina tanduk-tandukna aya sapuluh makuta, jeung dina sirah-sirahna aya ngaran hujat. Jeung sato galak anu ku kami katingali téh sarupa jeung maung tutul, sukuna siga suku biruang, jeung sungutna siga sungut singa; sarta naga mikeun ka anjeunna kakawasaanana, tahta-na, jeung kawenangan anu agung. Jeung kami ningali salah sahiji sirahna saolah-olah tatu nepi ka maot; tapi tatu anu matak maot éta cageur deui; sarta sakuliah dunya ngarasa héran tuluy nuturkeun sato galak éta. Wahyu 13:1–3.
John was standing on the seashore in verse one, and he sees a beast rise from the sea, and thereafter, he sees a beast coming up out of the earth. Sister White identifies that the time in which John saw the two beasts was 1798, for that was the year the papacy was “robbed of its strength,” thus receiving a deadly wound that would ultimately be healed.
Dina ayat kahiji, Yohanes keur nangtung di sisi basisir laut, tuluy anjeunna ningali hiji sato galak naék ti laut, sarta satuluyna anjeunna ningali hiji sato galak naék kaluar ti bumi. Sister White nétélakeun yén waktu nalika Yohanes ningali dua sato galak éta nyaéta taun 1798, sabab éta téh taun nalika kapausan “dirampas tina kakuatanana,” ku kituna narima hiji tatu paéh anu ahirna bakal cageur.
“At the time when the Papacy, robbed of its strength, was forced to desist from persecution, John beheld a new power coming up to echo the dragon’s voice, and carry forward the same cruel and blasphemous work. This power, the last that is to wage war against the church and the law of God, is represented by a beast with lamblike horns. The beasts preceding it had risen from the sea; but this came up out of the earth, representing the peaceful rise of the nation which it symbolized—the United States.” Signs of the Times, February 8, 1910.
“Dina mangsa nalika Kapapaan, sanggeus dirampas kakuatanana, kapaksa eureun tina panganiayaan, Yohanes ningali hiji kakawasaan anyar mucunghul pikeun ngaguar sora naga, sarta nuluykeun pagawean anu sarua kejem jeung ngahujat. Kakawasaan ieu, anu panungtung anu baris merangan garéja jeung hukum Allah, dilambangkeun ku hiji sato galak anu tandukna siga anak domba. Sato-sato galak anu miheulaan éta geus naék ti laut; ari ieu mah naék ti bumi, ngalambangkeun tumuwuhna bangsa anu tengtrem, anu ku éta dilambangkeun—Amérika Sarikat.” Signs of the Times, 8 Pébruari 1910.
John is looking backward into history when he sees the sea beast, which is the papacy. Looking forward in history, he sees the earth beast, which is the United States. This is why the beast from the sea is prophetically constructed as it is. Looking back from 1798, John first sees “seven heads and ten horns,” marking the point in history that three of the horns were plucked up to make room for the stout horn of the papacy, which spake great things.
Yohanes keur ningali ka tukang kana sajarah nalika anjeunna ningali sato galak ti laut, nyaéta kapapaan. Ningali ka hareup dina sajarah, anjeunna ningali sato galak ti bumi, nyaéta Amérika Sarikat. Ku sabab ieu, sato galak ti laut sacara nubuat diwangun sakumaha kitu. Ningali ka tukang ti taun 1798, mimitina Yohanes ningali “tujuh hulu jeung sapuluh tanduk,” nandaan titik dina sajarah nalika tilu tanduk éta dicabut nepi ka méré rohangan pikeun tanduk gedé tina kapapaan, anu nyarita perkara-perkara agung.
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 his nails of brass; which devoured, brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with his feet; And of the ten horns that were in his head, and of the other which came up, 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. Daniel 7:19, 20.
Tuluy sim kuring hayang nyaho kabeneran ngeunaan sato anu kaopat, anu béda ti sakabéh anu lianna, kacida pikasieuneunna; huntuna tina beusi, jeung kuku-kukuna tina tambaga; anu ngalalap, ngarempak jadi ruksak, sarta nginjak sesana ku suku-sukuna; Jeung ngeunaan sapuluh tanduk anu aya dina sirahna, jeung ngeunaan tanduk séjén anu mucunghul, anu di hareupeunna tilu ragrag; nya éta tanduk anu boga panon, jeung sungut anu ngucapkeun hal-hal anu kacida gedéna, anu rarayna leuwih garang batan sasamana. Daniel 7:19, 20.
Before those three horns of the Heruli, Ostrogoths and Vandals were removed, pagan Rome was represented by “ten crowns.” Those ten crowns represent pagan Rome. Then John identifies the leopard of Greece, then the bear of Medo-Persia and then the lion of Babylon.
Saméméh tilu tanduk, nyaéta bangsa Heruli, Ostrogoths, jeung Vandals, dileungitkeun, Roma kapir dilambangkeun ku “sapuluh makuta.” Eta sapuluh makuta ngalambangkeun Roma kapir. Saterusna Yohanes ngaidentipikasi macan tutul, nyaéta Yunani, tuluy biruang, nyaéta Medo-Persia, sarta singa, nyaéta Babul.
The first was like a lion, and had eagle’s wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man’s heart was given to it. And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh. After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it. Daniel 7:4–6.
Nu kahiji téh sarupa jeung singa, sarta ngabogaan jangjang garuda; kuring nengetan nepi ka jangjangna dicabutan, tuluy éta diangkat tina bumi, dijadikeun nangtung dina dua suku kawas manusa, sarta dibéré hate manusa. Jeung tenjo, aya deui hiji sato galak, anu kadua, sarupa jeung biruang; éta nangtungna condong ka hiji sisi, sarta dina sungutna, di antara huntuna, aya tilu tulang iga; sarta maranéhna nyebut kieu ka éta, Hudang, lahaplah loba daging. Sanggeus ieu kuring nengetan, sarta tenjo, aya deui nu séjén, sarupa jeung macan tutul, anu dina tonggongna aya opat jangjang manuk; éta sato galak ogé ngabogaan opat sirah; sarta kakawasaan dipasrahkeun ka éta. Daniel 7:4–6.
There is not one element of Catholicism that is Christian, and the sea beast represents the combination of all the previous pagan kingdoms of Bible prophecy. The sea beast is represented in reverse historical order, for John is looking back into history. He first saw the power that was established when the three horns were removed—the papacy. Then he saw ten horns with ten crowns—pagan Rome. Then he saw the leopard—Greece. Then he saw the bear—Medo-Persia. Then he saw the lion—Babylon. The description of the sea beast consists of elements of each of the preceding pagan kingdoms, and the description establishes that the papacy is a conglomeration of every form of paganism that has existed in biblical history. There is not one element of Catholicism that is Christian. Anything that might appear as Christian in Catholicism is a counterfeit.
Teu aya hiji unsur ogé dina Katolik anu Kristen, sarta sato galak tina laut ngawakilan gabungan sakabéh karajaan-karajaan pagan saméméhna dina nubuat Alkitab. Sato galak tina laut digambarkeun dina urutan sajarah anu kabalik, sabab Yohanes keur nenjo ka tukang kana sajarah. Mimiti anjeunna ningali kakawasaan anu ditegakkan nalika tilu tanduk dipiceun—kapausan. Tuluy anjeunna ningali sapuluh tanduk jeung sapuluh makuta—Roma pagan. Saterusna anjeunna ningali macan tutul—Yunani. Tuluy anjeunna ningali biruang—Média-Pérsia. Ahirna anjeunna ningali singa—Babul. Pedaran ngeunaan sato galak tina laut téh diwangun ku unsur-unsur tina masing-masing karajaan pagan anu miheulaanana, sarta pedaran éta netepkeun yén kapausan téh mangrupakeun konglomerasi tina unggal wangun paganisme anu kungsi aya dina sajarah biblika. Teu aya hiji unsur ogé dina Katolik anu Kristen. Naon waé anu sigana katempo salaku Kristen dina Katolik téh palsu.
At Mount Carmel, when Elijah did battle with Jezebel’s prophets and her apostate husband, Jezebel was back home in Samaria. The whore of Tyre is forgotten during the history of the earth beast with two horns. Jezebel is always hidden away, and in Revelation chapters twelve and thirteen the world wonders after her, but she is not portrayed as a marvel that is wondered after in the heavens, as is the United Nations, the United States and Satan. She is back in her command center of Samaria—the city of Rome.
Di Gunung Karmel, nalika Élia tarung ngalawan nabi-nabi Yézébél jeung salakina nu murtad, Yézébél aya deuih di imahna di Samaria. Palacur ti Tirus téh kaliwat teu kacaritakeun dina sajarah sato bumi nu boga dua tanduk. Yézébél salawasna disumputkeun, sarta dina Wahyu pasal dua welas jeung tilu welas dunya ngarasa héran ku anjeunna, tapi anjeunna henteu digambarkeun minangka hiji kaajaiban anu dipikahérankeun di sawarga, sakumaha Perserikatan Bangsa-Bangsa, Amérika Sarikat, jeung Sétan. Anjeunna balik deui ka puseur komandonana di Samaria—kota Roma.
The history of the earth beast is where the test of the image of the beast for the whole world is identified. That test takes place during the warfare of the first heaven. This is what we wish to consider at this point. I will substitute the United States for the word “he” in the verses we are now going to consider.
Sajarah sato galak ti bumi téh mangrupa tempat diidentipikasina ujian ngeunaan gambar sato galak pikeun sakuliah dunya. Ujian éta lumangsung dina mangsa peperangan langit kahiji. Ieu anu rek urang pertimbangkeun dina ieu waktos. Kuring baris ngagantikeun kecap “manéhna” ku Amérika Sarikat dina ayat-ayat anu ayeuna rék urang tinimbangan.
And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and the United States had two horns like a lamb, and the United States spake as a dragon. And the United States exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. And the United States 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 the United States 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 the [United States] 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. And the United States causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And 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. Revelation 13:11–17.
Tuluy kuring nenjo sato galak anu séjén naék ti bumi; sarta Amérika Sarikat miboga dua tanduk kawas anak domba, tapi nyarita kawas naga. Jeung Amérika Sarikat ngalaksanakeun sakabéh kakawasaan sato galak anu kahiji di hareupeunana, sarta nyababkeun bumi jeung jalma-jalma anu maratuh di dinya nyembah ka sato galak anu kahiji, anu tatu matina geus cageur. Jeung Amérika Sarikat ngalakukeun kaajaiban-kaajaiban anu gedé, nepi ka manéhna ngajadikeun seuneu turun ti langit ka bumi di hareupeun jalma-jalma, sarta nipu jalma-jalma anu maratuh di bumi ku jalan mujijat-mujijat anu dipaparinkeun kakawasaan ka Amérika Sarikat pikeun ngalakukeunana di hareupeun sato galak éta; bari nyebut ka jalma-jalma anu maratuh di bumi, supaya maranéhna nyieun hiji arca pikeun sato galak anu kungsi tatu ku pedang, tapi tetep hirup. Jeung [Amérika Sarikat] dipaparinkeun kakawasaan pikeun méré napas hirup ka arca sato galak éta, supaya arca sato galak éta boh nyarita, boh nyababkeun sing saha waé anu henteu nyembah ka arca sato galak éta dipaéhan. Jeung Amérika Sarikat nyababkeun sakumna jalma, boh nu leutik boh nu gedé, boh nu beunghar boh nu miskin, boh nu merdéka boh nu hamba, narima hiji tanda dina leungeun katuhuna atawa dina tarangna; sarta supaya teu aya saurang ogé anu bisa meuli atawa ngajual, iwal jalma anu miboga éta tanda, atawa ngaran sato galak éta, atawa bilangan ngaranna. Wahyu 13:11–17.
In Revelation chapter thirteen, the dragon of pagan Rome gave the papacy three things as it placed the papacy on the throne of the earth.
Dina Wahyu pasal tilu welas, naga ti Roma pagan mikeun ka kapapaan tilu hal nalika éta nempatkeun kapapaan dina tahta bumi.
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 gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority. Revelation 13:2.
Jeung sato galak anu ku abdi ditingali téh rupana saperti maung tutul, sukuna saperti suku biruang, jeung sungutna saperti sungut singa; sarta naga mikeun ka anjeunna kakawasaanana, tahta-na, jeung wewenang anu kacida gedéna. Wahyu 13:2.
The ten kings who represent pagan Rome (France being the premier king of the ten as represented by Ahab) gave the papacy three things: power, seat and authority. When the emperor Constantine moved the capital from the city of Rome in the west, unto the east and made Constantinople the new capital of the Roman Empire in the year 330, pagan Rome then gave the church of Rome its “seat.”
Sapuluh raja anu ngalambangkeun Roma kapir (Perancis minangka raja pangutamana tina sapuluh éta, sakumaha dilambangkeun ku Ahab) mikeun ka kapapaan tilu perkara: kakawasaan, tahta, jeung wewenang. Nalika Kaisar Konstantinus mindahkeun ibu kota ti kota Roma di beulah kulon ka beulah wétan sarta ngajadikeun Konstantinopel ibu kota anyar Kakaisaran Romawi dina taun 330, harita Roma kapir mikeun “tahta”-na ka garéja Roma.
When Clovis, king of the Franks (France), converted to Catholicism and began to war against the powers that had been resisting the rise of the papacy to the throne of the earth in the year 496, pagan Rome then gave the papacy its “power.”
Nalika Clovis, raja bangsa Franka (Perancis), asup kana agama Katolik sarta mimiti merangan kakuatan-kakuatan anu geus ngalawan kana naékna kakawasaan kapapaan kana tahta bumi dina taun 496, mangka Roma kapir masrahkeun “kakawasaan”-na ka kapapaan.
In 533, Justinian made a decree which identified the Roman church as both the head of all churches, and also as the corrector of heretics. At that point, the authority of pagan Rome had been given to the papacy.
Dina taun 533, Justinian ngaluarkeun hiji dekrit anu netepkeun yén garéja Romawi téh boh minangka kapala sadaya garéja, boh ogé minangka nu ngabenerkeun para bid’ah. Dina mangsa éta, kakawasaan Roma pagan geus dipasrahkeun ka kapausan.
In verse twelve, “the [United States] exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him.” The power that was exercised by the papacy is represented by Clovis, who dedicated his military and economic might unto the papacy. This is why Catholicism calls Clovis “the first born of the Catholic church,” and France the “eldest daughter of the Catholic church.” The United States will do the same dirty work for the papacy that Clovis began in 496.
Dina ayat ka dua welas, “sato galak [Amérika Sarikat] ngalaksanakeun sakabéh kakawasaan sato galak anu kahiji di payuneunana.” Kakawasaan anu dilaksanakeun ku kapausan dilambangkeun ku Clovis, anu ngadédikasikeun kakuatan militér jeung ékonomina ka kapausan. Ku sabab kitu Katolik nyebut Clovis “putra cikal Garéja Katolik,” jeung Perancis “putri cikal Garéja Katolik.” Amérika Sarikat bakal ngalakukeun pagawéan kotor anu sarua pikeun kapausan sakumaha anu dimimitian ku Clovis dina taun 496.
The power of the United States will be employed to cause “the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.” The United States will employ its military and economic strength to cause the entire world to accept Sunday as a day of rest. The whore of Tyre will first commit fornication with the earth beast at the soon coming Sunday law, and then she will go forth and commit fornication with all the other kings of the earth.
Kakawasaan Amérika Sarikat bakal dipaké pikeun nyababkeun “bumi jeung jalma-jalma anu cicing di dinya nyembah ka sato galak anu kahiji, anu tatu maotna geus cageur.” Amérika Sarikat bakal ngagunakeun kakuatan militér jeung ékonomina pikeun nyababkeun sakuliah dunya narima Minggu minangka poé pangaso. Awéwé lacur Tirus mimitina bakal ngalakukeun cabul jeung sato galak bumi dina hukum Minggu anu geura datang, tuluy manéhna bakal maju jeung ngalakukeun cabul jeung sakabéh raja-raja séjén di bumi.
In verse thirteen, “the [United States] doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men.” Fire represents an unholy message. Tongues of fire on the day of Pentecost represented a holy message that was accompanied with the ability to convey that message to the entire world. The fire that is brought down out of heaven by the United States will also impact every nation, and every tongue.
Dina ayat katilu welas, “éta [Amérika Sarikat] ngalakonan kaajaiban-kaajaiban anu gedé, nepi ka manéhna ngajadikeun seuneu turun ti langit ka bumi di hareupeun jalma-jalma.” Seuneu ngalambangkeun hiji talatah anu henteu suci. Létah-létah seuneu dina poé Pentecost ngalambangkeun hiji talatah anu suci anu dibarengan ku kamampuhan pikeun nepikeun éta talatah ka sakuliah dunya. Seuneu anu diturunkeun ti langit ku Amérika Sarikat ogé bakal mangaruhan unggal bangsa, jeung unggal basa.
In verse fourteen, the United States deceives “them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which the [United States] 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.” The deception that is employed to deceive the world by the United States is represented by the fire that came down from heaven in the previous verse. The fire from heaven produces miracles that are employed by the United States to command the world to establish a one-world government that consists of the combination of church and state with the church in control of the relationship.
Dina ayat ka opat welas, Amérika Sarikat nipu “maranéhanana anu nyicingan bumi ku jalan mujijat-mujijat anu ku [Amérika Sarikat] dipaparin kakawasaan pikeun ngalaksanakeunana di payuneun éta sato galak; bari nyarita ka maranéhanana anu nyicingan bumi, yén maranéhna kudu nyieun hiji gambar pikeun éta sato galak, anu kungsi tatu ku pedang, tapi hirup deui.” Panipuan anu dipaké ku Amérika Sarikat pikeun nipu dunya dilambangkeun ku seuneu anu turun ti sawarga dina ayat saméméhna. Seuneu ti sawarga ngahasilkeun mujijat-mujijat anu dipaké ku Amérika Sarikat pikeun maréntah dunya supaya ngadegkeun hiji pamaréntahan sadunya anu diwangun ku gabungan garéja jeung nagara, kalawan garéja nu nyekel kadali dina éta hubungan.
This is what the relationship of Ahab and Jezebel represented when Elijah was raised up. Elijah’s battle at Mount Carmel was fulfilled in the beginning of the United States during the movement of the first angel from 1840 to 1844, for the purpose of distinguishing the true prophet of Protestantism from all of the false prophets of Protestantism.
Ieu anu dilambangkeun ku hubungan Ahab jeung Isebel nalika Elia dihudangkeun. Patempuran Elia di Gunung Karmel kacumponan dina awal sajarah Amérika Serikat salila gerakan malaikat kahiji ti taun 1840 nepi ka 1844, pikeun maksud ngabédakeun nabi sajati Protestanisme tina sakabéh nabi palsu Protestanisme.
It is fulfilled again at the ending of the United States, during the test of the formation of the image of the beast that began on September 11, 2001, and ends at the soon-coming Sunday law.
Ieu digenepan deui dina ahir nagara Amérika Sarikat, dina mangsa ujian ngeunaan kabentukna gambar sato galak anu dimimitian dina 11 Séptémber 2001, sarta dipungkas ku hukum Minggu anu baris geura datang.
Elijah’s perfect fulfillment takes place before the great and dreadful day of the Lord, which is the seven last plagues. Therefore, Mount Carmel, Elijah, Ahab and Jezebel are represented in the work of the United States forcing planet earth to accept the one-world government of the United Nations that is ruled over by the Catholic Church. The United States accomplishes this act through its military might, its economic strength and the corrupted hypnotic communications that it directs and controls, represented by what is called the “information super highway” of the worldwide web.
Pangalaksanakeunana anu sampurna ku Elia kajadian saméméh poé Gusti anu agung jeung matak pikasieuneun, nyaéta tujuh balahi pamungkas. Ku kituna, Gunung Karmel, Elia, Ahab, jeung Isebel dipidangkeun dina karya Amérika Sarikat anu maksa planét bumi pikeun narima pamaréntahan hiji-dunya Perserikatan Bangsa-Bangsa anu diparéntah ku Garéja Katolik. Amérika Sarikat ngalaksanakeun ieu lampah ngaliwatan kakuatan militérna, kakuatan ékonomina, jeung komunikasi hipnotik anu geus ruksak anu diarahkeun jeung dikawasa ku dirina, anu dilambangkeun ku naon anu disebut “jalan raya super informasi” tina ramatloka dunya.
In verse fifteen, we are informed that “the [United States] 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.” The threat of death by the military might of the United States, then representing the premier king of the United Nations, empowers the one-world government of the United Nations to speak. The action of speaking is accomplished through a legislative and judicial authority. The legislative branch of the United Nations is in New York and the judicial branch of the United Nations is in The Hague, Netherlands. The Hague represents the Old World and New York the New World. Both the United States and the Netherlands have past histories where they stood out as premier defenders of liberty and freedom, but both end their respective histories—speaking as a dragon.
Dina ayat lima welas, urang dibéjaan yén “éta [Amérika Sarikat] boga kawasa pikeun méré hirup ka gambar sato galak, supaya gambar sato galak téh bisa nyarita, sarta nyababkeun yén sakur anu henteu nyembah gambar sato galak éta kudu dipaéhan.” Ku kituna, ancaman pati ku kakawasaan militér Amérika Sarikat, anu dina waktu éta ngawakilan raja pangutamana tina Perserikatan Bangsa-Bangsa, méré kakuatan ka pamaréntahan saalam dunya Perserikatan Bangsa-Bangsa pikeun nyarita. Kalakuan nyarita éta dilaksanakeun ngaliwatan kakawasaan législatif jeung yudisial. Cabang législatif Perserikatan Bangsa-Bangsa aya di New York, sedengkeun cabang yudisial Perserikatan Bangsa-Bangsa aya di Den Haag, Walanda. Den Haag ngagambarkeun Dunya Heubeul, ari New York ngagambarkeun Dunya Anyar. Boh Amérika Sarikat boh Walanda miboga sajarah baheula anu matak kasohor minangka pangbela kabébasan jeung kamerdikaan anu pangutamana, tapi duanana mungkas sajarahna masing-masing—nyarita saperti naga.
“As the Sabbath has become the special point of controversy throughout Christendom, and religious and secular authorities have combined to enforce the observance of the Sunday, the persistent refusal of a small minority to yield to the popular demand will make them objects of universal execration. . .. and a decree will finally be issued against those who hallow the Sabbath of the fourth commandment, denouncing them as deserving of the severest punishment and giving the people liberty, after a certain time, to put them to death. Romanism in the Old World and apostate Protestantism in the New will pursue a similar course toward those who honor all the divine precepts.
“Sabab Sabat parantos jadi titik pasaliaan anu husus di sakuliah dunya Kristen, sarta panguasa agama jeung panguasa sipil geus ngahiji pikeun maksa pangajen kana poé Minggu, panolakan anu tetep ti hiji golongan minoritas leutik pikeun tunduk kana pamenta anu populér bakal ngajadikeun maranéhna sasaran panyumpahan universal.... sarta ahirna hiji katetepan bakal dikaluarkeun ngalawan jalma-jalma anu nyucikeun Sabat tina parentah kaopat, ku nyatakeun yén maranéhna pantes meunang hukuman anu pangbeuratna sarta méré kabébasan ka rahayat, sanggeus hiji mangsa anu tangtu, pikeun maéhan maranéhna. Romanisme di Dunya Heubeul jeung Protestanisme murtad di Dunya Anyar bakal nuturkeun léngkah anu sarupa ka jalma-jalma anu ngahormat kana sakabéh parentah ilahi.
“The people of God will then be plunged into those scenes of affliction and distress described by the prophet as the time of Jacob’s trouble.” The Great Controversy, 615, 616.
“Umat Allah bakal tuluy kakeueum kana kaayaan sangsara jeung kasusah sakumaha dicaritakeun ku nabi minangka waktu kasusah Yakub.” The Great Controversy, 615, 616.
In verse sixteen and seventeen, after the image of the beast has been set up and empowered to speak, the “[United States] causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And 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.”
Dina ayat genep welas jeung tujuh welas, sanggeus gambar sato galak geus ditegakkeun sarta dipasihan kakawasaan pikeun nyarita, “[Amérika Sarikat] ngajadikeun sakumna jalma, boh nu leutik boh nu gedé, nu beunghar boh nu miskin, nu merdéka boh nu budak, narima hiji tanda dina leungeun katuhuna, atawa dina tarangna: Jeung supaya euweuh saurang ogé bisa meuli atawa ngajual, iwal manéhna anu boga éta tanda, atawa ngaran sato galak éta, atawa angka tina ngaranna.”
The formation of the image of the beast is the test that precedes the test of the mark of the beast. If we do not pass the test that is represented by the formation of the image of the beast, we will fail the test of the mark of the beast. They are two different tests, and they are two different types of tests.
Kabentukna gambar sato galak téh mangrupa ujian anu miheulaan ujian ngeunaan tanda sato galak. Lamun urang henteu lulus dina ujian anu dilambangkeun ku kabentukna gambar sato galak, urang baris gagal dina ujian ngeunaan tanda sato galak. Eta téh dua ujian anu béda, sarta éta ogé dua rupa ujian anu béda.
The formation of the image of the beast that began on September 11, 2001, is the prophetic warning that the close of probation is about to take place. It is the Elijah message that identifies that Mount Carmel is on the near horizon, and that God’s people need to secure the oil of character, the oil of the Holy Spirit and the oil of the message of the Midnight Cry before the final call is made. They need to awaken, so that when Elijah asks them, “How long halt ye between two opinions?”—they will not be speechless, for to be speechless then is to receive the mark of the beast. The image of the beast test represents the work of understanding the message that announces the close of the judgment, just as the message of the Millerites announced the opening of the judgment.
Kabentukna gambar sato galak anu mimiti dina 11 Séptémber 2001 téh mangrupa pangéling-éngéling nubuat yén panutupan mangsa kasempetan téh geus rék kajadian. Ieu téh amanat Éliah anu nandakeun yén Gunung Karmél geus aya dina cakrawala nu caket, sarta yén umat Allah kudu mastikeun boga minyak tabiat, minyak Roh Suci, jeung minyak amanat Panjerit Tengah Peuting saméméh panggero panungtungan ditepikeun. Maranéhna kudu hudang, sangkan waktu Éliah nanya ka maranéhna, “Sabaraha lilana maranéh eureun antara dua pamadegan?”—maranéhna moal cicing teu walakaya, sabab cicing teu walakaya dina mangsa harita hartina narima tanda sato galak. Ujian gambar sato galak ngawakilan pagawéan ngartos amanat anu ngumumkeun panutupan pangadilan, sakumaha amanat kaum Millerite ngumumkeun dibukana pangadilan.
The mark of the beast test, involves no choice, for it contains no element of probationary time. It is a point in time, not a period of time. It is a crisis, and therefore it is a litmus test that will identify the character of those Israelites that have been summoned to Mount Carmel by Ahab at the Sunday law. They will then demonstrate the character that they have developed during the previous period of time, prophetically called the image of the beast test.
Ujian tanda sato galak téh henteu ngalibetkeun pilihan, sabab di jerona teu aya unsur waktu pangujian. Éta mangrupa hiji titik dina waktu, lain hiji mangsa waktu. Éta téh hiji krisis, ku kituna éta mangrupa hiji ujian pamungkas anu bakal nganyatakeun watak urang Israil anu geus digero ka Gunung Karmel ku Ahab dina hukum Minggu. Maranéhna tuluy bakal némbongkeun watak anu geus dimekarkeun ku maranéhna salila mangsa saméméhna, anu sacara nubuat disebut ujian gambar sato galak.
Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, Today if ye will hear his voice, Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways. So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.) Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. But exhort one another daily, while it is called Today; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end; While it is said, Today if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation. Hebrews 3:7–15.
Ku sabab kitu (sakumaha anu didawuh ku Roh Suci, Poe ieu lamun maraneh ngadenge sora-Na, ulah ngakeraskeun hate maraneh, saperti dina mangsa panyalawad, dina poe panggodaan di padang gurun: Nalika karuhun maraneh ngagoda Kami, nguji Kami, sarta ningali pagawéan Kami salila opat puluh taun. Ku sabab kitu Kami ambek ka eta angkatan, sarta ngandika, Maranehna salawasna sasab dina hatena; jeung maranehna henteu nyaho jalan-jalan Kami. Ku kituna Kami sumpah dina amarah Kami, Maranehna moal asup kana panguletan Kami.) Sing awas, dulur-dulur, ulah nepi ka aya dina salah saurang ti maraneh hate jahat anu teu percaya, ku cara ngajauhan ti Allah anu hirup. Tapi silih piwuruk unggal poe, salila masih disebut Poe ieu; supaya ulah aya saurang ogé ti maraneh anu jadi keras ku tipu daya dosa. Sabab urang geus dijadikeun sasama-bagian jeung Kristus, lamun urang nyekel pageuh awal kayakinan urang nepi ka ahir; salila didawuhkeun, Poe ieu lamun maraneh ngadenge sora-Na, ulah ngakeraskeun hate maraneh, saperti dina mangsa panyalawad. Ibrani 3:7–15.