Political Idolatry, Revelation 13:4, Interpreters Bible Commentary

 

13:4. 

Revelation 13:4

And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?

Giving 

a Bad State 

the Place 

Which Belongs to God. 

It is exactly what people are doing right now

in this country without even knowing so

and that peoples have been doing throughout history.

"We now come straight into the heart 

of the question of what to do 

when the civil power 

becomes the expression of evil."

(This was written in 1953.

WWII been over 8 years.

So this is 

Right in the heat of the "cold war"

between the US and Russia.

What he is gonna say about Russia then

applies to us now.

(And pretty much 

everybody through-out history

as well.)

"So the man of Patmos saw Rome. 

But the problem has emerged 

in many a century. 

The Soviet ambition to conquer and rule 

a godless world gives the form 

of the problem in our own time.

(Early 50's)

Such power is so massive and mighty that 

there is the greatest temptation

to make terms with it 

in such a fashion 

as to surrender our own faith 

and the integrity of our moral 

and spiritual and political insights 

and true loyalties. 

Too many books are being published in our time which suggest that all standards are relative and therefore life is simply a form of expediency. 

(He should be here now.

And see the mess of shit we got.)

There is something not quite unlike a cult of the relativity of all the moral judgments of history. If this is not the worship of the beast, it easily prepares for the worship of the beast. 

(And It most certainly did.

And now the beast is here.

False Prophet

Act 1.

The Anti-Christ part 

of the unfolding drama

is coming up next.)

Whenever we allow political considerations 

to replace 

the authority of 

moral 

and 

spiritual judgments 

the day of political idolatry

 has arrived.

And I put that on here

during Trumps first term.

So how much worse

do you think that is now?

Aint but one solution people.

ONE.

RESIST OR PERISH!

ETERNALY.

He aint a lamb this time.

Get a hold of yourselves.