Here Be Dragons
Who Is Like the Beast? Who Can Make War With The Beast?
Now that the narrative, started so confusingly but at first so convincingly in 2020, has revealed its direction and purpose (see my last post), it’s time to submit the last seven years to the scrutiny of prophecy.
That takes us back to mid-2017. It’s hard to throw my mind back that far, pre-Covid, but I do recall that I was working as a personal assistant for a lobbyist, and that though I was completely uninterested in politics, certain conditions and facts about DC slipped past my disinterest into awareness.
For example, my employer had been invited (but didn’t go) to the June 14, 2017 Congressional baseball game where Steve Scalise was ostensibly shot in one of the first false flags to establish the narrative—that the Second Amendment in the U.S. Constitution’s Bill of Rights allowed too much access to weaponry and put elected government officials in danger. This point had to be established in order to explain the many DC building and street closings and security infrastructure changes about to commence.
These changes were set up like ducks in a row. President Trump had made it public in January 2017 that he wanted to celebrate July 4th with a parade of heavy military vehicles, such as we might expect to see in Moscow’s Red Square in any May Day parade; but the city managers expressed concern that the existing road infrastructure would not stand up to it.
So, in the summer of 2017, work began on the Frederick Douglas Memorial Bridge, which connects South Capitol Street to the Suitland Parkway between DC and Prince George’s County, Maryland (the route from Andrews AFB, where the executive fleet is kept, to the Federal District and White House).
Problem, reaction, solution. We’ve been subjected to one Hegelian dialectic after another in the seven years following these public perception manipulations.
The South Capitol Street project was only the beginning of the changes coming to DC. During the Covid lockdown, Independence Avenue would be completely torn up and replacement begun, and the Smithsonian museums along that route would close and effect huge remodels, especially the Air and Space Museum. It was during this period that Washington D.C.’s Federal District was emptied of its normal occupants. Where did they all go?
In 2020, my husband began regular treatments at a medical facility that took us to the neighborhood just west of the White House. To return home, we had to pass the State Department. Where streets customarily thronged with men in suits and women in heels mixing with the tourist crowds and GW students, there were empty sidewalks, and no competition for street parking. It was actually quite a blessing to us…but to someone who has known DC from childhood, it was definitely not normal.
So we watched from month to month as construction or security fences went up and came down and streets and bridges were closed and opened, and the only people we saw on the streets, besides others patients around the medical district, were construction workers and Capitol police, with the occasional glimpse of National Guard camouflage. If Covid had not been the excuse for all this absence, it would be a natural conclusion that the Federal government had relocated out of DC so that the infrastructure of the entire city could be rebuilt starting from below the surface.
And this is where the beast comes in. Not the limousine Beast that Presidents travel in, but the Beast from the Sea, foretold to Daniel and John the Apostle.
In the Bible, references to the sea mean the Gentile nations, those who trade by ships. In those “yet future” prophecies, Daniel and John saw a beast with multiple heads, signifying a coalition of leaders. Various exciting things happen to this beast: first it has ten heads, then it has seven heads but ten horns (meaning regional leadership), and surprisingly in a world that venerates democracy, these heads wear crowns. And one head is mortally wounded.
If the heads signify control of the world’s trade that is divided into ten regions, then one of these regions will suffer terrible, but temporary, wounds. A prophecy in Zechariah 11 has long been considered to describe physical wounds to the Antichrist:
[Zec 11:17 NKJV] "Woe to the worthless shepherd,
Who leaves the flock!
A sword [shall be] against his arm
And against his right eye;
His arm shall completely wither,
And his right eye shall be totally blinded."
But in context, this verse refers to a leader of Israel, who can hardly be the Antichrist who comes from the Roman Empire. Instead, the reference seems to mean that Israel will suffer an attack against her sword arm (her ability to make war), and her vision (her ability to aim weaponry). In 1Samuel 11:2, the importance of the right eye in warfare comes up when Israel tries to sue for peace; the terms include the putting out of the right eyes of all Israel’s fighting men, which is what they used to aim arrows from behind their shields; the loss of this vision made them useless as soldiers.
And Nahash the Ammonite answered them, "On this [condition] I will make [a covenant] with you, that I may put out all your right eyes, and bring reproach on all Israel." In other words, some disaster or betrayal will take out Israel’s advanced satellite- and ground-based defensive system. So the Antichrist will not be identified by wearing a patch and a sling. This wound is to the machinery of modern warfare, and Zechariah 11 is referring to a mid-Tribulation event when Israel will be betrayed by Jordan; it is not a reference to a head of the beast.
But one of the heads will be wounded in a similar way. Today, loss of satellites would mean loss of sight and the ability to demonstrate a show of force over a long distance. In the Ezekiel 38-39 war, God does not content Himself with destroying the land-based armies of Asia and north Africa; He also sends fire (a giant solar flare?) on eastern Russia (Magog) and “those living securely in the coastlands.” (Eze. 39:6). If that doesn’t describe North America, I don’t know what does.
If you hold up a globe and assume your face is the sun, and rotate the globe so that eastern Russia and North America are facing you, it’s clear that depending on the season, one huge blast of solar fire could send a devastating coronal mass ejection that would take out the electrical grids of Russia, China, the Philippines, northern Australia, and North America (no wonder all the elites are bunkering down in New Zealand!). At one fiery buffet to earth from God, a peaceful and unsuspecting Israel would find herself without defenders. Which is just how God wants it; when the Asiatic nations discover Israel’s vulnerability and race to assume control of all her wealth (and the AI control of the world’s remaining food supply chain), He will come to her rescue Himself. Read Ezekiel 38-39 for the rest of that story.
So who is the face of the Beast from the Sea? The beast itself is clearly artificial intelligence, for no human effort could run the global digital blockchain infrastructure now being installed worldwide; that will require enormous computing power. And Satan gives his authority and power and throne to this beast of many heads, which cannot be solely machine.
The human element is the ruling body of ten; perhaps they are digitally wired directly into the beast system via transhuman technology. Snake venom is the hot new curative attracting brain cancer researchers. No doubt technology will utilize its properties to make brain implants effective. Maybe it already has.
We know that one man will become the face of this beast after he (and his nation) is killed and “miraculously” revived (Rev.13:12-15)—will this be someone from the roasted side of earth, a world leader who crashes to earth along with the satellites, but is magically recreated from AI technology, and whose supply chain servers are eventually restored from backups? Will it be Trump? Who else can you think of on the current world stage who has made a name for himself by speaking boastful words, yet is adulated by so many?
However, an AI recreation cannot be the Antichrist, who must be a human being. So even if his image is used to personify the Beast from the Sea, I don’t consider Trump a candidate for the Antichrist. And I hope very much that he is saved by faith in Jesus Christ. But he certainly has the following that would be willing to deify him, thanks to the ridiculous narrative we’ve been enmeshed in to distract us from the real dangers they don’t want to tell us about (like the wrath of God headed this way, as prophesied).
If not Trump, then who will be the Antichrist? There is another beast, with two horns like a lamb, but who speaks like a dragon. In addition to the many heads of this beast, another leader (from a revival of the Roman Empire according to Daniel 2) will make his way to the forefront of the leadership group: the Beast from the Earth. He will exercise the authority of the global supply chain (the first beast), and lead the world into worship of it. His great lie, whatever it will be, will convince many that this technological solution to keeping peace and distributing the world’s goods fairly is a miracle, and they will marvel, “Who is like the beast? who is able to make war with him?” (Rev. 13:4)
Thus, Israel will be deceived and will marvel along with the rest, convinced by the deceiver into giving up military control of her borders for “peace and security.” Betrayal by their Jordanian neighbors, the descendants of the Ammonites who wanted to put out the right eyes of Israel’s ancestors, and the Moabites who tried to get Balaam to curse Israel, and the Edomites who inherit Esau’s hatred of Jacob’s seed, will lead to the death of two thirds of all Israelis by war, famine, and plague, beginning at mid-Trib (Zech. 13:8-9). Those in Judea who do not worship the beast and his image, who refuse to wear his number, who will not eat food sacrificed to idols, had better run for the hills as Jesus warned them.
If they don’t, they can either take the Mark to save their mortal life but suffer eternally, or refuse the Mark and suffer briefly and horrifically, but inherit a joyful eternal life. It will come down to this choice: God, or Satan? Or rather, self will or God’s will? Because in His mercy, God will make sure that no one can make war with the beast.
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