With the parallels between Christ and this Beast we are supposed to be alerted to the need for real discernment – what is worse is that Satan is allowed in a limited but still potent way, not only to deceive but to war and to conquer! He is a counterfeit with a club! That means that we are going to need more than just discernment. In fact John tells us what we are going to need … he says at the end of v.10 that in Satan’s great counterfeit Beast there is a call for two things: endurance and Faith. we need endurance and faith this side of the resurrection to fight the good fight! and the passage I believe, will teach us that the Truth of Christ is our greatest TONIC for Spiritual endurance!

guest Speaker Ozzie Ozgood lays out 3 comforting truths from Paul’s letter to the Corinthians.

What is so great about the 7th trumpet? = It ties together the reign of Jesus from his Resurrection to ours. Teaching us the glory and efficacy of Christ’s reign, subjecting all things to Himself … And showing that wherever the king is, his kingdom is too. And most of all showing us that we win in Christ, and we are winning!

The grace of Jesus Christ will not be thwarted in the life of the believer but sin is of such a serious nature that even believers are warned of its cancerous effects, and the Kings of Israel and Judah are the picture of that decay, even good king David is. Tonight as we look at David in a sad condition needing someone else to warm his blood I would like to assert that it is only the Blood of Jesus Christ that warms us to LIFE!