Religiosity

 

 

 

 

  🅟 Praise - start your day by lifting up a praise to God. . 🅡 Rejoice - list 3 things you are grateful for. . 🅐 Affirmation - focus on your identity in Christ. . 🅨 Yield - surrender your burdens into His hands. . 🅔 Emotionally - track how you feel each day. . 🅡 Reflection - note 3 great things that happened. . 🅕 Forgiveness - if we confess our sins, He is faithful. . 🅤 Uplift - lift up others in prayer each day. . 🅛 Lesson - keep up with lessons God is teaching you. .

  What and Who Is the Antichrist? Revelation 13:1-4 1. A beast -  I saw a beast rising out of the sea (13:1) : Revelation pictures the antichrist as a beast 32 times. The image points to the brutal, bloody, uncontrolled, and wild character of this diabolical dictator. It also contrasts the antichrist from Christ, who is most commonly called the Lamb. The Lamb saves sinners, but the beast persecutes and executes the saints. The Lamb is gentle, whereas the beast is ferocious. The Lamb is loving, but the beast is heartless and cruel. 2. A Gentile -  This beast "rises out of the sea"  -  The sea refers to the  Gentile nations  ( Revelation 17:15 ), indicating that the antichrist will be a Gentile. “Anti” can mean “instead of ” or “against” or “opposed to.” So “antichrist” can mean “instead of Christ,” “against Christ,” or “opposed to Christ.” The antichrist is the “man of lawlessness,” the “son of destruction,” who will lead the world into rebellion agains...