This is the first installment of Dr. Lively’s book “The Prodigal Son Prophecy: God’s Amazing Plan for the Restoration of the Two Hebrew Houses, and the Salvation of the Gentiles,” which he is publishing as a series in both text and video forms. This segment features the front matter of the book, including the Introduction, a Foreword, a Short Summary of the Prodigal Son Prophecy, and a commentary on The Hebrew Roots Movement as a Manifestation of the Spirit of Elijah. Dr. Lively’s novel and refreshing approach to teaching prophecy is to emphasize study of the Bible itself and to promote individual critical thinking and reasoning skills, guided by the Holy Spirit, rather than to review or compare-and-contrast the opinions of “expert” interpreters from the various eschatological camps or pre-set denominational doctrines. He teaches this approach simultaneously with the development of his own analysis and conclusions, without presenting his views as dogma.
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Dr. Lively warns that citizen anger over tyrannical government suppression of basic constitutional rights is likely to boil over soon if things continue on current trends.
Virtually overnight it seems America has been transformed from the “Land of the free and the home of the brave” to a “Land without liberty, the home of the slaves.” The constitution we supposedly revere is being used as toilet paper by thousands of petty tyrants now ruling over us by decree, and the police forces who pledged to “protect and serve” have been transformed into storm troopers serving the will of the despots. A huge percentage of the American people have surrendered to this tyranny with hardly a whimper, and many have now become snitches against their still-freedom-loving neighbors on behalf of the government. But there remains a remnant of patriots who will not submit!
Consider the extent of “cognitive dissonance” on display in the increasing lionization of “first responders” by people cowering in their homes, as afraid to defy their rogue government officials as they are of the vastly over-stated health threat the officials are exploiting. But what exactly is it that First Responders do that makes them (rightfully) worthy of praise? They run toward the danger when others run the other way! They voluntarily risk their lives and health. We laud them for making the choice to be courageous in the face of danger instead of shrinking back in fear of the consequences.
I am an American. My right to freedom of movement, to assemble together with others, to risk my life and health in the process if I so choose is not granted to me by the government. It is not a privilege given to me by the Declaration of Independence, the US Constitution, or any of the branches or agencies of the state or federal governments, but is an aspect of my very being as a sovereign creation of God!
I do not cede authority over myself to the unelected health department officials who presume to claim that power over me, nor any of the elected officials now operating beyond the legitimate reach of their offices.
The reason I have supported my government in the past is respect for the rule of law. I am a Christian and Constitutionalist, so I believe strongly in the American political premise that our government has only the power that I delegate to it, in cooperation with my fellow citizens. Love for that ideal has sustained me through decades of steady erosion of that foundation – in the belief that the America I love could be repaired and restored if we just kept fighting for her against all the enemies working to transform her into a Marxist regime.
But this! This abomination of dictatorial national socialism – this perverted “rule of man” we face today is NOT AMERICA and I do not grant it my permission to rule over me. This IS the Marxist regime we’ve been resisting for so long – suddenly burst upon us with the speed of the Bolshevick revolution in Russia.
I am publishing this letter as a warning to whatever leaders we still have who love the true American dream. If you don’t fulfil your duty to put down this Marxist revolution yourselves, then we the people are going to have to do it ourselves, sooner than you think, and if you’re not doing your part to restore this constitutional republic, you will be numbered with the enemy.
I am not a violent man, and I am not calling for violence against anyone, even the despots themselves. But I know that if I, a mature Christian pastor whose self-control and fortitude has been forged over many years by many difficult personal tests and trials, am this angry and passionate, then I know there is a large number of more secular-minded populists out there seething with rage against the traitors and tyrants. They WILL become vigilantes in America’s cause if the current trend continues. That’s not a threat, nor encouragement to do it, but a fact of human nature beyond anyone’s control.
If you allow that dam to burst by continuing to acquiesce to the Marxists, you will have no one to blame but yourselves.
Pastor Scott Lively, A “First Responder” of the Black Robe Regiment
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Dr. Lively resumes his “Sunrise Commentaries” with some farm-life “Show and Tell” before offering a video version of his essay “The Snake in the Garden of Heathens” in which he questions whether China is being thrown under the bus and being made the scapegoat by the globalists now that President Trump has ruined their plan to make China the model for global socialism by winning his trade and monetary war with the Chinese Communist Party, and luring American corporations back to the homeland. In this scenario, these same elites that helped make China an economic and military rival to the US, would like now to push for US/Chinese military conflict to create further geopolitical chaos for the western Marxists to exploit.
One of the most chilling comments in the testimony of the recently un-gagged Dr. Judy Mikovits, (which I watched before it was censored by YouTube) was her confession that part of her job years ago as a young scientist working under the snake Anthony Fauchi was to “teach” Ebola how to invade human cells. Now comes a story out of Hong Kong that “People In Hong Kong Are Becoming Ill With Rat Hepatitis For First Time Ever. No One Knows How It’s Happening.”
Given the timing and location of this Hong Kong outbreak, it seems obvious that Communist China is either engaging in biological warfare (suggesting Covid-19 was a sort-of Pearl Harbor beginning to a larger strategy), or, that a third party wants the world to believe that it is. Both scenarios evoke the specter of imminent – or already emerging – war, and suggests major events are in play beyond the public view.
What I’ve concluded from news reports during the Covid 19 Pandemic is that the Wuhan China virology labs were to the corrupt scientists of the western world what captured terrorist renditions to Muslim countries were to military intelligence agencies: a place beyond the reach of the rule of law, where the annoying limitations of Judeo-Christian ethics and morality could be ignored.
In short, Wuhan was the “Garden of Heathens” – a Satanic counterpart to the Garden of God in Eden – where human Malthusian Eugenicists like Bill Gates and Dr. Fauchi could feast on the forbidden fruit of the knowledge of evil — and “become like gods” by creating deadly new pathogens and their antidotes: the perfect weapons system for controlling the world and, perhaps, culling millions if not billions of its “useless eaters” and “undesirables” in the process. Like many, I suspect the coming Bill Gates Covid 19 vaccine of being a big part of this admittedly unproven but historically, ideologically and (perhaps) prophetically consistent conspiracy.
Now China is not an innocent party in all of this. When the Cultural Marxists of the Bush and Clinton Dynasties gained control of the US, they formed a corrupt partnership with the Communist Chinese party and built the NAFTA superhighway to China, along which the all-too-frequently amoral, sociopath-run and predatory corporations of American manufacturing abandoned the US and willingly turned China into an increasingly powerful economic and military rival to their own homeland. (Importantly, this was all the consequence of our society, including the business world, slowly but inexorably trading Judeo-Christian morality for the Secular Humanist worldview after WWII, but that’s not my main point.)
However, I do not believe China is the mastermind of this set-up to WWIII, if that’s what is actually occurring. The masterminds are the western globalists of the US, UK and EU: the ones who arranged the marriage of Communist China and the Multinational Corporate Cartel to create an Asian-based model for global socialism without all the nationalist resistance they encounter in the west. The same ones working unceasingly to take down Trump.
And I believe these same Machiavellian elites are ready to throw China under the bus now that Donald Trump has destroyed their plans and ruined the China model by winning his trade and monetary-policy war with China, and luring manufacturing back to the homeland. One could say that Trump has been the proverbial “Bull in the China Shop.”
In any case, now damaged and useless for their purposes, China will now (I believe) be transformed by the elites (through media propaganda and selective leaks of insider knowledge) into a “rogue empire” deserving military pay-back. This is intended to stir up global chaos that the elites hope to use as cover for revolutionary change serving the Marxist agenda – a sort of self-gifted consolation prize. And, just as the elites piggy-backed on Ronald Reagan’s goal of taking down communism in the Soviet Union to advance their banking and oil interests, they hope to piggy-back on President Trump’s goal of ending the threat of China’s vision and plan for global economic dominance to advance their own plan for global control.
Granted, this is complex geo-political calculus, but I believe it is accurate, and note that anti-Chinese war-drums are already beating, independent of the Trump administration (which clearly does not control the media).
Now on to the snake in the garden, Dr. Fauchi. I am convinced that President Trump was forced to lock-down the country against his will by the elites, whose control of media, and mastery of fear-mongering temporarily stampeded his base. But, strategic genius that he is, he put Fauchi out front and center in his daily news conferences, knowing that the truth about Fauchi’s conflicts of interest over suppressing Hydroxychloroquine and his links to the Clintons and the Wuhan labs would eventually be exposed. And once the public caught on to both Fauchi’s duplicity and the media’s intentional sabotage of the economy, the stampede of panic would turn into a giant pro-Trump protest rally. That’s where we stand today. The Trump base is coming back stronger than ever, his America First agenda has been fully vindicated, and the emerging economic depression is ready to popularize populism like never before.
The Democrats actually want another Great Depression because they remember how far FDR was able to move the needle leftward during those years – and in fact, if the Dems retake the White House in November, we’ll become a socialist empire in the blink of an eye. BUT, Trump is the ultimate anti-FDR, and at the moment it looks like he’s holding all the cards again, especially as the Obama team, including Joe Biden, are starting to be exposed to the public as the nest of vipers they are – with hard documentation already starting to dribble out about their illegal espionage against the Trump team, and the Durham investigation still grinding toward the announcement of criminal prosecutions.
Despite everything I’ve written above, I don’t think President Trump is going to allow war with China to get past an initial confrontation, if it even gets that far. I believe he will instead force China into submission to a US-led economic recovery plan with mutual benefits. That’s just a hunch, but it’s the more Christian thing to do, and he has surrounded himself with Christians. Frankly, I believe that is the secret to Trump’s brilliance. With a couple of glaring exceptions, he’s apparently being guided by the Holy Spirit – either directly, or indirectly via his team.
So it really doesn’t matter what the snake from the Garden of Heathens wants or what the global elites have planned. It either fits with God’s timetable or not, and He, as always, is still in charge.
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Dr. Lively congratulates General Michael Flynn on his exoneration and explains why Barack Obama was so infuriated with Gen. Flynn that he targeted him for personal destruction by the FBI and his team of corrupt Deep State agents. He details and documents his argument that Obama intended to trigger a hot war with Russia, which Gen. Flynn thwarted by urging the Russians not to take the bait. After his main commentary, Dr. Lively also adds a video version of his prescient January 3, 2017 article, “Obama’s Hitlerian Departure.”
On December 29, 2016, the Russian Collusion Hoax was already in play and had become the centerpiece of the Obama strategy for ousting Trump, but Obama needed to dramatically raise the stakes and turn Russia from “political trickster” to “dangerous enemy aggressor” in the public mind — to justify a planned accusation of treason against Trump and trigger a constitutional/military crisis that would allow Obama to stay in power, or at least cripple the incoming Trump administration.
and so he created a diplomatic crisis that most Americans would recognize as a prelude to potential armed conflict IF the Russians retaliated
On December 30th, the morning after the set-up, the Russians took the bait.
But later that same day, after General Flynn intervened, the Russians laughed it off.
And even had a little fun with it
Humiliating Obama and dealing a death blow to his nefarious plans
But the ball had already been set in motion by the Obama team.
Including false-flag attacks on US soil, blamed on the Russians, that were to have been the justification for further escalation
Forcing the Obama Deep State to publicly slam into reverse.
All because a patriotic American general threw a wrench into Obama’s war-machinery, saving us from a potentially serious hot war with Russia — perhaps even WWIII.
And THAT is why General Flynn was Obama’s first target in the Trump administration! (In my opinion)
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The ‘New Normal’ and the Emerging Beast Government
After reading Cherie Zaslawsky’s great article “Beware the New Normal” on Canada Free Press, it suddenly struck me that the dystopian “new normal” of Covid 19 really IS normal from the perspective of the leftist elites, and all these blue state governors and blue city mayors reveling in their new dictatorial powers truly don’t have a clue what normal is for average Americans. They live in an ideological fantasy world where good is evil and evil good, family configurations are arbitrary, and people who disagree are witless boobs needing reeducation. They are sheltered from the reality of true morality, natural society and freedom of thought by a cocoon of comprehensive cradle-to-grave government provision (or their own “legacy wealth”) – so completely separated from the “old normal” that they can’t even connect the dots between the tax-revenue they gorge themselves upon and the tax-payers who provide it.
Case in point is the tyrant Gavin Newsom whose response to the citizens defiant pursuit of healing sunlight and saltwater at California beaches – one of the healthiest disease-suppressing environments available anywhere – is the iron fist of reprisal. But a separate Newsom dictate is even more revealing: the announcement that public schools will open “in weeks not months” but Christian churches must wait “months not weeks.”
To the leftist mind public schools are essential because they help to separate children emotionally and ideologically from their Neanderthal parents, while Bible-believing churches do the opposite. And especially critical for the “new normal” is helping the children put the Covid-19 crisis in proper context: they must be helped to recognize it as a consequence of, first, the dangerously incompetent mismanagement of the Trump administration, and second, the adult generation’s denial of the biggest crisis of all, “climate change.”
This reminds me of (my wife Anne’s favorite) culture analyst Peter Jones’ contention that the new religion for the masses is actually not a variation on any of the old world religions, or even Marxist Humanism (as I have argued) but a form of Romantic Paganism. That’s the theology the kids and young adults have been indoctrinated with – from Star Wars to Harry Potter to Game of Thrones: a theology of mysticism in which mortals with the right attitude and training can wield supernatural powers. It is reminiscent of the pre-Gutenberg serfs of the Middle Ages, when only the Roman Catholic elites had the Bible, and the masses interpreted the Latin ritual of the Eucharist “Hoc est enim corpus meum” (the body of Christ) as “Hocus Pocus” – a magic trick. And isn’t it interesting that Pope Francis, whose speech kicked off the UN’s 2030 Agenda (yes, the very globalist agenda) is the one who blamed Covid-19 on climate change denial (the revenge of Mother Earth).
To be sure, the elites themselves are mostly high church Marxist Humanists, but the secularized “common people” now have the less intellectual and more emotional religion of the earth and its “familiar spirits,” while the true believers in the “old gods” (Jesus, Mohammed, et al) are kept busy fighting each other for turf (especially in Christian Europe and North America) through the “open borders” strategy.
Now, back to Gavin Newsom and the other principalities and powers of the world of the “new normal.” I suggested above that they can’t connect the dots between tax-payers and tax-revenue, but that’s not really true. They may be psychopathic, but they’re not stupid. So why would these despots kill the goose that lays the golden eggs? Could it be that they have foreknowledge of a new financial order being readied for implementation – one perhaps requiring the collapse of the old? Is is mere coincidence that so many CEOs of the elite strata – such as Bill Gates and Michael Eisner – resigned just before the Covid-19 stock market crash?
My guess is the new system is ready to roll out like a new company “going public” with an “Initial Public Offering” (IPO) in which the insider elites, as always, already hold generous portions in their shiny new Beast-Market portfolios. I’m guessing it will be initiated with a “Global Debt Jubilee” – in which all pre-existing debts of any kind are wiped clean worldwide, but only for those who accept membership in the new system (with a mark on their hand or forehead?) and those who don’t are blamed for all the problems caused by not being able to “close the books” on the old system – leading to severe persecution (even from fellow “believers” ) for those who refuse to “take the mark.”
We’ve long endued a wealth-perpetuated caste system in the “free world,” it’s how the elites have remained the elites, while pushing socialism on the rest of us. Tucker Carlson did a great commentary on this theme recently, asking first how the dull-witted Chris Cuomo managed to get into Yale to then expose the larger conspiracy of elite schools routinely admitting the merit-less children of mostly Democrat politicians. The super-rich set themselves apart from the rest of us and steer the policies of the world system to suit themselves. That’s a point I expounded upon in my recent lecture for the Salt and Light network: Marxism, Eugenics and Transhumanism.
As depressing at it may be to think we may never recover pre-Covid 19 America, it is even more disturbing to realize we now consider that “old normal” a good one by comparison. I suppose all things are relative when it comes to this fallen world.
But we who are in Christ are not of this world. He told us in John 17 to be in it, but not of it. Our duty as American is to fight like Patrick Henry to restore the earthly kingdom God has blessed us with, while keeping the wins and losses in perspective like Paul the Apostle in the time of the Romans.
And just as God allows us aging humans to experience increasing aches and pains as we are prepared for leaving our earthly bodies, He has warned us of tribulation before His second coming, when we will receive glorified spiritual bodies. That’s the “new normal” I’m yearning for!
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Dr. Lively continues his serial publication of the book “Dynasty of Darkness: Satan’s long serpentine trail through human history in the role of successive Antichrists, and the imminent rise of his last days kingdom.” In this second chapter, “Satan and Antichrist,” he explains the relationship between the demon, Satan, and the human hosts he possesses, and identifies the key attributes for both Satan and the Antichrists from Scripture.
Chapter Two: Satan and Antichrist
“How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, you who weakened the nations! For you have said in your heart: ‘I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will also sit on the mount of the congregation on the farthest sides of the north; I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High.’ Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the lowest depths of the pit.” Isaiah 14:12-15.
The ancient Book of Job has never been accurately dated but is believed by many to recount events roughly from the time of Abraham. In it Satan famously receives God’s permission to test Job’s faith and puts this blameless man, figuratively speaking, “through hell.”
In Job 1:7, “The LORD said to Satan, ‘From where do you come?” Then Satan answered the LORD and said, ‘From roaming about on the earth and walking around on it.’”
If the Book of Job is taken literally, it confirms that Satan’s casting down to earth by God in Isaiah 14 is a past, not future event. It also supports the belief that demons “roam” the earth in a disembodied form but can “walk around on it” in a human host. Jesus described this phenomenon in Matthew 12:43-45
“Now when the unclean spirit goes out of a man, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, and does not find it. Then it says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came’; and when it comes, it finds it unoccupied, swept, and put in order. Then it goes and takes along with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there; and the last state of that man becomes worse than the first. That is the way it will also be with this evil generation.”
The Book of Job indicates that Satan takes possession of human hosts in the same manner as unclean spirits do. That host then becomes the literal embodiment (in-body-ment) of evil on the earth, the person we call the Antichrist.
The Bible provides special insight into the relationship of Satan and Antichrist in Ezekiel Chapter 28. In this chapter, God gives the prophet Ezekiel two messages to deliver to the King of Tyre, an Antichrist figure. The first message in verses 1-10 address the king in his Antichrist role, while the second message in verses 11-19 speak “past” or “through” the King of Tyre to Satan himself.
The first message is to the King of Tyre as the Antichrist:
“The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord GOD; Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet you are a man, and not God, though you set your heart as the heart of God: Behold, you are wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from you: With your wisdom and with your understanding you have gotten yourself riches, and have gotten gold and silver into your treasuries: By your great wisdom and by your trade have you increased your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches#: Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Because you have set your heart as the heart of God; Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon you, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom, and they shall defile your brightness. They shall bring you down to the pit, and you shall die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas. Will you yet say before him that slays you, I am a god? but you shall be a man, and no god, in the hand of him that slays you. You shall die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it, says the Lord GOD” (Ezekiel 28:1-10).
The second message speaks “past” or “through” the King of Tyre to Satan:
“Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyre, and say unto him, Thus says the Lord GOD; You were the seal of perfection, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. You have been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was your covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of your timbrels and of your pipes was prepared in you in the day that you were created. You are the anointed cherub that covers; and I have set you so: you were upon the holy mountain of God; you have walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. You were perfect in your ways from the day that you were created, till iniquity was found in you. By the multitude of your trade they have filled the midst of you with violence, and you have sinned#: therefore I will cast you as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy you, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty, you have corrupted your wisdom because of your splendor: I will cast you to the ground, I will lay you before kings, that they may behold you. You have defiled your sanctuaries by the multitude of your iniquities, by the iniquity of your trading; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of you, it shall devour you, and I will bring you to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold you. All they that know you among the people shall be astonished at you: you shall be a horror, and never shall you be anymore” (Ezekiel 28:11-19).
The Bible reveals quite plainly here that this King of Tyre was the Antichrist of his time, possessed by Satan.
Satan on the Earth
Again, the devil took [Jesus] up into an exceedingly high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; And said unto him, All these things will I give you, if you will fall down and worship me. Then said Jesus unto him, Begone, Satan: for it is written, You shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve (Matthew 4:8-10)
As Matthew 4 notes, Satan has authority to delegate political power and wealth to his followers in this world. He is “the god of this world” (2 Corinthians 4:4) and “the prince of the power of the air” (Ephesians 2:2). He will remain “the ruler of this world” (John 12:31) until the Second Coming of Christ (Revelation 19:11-18; 20:2).
He is a “murderer from the beginning,” and the “Father of lies,” whose “native language” is lying and deceit (John 8:44). His purpose is to “steal, kill and destroy” (John 10:10) and to enslave (cite).
The Satanic Attributes of the Antichrist
In his spiritual form, Satan “prowls around like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour” (1 Peter 5:8), but when he has taken a host he can actually work in the physical world to accomplish his objectives. The host takes on the personality of Satan and reflects his nature in a variety of ways.
The following scriptures offer details about the personality of Satan/Antichrist:
“Let no one in any way deceive you, for [the Day of the Lord] will not come unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, displaying himself as being God…For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only he who now restrains will do so until he is taken out of the way. Then that lawless one will be revealed whom the Lord will slay with the breath of His mouth and bring to an end by the appearance of His coming; that is, the one whose coming is in accord with the activity of Satan, with all power and signs and false wonders, and with all the deception of wickedness for those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth so as to be saved” (2 Thessalonians 2:3-9)
“By your wisdom and understanding You have acquired riches for yourself And have acquired gold and silver for your treasuries. By your great wisdom, by your trade You have increased your riches And your heart is lifted up because of your riches” (Ezekiel 28:4-5).
“Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. Therefore it is not surprising if his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their deeds” (2 Corinthians (11:14-15).
We find additional details in the Apocryphal books 1st and 2nd Maccabees. While not inspired scripture, these books are nevertheless highly reliable historical records which document the partial fulfillment of events prophesied in Daniel 11and the actions of the Antichrist figure Antiochus IV Epiphanes.
“He shed much blood, and spoke with great arrogance…. He plundered the city, burned it with fire, and tore down its houses and its surrounding walls. They took captive the women and children, and seized the livestock….On every side of the sanctuary they shed innocent blood; they even defiled the sanctuary….they erected a desolating sacrilege on the altar of burnt offering. They also built altars in the surrounding towns of Judah…The books of the law that they found they tore to pieces and burned with fire. Anyone found possessing the book of the covenant, or anyone who adhered to the law, was condemned to death by decree of the king…they put to death the women who had their children circumcised, and their families and those who circumcised them; and they hung the infants from their mothers’ necks” (1 Maccabees 1:24-61).
We can also recognize attributes of Satan and the Antichrist in the specific worship rituals by which Satan’s human followers were degraded: primarily human sacrifice of children and extreme sexual perversions involving incest, homosexuality and bestiality (Leviticus 18; 1 Kings 11:4-7). And, of course, there are various extra-biblical records that can assist us in our study.
By the examination of these sources, and looking for common denominators in the lives and actions of the individuals in Biblical history most clearly associated with Satan, we can establish a core profile of the Antichrist through the ages. We are thus looking for especially evil individuals whose actions are directed against Hebrews and/or Christians, and who display one or more of six key satanic attributes:
Extreme megalomania. Often expecting worship, especially as head of a pantheon of gods.# Sometimes employing vast slave armies to build monuments to himself.
Wanton cruelty and sadism. Often involving torture, mass murder, genocide, infanticide or war, most especially targeting Jews and/or Christians.
Enormous wealth and power — through inheritance, theft and/or commerce.
Sexual perversion — especially incest, homosexuality and/or bestiality.
Habitual lawlessness and deceitfulness.
Insanity
Importantly, the Antichrist does not demand worship only for himself but allows and even encourages the worship of all of his demonic underlings as well. The earthly influence of Satan’s demonic kingdom is thus perpetuated even when he is absent from a host body.
End of Chapter Two
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The unfolding globalist takedown of the world economy and concurrent natural phenomena such as locust plagues and earthquakes has stirred great interest in end-times prophecy and the Antichrist. This article offers some non-traditional perspectives on these topics my own studies “de novo” (from scratch), using a first century perspective of scripture without regard for established denominational doctrines.
I have this week begun publishing a book and video series titled “Dynasty of Darkness: Satan’s long serpentine trail through human history in the role of successive Antichrists, and the imminent rise of his last days kingdom.” I believe the “Antichrist” is whomever the demon Satan happens to be possessing at any given time and there have been many. (You may request a free sample of the book and videos by email to scottlivelyministries@gmail.com)
Antichrist means “anti-Messiah,” the adversary of all who worship Yahweh (the salvation-promising God of the Bible), both Jews and Christians. Though most Jews do not acknowledge Jesus as Messiah (Christ), many Torah-faithful Jews will accept Him at the second coming (Romans 11:25-29). In the mean time, Jews are no less a target of Satan than Christians, and indeed were the exclusive target of the Antichrist Antiochus IV Epiphanus in the 2nd century BC (Daniel 11), and the primary target of a famous modern Antichrist, Adolf Hitler, whose “Holocaust” of them literally means “burnt offering.”
Of course, Christians will be the primary target of the imminent last-days Antichrist of Revelation, and we who are “in the light” of Christ should not let him take us by surprise (Matthew 24:4-8, 1 Thessalonians 5:1-6).
To that end we must search the Scripture for enlightenment. There we find that Satan is a finite, created being with limitations defined by God (Ezekiel 28:15). Though he has great power, and an army of demonic angels at his command (Revelation 12:9), he can only be in one place at a time. He is NOT like an evil counterpart to the Holy Spirit with omniscience and omnipresence, but only “like a ravening lion seeking whom he may devour” (1 Peter 5:8).
However, his greatest weapon is the power to deceive (John 8:44) – which, when it takes the form of self-indulgent false doctrines and false religions such as (Marxist) Humanism (which most don’t even recognize as a religion), enslaves vast numbers of people in self-harming and self-degrading beliefs and conduct – to the point that God gives them over to a “spirit of delusion” (2 Thessalonians 2:7-12). Satans’s alluring and powerful lies thus operate like a deadly mind-controlling virus, spread by humans ourselves, magnifying his influence immeasurably.
We also learn that Satan has authority to delegate political power and wealth to his followers in this world (Matthew 4:8-9), that he is “the god of this world” (2 Corinthians 4:4) and “the prince of the power of the air” (Ephesians 2:2) and that he will remain “the ruler of this world” (John 12:31) until the Second Coming of Christ (Revelation 19:11-18; 20:2).
How does possession work? In Job 1:7 we get a glimpse: “The LORD said to Satan, ‘From where do you come?” Then Satan answered the LORD and said, ‘From roaming about on the earth and walking around on it.’” This suggests that in their natural state, demons “roam” the earth in a disembodied form but through “possession” can “walk around on it” in a human host.
Jesus described this phenomenon in Matthew 12:43-45: “Now when the unclean spirit goes out of a man, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, and does not find it. Then it says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came’; and when it comes, it finds it unoccupied, swept, and put in order. Then it goes and takes along with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there; and the last state of that man becomes worse than the first.”
Job indicates that Satan takes possession of human hosts in the same manner as the lesser “unclean spirits” do. That host then becomes the literal embodiment (in-body-ment) of evil on the earth, the person we call the Antichrist.
We further glimpse the relationship of Satan and Antichrist in Ezekiel 28 where God gives Ezekiel two messages to deliver to the evil King of Tyre. The first message in verses 1-10 address the king in his human Antichrist role, while the second message in verses 11-19 speaks “past” or “through” the King of Tyre to the demon Satan himself.
The first message is to the King of Tyre as the Antichrist: “The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord GOD; Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet you are a man, and not God…”
The second message speaks “past” or “through” the King of Tyre to Satan:“Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyre, and say unto him… You were the seal of perfection, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. You have been in Eden the garden of God …perfect in your ways from the day that you were created, till iniquity was found in you…”
This plainly reveals this King of Tyre as the Antichrist of his time, possessed by Satan.
Now, if we accept that we are in the season of the end times, 2 Thessalonians 2 tells us that the last days Antichrist is already on the earth, but hidden. Various names are touted as candidates, from the ever popular George Soros and Pope Francis, to the recently short-listed Bill Gates, but these don’t fully fit the Biblical criteria for the Antichrist in my view. IF, however, these world events truly are the “beginning of birth pangs” Jesus warned about, the real Antichrist will be revealed soon enough.
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Dr. Lively summarizes his theme for today’s Breaking News Bible Study radio show and livestream podcast (4-5PM EST) and explains why he takes seriously the exhortation of a New York rabbi for Jews to flee from the US to Israel due to fears of impending civil war in America. Listen at 4PM Eastern on WETR Radio Knoxville (worldwide via Internet), or view the program live on Facebook or YouTube.
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Dr. Lively explores a “worst case” political scenario for the 2020 election that springboards from recent speculation that Michelle Obama will be Joe Biden’s VP choice and spins a possible Antichrist scenario involving Mrs. Obama and her husband. To be clear, Scott still believes President Trump will be reelected handily, but in this video explores the potential significance of a Trump defeat, were it to happen.
I have only recently begun to serial-publish, in text and video form, my book Dynasty of Darkness: Satan’s long serpentine trail through human history in the role of successive Antichrists, and the imminent rise of his last days kingdom.” I wrote the manuscript from 2011-2016 but held it back in part because the very last chapter made an argument for Barack Obama being the best living candidate for the (not yet revealed) last days Antichrist. By mid-2016, during my (very encouraging) 27 nation personal fact-finding tour to study the anti-globalist revolution, I was pretty much convinced Donald Trump would win the election, and my spirits were lifted as to the prospects for America to be reprieved and have a chance at restoration. I set the book – and my speculations about Obama – aside, and began devoting myself to helping the anti-globalist cause.
Obama took a shot at staying in office by trying to start a hot war with Russia, I believe, but failed. Indeed, in my analysis, General Mike Flynn was the one who thwarted him, which was the reason he was the first Trump team member taken down by the Obama/Hillary/Deep State cabal.
It was only when the globalists (having failed to destroy Trump with the Russian Collusion Hoax and Impeachment Scam) launched the Covid-19 pandemic in order to collapse the world economy (a strategy I called “Globalist Chemotherapy”) that I began thinking they might actually take down the president, and the larger theme of Dynasty of Darkness became relevant again relative to current events. I’ve now published the Introduction and Chapter One in video and text form, and am preparing to publish Chapter Two.
However, a new development has put Obama back into the picture. On April 18, 2020, an article in the New York Post outlined a nightmare scenario for constitutionalists titled “How the Obamas could easily win eight more years in the White House.” In short, the scenario is Biden picking Michelle Obama as Vice President for the win in 2020, before being disqualified for mental incapacity in early ‘21under Article 25 of the constitution, putting her (and Barack) back in the Oval Office. The article didn’t add that she could then appoint her husband as VP, then resign, giving him the presidency again, at which time he could appoint her as VP. A modern-day Baal and Ashteroth would then have control of the nation.
As I contemplated this dystopian outcome, and the one (earthly) thing that stands in the way of it becoming reality – the Donald Trump presidency – I was suddenly reminded of “the restrainer” of the Antichrist in 2 Thessalonians 2:7 “For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only he who now restrains will do so until he is taken out of the way.” Prophecy gurus have long assumed (without conclusive proof) that the restrainer is the Holy Spirit, but suppose the “he” is actually just a man: Trump. Heads will explode over this speculation, but it is at the very least plausible. However, it is not essential to my argument, just an interesting aside – and a reminder that many of the presumptions considered dogma by prophecy “experts” are based on ambiguous texts with plausible alternative interpretations.
I’m not going to publish the chapters of Dynasty of Darkness out of sequence, so interested readers will need to wait a few weeks for my full analysis regarding Obama, but in the interim, I’ll just remind everyone that this man, whose real name is Barry Soetoro, accepted the Democratic nomination for president on a stage literally designed after the Seat of Satan in Berlin, and that his “stage name,” Barack Obama can be literally translated “lightning from heaven,” as in Jesus’ statement in Luke 10:17-19 “I saw Satan fall from heaven like lightning.” The Hebrew word for lightning is ’Barak” (Strongs #1300) , “O” is used to join concepts together, and the word for heights (of heaven) is “Bamah” (Strong’s #1116. Thus, the sentence in the Hebrew would state “I saw Satan as Barak O Bamah.”
And, speaking of the Seat of Satan, there are actually two primary exhibits in Berlin’s Pergamum Museum: “Satan’s throne” being the Pergamum Altar which was excavated and removed by the Germans from Pergamos, Turkey in the late 1800s (literally the structure Revelation 2:13 says is “where Satan dwells”) and the actual Ishtar Gate of Babylon, being named for Satan’s “female” consort, Ishatar, aka Astarte, aka Ashteroth.
Those hopeful I am wrong in these speculations, can take solace that I’ve been wrong before. I was predicting Elizabeth Warren would edge out Joe Biden for the Democratic nomination, on the argument that 2020 is the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment and a female on the ticket would be the left’s ace in the hole for poaching liberal women voters from the GOP in November. But now Warren is all washed up and it’s Sleepy Joe’s job to pick a saleable female VP to serve the 19th Amendment strategy. That appears to be Mrs. Barack Obama, now on a national publicity tour, ostensibly to “promote a book.”
I’ll throw one more log on this bonfire of educated conjecture before I sign off. We all know that the left has moved heaven and earth to keep the walking mummy Ruth Bader Ginsberg alive past the 2020 election in the hope that Donald Trump can be deprived of the chance to lock in a conservative SCOTUS majority (ending the elites’ failsafe of a controlled “swing vote” on the court: currently John “Obamacare” Roberts, preceded by Anthony “Gay Supremacy” Kennedy and Sandra Day “Partial Birth Abortion” Nelson).
Suppose as an alternative to the Obamas both operating from the White House, President Micheal Michelle were to appoint Barack to SCOTUS, or he her? They would then have simultaneous control of two of our three branches of government.
Truly, I can’t think of a darker nightmare scenario for America and the world than these very real possibilities and I sincerely hope I’m wrong. If you’re not already diligently both praying and working to save America, it’s time to start.
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WHAT DRIVES THE ‘CULTURE WAR’ AND WHAT COMES NEXT: recognizing the significance and trajectory of Marxism, Eugenics and Transhumanism. Dr. Lively’s lecture for the Salt and Light Council.
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“Preparing for the Underground Church” is also published at WND.com where Dr. Lively’s regular columns appear weekly on Tuesdays.
In my prophecy studies, I have come to believe the generation of the second coming will face circumstances very much like the generation of the first coming did. Whether or not the Covid 19 pestilence is a part of the Matthew 24 “beginning of birth pangs,” the political climate is already starting to look a bit like the Roman military dictatorship of the time of the early church. Here in America, the church is a leading target of government suppression of large gatherings, and I expect this to continue, even after the “lockdowns” have ended (if they ever do).
Even in the absence of official policy, a population almost fully cowed by fear-mongering about this disease will never fully trust large gatherings again. How many unreasoning sheeple will now operate by the unspoken maxim “Fellowship equals death?” More than a few, I suspect – at least until they can trade in their obsolete and inadequate “Full Armor of God” for the Bill Gates “Salvation of Mankind” Vaccine in about eighteen months.
Until then, the high-density, entertainment-oriented religious corporation model of Christian gathering will be shaky at best, and that’s not necessarily a bad thing – though I love a good mass-gathering from time to time, especially for fellowship and worship in music.
The religious corporations will try to retain their members with high-tech distance-worshiping, but this shaking of the church will get many people thinking about smaller and more intimate family-style gatherings like the way the first century church operated, and that’s a good thing. Instead of high-tech wizardry, they’ll have a printed copy of the Bible in their hands again, and in the place of celebrity pastors telling them what to think, they’ll have interactive Christian discussion among themselves, facilitated by the pastors and teachers in their groups.
At least, that’s how First Century Bible Church will function. I launched it after the lockdown started, and we’ve yet to have a public gathering, but I believe it is a model for the future. What I’m talking about is not just expanding the “house church” movement, but anticipating the need for an “underground church.”
Probably sooner rather than later the Bride of Christ will have need of an “off the grid” communication and fellowship network that can’t easily be identified and tracked.
On my second missionary tour of Russia, I got to experience an “underground” church network in action. This was 2007, long after glasnost and purge of Soviet Communism from Russian society, but the (pre-Soviet) Orthodox Church had roared back to fill the vacuum as the primary cultural influence. While I respect the Russian Orthodox Church, it does have one glaring negative, which is the pursuit of “religious monopoly,” and only a few powerful denominations were “grandfathered in” to ROC tolerance policies after Putin transitioned Russia from a wild-west gangster-land in the 1990s to a stable, law-based society in the 00’s. The denomination I was working with was operating relatively freely per official government policy, but suffered some discrimination in some places. Plus, there was the phenomenon of holdover Soviet-types in some positions of power, and some holdover policies on things like in-country travel.
Long story short, I was secretly shuttled all over the country for a couple of months from congregation to congregation, being handed off from car to car along the freeway in the middle of nowhere, from one group into the care of the next. And once, in a big Siberian city, the holdover Communist Mayor forced the closure of my speaking venue at a big hotel the night before the event. These Christians were so well prepared by years of living under severe Soviet oppression they didn’t even blink. In just 24 hours they had another venue lined up and the crowd of over 1500 people showed up at the new venue as if nothing had happened. I was told that the Mayor’s astonished staff members he sent in to monitor the event got saved.
Anne and I also met with an underground church couple in Cairo, Egypt in 2003. Even though Christian groups are allowed to function there, evangelism is strictly forbidden, so the evangelical church is underground. These missionaries hid their activities from the government, and said the hardest part of their job was convincing new believers not to change their official religion on their state ID cards from Muslim to Christian because they could face severe persecution by the government and even murder by their relatives.
Even in the worst areas of lockdown abuses, America is still a far cry from Soviet Russia or Christian life under Islamic governments, but prophecy says worse is coming, sooner or later. The Covid 19 lockdowns are a stark reminder that we are not immune to totalitarianism – and that the Marxist usurpers waging total war to take down Trump and kill the anti-globalist revolution are totalitarian by nature.
Setting aside pre-trib vs post trib rapture issues, isn’t it just common sense to at least have contingency plans in place and a system for networking among believers who have decided they will NEVER take the Mark of the Beast, whenever that is implemented, and who will not be able to buy or sell without it?
At minimum we’ll need an underground railroad for fleeing persecution and a “black market” bartering system to stay alive. And we’ll need a means of both recognizing each other and ferreting out spies. I suggest the underground church begin greeting each other with “Jesus is Lord,” because “no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost” (1 Corinthians 12:3). None of that can happen unless the Remnant prepares for it in advance, and I invite you to join me in getting started now.
As we used to say in the Boy Scouts (which did not heed its own motto and got destroyed by the same people now targeting the church): Be Prepared.
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In this short commentary, Dr. Lively accuses the Democrat governors of slow-walking the unlocking of the economy in order to ensure another Great Depression because they remember how far FDR was able to advance the Marxist agenda in America during his presidency. He specifically highlights the “compact” of seven northeastern states organized by NY Gov Cuomo (the linchpin of the “lockdown-to-takedown” strategy) and “Democrat in GOP Clothing” Charlie Baker of MA, as a purely political effort to leverage state power against Trump’s plan for rolling back the lockdowns.
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The video version of Scott’s WND column of this week
Ironically, it was the Marxist Pete Seeger who (in the 1950s) wrote The Byrds popular 1960s anti-war song “To Everything There Is A Season.” The lyrics are simply the stanzas of King Solomon’s poem in Ecclesiastes 3:1-8, separated by the phrase (and alternate title) “Turn-Turn-Turn.” The profound truth of the poem is that all life in God’s creation – and all human endeavors — follow seasonal cycles, and each aspect of that cycle has its own natural place.
Just as there is a time for peace, God tells us in His Word, there is a time for war. Indeed, war is a natural part of the cycle of nations, and one of several aspects of human life where Christian guidance comes almost exclusively from the Old Testament, tempered by the New Testament. Remember what Paul taught in his second letter to Timothy: “From infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures….ALL Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for instruction, for conviction, for correction, and for training in righteousness.” That’s clearly the Old Testament, since most of the New Testament had not been written during Timothy’s youth. And, it must logically include the Biblical justification for war.
America’s Christian Founders understood and applied this truth in the Declaration of Independence, first acknowledging that our unalienable rights are a gift from God to justify sedition against the tyrannical British government, writing “whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.” This was not just sedition, but in practical terms a declaration of war, which then ensued.
Importantly, “sedition” means “conduct or speech inciting people to rebel against the authority of a state or monarch.” This is a word which CANNOT apply to citizens in the form of government which our Founders created, because we citizens ARE the government in that model. That’s an especially critical distinction for Christians because of the oft-cited admonition in Romans 13 to “submit…to the governing authorities.” In the real constitution-bound United States of America we ARE the governing authorities, because our government’s authority is delegated to it by us. The whole point of the Bill of Rights was to put an exclamation point on that most essential fact! But America is not following that model today because our Constitutional Republic has been hijacked and transformed by the Marxists. The orchestrated “Covid 19 Pandemic has made this clear, but the more disturbing truth is it’s been trending this way for over a century. Like the proverbial frog in the stew pot, Americans steadily acclimated to incremental leftward change until the narcissist Obama, believing he could complete the transformation during his presidency, turned the heat to maximum and the populists jumped out, creating the Tea Party movement, which in turn triggered a world-wide anti-globalist revolution: literally, a post nation-state version of World War.
The four figureheads of today’s revolutionary war are Protestant Christian Nationalist Donald Trump, Brexit heir and Anglican Nationalist Boris Johnson, Jewish Nationalist Benjamin Netanyahu, and (notwithstanding relentless Deep State propaganda) Orthodox Christian Nationalist Vladimir Putin.
Arrayed against them are all the powers of the earth: from the Obamas, Clintons, Bushes, Soroses, Deep State and Media of the US, to the Oligarches of the European Union, to the Vatican Empire’s Pope Francis, to the WHO and entire alphabet soup of the United Nations hydra, to the Califate-awaiting war-lords of Islam, to the great dragon, Communist China – and all the lesser “principalities” across the world.
The success of the nationalist leaders in defeating every counter-attack to their siege on globalism is, in my view, why the elites unleashed Covid-19 as the vehicle for triggering global economic collapse and justifying police state lockdowns. Don’t get me wrong: the disease is real and deadly (as is the attendant fear-mongering propaganda), but it is only a tactic in a larger strategy.
Now let’s consider our present situation in America. The great former-Marxist cultural analyst David Horowitz perhaps said it best: “Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out.” https://www.frontpagemag.com/ That used to be a funny line, until Covid-19 freed the progressive state governors and blue city mayors from constitutional restraints. I won’t repeat the list of abuses here, but it is long and growing, reflecting the very-real totalitarian mindset of the Marxists.
Here’s a question for Americans. Having tasted dictatorial powers, will these rulers – armed with the pretext of a two-year delay in a “necessary” vaccine roll-out, and drunk with the vision of this crisis having justified their socialist “solutions” — voluntarily relinquish their power back to the people? No way.
Here’s a question for anti-globalists everywhere. After watching the steady escalation of the “total-war” strategy deployed against Trump and the other nationalist leaders, do you think the elites are now going stand down? For them, this is a fight to the death. I predict another world-shaking bombshell from them as soon as it looks like we might recover our social equilibrium.
So what are patriots to do? I say there has never been a better time to rise up in revolt against Marxist rule and drive the usurpers from power across this country – without hesitancy or compromise — even if it requires civil disobedience. This is our last chance to restore our Constitutional Republic.
Here is where the New Testament “golden rule” (a synthesis of Matthew 5) tempers the Old Testament justification for war. “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” If you had been enslaved to a mind-controlling cult that convinced you that evil was good and good evil, and turned you into a civilization-destroying zombie what would you (the normal you) want others to ‘do unto you’?
If it were me, I would want the non-enslaved to disarm me with out harming me, remove me from any position of influence or control, and keep me neutralized until I returned to my right mind – while looking after my loved-ones honorably. Let’s all, right now, wage war like that!
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The unfolding globalist takedown of the world economy and concurrent natural phenomena such as locust plagues and earthquakes has stirred great interest in end-times prophecy and the Antichrist. This article offers some non-traditional perspectives on these topics from my own studies “de novo” (from scratch), using a first century perspective of scripture without regard for established denominational doctrines.
I have this week begun publishing a book and video series titled “Dynasty of Darkness: Satan’s long serpentine trail through human history in the role of successive Antichrists, and the imminent rise of his last days kingdom.” I believe the “Antichrist” is whomever the demon Satan happens to be possessing at any given time and there have been many. (You may request a view a sample of the book and videos at ScottLively.net
Antichrist means “anti-Messiah,” the adversary of all who worship Yahweh (the salvation-promising God of the Bible), both Jews and Christians. Though most Jews do not acknowledge Jesus as Messiah (Christ), many Torah-faithful Jews will accept Him at the second coming (Romans 11:25-29). In the mean time, Jews are no less a target of Satan than Christians, and indeed were the exclusive target of the Antichrist Antiochus IV Epiphanus in the 2nd century BC (Daniel 11), and the primary target of a famous modern Antichrist, Adolf Hitler, whose “Holocaust” of them literally means “burnt offering.”
Of course, Christians will be the primary target of the imminent last-days Antichrist of Revelation, and we who are “in the light” of Christ should not let him take us by surprise (Matthew 24:4-8, 1 Thessalonians 5:1-6).
To that end we must search the Scripture for enlightenment. There we find that Satan is a finite, created being with limitations defined by God (Ezekiel 28:15). Though he has great power, and an army of demonic angels at his command (Revelation 12:9), he can only be in one place at a time. He is NOT like an evil counterpart to the Holy Spirit with omniscience and omnipresence, but only “like a ravening lion seeking whom he may devour” (1 Peter 5:8).
However, his greatest weapon is the power to deceive (John 8:44) – which, when it takes the form of self-indulgent false doctrines and false religions such as (Marxist) Humanism (which most don’t even recognize as a religion), enslaves vast numbers of people in self-harming and self-degrading beliefs and conduct – to the point that God gives them over to a “spirit of delusion” (2 Thessalonians 2:7-12). Satans’s alluring and powerful lies thus operate like a deadly mind-controlling virus, spread by humans ourselves, magnifying his influence immeasurably.
We also learn that Satan has authority to delegate political power and wealth to his followers in this world (Matthew 4:8-9), that he is “the god of this world” (2 Corinthians 4:4) and “the prince of the power of the air” (Ephesians 2:2) and that he will remain “the ruler of this world” (John 12:31) until the Second Coming of Christ (Revelation 19:11-18; 20:2).
How does possession work? In Job 1:7 we get a glimpse: “The LORD said to Satan, ‘From where do you come?” Then Satan answered the LORD and said, ‘From roaming about on the earth and walking around on it.’” This suggests that in their natural state, demons “roam” the earth in a disembodied form but through “possession” can “walk around on it” in a human host.
Jesus described this phenomenon in Matthew 12:43-45: “Now when the unclean spirit goes out of a man, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, and does not find it. Then it says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came’; and when it comes, it finds it unoccupied, swept, and put in order. Then it goes and takes along with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there; and the last state of that man becomes worse than the first.”
Job indicates that Satan takes possession of human hosts in the same manner as the lesser “unclean spirits” do. That host then becomes the literal embodiment (in-body-ment) of evil on the earth, the person we call the Antichrist.
We further glimpse the relationship of Satan and Antichrist in Ezekiel 28 where God gives Ezekiel two messages to deliver to the evil King of Tyre. The first message in verses 1-10 address the king in his human Antichrist role, while the second message in verses 11-19 speaks “past” or “through” the King of Tyre to the demon Satan himself.
The first message is to the King of Tyre as the Antichrist: “The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord GOD; Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet you are a man, and not God…”
The second message speaks “past” or “through” the King of Tyre to Satan:“Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyre, and say unto him… You were the seal of perfection, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. You have been in Eden the garden of God …perfect in your ways from the day that you were created, till iniquity was found in you…”
This plainly reveals this King of Tyre as the Antichrist of his time, possessed by Satan.
Now, if we accept that we are in the season of the end times, 2 Thessalonians 2 tells us that the last days Antichrist is already on the earth, but hidden. Various names are touted as candidates, from the ever popular George Soros and Pope Francis, to the recently short-listed Bill Gates, but these don’t fully fit the Biblical criteria for the Antichrist in my view. IF, however, these world events truly are the “beginning of birth pangs” Jesus warned about, the real Antichrist will be revealed soon enough.
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Filmed at Dr. Lively’s “Barnyard Studios,” this video is the long-promised first segment of his book “Dynasty of Darkness: Satan’s long serpentine trail through human history in the role of successive Antichrists, and the imminent rise of his last days kingdom.”
Nazi officers gather on the “Seat of Satan” at the Pergamum Altar in Berlin around 1940
The Dynasty of Darkness
Satan’s long serpentine trail through human history in the role of successive Antichrists, and the imminent rise of his last-days kingdom
By Dr. Scott Lively
Introduction
The study contained in this book began as a hypothesis suggested by a film titled The Rape of Europe which discussed the occult roots of the European Union. The film drew a causative connection between the presence of the Altar of Pergamum (aka the Seat of Satan) and events in Germany following its excavation and removal to Berlin. Beginning as it does by asking whether the film’s suggestions could be supported Biblically, this work is necessarily speculative, but it is not eisegetical. It holds the Bible as the authority and simply asks whether the text confirms the hypothesis. There is no attempt to force the Scripture to fit the hypothesis, and in fact the hypothesis has been altered and refined as the truth of the matter has been more clearly revealed in the scripture. Contrary to the dogma of some denominations, there is no Biblical prohibition on speculation as to the meaning of Scripture.
Readers who have been conditioned by the materialistic orientation of the modern church to view spiritual matters with skepticism may have difficulty with this study. It treats as factual or plausible many ideas that have been mocked or mythologized in American popular culture for at least two generations, but which are fully Biblical in a literal reading of scripture as it would have been understood by the Apostles and their Disciples.
Chapter One:
Where Satan Dwells
“And to the angel of the church in Pergamum write: The One who has the sharp two-edged sword says this: ‘I know where you dwell, where Satan’s throne is; and you hold fast My name, and did not deny My faith even in the days of Antipas, My witness, My faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells” (Revelation 2:12-13).
“And there was war in heaven, Michael and his angels waging war with the dragon. The dragon and his angels waged war, and they were not strong enough, and there was no longer a place found for them in heaven. And the great dragon was thrown down, the serpent of old who is called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him” (Revelation 12:7-9).
“The LORD said to Satan, ‘From where do you come?’ Then Satan answered the LORD and said, ‘From roaming about on the earth and walking around on it’ ” (Job 1:7).
“Again, the devil took him up into an exceedingly high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; And said unto him, ‘All these things will I give you, if you will fall down and worship me.’ Then said Jesus unto him, ‘Begone, Satan: for it is written, You shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve’ ” (Matthew 4:8-10).
During the four-century gap between the end of the Old Testament and the beginning of the New Testament, an ancient prophecy of Daniel was partially fulfilled. The Seleucid King Antiochus IV Epiphanes, demonically possessed by Satan himself, tried to extinguish the worship of Jehovah God by the Hebrew people in Jerusalem.
His strategy was multifaceted. He corrupted the Levite priests with flattery, led the young men into moral compromise, and defiled God’s Temple with pig’s blood and other unclean things. Finally, he set up the “Abomination of Desolation” on the holy altar, foreshadowing the last days Antichrist of Revelation.
Antiochus IV Epiphanus
One heroic man, Judah Maccabees (Judah the Hammer), led a successful revolt against Antiochus and preserved the Hebrew religion and culture.
Roughly upon the death of Antiochus, his key political ally and mentor King Eumenes II of Pergamum built the Altar of Pergamum, which is described in Revelation Chapter 2 as “Satan’s Throne.”
“And to the angel of the church in Pergamum write: The One who has the sharp two-edged sword says this: ‘I know where you dwell, where Satan’s throne is; and you hold fast My name, and did not deny My faith even in the days of Antipas, My witness, My faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells’ ” (Revelation 2:12-13).
Satan’s Throne sits today in the Pergamum Museum in the center of Berlin, Germany after it was excavated and restored in the late 1800s. It became the property of the Germans shortly before German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche began preaching the satanic mantra “God is Dead.”
It’s acquisition was considered by Kaiser Wilhelm II to be the highest achievement of his rule — a regency which included (by some accounts) his surreptitious launch of World War I to divert public attention from a long series of criminal scandals at home. It was the inspiration for the design of Adolf Hitler’s Nuremberg Rally Complex, the ultimate expression in architecture of his satanic megalomania that gave us World War II and the Holocaust. (And, incidentally, it was the inspiration for the design of the stage on which candidate Barack Obama accepted the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in 2008.)
Satan’s Throne was owned by the Romans during the reign of its most grossly evil emperors, the Arabs during the rise of Islam, the Germans during Third Reich, the United States during the official displacement of Christianity by Secular Humanism, the Soviet Union during its decades as the “Evil Empire,” and the European Union from its inception to the present day.
Christian’s being burned alive in Antichrist Nero’s Rome
Satan’s Throne?
Is the Biblical reference to the Altar of Pergamum as Satan’s Throne merely metaphorical, or is it literal? Did Satan actually dwell in Pergamum, or more specifically in or upon the Altar of Pergamum? Was the Altar his spiritual gateway into the material world? And if so, has it served that purpose thorough the ages, even to this very day? Is the Altar his exclusive dwelling place or have there been others?
This study posits that the center of evil in the world at any given moment in time is where Satan dwells and that this evil is manifested throughout history in the actions of a series of human rulers (or other men strategically situated to serve his interests) who fulfill the role of “Antichrist” under his direct influence — an influence which is somehow tied to their possession of or authority over Satan’s material dwelling place. Using these assumptions we will attempt to trace the history of Satan in the world.
The list of Antichrist figures presented in this first publication is incomplete, as this will be an ongoing study, but we believe enough of the chronology is provided to confirm the hypothesis on which it is based.
Before we begin to identify the individual persons who appear to fulfill the “office” of the Antichrist through the centuries we must address a few of our presuppositions and caveats.
First, that Satan is a finite, created being with limitations defined by God (Ezekiel 28:15). Though he has great power, and an army of demonic angels at his command, he can only be in one place at a time.
Second, while Satan is the king of the demonic realm and the most wicked of all creatures, he is not the only evil entity at work in the world (Revelation 12:7-9). There are many “principalities and powers” working to deceive, degrade and enslave human beings (2 Corinthians 10:3-6). The existence of more than one wicked ruler in the same time period is not an argument against one of them being the Antichrist.
Third, while the holy angels who serve God have the power to take human form and walk unnoticed among men (Hebrews 13:2), demons, including Satan, seem to have more limited access to the physical world and must “possess” living hosts, both human and animal (Matthew 8:28-32).
Fourth, at least some demons are based in specific geographic territories. This does not seem to be true of angels. While Michael the Archangel is identified in Daniel 12:1 as “the great prince who stands guard over the sons of your people” (by implication wherever they may be) the actual “prince of Israel” (the land) is a demon who will rule until the return of the Messiah (Ezekiel 21:25).
The Bible also speaks of the “Prince of Persia” (Daniel 10:13) and of specific towns and cities named after the Baal or “lord” that presides there: for example Baal Peor, named for a demon called Chemosh, worshipped by the Moabites (Num. 25:3-5), and “Baal-zebub [the Lord of the Flies], the god of Ekron” (2 Kings 1:16).
Baal Peor
Baal Zebub
So, from the time of the expulsion from the Garden of Eden until the brief period in which he is allowed greater freedom by God to lead the last days rebellion (Revelation 13), it would seem that Satan’s influence in the world is limited to what he can accomplish through a human host.
Since we suppose that Satan was somehow tied to the Altar of Pergamum as his dwelling place, we will also ask where, if anywhere, did Satan dwell before the Altar was built for him. We will address several possible sites/structures in this study, including the very City of Babylon, whose name in the original Akkadian language means “Gate of God,” and which housed the Temple of Marduk (aka Bel or Baal).
Spiritual Portals
There is a theme interwoven throughout scripture of the phenomenon of specially constructed altars or other structures which serve as portals from the spiritual to the physical world.
The most important of these was, of course, the Tabernacle of God, within which is the Holy of Holies, which held the Ark of the Covenant, whose top is called The Mercy Seat. The Tabernacle had two separate altars, one for burning incense and the other for animal sacrifice. Each of these was specially constructed according to His detailed instructions (Exodus 25-31; 36-40). God’s presence was intimately associated with the Tabernacle in the form of a pillar of smoke by day and of fire by night (Exodus 40:34-38). The Tabernacle was the model for the Temple of God which was constructed much later.
God also instructed His people to make altars of un-hewn stone (Exodus 20:25). Long before the time of the Exodus, Abraham built such altars to God (Genesis 12:7, 8; 13:18) and the practice continued throughout the Old Testament.
Joshua’s Altar at Mt. Ebal
Importantly, the Lord was not in any way limited in His access to the world, but these structures and the regulations related to them somehow facilitated His interaction with His people, and served as a protection to human beings who attempted to draw near to Him. Without them, the very Holiness of His presence would destroy them (Exodus 19:21-22; 20:19; Leviticus 10:1; 2 Samuel 6:7).
In a similar but far more restricted manner, those who worship demons access the spiritual world through physical altars and other structures. There are numerous examples in scripture but perhaps the most significant involves King Ahab of Israel who built both an altar and a temple to Baal in Samaria, the capital city of the Northern Kingdom of Israel.
Ahab, of course had married Jezebel, the daughter of King Ethbaal of Zidonia (1 Kings 16:31-33). Importantly, Ashtoreth, female counterpart to Baal was “the goddess of the Zidonians” (1 Kings 11:5). Thus the marriage of Ahab and Jezebel appears in this context to be the literal union of Baal and Ashtoreth (Satan and his bride, as it were), the man Ahab being possessed by the demon Satan and the woman Jezebel by the demon called Ashtoreth.
Ashtoreth, Consort of Baal
Ahab and Jezebel
Ahab was considered by God the most wicked of all the kings of the House of Israel (though King Manasseh of the House of Judah may have surpassed him in wickedness — 2 Kings 21:1-16). In contrast, King Josiah of Judah was considered the most righteous of the Hebrew monarchs of either house. 2 Kings 23 and 2 Chronicles 34 offer extensive details of Josiah’s reforms, which emphasized the destruction of pagan altars and other sites and structures used to worship demons throughout Jerusalem and the surrounding hills as well as in the Temple of God. An enlightening glimpse at the spiritual defilement of the Temple is provided in Ezekiel’s vision in the Book of Ezekiel, Chapter 8.
We will examine the Antichrist role of various Judean and Israelite Kings more extensively later in this book. Our purpose here is simply to identify a few demonic spiritual portals to demonstrate that there is extensive Biblical support to the idea that demons can operate in the world in association with physical objects and structures.
Let us proceed then with our study of Antichrists through the ages.
End Chapter One
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WILL SHE EVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE? Dr. Lively talks about the news today that the US State Department has released a telephone transcript in which Hillary Clinton admits she knew the Benghazi attack was planned. He contends that Clinton didn’t just know in advance that an attack was planned, but that she was planner — intending to stage a false-flag terror incident in which she and Obama would diffuse the crisis and emerge as heroes, except that the unexpected presence at the site of two Navy Seals not in on the scam turned a Hollywood-style propaganda event into an actual armed conflict in which Americans lost their lives.
Its funny how seemingly random events can intersect in amazing ways. I’m working on adding graphics to the video version of the introduction and first chapter of “Dynasty of Darkness: Satan’s long serpentine trail through human history in the role of successive antichrists, and the imminent rise of his last days kingdom” which I’ll be releasing tomorrow morning (if all goes according to plan). The image I’m using on the front cover of the book is a vintage 1940ish photo of about _ Nazi officers gathering on the Pergamum Altar in Berlin for a group photo. The Pergamum Altar is the literal “Seat of Satan” of Revelation 2:13, excavated in Pergamus, Turkey in the late1800s and reassembled in Berlin’s Pergamum Museum built specially to house it. I contend that Adolf Hitler was an Antichrist, and highlight that he directed architect Albert Speer to design his infamous Nuremburg Rally Complex after the Pergamum Altar (the same design inspiration followed by Barack Obama for the stage on which he accepted the Democratic nomination for president in Denver in 2008).
As is my custom, I started my work session by scanning the coverage of current events on my favorite news websites while I drank my first cup of coffee. There, I stumbled on a story titled “State Department releases phone transcript of Hillary admitting she knew Benghazi was a planned attack.”
What’s amazing is that I was in Washington DC on the day of the Benghazi attack (which, in Eastern Standaed Time spanned 9/11 – 9/12, 2012) and the purpose of my trip was to search the captures Nazi photo collection at the National Archives. My best find was, wait for it, the photo of Nazi officers on the Seat of Satan.
What’s also amazing is that on the morning of 9/12 I was scheduled to shoot a video with Pastor Terry Jones in front of the White House condemning Barack Obama for his highly aggressive global push of the LGBT agenda. Pastor Jones – in the international spotlight for having just burned a Koran at his Florida church to highlight media hypocrisy about their coverage of Bible-burning by Muslims – was going to follow that stunt with a public showing of a new video by an Israeli Jew titled “The Innocence of Muslims” – which had the US media in a uproar at the same time Hillary’s staged Benghazi attack was scheduled. That’s the film Hillary blamed for the Benghazi attack, and Pastor Jones was forced to cancel our White House event to handle the resulting media demands for interviews.
You didn’t hear much about Pastor Jones after that, because the media shifted focus to the actual producer of the film, who had unrelated legal troubles that made him vulnerable to prosecution for making the film, and the perfect scapegoat for the entire scandal. Meanwhile, Hillary escaped unscathed from her conspiracy to stage a 9/11 false-flag terror event to cast herself and Obama as heroes despite the plan unraveling disastrously
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