SEVEN SIGNS (4-2): THE FALSE PROPHET HAS BEAST'S AUTHORITY (REVELATION 13:12)

(Message by Tanny Keng)

1. Revelation  

a) John wrote Revelation while a prisoner on the Island of Patmos, approximately 85-95 A.D. Its purpose is to give encouragement and hope for all Christians to continue watching for the return and triumph of the Lord Jesus Christ. It also is to warn of the Final Judgment that nonbelievers will endure on that Last Day.

b) John wrote that Revelation is special because,“Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of the prophecy, and heed the things which are written in it; for the time is near” (Revelation 1:3).

c) A brief view of the Book of Revelation. It gives you some basic understanding of the book of Revelation. 

2. The False Prophet Has Beast's Authority

Revelation 13:12 
12 He exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence. And he makes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose fatal wound was healed.

3. Has His False Authority 

Revelation 13:12

a) Authority 

i) Satan’s authority and "all the authority of the first beast" (Revelation 13:12) is given to this False Prophet, and exercised through him. Satan gives authority that's never been given to him! His authority and power are of his own presumption. Satan the Dragon thus materializes his spiritual kingdom of darkness in the form of an anti-christian empire with its own idolatrous religion. The king of the anti-christian kingdom makes himself a god.

The End ...