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The great controversy of Lucifer has been replayed all through history. He has been one who could not accept discipline and punishment. We hear his pride in the words of Cain, “And Cain said to the LORD, My punishment is greater than I can bear. Behold, Thou hast driven me this day from the face of the earth; and from Thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth.” (Gen. 4:13, 14).

In Bible history and prophecy we see the first great rebel raise up more rebellions in the earth. The anteluvian world, Babel, primeval Babylon and Egypt, the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah, the Canaanite Amalekites, the Philistines, the Chaldeans of neo-Babylon, imperial Greece and Rome, Papal Rome, the Counter-Reformation and Papal Britain, today’s developing Puritanical and tyrannical Evangelical America during the fifth and sixth trumpets, and finally, the near future New pagan World Order of the seventh trumpet.

At each earthly manifestation of Luciferian rebellion, the biblical beast has ascended from the bottomless pit and gone into perdition. Revelation shows this happening only once in Revelation 9:1; 11:7;17:11, but it also shows the dragon being thrown back into the bottomless pit at Christ’s return in Revelation 20:1.

“And it grew great, even to the host of heaven; and it cast down some of the host and of the stars to the ground, and stamped upon them. Yes, he magnified himself even to the Prince of the host, and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of His sanctuary was cast down. And a host was given him against the daily sacrifice by reason of transgression, and it cast down the truth to the ground; and it practiced, and prospered. ” (Dan. 8:10-12, cf Isa. 14:12-14; Acts 20:29-31).

“Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that Man of sin be revealed, the Son of perdition; who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshiped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God…. And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the spirit of His mouth, and will destroy with the brightness of His coming.” (2Thess. 2:3, 4, 8).

“And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years. And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled; and after that he must be loosed a little season.” (Rev. 20:1-3).

This ascent out of and descent into the bottomless pit indicates a cycle, and Daniel 8 alluded to that cycle as having occurred several times before the final three that that prophecy specifically addressed, Dark Ages papal Rome and its deadly Counter-Reformation response, the fifth and sixth trumpets revival of the Jesuit power as the beast is healed from its Reformation wound, and the Jesuits’ prosperous end in the total enslavement of the world to Satan.

“The beast that thou sawest, was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.” (Rev. 17:8).

But, as 2 Thessalonians 2:3,4,8 and Revelation 20 show, the final swing of the Dragon’s pendulum is in the Father’s favor. And better still, in the process of punishing the Dragon (Satan), and the beast (the Jesuit Papacy and the whole world, like on board a seemingly endless train), the Father has an amazing promise to the very small remnant in the end. They will be rare indeed.

“Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and He will destroy its sinners out of it. 

For the stars of heaven and its constellations shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine. 

And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible. 

I will make a man more precious^H3365 than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.” (Isa. 13:9-12).

H3365

יָקַר

yâqar

yaw-kar'

A primitive root; properly apparently to be heavy, that is, (figuratively) valuable; causatively to make rare (figuratively to inhibit): - be (make) precious, be prized, be set by, withdraw.

Jesuits beware! Rare saints be of good cheer! The rarer the saints get, the more holy and precious they get.

“I will sing to the LORD, for He hath triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider hath He thrown into the sea. 

The LORD is my strength and song, and He is become my salvation: He is my God, and I will prepare Him a habitation; my father's God, and I will exalt Him. 

The LORD is a man of war: the LORD is His name. ” (Ex. 15:1-3).

Jehovah is a man of war, but only to the warmongers, the enslavers, the abusers of mankind.

“For I lift up My hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever. 

If I shall whet My glittering sword, and My hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to My enemies, and will reward them that hate Me. 

I will make My arrows drunk with blood, and My sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy. 

Rejoice, O ye nations, with His people: for He will avenge the blood of His servants, and will render vengeance to His adversaries, and will be merciful to His land, and to His people.” (Deut. 32:40-43).

“And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for Him, and He will save us: this is the LORD, we have waited for Him, we will be glad and rejoice in His salvation.” “He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of His people will He remove from all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it.” (Isa. 25:9,8).

“O LORD, Thou art my God; I will exalt Thee, I will praise Thy name; for Thou hast done wonderful things; Thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth. 

For Thou hast made of a city a heap; of a fortified city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built. 

Therefore shall the strong people glorify Thee, the city of the terrible nations shall fear Thee. 

For Thou hast been a defense to the poor, a defense to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall. 

Thou wilt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shade of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low. 

And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls will He bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust.” (Isa. 25:1-5,12).

“And on this mountain will the LORD of hosts make to all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined. And He will destroy on this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations…. ” (Isa. 25:6,7).

“And He will spread forth His hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim: and He will bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands.” (Isa. 25: 11).

And “on this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest.” (Isa. 25: 10).