People believed that gods came down in the likeness of men.

Acts 14:11-12

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“Now when the people saw what Paul had done, they raised their voices, saying in the Lycaonian language, “The gods have come down to us in the likeness of men!” Acts 14:11

The people of Lystra witnessed Paul healing the man who was crippled from birth. They said Paul and Barnabas were gods, but their heart and mind were far away from the Living God, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit. This describes the same heart and mind of those who worship the beast that has power over physiology. This is the same beast that gives people what to speak, do, think, and feel. This beast has the power to heal, and the power over life and death, as quoted, “And I saw one of his heads as if it had been mortally wounded, and his deadly wound was healed. And all the world marveled and followed the beast.” Revelation 13:3 The “his” in this verse refers to the beast of the image and mark of the beast. Click here for a post on the beast’s ability to heal and power over life and death.

 “And Barnabas they called Zeus, and Paul, Hermes, because he was the chief speaker.” Acts 14:12

The people of Lystra glorified Paul and Barnabas as if they were gods. Attributing god-like qualities to human beings is the Holy Spirit speaking prophetically of what is happening in today’s world. In today’s culture, which is global, the false god that has power over physiology bonds itself within thoughts, feelings, words, and behaviors of people everywhere. This entity sets itself within the body, the temple of God, as if it is God. This is the one “… who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.” 2 Thessalonians 2:4 The “he” in this verse is the “man of sin”. Click here for a post on the “man of sin”.

Zeus was considered the god above every god and considered to be the ruler of all gods and humans. Hermes is considered the messenger of gods and is able to move quickly and freely between the human world and the realm of the gods. Zeus symbolizes the beast that sets itself above all gods, and God Himself, with power to govern through what people think, feel, say, and do. Hermes represents human beings who are messengers for the beast living through their thoughts, words, feelings, and behaviors.

The Bible is filled with these prophecies from as early as the book of Genesis, as described below.

• The superhumans are a mix of humans and “sons of God”. In Genesis 6:1-7, it speaks of the Nephilim who are superhumans born by crossbreeding the “sons of God” with humans. That represents the superhumans of today who are a crossbreed of human beings with the one forming what they think, feel, do, and say.
  
• Human and False God are Twins: This is found in Acts 28:11-13 where it mentions the ship sailing towards the world capital having the sign of the twins, one a human and one a god. Castor is the human and Pollux is the god. The human part would be the flesh and blood person while the god part would be the thing that forms what we think, feel, do, and speak to enable the image of the beast to live and speak through us. As twins, they share a common bond.
  
• Our Body is the Temple of God Where It Sets. “Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?” 1 Corinthians 3:16 And speaking of the entity that governs from within us through thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and what we say,, “…he opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.” The “he” in this verse is the “man of sin”. Click here for a post on the “man of sin”.
  
• Eyes and Mouth Like a Human Being: “This horn had eyes like the eyes of a human being and a mouth that spoke boastfully.” Daniel 7:8 People everywhere are constantly boasting, “We see,” or “We know.”
  
• Has Breathe and a Mouth to Speak: Breathe is what gives us the ability to speak by the air in the lungs. The image of the beast is given breath with a mouth to speak, and the ability to speak suggests a form of intelligence, “The second beast was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that the image could speak.” Revelation 13:15 
  
• Beast and the Person the Same: The person is not only meshed with the beast but also shares the beast’s “666” character. The bond between the person and the beast is brought out in Revelation 17:3-6. The beast is scarlet, and the person sitting on the beast is dressed in scarlet. It would be near impossible to distinguish one from the other, or where one left off, and the other began.
  
  The “666” is blaspheme and denial of God (one “6”), discarding the need for Jesus Christ (one “6”), and trampling on the Holy Spirit (one “6”). It leaves a person filled with abominations. The “666” is what bonds the thing which forms thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and speech to the person. That bond is broken when we believe in God, acknowledge the need for the remission of sin through Jesus Christ, and embrace the Holy Spirit.
  
  The purple represents treating people like royalty, or like a god, if they live by the thing which forms their thoughts, emotions, behaviors, and speech “There I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered with blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns. The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and was glittering with gold, precious stones and pearls. She held a golden cup in her hand, filled with abominable things and the filth of her adulteries.”
  
• Number of the beast is the number of the person: The number of the beast is the number of a man. The beast and the person are bonded as one by the beast giving people what to speak, do, think, and feel. “This calls for wisdom. Let the person who has insight calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man. That number is 666.” Revelation 13:18
  
  In the verse above, “man” represents “mankind” or humanity as a whole.
  
  By using the term “calculate” to describe the bond between the beast and the person, we are being made aware that the thing which forms what we think, feel, do, and speak is not spiritual but artificial. Calculations are consistent with Artificial Intelligence and space technology, satellites, etc. Basically, people are being made into flesh and blood robots by the artificial entity that has power over physiology and can form our thoughts, emotions, feelings, and behaviors. Click here for a post on the space shuttle, space station, and space satellites from Ezekiel 1.
  
  The number “666” represents blasphemy of the beast and the global culture of the beast. They are bonded together in their denial of God (6), rejection of Jesus Christ (6), and blaspheme against the Holy Spirit (6). Click here for a post on building the Tower of Babel.
  
• Modern false god is the beast of the technological age: Habakkuk prophecies the modern false god as being a technological one, “Woe to him who says to wood, ‘Awake!’ To silent stone, ‘Arise! It will teach!’ Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver…” Click here for a post on Habakkuk 2:18-20

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“….to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets,“
‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’”
“I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.”
Revelation 2:24-25, 3:11