Category: Lamb

Beast from the Sea, Inhabitants of the Earth, Lamb

No Neutrality

David R Maas

The Inhabitants of the Earth choose not to follow the Lamb. Instead, they swear fealty to the Dragon and his Beast and take his Number.

There are no geographic restrictions on the reign of the “Beast” in the Book of Revelation. All the “Inhabitants of the Earth” take the Beast’s “Mark” or “Number” and venerate its image. No national government resists the monster from the Sea, for it is granted “authority over every tribe, people, tongue and nation.” There are no exceptions, no nation or government will stand against the “Beast” except Christ’s “Kingdom of Priests.”

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Kings of the Earth, Lamb, Nations, Shepherd

The Victorious Shepherd

David R Maas

The kings and nations of the Earth are found in New Jerusalem because of the Lamb’s redemptive work.

The Apostle Paul describes the proclamation of “Christ crucified” as “God’s wisdom and power.” The proposition that God overthrew Sin, Satan, and Death through the execution of a lowly man from the small village of Nazareth is “foolishness” to men and contrary to this world’s “wisdom” and ideologies. Even the spiritual “powers and principalities” did not understand what God was doing and sealed their fate by crucifying the “Lord of Glory.”

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Kings of the Earth, Lamb, Nations

Shepherding the Nations

David R Maas

The “Son” in the twelfth chapter of Revelation represents the Messianic figure from the Second Psalm whom God declared would “shepherd the nations.” Following the enthronement of the “slain Lamb,” heaven declared, “Now is come the Kingdom of God and the authority of His Christ.” His “faithful testimony” in death and his victory through resurrection marked the start of his reign over the “nations.” However, he rules by “shepherding” them, and not through conquest and tyranny – (Revelation 5:6-14, 12:5).

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Cross, His Reign, Lamb

The Shepherd King

David R Maas

In the Book of Revelation, Jesus is called the “Faithful Witness” and the “Ruler of the Kings of the Earth.” The two designations are inextricably linked. The first title establishes HOW he obtained the second and qualified for sovereignty over the Earth. It was by his sacrificial death that he made the saints into a “Kingdom of Priests,” and because of his redemptive act for them, God exalted him to reign over all things as the “Lamb.”

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666, Beast from the Sea, Lamb

Allegiance to Whom?

David R Maas

Discussions on the “mark of the Beast” often focus on the significance of its number, ‘666.’ We wish to understand it, and thereby avoid taking it. But to better appreciate the ramifications of taking its “mark,” it is imperative to see how the Book of Revelation contrasts the “mark of the Beast” with the “seal of God,” for the fundamental issue is where one’s loyalties lie – do you follow the “slain Lamb” or the Dragon’s “Beast from the Sea”?

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