Hidden Treasure – A Deeper Understanding

The Image To The Beast

If communism is the beast power that ascends out of the bottomless pit then President Trump, in championing Russia and its cause has just formed an “image to the beast”.
America is seen as the two horned beast of Rev. 13:11.
It starts out as a lamb but eventually speaks as a dragon.

Revelation 13:11-12 KJV And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. [12] And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.

In threatening to take over nations that are weaker than them they are behaving just like the beast power – the God of force.

Daniel 11:38 KJV But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces: and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.

Seventh-day Adventists have always taught that this would happen in reference to Sunday laws coming from the Papacy and apostate Protestantism. That may have been relevant in the 19th century when God’s people seem not to have grasped the Sabbath rest of Hebrews 4. But now there are many Christians who know what is to lay all on the altar for God. And they know what it is to know God on a “daily” basis, not just the weekly.

This is what Jesus was referring to when he said to us…

Matthew 24:15 KJV When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand):

Jesus was referring us back to the book of Daniel.

Daniel 8:11 KJV Yea, 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.

Daniel 9:27 KJV And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

The Psalmist said:

Psalm 119:126 KJV It is time for thee, LORD, to work: for they have made void thy law.

The law referred to here is not the frightening letter which was given on Sinai but the real spiritual law planted deeply within our hearts.

Hebrews 12:18, 22 KJV For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest……..But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,

Galatians 3:24 KJV Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

Jeremiah 31:31-34 KJV Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: [32] Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD: [33] But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. [34] And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

John 4:23-24 KJV But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. [24] God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

In this crazy world we can rejoice because, as Paul said to Timothy:

2 Timothy 2:19 KJV Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his………

And in the same verse he says:

2 Timothy 2:19 KJV ………. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.