The apocalypse is less about predicting the
and more about perceiving the
.
Unholy Trinity: The
, The
Beast, The
Beast
1. The Dragon is the
.
Revelation 12:17 CSB
Revelation 12:18-13:7 CSB
2. The Sea Beast seeks to
the church into disobedience by the power of the
.
“Political powers do not set out to be bestial. They set out to be their own master, and in the process they turn bestial. No one can be God but God. When the state seeks to be God, it does not become divine, it becomes demonic.” —Darrel Johnson
Revelation 13:3 CSB
Revelation 13:11-14 CSB
3. The Earth Beast seeks to
the church into delusions through the power of
.
“The function of propaganda is to make evil look good, the demonic divine, violence like peacemaking, tyranny and oppression like liberation. It makes blind, unquestioning allegiance appear to be freely chosen, religiously appropriate devotion. The grand lie does not appear to start as deception, but only as rhetorical exaggeration… Eventually the rhetoric becomes a blatant falsehood, but now people have not only come to believe the lie, they also live the lie; over time they have been narrated into it. At that point, the exaggeration-turned-falsehood becomes uncontested and uncontestable truth, and its effects highly dangerous.” —Michael J. Gorman
Mark of The Beast
Revelation 13:16-18 CSB
“[The mark of the beast] is not a tattoo on the forehead or on the right hand nor a micro-chip embedded under the skin. It is the character of the beast embedded under the skin. It is the character of the beast implanted in the soul. Just as the presence of the Holy Spirit makes himself known through Jesus’ disciples, so the presence of the beast makes himself known through its disciples.” —Darrel Johnson
How does Passion Creek Church fight the unholy Trinity?
“It is especially difficult to persevere without using the ordinary means of politics when Jesus’ way doesn’t seem to be working at all and Rome’s way is working all too well.” —Eugene Peterson
The Unholy Trinity wants the church to commit
,
, or
.
The Holy Trinity graces the church with
,
, and
judgment.
This Week’s Practice: Meditate on 2 Timothy 1:7