{"id":593,"date":"2021-01-20T14:11:36","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T14:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/176.32.230.18\/swordmagazine.net\/?p=593"},"modified":"2021-05-11T15:29:19","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T14:29:19","slug":"the-kingdom-of-the-beast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?p=593","title":{"rendered":"The Kingdom of the Beast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>As a final warning of coming wrath, God will allow Satan to reign for a brief period of<br \/>time.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor then there will great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of<br \/>the world, until this time nor ever shall be.\u201d Matthew 24:21. At the end of this age, for<br \/>a brief time, God will allow Satan to reign, on earth. He will reign through a man usually<br \/>referred to as the antichrist, although in the Bible he is also given a number of other<br \/>names. Revelation chapter 13 calls him the beast and describes his reign.<br \/>Jesus went on to say of this time, \u201cAnd unless those days were shortened, no flesh<br \/>would be saved; but for the elect\u2019s sake those days will be shortened.\u201d Matthew 24:22<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>This time of distress will be the final warning that God is about to pour out His<br \/>wrath on a rebellious world. Three warnings of coming wrath, each brought by an<br \/>angel, are found in Revelation chapter 14. In the last two editions of Sword I have<br \/>written about the first two warnings. First is a call to worship God the Creator and then<br \/>a warning that Babylon the kingdom of this world will soon fall. The final warning before<br \/>the outpouring of wrath is the kingdom of the beast. Satan\u2019s kingdom will follow the<br \/>rejection of God as Creator and the destruction of the kingdom of this world.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:more --><\/p>\n<div class=\"swpm-more-tag-not-logged-in swpm-margin-top-10\">You need to login to view the rest of the content. Please <a class=\"swpm-login-link\" href=\"http:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?page_id=733&swpm_redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fswordmagazine.net%2Findex.php\">Login<\/a>. Not a Member? <a href=\"http:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?page_id=731\">Join Us<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a final warning of coming wrath, God will allow Satan to reign for a brief period oftime. \u201cFor then there will great tribulation, such [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[69,11],"tags":[45],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":816,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions\/816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}