Mike Bickle discusses the concept of the 'abomination of desolation' as a pivotal sign of the Great Tribulation, emphasizing its role as a counterfeit worship movement led by the Antichrist. He explains that this event, foretold by Daniel and Jesus, will involve a demonic statue placed in the Jerusalem temple, which will inspire global worship of the Antichrist. Bickle warns that believers will witness this event and must prepare for the ensuing tribulation, which will be marked by intense persecution and the establishment of laws compelling worship of the Antichrist. He encourages the prayer movement as the first line of defense against this satanic worship, highlighting the urgency for believers to deepen their relationship with God and operate in His power. The sermon concludes with a call to understand the significance of these events and to remain steadfast in faith amidst the coming challenges.

Father, we thank you in the name of Jesus for the Word of God, and we love your Word. We love your Son. Holy Spirit, we love your presence. We ask you now, even as we look at this significant subject concerning the end times, that you would give living understanding to our heart. You would give strength to our spirit and bolster our faith. In Jesus' name, amen. In this class, we're looking at class or session number 13 in a 24-class series on the study in the end times. And in this particular class, we're focusing on what the Bible calls the abomination of desolation. Now, that seems like a strange term, but it's used by Daniel four times, and it's used by Jesus two times, once in Matthew and once in Mark. And we're going to look at it at the end of the day, at the bottom line, what it is. It's very pertinent to hear in the International House of Prayer what it is. It's the counterfeit worship movement for which God is raising up the house of prayer in the earth. And I'm not talking about just our version of it, but I'm talking about houses of prayer, many different styles and expressions of it to contend as the first line of defense against a global satanic worship movement that we could sum up under this term called the abomination of desolation. And you're going to understand that term, by the grace of God, by the end of this session. The abomination of desolation is the primary sign that the Great Tribulation is beginning. It's the great sign. When it begins, the Great Tribulation begins. What is the abomination of desolation? Well, we'll look at the words of Jesus. Matthew chapter 24, verse 15 to 21. Jesus said, when you see the abomination of desolation, because the believers will see it. We will be here. We won't be raptured and taken away. We will be raptured at the end of the trouble and the great revival, the time of the second coming. But the you, the believing people of God on the earth, they will see the abomination of desolation with their eyes. Now Jesus went on to say, when you see it, he said, he went on and said, it was spoken by Daniel the prophet. Now four times Daniel referred to the abomination of desolation and it's all in the notes that you have here. And those of you that want the notes, they're on the website and you can get them right now. We're only going to go through part of the notes tonight and I'm going to leave you several pages just for your own personal study. But Jesus said, when you see the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place, and then Matthew puts his own comments in parentheses, he goes, whoever reads this, let him understand. What he means is, pay attention and exert some effort, because understanding of these things is very critical. And that's what we're doing tonight. We're exerting a little bit of effort to understand, because we've read the book of Daniel and we understand the abomination of desolation, the book of Daniel, and we've read the writings of the New Testament, and we can put them together. It's not difficult. And I, again, I believe that after this simple, short teaching, you'll be able to put those key ideas together if this is a new concept. He goes, but when you see the abomination of desolation, which is a statue, it's an idol or a statue or an image of the Antichrist, when you see it in the Jerusalem temple, when you see it, and that's the centerpiece of the Antichrist satanic worship movement, because it's going to be placed in the temple in order to mobilize a demonic worship movement in the earth. That's the reason this idol or this image or this statue will be put in the temple, because this statue will have supernatural, a supernatural dimension, a demonic dimension to it. And it will inspire and it will mobilize hundreds of millions, possibly several billion people to worship Satan. The point of it is, it's the centerpiece of a demonic worship movement. But Jesus said, when you see that abomination, that idol standing in the holy place, in the temple in Jerusalem, then here's what you should do. Verse 16. When you see it, verse 16, then run, get out of town. And he's talking literally, flee. He's talking to the people who live in Judea, which is the region around the city of Jerusalem. He's talking to believers, because unbelievers aren't reading the words of Jesus. I mean, a few might, but he's talking to the believing community. He goes, when this idol is put in the temple in Jerusalem, if you're in the area, leave, because the most dramatic three and a half years of conflict is going to break out worldwide, but it will have its most intense expression of conflict and trouble in the city of Jerusalem and the surrounding area, which is Judea. He says, it's so imperative that you flee immediately. Verse 17. This is not figurative. He means this. And there will be believers that will follow this exactly, because it will be a matter of life and death. He says, if you're on the housetop, meaning on the housetop, they would host hospitality and friends would come over, that kind of thing. It's talking about a social engagement on the housetop. Don't go down and pack your bag. Just take the outside staircase and go straight out and start running to the mountains. Don't go down and pack a bag. If you're in the midst of a dinner, a fellowship time with one of your friends. Verse 18. If you're at work in the field, it doesn't have to be the field. If you're in the workplace, don't run home and pack a bag. Flee right from the workplace. Take right off right there. He goes on in verse 20. For there will be great tribulation, and that's where we get the term, the great tribulation. It's going to be a three and a half year period. There's a final seven year period of trouble, of tribulation. But the final three and a half years is the intense part. Some call the whole seven years tribulation, because there will be tribulation for the saints for seven years. But the great tribulation is the intense part of it. That's the final three and a half years. There'll be a great tribulation such as never been seen in the history of the world. And that tribulation will really have an intense expression in this around the city of Jerusalem, or the area of Judea. Paragraph A, the abomination of desolations is a series. It's not just one event, but it's a series of evil or abominable events. It's evil events. Events that cause, that are an abomination in God's eyes. That's why it's called the abomination. It's a series of events. And the result will be worldwide desolation. Or you could use the word destruction. And so if you want to say it differently, it's abominable events. There's four major ones I'm going to highlight. That is, that is, they're clustered together under the theme of the abomination of desolation. There's evil events that will lead to worldwide desolation. That's what it's talking about. It's abominable events that lead to worldwide destruction or desolation. That's what the abomination of desolation is. And the center, the centerpiece of the abomination is an idol, a demonic statue, a demonically empowered statue in the Jerusalem temple that can, that can speak. It appears to breathe. It appears to think on its own, to have a life of its own. It'll have supernatural powers. And it will be terrifying. The nations will pay attention and they will, they will obey it. Many will. Now when this takes place and the saints, we will be here. And we need to, we're preparing ourselves for the greatest hour in history for the body of Christ. It is our greatest hour. It really is. It's the prayer movement's most powerful and most relevant time in history because what the prayer movement is being raised up as the first line of defense against a satanic worship movement because that's what satan is after is a worldwide worship movement. That's what the antichrist is about. So when this takes place, it's the primary event that tells us the final three and a half years the great tribulation has begun. Now Jesus prophesied that we would see it. And then Matthew adds, and it's important that you read about it and understand it. And that's why we're taking time to do this. Paragraph C or second Thessalonians chapter two, verse three to four, very significant passage where Paul describes the abomination of desolation. Now he doesn't use the terminology, but he describes some of the key events with the implications. In second Thessalonians chapter two, verse three and four, he says, for the day, that day, the day of the rapture and the second coming of Christ, which are connected together, that day will not come unless the man of sin, who is the antichrist, unless the antichrist is revealed. The rapture will not come until after the antichrist is revealed. It's very clear in scripture. And he goes on to describe the antichrist in verse four. This is Paul by the spirit of prophecy. He will oppose and he will exalt himself above everything associated with God. He will oppose and exalt himself above everything that's worshipped, even the false religions. He will oppose them and he will overpower things related to the true God and even other religions. He will seek to dominate every single religious element on the planet. Even false religion will be outlawed and all will be demanded to worship only him. But here's what he's going to do. Very significant point about the abomination of desolation. The antichrist will sit as God in the temple. Now this is talking about the Jerusalem temple. And he will show the world or he will proclaim to the world that he is God. So Paul lets us know he will sit in the temple and he will declare himself to be God. Now that's a critical part of the abomination of desolation. Now this implies very clearly, along with about seven or eight other passages, that the temple in Jerusalem will have to be rebuilt. There's about eight or maybe eight passages from Daniel and from the book of Revelation and from Jesus' teachings, as well as Paul, this passage here, that make it clear that in Jerusalem the temple, at the Temple Mount, it will have to be rebuilt. That's a significant event, a sign of the times, because right now the Jewish leadership, religious leadership in Israel, is trying to get that temple rebuilt. And it will be a significant political and religious explosion if it doesn't happen just right. And you know about that. I don't want to take time to talk about that, but it's my theory, and I think we have a biblical reason to think this, that the antichrist will be key in bringing the peace in the Middle East in a way that allows the temple to be built in Jerusalem. Or possibly the temple will be built before the antichrist in power. It's hard to say. It's hard to say. Okay, Roman numeral two. And again, if you need the notes, you can get the notes on the website right now. They're available. You can follow along with us. There are four main evil activities or abominable activities, activities that are an abomination to God. And of course you could develop it and maybe put a few more ideas or, you know, you could outline it differently, but there's four. When I think of the subject, I think of four different activities under the headline of the abomination of desolation. Number one, the first one, the abomination of desolation begins when the antichrist sits in the Jerusalem temple and he claims to be God. Well, the temple's not built yet, so we know it's not going to happen. Some people, you know, this is one reason we know the Lord's not coming any minute. The Lord's not coming until the antichrist is revealed and he is defeated by the Lord at the coming of the Lord. And the end time prayer movement is victorious against the end time demonic Satan worship movement. Beloved, the prayer movement right now, the worship movement, the prayer movement, I use those interchangeably, is so significant. It's the major thing on Satan's agenda is to raise up this worship movement. That's, that's the highest thing upon his mind. He wants a global worship movement and he wants to eliminate the Jewish race so they can't invite Jesus back as their Messiah. Those are the two primary things that I believe that are on his mind. So the first thing, he sits in the temple, he claims to be God. That is an abomination to God. God looks at that and he says, that's evil. That's an evil declaration. You're in the holy place in the temple and you're telling the nations that you're the true God and that makes God angry, though God allows it. But he's angry. It's an abomination to him. Somebody might, the, the nations will be, you know, celebrating. Isn't this awesome? God will be angry that he did this. Very, very angry. Number two. Part of the, number two evil activity or an abominable activity. The, the false prophet will tell the nations, I mean the false prophet, well he will tell the nations to make an image, but he's going to establish this image in the city of Jerusalem. And he's going to put the image in that temple. Now this image again will, will appear to talk and breathe and have life and have free thought. I mean it will be the most unusual thing because it will be scrutinized by everyone. Even, even the, the, the critics and the critics, unbelievers, many of them will believe in him. I'm talking about unbelievers in Jesus. They are scientific minds. They will scrutinize it and conclude he is really breathing the statue. It is really breathing and it is really talking on its own with free, with free thinking. The, in other words, the appearance of, of real life has been supernaturally given to this statue. So the false prophet will tell those who dwell on the earth to make this image. And the primary, the primary image is in the city of Jerusalem in the temple. Number three, using the same verse, the anti, the false prophet is going to tell those who dwell on the earth, he's not only going to build an image, make an image for the Jerusalem temple, he's going to tell the local leaders across the earth. He's telling all the nations to make an image. So I believe this verse in revelations 13, 14 has two applications. An image is made, the primary one for the temple, for the holy place in Jerusalem. It is set up or it stands in the Jerusalem temple. The antichrist will stand in the Jerusalem temple and the image will be set up in the Jerusalem temple, the holy place. Both of them will stand in that place because Jesus said, when you see the abomination standing in the holy place, it's the man, the antichrist, and it's the supernaturally empowered demonic image that is standing in the holy place as well. But the third element, the third negative activity is that the local leaders of the nations, this is my theory, but I believe it to be right. Obviously I wouldn't be telling it to you. It doesn't say it exactly, but I think it makes it clear when you put a bunch of verses together that this is what is in fact happening. That the leaders, the local leaders of all the nations of the earth are told and commanded by the false prophet and he will appear to be a very kind and winsome and powerful man who loves God and loves truth and he will tell them to make an image and you know the nation's far away. They're not going to all the nations of the earth get on a plane and fly to Jerusalem and all work together, millions of them making one image. No, this has a local application in the nations of the earth. They will make a duplicate of this image and I'm assuming that this image is going to be some kind of hologram but at a higher level than we know right now. This may be 10, 20, 30 years from now and the technology will be so developed and I think that what will happen is that the primary image in Jerusalem, I believe there will be local antichrist worship sanctuaries in all the local regions of the earth to which this image in Jerusalem is connected to these local antichrist worship sanctuaries all over the earth and each one of them will have their own local image that's a duplicate of the main one and the way I understand it is they it will be a combination of the cutting-edge technology you know 10, 20, 30 years maybe more from now significant cutting-edge technology because even there'll even be a demonic help in it and there will be the combination of technology with demon activity, demonic power at a level we've never seen before. So it'll be technology and demons working together and my assumption it will be a hologram where the antichrist will appear in a very vivid and convincing way in all of these worship sanctuaries. It'll be an image my guess is it will look like him I'm not sure that's true my guess is it will sound like him not sure it's true but that's I think that's a reasonable guess because it will cause them to worship the antichrist when this image speaks. I don't believe it will only speak in Jerusalem I believe this image will speak in every one of the local antichrist worship sanctuaries and in every one of those areas of the earth there will be a house of prayer raising up worshiping the real Christ. I tell you it will be a point of contention the prayer movement it's it's like wow I really like music and I really like God but I really like music and I really like to get you know kind of going for it and kind of getting in the groove and the flow and the wow the music's cool you know if the Lord's there that's cool too and all that kind of stuff. A lot of people that love music a little bit more than they love Jesus but they really love Jesus and what I'm saying is there's a there's kind of the first round of the prayer movement in the last 10 years look around the earth there's uh we need to be more into Jesus and the Holy Spirit than just the music because I tell you music will not overpower this demonic this demonic worship movement only the power of God presence worship the real power of God of which flows from prophetic music the Holy Spirit will flow on the wings of that prophetic music a prophetic song but of all things you know as I talk to other leaders around I go we we want cool music we want cool things we want lots of cool everything but we can't get lost in cool because cool won't deliver us because the abomination of desolations the worldwide worship movement of satan is will be established in the earth and there's only one power that will contend against it in a 24-hour way and that's the prayer movement in the earth and this statue will be speaking and prophesying but the body of Christ will be out worshiping and I don't mean they'll have 24-hour just like ours but there'll be 24-hour structures in all kinds of different diverse ways you know in prayer chains and prisons and it's just every manner of way that we can't even imagine and we will be crying out his praise and the other on the other side of town and these antichrist worship centers they will be crying out the praise of the antichrist with a supernatural statue communicating the heartbeat of the antichrist through technology and demons but we have the real holy spirit now the reason I think they're going to be in there's several reasons I believe they'll be in every every area of the world but number one the nations of the earth are told to make this image and again it's not like millions of people are all going to go to jerusalem and all kind of pitch in together and all make it together that's not what john was talking about and it says in revelation 9 verse 20 here that one of the key elements of the end times one of the key elements globally we're talking about for the rest of mankind we're not talking about a couple you know kind of uh places of the earth that are still entrenched in in direct demon worship we're talking about the whole world the rest of mankind they will make the work of their hands they will make idols and they will worship demons when they make these idols there is going to be a resurgence there's going to be a I hate to use the word revival but a surging forth of of idolatry at this time and the nations of the earth the rest of they will make these idols and worship demons and worship satan and so the idol industry is about to be uh gross significantly but it will be attached to evil and wickedness well the fourth uh thing that's an abomination top of page two and again we're not going to look at all the notes tonight i'm going to leave you the last couple pages just to read on your own it's it's a little bit technical i mean on just two or three points but once you read through it a few times you'll get it it's really worth getting it because the scripture said let him who reads understand these things take some time exert some effort understand these things i tell you beloved on the other side on the the dark kingdom this is the most significant event and it's a sign of the time and the house of prayer movement the worship movement is the first line of defense that we're warring in terms of a uh a global network against this false worship movement we need to understand it's real and as i understand it it creates urgency in my spirit for us to get more in the holy spirit again i i like things cool and good but i'm desperate for presence i'm desperate for presence and some folks are excited just if it's cool and i'm saying that's not going to deliver us where we're going it must have power in it oh in all of our getting we must uh get a deeper walk in the spirit so we operate in power well what's going to happen the fourth thing that's an abomination is the false prophet will force or cause all the nations to worship the antichrist it says here in revelations 13 that he the false prophet exercises all the authority of the antichrist he will cause the earth to worship the antichrist and he's going to cause the earth by making laws and the laws will require everyone to join this worship movement and to attend their their rallies undoubtedly they'll be in the stadiums as well and we're talking about hundreds of millions some several billion people that are buying into this worship movement and they will gather to worship the stadiums will be filled on the dark side as well at different times we're going to see the stadiums filled on the on the on the side of truth as well but the earth will be caused by legislation to worship the antichrist it says in revelation 13 8 all who dwell on the earth will worship him now obviously i mean if you put a bunch of verses together it doesn't mean every single human being but there will be that every nation of the earth will have a representation of this evil worship movement they will all be required by law the laws will empower the wicked to kill the righteous if the righteous do not uh participate the laws were will be terrible the very they'll be terrible the laws will be an abomination to god too i mean i think of the laws in in in nazi germany the laws made it legal and you and people were rewarded for turning in jews they were rewarded financially and given promotions for keeping the law and if anybody hit a jew it was against the law and that person a gentile they would go to prison and they would be killed and those laws grieved god well evil laws of this kind of extremity are going to be established in the earth again and that's part of the abomination the laws throughout all society with a reward system for turning in the righteous a reward system for worshiping the devil the laws will back it up it's not just the antichrist will go in the temple it's not just a talking image will be in jerusalem there'll be a global network and then there'll be laws to back it up these four things together will constitute the greatest abomination of all of human history nothing has ever happened like it in history because it will cover the earth and the depth of perversion and demonic power will be like no time in history there is only one answer and it's jesus but i'm going to say it differently it's people connected to jesus being a vessel a vehicle to release his power into this age i mean jesus has all the power right now but he will only manifest his power into the natural realm through his people so it's people connected to jesus jesus isn't going to gain any more power than he has right now but he's going to gain people that he's connected to and they become available vessels they walk in the spirit they live in the spirit and they become vessels to release his power to the natural realm and that's what we need i just feel a great urgency about this and to think that here we are our lives are just thrown into the midst of a night and day worship and prayer movement you know we're in first grade we're doing worship 101 and we're doing flow in the spirit 101 and the holy spirit good good keep going i want you to go past 101 i want you to get college i want you to get your phd i really want you to go go forward i want you to operate in power in a whole new realm and as the time as the years unfold and this is what he's saying to the prayer movements across the earth well there's going to be two sources of destruction the because it's an abominable i gave you four different activities that are abominable well this abomination is going to lead to something destruction global destruction or desolation destruction and desolation is this is the same concept you could call it the abomination that leads to destruction or the abomination that leads to desolation it's it's the same thing there will be two different sources of the desolation the one source they're very different is jesus and the second source is the anti-jesus the anti-christ the anti-anointed one those will be the the two that are releasing desolation because of the abominable acts jesus will release power on all the places that embrace this worship movement and the people he will pour his judgments out and bring desolation to those that participate in the abominations it's called the book of revelation the end time judgments those judgments are because the nations participate in the abominations but then the other side is that the anti-christ will bring desolation he will bring destruction to the people who resist his worship movement jesus prophesied about this in the same passage of the desolation of the i mean the uh abomination of desolations here in matthew 24 verse 22 he said unless those days were shortened he's talking about the the final three and a half year period of which the abomination of desolation is operating he said if those days had not been shortened no human beings would have been saved he means delivered physically he goes nobody would physically make it if that would have been a three decade three and a half decades instead of three and a half years there would be no survivors on the earth that's what he means but it's been shortened to three and a half years this will be the most difficult three and a half years of desolation at any time in history and again the the it will be the body of christ's most glorious hour will operate in signs and wonders power the prophetic songs and oracles the multiplying of food supernatural deliverance the appearing of angelic choirs it will be and those that do die they will they will lose their life they'll step right into the glory of god and receive a martyr's crown in the by the very hands of jesus giving it to them so there'll be no disappointed customers in the kingdom of god everybody in the kingdom of god will be a satisfied customer no matter what station they have or what assignment they have in the end times i tell you if i go as a martyr i step across the line jesus goes mike oh man thank you this awesome wow if i don't then you see me in the air mike oh it's awesome i love it either way we win we win win win win either way we're in his arms with glory some people are just so nervous about what dying you're gonna die if i promise you you're gonna die if you're not raptured i mean the whole human race has died they're just well it's gonna be terrible we might die no you are gonna die no you hear people say well you know if you know someday if we die go no not if not if unless you're unless you're there at the time of the rapture look what isaiah says this is terrifying but it gives you the gravity and it gives you urgency for the prayer movement it says the lord isaiah 24 verse 1 to 6 the lord makes the earth empty some amount of people the land shall be entirely emptied the inhabitants of the earth burned it's talking about those who worship the antichrist and few men will be left relative my guess is it will be a couple hundred million but out of billions the percentage will be quite small i don't know that it'll be a couple hundred million but maybe tens of millions maybe a hundred million i don't know but the the few men will be left the lord himself will empty the earth and he's talking about the tribulation time goes down on isaiah 13 the same thing it says the day the lord will come and to lay the land desolate the land the lord will cause the land to be desolate he's talking about the land of the people and the geographic areas that are strongholds of this abomination he will destroy sinners from the land he will punish the earth he will make a mortal more rare than fine gold on the earth humans will be more rare than than gold on the earth there's quite a bit of gold on the earth just so you know so there'll be some people around so it's not like there'll be 10 there'll be again tens of millions or possibly a couple hundred million but it will be a significant reduction of the population of the earth and of course a billion or two of them are raptured and they're at and so their numbers are taken out that way at the time of the second coming paragraph b the first source of the desolation i've already said it will be jesus it says in revelation 6 when he opens the seals revelation 6 a fourth of the earth will die that's not that's jesus opening the seals revelation 9 15 when he opens the seals in revelation 9 i mean the trumpets the sixth trumpet when he allows that trumpet to be blown a third of mankind dies this is real but when jesus is releasing judgments it's against those who participating in the abominations that's who's that's who the uh judgment is aimed at isaiah 66 the lord will judge all flesh catch this the slain of the lord will be many jeremiah 25 the slain of the lord will be from one end of the earth to the other now i'm not excited about that although i do know it creates the context for the power of god the great harvest the purified church and the prayer movement to operate in the greatest manifest authority ever in history but it's not a game and of course i know that you know that it's not a game it's not just kind of a cool thing it will be life and death in eternally as well as physically it will be so serious and the fact that god has us on the fast track to grow in the spirit as worshipers and intercessors is a kindness to us beyond anything that we're grasping right now 10 20 30 years from now we'll look back in 2006 7 8 9 and we'll say wow you harnessed me in then i didn't even know any better i just kind of thought it was cool to jump in i didn't even know it was strategic you'll have some years not that you'll all be doing this particular expression of the house of prayer but you'll be involved in it wherever you are in the earth where the lord sends you back and you'll be saying to the lord thank you that you established me that you trained me this you know i joined it just because i loved you and i thought it'd be kind of neat to do it i didn't realize it was a the significant first line of defense for the end of the age battle and it's wonderful too it is beautiful our spirits are touched and it's really cool as well we don't have to pick between one the other we can have it all paragraph c the antichrist will also bring desolation but it's to the people that are resisting him he will use paragraph c his unprecedented political power military power economic power to he will use it against the people that refuse to worship him he will cause as many that this is the false prophet who won't worship the antichrist to be killed but he's under the antichrist authority the son of it says in second thessalonians 2 verse 3 the son of man who's the antichrist is also called the son of perdition he's called the son of destruction the antichrist title is the son of perdition that means he causes destruction and then at the lake of fire he goes to destruction he causes it first and then he goes to it in eternal way he causes natural destruction by venting his rage against the people who resist him he causes spiritual destruction by deceiving the nations to worship him and they go to hell because of his influence of course they chose it and then he ends up in hell as well so in those three ways he's the son of perdition the son of destruction in daniel 9 verse 27 the antichrist is the one who makes desolation for the earth he's the one that causes people to experience desolation physically because he goes after them and his judgment and again by deceiving by deceiving people and they worship him they become partakers of desolation the judgment of god let's go to top of page three the abomination of desolation there's two main features in the abomination of desolation the image of the beast the statue because it's the statue placed in the jerusalem temple and then i believe the global network of statues in every place of the earth because it says all the nations of worship and i don't it doesn't mean every person of every nation it means that every geographic place every nation will have a worship center that is loyal to the antichrist because the antichrist is trying it's the counterfeit of uh preaching the gospel to all nations it just so much of this is the counterfeit he has a counterfeit prophetic movement a counterfeit worship movement a counterfeit great commission he has a counterfeit everything but he loses on every one of them and the body of christ wins under jesus's leadership paragraph a now the image of the beast is one of the most significant themes in the end times it is mentioned 10 times in the the book of revelation if you get a sentence in the book of revelation i mean not you but if an idea gets a sentence it's really a priority in the end times to the lord one sentence is the book of revelation means pay attention this is one of the big trends that's going to happen beloved the image of the beast is emphasized 10 times 10 times it's this is spoken of because of its prominence and god will allow this because he wants the true worship movement to be strengthened by exercising its muscles against the false worship movement that's where the true worship movement will be purified and focused and refined and enter into the full walk in the spirit by resisting this adversary well the abomination of desolation will involve many convincing miracles i have one of the most important verses or ones that says it clearly here in second thessalonians 2 it says that the coming of the antichrist will be in accordance with the working of satan he will have all power signs and lying wonders he will have many false miracles jesus said it himself that false prophets and false christ will arise with great signs great wonders to deceive if possible even the elect it didn't say the elect would be deceived but if the elect are not paying attention they can be deceived but beloved if we're focused on the word we're in fellowship with each other we're living with a clean conscience and we're involved in the prayer movement i tell you we're not going to be deceived it's possible for the elect but they don't have to be deceived that they'll just get in the way of this thing and the way of the truth in the way of of life paragraph c the image of the beast and the mark of the beast are two of the most significant components related to the abomination of desolation because the image of the beast is what makes this abomination uh spread globally the mark of the beast is what makes this abomination spread globally by penalizing the people economically who don't participate in it and by rewarding those who do operate in it so the image of the beast gives a local outlet the global network of this worship movement and the mark of the beast is the financial structure to support this worship movement because the people that worship are rewarded with the flow of finances those that refuse to worship the antichrist they are penalized of course jesus will multiply our food he will cause water to flow from a rock he'll give supernatural direction and so we won't be dependent upon the antichrist funding our lives by his goodwill of his legislation the lord will take care of his people paragraph e the antichrist is going to combine the technology with supernatural demonic elements causing the image to breathe i mean this image i mean the primary one and possibly the local ones all over the earth because they'll all be connected some way but this surely the primary one will breathe and speak and people will say well now what will he say when he speaks well it's clear in revelation he will make the laws that require that the resistors of the antichrist those that that resist the worship movement he will make the laws that that will uh empower the the uh the sons of darkness to kill us i mean here's this image talking from god so they think and it's a supernatural power in this false anointing and they're waiting with abated breath what is the image gonna say he said here's the law kill the people who don't worship you know i'm sure it'll be a little different than that but the idea he will utter these oracles these occult oracles and the people will write them down and the laws will be put in place right like that he'll make many laws not just one or two they'll probably be an entire code of laws against the but they will say man this is this is inspired stuff it's coming right from a divine source the occult oracles of this image that has supernatural power that breathes and talks beloved these laws will be intense because they will empower all the local authorities and they will empower the conscience of the wicked that this is really right in god to kill the saints it's it's a huge thing that he this talking image makes laws the implications are vast in terms of the world quickly buying into the laws there'll be no democratic processes you know it takes five years to get a law established it won't when this image speaks it it will be by the end of the day it will be law and then the people will be emboldened all over the earth to believe the law was of god i think he's going to do more than that it says in paragraph g i think he's going to i think that these local images that are all connected together i think the image is going to prophesy to people i think they'll go and they'll do their worship thing and and the image will speak the false the counterfeit prophet movement and they'll tell them you had a dream last night this talking image you know in their local area i did have a dream and this is what the dream was and it was right you must be of god they'll talk about you know uncle so-and-so who died like a seance where demons imitate uncle so-and-so and they imitate his voice uncle so-and-so come back it's a demon mimicking that that dead family member's voice and these and this image will talk and and relate private incidences of members of the family or friends that have died and the people will say how could you have known that private information it'll all be demonic in a cult this image i believe will speak more than just to make laws i believe they will speak into the personal issues well we're going to end with that we have several more about three more pages the notes but they were meant to uh just fuel your personal study on this let's stand before the lord we're going to take a few minutes in worship the abomination of desolation this is such a significant thing that is being raised up in the earth i mean the the groundwork is right now being raised up by the occult is growing