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The Great Exchange

Part XLII

The present series recently probed the Prophetic Metaphors surrounding the fall of Lucifer, and how the epic texts describing her nature are overflowing with symbolic references to the divided mind of the Devil.

Using what we call Apocalyptic Linguistics, the astonishing depth of the prophet Isaiah comes through loud and clear, with subtle phrasing that confirms the hemispheric halves of the heathen mind as Death and Hell:

"Hell from beneath is moved to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee" (Isaiah 14:9).

We've repeatedly sought to show the "Hell" portion of the spiritual venue that is the Triuniverse, moves its victims towards the "Death" which is inherent in a soul that is apart from God. Thus, it is Hell that "stirs up" the Dead – as opposed to the tradition which suggests that it is "Death" which places its victims into "Hell." 

These are the "two parts" which the LORD says will be "cut off and die" as they are distinguished from the "third part" which God says is redeemed.

"And I will bring the third part through the fire and…they shall call upon my name" (Zechariah 13:8,9).

In the finale of earthly existence, the world will be dissolved, Death and Hell will be irrevocably judged, and the "third part," which is the Spirits of the redeemed, will move forward in glory.

"And the books were opened…and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books…and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged" (Revelation 20:12,13).

Christian Media has repeatedly addressed the Triuniverse, consisting of Life, Death, and the disputed turf between them, which the Scriptures describe as Hell, or alternatively, Paradise.

We have further identified the essence of Hell and Death with the entities the Bible dubs the False Prophet (Hell), and Antichrist (Death). In seeking to understand the mystical relationship of this configuration, it is evident the False Prophet is inhabited by the Spiritual component that delivers its prey to the Death which inhabits Antichrist.

"And [he] causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast" (Revelation 13:12).

Obviously, the many Scriptures which indicate those who "dwell on the earth" (Revelation 17:8) are unredeemed, stands in sharp contrast to those who "sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus" (Ephesians 2:6).

The Scriptures show an association with Sin and Hell, so when multiple verses show sin leads to death, the Word of God is confirming how the "Hell" imaged in the False Prophet "causeth" those who dwell on the earth to embrace (worship in the text) the "Death" in the symbolic imagery associated with Antichrist.

"To whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness" (Romans 6:16).

The sequence of events pictured in Revelation, in which the False Prophet causes the "dwellers on the earth" (Isaiah 18:3) to "make an image to the beast" (Revelation 13:14) has been profoundly distorted by the false prophets of our time.

The typical comic book characterization of a priestly False Prophet giving life to some inanimate statue, is frequently accompanied by a political Antichrist putting three literal sixes (or a bar code) on everyone's forehead.

The reality is decidedly different.  

Just as the body of Christ, which is Spiritual Israel, is an entity which exists in the heavenly realm, the body of Antichrist is comprised of souls which have embraced the Spirit of Death seen in the beast of Revelation.

One of the ways of accurately perceiving this jaw dropping truth is related to discerning the differential between those who "dwell on the earth" (Revelation 14:6), and those "dwell in heaven" (Revelation 13:6).

In this study, we have repeatedly addressed the shadow and the substance, in which the "substance" is the believer's Spiritual existence in heaven, which comes about when he or she is born again in Jesus Christ.

"He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me hath everlasting life…[and] is passed from death unto life" (John 5:24).

The New Testament plainly teaches that we are not born again when we shed the flesh and blood of this physical existence, we are born again Spiritually when we invite Christ to come into us, and dwell within.

This text tells us that when we come to Christ, and surrender our finite existence to Him, we have been born again in the Spirit, and we become a new creature existing in the kingdom of God.

"Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold all things are become new" (II Corinthians 5:17).

The New Testament tells the believer to put off the sinful things of this world, such as anger, malice, and filthy communications, because we have become that new man  in the Spirit.

"Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; and have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him" (Colossians 3:9,10).

Since your "new man" (or woman) has already passed from death unto life" (John 5:24), that "new creature" (Galatians 6:15) will "never die" (John 11:26), because he now exists in the Spirit – and his or her Substance is in heaven.

"Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honor to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready" (Revelation 19:7).

The Bible says that Christ is the image of God, and when we give Him the Lordship of our existence, we are gradually conformed into His image.

"[He] has delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son: who is the image of the invisible God" (Colossians 1:13,15). 

Once we understand that the existence of men and women in this wicked world is but a Shadow of the Substance in the heavenly realm, we also realize that identification of each person's true Spiritual nature is usually not instantaneous. However, the Substance of the Spirit that inhabits men and women here in the "shadowland" will eventually manifest itself.

When Revelation tells us the hemispheric half of the Devil's double mind, known as the False Prophet, causes "them that dwell on the earth" to "make an image to the beast," it is self evident that this passage also speaks of Spiritual things.

To put it another way, since the believer in Jesus Christ is conformed to the image of Christ, those who do not dwell in heaven are conformed to the image of the Beast.

However, since the Son of God is "meek and lowly of heart" (Matthew 11:29), it follows that the earth dwellers who comprise the image of the beast are of the opposite nature.

"For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful [and] unholy" (II Timothy 3:2).

Just as the Spirit of the LORD gently teaches those that choose to be conformed to the image of God that is JESUS CHRIST, the collective that forms the image of the beast will coerce, corrupt, and control those who perish. 

"[And the False Prophet] deceiveth them that dwell on the earth…and he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed" (Revelation 13:14,15).

Christian Media has extensively described the Perdition Engine, that Spiritual "machine" comprised of Death and Hell, which energizes the dynamic resulting in Death. Once again, Hell desires to kill the Life of God, but cannot, and Death has the authority to kill, but is afraid of that Life.

These are eloquently imaged in Revelation as Serpents and Scorpions, who oppose the sons of God.

"There came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power. And their power was to hurt men…and to them it was given that they should not kill [the earthdwellers]…but that they should be tormented" (Revelation 9:3,10,5).

The Scorpion stinging locusts are identified with the Spirit of Hell, which is not permitted to kill.

The imagery in the sixth trumpet, where we see the Serpents, consists of a great army of horsemen who are only given permission to kill from orders given from the throne of God.

"Saying to the sixth angel…loose the [angels] which are bound…which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year for to slay the third part of men…for their power is…in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents" (Revelation 9:14,15,19).

Notice that it is the "third part" – the Spirits of men that are not dwelling in heaven, but on the earth -- that are the object of the Death the Lord allows the Serpents to inflict.

Thus, the Perdition Engine, driven by the symbiotic spirits of Death and Hell, is the Spiritual system that is manifested in those who dwell on the earth, consisting of the body of Antichrist, which is the image of the beast.

In the examination of the infernal power addressed in this chapter of The Great Exchange, a particular aspect of the sequence was omitted.

When Revelation describes the dynamic power of the False Prophet (which is simply a word picture of the Hell that empowers this figure), the text tells us the False Prophet's primary tool is deception.

"And [he] deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast" (Revelation 13:14).

The text speaks of wonders and war, as the earthdwellers "wondered after the beast" (Revelation 13:3).

These verses repeatedly speak of a "deadly wound" which is "healed" by the power of the dragon, and when the power of Hell causes the world to embrace the Death imaged as the Antichrist beast, we see that it is describing the entity "whose deadly wound was healed" (Revelation 13:3).

The Word of God also tells us this "False Prophet" is able to "give life" unto the Image of the Beast (which we've shown is the Spiritual body of Antichrist), so the giving of "life" to the body of believers, who dwell on the earth, speaks of an enigmatic energy which is imparted to the apostate church, which worships the beast inhabited by the power of Death.

"And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast…which had the wound by a sword, and did live" (Revelation 13:15,14).

But just how that hemispheric half of the divided mind of the Devil is able to conjure life in the Image of the Beast will have to wait for the next installment of The Great Exchange. 

-- James Lloyd                

To Be Continued

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