When I was in my late teens, living in Los Angeles, I would often hear some preacher expound on "The Beast" and "The Antichrist" and "The Son of Perdition." Somehow, they would tie them all together as if they were the same thing, or at least closely related.

I would take my Bible and my concordance, and diligently search the scriptures, but I could never find any connection between them. However, I did manage to find the truth about "The Beast." The picture of the Beast is wonderfully written in Revelation 13 and Daniel 7.

Paul told us that, after the saga of "The Son of Perdition" was finished, "Then shall That Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion (especially the stubborn and rebellious of His children, Deut. 21:18-21; Judges 2:19-22), that they should believe a lie: that they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness" (2 Thess. 2:8-12).

A relatively small group of Christians will escape the delusion, because they will believe God’s messenger, and hide themselves from the trouble that is coming. It is they who will be the Bride and the guests who will go in to the wedding (Isaiah 26:20; Matt. 24:37-39; Matt. 25:1-13).

There seems to be no such personage in the Bible which is called "The Antichrist." Rather, Jesus warned us, saying, "Many false prophets shall arise, and shall deceive many" (Matt. 24:11). John agreed with Jesus, saying, "Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world" (1 John 4:1-3). These many false prophets, of which they warn us, are ministers who, John said, are motivated by the Spirit of Antichrist and are determined to convince us that Jesus is not the Son of God (1 John 2:18-26).

John said, "I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. … And I saw The Beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army.　 And The Beast was taken, and with him The False Prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image.　 These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone."

These passages show clearly that the Forth Beast and its Little Horn, in Daniel’s prophecy, are the same thing as the Beast and the False Prophet in Revelation.

So we see that "The Beast", so often alluded to, is actually created by another beast in the image of the Holy Roman Empire. In the thirteenth chapter of Revelation, John relates a symbolic prophecy of the "Holy Roman Empire" rising up "out of the sea." That term is a direct reference to the fifth thousand year period from Adam. It is understood by looking at the six "Days" of creation as a prophecy of the six thousand years from the creation to the establishing of the Kingdom of God just before the coming of our Savior and King. That "Beast" began to form in the fourth and fifth centuries a.d.

It is a fact of history that it was about four thousand years from Adam to Jesus, and that the "Holy Roman Empire" rose up during the thousand year period from Jesus’ first coming to a.d. 1000, and consisted of 10 European nations. It was that fifth thousand years which was typified by the fifth day of the creation, on which day everything which was created came out of the sea (Gen. 1:20-23; Rev. 13:1).

Did not Isaiah say, "Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me. Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure" (Isaiah 46:9-10).

After John described for us the beast that rose up "out of the sea," he testified of the rise of the United States, saying, "I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. 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. And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, and 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; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live. 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. And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: and that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name" (Rev. 13:11-17).

When World War II ended, the U.S.A. began immediately to establish the U.N. in the image to the first beast. All the other nations of the world had been devastated by the war, and it was the ideal time for the U.S. government to begin to set up a one-world government which they might control. The political and financial powers united together, and formed the G-10 and the G-7 (concealing their identities in recent years by creating a bogus G-20 and G-8). And now, with great subtlety, those "Powers that be" are taking advantage of a financial downturn to force the finality of the formation of that "One-World Government." To use a very old saying, "You’d better believe it!"

It became apparent that the U.N. was "The Beast" in the mid-1960s, when the Encyclical of Pope Paul VI was read in the U.N. General Assembly. Revelation 17 was being fulfilled as "The Woman" began to mount the scarlet colored beast.

I told my congregation then that "with that prophecy having been fulfilled, we would soon see 10 of the U.N. nations become very prominent, and be recognizable as the ‘ten horns on the beast’." And, in November 1971, the G-10 went to Rome to form the World Monetary Fund as we know it today.

Since September 2001, we have watched as the Little Horn has been created and developed under the name of "the Department of Homeland Security." Since October 1, 2008, it has been teamed up with a Canadian military unit. This U.N. military unit is deployed on U.S. territory under the authority of the North American Military Agreement which was signed by the U.S. and Canada on February 14, 2008. It is another way of saying that we have U.N. troops supplanting our National Guard units which have been, conveniently, assigned overseas duty. When the riots begin, it is they who will be there to quell them.

Perilous times have come, but it is not yet apparent just how perilous the time really is. God is setting up Christians in America for a great purging. It will come "as a destruction from the Almighty" (Joel 1:15). It shall come suddenly, as a thief in the night to western Christians. For as they continue to say, ‘Peace and safety, it will not happen to us,’ "then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child, and they shall not escape" (1 Thess. 5:1-3).

The prophet showed us that God would do just such a thing to his children when he said, "Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?" (Amos 3:6).

"A prudent man forseeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished" (Prov. 23:12). There is a hiding place, but it will be found only by those among God’s children who will listen to God’s messenger, and believe the truth. We have believed in fables too long already. It is high time to awake out of our sleep, and pursue the truth, the whole truth.

We must pursue God in fervency of spirit and prayer, and "Search the scriptures, for in them ye think ye have eternal life," and they, and they alone, are the path to truth (John 5:39). "And that knowing the time, that it is now high time to wake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed" (Rom. 13:11). Even nearer than we think.