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“The Birthing of the Beast is Come”
By:Duane Stewart

Deception, deception, deception, a seed planted that has
now come to its time of maturity. Therefore, a time for
the revealing as to deceptions true nature is upon
humanity. To uncover this root of deception one must
consider where the planted seed took place and what its
source is. In this, Peter in 1 Peter 5:8 exhorts us, “Be
sober [self-controlled], be vigilant [watchful]; because
your adversary the Devil walks about like a roaring lion,
seeking whom he may devour.” In this, three distinct
enemies are trying to halt and hinder the believer’s
spiritual growth, the Devil, the world, and the flesh.
This scripture tells us how the enemy walks or roams
about as a roaring lion, given us a warning. When lions
hunt, they most generally look for the weak, young,
isolated, and unguarded animals first. These are then
marked for attack. While the ultimate agenda of the enemy
is to destroy us all, His desire is not only to merely
hurt, maim, or to discourage, but also to devour and
destroy us. He does this when he gets us to bow to
circumstances, pressures, or forces of his evil design,
hoping thereby to make us yield to him.

Let us remember, when man fell while in the Garden of
Eden, God placed a curse upon the serpent that had
deceived Eve. This curse declares that the serpent order
has but one source of food, the dust from which God made
man. Gen. 3:14, “So the Lord God said to the serpent:
because you have done this, you are cursed more than all
cattle, and more than every beast of the field; on your
belly [speaking of its earthly, carnal appetites] you
shall go, and you shall eat dust all the days of your
life.” Therefore, in order to feed itself the serpent
order must seek out kindred, tongue, people and nations
as its source of strength, its source of food.

The Greek words used for these groups speak to us of the
true nature manifested through these people who yield to
the roaring lion who seeks to devour. “Kindred”, the
Greek word “PHULE” speaks of an offshoot, race or clan,
speaking of a people who are the offshoot or sprout of
the Adamic race, having his fallen nature. In today’s
world however, the people of creation are God’s purposed
creation and from among them, He calls forth a people
with a greater purpose. These are to become mature by the
indwelling Holy Spirit and made into God’s dwelling
place, a people of His likeness and image.

“Tongue” is the Greek word “GLOSSA” which means a
language, that which can separate a people unto
themselves from any other peoples (remember the tower of
Babel’s time of confusion). In this, we should consider
the common believed doctrines among the many groups that
separate and bind the people together unto their own
particular beliefs and separate them from others.
“People”, the Greek word “LAOS”, a word that has the
meaning of a people in general. This denotes a people who
are of the same language. This also points to people whom
among their own groups, they separate from others, as
they speak the same language or doctrines while excluding
others. Thus, those of today’s church order that form
their own denominations sometimes exclude any other
denomination.

“Nation”, the Greek word “ETHNOS” is speaking of a race,
a tribe consisting of non-Jewish foreigners and pagans,
the Gentiles. As used in the Old Testament it speaks of
those not worshiping the “true God” of Israel. Thus,
pointing to believers who worship the wrong things, they
follow the desires of self that shouts out loudly of
carnality. Today it speaks of church groups that allow
themselves to yield to carnal avenues and mind-sets for a
type of success as seen in their own eyes.

A carnal church, as it now exists, has become the
breeding ground for that portion of the Christian
community that promotes carnal doctrines, selfish pride
and position. These separate themselves from that, which
is Spirit and Truth. These groups are becoming the
weightier influences, on a natural level; they led the
people into what scripture calls destruction. While the
carnal mind is the enemy of God, it pulls the people into
what is becoming the heart of this carnal church. Read 1
Tim. 6:3-10 while quoting verse 9, “But those who desire
to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into
many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in
destruction and perdition.”

This breeding ground, now ripe and mature, is birthing a
realm of deception that the scripture calls the “beast”.
This beast, birthed from this realm of carnality and
considered by the many as the church, is but a movement
promoting a will that is not God’s will. It moves in a
mind-set other than the mind of Christ. It manifests
emotions that feed the lust of the flesh, lust of the
eyes and the pride of life. It also births desires other
than righteousness, which includes all manner of
corruption.

Peter describes this beast nature clearly in 2 Peter
2:12-17, “But these, like natural brute beasts made to be
caught and destroyed, speak evil of the things they do
not understand, and will utterly perish in their own
corruption, and will receive the wages of
unrighteousness, as those who count it pleasure to
carouse in the daytime. They are spots and blemishes,
carousing in their own deception while they feast with
you, having eyes full of adultery [spiritual and natural]
and that cannot cease from sin, enticing unstable souls.
They have a heart trained in covetous practices, and are
accursed children. They have forsaken the right way and
gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Beor,
who loved the wages of unrighteousness; but he was
rebuked for his iniquity: a dumb donkey speaking with a
man’s voice restrained the madness of the prophet. These
are wells without water; clouds [groups of people]
carried by a tempest, for whom is reserved the blackness
of darkness forever.”

The above description of the beast nature, as revealed
from scripture, shows us “the beast” that comes up out of
and is birthed from within a people. These people are the
people of the carnal church and are spoken of as the
“sea” while having a heart that issues forth only from
the carnal mind. This, so called church then is one that
manifests the heart or nature of the beast. Rev. 13:1,
“Then I stood on the sand of the sea [waters]. And I saw
a beast rising up out of the sea [waters], having seven
heads and ten horns [judgment], and on his horns ten
crowns, and on his heads a blasphemous name.” What is
this “sea” spoken of here? Scripture reveals the “sea” or
the waters as a group of people known according to Rev.
17:15 as, “Then he said to me, the waters which you saw,
where the harlot [carnal church] sits, are peoples,
multitudes, nations, and tongues.” Thus, these are the
carnal church members that manifest and live with a like-
mindedness as the beast nature.

This beast church then is that harlot church which even
now wars against the pure Word of God that speaks only of
Spirit and Truth. These speakers of Spirit and Truth are
the true witnesses of the Christ as they stand against
the carnality that has permeated the church order. This
corrupt church, also known as Babylon the Great, accepts
all socially acceptable sins in its failure to honor the
covenant Christ has provided for them. Rev. 17:5-6, “And
on her forehead [mind] a name [nature] was written:
Mystery, Babylon the Great, the mother of harlots and the
abominations of the earth. I saw the woman [carnal church
system] drunk with the blood of the saints and with the
blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her, I
marveled with great amazement.”

To the natural eye, this Babylonian church is of such
natural splendor that it is something of a marvel. It
appears to be of such aggrandizement that, in amazement,
many people flock to its deception. But, remember God’s
truth as spoken by Jesus to the woman at the well. John
4:21-24, “Jesus said to her, woman, believe Me, the hour
is coming when you will neither on this mountain, nor in
Jerusalem, worship the Father. You worship what you do
not know; we know what we worship, for salvation is of
the Jews [through Christ Jesus]. But the hour is coming,
and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the
Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking
such to worship Him. God is Spirit and those who worship
Him must worship in spirit and truth [not the deception
of the carnal mind].”

The above verses speak of God having for Himself a true
church, a true people whose lives manifest the nature of
Christ for the corrupt world to behold. These, the elect
of God, become the judgment of God in the earth. God’s
word through them brings justice from God as Spirit and
Truth. In the Christ-like nature judgment proceeds,
because God’s word on tablets of stone and ink written on
paper (scrolls of legalistic laws of man) have become
obsolete because of God’s new covenant, that is to say
His nature is now to be written on and in man’s heart,
his soul. (Read Heb. 8:7-13). Note verse 13 which
declares, “In that He says, a new covenant, He has made
the first obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete and
growing old is ready to vanish away.”

The beast, coming forth from the sea or heart of the
carnal church now sits in judgment. God’s two witnesses,
the spirit and truth, speak of a people knowing the
reality of Christ-in-them. These have and are becoming
the word of God manifesting in the earth. Their personal
earth of spirit, soul, and body has changed so that they
now stand in the world as the judgments of God. Herein
God’s judgment comes forth to judge the earth of all
corruption. This judgment precedes the glory of God’s New
Jerusalem, which are His kingdom order people. This
judgment will establish a time of peace wherein the
kingdom of God rules over the earth. This ruler-ship
proclaims the government of God as the nature of God is
manifesting through His elect. These elect minister
complete justice to all with each vessel having
opportunity to receive understanding as to God’s eternal
purpose for all creation.

Where does this glory, this government, this nature
proceed from? Rev. 21:22-27 declares, “But I saw no
temple in it, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are
its temple [a swallowed up in Him, His many member Christ
company], the city had no need of the sun or of the moon
to shine it, for the glory of God illuminated it. The
Lamb is its light. And the nations of those who are saved
shall walk in its light, and the kings of the earth bring
their glory and honor into it. Its gates shall not be
shut at all by day (there shall be no night there). And
they shall bring the glory and the honor of the nations
into it. But there shall by no means enter it anything
that defiles, or causes an abomination or a lie, but only
those who are written in the Lambs Book of life.”

Herein stand the people of God’s Spirit and Truth. These
only worship Him in Spirit and Truth through complete
obedience in surrendering their will, mind, emotions, and
desires to Christ. Herein they become a people living in
the presence of God to manifest Him unto the nations. Out
with the “beast” and his nature as the Christ nature now
arrives to manifest God’s kingdom. Is this not God’s time
to bring forth judgment and establish His kingdom?