Current events are often an indicator or a reminder of things to come. In 2012, the Oklahoma State Legislature authorized someone to put a monument inscribed with the Ten Commandments on the grounds of the Oklahoma State Capitol. But there are people who don’t want the Ten Commandments on State Capitol grounds and there are others who want a statue of Satan erected next to the Ten Commandments. The ACLU sued to have the Ten Commandments removed and the Satanic Temple in New York started raising funds to erect a 7-foot tall statue of Satan next to the Ten Commandments.

The Ten Commandments were given by God. The second Commandment concerns the construction and worship of statues or images. God said, “Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that isin heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me” (Ex. 20:4-5). This clearly forbids building and worshipping a statue of any kind, especially a statue of Satan.

But Satan is the arch enemy of God. He wants people to ignore the Ten Commandments (Gen. 1-7). He knows that God created people with an inner desire to worship and he wants that worship directed toward himself (Isa. 14:12-14). He was behind Nimrod’s (a name that means “let us revolt”) effort to establish a one-world religion at the Tower of Babel (Gen. 11:1-9).

The Tower of Babel was in Babylon. That is where King Nebuchadnezzar set up the great image or statue that was 60 cubits high and 6 cubits wide. He even tried to force Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego to worship it (Dan. 3:1). Some students of Bible prophecy believe the number 6 is significant because Adam was created on the sixth day, people should work 6 days, 666 is the number of the Antichrist, and so forth. Some also believe the forced worship of a statue in Daniel’s day is a type of the forced worship of the statue of the Antichrist that will be set up at Israel’s rebuilt Temple in Jerusalem during the Tribulation Period. Some even believe the efforts of Nimrod, Nebuchadnezzar and others to establish a Global religion prefigures the efforts of the False Prophet to establish a Global religion in the future.

As history moved to the second century BC, a Seleucid king symbolized by a little horn that turned out to be Antiochus IV or Epiphanes came to power (Dan. 8:9-22). This little horn grew in power. He attacked Jerusalem, killed about 100,000 Jews, sold about 40,000 into slavery, stopped the animal sacrifices, forced the Jews to blaspheme God and forced them to stop reading the Scriptures (including the Ten Commandments). He set up a statue at the Temple called the abomination that maketh desolate (Dan. 11:31), forced the Jews to worship it; and the angel Gabriel revealed that all of this is a picture of a coming king of fierce countenance who will oppose the Prince of princes (Dan. 8:23-25).

He will set up his abomination in the Temple area, the Jews will abandon the Temple or make it desolate (Dan. 9:26), it will happen at the middle of the Tribulation Period (Dan. 9:27), and the statue will stay there for 1290 days (Dan. 12:11).

Jesus was speaking about His own coming and the gospel going all over the world at the end of the age when He warned the Tribulation Period Jews about this abomination of desolation (Matt. 24:3, 14-15). He said, “When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place (whosoever readeth, let him understand:) Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains” (Matt. 24:15-16).

John the Revelator said people will worship the dragon (Satan) and the Antichrist (Rev. 12:9; 13:4). He also said the False Prophet will make an image or a statue of the Antichrist and demand that those who don’t worship it be killed (Rev. 13:11-15).

In summation, God gave the Ten Commandments and He wants everyone to obey them. But the ACLU wants them removed from the Capitol grounds in Oklahoma. The second Commandment forbids the erection of a statue and Satan worship. But the Satanic Temple wants a statue of Satan erected and they have designed one that will allow people to sit in Satan’s lap. The Bible teaches that two powerful Satan worshippers will soon appear (the Antichrist and False Prophet). They will erect a statue and order the death of all who refuse to worship it. The Bible says all who do will suffer the wrath of God (Rev. 14:9-10).

FYI: God Has Spoken (And We Know It) by Daymond Duck is available, (linked to my publisher @ https://www.raptureready.com/terry/book17.html). Books and a Kindle version are available at amazon.com. A Nook version is available at bn.com. Check out what it says about Syria, Russia, Iran, Egypt, natural disasters, the Two-State Solution, etc.

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Daymond & Rachel Duck

“Duck Dynasty” star, Phil Robertson, stirred up a hornet’s nest when he honestly answered a GQ magazine reporter who asked him what he considers sinful. An intolerant gay lobby called GLAAD immediately accused Mr. Robertson of intolerance and demanded that A & E, the producer of “Duck Dynasty,” fire him. The news media was upset to no end and many flooded the news programs with ludicrous accusations and hate speech.

A & E decided to suspend Phil; Cracker Barrel decided to pull the “Duck Dynasty” merchandise off of its shelves; the man who constantly disgraces the title Reverend—Jesse Jackson, weighed in with his usual anti-white trash talk at warp speed. (Other TV companies said they would take the show.)

Bill O’Reilly started spinning what the Bible says about homosexuality as if the no-spin zone had gone out of existence. Faithful conservatives such as former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal weighed in; and except for the fact that I know better, for several days every time I turned on my TV set, I felt like declaring, “The Tribulation period has arrived.”

One commentator said the Bible doesn’t mention homosexuality. But it does. In the days of Abraham, God sent two angels to get Lot out of the city of Sodom because all the men there, young and old, wanted to have sex with other men (Genesis 19). Some believe Jesus authenticated the event when He said:

“But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all” (Luke 17:29).

Later, God had Moses tell the Jewish men: “Thou shalt not lie with mankind (homosexuality), as with womankind: it is abomination” (Leviticus 18:21-22).

He said, “If a man also lie with mankind [homosexuality], as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them” (Leviticus 20:13). The Holy Spirit addressed the issue through Paul:

“For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature [lesbianism]. And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman [heterosexuality], burned in their lust one toward another; men with men [homosexuality] working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient” (Romans 1:26-28).

Another commentator called Phil’s views old fashioned, and they are, praise the Lord. Phil’s views on homosexuality come right out of the Bible and they are as old-fashioned as Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Paul and the God who gave the Bible. The way I see it, what Phil said, is called—faithfulness.

Bill O’Reilly was spinning faster than those Iranian centrifuges. He kept accusing Phil of judging and reminding his listeners that Jesus told us not to judge. Actually, it was Bill O’Reilly who was judging Phil Robertson and perhaps God and the Scriptures.

God decided the homosexual and lesbian issues a long time ago (for the betterment of society, the control of diseases, etc.) and Phil was just telling people what God said. If God didn’t want people to know these things, He could have left them out of the Bible, but He put them in the Bible. And O’Reilly and others were picking and choosing what they like, ignoring and spinning what they don’t like, and exchanging the truth for a lie. It is sad because the issue is settled, and even though they deny it, they cannot change what the Word of God says.

Phil said, “I love all men and women. I am a lover of humanity, not a hater.” He could have pulled a Joel Osteen, tickled people’s ears, not caring where people will spend eternity and lulled people to sleep on what the God of love says in the Bible, but he didn’t.

Later, Phil said the truth sounds like hate to those who hate the truth and he spoke the truth with what some call tough love. He told gays what is best for them physically and spiritually and he encouraged them to not deceive themselves. He also said God will sort it all out, and He will when all of us (including myself, Bill, Joel, Jesse, the gays and others) appear at the Judgment.

I don’t know why all of this happened, but I believe the Rapture is imminent and I believe it is possible that God is calling people’s attention to this issue before it is eternally too late. He loves all people and there is room in His kingdom for everyone, including repentant gays, but He wants people to stop denying what the Bible says and give up their sins.

I don’t know how tall Phil is. He looks tall on TV. Malicious people tried to beat him down and make him look small, but he has never stood taller than he stands right now in the eyes of God and many Christians. God called him and all Christians to stand up and be salt and light and he did. Thanks Phil, for not caving. Well done, thou good and faithful servant.

FYI: God Has Spoken (And We Know It) by Daymond Duck is available, (linked to my publisher @ https://www.raptureready.com/terry/book17.html). Books and a Kindle version are available at amazon.com. A Nook version is available at bn.com. Check out what it says about Syria, Russia, Iran, Egypt, natural disasters, the Two-State Solution, etc.

Prophecy Plus Ministries
Daymond & Rachel Duck