The Name of the Beast

"Call for wisdom! Call for wisdom!
Call for understanding and discernment,
for you cannot understand apart from My Spirit.
I did not have prophecies written so that
you would calculate, guess and deduce what is to come,
but I gave you prophecies so that
you would seek Me and depend upon Me.

"The name of the beast is its nature and its desire—
to possess the knowledge and wisdom of God,
to establish the kingdom again at the height of its former glory,
and to be acclaimed as the chosen of all the earth.

"But you, My people, do not need the acclamation of men,
nor do you need to establish a kingdom on earth,
and your wisdom is to be Christ alone,
crucified for the sins of the world."

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Study: "The Beast"—Seemingly Favored