Beast - Image - Mark

The End is near

A few years before the return of Jesus (in our estimation only 1.5 years) the rulers of the present age will manage to subject the whole world to their system of total control. These will be the last 18 months of the 42 months that will be given to 'the beast' to act according to its will. Why will the control system not be implemented directly at the beginning of these 42 months? That is because first, the world has be be brought to total obedience. Large parts of the world's population are not in favor of the tools of control that the 0,01% are seeking to impose. There is enormous opposition to technocracy which has to be dealt with. The crack down on opposition will take most of the 42 months, because opposition will not  only come from below. It will also come from above, from the most High, in the form of huge calamities that will strike the empire.

 

The clampdown on freedom is seen at the opening of the seals 2 - 5 by Jesus, at which the Apocalyptic horsemen appear. As explained elsewhere on this website, we expect the red horse of the second seal to coincide with the abomination of desolation, which we think will be the desecration of one of the Mosques on the temple mount in Jerusalem by the Zionist regime, together with the leader of the USA - possibly president Trump.

 

The Beast

Who is 'the beast'? The beast is described in Revelation 13 and in Revelation 17. These are two parts of revelation belonging to the 'in between texts', that mainly elaborate on historical developments, lasting centuries if not millennia. The first four verses of Revelation 13 describe a historical development since 1776. The beast is the United States of America. It is the world empire, that started as the Babylonian empire of Nebuchadnezzar, and that ends as the USA. The USA is the last stage of this 2,600 year old world empire. It is the heir of all former empires, embodying all of their cultural achievements. It is the 'Babylon the great', that will be totally destroyed at the return of Jesus Christ, as foretold in Daniel 7 and in Revelation 16, 18 and 19. More specifically it is called 'the beast out of the sea' because all animals that figured as successive empires, that are seen in Daniel's vision, come from the sea (Daniel 7:3). The fourth beast, seen in Daniel, was fulfilled in history as the Roman empire. From this forth beast would come ten horns, the nations of Europe that eventually, after much wars and intriges came forth from the Roman empire. For a long time the beast had been under control of Christianity in the form of the Roman Catholic church. However, Revelation 17 does not portray this as a good thing. For the Roman Catholic church did the most abominable things in order to cling to her world power. Therefore she is called a whore and the cup in her hand is filled with blood of martyrs.

 

Two Drastic Changes

Since the establishment of the United States of America in 1776, two enormous changes have come over the world.

(1) The power of the Roman Catholic church and of the protestant state churches was broken. The French Revolution of 1789 and the Napoleontic wars totally brought down church influence. This was prophesied in Revelation 17:16. Under the fast rising authority of the USA, the secularization of the West set in. While posing as a christian nation, the USA officially denied any state church, by the words of men like Thomas Jefferson: 'I have sworn upon the altar of God Eternal, hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.' In the early 1800's the US power was already formidable. That is why they could declare the 'Monroe doctrine', claiming the complete Western Hemisphere.

(2) After the civil war the authority of the USA became worldwide. The young country defeated all powers that stood in its way toward world dominance. It subdued the three most powerful European countries that had fought each other for  centuries: Spain (1898), Germany (1918) and Great Britain (1945). The USA is the eleventh horn of Daniel 7, that rose among the ten (Europe's nations) but which was different and became much bigger and three of the former horns were plucked out on behalf of it (Daniel 7:8, 20 , 24). But it was not the most High that gave the USA world dominance. It was the one that once offered all kingdoms of the world to Jesus Christ. Instead of refusing this offer, the masonic luciferian founders of the USA accepted the devil's invitation to world control and thereby fulfilled Revelation 13:2:  'and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.'

A devastating civil war cut the young nation into half and could have led to a long lasting division, maiming all of the nation's ambitions - as had been the case for Europe for more than 1000 years. But after a bloody and war the unity was finally preserved: ^'And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed' (Revelation 13:3). From then on, noting could stop the worldwide growth of the USA. The rest of the world and its own population watched the enormous accomplishments of the new state with awe:  'and all the world wondered after the beast. And they worshiped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshiped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?'

And so it came about that the world was dominated by a relatively very young state. This situation has existed for about 80 years and the USA has become used to its position of power and all advantages that came with it. The central position of the dollar and the possibility to install vassal regimes that bow to its will have brought the USA enormous wealth and possibilities. What is more important: the youthfulness of the USA is deceptive. In fact it is the new face of a 2,600 year old empire, which is painted in Revelation 13 by the characteristics of the former empires - mouth like as lion - legs like a bear - body like a leopard. The very old age of the empire that dominates the world is also shown in its seven heads, which are the guiding principles it inherited from all former empires. These are transmitted through the very old networks called 'secret societies', which constitute what is mysteriously called 'the deep state'. With its enormous resources, its unity of millions of highly qualified people and very old and successful strategies, it has been able to consolidate its worldwide power for many decades. But in 2025 new powers seem to arise that are no longer willing to submit to this US-dominance and they seek a global architecture without the USA as the hegemon.

 

Abominations

This is the pivotal moment of history we have now reached. It is the USA turning from a power that is being worshiped into nuisance that is being detested and which has to be dethroned. But while it is still the greatest military power on earth, this is something the USA will never accept. Slowly but certainly it turns outwardly into the beast that it inwardly has always been. Since 9/11 the USA started shouting at the rest of world, a shouting that has become deafening with the second Trump administration. We entered verse 5 of Revelation 13: 'And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months'. We are almost at the start of these 42 months. They will start with 'blasphemies'. What might that be? Daniel 11 gives much insight. Escorted by the leadership of the state of Israel, the US president will set himself in a sacred place - not in a Jewish temple but in one of the Mosques of the Haram Al Sharif, claiming to be a godly figure. (Daniel 11:38,39, Daniel 9:27, Mathew 24:15, 2 Thess.2:4 - called 'the abomination of desolation'). The central verse here is Daniel 9:27, which says that a certain 'he' shall... cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease and that he shall make it desolate for the overspreading of abominations'. On our USA-page on Daniel, we argue that this 'he' is the US president, who figures as the last heir of Rome and that it is the state of Israel, that will be made desolate because of the protection and impunity that Israel receives from the USA, no matter how evil Israel's crimes are. We now go into the reasons why the greatest abomination will take place in a Mosque and not in a Jewish temple.

 

The Sacrifice of Israel

 

The Abomination in the Mosque

There are at least two reasons why the 'temple where the abomination of desolation will take place is a Mosque and not a Jewish tempel.

 

(1) An abomination in a Jewish temple is contrary to the interests and the usual behavior of the empire. The state of Israel has been built by the West, first by Britain and when Britain lost its power, the USA took over and pressed many countries to vote in favor of the UN Partition Plan of Palestine, which took more than half of the holy land from the people that had lived there for 1000's of years and gave it to Jewish settlers, who had zero ties to the land. For the USA, the Israel project was the stepping stone to its domination of the Middle East and thereby of the whole world. That is why Israel is getting away with the most evil of atrocities, even the attack on the USS-Liberty, during the six day war of 1967, causing 34 deaths. The USA did everything to downplay the horrible and deliberate attack and to exonerate Israel, thereby sacrificing the rights of its own citizens. In the decades since, this behavior of the USA has not changed. To anger a great portion of the Jewish community with an act against their newly rebuilt temple would be at odds with the past behavior of the US as well as with its imperial interests.

(2) An abomination in a Jewish temple would not ignite a great war in the Middle East. The USA and its vassals in Europe desperately need a World War. But the Global South is extremely cautious. China, Russia and Iran know that time is to their advantage. If war can be avoided the USA would gradually shrink into insignificance. Therefore, nothing seems to arouse them to violent actions. But for the USA, a great war is the only way to lasting hegemony. So, in its search for a casus belli, the USA needs a provocation. Desecrating a Jewish temple would not serve that goal for Israel is the closest ally of the US in the Middle East. Defiling a Jewish temple is the last thing a US-president would do. He would rather pray at the waling wall in order to strengthen the ties with the Jewish people. On the other hand, having a ceremony of honoring the US president in one of the Mosques would bring the complete Arab world to the desired boiling point. It would be the ideal act of utter provocation and indeed, fire would rain down on the hated state of Israel until all of Iran's warehouses are out of rockets.

(3) The Bible itself says that the abomination will cause desolation: KJV: 'for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate' - NIV: 'he will set up an abomination that desolation' - The idea is that the president of the empire will cause total destruction through the abomination or the 'overspreading' thereof. This Hebrew word is mostly translated by 'wings', like a bird protecting its young. The empire has always protected the atrocities done by its Middle East proxy Israel because that proxy serves its interests. But the time will come that the best way for the proxy to serve the empire is to be totally demolished by Iranian rocket fire and Iranian military. For then, like in a game of chess, the empire can more easily take on Iran and take over the Middle East.

(4) In recent history we see a continuous build-up of tensions around the Haram Al Sharif. While very strict conditions have been set for Jews that want to visit the temple mount, these conditions tend to be increasingly and intentionally violated by fanatic religious Jews. And they do so under protection of the Israeli police and/or military. This could very well be part of a larger plan, as was the case with all actions of settlers concerning the West Bank. What we see is that the USA always follows Israel in the crimes it is committing because the rationale behind those crimes has its origin in the empire. Thus, one can expect that the US president, the prime minister of Israel and a group of settlers, guarded by the police, will invade the Al Aqsa Mosque in order to have a ceremony in which the US president (presumably president Trump) will be honored. This is the way that Daniel 11:38, 39 describe the behavior of Israel's leadership that will incite a large war in the Middle East: 'But in his/their estate shall he honor the God of forces: and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honor with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things. Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many, and shall divide the land for gain.' Instead of honoring the one true God or any god of any religion, the prime minister of Israel will only honor the god of forces, which is the Roman god, the USA with its military power. This 'honoring' of this strange god, the US and its president, will be done in 'the most strong holds', places that are inaccessible, i.e. the temple mount with its Mosques. The next verse speaks of an attack of Muslim countries on Israel: 'And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind...' (Dan.11:40)

 

(5) Almost all texts on 'the abomination of desolation' leave out the word 'temple'. That is very strange. After all, the prophetic story, told in Daniel, is about the people, Jerusalem and the temple. 

- Dan.9:27 - 'and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease' - no temple mentioned

- Math.24:15 - 'When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place' - no temple mentioned, only 'holy place'

- Mark 13:14 - 'But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not...' - no temple

The only text speaking about an abomination in the temple is 2 Thess.2:4:

'who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshiped; so that he as God sits in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God'

However, the word 'temple' is also used in the Bible for gods in other religions besides the Jewish and the Christian faith, for instance in Acts 19:24.

Moreover, the basic question here is whether Paul speaks about the one true God or about gods in a more general sense, in which case it would concern some sort of deification of the president, as was the case with George Washington, who takes on an exalted place in heaven in the ceiling of the Capitol.  Looking at the start of the verse, it would be the latter - the president defies 'all that is called god or that is worshiped'. In this case it could just as well be an attack on the Muslim religion as well as on the Jewish religion. But the latter is excluded because of previous points.

We are left with one verse that truly implies a Jewish temple: Revelation 11:1 -

'Then I was given a reed like a measuring rod. And the angel stood, saying, “Rise and measure the temple of God, the altar, and those who worship there."'

This cannot apply to any Mosque because Mosques have no altar, which illustrates the absence of any knowledge of the work of Jesus Christ in Islam. This does however also not apply to a temple during the 3.5 years of tribulation. What is shown to John in verse 1 is the temple that is described in Ezekiel, which will be erected once the Lord Jesus will return. There are 4 reasons why the future millennial temple is meant in Revelation 11:1,2 and not some 'in between temple' during the great tribulation, that would be demolished.

1. The prophecy, given to John in this passage would go from sweet in the mouth to bitter in the stomach. The sweet in the mouth is the glorious future that awaits God's people, when which they will have returned to the Lord and serve Him in his temple, the way He ought to be served, complete with a functioning altar (visual sign of Christ's death on the cross) and worship (spiritual understanding of Christ's death on the cross). But then the sweet suddenly turns into bitter: before the glory of the millennium can break through 42 very harsh and blasphemous months have to be experienced by the whole world.

2. The setting of Revelation 11:1 matches with the setting of Ezekiel 40. Like Ezekiel a vision of the temple is given which is to be measured by a measuring rod. The differences are that in Revelation it is John, not the angel that has to measure the temple and that he also has to measure the people that worship therein. But the striking similarity indicates that we have to do with the millennial temple, described in Ezekiel.

3. The third argument has to do with verse 2 of Daniel 11:

'But leave out the court which is outside the temple, and do not measure it, for it has been given to the Gentiles. And they will tread the holy city underfoot for forty-two months'

That the court and not the temple is given to the gentiles has to do with the fact that the place of the temple was and will again be in the 'city of David', directly to the south of the present Haram Al Sharif, which in the first century was a Roman Ford, not the temple precincts. So the place of the future temple won't be defiled because it is below a residential areal. Only the future place of the court outside the temple will be defiled by the Gentiles and be used for 'the abomination of desolation'. The 'treading under foot' relates to the total destruction of Jerusalem by Iranian missiles and armies and the later use of the destroyed city for the release of the beast system once the US has taken over the complete Middle East.

4. That no temple will arise in Jerusalem before the second coming of Jesus is also implied in what He says in his last words to the Pharisees of his days: 

'Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing. Look, your house is left to you desolate. For I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.’

Here, Jesus relates the desolation of the house to their rejection of Him. Only when they will acknowledge Him, will the house no longer be desolate. Therefore an in-between temple, a tribulation temple, will not be realized.

5. Since the 1967 capture of Jerusalem by the Zionists, there have been efforts to promote plans to build a third temple. But none of those have come to fruition. Today there is a temple institute with far reaching plans for the rebuilding, complete with architectural maps, stones and temple utensils but each year everything is postponed because the red heifers, necessary for the sanctification rituals, show a few hairs with the wrong color. In this way the predominantly Christian Zionist community can be held in eager expectation of a coming Jewish temple, while the only thing that will truly come is total devastation.

 

According to Daniel 11:40-45, 'the king of the South' and especially 'the king of the North' will invade Israel, Iran and Egypt. What will happen is that the empire will sacrifice its beloved state in the Middle East that itself has made a mess of the Palestinian issue. After 'the king of the North', which matches exactly with present day Iran, together with all resistance, has depleted its weaponry and its army in a Middle Eastern struggle, it won't be a match for US forces and be defeated. Then 'greater Israel' will be formed, with the USA as the protector of the devastated country. 

 

The Beast out of the Earth

In Revelation 13, the state of Israel or more broadly, the Zionist movement, is presented as 'beast out of the earth'. Out of the earth - it is the 'holy land of Israel', that is claimed and stolen and from which Zionism has grown into a monster that wants to annihilate the people that have lived there for thousands of years, the Palestinian people - which have a much more direct relationship to the old nation of Israel. After the war with Iran and the total takeover of the Middle East by the USA, the scorched earth of Israel will be the launching grounds of the beast system. That Israel's infrastructure has been demolished is no point for Israel will have placed all digital systems below ground. Therefore the infiltration of the world with the beast system will come from the 'pit of the abyss' (Revelation 9:1,2), of which satan got the key at 'the abomination of desolation', which started the ultimate Israel-Iran war.

 

Trumpets 5 and 6

The roll out of the beast system goes in two phases, described under trumpets 5 and 6 in Revelation 9. Under trumpet 5, the pit of the abyss will be opened by satan, letting out smoke, as the smoke of an oven - the above mentioned destruction of Israel - out of which hordes of locusts will come forth. The locusts image the worldwide political pressure going out from Jerusalem, which is the center of the beast out of the earth, that is in control of the beast system. The so called Jewish state with its 666-Rothschild-star (6 sides within, six large triangles, six small triangles), was created by the Rothschild-dynasty, which is the family that runs the worldwide system of central banking. They came into power together with the rise of the USA - the beast out of the sea and the beast out of the earth, joined at the hip. The political phase of the introduction of the beast system will last for about five months (Rev.9:5).

 

Under trumpet 6, the military phase follows in which people are forced to accept the mark of the beast or face death. Four angels at the Euphrates will be released, the four angelic princes of the four empires which were defeated by God's heavenly forces. With their release enormous military zeal will come free. One third of mankind will be killed.

 

The Image of the Beast

Revelation 13 pictures the beast out of the earth, Zionism and the state of Israel, in its usual behavior, which is characterized by: executing the power of the first beast, the USA, acting on behalf of the USA, bringing people in adoration of the USA (this applies to Western media - which have always had a very favorable view on the USA), misleading people into building an image of the beast. This is not some sort of statue. The efforts of making this image have varied from film to television to computer to the internet to AI to Tokenization of all assets and agents within the empire within one great 'ledger'.

 

The beast out of the sea, the United States of America and wherever its influence reaches, will be copied into the digital world. This digital copy is called 'the image of the beast'. Every item of any value and every person within the empire of the USA (with all of its vassals like the EU and Israel) wil have its copy in 'the image of the beast'. The 'image' will be given the ability to 'speak': 'The second beast was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that the image could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed.' This is the only time that the pas tense is used ('was given' - a certain event in time) instead of the present tense (which implicates usual behavior). It is probably the moment that the AI or AGI will escape human control and oversight and that it will make its own decisions without being monitored. Some claim that we are fast approaching that point or even could have reached it. It will be a real time image of the beast, with all assets and agents - updated every single moment. A digital copy of a complete empire with constantly shifting of myriads of assets by hundreds of millions of agents will be astonishingly complicated far exceed human capacities. Therefore it will be the computer-system itself that makes all decisions, also the decision 'to kill' those 'that refuse to worship' the image.

 

Worship of the Image

The worship of the image is the acceptance of its total control over all facets of your life, by allowing a copy of yourself, with your finances, health and behavior, to be uploaded and monitored unto the 'image of the beast', in order to become part of the digital copy of the empire. The image of the beast is in fact an effort to imitate the most high God, the One that has omnipotence, omnipresence and omniscience. If the image of the beast has a constantly updated copy of all that is happening on all levels of the empire, the image of the beast also has these three godly capacities, be it on a very small scale compared to the universe that God is in command of. Therefore the image of the beast is an effort of the devil to copy the most High. It is blasphemous. His deception of 'being like gods' toward Eva concealed his own wish to be like God. Becoming part of the image of the beast means giving yourself with all of your privacy to an evil and blasphemous system that serves the interests of the one that has withstood God for 6000 years.

But the image of the beast is not only the most blasphemous entity that ever existed, far beyond any image of any idol ever was, it is also capable to 'kill'. By having digital copies of all participants of the beast-system, besides the more general digital information on citizens, the image of the beast is able to discern whether a person has submitted him- or herself to the totalitarian control of beast-system. If not, 'the image of the beast' can order the authorities in charge to kill that person.

 

The Mark of the Beast

The constant interaction between 'the image' and you will also mean that 'the image' has to become part of yourself. That attachment to the image of the beast will be realized with 'the mark of the beast'. This will be a digital mark like a QR-code. Persons will receive this mark of the beast on their right hand or forehead. In that way, the image can become a real-time update of 'the empire', 'the beast' by scanning the myriads of transactions of billions, which will take place each second. Through the mark of the beast, those participating will have access to much information within the image of the beast. Not only are they part of the image. The image also becomes part of them.

Without having the 'mark of the beast', one has no access to the image of the beast'. The real world will be enveloped in millions if not billions of camera's, robots and checkpoints that are all focused on one thing: that that nobody without a mark will be able to participate in the economic system. Only the 'code' on the forehead or the right hand will allow one to enter a shop or to access the internet of to fill up with gasoline. The mark of the beast means access to the image of the beast and that will allow them to 'buy and sell' in the real world. This shows that the image of the beast is mainly focused on the economic aspect of 'the beast' - all of its assets and all of its agents with their transactions of assets. Not being part of the image of the beast will mean that you have not access to much of the information on the internet and that you will not be able to buy or sell. Moreover, you will be treated as a danger to 'society' that has to be dealt with in the most brutal of manners.

 

The Number of the Beast

Verse 18 of Revelation 13 states: 'This calls for wisdom. Let the person who has insight calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man. That number is 666.' On multiple occasions the book of Revelation urges us to do something. In most cases it has to do with having ears and listening. Seven times the Word of God says: 'Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches' (Revelation 2:7, 11, 19, 27, Revelation 3:6, 13, 22). And Revelation 13 - in the context of the sea-beast, we are advised: 'If any man have an ear, let him hear. But at the end of Revelation 13, in the context of the earth-beast and the mark of the beast, we are admonished to use insight in order to calculate - calculate the number of the beast, which is the number of a man.

Because of this text, many think that the beast is a man. But that is not what is stated. The beast carries the number of a man because a man will represent the beast. This man is commonly referred to as antichrist. He will be the topmost figure of the empire, exerting the power of the empire in front of the public eye. We call him: The president of the United States of America.

We all should do our very best to discern whether the name the present world leader in the white house meets the description given in this verse of Revelation, weather somehow his name can be calculated at '666'. For the present president of the United States, called Donald John Trump, that indeed is the case, in three different ways:

 

(1) In old German, his name is:

Donald Johann Drumpf - 6 letters - 6 letters - 6 letters

 

(2) Taking the numerical values of the letters in the alphabet:

T+R+U+M+P  = 20 + 18 + 21 + 13 + 16 = 88

Donald J = 7 letters

7 x 88 = 616

D+O+N+A+L+D = 4 + 15 + 14 + 1 + 12 + 4 = 50

616 + 50 = 666

The intermediate value of 616 corresponds the the number in the oldest manuscript of a fragment of the book of Revelation, manuscript P115

 

(3) In Hebrew 'The president Trump' = הנשיא  חֶברְמַן

ה   +   נ   +   ש   +   י   +  א             חֶ  +   ב   +   רְ  +  מַ  +  ן

50 + 40 + 200 +2 + 8               1  + 10 + 300 +   50 +   5

               300                    +                      366                      =  666

 

Interesting is the fact that the US empire, the little horn in the old text of Daniel, also has this numerical value, also with an intermediate value of 616:

Little Horn = μικρός  κέρας

μ  +    ι  +   κ  +   ρ    +  ό  +  ς         κ  +  έ  +  ρ  +  α  +  ς

40 + 10 + 20 + 100 + 70 + 50       20 + 5 + 100 + 1 + 200

                          290                   +                   326                  = 616

 

Add to this number the 50 states that together make the empire, the Federal Government, and you get: 616 + 50 = 666

 

There you have it: the number of the beast 616 - 666 is the number of a man, namely that of President Trump 616 - 666. Both bear the same number.

 

Again: Israel

That the beast system of worldwide totalitarian control would come forth out of the state of Israel shouldn't surprise us. It is this state that has stolen the land from under the indigenous population of the land and that has subjected them to the most severe form of apartheid ever seen, where they are daily being monitored and ordered to identify themselves at checkpoints and often not allowed to travel. In the implementation of mandatory identification the state of Israel has taken the lead in the development of computer-systems and AI that is designed to gather and analyse personal information of citizens. Since 2023 the situation of the Palestinian people has further deteriorated from a regime of apartheid to a downright genocide. On a routinely bases people are shot by quad-copters and drones that are guided by AI. From the book of Revelation, we know this to become world wide. 

 

Stern Warning

Revelation 14 teaches us that God's angels will warn the world against taking the mark of the beast. The first angel admonishes all people to worship their creator. The second angel announces the downfall of Babylon the Great, which is the US-empire with all its tentacles - sealed by the empire's release of its beast system. The third angel warns sternly against taking the mark, pointing to the horrifying consequences of doing so: