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The Mystery of the Beast
Part 2
Who or What is the Beast?
Excerpted from JJ Dewey's forthcoming book, "The Unveiling" (Copyrighted 2007, All Rights Reserved)
Who Or What Is The Beast?
"And the Beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority." (Rev 13:2)
Why was it that the dragon was able to give the Beast his "great authority?" The answer is that when the dragon was in heaven, or in the higher consciousness of the disciple or the spiritual group, he was seen as being God by his emotional self and there is no greater authority than God. When the dragon was in control the spiritual group went with what felt to the emotional self as being God. That which seemed to be God had ultimate authority. The dragon controlled them by using feelings through manipulating their conscience through the use of guilt and fear.
When the dragon was thrown out the seekers were "saved" and released of their guilt. They could no longer be controlled through fear so the dragon created an image to himself out of he sea of emotionally based people who remained. The Beast was given great authority because the dragon understood how to control people through substituting the inner God for the outer and then using the outer God to control through fear and guilt.
The Beast thus has great authority because he is perceived by the emotionally based masses as the voice of God and is not to be questioned. The deceived masses tremble with fear at the thought of challenging the Beast just as one would in challenging the voice of God.
The Beast therefore is given "great authority," rules by great authority and manipulates the people through fear and guilt by the use of that great authority.
The key to understanding the Beast is the realization that he represents a false authority which has been gained by substituting an outward voice for the inner voice of God.
The Beast is unearned authority, unworthy of our trust, yet the masses give it their trust because they think it speaks with the voice of God.
Most of the sects see the Beast as a great world antichrist dictator that will arrive on the scene just before the end of the world. They have been expecting him to show up any moment for many years. Some thought it was Hitler, but he wasn't quite awesome enough.
If they had read the writings of John with insight they would have not been so deceived.
"And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world." (1 John 4:3)
To fully understand this scripture one must realize that if early Christians acknowledged Jesus as their authority rather than Caesar they were put to death. John here was acknowledging that this terrible misuse of authority made it clear that the antichrist or Beast was already in the world.
If the Antichrist or Beast was already in the world 2,000 years ago then why are the religious still waiting for him to surface?"
Answer:
The Beast itself deceives them. They have followed authorities who have misled them instead of looking at the source.
Notice again how the authority of Jesus is described:
"And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended these sayings, the people were astonished at his doctrine: For he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes." (Matt 7:28-29)
The scribes were the ones the people looked to as authorities in scripture, yet there was something about the authority of Jesus that was different. What was it? Here Jesus spoke boldly against the negative use of authority.
"But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in." (Matt 23:13)
This is interesting wording:
"For he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes."
Why would it say this when the scribes were considered the greatest authorities on the scriptures? The reason was that their only source of authority was their black and white memorization of the scriptures. They knew the words but did not know what they meant. They could never stand up and teach and just say the words of the Spirit pouring through their hearts. They could not teach without quoting some other authority.
Jesus, on the other hand, taught new things that were not quotes from any known book and this seemed to demonstrate a new kind of authority they had never seen before, an authority bestowed from within and accepted from within by others. They were so astounded by this authority that did not depend on degrees and books that it is written:
"And when he was come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came unto him as he was teaching, and said, By what authority doest thou these things? and who gave thee this authority?" (Matt 21:23)
Jesus had an authority that he could demonstrate and no one at that time remembered seeing such a thing in spiritual philosophy. Jesus was the one man in the kingdom who did not have the mark of the Beast.
Go to any church or even a new age movement and try and teach them something contrary to that which their authorities tell them and see what happens. You will often encounter fear and very high resistance.
Now remember an authoritative tool of the Beast does not have to be a human. It can be a book, crystal or unseen alien -- even the Bible itself. If you really want to sense the power of the Beast attend any church with an authoritative dogma or leader and just ask a question in Sunday School that forces their minds in the opposite direction of their beastly authority.
New Age groups seem to be a little more polite but they also get extremely uncomfortable when you ask the wrong questions.
"The dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority." (Rev 13:2)
Almost all powers and energies are dual. What is the positive and negative use of authority?
The positive use of authority would allow free will. The people could make their own decisions (freedom). The negative use of authority would not allow free will. Those in authority would want (demand?) to make all decisions for the people (control). Actually negative authority often takes a person away from his power of decision by deception rather than force, but sometimes force is involved.
The worst kind of self-deception and negative use of authority would be to give away the authority from Self to something outside, be it beast or whatever.
The keyword of the Beast is "authority."
In addition to authority verse two says that he has "power" and a "seat" (or throne). Now you can have a seat with no power or authority and you can have power with no authority or seat, but if you have authority you can always obtain power and a seat where you have something to rule over. When people recognize authority they will immediately give that authority power, but if they only see the exercise of power they will sometimes run away to avoid wrong use of that power.
Therefore, when the Dragon gives the Beast authority he automatically gives power and a seat (or some type of position from which to command). The Beast itself is a giant world thoughtform that is a vehicle for the Dragon to establish his authority. The Dragon gives authority to the Beast but he owns the Beast so he has lost nothing and still has control.
The Beast will often use the truth to increase his authority and the deception to accept his authority comes from our own self-deception and has little to do with the Beast itself. "To thine own self be true" is not something one can do until he reaches a certain degree of evolution. Therefore, the Beast does not even have to lie.
Take the former Soviet Union. Communism there was established on a good ideal of equality, sharing and equal rights. Why didn't it work? Because the Beast demanded unquestioned authority and this turned good into evil. It is good that we help the poor but if we submit to an authority that takes all of our money and gives it to the poor then we will be poor too. Unquestioned or unproven authority is always a destroying energy.
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