FEAST OF TABERNACLES - 2000

DAY 6

Fred Coulter  - October 19, 2000

This is day 6 of the Feast of Tabernacles and we’re getting close to the end.  Tomorrow will be the last day of the Feast of Tabernacles with the Last Great Day being the eighth day.  And each of those days have a separate meaning but they all tie together.  And all of God’s feasts then are based upon a principle of one plus seven, or seven plus one, total of eight.  We start out the holy day season in the spring with Passover and then seven days of Unleavened Bread with two holy days during the Feast of Unleavened Bread.  The Passover itself is not a holy day, as we understand, but one plus seven equals eight.  And eight is the sign of a new beginning.  Eight is also the number of a new creation.  Eight is also the number of when you tie it into music, it is the beginning of a new scale.  Because you go do-re-me-fa-so-la-ti-do.  You have to have the eighth one to really compete it.  Though seven is the number of completion, eight is the one which begins it again.

And we find in the book of Revelation tremendous things that take place.  And all of these things, as we have seen, coming down through the holy day season, relate to the whole world.  And all of the events that we discuss here concerning the millennium, and the one we did yesterday concerning Satan’s false millennium, which we will continue today, these things are going to have an effect upon the whole world.

Now what I want you to do is to just take a survey with me.  Let’s go through the book of Revelation and let’s see how it emphasizes the whole world.  Not just a part of the world, but the whole world.  Everyone who dwells on the earth.  All of these events are going to affect every single one of us.

Now let’s begin right here in Revelation 1, and let’s see something that’s very important concerning how the book of Revelation is tied together and what Christ says of Himself.  And then we will survey and see all the earth, all the world, all the inhabitants, and so forth.

Now let’s begin right here in verse 4.  “John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from Him Who is and Who was and Who is to come; and from the seven spirits which are before His throne; and from Jesus Christ the faithful Witness, the firstborn from the dead…” (Rev. 1:4, AT).

Now I’m reading from my translation of the book of Revelation.  It’s going to be the last one to be edited.  We’re getting close to getting it done.  And we hope…I’m going to be working on it right after the Feast of Tabernacles so we can have the New Testament all ready.  And it’s really going to be very helpful for all of us in understanding not only the word of God, but also with the ease of reading, but more importantly from the proper text, from the Byzantine text and from the point of view that it is going to be doctrinally sound because it’s going to relate to all the Bible.  And so that’s what really is going to be very important in it.  And it’s going to conform to the original text as much as possible yet be an understandable English so that everyone will be able to read it.

Now, “…firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth.”  Now that’s important for us to understand as we covered last time, that God sets up the rulers on the earth and sets over the nations the basest of men.  And every nation gets the leader it deserves.  And I think God does it based upon the general morality of the nation as evaluated by the Ten Commandments.

Now why don’t you do this sometime.  When you see any documentary concerning any nation, or you may read it in say National Geographic, or you may read it in a history book.  Evaluate it from the point of view of the Ten Commandments of God.  And when you do, you will see that those who are closest to the Ten Commandments of God have more blessings, have better economies, have better health, have less war.  The further away that you go from the Ten Commandments into pure Satanism, the worse that it becomes.  However, here at the end-time, we’re going to see a little bit later, when it comes down to the end-time the whole world is going to be wrapped up in the occult.  And for a while it will look dynamic and fantastic, because there’s pleasure in sin.  And for a while it will prosper because there is a short prosperity in sin.  But God is going to call the judgment in on this world, and the book of Revelation shows us how He’s going to do it.

Now let’s continue on here in verse 5, “…To HIM WHO loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, and has made us kings and priests to God and His Father…”  And that’s describing our ultimate destiny in ruling during the millennium.  This ties right in with Revelation 20.  “…To Him [that is to God the Father] be the glory and the sovereignty into the ages of eternity. AMEN.  Behold, He is coming with the clouds, and every eye shall see Him…” (vs. 5-7, AT)  Now when it talks about every eye, that means every human being on earth is going to see Him.  I think we just need to expand our thinking concerning the book of Revelation and how it describes some of these events to realize that it’s going to cover the whole earth.

Now continuing on, “…even those that pierced Him…” Now the question is how are those that pierced Him going to see Him when they are dead and in the grave?  Well there are two ways that this can be answered.  One spiritually, which is this: all human beings who have sinned have their part in the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, and that includes all human beings because they’ve all sinned.  So every human being who sees Christ coming have in effect spiritually killed Him because He died for the sins of the whole world, all time down through all history.  Now the other way to answer that is this: that those who pierced Him will be resurrected in the second resurrection during the 100 year period after the millennium, and they will see Him.  So either way you have the answer on that.

Now notice, “…and all the tribes of the earth…” All.  Now it says tribes because it’s not just countries, it’s not just nations, it’s not just small regions.  It gets down to tribes.  So everyone is going to see this.  This is going to be amazing.  “…And shall wail because of Him.  Even so, AMEN” (vs. 7, AT).

Now verse 8, “I the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the Ending, says the Lord…”, and He is the One you see.  This book of Revelation, when you go through it, it relates back to the beginning and takes us clear to the end.  And without the book of Revelation you cannot understand the Bible.  And without the book of Revelation you cannot understand Daniel very well.  You can understand it up to a certain point, but the book of Daniel and the book of Revelation go hand in hand.  And just like Jesus taught His disciples, the New Testament teachings of Jesus Christ interpret the Old.  So likewise the book of Revelation interprets all of the events that are prophesied in the Old Testament and puts them into the timeframe of the end for all those prophecies that fit at the end.  That’s why He says I am “..the Beginning and the Ending, says the Lord, Who is and Who was and Who is coming, the Almighty.”

Now let’s come here to Revelation 3:10, because what we want to do, we want to take a view of these things from the view of the whole world.  Now here’s a promise.  And as I read this you ask yourself this question: if you want this promise applied to you, are you doing what it says so that God can apply it to you, so that you are able then to be included on this promise?  Now if you’re not then you’re not going to be included.  It’s that simple.

“Because you have kept the word of My patience, I will also keep you from the time of the temptation, which is about to come upon the whole world to test them that dwell upon the earth.” (vs. 8, AT)  So you see the book of Revelation talked about a global world thousands of years before it ever took place.  So everything that we’re going to read about One World Government and globalization, and all of that, the book of Revelation prophesied it thousands of years before it ever occurred.  So this is something we need to understand.  This is something we really need to grasp.

Now let’s go on to Revelation 5:6, and let’s see again that God is interested in the whole world, and that these events that are coming on the world God is well aware of, God is making sure that everything happens right on time.  And as we saw yesterday God has put it in the hearts of these men to fulfill His will.  And He’s going to let them have what they want.  He’s going to let Satan the devil have what He wants and then God is going to teach the lesson to the whole world that all of this results in sin.  Because what they’re trying to do, as you will see with all of this, they are trying to save the world in its sins.  You think on that, and I’ll point that out a little bit later.   Christ is coming to save the world from its sins.  But you can never be saved in your sins.  You cannot be saved while you are sinning.  It’s very simple.  The world cannot reap the blessings of God while worshipping Satan.  Just understand that.  And that’s the way it’s going to be.

Now Revelation 5:6, “And I saw, and behold, before the throne and the four living creature, and between the elders, was standing a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God, those which have been sent into all the earth.”  Now you might liken these unto satellites.  You know we have satellites that circle the earth and take pictures of it and let us know what the weather is, and you know, you have all the spy technology and everything that they can come right down, and from miles up in the air they can zoom in and they can read a license plate on a car.

So you see, those people who think that they’re going to get away and go hide in the caves and go fight - forget it.  It’ll never happen.  They will not save themselves.  They are able to locate people with 100 square feet without any monitoring devise on them whatsoever.  And you won’t be able to hide in a cave because if you do an earthquake is going to take care of you.  So if you think you’re going to get away from the enemy and go hide in a cave you’re going to be squashed in an earthquake.

So the ultimate thing we need to understand and that the people of the world need to understand is this: you are not going to avoid God, you are not going to get away from God, you are not going to get away from Jesus Christ.  He is coming, His is going to set up His government, and He is going to be King over the earth.  And I tell you brethren the time is coming when it will get right back down to what it was during the first century with the apostles and the brethren then in declaring that Christ is our King, and no man on earth.  Because the very fact of what we believe will make us politically incorrect, as we will see.  And then all of those prophecies where you’ll be brought before king, brought before councils, you’ll be brought before governors, and you’re going to give a witness.  That’s going to happen, no question about it.

Now, let’s continue on.  Revelation 6:10, “And they were crying out with a loud voice, saying, “How long O Lord, holy and true, do You not judge and avenge our blood on those who are dwelling on the earth?”  And of course their blood will be shed all over the earth.  And then it said here that they rest yet for a little season and that the rest of the brethren and servants would be killed.

Now let’s come to Revelation 7:1.  “And after these things I saw four angels standing upon the four corners of the earth…” So here again it’s the whole earth.  “…Holding back the four winds of the earth, so that the wind might not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor upon any tree.”  So this is something.  These are worldwide events.

Let’s come to chapter 11.  And we see the same thing here concerning the two witnesses.  Boy I tell you, it’s amazing what they have here.  Let’s begin here in verse 6.  “These have authority to shut heaven, so that no rain may fall in the days of their prophecy; and they have authority over the waters, to turn them into blood; and to smite the earth with every plague, as often as they will.  And when they shall have completed their testimony, the beast who ascends up out of the abyss will make war against them, and shall overcome them, and shall kill them.  And their bodies shall lie upon the street of the great city, which is spiritually called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified” (Rev. 11:6-8, AT).  That’s what God thinks of Jerusalem today - Sodom and Egypt.  Not the holy city.

You know I think we need to pay attention of the words of Christ.  People ask me every once in a while, “Well, wouldn’t you like to go to Jerusalem?  Wouldn’t you like to go to the holy land?”  I say, “No.”  Jesus said at the end time those who are not there, don’t enter in.  So I’m not going to go.  I’m not going to enter in.  (Laughter)  You never know when things are going to take place there.

“Then they of the peoples and tribes and languages and nations shall see their bodies three and a half days, and they will not allow their bodies to be put into tombs.  And those who are dwelling on the earth will rejoice over them, and will make merry, and will send gifts to one another, because these, the two witnesses tormented them who dwell upon the earth” (vs. 9-10, AT)  So again, world wide events.

And what I’m trying to do here is to show you that the book of Revelation really is the book of the globalization of the world.  And also, if we can put it that way, the globalization of the preaching of the gospel.  And it’s going to go out in power.  And God is going to send His Spirit and give strength and power and it’s going to go out.  No doubt about it.  But I tell you what brethren, unless we make ourselves ready, unless we are willing to do our parts God isn’t going to use any of us to do anything.  We need to understand that.  We need to apply ourselves.  We need to work, we need to study, we need to pray, we need to get close to God.  As I’ve said all during the feast, we need to prepare, we need to get ready.  And we can’t be lollygagging around and dilly-dallying around.  We have to be at it, just like Jesus said, “I have to be about My Father’s business.”  And in the end-time this is the Father’s business.

Now let’s continue on.  We’ll show this.  Revelation 12:9, we’ve already seen Satan deceives the whole world.  When it says the whole world, it is the whole world.

Revelation 13:3, “And I saw one of his heads as if it were slain to death, but its wound of death was healed; and the whole earth, in complete amazement, followed after the beast.”  Now another one here in verse 8, “Now all who dwell on the earth shall worship him [that is the beast], whose names have not been written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.  If anyone has an ear, let him hear” (Rev. 13:3, 8-9, AT).  And I tell you brethren, if there’s any one thing we need to do during this feast, we need to hear.  We need to hear the word of God.  We need to let God’s Spirit move us.  We need to let God’s Spirit inspire us.  We need to understand the events that are taking place.  And we need to be dedicated to serving God in a greater and more yielded way than ever before.  These are great and awesome events.

Now, verse 14, and this is the coming false prophet.  “And he deceives those who dwell on the earth, by reason of the wonders which was given to him to perform in the sight of the beast…”  It’s the whole world, the whole world.

Now when we come to chapter 21, let’s turn there.  We can go through some others but let’s come to chapter 21 and let’s see how this ties in with the first chapter.  Verse 5, “And He who sits on the throne said, “Behold, I make all things new.”  And He said to me, “Write, for these words are true and faithful.”  And He said to me, “It is done! [completion of God’s plan]  I am Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End.  To the one who thirsts, I will give of the water of the fountain of lie freely.  The one who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will be his God, and he shall be My son” (Rev. 21:5-7, AT).

Then what do we have?  Notice, we have three sevens, chapter 21.  Then we have what?  Chapter 22, a new beginning.  So we’ll get to that on the Last Great Day.  But I just wanted to cover this to show you how that the whole book of Revelation is a prophetic document of the globalization of the world, and what that is going to lead to, and how these events are going to take place.

Now since we’re here in the book of Revelation, let’s come to chapter 17 and we’ll talk about the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.  And we will see that that ties directly into the United Nations.  There can be no doubt about it when you fully understand it.  Let’s read it here, verse 8.  “The beast which you saw [which the woman rode] was, and is not, and is about to come up out of the abyss, even to go into perdition.”  So this beast does not have people, does not have land, does not have a currency, does not have the geographical territory, does not have commerce, does not have it’s own leaders.  So this is a beast, which according to Bible definition as we saw last time, does not have sovereignty, as we will review again in the book by Dr. Coleman.  So that’s why it is the beast that was, and is not, and is about to come.  And we’re right at this point now.  When is the abyss going to open and it really comes out in it’s full form?  We’re living in the days when that’s going to happen.  “And those who are dwelling on the earth, whose names are not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, shall be astonished when they see the beast which was and is not and yet is.”

Now let’s review some of the things so we can understand it.  They are going to be amazed.  The things that are going to take place on this earth.  Now, the beast is the whole organization of the United Nations.  We’ll see that that’s what it’s going to be.  In the end-time there is going to come a man who will be the head of it.  And he will be personified and be the beast.  So you will have the beast as the leader and then the whole organization of it will be the body of the beast.  And then you will have the false prophet who will work with him hand in glove.  And we are coming closer and closer to that time.

Now let’s review a little bit here concerning sovereignty.  Now let me remind you again.  The book Diplomacy By Deception, and that’s how Satan operates, doesn’t he?  He deceives the whole world.  Here, before we get into it let’s come to John 8 and let’s understand something about Satan that we didn’t cover yesterday, which is this.  He’s a liar and the father of it.  And every time he comes, as we have seen, he comes with a lie, which sounds good.  And he comes as an angel of light so people are deceived into thinking that this is good.  And that’s exactly what’s going to happen with the coming United Nations.  People are going to think, “My, this is wonderful.  This is tremendous.  Everyone getting along.  Everyone loving each other.  Peace, security, prosperity.  And isn’t that what all people want?  And now we finally have it.  And who are you to upset the apple cart by saying Christ is returning.  He is the King of the world.  Not that man over there.”  Then you’ll be hauled up to court and you’re going to loose your head.  That’s just the way it’s going to be.

Now here in John 8:42 Jesus said to the Pharisees who were accusing Him of being an illegitimate son, and so forth.  “Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father…” Let’s understand something clearly brethren, concerning all religions of this world.  They are all part of the mystery of lawlessness and they are not of God, and they cannot tell you how to find God, and they don’t know God even though they may use the scriptures and that includes all the Protestants as well, when you really come to understand it.  And you know it’s really something, I am amazed how many people fall for the lawless doctrines of the Protestants.  Now as you have seen on the tapes that I have done on “The Mystery of Lawlessness”, or the mystery of iniquity, all religions of this world are that way.  And the truth of God’s way is that it is a way, it’s not a religion.  So all of those who buy into these religions have bought into lies.  And Satan has deceived the whole world.  Religiously, politically, and economically.

Now then here’s why.  “Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love Me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of Myself, but He sent Me.  Why do ye not understand My speech?  Even because ye cannot hear My word” (John 8:42-43).  Because sin blocks the understanding, and people don’t want to hear it.  People don’t want to hear the word of God.

Now I mentioned this one time before, once when I was doing my water therapy during the time when they had the Columbine shoot-out.  We were in there doing our water therapy and everyone was talking about what happened over in Columbine, and control guns, and all of this sort of thing.  And I mentioned, well, what really was the cause was that this nation has forgotten God.  And in five minutes I was the only one in the pool.  People don’t want to know about God.  Now in the world they may appear to be good upstanding people, sincere, devoted, loving, but they’re deceived.  You need to understand that.  And Satan has deceived them.

Verse 44, “Ye are of your father the devil…” And this whole movement of the United Nations and the coming One World Religion is all fathered by Satan the devil and God has nothing to do with it.  “…And the lusts of your father ye will do.  He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him.  When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.”  And so it’s no wonder that he has to have diplomacy by deception.

With the League of Nations, it was too early for this to develop.  And at that time the men in the Senate had enough understanding concerning the Constitution of the United States that they said, “Hey, we cannot make a treaty with the League of Nations because it is not a sovereign nation.  And we will give up our Constitution and we will give up our sovereignty if we sign it.”  So they defeated it.  The League of Nations went debunk.  And as I pointed out, in 1945 they transferred all the assets in Geneva, Switzerland, which belonged to the United Nations, mainly gold and money reparations that they got from Germany after WWII, and they turned it over to the United Nations. 

Now let’s pick up here, “The warmed over League of Nations was thrust upon the U.S. Senate in 1945, dressed under a new label: the United Nations Treaty.  The senators were given only three days to discuss the implications of the treaty…” Now mind you, it was 1800 pages long.  “…Which could not have been fully examined in under [at] least a full 18 months of discussion.  Had the senators properly understood what they were discussing, which, apart from a few exceptions, they did not, there would have been a demand for a proper period for discussion.  The fact is that the Senate did not understand the document and therefore should not have voted on it.”

“Had the senators who debated the United Nations treaty properly understood the document, it surely would have been rejected.  Apart from any other considerations, the document was so poorly written and, in many instances, so vague, deceptive and contradictory, that it could have been rejected on these grounds alone.”

“A law, which is what a treaty is, must be clearly written and unambiguous.  The U.N. Treaty was far from that.  In any case, the United States, bound by its Constitution, could not ratify the U.N. treaty for the following reasons…” Then he lists all of them.

(1)    Our Constitution rests upon the bedrock of sovereignty…”  And you cannot make a treaty with a non-sovereign nation.

(2)    “…we cannot make a treaty with any nation or body that lacks sovereignty” (pg. 7-8, Diplomacy By Deception).  And sovereignty is equivalent to what I described as what an authentic beast is in the Bible.

“The U.S. can make an agreement with a country or body having no sovereignty, but can never enter into a treaty with a body lacking in sovereignty” (pg. 8, Diplomacy By Deception). 

Because, as they have said, a treaty becomes the sovereign law of the whole land.  So what happens, whenever they have these treaties, it supersedes the Constitution.  That’s why the Constitution has been made negligible.

Now then there are other things that it talks about in why we should never have ratified the United Nations Treaty.

Now I want to call your attention to remember the Desert Storm, the Gulf War war.  Remember the United States was preparing for war with that based upon the United Nations resolutions.  And only after the fact, did the Senate and the House of Representatives go ahead and give their ok for that to happen.  But it was a United Nations resolution.

“Not a single U.N. Security council resolution, affecting either directly or indirectly the United States, has any validity, as such resolutions are made by a body which itself has no sovereignty.  The U.S. Constitution is above any so-called world body, and that, particularly, includes the United Nations, the U.S. Constitution is above and superior to any agreement or treaty made with any nation or group of nations, whether connected with the United Nations or not” (pg. 11, Diplomacy By Deception).  And so the Gulf War should have never happened that way.  And besides when you understand what happened, it was all set up.  It was all contrived.

Now, let’s continue on here.  He asks the question:  “What constitutes sovereignty?  It is based upon adequate territory, a constitutional form of money, a substantial population, in clearly demarcated borders which are definitely measurable.  The United Nations is totally lacking in these requirements, and no matter what our politicians might say, the U.N. can never qualify as a sovereign body in terms of the U.S. Constitution’s definition of sovereignty.  Therefore, it follows that we can never have a treaty with the U.N. Not now, not ever.” But what happened is, it was thrust upon us.  And by who?  And what was their purpose?  He gives the answer.  “The answer could be that, either out of sheer ignorance of the Constitution, or else, as servants of the Committee of 300, the senators, in 1945, went along with the U.N. charter in breach of their oath of office to defend and uphold the U.S. Constitution” (pg. 13, Diplomacy By Deception).  And it’s happened everywhere in the world the same way.

Now we need to realize that this is really something, what has been foisted upon us.  Now you stop and think about all the control that the United Nations has over the United States national parks.  Those have actually been put up for mortgage to secure the $5.5 trillion debt that the United States government owes the International Bankers via the Federal Reserve System.  And pretty soon in Yellowstone National Park there will be only the blue helmeted representatives of the United Nations, who will not allow people go to in there and to hike and to camp and to do all of those things.  It’s already happening right here in Yosemite Park, right in California.  They have no right, they have no authority, and yet we’re giving it to them, spooning it out to them, letting them take over.  That’s something.  I tell ya, it’s really an amazing thing what has happened here.

And again, I recommend you get the book.  Here I’ll give the 800 number for Dr. Coleman’s office so you can get the book, Diplomacy by Deception.  He has another one there on the Committee of 300.  You might want to get that too, because they are the ones who are the synagogue of Satan.

1-800-942-0821

You can call and order the book there, and he has other publications here.

Now when this was being introduced, here is a remark made by Senator Harold A. Burton.  “We again have the chance to retrieve and establish, not a League of Nations [now this was in 1945], but the present United Nations Charter, although 80 percent of it’s provisions (in the U.N. Charter) are, in substance, the same as those of the League of Nations in 1919…”  “Former Congressman Jack Rarick put it very well, calling the United Nations “A creature of the Invisible Government.”  That is the committee of 300 or the synagogue of Satan.

Now the timing of bring this about, “…4 days after Pearl Harbor…what with the horror Pearl Harbor, public opinion would be favorable.  So, on December 22, 1041, at the behest of the Committee of 300’s international bankers, Cordell Hull was instructed to brief president Roosevelt on his role in bringing up the “new and improved” version of the League of Nations” (pg. 19, Diplomacy By Deception).  That’s why world war was started so it could be implemented.

Now there are many other things that you could read in here.  He gets into some political things.  And unfortunately Dr. Coleman does not realize that Christ is the only one who can solve the problem.  Writing our congressman, doing things politically will never work.  You are not going to change them.

Now, let’s continue on here.  Now let’s go to Revelation 13.  Let’s see how the final beast is described.  Revelation 17 and 13 tie in together, but Revelation 13 tells us how this is going to come about, and tells us how that this is going to really be quite an amazing thing that all the world is going to go after it.

Now let’s pick it up here Revelation 13:1, “And I stood upon the sand of the sea [John writes]; and I saw a beast rising up out of the sea…” Now we saw earlier that the waters upon which the woman sat were nations, and languages, and tongues, and people.  And how that the whole world is involved in this.  This is a global thing.  Now rising up out of the sea it is giving the impression that the peoples of the world are the ones who are behind it.  And that is a complete deception.  That is an absolute lie.  Satan the devil and the synagogue of Satan, those who rule and control this world in a defacto invisible government, are the ones who are behind it.  Now God wants us to understand that.  Now notice, “…having seven heads and ten horns [and those are always the signs of Satan the devil], and upon its horns ten crowns, and upon its head the names of blasphemy” (Rev. 13:1, AT).

Now it’s very interesting, verse 2 tells us that this is a conglomerate.  And it also is telling us that this conglomerate has no sovereignty.  Just as Dr. Coleman pointed out in his book, the United Nations has no sovereignty whatsoever.  It is an amalgamation and a hodge-podge of past civilizations all brought together in a superstructure which we today the United Nations.

Now notice, “And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard [so that comes from Greece], and its feet as the feet of a bear [Persia and Media], and its mouth as the mouth of a lion [Babylon]: and the dragon gave him his power, and his throne and his great authority” (vs. 2, AT) So it’s not coming out of a country, but it’s coming out of this conglomerate organization that has no sovereignty.  This is describing the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.  He is of the seventh and yet he is the eighth and shall go into perdition.  That’s exactly what’s going to happen.

Now verse 3, “And I saw one of his heads as if it were slain to death, but its wound of death was healed; and the whole earth, in complete amazement, followed after the beast.”  Now what’s going to happen?  What is going to happen to bring about this wound?  And how is that going to be accomplished?  Well, let’s look and see the characteristics of this man in Daniel 8.