Leading The Way Radio Podcast - The Reckoning

0:00You are watching it on the news, night after night, the rise of Islamization and Islam are taking places of leadership, both in the United States and in Europe, Australia and elsewhere. I sought to write a book to explain to you the unholy alliance between the left and the Islamization, how they invited the Islamic invasion. This book is a must if you want to understand what's going on in the world today. Learn more about the content of Dr. Yusuf's book and unholy alliance at ltw.org and you can always talk to a ministry representative to order at 866-626-4356. Introducing today's leading the way audio here now Dr. Michael Yusuf. Because of the fascination with the intimes, we tend to forget that the spirit of the Antichrist

1:00is already here. It's among us. The Antichrist with Capital A is yet to be revealed. But the Antichrist with small A is every false teacher and every false teaching that we have to that. When anyone brings up the Antichrist, confusion comes right on its heels and then the guessing starts, muddying the truth by focusing on the who rather than on the heart of the gospel. Up next on leading the way, Dr. Yusuf takes you right to what God reveals in his word, cutting out all the confusion that comes through speculation. To allow just as much time as possible, let's listen now to a message Dr. Yusuf is calling

2:16the Twelve. We meet a woman close with the sun and the moon at her feet and her head is crowned with 12 stars. Now many of you remember, Joseph's dream, the one that got him into trouble with his brothers, and his dream was very simply that his father, Jacob, was the sun and his mother, Rachel, was the moon and then the 12 brothers, the tribes of Israel, the stars and they're all bowing to him because Joseph is the type of Christ. The woman here is no other than Israel who later became the new Israel of God according to Galatians 6-16. The church is the new Israel of God. The church is the elect of God from every tribe and every nation and every corner of the globe. Verse 6 John tells us that the church flees to the wilderness to a place where God prepared and their God nourished his church for 1,260 days or three and a half years. That's why some of my friends who say that the rapture is going to come after three and

3:16a half years of the Antichrist rule. Some said we got before, some said we'll be halfway, others said we're going to go through it. Take your pick. I'm not going to argue with you. It's okay by me. You're not going to lose your salvation either way. In verse 7 Satan goes to war against Michael and the angels of the Lord. I need to stop here and give you a principle about prophetic writing that will help you when you read other prophetic writings like Isaiah and Ezekiel and Daniel and certainly Revelation. In prophetic writing you find that the past and the present and the future are written side by side. I want to explain that in this very chapter you get the past, the present and the future writing. All side by side. You see that in Isaiah when I ask about the current problem and asking about salvation. Now this is 700 years before Christ and what does the word comes from the Lord, a word of prophecy.

4:16The Virgin shall have a child. He's talking about the future and so you get the past, the present and the future all together and here in Revelation 12, 7 after he talks about Satan being thrown out of heaven which is the what? Past. He talks about Satan currently being defeated which is present and then he speaks about the ultimate defeat of Satan which is in the future. You see them side by side. The war in heaven has already taken place and Satan got thrown out of heaven. Verse 9, the great dragon was heralded down and then he wants to make sure that you know what the dragon, who the dragon is. It's a symbolic term. He goes on to say, look at the verse, verse 9, it's the same as the ancient what? Serpent. He is the same as Satan. He is the same as the devil. It's different names to the same person. Listen to me. It will ever doubted the Genesis account of creation.

5:20I hope after what I'm going to tell you, you never got it out of the game. First, the Lord Jesus Christ through whom and for whom the whole world was created and he was there at the creation of the world. He affirmed the Genesis account. Do you think the integrity of Jesus if it wasn't true? He said, oh now guys you don't understand. Madam and Eve, who's symbolic figures were. No, he affirmed them. He said as it was said in Matthew 9th. The second thing is here in the book of Revelation, the Scripture makes it clear again. We refer to Satan as the serpent. He's the same one who tempted Adam and Eve in the garden. Verse 10, a voice in heaven says, now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ for the accuser has been heralded down. Praise God. Here's that present again. What do you mean? Not the acubel because of Jesus' victory now on the cross.

6:22We can have victory over Satan, amen? Even when we fall on stumble, when we repent and turn to the Lord, He forgives us and gives us victory. How did this accuser works? When I fall on stumble and I do, don't get up at it, you do too. What happens? Satan in the courts of heaven says, see? See? What a hypocrite he is. He says one thing, he does another. See? At that moment, my defense attorney leaps to his feet and he's the best in the business. Now defense attorney's don't get offended but he's better than you ever hope to be. He is the best. First John 2, 1 says, if anybody does sin, we have an advocate, a defense attorney who speaks to the Father in our defense, Jesus Christ the righteous one. You see?

7:24My advocate jumped to his feet and he says, Father, I died on the cross from Michael. I redeemed him by my blood. My righteousness is his righteousness. His repentance is the mark of his salvation. And God the Father bangs the gavel and is at case dismissed. Amen. That's how you can think about it. Amen. Beloved, listen to me. One of Satan's most cruel strategies is he accuses us in our thoughts. He whispers, have you sinned again, haven't you? You are worthless. You're going to ask for forgiveness again. You think you can be used again? See a taxes in our thoughts but he pretends as if he's the Holy Spirit. Remember he's a faker. Remember he's the counterfeitor and he's not going to come to you as I'm Satan and I'm doing that. No, no, no. He's going to come and sound like the voice of the Holy Spirit and that's why I beloved listen to me.

8:25I want to tell you this. You must learn at any cost to distinguish between the conviction of the Holy Spirit and the accusation of Satan. You don't have a choice. If you want to live in victory, you must be able to make the distinction. He said, well, how I do this? Listen carefully. I'll help you. The Holy Spirit urges you to repent and turn to God. Satan beats you down and he tries to keep you away from God. Well, you have seen, you must stay and sin. When you hear the voice of Satan, change your channel. Begin to praise God for his salvation. Begin to praise God for his redemption. Begin to praise God for his grace. Begin to praise God in prayer. Claim the blood of the Lamb. Ask the Holy Spirit to cleanse you. Ask the Holy Spirit to send Satan's curing and he will. Now we come to the chapter that many of you have been waiting for. Chapter 13 and it is the chapter that reveals to us Satan's most evil creation.

9:32Chapter 1 of the most evil creation of Satan is the beast, aka the Antichrist. The beast rises from the sea which means he comes from humanity. He's a human being. Don't miss the family resemblance between Satan and the Antichrist. While the Antichrist is a human being, yet he is completely possessed by Satan, he will be filled with Satan's ability, persuasive ability, deceptive abilities. In verses 3 and 14 of chapter 13, the Antichrist will be wounded perhaps by some sort of an assassination attempt, but he's going to be healed quickly by satanic magic. And because of this apparent miracle, the whole world is going to bow to the Antichrist. Who is like the beast? Who can make war against him? We are helpless, I want to say, speak for yourself.

10:32I want you to hear this very clearly, because of our fascination by the intimes. And some people are obsessed by it, almost paralyzed and they don't serve all they do, all day long. That's not healthy. Others don't really give it much thought. That's not healthy either. We've got to have a balanced approach. Because of the fascination with the intimes, we tend to forget that the spirit of the Antichrist is already here. It's among us. The Antichrist with capital A is yet to be revealed. But the Antichrist with small A is every false teacher and every false teaching that we have today. First John 2.18, the Apostle said, you have heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many Antichrists have come.

11:33Who are these Antichrists? Thank God. I don't have to answer that question. The Scripture gives us the answer. We don't have to speculate. These are the people who deny the divinity of Jesus Christ, who deny the Father and the Son. I love it. Listen to me. Anyone who teaches that Jesus is one of many ways to God is an Antichrist with a small A. Anyone who denies Jesus' claim to be the only way to the Father and to heaven and to salvation is an Antichrist with a small A. Anyone who says that other religions are equally divine, just like the Christian faith is an Antichrist with a small A. You know and I know this view of many paths to God has infected many and evangelical church today. Here's my personal conviction. Always make a distinction between an opinion or a thought and the word of God. I never want to mislead you. This is a personal opinion that I personally believe that this Antichrist teaching with

12:40a small A that has infected many and evangelical church, many of mega church, is Satan's way of softening the ground, getting it the ground ready for the Antichrist with the capital A. The Antichrist with capital A eventually will become a powerful world leader with some religious overtones, only in 1 John 2, 18 that he has revealed as the Antichrist. I know what you notice that. But in 2 Thessalonians 2, 3 Paul calls him the man of lawlessness and the son of destruction in the book of Daniel and in the words of the Lord Jesus in Matthew 24, they talk about him a world leader who causes an abomination. The Antichrist will pretend to be a man of peace for a short period of time. And he's going to re-nig and show his true color and he's going to be so horrendous. Just as Jesus the Christ is full expression of God the Father, the Antichrist will be

13:43the full expression of Satan. Remember in John 14, 9 Jesus said, he who has seen me has seen the Father. Anyone who is going to see the Antichrist would have seen Satan. In the same way there is a contrast between our Lord Jesus Christ and the Antichrist and that's why the term Antichrist came into being. Jesus is the only one of God, the Holy One of God. The Antichrist is the lawless one of Satan. Jesus is the man of sorrow. The Antichrist is the man of sin. Jesus came from heaven. The Antichrist comes from the abyss. Jesus came in the name of the Father. The Antichrist will come in his own name. Jesus came as a servant. The Antichrist will claim to be God. The world rejected Jesus but the world will bow down and worship the Antichrist. Jesus is the Son of God.

14:44The Antichrist is the Son of perdition. But here's something else you must know. All of these imagery about the clause of a bearer and teeth of a lion and so forth. Remember as I told you in the last message, these are imagery. The Bible gives us in order to communicate something deeper. What is it? It's trying to tell us about the brutality and the savagery of that Antichrist. It's going to be incredible beyond imagination. The dragon Satan will give the beast the Antichrist is going to give him his throne, is going to give him his power, is going to give him his authority. The beast will perform counterfeit miracles. Verse 6, he will openly bless him God. The Antichrist will make war against the Christians on that day. Probably Christians will be backlisted. They will be unable to make a living and we're beginning to see that now. Because everyone on the earth whose name is not written in the book of life will worship

15:48the beast. So the question I have is your name written in the book of life. And then John writes Revelation 13, 9 and 10. Now please if you have your Bible with you, underline those verses they are really important verses. Let me read them to you first. He who has ear, let him hear. If anyone is to go into captivity, he will go. If anyone is to be killed with the sword, with the sword he will be killed. Now many people really kind of find these words to be baffling. But I want to tell you those words, a sum of the most precious jewels that are tucked into the Word of God. The Lord is saying to all those who are saved by the blood of Jesus Christ whose name written in the book of life, they will be fearless in the face of persecution. That's what he's saying. Faithful believers will say, I'm not afraid of captivity, I'm not afraid of the sword,

16:49the Antichrist might kill my body, but he can never separate me from the love of God. But before Jesus returns the Antichrist will rise and he will preach as if he is Christ. He will preach a message of peaceful coexistence, a message of let's just be one big happy human family. This all just get under one tent. Have you ever seen the bumper sticker that says coexist here? As believers in Jesus Christ, we don't only respect people of other faith. No, no, no, we don't just tolerate them. No, no, we love them. You with me. We love them. That's our command of our Lord. We have no choice but to love them. But loving them compels me to lovingly but firmly say that there is no name under heaven given to men by which they must be saved.

17:52That is true love. That's true love. Is the Christian faith the only faith that teaches about the last days, the end times? No. Talk to some of the Orthodox Jews, they're waiting for them aside to come. Islam teaches that a powerful leader will rise in the last days. And the similarities between the biblical Antichrist and the Muslim Mahdi or Messiah, the guided one, is astounding. I told you the devil knows the Bible. He knows the Bible. See their Messiah or Imam Mahdi will be seen as savior who will lead the revolution to establish a global empire. The Mahdi will rule the earth as the final caliphate or successor to their prophet. Muslims believe that the Mahdi will appear at the same time of Jesus' return. And they believe that Jesus will return, but not as the Son of God.

18:58The Muslims see Him as merely a prophet, Names Isha. On the left, they believe Jesus will return and they even call Him Messiah, but listen carefully. They place the Mahdi, their Mahdi over Jesus. They believe that Jesus will descend into Syria, east of Damascus, and He will assist the Mahdi in the ruling of the earth. After that comes the judgment, listen carefully. When you read the writings, you will discover that the Mahdi has all of the power and the authority of the Antichrist. Here is the interesting part regarding the relationship between the biblical Antichrist and the Islamic Mahdi. Both the Mahdi and the Antichrist will possess political and religious powers. Both will be worshipped as the head of one world religion.

19:59When the Antichrist, the Mahdi will establish his capital in Jerusalem. From there he will rule the world. The Bible said that the Antichrist will target Jews and Christians for destruction. The Islamic Mahdi will wage war against Jews and Christians. Those who will oppose the Antichrist will be executed. Those who will oppose the Mahdi will be executed. One of their Ayatollah recently, Ayatollah Amini said, the Mahdi will first offer the Jews and the Christian opportunity to convert. Those who convert will be spared, but if they do not, they will be killed. Listen to what Jesus said. In Matthew 2421, there will be great distress and equaled from the beginning of the world until now and never be equaled again. When he was in chapter 9, verse 27, said that the Antichrist will establish a covenant of seven year peace with Israel. But halfway he will re-nig, three and a half years later, he will turn against him and

21:03he will defile Jerusalem with an abomination, causes a desolation. The Hadith of Islam says that the Mahdi will make seven year covenant with Israel. In the final seven verses, Revelation 13, John reveals a second beast. This one is more dangerous. The first beast is the Antichrist and he rose from humanity. The second beast will rise from the earth, but this second beast will make sure that people of the earth worship the first beast. The second beast will perform miracles and bringing even down fire from heaven. And the reason the second beast which often referred to as the false prophet, it looks like a lamb because he will speak like a Christian. He will claim to be a Christian, but he will assist in the worship of the Antichrist. Islam said that Israel will assist the Mahdi. The Bible said that the false prophet will assist the Antichrist to establish a global

22:06domination. Beloved, that's not a coincidence. The devil knows the Scripture better than many Christians. Satan knows the Bible. The false prophet will ensure the worship of the Antichrist. Everyone will be required to receive the mark of the beast. Those who refuse that mark will not be able to buy or sell. Last verse, chapter 13, this verse has baffled people for years. I want to demystify it for you. Verse 18, this calls for wisdom. If anyone has insight, let him calculate the number of the beast. For it is man's number, his number is 666. People have always, always been baffled by that number. It's not a secret code. It really isn't. I have been telling you throughout the series of messages that number seven is the number of completion, is the number of perfection.

23:07And if a seven is the number of completion and perfection, what looks like seven but is not is number six. If seven represents Christ, six represents Satan. If seven represents perfection, six represents wickedness and evil pretending to be perfection. If the whole eternity of God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, would be referred to as seven, seven, seven. The unholy trinity of Satan, the Antichrist and the false prophet, would be six, six, six. Let me leave you with these words. Every believer in Jesus Christ, you have nothing to fear. You have nothing to fear of Satan. You have nothing to fear of the Antichrist. You have nothing to fear of the false prophet. Your name is written in the book of life, not in pencil and eraser, but with the blood of the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ himself. Dr. Michael Yusuf, with a reminder that those who belong to Christ have nothing to fear,

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