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Eric, we are in Revelation Chapter 13 today.

We are getting into some stuff that are like some of the more well-known parts of Revelation.

So we've talked about a lot of destruction, a lot of turmoil, a lot of tribulation, women, dragons, seals, woes.

Now we get into, as someone might know, if they were falling along in their Bible, the heading here, the first beast.

Yes, we do. And so we are going to get into things today like the number of the beast

of the mark of the beast, which obviously is a very famous, very hotly debated piece of the

Book of Revelation. And we're going to try and dissect that a little bit. We're also going to

meet basically what is presented to us as the unholy Trinity,

that there's going to be this kind of counterfeit movement in that that sort of presents itself

as being on par with the true Holy Trinity.

And so if you kind of, it doesn't actually say those words, but in the same way that the Bible doesn't use the word holy trinity to describe God, you can look at this passage and note that it's describing an unholy Trinity.

And I think what we're going to see throughout Revelation 13 is something that is counter to a phrase that we often hear in our daily life

as Christians, which is, God has a plan for your life. You know, we hear that all the time.

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