Come and study the Holy Scriptures with us as Father Stephen DeYoung teaches verse by verse on the podcast,

The Whole Council of God. Father Stephen holds a Ph.D. in biblical studies, and it's an Orthodox

priest serving at Archangel Gabriel Orthodox Church in Lafayette, Louisiana.

Verse 14, and he deceives those who dwell on the earth by those signs, which he was granted

to do in the sight of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the

beast, who was wounded by the sword and lived.

Still a pin in it.

We're almost there, though.

He was granted power to give breath to the image of the beast,

that the image of the beast should both speak

and cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed.

So what is this in the sort of original application right in the first century this is this is

writing the crest of the beginning of emperor worship.

Temples being built to the Julio O'Claudean dynasty,

in different places.

They're being set up.

Rome is setting up colonies.

And they're coming to these other places. And then once they come there, they're compelling everyone. You're going to fit into this way of life. You're going to

offer sacrifices here. You're going to worship here. Right. You're going to do this.

Right.

And that kind of colonialism takes a lot of different forms, but it's sort of always been with us.

Right?

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