Daniel 8 - 12 part 5 - The Little Horn says you must believe to be saved

Daniel 8:12, part 5
The Little Horn uses a counterfeit gospel that says you must believe to be saved!
By Brother Mike (5-16-26; 33 minutes)

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12 And an host was given him against the daily sacrifice by reason of transgression, and it cast down the truth to the ground; and it practiced and prospered (Authorized Version of the King James Bible).

INTRODUCTION

In our last study of Daniel 8:12 part 4 , we saw how Zionism (theologically called Dispensationalism or Dispensational Premillennialism) misuses Romans 11:25-26 to support their false notion of a future mass conversion of the nation of Israel to Christ during their yet to come wrongly supposed 7-year Great Tribulation just before Christ begins His wrongly supposed 1,000 year reign from earthly Jerusalem. Romans 11:25-26 put it like this:

25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel [the Jewish nation of Israel], until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in .
26 And so all Israel shall be saved ...

What many Zionists or Dispensationals do is interpret this to mean that after God has saved all the Gentiles that He is going to save, then all Israel will be saved; hence, to them, verse 26 reads, " And so, [then] all Israel shall be saved ." But that is not what this verse states. It does not say, " And so, [then] all Israel shall be saved" after the Gentiles have all been saved, but it says, " And so [in this manner] all Israel shall be saved" after all the Gentiles have been saved. The word "then" does not even exist in this verse. And, in our last study, we saw that " And so [in this manner] all Israel shall be saved" referred back to what was said just previous to this verse, which was an explanation of the way in which God saved both the remnant of Gentiles and Jews together in one body of Christ during the Day of Salvation from Pentecost of 33 AD to May 21,2011 when the Day of Judgment began and the Day of Salvation came to an end, forever. During the Day of Salvation, the way that God saved a remnant of the Gentiles and Jews together was, first, because of Israel's hardness of heart and wickedness toward Christ, He sent the gospel of Christ to the Gentiles to save some of them. And then, some of the Jews, seeing how God had blessed the Gentiles by giving them salvation, turned to Christ for their salvations as well. This whole process of God sending the gospel to the Gentiles because of Israel's hardness of heart, and then some of the Israelites becoming jealous of the Gentiles and so also turning to Christ for their salvations, played out over and over again during the Day of Salvation until any possibility for eternal salvation came to an end on May 21,2011. " And so [in that manner] all Israel [was] saved ," and " all Israel" does not refer to all the nation of Israel or even just to all the elect of the nation of Israel, but it refers to the whole true Israel of God that is made up of both the remnant of the Gentiles and the remnant of the Jews together in the one body of Christ that were saved by the faith of Jesus Christ by May 21,2011 when the Day of Salvation had come to an end.

Thus, contrary to Zionism or Dispensationalism, there will be no glorious golden age for the nation of Israel when many or all of them will turn to Jesus Christ for their salvation. No, all the Jews that were chosen to be saved have already been saved by May 21,2011, just as all the Gentiles had all been saved by then as well, which is a remnant of Jews and Gentiles together in the one body of Jesus Christ. All the rest of both the Jews and Gentiles are destined for destruction, for their sins were not paid for by Jesus Christ on the cross, and there is no more possibility for any of them becoming eternally saved, for the Day of God's wrath has come, and it will continue until the very end, which is likely any day now up to as long as about the year 2035 AD.

But now, besides Zionism, let's look at some of the other false teachings that have overcome many of the Christian churches by the Little Horn who is the counterfeit Christ, THE ANTICHRIST and devil himself, and who was given rule in and over the entire corporate Christian Church as God's judgment against them for their sins because " judgment [had to] begin at the House of God " (1Peter 4:17), which it did on May 21,1988 according to the very accurate , Biblical Timeline of History . Remember, our verse, Daniel 8:12 states,

12 And an host was given him against the daily sacrifice by reason of transgression, and it cast down the truth to the ground; and it practiced and prospered (Authorized Version of the King James Bible).

That is, Satan was given " an host " (an army of demons and counterfeit Christians) " against the daily sacrifice " due to the churchgoers' transgressions. The " daily sacrifice ," we found, represents the atonement of Christ. Therefore, we are being told that Satan's host (his army of demons and counterfeit Christians) came against the atonement or sacrifice of Christ, and they " cast down the truth to the ground [in the Christian churches] ; and [they] practiced and prospered ."

But just how did Satan's army of demons and counterfeit Christians come against the sacrifice of Christ and cast it down in the Christian churches? Certainly, at least one way they did it was to teach lies about the atonement or sacrifice of Christ to the point which it became a false gospel that could not save anyone. And, perhaps, the greatest false teaching in the corporate Christian Church today about Christ's atonement or sacrifice used by the Little Horn, who is the Antichrist and devil now seated in the corporate Christian Church as judgment against them, is that Christ paid for the sins of every single last human being on the cross (theologically called universal atonement), and so now, everyone can be saved as long as they just do their part to believe in Christ, or, perhaps, to believe and pray the sinner's prayer, or to believe and be baptized, or to believe and obey all the sacraments of the Church, or whatever else, depending on the particular church, denomination, or movement being referred to. They say, Christ did His part for you on the cross and for everyone else as well without exception, but now it is up to you to do your part, such as, just believe in Jesus, for instance, or do whatever else it may be as well, and if you will just do your part, then you will be saved.

Of course, the false gospel of the Catholic Church takes this even further. Their doctrine teaches that once a person believes in Jesus, that person is granted grace, yes. But whether that person actually becomes saved depends on what that person does with that grace. Those who become a part of the Catholic Church and sufficiently follow and obey their seven sacraments and teachings will be saved. But whether they will be saved can only be determined after they have died and stand for judgment to see whether they sufficiently obeyed. Catholic doctrine will even say, everyone who believes they can know whether they are saved before they physically die and have been judged is presumptuous and they are "anathema" (Latin for accursed or excommunicated). And this was just one of the over 100 anathemas issued by the Catholic Church at the Council of Trent from 1545-1563 against Protestant Christians during the Reformation, and these anathemas have never been rescinded by the Catholic Church even to this very day (see brief overview entitled Protestant teachings versus Council of Trent decrees and The Bible and Catholicism ).

Anyway, according to Catholic teaching, those judged worthy of eternal salvation after they have physically died will be saved, but those who are not immediately found to be worthy but have not committed any mortal sins such as adultery or murder will be cast into Purgatory where they can do penance to earn their way to salvation and heaven. This Catholic Purgatory is quite attractive to many people because it gives them a second chance, if you will, to be saved if they don't make it the first time in their life. But unfortunately, neither Christ, nor the apostles or prophets taught anything about Purgatory; nor do the true Holy Scriptures or word of God when properly translated from the Hebrew and Greek into the 66 books of the Protestant Bible, but it is just one of the many man-made teachings of the false gospel of Catholicism that has added many man-made traditions, scriptures, and teachings down through history (see the Bible and Catholicism ) to have come under the judgment of God hundreds of years ago (see Revelation 22:18-19 ).

The problem with any gospel that requires people to do this or that to be saved is that it is a works gospel which can save no one. Because whether one must just believe, or whether one must believe and also do this or that to be saved, the fact is, that person is having to do something to be saved. And, if one must do something (a work) to be saved, what they must do to be saved becomes a good or righteous work. But by a good work, no one can be saved, for we read in Ephesians 2,

8 For by grace are ye saved through faith [belief]; and that [faith or belief] not of yourselves: it is the gift of God :
9 Not of works, lest any man should boast .

And again, we read,

Titus 3:5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost ...

And, once again, we read,

2Timothy 1:9 Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began ...

But now, listen carefully to what we read in John 1:12-13, which speaks about those who have become saved. We read,

12 But as many as received him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name :
13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God .

Realize, first, that in verse 12 which states, " as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, [even] to them that believe on his name ," the word " even" is not in the original Greek. So, if we were to look at this verse alone and remove it from both its immediate context as well as the context of the entire Bible like all too many people and Christians do, we could conclude that we obtain the power to become sons of God (eternally saved) by simply believing on the name of Jesus Christ, for, again, as verse 12 just stated, " as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, to them that believe on his name ." But then, when we also take into account the immediate context as everyone should, which states in the next verse that the ones given the power to become the sons of God in believing on His name " were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God ," we immediately see an apparent contradiction. Verse 12 seems to say that people are born to become sons of God (eternally saved) by receiving Him, which in verse 12 is defined as " to believe on His name ," but the next verse says that these very same people " were born [born to be sons of God with eternal salvation], not ... of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God ." Now, if they were not born into eternal salvation " of the will of their flesh [that is, not by the will of their own bodies], nor of the will of man [that is, not by any human being's will, including their own, in believing on Him] ," and, again, nor by their own faith or belief as we previously saw in Ephesians 2, for remember, it says, " and that [faith or belief is] not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works ," then how could they or anyone else for that matter ever be born into eternal salvation? I mean, if eternal salvation does not come by our own will of believing on Jesus, contrary to what so many Christians believe, then how does eternal salvation come to us? Well, verse 13 of John chapter 1 that we previously read actually told us: it said, " not ... of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God ." Clearly, then, eternal salvation does not come about by our own will in believing or having faith, but by Gods will in choosing us for eternal salvation. As Ephesians 2:8 had put it: " It is a gift of God! " And, if you will remember, Titus 3:5 said, " according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost ." And, if you will remember further, 2Timothy 1:9 declared, " Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began ."

Therefore, we see that eternal salvation has everything to do with God alone and nothing to do with human beings just believing or doing anything for their salvation . Yet, this does not mean that we did not believe or did other good works as well. No, on the contrary, we believed and did many other good works as well because of having been saved, not in order to be saved. As Holy Scripture declares, " faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God " (Romans 10:17). That is, when it was still the Day of Salvation from Pentecost on May 21, 33 AD to May 21,2011, we were eternally saved not by just believing or doing some other good work as well like being baptized, confessing our sins, going forward on some altar call, or any other good work for that matter, but H e saved us by our having heard the word of God by His having opened our ears to hear at the time of His choosing. Indeed, " according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost ." " It [was] a gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast ," and that gift of eternal life or salvation was imparted to us as we heard God's word by the Holy Spirit. No, it was not imparted to us by the good work of believing even though that good work did come about in us immediately after we had been freely granted eternal life.

And now, we can begin to realize why many of the Christian churches that say Christ died for everyone in the world and now it is up to each individual person to be saved by believing, or maybe even also doing something else, are a false gospel. It is a false gospel, first of all, because salvation is no longer even possible ever since God's final days of judgment began on May 21,2011 (see Evidence and proof for the Biblical Timeline and Gods 7-day warning to Noah was a 7,000-year warning to humankind ). Then, further, it is also a false gospel because it teaches that human beings can and must do something to be saved. God did His part in dying for every single last person, they incorrectly think, but now it is up to each individual to do his or her part, which is, at the very least, to believe in Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior for eternal salvation. Thus, this is a works gospel that can save no one because as we previously learned, true salvation is not from works of any kind, including believing or having faith, for " [we] were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God ." Salvation is, then, 100% of God and 0% of human beings! And praise God that He chose to, at least, save some; otherwise, none would have been saved (see Is God unjust to have only saved a few by May 21,2011? ).

O certainly, there are various scriptures that appear to teach that one can be saved by just believing on Jesus or calling upon the name of the Lord, but what exactly does that mean? We cannot just pull those verses out from the context of the entire Bible and conclude that everyone can be saved by just believing, for if Christians have been just believing in Jesus with their own minds, as most Christians today have been doing, without also having been miraculously born of God alone by the Holy Spirit, then knowing that God has saved only a small remnant of all Christians according to Holy Scripture (Romans 11:5; Revelation 12:17 ), it means almost all Christians have been deceived and are still in their sins, and they are worshipping the counterfeit Christ, THE ANTICHRIST (also called the Beast, the Little Horn, the Man of Sin or Lawless One, and the Abomination of Desolation), Satan himself, without realizing it, for he is the Master Deceiver of these final days and seated in the corporate Christian Church by God as judgment against them, " for judgment [had to] begin at the House of God " (1Peter 4:17), and their judgment did begin on May 21, 1988 according to the very accurate , Biblical Timeline of History .

CONCLUSION & SUMMARY

In Daniel 12:8 part 5, we saw again that " an host was given [the Little Horn] against the daily sacrifice by reason of transgression, and it cast down the truth to the ground; and it practiced and prospered ." " The Little Horn ," of course, refers to the counterfeit Christ who is the Antichrist, Satan himself, the one who already came and has been given rule in the Christian Church or Temple beginning on May 21,1988 to bring God's judgment against them for their sins. " The host " or army that was given to the Little horn refers to all the counterfeit Christians that now fill the Christian churches of today who have been being used by the counterfeit Christ, the devil and Antichrist, to come against " the daily sacrifice ," which means coming against the atonement or sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross.

In this particular study, part 5 of Daniel 12:8, we revealed another way that the host or army of Satan (many of the counterfeit Christians now in the churches) have come against the sacrifice or atonement of Christ by changing it into a false gospel. They say Christ died for every single last human being (they teach a universal atonement, which is false teaching that we did not cover in this particular study but may in our next study), and now, because they incorrectly think that Christ died for everyone, they also incorrectly think that everyone can be saved if only they would each just believe in Jesus Christ. Yet, in order to truly believe in Jesus Christ, the Bible reveals that they must not have just believed carnally with their own minds as most Christians have been doing to make themselves think they are saved when they are not, but their faith must have been derived through miraculously having been spiritually born of God " by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost ," " not ... of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God ." Indeed, if they have not the Spirit of God, neither do they have Christ. And if they have not the true Christ, neither do they have true eternal salvation. There is a great difference: one believes according to the flesh; the other believes according to the Spirit. And, sadly, almost all Christians today are believing according to their flesh and not the Spirit, for the true Holy Spirit has been withdrawn from both the Christian Church and the whole world as judgment against them ever since May 21,2011, and the counterfeit Christ and holy spirit, the Little Horn and devil himself who is the Antichrist, has been deceiving and being deceived with a host or army of counterfeit Christians against " the daily sacrifice " so that the churchgoers not only believe that salvation is still possible, but many of them also wrongly think that everyone and anyone can be eternally saved just by doing their part in just believing or also doing some other type of work. God already did His part, they think; now it is up to you to do your part to be saved. But this is all a false gospel, so don't be deceived.

Revelation 18:4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues .

Now, until the next time, may " Yahweh bless thee, and keep thee: Yahweh make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee: Yahweh lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace " (Numbers 6:24-26).