"The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is....
And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition." (Vs. 8,11).
The beast "that was" began it's reign long before the early Dark Ages of 538 AD. That ascension of paganism within the church was only the manifestation of the power from below that had begun thousands of years before in the primordial days of Noah.
While that great man of faith was still alive, a rebellion arose against the one world, righteous government. The following is a quotation from the book, The Two Babylons, page 48 and 50:
"While the awful catastrophe by which God had showed His avenging justice on the sinners of the old world was yet fresh in the minds of men, and so long as Noah, and the upright among his descendants, sought with all earnestness to impress upon all under their control the lessons which that solemn event was so well fitted to teach, 'heaven,' that is, God, must have seemed very near to earth. To maintain the union between heaven and earth, and to keep it as close as possible, must have been the grand aim of all who loved God and the best interests of the human race. But this implied the restraining and discountenancing of all vice and all those 'pleasures of sin,' after which the natural mind, unrenewed and unsanctified, continually pants. This must have been secretly felt by every unholy mind as a state of insufferable bondage. 'The carnal mind is enmity against God,' is 'not subject to His laws,' neither indeed is 'able to be' so. It says to the Almighty, 'Depart from us, for we desire not the knowledge of Thy ways.' So long as the influence of the great father of the new world was in the ascendant, while his maxims were regarded, a holy atmosphere surrounded the world, no wonder that those who were alienated from God and godliness, felt heaven and its influence and authority to be intolerably near, and that in such circumstances they 'could not walk,' but only 'crawl,'-- that is, that they had no freedom to 'walk after the sight of their own eyes and the imaginations of their own hearts.' From this bondage Nimrod emancipated them."
"By the apostasy he introduced, by the free life he developed among those who rallied around him, and by separating them from holy influences that previously less or more controlled them, he helped them to put God and the strict spirituality of His law at a distance.... Then all such would feel that they could breathe freely, and that now they could walk at liberty."
The depravity that this apostasy led into was that of full bore lawlessness and serving the adversary of God who never gives up his captives. That rebellion lives on today in paganism, unconscionable wickedness, drunkenness of every intoxicating and narcotic substance, and the deepest occultism. It has been the source of all human sacrifices to this day. Untold misery is humanity's gift from Nimrod, Cush, Ham, and Semiramis. The beast that will run the new world order has been "the mother of abominations in the earth."
"According to the system which Nimrod was the grand instrument in introducing, men were led to believe that a real spiritual change of heart was unnecessary, and that so far as change was needful, they could be regenerated by mere external means. Looking at the subject in the light of the Baccanalian orgies, which, as the reader has seen, commemorated the history of Nimrod, it is evident that he led mankind to seek their chief good in sensual enjoyment, and showed them how they might enjoy the pleasures of sin, without any fear of the wrath of a holy God. In his various expeditions he was always accompanied by troops of women, and by music and song, games and revelries, and everything that could please the natural heart, he commended himself to the good graces of mankind."
That gigantic appetite for everything devilish, that ogre of grossest blasphemy, was the inspiration for Canaanite worship and the very picture of an apostate Jerusalem when Jesus had had enough. No more intercession before His most holy Father for the Canaanite abominations being committed by the people who He had delivered from Egyptian slavery, from the Assyrian desolation, and, for whose every necessity and delight He had happily provided. Temptation and idolatry had grabbed the heart and mind of the nation that was called by His name but was misrepresenting Him and God the Father. It was time for retribution.
"He cried also in mine ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause them that have charge over the city to draw near, even every man with his destroying weapon in his hand. And, behold, six men came from the way of the higher gate, which lieth toward the north, and every man a slaughter weapon in his hand; and one man among them was clothed with linen, with a writer’s inkhorn by his side: and they went in, and stood beside the brasen altar. And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub, whereupon he was, to the threshold of the house. And he called to the man clothed with linen, which had the writer’s inkhorn by his side; and the Lord said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.
And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity: slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house. And he said unto them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go ye forth. And they went forth, and slew in the city." (Eze. 9:1-7). No wonder that those who refused to join in the God-forsaken revelry, instead could only weep and fear coming judgment.
We see that picture playing out again in pagan Rome, "music and song, games and revelries, and everything that could please the natural heart", kings and people alike sunken in debauchery. Sin at its worst by the pagans, and holiness at its best among the apostolic Christians. Later, we see this in papal Rome, and then, 80 years ago, in the hopes of the new world order beginning, we see it again showing up in Hitler's German. The Church failed through Hitler to accomplish the resurrection of Nimrod's overthrow of Noah's holy government. But since that time it has been corrupting the United States, for Satan's greatest insult and revenge by making Protestant America host the grand overthrow of the old world order.
Only God's word tells who is behind the coming new world order. The promised "Utopia" will be an "all rules suspended" free-for-all. The eighth king will "go into perdition (damnation)"--a world with the Mark of the Beast. But there will be a very small percentage who will not join in the fun and games. They will be sealed with the Father's name in their forehead, His Law written in their hearts, Him in all their thoughts.
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