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Christians Must Heed
Jesus

they also worshiped the beast and asked, "Who is like the beast? Who can
wage war against it?" The beast was given a mouth to utter proud words
and blasphemies and to exercise its authority for forty-two months. It
opened its mouth to blaspheme God, and to slander His name and His
dwelling place and those who live in heaven. It was given power to wage
war against God's holy people and to conquer them. And it was given au-
thority over every tribe, people, language and nation. All inhabitants
of the earth will worship the beast—all whose names have not been written
in the Lamb's book of life, the Lamb who was slain from the creation of the
world. Whoever has ears, let them hear. (Revelations, 13:1-9)

"Beast with ten horns and seven heads coming out of the
sea"

"And I saw a beast coming out of the sea. It had ten horns and sev-
en heads, with ten crowns on its horns, and on each head a blas-
phemous name."
The system of the antichrist that, according to Christians, will rise
from the sea and spread across ten kingdoms - which are depicted by
ten crowns - is regarded by some evangelicals as one country contain-
ing ten different peoples, and their description of the antichrist is
based on this. However, this claim is as dangerous as it is illogical.

This passage from the Gospel is not referring to a country or a na-
tion, but to an ideology that will spread across ten kingdoms, in other
words, across a vast area. And this is Darwinism, which has brought
disaster to the entire world and the destructive effects of which are still
being felt today. Darwinism is a false ideology that started in Great
Britain and then spread across the rest of the world. It seeks to dis-
seminate the idea that life came into being by chance, by giving man
the supposed status of an animal. By indoctrinating people with the lie
that life requires the strong to crush the weak, it has caused tremen-
dous afflictions, wars, slaughter and holocausts.

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