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And we now come to a time of examination of God's revelation in Scripture. And I draw your attention, as you know, to Revelation chapter 13...Revelation chapter 13. We are looking at the last half of the chapter beginning in verse 11 and running down through the eighteenth verse which describes the final false prophet. And we began to examine this text last time and we'll finish up what we didn't cover in our message to you tonight.
As I told you last week, the most significant and the most dominant weapon in the arsenal of Satan is deception. Above all else he is a liar and a deceiver. And Satan spends ninety-nine percent of his time and energy trying to confuse people by covering up divine truth with lies. He is disguised as an angel of light, barrages the world with demon doctrines from seducing spirits through hypocritical false religious leaders, teachers and prophets.
Warnings about this deceptive enterprise of Satan are replete throughout Scripture from really the very beginning to the very end of the Bible. False prophets have always abounded and they continue to abound. And as we get closer to the return of Christ, they will escalate. Satan will increase the level of his evil enterprise and his deception as the world moves closer to the return of Christ. And finally, there will come the ultimate deceiver, the ultimate human hypocrite espousing demon doctrine energized by seducing spirits. And he is described and introduced to us in this text.
For those of you who were not here, let me just read it for you, follow carefully along, starting in verse 11. "And I saw another beast coming up out of the earth and he had two horns like a lamb and he spoke as a dragon. And he exercises all the authority the first beast in his presence, and he makes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast whose fatal wound was healed. And he performs great signs so that he even makes fire come down out of heaven to the earth in the presence of men. And he deceives those who dwell on the earth because of the signs which it was given him to perform in the presence of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who had the wound of the sword and has come to life. There was given to him to give breath to the image of the beast so that the image of the beast might even speak and causes many as do not worship the image of the beast to be killed. And he causes all, the small and the great and the rich and the poor and the free men and the slaves to be given a mark on their right hand or on their forehead, and he provides that no one should be able to buy or sell except the one who has the mark, either the name of the beast or the number of his name. Here is wisdom, let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for the number is that of a man, his number is six hundred and sixty-six."
Here is the world religious leader who aids and abets the Antichrist. Remember in the first ten verses you have the picture of the Antichrist, the first beast and here is his cohort, the second beast, namely the false prophet as he is called in chapter 16 verse 13, chapter 19 verse 20 and chapter 20 verse 10.
So together the Antichrist who I believe is controlled by a demon who rises out of the abyss, out of the pit, and the false prophet who likely is controlled similarly by demonic powers, will work together on behalf of Satan like some counterfeit satanic trinity, using political and military power, as well as religious influence to capture the minds and the hearts of all those in the world who are locked up for the kingdom of darkness.
Now remember, while the Antichrist is building his world empire, right through the first half of the seven-year period known as the Tribulation that proceeds our Lord's return, as the Antichrist is building his world empire on military and political power, at the same time the false prophet is building a worldwide religion and according to chapter 17, they coexist. In fact, the harlot which is the false system, the false church, the false bride, not a true bride but a harlot, rides...says 17...on the back of the beast. And so they coexist until the midpoint, the three and a half year point. At which time the Antichrist declares himself to be God, devours or destroys the world religious system and demands that the whole world worship him. The false prophet then leads the world in affirming that indeed the Antichrist is God. And by that midpoint, as I've been pointing out to you, there will be such devastation in the world, the unfolding of the judgments of the wrath of God that precede the day of the Lord, the natural cataclysms that take place, the supernatural things that are going on are going to raise the level of desperation among men very high. The absence of the restraining influence of the Spirit of God in the church, the absence of the church for that matter, the terrible things that are going to go on across the world are going to make people look for some deliverer. Remember it starts out with a false peace, a peace that lasts very, very briefly and then comes wars and rumors of wars and earthquakes and famines and pestilence and death and all of that is going to cause the world to be searching for a deliverer.
Here comes the Antichrist with military and political clout. Here comes the false prophet putting together a worldwide ecumenical system of religion that embraces every religion in the world in one form. And finally that all blends into the worship of the Antichrist.
Now this figure, the second beast who assists the Antichrist here, is identified to us in verse 11. And we saw last time his person. He comes up out of the earth which shows that ascends, as it were, from down in the underworld. He comes up, as it were, out of the inferno that is at the core of the earth. He comes up out of the darkness and the blackness representing his demonic influence.
He has two horns rather than having the multiplicity of heads and horns of the Antichrist which show us power and might and fierceness, he comes with the two little bumps like a lamb, two little tiny bumps on the head of a lamb is all he has. He is not coming with an overpowering domineering ferocious and deadly character like the first beast. He rather comes winsomely, persuasively, even making himself beloved. He comes as a tender gentle lamb that elicits sympathy and kindness. However, it says he speaks like a dragon. His message when he opens his mouth is not the message of a lamb, it's the message of a dragon. And the dragon takes us back to chapter 12 verse 9 where the dragon is identified as the devil and Satan.
So here is one who looks like a lamb. Here is one who comes peacefully and gently, but he speaks the very words of Satan. And I remind you of what I said last week, Satan's false prophets are generally meek and mild, lamblike preachers whose words are really the deadly words of damnation. And so comes this one who is a very gifted speaker. It may well be the greatest orator and preacher the world has ever known. He is able to sway the mass of humanity from one end of the globe to the other in all their diverse religions to come together in one religious unit. That kind of persuasive power is amazing. And, of course, he gets the cooperation of all the demons and the kingdom once divided now becomes united. He tells the devastated world that Antichrist is now their only hope and from the midpoint on they are directed to worship the Antichrist.
We saw then his power in verses 12 through 14. Verse 12 says, "He exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence." He is in the presence of the first beast. He is there with him. He stands alongside of him. And he exercises all the same authority the first beast has because the first beast has delegated authority that is delegated from Satan and the second beast has the same source of delegated power. He uses the satanic energy, the very plan and power of Satan just like the Antichrist.
And verse 13 says that with this authority he performs great signs. And we don't know the nature of these but they will be very convincing, very potent, very powerful. If you want a little illustration, you can go back to chapter 8 of the book of Acts and remind yourself of the story of Simon. Simon, it says, a certain man was formerly practicing magic in the city and astonishing the people of Samaria, claiming to be someone great. And they all from smallest to greatest were giving attention to him saying, "This man is what is called the great power of God." His power was from Satan but always Satan masquerades as God. And verse 11 says the people were giving him attention because he had for a long time astonished them with his magic arts.
He will be able to do things, this coming false prophet, that will far exceed those of a small time operator like Simon. He will do wonders that point to his supposed divine origin and that give him the credentials as a true prophet pointing to the true deliverer, the true Savior, the true Christ, namely the first beast.
Verse 13 says he even makes fire come down out of heaven to the earth in the presence of men. He can do some amazing and astounding pyrotechnics. No doubt, trying to at least match what the two witnesses did as described back in chapter 11.
Then in verse 14, here's the key, the key word, "He deceives those who dwell on the earth." Always, always, always Satan goes for deception. He wants to lead astray...there's that word planaoagain from which we get the word planet, which has to do with wandering bodies. He causes people to wander away from truth. Considering the vulnerability of people, disaster after disaster, making them desperate, mystical world religion already formed, probably around the concepts of the New Age, things like reincarnation and various forms of old mysticism, the whole world has been pulled together and now you've got the Roman system involved, you've got what's left of a non-Christian charismania and mysticism involved in a world religion. They've all been sucked in to satanic wonders and signs and there has been a fabricated resurrection of this Antichrist as if he died and came back from the grave. The people desperately need hope. They're eager to believe. And all of hell's hosts, all the demons of the pit are in on the deception and the world in its vulnerability is universally victimized. It says there in verse 14, he deceives those who dwell on the earth. There is that technical phrase used in Revelation, always to denote the unbelieving people of the world.
Paul discusses this same thing and it's important for us to note. In 2 Thessalonians 2 verse 10, it says that the Antichrist comes with the power of Satan with all this power and signs and false wonders, and with all the deception of wickedness, listen to this, for those who perish. They will not deceive the elect. They will not deceive the redeemed. They will deceive those who perish because they did not receive the love of the truth so as to be saved. And for this reason God will send upon them a deluding influence so that they might believe what is false. Now you've got another component. Antichrist is deceiving. The false prophet is deceiving. Satan is deceiving. The demons are deceiving the whole world. And according to 2 Thessalonians 2 and verse 11, God is also sending them a deluding influence.
God is even in on the delusion in order that they all may be judged who did not believe the truth but took pleasure in wickedness. No wonder the whole world is deceived. Satan is doing the deceiving. His demons are doing the deceiving. His Antichrist and false prophet are doing the deceiving. And on top of that, God is sending a deluding influence.
The result of all of this is that everybody on the earth, everybody who is not saved, who has not believed the truth, everyone who is perishing is going to believe and be deceived. Verse 14 again reminds us that the signs which it was given to him to perform in the presence of the beast involved telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who had the wound of the sword and has come to life.
In escalating this world religion, Satan wants an idol made. And he wants the people to make this idol of the beast or the Antichrist who supposedly was raised from the dead. It will be some kind of an image, some kind of a replication of the Antichrist, and it will be set up in Jerusalem. Once again Satan is imitating and counterfeiting what is predicted in the prophetic Scripture for Christ. Christ is to come back and reign on Jerusalem's throne and to have the worship of the world. So here he brings his false Christ, establishes a throne, as it were, an image in this case which I believe is the abomination of desolations, or connected to it, it's part of it. I think when the abomination comes as a part of that which starts in the three and a half year period, the setting up of this image follows. I believe it's in Jerusalem and it's associated even with the temple ground. And again the convincing sign of the Antichrist's supposed resurrection is given at the point of his...of his public exposure. We don't know exactly where it is that he supposedly dies and rises, but it's somewhere in a very public way exposed to people, at some crisis point in the establishment of his universal authority.
So we saw his person and his power. Now let's go down to verse 15 and pick up his program. And this will take us to the end of this chapter. His program.
The idols of the heathen are silver and gold. They have mouths but they speak not. That is a very firm Old Testament statement. In fact, it's repeated several times that idols are dumb and idols cannot speak. In Psalm 135, for example, verses 15 and 16, "The idols of the nations are but silver and gold, the work of man's hands, they have mouths but they do not speak, they have eyes but they do not see, they have ears but they do not hear, nor is there any breath at all in their mouths."
The prophet Habakkuk affirmed the same thing, that an idol is a dumb thing that cannot speak. Chapter 2 verse 19, "Woe to him who says to a piece of wood, `Awake.' And to a dumb stone, `Arise.' There's no breath at all inside it." Why would you talk to a dumb rock or a dumb piece of wood?
But contrary to what is normal, this idol can speak. Verse 15, "And there was given to him to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast might even speak." Now this is amazing. This powerful Antichrist, this world leader is established as the focus of world worship and the false prophet is given somehow the power to give him breath in the very form of that image so that the image can speak.
Please notice the word is breath here, it's not life, it's not zoe, it's not bios, the two Greek words for life. It's pneuma. And I believe what you have here is the presence of the appearance of some kind of phenomena that looks like life but not biosand not zoe, not life. Some would like to say that this image comes to life, but I don't see that. Satan cannot give life. I don't...I don't even feel we need to believe that the beast was actually genuinely resurrected. I think his resurrection was a fabrication and I think the speaking of the image is another one of Satan's deceptions. And I remind you that if Pharaoh's magicians could throw their sticks to the ground and turn them into snakes even in those days, with all of the technology of today and all the amass satanic power this kind of thing would be very readily done. Today's amazing technology along with people's desperation to have someone to believe in, makes this ruse very, very believable. The incredible things they're doing today with technology, the amazing special effects that they can effect in terms of film and all of that will be in place in that time with the added dimension of Satan's magic, and he will animate this statue so that it literally appears to come to life.
The whole world will fall into line as Revelation 17:17 says because God has put it in their hearts to execute His purpose by having a common purpose and by giving their kingdom to the beast until the words of God should be fulfilled. It is God's purpose to bring the two, the religious and the political together, give them a common purpose, push them right down this very path of world rule and worship until Jesus returns.
Now, back to verse 15. Everybody is going to get sucked into this. And it says in verse 15 the Antichrist, the beast and, of course, his cohort the false prophet, will also cause as many as do not worship the image of the beast to be killed. Now we don't know how that's going to work, but it isn't hard to imagine that worldwide television will keep that image in everybody's home all the time. Speeches will come off of this image. People will be staring at this image, watching the phenomenon of its movement and its speech and they will be brought to their knees in worshiping this image, the image that is the reflection of the Antichrist. Much as ancient kings set themselves up as gods, built idols of their own design and then demanded that people bow and worship those idols as symbols of worshiping them, so it will be in that day and anybody who doesn't comply, says verse 15, will be given a death sentence. As many as do not worship the beast are to be killed.
And we know this is going to happen, these executions will take place, there will be believers killed. Back in chapter 7 we remember reading about believers who will be executed for their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. It must also be said and carefully noted at this point that not all believers will be killed. The sentence of death will go out but not all believers will be killed. Obviously the ones who don't worship the image of the beast are going to be the believers and they're not going to die, not all of them. Because it is essential in the kingdom of Christ after He returns and sets up His earthly kingdom that there be people from every tongue and tribe and people and nation to populate the kingdom because it tells us clearly that all the nations will be represented in the kingdom. So some will be spared. The Antichrist will not be able to find all the believers and execute all the believers. God will protect them.
Secondly, there will be Jews who will be spared, rescued from this. We read about them very clearly back in chapter 12. And I'm sure it's been a long time since we studied that and you may have forgotten some of it, but you would want to remember that in chapter 12 while the serpent comes after the woman who is Israel, very clearly at the end of the chapter verse 14 says, "God's going to provide a great eagle to take the woman, fly her into the wilderness and protect her for three and a half years from the presence of the serpent."
The earth is even...verse 16...going to help the woman and open its mouth and drink up the flood, really the river, meaning the force of Antichrist and Satan which comes after the Jews. The dragon is going to try to make war but God is going to protect Israel. Not all Israel. We remember, don't we, that two thirds of the Jews will be purged out because they are rebellious, but the remnant will be saved. So there will be a remnant of Gentiles preserved from the killing machine, and there will be a remnant of Jews preserved from the killing machine so that the kingdom might be populated by Israel and the other nations.
God, of course, is going to retaliate. If you go over to chapter 16 I'll give you a little hint. When you get over to the next series of judgments which happen rapid fire at the very end called the bowl judgments, the first one is in verse 1 of chapter 16, "The first angel went, poured out his bowl into the earth. It became a loathsome and malignant sore upon the men who had the mark of the beast and who worshiped his image." In chapter 13, anybody who doesn't have the mark is to be killed. In chapter 16, anybody who does have the mark is given some malignant kind of disease. God will retaliate.
Now the subject all the way through here, just to keep you in focus, is the false prophet. Wherever it says "he causes," verse 15, "and causes," verse 16, "and he causes," it is taking us back to the false prophet. He is the one who somehow causes the world to worship the beast. He causes the beast, the image of the beast to be able to speak. He causes this killing machine to move into motion. He is the subject. And I just note for you there so you're not confused that God is going to spare Israel and He is going to spare many Gentiles.
By the way, if you go back to chapter 11, you don't need to turn to it, you will remember that there was a measuring rod and a measuring out, measuring indicated possession and protection. And God again is saying there will be a protection for people who belong to Him, particularly there in measuring out Jerusalem.
Then in verse 16, this false prophet, it says, causes all, the small and the great and the rich and the poor and the freemen and the slaves. Now this remember is the all-qualified by 2 Thessalonians 2, all who do not have the love of the truth so as to be saved, all who are perishing, all who are unsaved. He causes them all to be given a mark on their right hand or on their forehead.
Now this is a very, very interesting thing and there's much that is written about this. In fact, it goes ad infinitum, ad nauseam, but what is the mark of the beast and what is the number? And I'm not going to drag you through all of that. But in ancient times in Rome, a citizen had to make some kind of an overt offer to Caesar to demonstrate that he saw Caesar as deity, as a token of his loyalty to the Caesar cult. It was pretty simple in those days. What he needed to do was simply offer to Caesar a pinch of salt on an altar. Christians, of course, refused to do that and were massacred. That's what fomented the killing of Christians under the Caesars.
Now Antichrist has a requirement also. His requirement is a mark, an identifying mark, a mark that is visible, either on the forehead or on the hand. Obviously in ancient times they wore robes, women were fully covered, or nearly fully covered and the part of them that would be exposed would be the forehead even if they wore a veil and the hand. Readily visible then would be the mark. Antichrist wants an identifying mark. And that mark signifies that this is a worshiper of the beast. This is one who submits to his rule.
In the ancient world such marks were known. While not everybody in the Roman Empire had to bear such a mark, slaves did. Slaves, in fact, were branded just like animals. Another group were branded, soldiers. I think Paul may have this very thing in mind when in Galatians chapter 6 he makes this statement, verse 17, "I bear on my body the brand of Jesus." The people who were slaves had a brand just like a cattle brand. The brand of a slave identifying him with a particular master, a particular estate. Paul said I have a brand and my brand shows that I am a slave of Jesus Christ. So it was not uncommon to brand in the ancient world and it will come back again. And all the slaves and all the soldiers of the Antichrist will be branded.
Further in ancient times, many of the cults, many of the mystical forms of religion delighted in such brands. And they would take a brand on themselves, an emblem being displayed on their bodies that would identify them with a certain form of worship. In fact, for example, the cult of Cebele had all of its members tattooed with a unique tattoo all in the same way.
Now we have tattoos today and we see those, in fact, as some kind of brand of something or other, varying from person to person. But in that coming day to be unmarked, to refuse to take the brand of Antichrist, means you're a traitor and results in a sentence of death.
So, he causes everybody to be given a brand, a brand that is readily identifiable. We learn more about it in verse 17. "And he provides that no one should be able to buy or to sell except the one who has the brand, or the mark." In other words, you can't be involved in daily commerce, you're going to starve to death frankly. You can't buy anything and you can't sell anything. You can't get any food, you can't go to the source of food and buy it because you don't have the brand. And you can't get anybody to buy it from you because you don't have the brand and you can't get any money, you can't involve yourself in daily commerce, the needs of life are therefore cut off to you. Except the one who has the mark.
Now you get the picture. One world power ruling the globe, one system of economic operation, one central controlling computer with the name of everybody. Very likely currency is gone. Controlled credit takes over. And rather than a card, which can be stolen or lost, you have a mark...a mark which identifies you as a part of the system. The mark is in your forehead or the mark is in your hand.
What is this? Well we already have it. You use it all the time. You've seen the little black strip on the back of your credit card? That contains all the necessary data to let the computer know you're in the system. And you see on everything you buy a little bar code. That's another way that the computer identifies what is passing in front of the scanner.
I have received in the mail a most interesting packet of information and discussion of where bar coding is going and I have some little samples of the sophistication of the newer kinds of bar code devices. It was sent to me by someone who wanted me to kind of understand how this fits in to prophecy, and I responded to the individual.
What it is is a little bar code system encased in a little plastic container that is designed to be embedded under your skin. It is already being used by dog owners. People who worry about losing their dog when a dog is found, the scanner exists at the pound, you pass the dog under the scanner. He's got this little bar code underneath his skin that causes him no problem at all, but it indicates immediately what dog it is and who he is and where he lives. Very simple device to us because we're used to this. Incomprehensible in ancient times. Without a global ability to identify everybody, such as you have today, the whole operation of Antichrist couldn't happen. Now it can happen, folks, you're all in the computer...all of you.
It never ceases to amaze me that I go to some city, some other part of the country and walk up to some obscure wall and stick my little card in to get cash, and it says, "Good morning, John MacArthur, what do you want? Do you want money? How much and from what account? Would you like more information? Would you like another transaction?" And you feel like saying, "Yeah, how's my wife and kids?" "Fine." And you know they know everything because systematically you've given it all to them. And when it reduces itself to the absence of credit cards and you've got to put your hand over there, or pass your forehead by the scanner and there isn't any bar code there, you don't exist. And when you can't function and you can't operate, the death sentence is on you. We are capable of doing every bit of that and having a cashless society where you never have any money, it's just a debit/credit system, you work and your employer from a computer puts into your bank account a proper figure called pay and when you buy it is deleted. And life will depend upon the bar code, the mark.
A man from Bulgaria under communism wrote some very interesting words. This is what he wrote, "You cannot understand and you cannot know that the most terrible instrument of persecution ever devised is an innocent ration card. You cannot buy or sell anything except according to that little card. If they please, you can be starved to death. If they please, you can be dispossessed of everything you have, you cannot trade, you cannot buy, you cannot sell without it," end quote. The tragic testimony of a man caught in the communist takeover of Bulgaria.
So, you see, there's a compelling reason to worship the Antichrist, isn't there? It's not just a matter of religious deception, it's a matter of life. And so they will make the choice to follow the beast not only because they are enamored by him, not only because they are deceived by the false prophet, not only because they fear death, but they don't have any choice. But the choice is wrong, as we shall see.
Now notice, when they take this code, this mark, the end of verse 17 says, they can take either the name of the beast or the number of his name. Now this is very hard to interpret, frankly. I can't know anymore about it than what I can see and you can see as well. They have the mark and then he says literally, "the name of the beast or the number of his name." It is an identifying name and number system. The beast has a name but inherent in his system is a numbering. Impossible to know exactly what his name is and impossible to know exactly what the number significance is. But people will take the mark and somehow it is the name of the beast or the number of his name. And John in seeing the vision may be having as much trouble sort of discerning it as we are understanding it.
But then is added verse 18. "Here is wisdom," that is to say people who are alive at that day need to be wise. You want to recognize what's happening and you want to be able to identify this number when it comes down the line, cause we live in a world of numbers, right? They're always giving us numbers and asking us for numbers. How do we know if we're living at that time, how does a person know living at that time that's what coming to him is the Antichrist's number? How does he know that? "Here is wisdom, let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, the number is that of a man, his number is six hundred and sixty-six."
Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast. People living in that time are going to have to be discerning in order to identify the Antichrist when he brands. Apparently this is some way that they can recognize him for who he is. It's very difficult to interpret and yet it's suppose to be wisdom, and it looks to me like a complete mystery. But I'm quite confident that in that day and in that time the significance of this number, six hundred and sixty-six, will come into clear understanding. For many, many years, every taxi cab in Jerusalem started out "666." And people used to say if you work for the Jerusalem Taxi Company, you've taken the mark of the beast. If you ride in a Jerusalem taxi, you've taken the mark of the beast. That's ridiculous, some of them have changed their numbers now. But somehow in that time that kind of number is going to signify the Antichrist.
He says the number of the beast is the number of a man and his number is 666. Now in ancient times, I'll give you a little insight into this, in ancient times it was common for language to be connected to numbers. In English we don't do that. We have letters and numbers, right? But in Greek, letters were numbers. And in Hebrew letters acted also as numbers. And in latin letters acted also as numbers. You know that from Latin, right? V's and C's and I's. So it was common in ancient times for language to be connected to numbers. The letters, certain of the letters had numerical equivalent.
Now this may reflect something of that, that when the Antichrist comes his name will have some numerical equivalent that adds up to six hundred and sixty-six. People have based their...their study of this on that kind of thinking and they have given us so many things, I couldn't even recite them to you. They have taken every conceivable personality of any prominence in the world that looked like he might be a potential Antichrist and figured out a way to make his name add up to 666, in some language and by some concoction...everybody from the pope, Martin Luther...depending on whether you were a Catholic or Protestant on that one...John Knox, Napoleon, Nero, Hitler, Mussolini, Kissinger, Stalin, etc., etc., etc. In fact, if A equals 101, and B equals 102, and C equals 103, and you go all the way through the alphabet...the letters of Hitler add up to 666. A lot of people were sucked into that one.
The name Caesar Nero spelled Kaiser Neron with Hebrew endings has a Hebrew numerical value of 666. The truth is, we don't know the significance of it, but we know it isn't Caesar Nero, or Hitler.
Irenaeus, one of the early church fathers, took the Greek letters which had numerical equivalence and said 666 makes the name Uanthus(?) and maybe Antichrist's name will be Uanthus in Greek. Well we don't know...we don't know.
But would you notice one thing? It is the number of a man. What does that mean? What is the perfect number? Seven, God's number. Man's number is six. The slave was forced to be free after six years unless he demanded to stay. Fields were sown for six years. Man was made on the sixth day. Six...six...six...man...man...man. God's number is seven, the number of perfection, the best man can do is always six, he always falls short. The number represents human imperfection. A man at his best at the ultimate of all human power is only a six, he's never seven, he is a six, his government is a six, his laws are a six, a deafening, defeating, discouraging, damning six. And so I believe God has identified the final form of man's government in the world as just six, six, six. And somehow that thrice repeated number of a man, much like the thrice repeated statements about God...holy, holy, holy...is intended to reiterate the identity of man. God is holy, holy, holy. And man is always six, six, six...short of perfection. He can't quite pull it off. And somehow when this final Antichrist comes there will be some way to identify him and his mark with an understanding of this, the number of man. Specifically what that is, I don't know...and nor did John have anymore to say to us than this.
But this will be the mark that men and women have to have or else they cannot eat, they cannot live, surely they will die. So we see the person, the power, and the program of the false prophet. There's a last point, it's not in the chapter, but I have to give it to you, it's his punishment...his punishment. His person, his power, his program, finally his punishment. For this we go to chapter 14 verse 9, and we'll look in this section in more detail coming up. But in verse 9, "Another angel, a third one, followed them saying with a loud voice, `If anyone worships the beast and his image and receives a mark on his forehead or upon his hand, he will also drink of the wine of the wrath of God.' And when it comes it will be mixed in full strength in the cup of His anger and he will be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb.'"
So here's a warning to the whole world, you take that mark and you are going to receive the wrath of God. Now you can make your choice, you can refuse the mark and get the wrath of the Antichrist, or you can take the mark and get the wrath of God. The wrath of God means torment with fire and brimstone and it says in verse 11, "And the smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever and they have no rest day and night, those who worship the beast and his image and whoever receives the mark of his name." You take it and you will suffer torment forever.
Go to chapter 19 and see what happens specifically not to the deceived but to the deceiving Antichrist and false prophet. Verse 20 of chapter 19, "And the beast was seized...this is when the Lord returns, you have the picture of His coming from verse 11...the beast was seized and with him the false prophet who performed the signs in his presence by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image, these two were thrown alive into the lake of fire which burns with brimstone." And that's the end of the false prophet and the Antichrist.
The counterfeit world religion is coming led by the final false prophet, the greatest of all false prophets. If you look carefully, beloved, you can see it forming right now. Hell's religion is coming together. The house divided is being united against God and against Christ and against Christianity. This false form of religion that's coming together says what people want to hear, it rejects biblical truth, it deceives with lies, it supports its deceptions with demonic power. This is the final world deception...the final apostasy. In our life time I believe we're seeing this all form and we must not be led astray by the false prophets who are small-time deceivers, compared to this man we've read about tonight. They abound and they are moving toward this final satanic kingdom. We have to be faithful to proclaim the saving gospel of Jesus Christ while it is still possible. What a tremendous responsibility we have to rescue the souls of men and women from this coming disaster.
Lord, we are so overawed by this truth. We are amazed that You have given us a clear glimpse of the future. Nowhere, absolutely nowhere except in the pages of Scripture is the future revealed, only here and so clearly. We know where the world is going, rapidly Satan is already moving toward a one-world religion, toward a one-world government, setting the stage for the Antichrist and the false prophet. In that day, millions and millions, billions will perish. While it is still day before the night comes may we be faithful to proclaim the saving gospel of Christ and see men and women, boys and girls rescued from the wrath to come. We thank You that we do not look forward to such an event but rather we wait for Your Son from heaven whom You raised from the dead, that is Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come. It's in that hope that we live and rejoice. And it's to that hope that we call men and women that they might enter the same joy that we have found. Makes us ever faithful to that calling, in Christ's name. Amen.
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Forsyth Co. grocery store sells $1 million lottery ticket
Forsyth Co. grocery store sells $1 million lottery ticket
Someone who played the lottery at the Harris Teeter on Clemmons Road in Clemmons is the owner of a Powerball ticket worth $1 million.
The ticket matched all five white balls but not the Powerball in Wednesday night's drawing, beating odds of 1 in 5.1 million.
The winning white ball numbers were 11 - 12 - 24 - 43 - 45.
Overall, the drawing produced 19,079 winning tickets totaling $1,149,021. A ticket sold at the Quick Stop on Charles Road in Shelby matched four white balls and the red Powerball and won $10,000.
Saturday's Powerball jackpot is an estimated $130 million if taken as an annuity or $83 million if taken as a lump sum. Players have 180 days from the draw date to claim their prize.


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The HTC One V may be the value proposition of the HTC One family, but that doesn't mean it's going to be HTC's entry-level handset for 2012. A press shot of the HTC Golf (rumored to launch as the HTC Wildfire C later this quarter) has surfaced, revealing a design very similar to the HTC One X.
While the HTC One X and HTC Golf may look alike, their specifications are polar opposites. The HTC Golf is rumored to have a 3.5-inch 480 x 320 pixel display, 512MB of RAM, 4GB of internal storage, microSD card slot, 5 megapixel camera, Bluetooth 3.0 and 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi. The software setup should include Android 4.0, HTC sense 4.0, Beats Audio and 25GB of cloud storage through DropBox. The processor on the HTC Golf is still unknown, but we hope it'll pack a little more punch than the 600 MHz processor included in last year's HTC Wildfire S.
With the price of the HTC One V coming in at less than $350, we can't see HTC charging more than $300 for the HTC Golf. We doubt any of you are planning to purchase the HTC Golf, but it could be a huge seller for consumers who want to jump on the Android bandwagon for the same price it would cost them to buy a feature phone.
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"Electrifying and oh-so vital." If that sounds like model Melania Knauss testifying about the sexual prowess of her former boyfriend, Donald Trump, guess again. It's the sound of R.W. "Johnny" Apple of the New York Times's page 1 swoon at the feat of John McCain. The conservative Arizona Senator has the odd idea that he can win his party's nomination by first seducing the national media. It's a nutty concept, but like bad sex, watching it happen can be highly instructive.
Immediately following the McCain victory in New Hampshire, the Word went forth from Media Conspiracy Central: "We have finally found a potential President who listens to us, who loves us, whom we can train. Immediately cease and desist writing flat-out love letters to John McCain. Republican voters are getting suspicious. Replace them forthwith with love letters disguised as 'news analyses.'"
The question: Just why are the "liberal media" writing love letters to John McCain?
A. Because he's antiabortion, anti-gun control, anti-environment, anti-gays in the military, anti-minimum wage, anti-business regulation, pro-wasteful military spending, pro-Star Wars, pro-privatization of Social Security, pro-tax cuts for the rich, pro-impeachment of President Clinton for lying about sex, and pro-war on drugs (unless your name is Cindy McCain, of course, but I hate myself for even mentioning that);
B. Because he is a nice guy, a former POW, he likes to kibitz with us in the back of his bus, returns phone calls pretty quickly, has sensible, er, Democratic, positions on exactly two issues (campaign finance and tobacco), lets his staff have food fights with us in fancy Charleston restaurants (but no sleepovers yet) and, oh yeah, has shown the ability to "grow."
If the media cared at all about liberalism, then choosing McCain over Bush would be like picking arsenic over cyanide. But ask them to choose between the funny guy who likes to tell dirty jokes over brewskies and one whose campaign is more tightly scripted than Cats (and even more annoying), well, pass me a cold one, dude.
This silliness cuts both ways. Bill Bradley, who is running the most progressive mainstream campaign since Ted Kennedy in 1980, had a chance to steal some of McCain's thunder. But he choked on the really important stuff. While he had a pretty decent biography, storywise (scholar, athlete, etc.), Dollar Bill refused to play ball when it came to the true determinants of presidential greatness. He did not shmooze. There were no food fights. Hell, the self-important stiff wouldn't even reveal his favorite movie. No doubt if he actually became President, he would diss Joe Klein over dinner. Unaware of just what country he was running in, Bradley instead issued long treatises on boring stuff like universal (yawn) healthcare. Better to interview Donald Trump and that Melania chick one more time. (And check and see if Warren or Cybill Shepherd might be available, too.)


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Late Friday night at the Walmart in Summerfield, Mary Hollingsworth boarded a charter bus bound for Washington, D.C.
Late Friday night at the Walmart in Summerfield, Mary Hollingsworth boarded a charter bus bound for Washington, D.C. She'll get off the bus tonight in the nation's capital, just hours before President Barack Obama's second inauguration.
"Yes, I AM going," she nearly sings.
Long a Democratic Party activist in Marion County, Hollingsworth, 59, said she was disappointed that she could not make it to Obama's first inauguration in 2009.
"I really wanted to go four years ago," she said Wednesday. "As soon as we knew he'd won this time, I looked for a way to go."
While the public excitement over the upcoming inauguration is not as apparent as that in 2009, thousands of people are heading to D.C. for the chance to see history made one more time.
People flocked to the inauguration in 2009 in record-breaking numbers. Prior to 2009, the highest attendance was 1.2 million, set at Lyndon B. Johnson's second inauguration.
District of Columbia officials estimate that between 600,000 and 800,000 people will attend Obama's second swearing-in, a steep decline from 2009 but an above-average audience for a second-term inauguration. George W. Bush's second inauguration attracted between 300,000 and 400,000 people. Bill Clinton's likely drew around 450,000.
The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority anticipates hundreds of thousands of people will use the rail and bus systems throughout the weekend, but hotels haven't booked at the same pace as they did four years ago.
For Hollingsworth, the trip is much like the one her friend Hortense Birkett took years back, she said. Birkett, a Silver Springs Shores resident, walked with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and hundreds of thousands of others at the March on Washington 50 years ago.
It was on that August day in 1963 that King gave his "I Have a Dream" speech.
Oh, it'll be tedious, Hollingsworth acknowledged. There's the long ride, a lot of walking and waiting and getting up early Monday for good seats. And it's likely to be cold, or at least cold for Floridians; "I'm taking all of my thermals with me," she said.
But it'll be worth it, added Holler — as she's known to her friends. "History is always in the making if you just make yourself available to it.
"Just being in the atmosphere of the inauguration will be exciting," Hollingsworth continued. "This is history."
Lori Cotton and her daughters already have witnessed history. The Ocala family was in Washington four years ago the first time Obama took the oath of office as president. And they will be there again Monday.
"We had a really good time last time," Cotton said Wednesday shortly before she and the girls — Jasmine Henry, 16, Riley Henry, 12, and Maya Henry, 7 — piled into their car for the drive north. "It was amazing."
Riley recalled drawing in a sketchbook before the new president spoke; Jasmine remembered "the long lines, there were so many people you had to walk for miles it seemed."
Well, there were an estimated 2 million attending last time.
Cotton said the idea of attending an inauguration grew out of the Hillary Clinton campaign in 2008. "I told the girls that if Hillary is the first female president, we were going to be there," she said. "I eventually got on board with Barack Obama and decided to go."
And Cotton was fairly confident of his re-election. "I made hotel reservations a year ago, before all the prices went up," she said. Still, she concedes it was a refundable reservation — just in case.
"Election night for us was like the Super Bowl," Jasmine said. She said she considers this trip as a campaign worker's reward.
"I volunteered with the campaign for his re-election," Jasmine said. "I knocked on doors and such …"
"Was that fun?" interrupted Maya.
"Sometimes, when the people were nice," her sister responded.
Maya said her gifted class at Dr. N.H. Jones Elementary discussed the election through much of the fall. "After it, we started Egypt," she added.
Cotton said she got their inaugural tickets through newly elected Rep. Ted Yoho's office last week. Four years ago Rep. Cliff Stearns provided the tickets. Apparently they were allotted through a lottery; "we were lucky both times," Cotton said.
Of course, this trip means all three girls will miss a day of school Tuesday for the drive home, but Cotton said it's worth it. "It's important to me they understand the process," she said.
"It's exciting because this is something we'll remember always," Riley said.
And added Jasmine: "It's cool that we'll be able to be there. This moment we'll experience will be in the history books someday.
"My history teacher couldn't tell me not to go," she said. "I hope he gives me extra credit."


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@Tim, definitely - It is a Wes Anderson film, so if you've seen any of his other stuff, you'll have a good sense of the feel. It is not about tennis much, but the story is interesting and you got to love The Baumer!
Man, I still haven't seen that movie. Is it worth watching? Some people in my neighboring town, Redlands, tried to shoot a similar scene.
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Sprint is getting a little "uncarrier" themselves with a new promotion that offers to pay your early termination fees if you're willing to switch to them. You can get up to $350 for every line terminated when making the switch; just snap a picture of your last bill, send it to Sprint, and they'll send you a Visa card with the cash on it. There are a few terms and conditions here and there, but you can read all of that at Sprint's site starting tomorrow. The promotion will run from April 4 until May 8.
In addition to that, Sprint today announced that customers will be able to sign up for the Framily Plans (friends and family... framily) at Best Buy in addition to directly from Sprint. The details of the Framily Plans haven't changed — your monthly cost per person goes down by $5 a head for each body added to your account, up to $30 off per line. At six lines on an account you could end up saving up to $180 a month. Those that want to sign up for a Framily Plan at Best Buy between April 4th and 13th will also be treated to a $100 Best Buy gift card.


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"I know my little "dirty drawings" are never going to hang in the main salons of the Louvre, but it would be nice if – I would like to say "when", but I better say "if" – our world learns to accept all the different ways of loving. Then maybe I could have a place in one of the smaller side rooms."
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Bullies, oppressors and all men who do violence to the rights of others are guilty not only of their own crimes, but also of the corruption they bring into the hearts of their victims.
The Betrothed published in 1827 but set two centuries earlier, against the tumultuous backdrop of seventeenth-century Lombardy during the Thirty Years' War, is the story of two peasant lovers, Lucia and Renzo, who want nothing more than to marry.
Their region of northern Italy is under Spanish occupation, and when the vicious Spaniard Don Rodrigo blocks their union in an attempt to take Lucia for himself, the couple must struggle to persevere against his plots — which include false charges against Renzo and the kidnapping of Lucia by a robber baron called the Unnamed — while beset by the hazards of war, bread riots, and a terrifying outbreak of bubonic plague. First and foremost a love story, the novel also weaves issues of faith, justice, power, and truth into a sweeping epic in the tradition of Ivanhoe, Les Misérables, and War and Peace.
Groundbreakingly populist in its day and hugely influential to succeeding generations, Alessandro Manzoni's masterwork has long been considered one of Italy's national treasures. The Betrothed is translated by Archibald Colquhoun.
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Every so often, we come across some words of wisdom which we would like to share with our coaches and referees. Here are our first two entries, on coaching little ones from Ellen Lamm, Winthrop Harbor / Zion / Beach Park, Illinois and an extraordinary and wonderful story from Rob Kerby from the Central Ozarks Soccer League in Arkansas. Plus two stories from women referees - the first from Virginia Staabs in Tehachapi, cogent reasons why you should be a referee . . . , the second from Ann Wright Pitts on her experiences moving from sideline to the center. Cartoonist Randy Glasbergen graciously allowed us to reproduce a witty take on the parent's dilemma. Finally, some words from Region 76's former Commissioner, Cliff Bochner, about "encouraging" players.
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Eager holiday shoppers swarmed the local retail outlets Thanksgiving evening, getting an early start on Black Friday.
Enduring chilly and punishing weather, serious shoppers, such as LaMont Jackson, waited hours outside for Best Buy to open its door.
As the prelude to Black Friday began Thursday evening, Jackson said he was there, "to purchase something for a friend. All my friends are special."
Wrapped in a blanket, Jackson wore a fir-lined hat to help him make it through what he said was a three-hour wait.
Best Buy, at 6595 Strip Ave. NW, was among a handful of retailers that opened Thanksgiving night to get the early jump on the throng of holiday shoppers looking for bargains.
"Last year, we opened at midnight," Tim Collins, manager of the Best Buy, said. "This year we moved it up to 6 p.m. companywide."
Shoppers, obviously, were willing to withstand the conditions as the temperatures hovered around the mid- and upper-20s Thursday afternoon, according to the National Weather Service.
Consumer electronics is what Best Buy markets, and as soon as the gates opened, shoppers swarmed the retail floor.
"I came here for the Kindle Fire (tablet)," said Janet Matz, who appeared to be first in the long line outside Best Buy. "I was at Kmart at 5:30 a.m., and they were sold out."
Kindle Fire tablets were on sale for $99.99 inside Best Buy. Matz said she arrived at about 8:30 a.m. Thursday.
To maintain order, township police officers were positioned at the various retail sites.
"The crowd has been real good," police Lt. Jim Lenemier said. "I got here at 3 (p.m.), there were probably about 40 people."
Shortly before Best Buy opened at 6 p.m. Thursday, Lenemier estimated the line outside contained more than 100 people. The line stretched as far south as the Marshalls store next door.
A short distance south sits Wal-Mart, at 4572 Strip Ave. NW. With a wider range of merchandise, the shopping scene at Wal-Mart appeared even more intense than Best Buy.
With about two dozen check-out cash registers going, shoppers were lining up with items while others were moving up and down aisles looking for bargains.
What attracted Chris Wright to Wal-Mart on Thursday was "the $98 TV; it is a gift."
And that price is a significant bargain for a 32-inch screen television.
By comparison, "we paid almost $200 for our 32-inches," Wright said. "We did (holiday) dinner early today."
Another major retailer open Thursday evening in Jackson Township was Kohl's at 5478 Dressler Rd. NW.
Black Friday has long been regarded as the start of the Christmas shopping season. But some retailers have been opening Thanksgiving to start the holiday shopping spree a few hours early.
The Best Buy staff, prior to opening the door, was inside preparing for the onslaught of shoppers.
"We have been out there talking to them," said Collins. "We will let about 100 to 115 in at a time. It is for their safety and our safety. We found the customers appreciate it."
And right before opening, Collins huddled with his employees for the 11th-hour instructional and inspiration pep rally.
"I just want to tell you 'thank you,' " he said. "The store is looking great. Let's make sure we show our appreciation to the customers. They are why we are here."
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Williams powered the Cougars to a trio of wins at the Biola (Calif.) Holiday Classic, Dec. 28 – 30. She recorded double-doubles in points and rebounds in all three games, averaging 25.0 points and 14.0 rebounds per contest. Her 31 points in Azusa Pacific's 84-65 win over Montana Tech on Dec. 29 were an individual season high. She also shot 45.5 percent (30 for 66) on the week.
The 6-foot senior center from Claremont, Calif., has now posted double-doubles in seven of her 12 games this season. She ranks No. 3 in the NAIA with an average of 12.8 rebounds per game and sixth with a scoring average of 19.9. She is the only player in NAIA Division I to rank in the top 10 of both categories. Her 18 blocks are the 27th most in the NAIA.
For a complete listing of all the national statistical leaders, click here.
The next Player of the Week announcement will be on Jan. 10.
Nominees: Octavia Mullins, Texas Wesleyan; Jasmine Stohr, Lewis-Clark State (Idaho); Maria Bagwell, Freed-Hardeman (Tenn.); Jalisa Howard, St. Gregory's (Okla.); Heather English, Columbia (Mo.); Morgan Stuut, Saint Xavier (Ill.); Lauren Wombles, Cumberlands (Ky.); Brittney Carter, Faulkner (Ala.); Kara Blankenship, Evangel (Mo.); Victoria Jones, Tougaloo (Miss.).
2011 Composite Award Winners (Schedule)
Week 1: Amber Williams, Azusa Pacific (Calif.)


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Thoughts on the GOP convention
The Big Mac Attack got underway as the GOP got its chance in the spotlight last week.
Like the Obama coronation the week before, McCain's crowning as his party's leader was an impressive spectacle. It lacked fireworks (at least real ones), but made up for it with a lot more balloons.
So here's some of my thoughts on the convention before the campaigns move beyond scripted theater to the real guts of the election season, which concludes 57 days from now:
* * *
Last week I said McCain needed to deliver the speech of his life -- and he did.
McCain will never be a great orator. It was a well-written speech that an orator like Obama could have made truly inspiring. But it did what McCain needed it to do.
He took advantage of the biggest spotlight of his life to let the American people know who he was and what he stood for.
Unlike most of the speakers who addressed the convention Wednesday night (we'll get to that later), McCain's speech was extremely positive. He made few attacks on his opponent. Instead, he promoted his own positions and policies.
It was a speech he needed to make and America needed to hear.
* * *
In the course of this campaign I have come to respect both candidates. As a nation, I think we will be well served no matter who we elect.
Both men are honest, sincere, trustworthy, patriotic and capable. Each, in their own styles, can get the job done and both, in a refreshing change, are less concerned with the power and glory of the job than the ability to use it to help make America better.
So I think it would be wrong to judge either man, or attack either candidate, on the basis of their character. In either man's case, that shouldn't be the issue of this campaign. Coming from completely different backgrounds and sets of experiences, both candidates are men of high character.
So it comes down to the issues themselves. That means carefully looking at what each man proposes, the details of how they will do it, and whether or not that is the process/procedure you think will work best to move America forward. As citizens, that's your homework assignment for the next two months.
* * *
McCain's speech dominated Thursday night, but most of the speeches and actual work took place Wednesday night, including the formal vote to make McCain and Palin the party nominees.
In the end, there was a motion to make McCain's nomination unanimous, which passed. But before that, the roll call of delegates left McCain 13 votes short of pure unanimity. Ron Paul had 11 votes (five from Palin's home state of Alaska) and Mitt Romney received two votes.
In a way, those votes were silly, since the party's nominee was clear.
The last time a party convention wasn't a pure coronation was 1952 when Adlai Stevenson was nominated on the third ballot. He also was the last candidate to be "drafted" on the convention floor. He had previously declared himself not to be a candidate, but his opening address to the convention so electrified delegates that by the third round of balloting he'd earned enough votes to win the nomination.
For the Republicans, the last time a convention wasn't a pure coronation was in 1948, when Thomas Dewey won the nomination on the third ballot, beating out nine other candidates, including "front runners" Minnesota Gov. Harold Stassen and WWII hero Gen. (ret.) Douglas MacArthur.
In the early days of polling, Dewey was considered to be a lock to win the general election, so much so that the Chicago Tribune, a Republican newspaper in those days, famously went to press before all the returns were in (it was a very close election) with the headline that read "Dewey Defeats Truman." It was considered one of the great upsets in American political history.
It's a lesson to us all. Never believe the polls until the votes have all been counted. If we believed the polls this time last year, and just accepted them, we'd be looking at a Guliani-Clinton race.
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I don't know how it will play out among the crucial undecided voters in this election, but in terms of the GOP core faithful of conservatives and evangelicals, Sara Palin hit a home run with her 37-minute speech Wednesday night. A lot of that core group had been a little soft on McCain, and frankly, if he'd selected what apparently was his preferred choice, Joe Lieberman, he'd have lost them all. Instead, at least in terms of his own party, Palin is probably going to turn out to be a great choice for McCain.
Her appearance and speech clearly energized the crowd and she hit all the core GOP buttons.
There still will be a lot of questions about her ability to become president if McCain were to become incapacitated, but in terms of helping McCain get elected, it looks like he did a good job.
* * *
Palin is going to be McCain's "bulldog" in the same way that Biden will serve in that role for Obama. I think the vice-presidential candidate debate later this year could be really, really interesting. Think bare knuckles cage fighting.
* * *
Best joke to come out of the GOP convention: Palin will be an upgrade over Cheney because she's a better shot.
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Personally, I thought the best speech Wednesday night was one that wasn't carried by the networks. You had to be following the PBS coverage to see it.
Mike Huckabee, whom I'd always considered a little off the wall, nevertheless delivered an outstanding speech that summed up Republican positions in general and in this election in particular. He gained my respect.
While most of the GOP speakers Wednesday night went out of their way to engage in unnecessary and I think inappropriate negative trash talk about their opponent, Huckabee was more interested in promoting McCain and the Republican positions with a well thought out positive message.
Huckabee seemed to recognize that trashing your opponent doesn't make your own policies and positions any better. You need to focus on what you'll do if elected, to convince the voters you're offering something they actually want, rather than raising boogey men and trying to frighten the voters away from the opponent, which has always seemed to me to be a tactic that implied you knew your own policies weren't that good.
Huckabee took the high road. He focused on what McCain and his policies would do FOR Americans, and I wish a lot more voters had had a chance to hear his positive-approach message.
* * *
Wednesday night there was a lot of "message" given to McCain's energy policies, with the crowd chanting over and over again "drill, baby, drill."
I don't have any problems with offshore oil drilling, but remember it will be ten years at best before you see any of that oil hitting your gas pump.
No question we need energy independence. When the first Arab oil embargo occurred in 1973, we imported 20 percent of our oil. Today it's 70 percent (with a lot of that from places outside the Mideast, like Nigeria and Venezuela). Face it, we're gas hogs. In the long run, we need to get away from a petroleum-based economy and move to a hydrogen-based economy, but that will take more vision than either party has really committed to so far, beyond lip service.
But the biggest laughs of the night on that issue came when the speakers denigrated Obama's plan to "just fill up your tires."
Which made me laugh, because it's actually a good idea and one advocated by the Bush Transportation and Commerce departments, as well as groups like AAA.
Properly inflated tires can literally save more than a quarter of a billion gallons of gasoline a year in this country (some estimates go as high a million gallons a day), which isn't insignificant. And it doesn't take a government program, increased fuel taxes, tricky international diplomacy, new global trade rules or a wink-wink handshake with big oil corporations from the government to do it.
It's a simple, easy thing any ordinary American can do to help fight our energy dependence of foreign oil. Obama embraced a simple idea that would help a lot, without any big government involvement, and then gets laughed at by the party that at least claims (despite evidence to the contrary) that it is the enemy of big government and that solutions to many of our problems should be turned back to the people.
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Guliani's speech was pure hogwash. Facts, or at least facts in context, didn't seem to be important.
Don't tell me, for example, that Palin got more votes for governor than Biden did for president, unless you go ahead and put it in context. There are losing city council candidates in many of the nation's major cities who got more votes than Palin did. Alaska isn't exactly a populous state. I think there are more moose there than people.
And I wish Rudi and everybody else would get off this "left-wing media" bull. Pure smokescreen. Like blaming jews for a bad economy. It's just designed to shrug off any criticism without having to actually respond to the critique.
The fact is, two thirds (70 percent) of the daily newspapers in this country consider themselves, by their own admissions, to be at least fairly conservative to strongly conservative and they consistently endorse a majority of Republican candidates to major offices. And at least one broadcast network is so far in their pocket they don't even pretend to be fair and balanced. It might as well be called the GOP Network News. The Republicans need to quit biting the hand that actually feeds them.
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If you listened to Wednesday night's speeches it would make you think the GOP has almost become the party of GOD, and I always get a little nervous when religion becomes too much a part of politics.
I don't like it when people start standing on stacks of Bibles to look down on anyone who disagrees with them. That's not what the Bible is for. And when you reach a point where politics and religion become indistinguishable from each other, then opposition becomes heresy, and actual sin. That's scary. Heretics have a tendency to get burned at the stake. And if you want a good example of how accusations of heresy are used to keep people in line, look at Iran.
Religion as politics has a nasty tendency to support repression of ideas, which is not what this country is about.
* * *
I also get a little tired when people start wrapping themselves in the flag as if it were a protective blanket or shield that automatically confers on them immunity from attack. In my opinion, that's a form of flag desecration. It's a symbol of our nation, not a political party, position or policy.
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It's always a good thing when a politician has a war record. Americans vote for war heroes. Washington, Jackson, Grant, Teddy Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Kennedy and even Bush Sr. all used their military service to help them reach the White House. It's an accepted ploy, one that works, and McCain's supporters are stressing his legitimate heroism hard.
But the cynic in me looks at this and says that isn't what the job is really about. Stress in combat is not the same as stress in regular life. It occurs in a completely different context. Sgt. Alvin York, the WWI war hero, was one of the kindest, gentlest, most religious men this country ever produced. But in the unique environment of combat he was one of the most efficient cold-blooded killers ever to walk a battlefield.
How does getting your plane shot down (McCain) or your PT boat cut in half (Kennedy) qualify you to be president? It doesn't. But it makes for good copy and earns you some patriotic respect. We do love our war heroes.
But how many war heroes failed to succeed in civilian life? Some even cracked up under the non-combat stresses of "normal" life. It's not a perfect indicator.
Being a good president is about the ability to gather good facts, make intelligent decisions based on those facts, and surround yourself with good people.
Give all due respect to our war heroes. They more than deserve it. But in the end, it should be a null issue in deciding who to elect no matter how much you want to stress that it says something about a man's character. It can say a lot about character, but the actual skill set to be an elected official goes well beyond that.
McCain will use his war service to full advantage. He'd be a fool if he didn't. But he doesn't need it. His long years of political service to this country are more important for the job he's trying to win.
* * *
What idiot came up with the argument that Palin isn't qualified because she has five children and wouldn't have time to do the job? One, it's not exactly a tough job unless the guy above you dies. Two, it's an insult to every working mother in this country.
You can make a lot of solid arguments against Palin's qualifications, but that shouldn't be one of them.
* * *
The right to peaceful protest is fundamental to America.
I had no problems with the protestors outside the convention hall. They had a right to be there and express their opinions.
But I had serious objections to those tiny few who attempted to disrupt McCain's speech inside the convention hall. It was inappropriate and wrong. Terribly wrong.
Any protestor who wants their voice to be heard must be willing to allow their opponent to be heard.
Those who tried (unsuccessfully) to disrupt McCain's speech did absolutely nothing to help their cause. If anything, the principle of backlash occurred here. It probably added a few votes to McCain. It certainly didn't make their own positions look very good.
And I hope the courts throw the book at those specific individuals.
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The time for children nestling snug in their beds will come soon enough. In the meantime, there are a host of creepy books for young and old that have hit bookshelves just in time for the holiday. Happy Halloween!
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Felicity Robinson (Canadian born Glory Annen of Norman J. Warren's Alien Prey) spends her days at an all girl's boarding school dreaming of the day she'll be able to branch out on her own and spread her wings a little bit. That opportunity comes faster than she expected when her father surprises her with a summer vacation trip to the exotic locales of Hong Kong.
Jumping at the chance to take in some exotic scenery and cut loose a bit, Felicity decides that her first and foremost priority for the trip shall be to explore her carnal desires in more detail by way of physical encounters with pretty much anyone who is willing to give her what she wants – be they male or female. She soon meets up with a local girl named Me Ling (centerfold model Joni Flynn who some might recognize from Octopussy but who also has the distinguished credit of playing the 'girl from Castle Anthrax' in Monty Python And The Search For The Holy Grail!) and together they take in as much of what the island has to offer as they can. It's all very footloose and fancy free until Felicity meets Miles (Christopher Milne of the Australian horror film, Thirst), an exciting photographer who she not only lusts after but starts to have genuine romantic feelings for. With that monkey wrench thrown into her plans, Felicity basically has to decide if she wants to continue her wanton ways of exploring her wild side or settle into a nice, comfortable groove with Miles and commit to something a little more monogamous. When Miles has to travel and she's left without him for a while, will the mouse play while the cat is away? It wouldn't be much of a movie if she didn't!
While the most obvious point of reference for the film is Just Jaeckin's Emmanuelle (and the countless knock offs and sequels it inspired the world over), there are also shades of Lolita in here as we follow Felicity's exploits wherein she blossoms into womanhood through the permissive world of the seventies. As such, it's very much a product of its time from the costumes to the attitudes of the characters to the cinematography to the score. Writer-Director-Producer John D. Lamond (watch for a cameo from the director as the peeping tom hanging out in the garden) keep things moving along at a good pace and knows enough to make sure a reasonably graphic scene of copulation is thrown into the mix every few minutes to keep us from noticing the fact that while the story is reasonably interesting, there really isn't a whole lot to it.
That being said, Felicity (not to be confused with the late nineties television show of the same name!) is rather clever in a few ways. First and foremost it tries something different by having the lead's father be the one to open the door to the world of promiscuity for his daughter whereas more often than not in films about a teenage girl and her blossoming sexual maturity the father is the one holding her back and preventing her from running around with whatever beau happens to have caught her eye. Felicity is also forced to have to choose, and in a sense mature, when she starts to have feelings for Miles and while it definitely takes her a while to get there, she has learned something about her self and the ways of the world by the time that her adventures come to a close, giving the movie more meat to chew on than simply a plethora of wonderfully shot softcore love scenes.
That being said, in no way does the film skimp on the skin. A popular late night cable TV staple during the eighties, Felicity packs plenty of bumping and grinding into its ninety minutes, primarily of the guy-girl variety but highlighted by a girl-girl scene in the steamy sauna/shower room that is positively guaranteed to tighten your pants. The other scenes also hold up well, light very softly to give things a more passionate look that's common for the skin flicks of the era, hardcore and softcore alike. While the dialogue is a little on the hammy side and the performances nothing to write home about, Glory Annen proves to be sexy and charismatic enough to carry the rest of the cast, he frequent and very welcome nudity only adding to her screen presence.
Aside from a bit of grain and some moderate aliasing present in a few spots, the anamorphic widescreen transfer that Severin Films has provided of Felicity is excellent. Both foreground and background detail levels are nice and strong, blacks stay solid throughout (save for one or two instances where they flicker a bit) and don't break up or pixelate and flesh tones (of which there are many in this film) look lifelike and natural. Culled from the director's personal print, there's really very little to complain about here as the movie does look really, really nice.
The English language Dolby Digital Mono sound mix is the only option available for the film but it does the trick. Dialogue is consistently clean and clear and free of any hiss or distortion while the sound effects and score used throughout the film, which really adds a lot to the movie, are well balanced and don't ever over power the performers.
The main reason to check out the extra features on this release is for the commentary track in which director Lamond is joined by Felicity herself, Glory Annen. A surprisingly jovial and informative talk, the two wax nostalgic about the time they spent on the film with Lamond asking Annen for her take on various aspects of the production in addition to giving his own thoughts on the film. They cover the sets and locations, some casting details, and what it was like working on some of the more risque scenes that the film has become known for over the years.
Rounding out the extra features is a very exploitative trailer that plays up the sex appeal of the film and a still gallery of production stills, many of which feature the lovely Ms. Annen in her birthday suit.
Severin Films does justice to one of the finest examples of the seventies softcore skin flick. Felicity works well thanks to a smart and sexy blend of the carnal and the cerebral and while it's easy to dismiss the movie as nothing more than a late night cable staple, years later it still proves to be a whole lot of fun thanks to some clever direction and a great performance from the gorgeous Glory Annen. Highly recommended!
Ian lives in NYC with his wife where he writes for DVD Talk, runs Rock! Shock! Pop!. He likes NYC a lot, even if it is expensive and loud.


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This document describes one reason for the failure of agents to log into Cisco Collaboration Server. This document also provides a solution in a Cisco Intelligent Contact Manager (ICM) or IP Contact Center (IPCC) Enterprise environment.
Cisco recommends that you have knowledge of these topics:
Cisco ICM or IPCC Enterprise
Cisco Web Collaboration Option
The information in this document is based on these software and hardware versions:
Cisco ICM or IPCC Enterprise Edition version 6.0 SR4
Cisco Web Collaboration Option version 5.0 SR3
The information in this document was created from the devices in a specific lab environment. All of the devices used in this document started with a cleared (default) configuration. If your network is live, make sure that you understand the potential impact of any command.
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Internet Server API (ISAPI) filters are Dynamic Link Library (DLL) files that help to modify and enhance the Internet Information Services (IIS) functionality. ISAPI filters always run on an IIS server, and filter every request until the filters find a valid request to process. The ability to examine and modify both incoming and outgoing streams of data makes ISAPI filters powerful and flexible.
URLScan is an ISAPI filter that allows web site administrators to restrict the type of HTTP requests that the server processes. The URLScan filter blocks specific HTTP requests, and ensures that potentially harmful requests do not reach the server.
The URLScan tool screens all requests that come into the server, and filters the requests based on rules that the administrator sets. URLScan ensures that only valid requests are processed, and helps protect the security of the server. URLScan effectively helps protect web servers because most attacks involve the use of a request that is unusual in some way. Here are some examples of unusual requests that can be potentially harmful:
Requests that are extremely long
Requests that involve an unusual action
Requests encoded with an alternate character set
Requests that include character sequences that are rarely seen in legitimate requests
URLScan filters out all unusual requests, and protects the server from damage.
Agents are unable to log into Cisco Collaboration Server. When an agent attempts to log in, an error message appears (see Figure 1):Figure 1 – Agent Login Failure
This problem occurs because URLScan ISAPI filter is installed and enabled on Cisco Collaboration Server.
Remove URLScan in order to solve the problem. Use the ISAPI Filters page of the Web Server Properties dialog box in Internet Services Manager to remove URLScan manually.
You must remove URLScan from the the Default Web Site and from the WWW Service Manager.
Complete these steps to remove URLScan from the Default Web Site:
Select Start > Programs > Administrative Tools > Internet Services Manager. The Internet Information Services window appears (see Figure 2).
Expand the tree in the left pane until you see Default Web Site (see arrow A in Figure 2).Figure 2 – Internet Information Services
Right-click Default Web Site.
Select Properties from the shortcut menu. The Default Web Site Properties dialog box appears (see Figure 3).Figure 3 – Default Web Site Properties
Select the ISAPI Filters tab (see arrow A in Figure 3).
Select URLScan from the list of filters (see arrow B in Figure 3).
Click Remove (see arrow C in Figure 3).
Click OK (see arrow D in Figure 3).
Complete these steps to remove URLScan from the WWW Service Master:
Select Start > Programs > Administrative Tools > Internet Services Manager.
Expand the tree in the left pane.
Right-click the server name (see arrow B in Figure 2).
Select Properties from the shortcut menu.
Select WWW Service in the Master Properties section, and click Edit. The WWW Service Master Properties dialog box appears (see Figure 4).Figure 4 – WWW Service Master
Select the ISAPI Filters tab (see arrow A in Figure 4).
Select URLScan from the list of filters (see arrow B in Figure 4).
Click Remove (see arrow C in Figure 4).
Click OK (see arrow D in Figure 4).


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