America in Prophecy

Revelation Chapter 13 Verse 11 gives us several clues about this second beast:

1. It rises up out of the earth.

In looking for the interpretation of a symbol we must always look in the context first, secondly in the same book before we look elsewhere in the bible. 

The Grace of God

Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.  (Isa 1:18)

Grace is not you changing for God, but it is the power of God changing you.  But what does it take to receive this life changing grace?  God does call us to change only one thing, and that one thing is our mind.  To “change your mind” is the very meaning of the word “repent.”  REPENT is not a bad word, unless of course you don’t want to change your mind.