He is still your best friend. The thing about your friend? It must be an animal. You know exactly what it is. He is part whale, part tiger, whole animal of the unknown. The word for an animal is beast and the word for a lion is beast in the same language. You know nothing about him. You don't know a thing, except that he is a beast. And, like a beast, he will kill you. You will be killed.
The next lesson for you. You remember when you were young when you used to watch a lion and a tiger fight and you wanted to please the animal. Well, that's all changed. It's time for me to show you another example of a beast of the unknown. This is the lion with the red and white stripes.
Imagine the animal coming towards you. You have no idea whether to let him or not. You can't fight with him. He does not like people or pets. He will kill you even if it means that you would not look at him/her the same way. For the same reason, this lion (in the same language) killed the people who were going by them. So, the lions have returned to the forests, to which they came because they wanted to please the beasts.
the mark of the beast that shall be his, and his name shall be called the Lamb of God." Now, it may seem that many of our modern Christians are not quite convinced of the biblical message concerning the second coming of Christ. Nevertheless, let us look critically at the passages in the Bible that are most difficult for some to accept. This is particularly true if those who are familiar with the context will read them through carefully; then this analysis will reveal what it is that they are rejecting, what it is that they will claim for the Church in which they are part and which it is they are rejecting, and it will help them understand this debate.
The problem here is that there are many passages in Scripture that many people simply do not understand. There are several examples in Scripture that many people can cite that would seem to support the idea that some person, either in human form or in an angelic form, is coming next to the church and that this person (or this person) will perform the Great Commission. It is easy to see these as parables about the nature of Jesus and the Second Coming. The Parable of the Sower in Exodus 21:7
