From: rking164@comcast.net   
      
   At present we are dealing with the ambition of a man who wishes to become the   
   next ayatollah, but his hands are those of a deceiver and a mass murderer.   
   Whether or not Russia and Putin are understood as the beast, there is less   
   ambiguity concerning the    
   false prophet to whom the beast is aligned in prophecy.   
   Certainly the President of Iran, our false prophet, like Hitler, is misreading   
   prophecy so as to satisfy his objectives but our false prophet does have some   
   stiff competition according to the Revelation of St. John as he attempts to   
   deceive the world    
   with a standard set of lies.   
      
   The Heavenly Warrior Defeats the Beast   
   11 I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, whose   
   rider is called Faithful and True. With justice he judges and wages war. 12   
   His eyes are like blazing fire, and on his head are many crowns. He has a name   
   written on him that no    
   one knows but he himself. 13 He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his   
   name is the Word of God. 14 The armies of heaven were following him, riding on   
   white horses and dressed in fine linen, white and clean. 15 Coming out of his   
   mouth is a sharp    
   sword with which to strike down the nations. “He will rule them with an iron   
   scepter.”[a] He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God   
   Almighty. 16 On his robe and on his thigh he has this name written:   
      
   king of kings and lord of lords.   
      
   17 And I saw an angel standing in the sun, who cried in a loud voice to all   
   the birds flying in midair, “Come, gather together for the great supper of   
   God, 18 so that you may eat the flesh of kings, generals, and the mighty, of   
   horses and their riders,    
   and the flesh of all people, free and slave, great and small.”   
      
   19 Then I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered   
   together to wage war against the rider on the horse and his army. 20 But the   
   beast was captured, and with it the false prophet who had performed the signs   
   on its behalf. With    
   these signs he had deluded those who had received the mark of the beast and   
   worshiped its image. The two of them were thrown alive into the fiery lake of   
   burning sulfur. 21 The rest were killed with the sword coming out of the mouth   
   of the rider on the    
   horse, and all the birds gorged themselves on their flesh.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)