The beast with seven heads and ten horns is the final form of Gentile world power — and the ten-horn confederacy gives the Antichrist his global platform. This supplement works through the political and prophetic details so you can understand what you're watching when you see global power structures shifting.

Many modern preachers argue that bodily healing isn't included in the atonement. One writer puts it this way:

"This chapter is written to help the Christian who is seeking light on the subject of healing, and to expose the error which is taught by so-called divine healers. The author does not limit the power of God, nor does he deny the fact that at times God does heal a Christian. We believe that God heals whom He wills, when He wills, and how He wills. We do not believe that healing is in the atonement in the sense that each time a Christian is sick God must heal him and raise him up. God does not always heal and raise up Christians who are sick. It is not always the will of God to heal a Christian. If healing were in the atonement, a Christian would never die... There is not one verse in all of God's Word where atonement was made for sickness."

Let's be direct here — these statements are completely unscriptural and misleading for anyone genuinely seeking truth about healing. The whole tone of this theory destroys faith in God and His Word.

Think about what such statements actually imply: they make God out to be a liar, they make Him a respecter of persons, they limit His power to only a select few whom He chooses to heal at certain times, and they turn Bible promises into empty words and the atonement into a sham.

And that argument about Christians never dying if healing is in the atonement? That shows a willful ignorance of the truth. Here's the thing — Christ atoned for the sins of the whole world, so by that same logic, we could argue that no sinner will ever be lost. Just because atonement is made doesn't mean everyone automatically receives its benefits.

Think of it like a trust fund set up for you by a wealthy relative. The money is there, it's real, it's yours — but you still have to go to the bank and claim it. One must appropriate the blessings of atonement, and this is exactly why some people remain unsaved while others aren't healed or blessed — they haven't claimed by faith what Christ freely provided.

Scripture couldn't be clearer on this point. Every prayer answered and every benefit received through faith comes because of Christ's atoning work. All faith in God springs from hearing His Word, and God's Word has always been rooted in the highest good for everyone, as well as in Christ's redemptive work.

The entire Bible tells one story: creation, Fall, and then redemption of humanity through Jesus Christ. God doesn't do anything based on our own merits — He does everything because of His grace that flows through Christ.

The Old Testament revealed faith in the coming Christ through animal sacrifices. In Genesis 3:21; 4:1-7; Hebrews 11:4, we find the first recorded instances of blood being shed in faith, pointing forward to Christ — the Seed of the woman who would crush the serpent's head and restore humanity's dominion.

From those first records throughout the Old Testament, people continued offering animal blood as evidence of their faith in Christ Genesis 8:20Genesis 12:8Genesis 13:4, 18Genesis 15:9-12. These altars where blood was shed stood as testimony that without the shedding of blood there can be no remission of sin Hebrews 9:22.

All of Scripture makes clear that if sin had never entered the world, there would be no sickness — death came through sin Romans 5:12-21. When all sin is finally removed from the Earth, sickness will be gone forever Revelation 21:1-7.

Sickness has always resulted from sin — not always from the personal sin of the sick person, but because sin exists in the world. This is explained in Lesson Fourteen, Point VI, and illustrated by many cases of sickness in Points IV and V of that same lesson.

God stated plainly in His covenants with Israel that sickness would come when sin is committed Exodus 15:26Deuteronomy 28:15-68Deuteronomy 30:15-20. Plague after plague has struck humanity because of sin, as we see throughout Lesson Fourteen.

As we've discussed before, all prayer is based on redemptive work. God doesn't promise to hear prayer except when it's offered in faith based on His Word and grace through Jesus Christ John 1:17John 3:14-16Acts 3:16Romans 8:32Galatians 3:6-29Ephesians 1:7Colossians 1:14-23.

Scripture records many instances of atonement being made during times of sickness Exodus 32:1-35Numbers 16:21-30, 46-50Numbers 21:7-91 Samuel 5:1-6:212 Samuel 24:10-25. See "22 Proofs that Bodily Healing is in the Atonement" in Lesson Fourteen, point VII.