I wouldn’t accuse James of lacking Holy Spirit discernment.
He’s a great teacher on End Times topics.
If you read the article he doesn’t state he believe in reincarnation, he actually shuns it.
Revelation 17 states some interesting facts:
*A beast that was
*And now no more
*But is about to come out of the Abyss
*He was
*He is not (dead)
*And is again, and they will marvel at him
Judas could fit that profile. I’m not 100% saying it’s him, but the wording suggests some type of false deceptive act to bring someone back from the dead is involved.
It may be something other than reincarnation. There is also a wound he’s healed from.
I agree with your points.
Here’s something else to consider: we may not believe in reincarnation, but those of the occult and eastern religions, Masons, and new age types do. Most millennials will fall prey to occultic lies, knowing very little to zero about the antichrist, most do not go to church.
If the beast from the bottomless pit is supposed to be the false Christ, and the main proof for the true Christ is his resurrection, then the false Christ will need an alleged resurrection to mimic the true Christ, to deceive the unchurched, mostly the youth, who don’t know the Bible.
This transhumanism you mentioned undoubtedly is to play a part in all this, which millennial types are so taken with.
We might mention the Kabbalists who believe that Sabbatai Zevi, a false Messiah, is supposed to rise from the abyss (the bottomless pit in the KJV). Or Rabbi Schneerson the head Rabbi of the Chabad (Kabbalists) organization who died a few years ago, his followers to this day believing that he will be reincarnated.
Like I said in a paragraph above, we might not believe in reincarnation, but those of the occult do. It is they, most millennials, and the unchurched who don’t know their Bibles that will believe the reincarnated christ lie, and will be damned.
Revelation 17
8 The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is to ascend from the bottomless pit and go to perdition; and the dwellers on earth whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, will marvel to behold the beast, because it was and is not and is to come. 9 This calls for a mind with wisdom: the seven heads are seven hills on which the woman is seated; 10 they are also seven kings, five of whom have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come, and when he comes he must remain only a little while. 11 As for the beast that was and is not, it is an eighth but it belongs to the seven, and it goes to perdition.
the prediction of the beast who will die (“is not”) and then be revived from the pit refers to the re-emergence of the Empire after the chaos that followed the death of Nero (see commentary on 13:3). At that time, those who thought the Empire would fall will “wonder” in amazement at its resurgence.
John tells us wisdom is needed to discern the meaning of the seven heads. This is reminiscent of the beast in 13:18, where wisdom is required to know the meaning of “666.”
The seven hills represent the first seven emperors of the Roman Empire. When we begin counting with Julius, as the historians of John’s day did, we learn that Nero is the sixth king, the one who is reigning at the time John writes Revelation; this is who John is referring to by the phrase, “the one who is.”
The Caesar who reigned after Nero, Galba, only reigned six months, fulfilling what John said, “[W]hen he comes he must remain only a little while.”
But who is the “eighth”? At the outset, it is noteworthy that John does not call him “the eighth,” but simply, “an eighth.” This is because he only saw seven heads and seven hills. The “eighth,” therefore, is not to be understood in the same way that the other seven are. He is not necessarily the successor of the seventh king. At the same time, he does “belong to the seven.” In connection with this, it is important to realize that, though John has foretold the collapse and resurgence of the Empire, his list of seven kings stops short of the reign of Vespasian, the tenth Caesar, who brought about its revitalization. John is using the number “eight,” then, symbolically. “Eight” was a symbol of resurrection and new beginnings in first century Judaism and Christianity.12 The Christians especially understood this in reference to Christ, who was raised from the dead on the “eighth” day. In fact, if one calculated the numeric value of Jesus’ name, one would find that it equals “888.”13 The “eighth” king, therefore, is likely a reference to the reestablishment of the Empire—its “resurrection”—under Vespasian