The counterfeit trinity

The counterfeit trinity is the Dragon, the Beast, and the False Prophet.

The Beast is tyranny. Government tyranny is the Beast's most explicit manifestation.

The False Prophet is idolatry. Anything that draws you away from faith in God to put your faith in some aspect of the creation. Anything that gives you false information; that dissuades you from the truth; that fools you; that tempts you into error.

The Dragon is Satan. He has his reins on man's fallen nature. You're the horse, he's the rider. As long as you're under the control of your worldly pride, your vanity, and your self-will (and as long as you aren't even aware of those things) he's your master.

The analogy to the true Trinity probably works this way:

The Dragon is usurping the place of God the Father (but throw out the horse metaphor because I don't think God rides us like we're a horse).

The Beast is usurping the place of Jesus Christ.

The False Prophet is usurping the place of the Holy Spirit.

The world says worship the Beast. The Beast offers control, coercion, imprisonment, darkness, death. Jesus, on the other hand, says my burden is light. What Jesus demands He gives you the ability to give. Jesus liberates from the tyranny of the law and the fallen angels and demons.

We encounter the False Prophet through news media, through entertainment media, through educational institutions, through churches (most churches these days). They tell you truth is subjective; that it's relative; that is evolves; that it doesn't exist. The Holy Spirit, on the other hand, is the Spirit of Truth and discernment. The Holy Spirit represents truth to man as objective, unified, and unchanging; because it resides in the mind of God; and it can be accessed via the word of God (the Old and New Testaments) and the book of nature (general revelation).

The world says worship the Dragon, a created being. Don't recognize the Creator/creation divide. Worship the Dragon as the King of this world. The world tells you to get power from the Dragon; get riches from the Dragon; get sensual gratification from the Dragon; get fame from the Dragon. The world tells you to worship others who do the same. Or attempt it. Worship the darkness. Worship death. Be in love with death. Worship Hell. Be in eternal hellfire. With others who worship the Dragon. The power is useless. The riches are fleeting (or impractical in the scale of a human life). The sensuality, if you look closely, is ugly. The fame is annoying; like being followed by Harpies everywhere, all the time. (And on the riches again: notice evil people who have great riches attain it about in their fifties, and before long are the typical billionaire in their eighties and nineties? That's fun, isn't it? If they don't die of some disease the moment they attain their wealth. They build massive homes that are empty shells regarding any life. Everything is pretty much empty for them.)

A short note on a possible exception: Jeff Bezos attained his wealth relatively young. Divorced his wife to take up with the fifty year old wife of his lawyer who, forgive me, has had so many plastic surgeries she looks like a frog. Maybe he's in love. Or maybe the Dragon has convinced him a hundred billion dollars should get a man a middle aged woman who looks like a frog. He's also been drawn deep into the business of the Deep State. God knows what he's been involved with. The darkness of the Dragon's world.

If you worship God the Father instead of the Dragon you get all that God owns (and He owns everything); you get a resurrected, glorified body; you get company amidst other people who have resurrected, glorified bodies; you get true power that's based on self-command and loving your neighbors (no more enemies); you get the drama of rising to ever higher levels of being, as opposed to the bloody drama of good vs. evil, light vs. darkness (though a higher level will always present itself as a baptism of fire to one below that level hence the drama and effort and suffering are real, though also just staying right where you're at is paradise too). I'm speculating some on Heaven, but it seems within the bounds...