Let's pray. Our beloved heavenly
Father, today we're going to
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study a very important
subject; a subject upon which
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the Christian world, to a
great degree, is confused.
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We're going to discuss
the identity of the beast
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that rises from the sea.
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Therefore, Father,
we ask for the guidance
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of Your Holy Spirit.
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We ask that You will give
us understanding, that we might
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understand things
as You understand them.
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And, Father, I ask that
everyone who listens to this
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presentation, and watches it,
might have clarity of thought
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to know who the beast is,
and how to escape its power.
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And we thank You for hearing
our prayer, for we ask it in the
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precious name of Jesus, Amen.
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During the next four
presentations we are going to
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study some very important things
about the third angel's message.
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This evening we're
going to study about
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Revelation's sea beast.
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The third angel's message says,
If anybody worships the beast.
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Then in our next
lecture we are going to study
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about the land beast.
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It's a beast that rises from the
earth in Revelation 13:11-18.
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Then in the following lecture
we are going to talk about the
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image to the beast.
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And after that we will
discuss the number of the beast.
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So we have several very
important lectures coming up,
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and I hope that you'll make
it a point to be here to listen
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to these important lectures.
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Now in order to understand
the sea beast of Revelation 13,
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we have to go back to Daniel 7.
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So I'm just briefly going to
review the content of Daniel 7.
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There we have four beasts.
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The first beast is a lion, the
second is a bear, the third is
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a leopard, and the
fourth is a dragon beast,
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or a non-descript beast.
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The lion represents
the kingdom of Babylon.
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The bear represents the kingdom
of the Medes and Persians.
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The leopard represents
the kingdom of Greece.
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The dragon
beast represents Rome;
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represents the Roman empire.
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So in Daniel 7 we have clearly
delineated four kingdoms:
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Babylon, Medo
Persia, Greece, and Rome.
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Now it's interesting to
notice that this fourth beast,
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the dragon beast,
which represents Rome,
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has four stages of existence.
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In other words, it has four
consecutive stages of dominion,
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this fourth beast.
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I'd like to go to Daniel 7:23,
24, where we find these stages
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of dominion of the
fourth beast, Rome.
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It says in Daniel 7:23,
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So the first stage of this
fourth beast, which represents
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Rome, is this dragon
beast ruling by itself.
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It has no horns. It is
just governing as a beast.
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But now I want you to notice
that there's a second stage
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to this fourth beast, to Rome.
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Daniel 7, and notice verse 24.
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Actually, yes,
verse 24. It says:
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So what do the ten
horns represent? ten kings,
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or kingdoms that will
arise from this fourth kingdom.
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So now we see two
stages of this fourth beast.
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First of all the
fourth beast ruling by itself.
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Then after it rules for awhile,
we're told that ten kings,
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or kingdoms, will
come out of this kingdom.
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In other words, this
kingdom will be divided.
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And that's exactly
what happened to Rome.
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See the Roman empire
governed by itself for an
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extended period of
time: from the Old Testament,
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168 B.C. all the way to 476 A.D.
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But what happened in 476 A.D.
is that the Roman empire was
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divided into ten kingdoms,
as a result of the barbarian
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invasions from the
Northern sector of the empire.
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And so you have the
dragon beast by itself.
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This is the Roman empire.
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Then you have the ten
horns, which represent Rome,
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in a divided state, as a result
of the barbarian invasions.
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But now I want you to notice
that there's a third stage.
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Daniel 7:24 and 25.
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It says there in verse 24:
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After which? after the ten.
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So we have three stages of this
fourth beast clearly delineated
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in Daniel 7:23-25, the
dragon beast ruling by itself.
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That's the Roman empire.
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The dragon beast
with the ten horns.
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That's the divided Roman empire.
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And it was fully
divided in the year 476.
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And then, among those ten
kingdoms of Western Europe,
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you have a little horn that
arises, and this little horn
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rules for time,
times, and half a time.
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Now what does this
little horn represent?
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I'm going to go through
these characteristics very fast,
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because I'm going to come to one
specific point that I want to
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dwell on most of the lecture.
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Let's notice ten characteristics
of this little horn,
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which identifies
clearly what it represents.
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First of all, the
little horn rises after
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the ten are in place.
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The ten are the
divisions of Rome,
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what today is Western Europe,
which means that the little horn
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was going to arise after the
year 476, when the Roman empire
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was divided, because the
little horn rises among the ten,
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and after the ten.
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So the first two characteristics
that show who this little horn
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is, is first of all it
rises after the ten horns;
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secondly it rises
among the ten horns;
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thirdly it
rises from the dragon.
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So let me ask you, must the
little horn be Roman? Of course.
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It rises from the
head of the fourth beast.
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The fourth beast is Rome.
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So this little
horn must be Roman.
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4. He uproots three
of the ten kingdoms.
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5. He speaks great words
against God, which Revelation
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identifies as blasphemies.
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6. He persecutes the
saints of the Most High.
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He persecutes the saints of God.
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7. He rules for time,
times, and half a time.
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And, by the way, that is
equivalent to 1,260 days.
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But in prophecy days are equal
to years, which means that the
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little horn
governs for 1,260 years.
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Characteristic 8. The little
horn thought that he could
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change God's holy law.
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Characteristic 9. The little
horn thought that he could
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change God's times.
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And 10. And this is what we're
going to dwell on especially,
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the little horn will have
another period of dominion
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after its power was taken away
at the end of the 1,260 years.
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In other words, the little horn
has two periods of dominion:
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a past stage,
and a future stage.
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Now the question is, What
does this little horn represent?
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I'm going to be
open and frank with you.
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There is only one power in
the world that fits every single
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one of these characteristics
that we've taken a look at,
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and that is the
Roman Catholic Papacy.
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And let me go quickly
through the reasons why.
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1. Did the papacy rise
after Rome was divided? Yes.
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Did the papacy arise among the
nations of Western Europe? Yes.
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Did the papacy rise
from Rome, the fourth beast,
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the fourth kingdom? Yes.
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Did the papacy uproot
three of those kingdoms? Yes.
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I wish I had time to
talk more about that.
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The Vandals, the Heruli,
and the Ostrogoths were uprooted
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by the papacy, because
they did not agree with
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the papacy's theology.
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The great words are blasphemies,
are defined in the Bible as
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someone who claims to be
God on earth, and someone who
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claims to have the
power to forgive sins.
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Does the papacy claim, at least
did it claim in the past, that
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the Pope is the representative
of God on earth? Absolutely.
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Does the papacy say that it
has the right to forgive sins?
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Absolutely. It's
called the confessional.
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Did the Roman Catholic
Papacy persecute the saints
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of the Most High?
It most certainly did.
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You know of things, for
example, like the Inquisition.
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Did the Roman Catholic Papacy
rule for exactly 1,260 years?
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Absolutely. From 538 to 1798.
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Did the papacy claim to have
power to change God's holy law?
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Absolutely. You look in the
Catechism's, and we're going to
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talk more about this in a future
lecture, you'll find in the
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Catechism's that the second
commandment has disappeared.
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So when you take out one
commandment, you still have to
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have ten, so the
Catechism's divide the tenth
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commandment in two.
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And they say, Don't
covet your neighbor's goods,
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and don't covet your neighbor's
wife, as if those are two
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separate and
different commandments.
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Furthermore, the
papacy, as we're going to study,
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has claimed to have the power
to change God's holy day of rest
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from Sabbath to Sunday.
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That's where the observance
of Sunday really originates.
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Furthermore, the
papacy made the attempt
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to change God's times.
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Now I don't have time to get
into all of this issue about the
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times, but the word times
in Scripture is referring to
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God's prophetic calendar; how
God says that prophetic events
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are going to take
place or transpire.
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And if I had time I would talk
to you about two Roman Catholic
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priests who actually
established two rival methods of
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interpreting prophecy.
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One is preterism, established by
Luis De Alcazar, who said that
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the prophecies about the
antichrist were fulfilled
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in the past with
a nasty individual
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called Antiochus Epiphanes.
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And another one arose, Francisco
Ribera, who said that prophecy,
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you know, all those
prophecies about the antichrist,
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they're going to be
fulfilled in the distant future.
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And so what happened is God's
prophetic calendar, which showed
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that the papacy was fulfilling
these prophecies, was changed
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to the past, and
to the distant future.
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Certainly the papacy attempted
to change God's prophetic times.
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So every single detail fits the
Roman Catholic papacy to a T.
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Now I mentioned that
the papacy actually has two
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stages of dominion.
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Now let me explain that in
Daniel 7 the second stage of
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the dominion of
the papacy is implicit.
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It's not explicit.
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In other words, we
know that it's there,
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but it's not explicitly there.
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You say, How do we know that?
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Well, Daniel 7:26, 27 tells
us something very important.
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It says there:
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That is the
little horn's dominion.
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Question: Is the little horn the
power that is going to be ruling
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when Jesus comes? Yes, because
it says here that dominion will
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be taken away from him and given
to the saints of the Most High.
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That means that the papacy must
have two periods of dominion:
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one in the past 1,260 years, and
one in the future, where it will
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control, basically, the
political systems of the world,
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as we're going to
study, and will be destroyed
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by the brightness of
the coming of Christ.
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And so, clearly this
prophecy is pointing towards
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the Roman Catholic papacy.
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Now I'd like to review then
the four stages of this fourth
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beast that we're talking
about in our lecture today.
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The first stage of this
fourth beast is the fourth
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beast ruling by itself.
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That's Rome, the Roman Empire.
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The second stage is Rome in a
divided state; the ten kingdoms
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that came forth from Rome.
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The third stage is
the little horn ruling
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during the 1,260 years.
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And the fourth stage is when
the little horn rises once again
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to power at the end of time.
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Now Revelation 13:1-10
describes this same power,
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only it doesn't call
this power the little horn.
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It calls this power the beast.
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In fact, go with me
to Revelation 13:1, 2,
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Revelation 13:1, 2.
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You're going to see an
immediate link with the
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prophecy of Daniel 7. It says:
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Question: Do we have the
same beasts in Revelation 13:2
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as we found in
Daniel 7? Absolutely.
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Is there a link then between
Daniel 7 and Revelation 13?
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Absolutely. You have a lion,
a bear, a leopard, a dragon,
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and, by the way,
Revelation 12 says that the
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dragon has ten horns.
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And then the dragon
with ten horns gives his
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power to the beast.
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So I want you to notice this.
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In Daniel 7 you have
lion, bear, leopard, dragon,
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ten horns, little horn.
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In Revelation 13 you
have lion, bear, leopard,
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dragon, ten horns, beast.
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In other words, the little
horn is the same as the beast,
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because you have the
same sequence of powers.
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And not only the same sequence
of powers, but the beast does
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the same things that
the little horn did for the
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same period of time.
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Notice Revelation 13, so
that you can catch the clear
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reference to the same
activities, and time period of
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the beast that the
little horn exercised.
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Revelation 13:5:
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This is the beast.
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Is that what the
little horn did? Absolutely.
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And he was given authority
to continue how long? 42 months.
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Is that the same as time, times,
and a half time? Absolutely.
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3.5 times, or 31/2 years times
360 days each year, is 1,260.
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42 months, times 30
days each month is 1,260.
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It's the same time period.
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And notice what it continues
saying. This is verse 7.
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So let me ask you, Is the
sequence of powers the same in
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Daniel 7, and in
Revelation 13? Absolutely.
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Are their activities
the same? Absolutely!
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So there's two ways we can
know that the little horn is
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the same as the beast:
1. Because it's the same
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sequence of powers.
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2. Because the little horn,
and the beast perform the same
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activities during
the same period of time.
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But you remember that
in Daniel 7 we noticed that
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the second stage of the
little horn is implicit.
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We know that the little horn's
going to be ruling when Christ
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comes, so it's going to
have another stage of power,
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or another stage of dominion,
but it doesn't come out real
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clearly in the text.
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But in Revelation 13 it comes
out very clearly that the little
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horn has two
stages, or the beast has two
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stages of existence.
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Notice Revelation 13:3.
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Who was mortally wounded?
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One of the heads of the beast.
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And that was it, right?
he received a deadly wound;
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finished forever. No, it says:
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So do we have four stages,
clearly, of this Roman power,
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this number four power.
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Do we have four
stages, very clearly? Yes.
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We have the dragon by itself.
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We have the dragon
with the ten horns.
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We have the dragon
with the little horn.
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The little horn
receives a deadly wound.
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And then the
deadly wound is healed.
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That's stage number four.
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Rome, Rome divided,
Papal Rome in its first stage,
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1,260 years, and then
Rome recovering its power after
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it receives the deadly wound.
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Now we need to ask some critical
questions about this deadly
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wound that the beast received
at the end of the 1,260 years.
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Here are the questions that
we're going to attempt to answer
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in the last part
of our study today.
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With what weapon
was the beast wounded?
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What weapon gave the
beast it's deadly wound?
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Question 2 is going
to answer Question 1.
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What does the sword represent?
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See, the beast received the
deadly wound with the sword.
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What does the sword represent?
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3. How and when did the
beast acquire the sword,
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because the Bible says
that he killed with sword,
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and he would be
killed with the sword.
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So the question is, How
did the beast acquire the sword
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so that he could
kill with that sword?
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4. What is the
meaning of the deadly wound?
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In what sense was the
beast wounded to death?
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5. What keeps the
deadly wound from healing?
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Because this beast
convalesces for awhile.
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What keeps the
deadly wound from healing?
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And finally, when
and how will the wound be
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healed, and by whom?
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Now, first of all, we want
to talk about the weapon that
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wounded the beast.
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Revelation 13:10 tells us
what weapon wounded the beast.
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It says there:
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Which is what the beast
did; you read the context.
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What did the
beast use the sword for?
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The beast used
the sword to kill.
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And the same sword that the
beast used to kill would be the
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sword that would what?
would give it the deadly wound.
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Someone might object
and say, Well, Pastor Bohr,
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but it doesn't really
say there that the beast was
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killed with the sword.
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It says, Whoever
kills with the sword,
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will be killed with the sword.
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But notice verse
14 of chapter 13.
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And here it's explicit that
it was the beast that killed
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with the sword, and the beast
that was killed with the sword,
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or received the mortal wound.
00:22:15.50\00:22:17.27
It says in Revelation 13:14,
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Now listen to this.
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So who was wounded
with the sword? the beast.
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So the beast used
the sword to kill.
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And the same sword that
it used to kill was going to
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give the beast the deadly wound.
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So the question
is, what is the sword?
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Well, in the Bible the sword
has two different meanings.
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Let's go to Ephesians
6:17 where we have the first
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meaning of the sword. It says:
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So what does the sword
represent in the first instance?
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It represents what?
the word of God, the Bible.
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Let me ask you, To whom
did Jesus give this sword?
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We studied this
in our last lecture.
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To whom did He give this sword?
00:23:23.67\00:23:25.67
He gave this sword
to the church. Right?
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And how does the church use this
sword? by preaching the word of
00:23:28.77\00:23:32.91
God through the power
of the Holy Spirit, right?
00:23:32.94\00:23:35.44
This sword
belongs to the church.
00:23:35.51\00:23:37.41
But let me ask you,
Does the Bible speak about
00:23:37.45\00:23:41.05
a different sword?
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It most certainly does.
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By the way, this is not the
sword that wounded the beast.
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You say, How do we know
that it wasn't this sword
00:23:47.12\00:23:50.26
that wounded the beast?
00:23:50.29\00:23:51.63
Because the prophecy says that
the beast killed with the sword,
00:23:51.66\00:23:55.06
and he would be
killed with the sword.
00:23:55.10\00:23:57.57
Let me tell you, the
papacy did not use the
00:23:57.60\00:24:00.10
Bible to kill people.
00:24:00.14\00:24:01.47
In fact it forbade, for a long
time, the reading of the Bible.
00:24:01.50\00:24:05.91
And so it cannot
mean the Bible here.
00:24:05.94\00:24:08.71
The sword must
represent something
00:24:08.74\00:24:11.48
different than Scripture.
00:24:11.51\00:24:12.98
And in the Bible, by the
way, symbols are flexible.
00:24:13.01\00:24:16.38
They can have different
meanings in different context.
00:24:16.42\00:24:20.06
So the question is, What
does the sword represent?
00:24:20.09\00:24:23.66
Romans 13:1-4 has the
answer, Romans 13:1-4.
00:24:23.69\00:24:29.83
What is meant by the
authority, by the way?
00:24:42.78\00:24:44.45
All the times it's used here?
00:24:44.58\00:24:46.11
It's referring
to the government,
00:24:46.15\00:24:47.62
the civil government.
00:24:47.65\00:24:48.98
These are civil rulers.
00:24:58.99\00:25:00.33
That is of the civil government?
00:25:06.77\00:25:08.44
Now don't miss this point.
00:25:18.71\00:25:20.08
Is there another
sword in Scripture? Yes.
00:25:34.50\00:25:37.50
What is that sword?
00:25:37.53\00:25:38.87
It's the sword that is in
the hand of the civil power.
00:25:38.90\00:25:41.37
Now listen to
what I'm going to say.
00:25:41.40\00:25:43.77
Is this sword the Bible? No.
00:25:43.81\00:25:46.61
This sword is the mandate that
God has given to the civil power
00:25:46.64\00:25:53.72
to punish
violations of civil law.
00:25:53.75\00:25:57.85
Not religious law, but
civil law, as we studied
00:25:57.92\00:26:01.92
in our last lecture.
00:26:01.96\00:26:03.29
In other words,
there are two swords.
00:26:03.32\00:26:04.89
One sword has been given to
the church, and the other sword
00:26:04.93\00:26:08.30
has been given to the state.
00:26:08.33\00:26:10.13
The sword that has been given
to the church is the Bible.
00:26:10.17\00:26:12.83
The sword that has been given to
the state is that of civil power
00:26:12.87\00:26:17.34
and inflicting penalties on
those who violate civil law.
00:26:17.37\00:26:21.94
Let me ask you, Did
Jesus establish both
00:26:21.98\00:26:24.55
of these kingdoms?
00:26:24.58\00:26:25.91
Did He establish both swords?
00:26:25.95\00:26:28.08
Of course He did. Did
Jesus say, Upon this rock
00:26:28.12\00:26:32.52
I will build My church?
00:26:32.55\00:26:34.46
He most certainly did.
00:26:34.52\00:26:36.36
He said to Peter, I will give
you the keys to the kingdom?
00:26:36.39\00:26:40.60
And He wasn't
only speaking to Peter.
00:26:40.63\00:26:42.56
He was speaking to
all of the apostles.
00:26:42.60\00:26:44.47
In other words, the church is
one kingdom, and the church has
00:26:44.50\00:26:48.54
the sword of the Spirit,
which is the word of God.
00:26:48.57\00:26:51.57
But did God also
establish the civil power? Yes.
00:26:51.61\00:26:54.54
Because in Romans
13 it says clearly that
00:26:54.58\00:26:57.75
he is God's minister.
00:26:57.81\00:26:59.88
Now you remember when
the mob came to arrest Jesus
00:26:59.91\00:27:03.82
in the garden of Gethsemane.
00:27:03.85\00:27:05.45
There was one disciple,
Peter, who wanted to defend
00:27:05.49\00:27:10.39
the kingdom of Christ.
00:27:10.43\00:27:11.76
And how did he
want to defend it?
00:27:11.79\00:27:13.80
Supposedly he was the first
pope, although we know that
00:27:13.83\00:27:18.17
Biblically and
historically, that's not true.
00:27:18.20\00:27:20.24
But, anyway, he took out
his sword, and he swung at
00:27:20.27\00:27:23.74
the servant of the high
priest, and cut off his ear.
00:27:23.77\00:27:27.24
And he wasn't
aiming for his ear.
00:27:27.28\00:27:29.54
He was aiming for
his head, but he missed.
00:27:29.58\00:27:32.91
And what did Jesus say to Peter?
00:27:32.95\00:27:34.78
He said, Well done, Peter.
00:27:34.82\00:27:36.15
Defend My
kingdom with the sword.
00:27:36.18\00:27:37.72
Make everybody obey Me.
00:27:37.75\00:27:39.89
Is that what He said? No!
00:27:39.95\00:27:42.02
Notice the very interesting
words that Peter spoke
00:27:42.06\00:27:48.30
and that Jesus used to
rebuke Peter. Matthew 26:52.
00:27:48.33\00:27:52.23
Are those words very similar to
Revelation 13:10, where it says
00:28:02.71\00:28:06.88
that he who kills with the
sword must be killed with what?
00:28:06.92\00:28:10.59
with the sword. This is
speaking about the sword,
00:28:10.62\00:28:13.72
the literal sword that is
used to defend Christ's kingdom;
00:28:13.76\00:28:16.73
the sword of the
state, of the civil power
00:28:16.76\00:28:19.29
to defend Christ's kingdom.
00:28:19.33\00:28:20.66
And Christ would have
absolutely nothing of it.
00:28:20.70\00:28:22.66
A little bit later Jesus was
in Pilate's court, John 18:36.
00:28:22.70\00:28:28.34
Pilate asked
Jesus, Are you a king?
00:28:28.37\00:28:31.77
And notice what Jesus said.
00:28:31.81\00:28:33.48
How many kingdoms
did Jesus recognize?
00:28:35.21\00:28:37.61
He recognized two
kingdoms. He said:
00:28:37.65\00:28:39.25
They would use the physical
sword. They would fight.
00:28:47.16\00:28:50.76
So the question is,
what is the deadly wound?
00:28:57.73\00:29:01.87
We can only understand the
deadly wound if we understand
00:29:01.90\00:29:05.54
what the sword is.
00:29:05.57\00:29:06.91
The sword that is
spoken of in this prophecy is
00:29:06.94\00:29:10.45
the ability of using
the civil power to those
00:29:10.48\00:29:14.58
who disobey civil law.
00:29:14.62\00:29:17.65
But what
happened with the beast?
00:29:17.69\00:29:19.12
The beast is a
religious power, right?
00:29:19.15\00:29:22.19
And the beast used the sword
to punish everyone who was not
00:29:22.22\00:29:26.63
in agreement with
the beast's theology,
00:29:26.66\00:29:30.17
or belief system, or teachings.
00:29:30.20\00:29:32.63
Are you
understanding what I'm saying?
00:29:32.67\00:29:34.07
In other words, as we've studied
before, it's the church taking
00:29:34.10\00:29:38.17
the sword of the
state to punish dissenters
00:29:38.21\00:29:41.41
who are not in harmony with her.
00:29:41.44\00:29:44.11
And the sword that the church
used, the sword of the state
00:29:44.15\00:29:48.45
that the church used to kill,
would be the sword that would
00:29:48.48\00:29:51.99
arise to give
her the deadly wound.
00:29:52.02\00:29:55.66
In other words, the deadly
wound is nothing less or more
00:29:55.69\00:29:58.83
than taking away from
the hand of the church
00:29:58.86\00:30:01.30
the sword of the state.
00:30:01.33\00:30:03.47
In other words the state was
going to turn against the church
00:30:03.50\00:30:07.24
that had used the power of
the state to persecute people
00:30:07.27\00:30:10.54
who did not
agree with the church.
00:30:10.57\00:30:12.64
Now the question is, How
did the papacy obtain the sword?
00:30:12.67\00:30:16.54
Well, between the year 300 and
the year 476 A.D. there were a
00:30:16.58\00:30:22.82
series of barbarian
invasions into the Roman Empire.
00:30:22.85\00:30:28.52
The last Roman
Emperor was Romulus Agustulus,
00:30:28.56\00:30:32.49
and he was
deposed in the year 476.
00:30:32.53\00:30:35.13
There was no
more Emperor in Rome.
00:30:35.16\00:30:37.17
As a result, Rome became
a kingdom without a ruler.
00:30:37.20\00:30:41.54
Everything was
turned upside down.
00:30:41.57\00:30:43.67
The empire was in disarray,
in a chaotic situation.
00:30:43.71\00:30:49.24
And in this chaotic situation
the barbarian kingdoms enticed
00:30:49.28\00:30:56.62
the Bishop of Rome to bring
law and order to the empire.
00:30:56.65\00:31:01.56
And he accepted not only
the role of being the spiritual
00:31:01.59\00:31:07.40
leader of these kingdoms, but
also the civil, or the political
00:31:07.43\00:31:12.93
leader of these same nations.
00:31:12.97\00:31:14.90
Allow me to read you some very
interesting statements written
00:31:14.94\00:31:19.04
by historians about this event.
00:31:19.07\00:31:21.61
Notice this is from
Cardinal Henry Edward Manning,
00:31:21.64\00:31:28.05
a Cardinal of the
Roman Catholic Church.
00:31:28.08\00:31:29.85
He explains what happened when
the empire fell apart. He says:
00:31:29.88\00:31:34.72
At least he believes so.
00:31:49.54\00:31:50.87
What happened when the successor
of Peter, as he calls him,
00:31:57.65\00:32:02.32
took over the reins of the
civil government? What happened?
00:32:02.35\00:32:05.25
The chains what? fell off.
00:32:05.29\00:32:07.92
So he says: When by divine
intervention the chains fell off
00:32:07.96\00:32:13.26
He further states
this: The papacy...
00:32:23.81\00:32:27.88
So the papacy, while Rome
was in place and governing,
00:32:33.72\00:32:37.85
was what?
restrained, because he says:
00:32:37.89\00:32:40.89
Listen to this.
00:32:47.40\00:32:48.73
So what is the
liberation of the papacy?
00:32:51.90\00:32:54.97
the falling off of the chains.
00:32:55.00\00:32:56.40
It means that now the papacy can
govern, not only in religious
00:32:56.44\00:32:59.64
affairs, but also in
what? in civil affairs.
00:32:59.67\00:33:03.21
And so he says, The papacy
00:33:03.24\00:33:05.45
That's a political power.
00:33:16.19\00:33:17.93
By the way, this is what the
apostle Paul was talking about
00:33:20.76\00:33:23.47
in 2 Thessalonians 2:6, 7.
00:33:23.50\00:33:26.10
Have you ever read about
the mysterious restrainer
00:33:26.13\00:33:28.67
that needed to be
removed for the man of sin
00:33:28.70\00:33:33.27
to manifest himself?
00:33:33.31\00:33:34.64
Notice 2 Thessalonians 2:6, 7.
00:33:34.68\00:33:37.71
The apostle Paul says:
00:33:37.75\00:33:39.31
Restraining the man of sin.
00:33:42.48\00:33:44.99
See, he was restrained.
00:33:45.02\00:33:46.39
By the way, that restrainer,
all of the early church fathers
00:33:46.42\00:33:51.39
say that the restrainer is
the Roman Empire. So it says:
00:33:51.43\00:33:54.50
Which is the
Emperor, by the way.
00:34:04.84\00:34:06.84
So what is it that liberated
the papacy so that it could use
00:34:12.15\00:34:16.28
the sword of civil power?
00:34:16.32\00:34:18.25
It was the fact that the
barbarian invasions threw
00:34:18.29\00:34:21.99
the Roman Empire
into upheaval and chaos,
00:34:22.02\00:34:26.13
and so those nations
said to the Bishop of Rome,
00:34:26.16\00:34:29.50
You need to bring law and order.
00:34:29.53\00:34:31.00
Govern upon us not
only in religious affairs,
00:34:31.03\00:34:35.24
but also in civil affairs.
00:34:35.27\00:34:37.31
I want to read you some
statements from some theologians
00:34:37.34\00:34:40.88
on the style of government that
existed during the Middle Ages.
00:34:40.91\00:34:45.55
This statement is by
James Conroy, a Roman Catholic.
00:34:45.58\00:34:49.75
He says this:
00:34:49.78\00:34:51.12
Notice this.
00:35:02.30\00:35:03.63
Who was that that they asked
to rule? the Bishop of Rome.
00:35:09.67\00:35:13.91
Today he's called the pope.
00:35:13.94\00:35:15.61
Notice the terminology.
00:35:28.49\00:35:29.82
Here's another statement
from another historian,
00:35:42.67\00:35:45.54
Carl Conrad Eckhardt. He says:
00:35:45.57\00:35:48.28
In other words, they
had no political power.
00:35:51.81\00:35:53.55
Also the ten
divisions, the ten horns.
00:36:01.22\00:36:03.53
R. W. Southern,
another historian.
00:36:14.64\00:36:17.44
These are all, by the
way, non-Adventist theologians,
00:36:17.47\00:36:21.64
and historians. R.
W. Southern says this:
00:36:21.68\00:36:24.61
That is civil.
00:36:30.99\00:36:32.32
And John N. Figgis has this
interesting comment. He says:
00:36:41.83\00:36:45.97
Are you catching the picture
of what this is talking about?
00:36:59.95\00:37:02.78
What was the sword that
the Roman Catholic Papacy
00:37:02.82\00:37:05.75
had in its hand?
It was the sword.
00:37:05.79\00:37:07.86
Not of the Bible. It didn't
use the Bible to persuade,
00:37:07.89\00:37:10.53
or to kill people.
00:37:10.56\00:37:11.89
It used the civil power
to accomplish its purposes,
00:37:11.93\00:37:15.06
which it took over
when the Roman Empire fell.
00:37:15.10\00:37:17.90
By the way, it's
interesting to read a bull
00:37:17.93\00:37:22.24
by Pope Bonifus VII.
00:37:22.27\00:37:25.44
It was written in the year 1302.
00:37:25.47\00:37:29.11
The name of the
bull is Unam sanctum.
00:37:29.14\00:37:31.28
And notice how he
interprets the two swords.
00:37:31.31\00:37:34.42
He says this: We are informed
by the texts of the gospels
00:37:34.45\00:37:38.89
that in this church...
00:37:38.92\00:37:41.42
That is the
Roman Catholic Church.
00:37:41.46\00:37:42.79
...and in its
power are two swords.
00:37:42.82\00:37:46.19
So the church
has how many swords?
00:37:46.23\00:37:47.76
According to the Bible, how many
swords does the church have?
00:37:47.80\00:37:50.97
one. According to the Roman
Catholic Church, how many swords
00:37:51.00\00:37:53.87
does he have? two.
00:37:53.90\00:37:55.37
Notice: We are informed by
the texts of the gospels that in
00:37:55.40\00:37:58.74
this church, and in its power,
are two swords: namely the
00:37:58.77\00:38:03.45
spiritual and the temporal.
00:38:03.48\00:38:05.61
Both, therefore, are in
the power of the church.
00:38:05.65\00:38:09.78
That is to say, the spiritual
and the material sword.
00:38:09.82\00:38:13.96
But the former, that is the
spiritual, is to be administered
00:38:13.99\00:38:18.53
for the church, but the
latter, that is the temporal,
00:38:18.56\00:38:22.46
by the church. The former
in the hands of the priest.
00:38:22.50\00:38:26.63
In other words, Scripture
in the hands of the priests;
00:38:26.67\00:38:29.04
and the latter by the
hands of kings and soldiers.
00:38:29.07\00:38:33.54
That's the temporal sword.
00:38:33.58\00:38:34.91
But notice how it ends.
00:38:34.94\00:38:36.28
But at the will and
sufferance of the priest.
00:38:36.31\00:38:39.85
Are you catching what this, what
Revelation is talking about?
00:38:39.88\00:38:43.69
Revelation 13, when it says,
He who kills with the sword
00:38:43.72\00:38:47.26
will be killed with the sword.
00:38:47.29\00:38:48.62
How did the papacy
kill with the sword?
00:38:48.66\00:38:50.63
It did not do it as a
church, it actually influenced
00:38:50.66\00:38:54.56
the state to do it.
00:38:54.60\00:38:55.93
Do you remember our last lecture
where we talked about what
00:38:55.96\00:38:58.37
happened to Jesus?
00:38:58.40\00:38:59.73
Could the church
execute the penalty upon those,
00:38:59.77\00:39:03.00
upon Jesus
Christ? Absolutely not.
00:39:03.04\00:39:06.84
So what did they have to do?
00:39:06.88\00:39:08.38
They had to go to Pilate,
and they had to get the help
00:39:08.41\00:39:11.35
of the civil
power to kill Christ.
00:39:11.38\00:39:13.78
Is that the very same
thing that happened during the
00:39:13.82\00:39:15.98
Middle Ages when the
saints of the Most High
00:39:16.02\00:39:18.75
were killed by
this power? Absolutely.
00:39:18.79\00:39:20.92
That's what prophecy teaches.
00:39:20.96\00:39:22.56
So the question is,
What happened in 1798?
00:39:22.59\00:39:25.43
It must be that the sword
that the beast used to kill,
00:39:25.46\00:39:29.00
that sword arose and
gave it the deadly wound.
00:39:29.03\00:39:33.03
So who would give the
deadly wound to the beast?
00:39:33.07\00:39:35.30
It would have to be
the what? the state.
00:39:35.34\00:39:38.14
The civil power would have
to give the papacy the wound,
00:39:38.17\00:39:41.21
because the sword
represents the civil power.
00:39:41.24\00:39:44.71
So if he killed with the
sword of the civil power,
00:39:44.75\00:39:47.52
and that sword is going to hurt
him, or is going to give him the
00:39:47.55\00:39:51.12
deadly wound, it must mean
that the civil power would give
00:39:51.15\00:39:54.62
the church the deadly wound.
00:39:54.66\00:39:56.46
And that's exactly
what happened in 1798.
00:39:56.49\00:39:59.09
1798 was the culmination
of the French Revolution.
00:39:59.13\00:40:03.60
The French Revolution started
in 1789, and it was a reaction
00:40:03.63\00:40:10.14
against kingly intolerance,
and it was against priestly
00:40:10.17\00:40:14.41
power wrongly exercised.
00:40:14.44\00:40:16.95
And on February 12, 1798 General
Berthier, the general of the
00:40:16.98\00:40:21.85
troops of Napoleon
Bonaparte, entered Vatican City,
00:40:21.88\00:40:24.55
arrested Pope Pius VI, and
took him prisoner to France
00:40:24.59\00:40:29.86
where he died in exile.
00:40:29.89\00:40:32.09
And so everybody thought
that the papacy, at this point,
00:40:32.13\00:40:35.90
had been killed by
this civil power of France.
00:40:35.93\00:40:39.07
In fact, let me read you
some interesting statements from
00:40:39.10\00:40:41.80
historians where they say
that everybody thought that
00:40:41.84\00:40:44.87
the papacy was dead.
00:40:44.91\00:40:46.24
And these are
secular historians.
00:40:46.27\00:40:48.04
Notice this first one.
00:40:48.08\00:40:49.61
The papacy was extinct.
00:40:49.64\00:40:52.61
Not a vestige of
its existence remained.
00:40:52.65\00:40:55.32
And among all the Roman Catholic
powers, not a finger was
00:40:55.35\00:40:59.85
stirred in its defense.
00:40:59.89\00:41:01.22
The Eternal City had no
longer prince or pontiff.
00:41:01.26\00:41:06.96
It's bishop was dying
captive in foreign lands.
00:41:07.00\00:41:10.73
And the decree was already
announced that no successor
00:41:10.77\00:41:13.80
would be allowed in its place.
00:41:13.84\00:41:16.10
In another quotation
Joseph Rickaby says this
00:41:16.14\00:41:20.68
about the French Revolution,
and the deadly wound.
00:41:20.71\00:41:23.14
No wonder that half of Europe
thought Napoleon's veto...
00:41:23.18\00:41:26.98
The veto means that Napoleon
had said, No more pope's.
00:41:27.02\00:41:30.22
No wonder that half of Europe
thought Napoleon's veto would
00:41:30.25\00:41:33.36
be obeyed, and that with
the pope the papacy was dead.
00:41:33.39\00:41:38.06
Another: T. H. Gill in his book,
The Papal Drama, says this about
00:41:38.09\00:41:43.87
what happened in 1798:
Multitudes imagined that the
00:41:43.90\00:41:47.90
papacy was at the point of
death and asked, Would Pius VI
00:41:47.94\00:41:52.47
be the last pontiff? and if the
close of the 18th century would
00:41:52.51\00:41:56.64
be signalized by the
fall of the papal dynasty.
00:41:56.68\00:42:00.12
And one further quotation: The
papacy had suffered its deepest
00:42:00.15\00:42:03.89
humiliation, and
appeared to be annihilated.
00:42:03.92\00:42:07.79
Notice the terminology:
appeared to be annihilated.
00:42:07.82\00:42:10.59
The revolution also dealt it the
wound, which it seemed did not
00:42:10.63\00:42:16.06
want to heal until
far into the 20th century.
00:42:16.10\00:42:20.14
And the ironic thing is that the
first nation that gave the Roman
00:42:20.17\00:42:23.54
Catholic Papacy temporary power
was Clovis, King of the Franks,
00:42:23.57\00:42:27.28
in the year 508. That's why
France is known as the eldest
00:42:27.31\00:42:31.35
daughter of the papacy.
00:42:31.38\00:42:32.81
And the very nation that
first gave temporal power
00:42:32.85\00:42:36.12
to the Roman Catholic
Church withdrew that power,
00:42:36.15\00:42:40.32
ironically, from her in 1798.
00:42:40.36\00:42:43.43
The French
Revolution was a catastrophic
00:42:43.46\00:42:46.19
event for the papacy.
00:42:46.23\00:42:47.90
In fact, in the aftermath
of the French Revolution,
00:42:47.93\00:42:51.43
country after country, in the
Western world turned democratic.
00:42:51.47\00:42:55.94
They were emancipated from the
power of the church during the
00:42:55.97\00:42:59.84
Middle Ages, using
them to persecute the
00:42:59.87\00:43:02.58
saints of the Most High.
00:43:02.61\00:43:03.95
And it appeared
that the papacy was dead.
00:43:03.98\00:43:06.51
Prophecy tells us
that the deadly wound was
00:43:06.55\00:43:10.32
going to be healed.
00:43:10.35\00:43:12.39
Notice Revelation 13:3.
00:43:12.42\00:43:16.22
And I saw one of his heads as
if it had been mortally wounded.
00:43:16.26\00:43:21.16
What was it
wounded with? with a sword.
00:43:21.20\00:43:23.97
What did the beast
wound with? the sword.
00:43:24.00\00:43:27.14
And his deadly wound was healed,
and all the world marveled
00:43:27.17\00:43:31.54
and followed the beast.
00:43:31.57\00:43:32.91
Let me ask you, If the deadly
wound is removing the sword
00:43:32.94\00:43:36.11
from the hand of the
beast, what must be the healing
00:43:36.14\00:43:40.78
of the deadly wound?
00:43:40.82\00:43:42.15
It must be restoring, once
again, the sword to the hand
00:43:42.18\00:43:46.05
of the beast so that the
sword can use the civil power,
00:43:46.09\00:43:49.06
once again, to persecute.
00:43:49.09\00:43:50.99
Are you with me or are
you not with me? I hope so.
00:43:51.03\00:43:54.96
Now the question is, Why hasn't
the mortal wound healed yet?
00:43:55.00\00:43:59.47
Let me read you a
statement by Malachi Martin,
00:43:59.50\00:44:02.87
Roman Catholic Jesuit.
00:44:02.90\00:44:04.74
He wrote in 1986 a
very revealing statement.
00:44:04.77\00:44:08.78
I don't think he really
realized what he was writing,
00:44:08.81\00:44:11.28
and the prophetic
implications of it.
00:44:11.31\00:44:13.62
But he said in 1986: For
1500 years and more Rome...
00:44:13.65\00:44:20.96
He's talking
about the Roman Church.
00:44:20.99\00:44:22.32
...Rome had kept as strong a
hand as possible in each local
00:44:22.36\00:44:27.70
community around the wide world.
00:44:27.73\00:44:29.70
So notice, for 1500 years Rome
had kept a strong hand in every
00:44:29.73\00:44:35.30
local community
around the world.
00:44:35.34\00:44:36.74
And then he says this: By
and large, and admitting some
00:44:36.77\00:44:41.38
exceptions, that
had been the Roman view.
00:44:41.41\00:44:44.41
What had been the Roman view?
exercising power with the what?
00:44:44.45\00:44:49.02
with a strong hand, right?
00:44:49.05\00:44:52.19
That had been the Roman view.
00:44:52.22\00:44:53.69
So he says: By and large,
and admitting some exceptions,
00:44:53.72\00:44:59.06
that had been the Roman view
until 200 years of inactivity
00:44:59.09\00:45:05.83
had been imposed upon the
papacy by the major secular
00:45:05.87\00:45:10.71
powers of the world.
00:45:10.74\00:45:12.11
What is it that keeps
the deadly wound in place?
00:45:12.14\00:45:16.34
The major secular powers of
the world, because they have not
00:45:16.38\00:45:20.98
allowed the papacy
to climb on them again.
00:45:21.02\00:45:23.05
They have not allowed
the papacy to use them.
00:45:23.08\00:45:26.09
Are we starting to
see changes, even within
00:45:26.12\00:45:28.59
the United States of America?
00:45:28.62\00:45:29.96
We most certainly are.
00:45:29.99\00:45:31.73
We're seeing the
church trying to appeal to the
00:45:31.76\00:45:35.20
arm of the state in
order to get her agenda across.
00:45:35.23\00:45:39.83
Now let me ask you, if he wrote
this in 1986, and he says that
00:45:39.87\00:45:43.94
200 years of inactivity
have been imposed by the papacy,
00:45:43.97\00:45:46.78
by the major
secular powers of the world.
00:45:46.81\00:45:48.81
If you go back 200
years where do you arrive?
00:45:48.84\00:45:51.88
You arrive at the time
of the French Revolution.
00:45:51.91\00:45:54.75
He's saying, The French
Revolution imposed 200 years
00:45:54.78\00:45:58.29
of inactivity upon the papacy.
00:45:58.32\00:46:00.36
And that inactivity is
imposed by the major secular
00:46:00.39\00:46:03.66
powers of the
world. Are you with me?
00:46:03.69\00:46:05.43
Ellen White wrote 100 years
before Malachi Martin wrote,
00:46:05.46\00:46:11.03
and notice what she says.
00:46:11.07\00:46:12.83
Let the restraints now imposed
by secular governments...
00:46:12.87\00:46:19.24
Who imposes the restraints?
00:46:19.27\00:46:20.61
Who imposed the restraint back
in the time of the Roman Empire?
00:46:20.64\00:46:24.81
the civil power. But when
the civil power was removed,
00:46:24.85\00:46:28.15
and the sword was given to
the church, the chains fell off.
00:46:28.18\00:46:31.62
The restrainer was
gone. Are you with me?
00:46:31.65\00:46:33.49
So when it receives a deadly
wound, is this power restrained
00:46:33.52\00:46:36.86
again by the secular
powers of the world? Yes.
00:46:36.89\00:46:39.29
Let the restraints now
imposed by secular governments
00:46:39.33\00:46:42.16
be removed, and Rome be
reinstated in her former power,
00:46:42.20\00:46:47.54
and there would
speedily be a revival of her
00:46:47.57\00:46:51.14
tyranny and persecution.
00:46:51.17\00:46:53.74
Let me ask you than,
What is it that keeps the
00:46:53.78\00:46:56.71
deadly wound in place?
00:46:56.75\00:46:58.08
The fact that the state
does not allow itself to be used
00:46:58.11\00:47:02.38
as the state was used
during the Middle Ages.
00:47:02.42\00:47:05.35
When will the
deadly wound be healed?
00:47:05.39\00:47:07.92
When the sword, which turned
against the papacy, will arise
00:47:07.96\00:47:12.86
and be given once again to the
Roman Catholic Papacy to do what
00:47:12.89\00:47:18.07
she did during the 1,260 years.
00:47:18.10\00:47:20.84
Allow me to read you a
very telling statement by
00:47:20.87\00:47:23.74
John W. Robbins. He's
a reformed theologian.
00:47:23.77\00:47:26.71
He's not a
Seventh-day Adventist.
00:47:26.74\00:47:28.08
He quotes actually Ayn
Rand, who wrote this in 1967.
00:47:28.11\00:47:35.22
Notice what it says: The
Catholic Church has never given
00:47:35.25\00:47:38.95
up the hope to re-establish...
00:47:38.99\00:47:41.76
What does re-establish mean?
00:47:41.79\00:47:43.22
Must have lost it, right?
00:47:43.26\00:47:46.53
The Catholic Church has
never given up the hope to
00:47:46.56\00:47:50.07
re-establish the medieval
union of church and state.
00:47:50.10\00:47:53.80
So are church and
state united today? No.
00:47:53.84\00:47:56.27
She needs to
re-establish it, right?
00:47:56.30\00:47:57.81
With a global state,
and a global theocracy
00:47:57.84\00:48:03.85
as its ultimate goal, the
Roman Church state is a hybrid;
00:48:03.88\00:48:08.78
a monster of ecclesiastical
and political power.
00:48:08.82\00:48:14.42
What kind of power?
ecclesiastical and what?
00:48:14.46\00:48:17.89
political power. It's political
thought is totalitarian.
00:48:17.93\00:48:22.70
And whenever it has had
the opportunity to apply its
00:48:22.73\00:48:26.94
principles, the result
has been bloody repression.
00:48:26.97\00:48:30.91
If during the last 30 years
it has softened its ascertains
00:48:30.94\00:48:35.68
of full supreme and
irresponsible power,
00:48:35.71\00:48:38.71
and has murdered fewer people
than before, such changes in
00:48:38.75\00:48:42.45
behavior are not due to a change
in its ideas, but to a change in
00:48:42.48\00:48:46.96
it's circumstances.
00:48:46.99\00:48:48.59
Folks, because it
has a deadly wound.
00:48:48.62\00:48:51.23
Notice what he continues saying.
00:48:51.26\00:48:54.16
The Roman Church state in
the 20th century, however,
00:48:54.20\00:48:57.83
is an institution...
00:48:57.87\00:48:59.20
This is not a
Seventh-day Adventist.
00:48:59.23\00:49:00.74
I don't think he interprets
Revelation 13 the way we do.
00:49:00.77\00:49:03.10
But he says, The Roman Church
state in the 20th century,
00:49:03.14\00:49:06.54
however, is an institution
recovering from a mortal wound.
00:49:06.57\00:49:10.35
If, and when,... We would
not say if, we would say when.
00:49:10.38\00:49:14.65
But he says, If, and
when, it regains its full power,
00:49:14.68\00:49:19.89
and authority, it will impose
a regime more sinister than any
00:49:19.92\00:49:26.29
the planet has yet seen.
00:49:26.33\00:49:28.46
What's going to happen
when the beast receives
00:49:28.50\00:49:31.73
the sword once again?
00:49:31.77\00:49:33.10
It is going to have worldwide
dominion, and it is going to
00:49:33.13\00:49:36.60
persecute like
it did in the past,
00:49:36.64\00:49:38.44
no matter what it
might appear like right now.
00:49:38.47\00:49:40.91
By the way, Dave
Hunt caught this.
00:49:40.94\00:49:43.11
He wrote a book called,
A Woman Rides the Beast.
00:49:43.14\00:49:47.05
Now a lot of the ideas in
that book I don't agree with,
00:49:47.08\00:49:50.65
because I think there's a lot
of error, but one thing that he
00:49:50.69\00:49:53.69
gets straight is that the woman
that rides the beast represents
00:49:53.72\00:49:57.99
the Roman Catholic
Church, and the beast represents
00:49:58.03\00:50:01.13
the civil powers of the world.
00:50:01.16\00:50:02.53
He got that right.
00:50:02.56\00:50:03.90
Now notice what he says.
00:50:03.93\00:50:05.47
Do you remember we spoke about
this system being the harlot?
00:50:05.50\00:50:08.24
Notice what Dave Hunt says.
00:50:08.27\00:50:10.71
Why do world leaders want
to get in bed with the Vatican?
00:50:10.74\00:50:14.71
Do you notice the fornication
metaphor being used there?
00:50:14.74\00:50:18.28
The heads of state in today's
world all recognize that the
00:50:18.31\00:50:23.05
pope wields a power,
which in many ways is even
00:50:23.08\00:50:26.09
greater than their own.
00:50:26.12\00:50:27.46
It is not only Catholicism's 900
million subjects, and enormous
00:50:27.49\00:50:32.09
wealth that causes the world's
most powerful governments to
00:50:32.13\00:50:35.16
call to make friendly relations
with the Roman Catholic Church.
00:50:35.20\00:50:38.60
It is because Vatican City
citizens are found in great
00:50:38.63\00:50:42.10
numbers in nearly every country.
00:50:42.14\00:50:43.81
They constitute an international
network that reaches into the
00:50:43.84\00:50:48.91
inside circles of the
world's power centers.
00:50:48.94\00:50:53.21
Malachi Martin wrote a
book, a very famous book,
00:50:53.25\00:50:57.69
The Keys of This Blood.
00:50:57.72\00:50:59.05
He speaks about three systems
that are vying for the dominion
00:50:59.09\00:51:02.82
of the world:
capitalism, communism,
00:51:02.86\00:51:05.19
and Roman Catholicism.
00:51:05.23\00:51:07.03
And I want you to
notice what he says.
00:51:07.06\00:51:08.60
This is a Jesuit priest.
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By the way, he died
under mysterious circumstances.
00:51:10.20\00:51:13.03
Notice what it says in The
Keys of This Blood, page 18.
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There is one great similarity
shared by all three of these
00:51:15.84\00:51:19.51
global escapetitors:
that is communism, capitalism,
00:51:19.54\00:51:22.41
and Roman Catholicism.
00:51:22.44\00:51:23.78
Each one has in mind a
particular grand design for
00:51:23.81\00:51:27.62
one world governance.
00:51:27.65\00:51:28.98
What do each one of them want?
one world what? governance.
00:51:29.02\00:51:32.52
Their geo-political competition
is about which of the three
00:51:32.55\00:51:37.39
will form, dominate, and
run the world system that will
00:51:37.43\00:51:43.26
replace the
decaying nation system.
00:51:43.30\00:51:46.74
And then in some chilling words
on page 16, he tells us this:
00:51:46.77\00:51:52.27
No holds barred, because
once the competition has been
00:51:52.31\00:51:56.18
decided, the world and all
that's in it: our way of life
00:51:56.21\00:52:00.08
as individuals, and as citizens
of the nations, our families,
00:52:00.12\00:52:03.28
and our jobs, our
trade, and commerce, and money,
00:52:03.32\00:52:05.85
our educational systems, and
our religions, and our cultures,
00:52:05.89\00:52:09.62
even the badges of our national
identity, which most of us have
00:52:09.66\00:52:13.73
always taken for granted,
all will have been powerfully,
00:52:13.76\00:52:17.30
and radically altered forever.
00:52:17.33\00:52:19.63
No one can be
exempted from its effects.
00:52:19.67\00:52:22.80
No sector of our
lives will remain untouched.
00:52:22.84\00:52:26.07
Nobody who is acquainted with
the plans of these three rivals
00:52:26.11\00:52:30.31
has any doubt but that
only one of them can win.
00:52:30.35\00:52:36.02
Is that chilling? Does that
tell you what the objective of
00:52:37.75\00:52:41.22
the Roman Catholic Church is?
00:52:41.29\00:52:42.62
It's world dominion by
once again sitting on the civil
00:52:42.66\00:52:46.49
powers of the world
to dominating control
00:52:46.53\00:52:48.93
as she did in the past.
00:52:48.96\00:52:50.30
You say, Well, she sounds
so nice now, so conciliatory.
00:52:50.33\00:52:54.20
That's true! But let me say
folks, and I say this solemnly,
00:52:54.24\00:52:58.14
that's the way the Devil works.
00:52:58.17\00:52:59.51
The Devil doesn't work openly.
00:52:59.54\00:53:01.88
He works underground.
00:53:01.91\00:53:03.58
He makes evil look good,
and he makes good look evil.
00:53:03.61\00:53:08.12
Now what about the time frame?
00:53:08.18\00:53:10.42
How soon, in the mind of
Malachi Martin, is this dominion
00:53:10.45\00:53:14.32
going to take place?
00:53:14.36\00:53:15.69
He says in his book, The
Keys of This Blood, pages 15-16,
00:53:15.72\00:53:21.06
the following: As to the time
factor involved, those of us who
00:53:21.10\00:53:26.57
are under seventy will see
at least the basic structures
00:53:26.60\00:53:31.57
of the New World
government installed.
00:53:31.64\00:53:34.21
And he says, under the Roman
Catholic Papacy. Remember this.
00:53:34.24\00:53:39.41
Those of us under 40 will surely
live under its legislative
00:53:39.45\00:53:44.55
executive and
judiciary authority and control.
00:53:44.59\00:53:48.99
You need to get a copy
of that book and read it.
00:53:49.02\00:53:53.43
I mean it's not covert.
00:53:53.46\00:53:56.30
There's nothing hidden there.
00:53:56.33\00:53:58.00
It openly tells you
what the objective of the
00:53:58.03\00:54:00.44
Roman Catholic Church is.
00:54:00.47\00:54:01.80
And, by the way, Malachi Martin
says it's inevitable that the
00:54:01.84\00:54:07.08
papacy is going to be
the winner, because God has
00:54:07.11\00:54:09.51
willed it that way.
00:54:09.54\00:54:10.88
That's why he calls it
The Keys of This Blood.
00:54:10.91\00:54:13.11
God has said that that's
the way it's going to be,
00:54:13.15\00:54:15.72
and no human
being can prevent it.
00:54:15.75\00:54:17.95
Now here's the big question:
How is this deadly wound
00:54:17.99\00:54:25.36
going to be healed?
00:54:25.39\00:54:26.73
Who is going to
bring about its healing?
00:54:26.76\00:54:30.40
And how is it going to happen?
00:54:30.43\00:54:33.90
We're going to study
this in our next lecture:
00:54:37.44\00:54:41.11
Revelation's Land Beast.
00:54:41.14\00:54:44.41
We're going to find that
the deadly wound will be healed
00:54:44.45\00:54:48.18
by the most
unlikely nation in the world.
00:54:48.22\00:54:51.52
A nation that rises from
the earth, and has two horns
00:54:53.39\00:54:58.06
like a lamb, but ends
up speaking like a dragon.
00:54:58.09\00:55:02.96
You say, Pastor Bohr,
what nation in its right mind
00:55:03.00\00:55:07.80
would return the sword to the
papacy, knowing the historical
00:55:07.84\00:55:11.64
track record of the papacy?
00:55:11.67\00:55:13.24
What nation in its right
mind would do such a thing?
00:55:13.27\00:55:17.11
The problem is that this
nation is not going to be
00:55:17.15\00:55:20.92
in its right mind.
00:55:20.98\00:55:22.32
Remember when we talked
about the wine of Babylon?
00:55:22.35\00:55:27.49
The wine of
Babylon makes people drunk.
00:55:27.52\00:55:30.13
And when they're drunk
they can't think straight.
00:55:30.16\00:55:34.03
Jeremiah 51:7 says that
through the wine of Babylon
00:55:34.06\00:55:37.90
the nations became mad.
00:55:37.93\00:55:40.24
In Hebrew it means that
the nations became deranged;
00:55:40.30\00:55:44.51
mentally ill, if you please.
00:55:46.84\00:55:49.34
The nations became as a result
of drinking the wine of Babylon,
00:55:49.38\00:55:53.98
which are her false doctrines.
00:55:54.02\00:55:55.45
One of those great false
doctrines is the idea that the
00:55:55.48\00:55:59.35
church has two swords.
00:55:59.39\00:56:00.72
And the church cannot
only preach God's word,
00:56:00.76\00:56:03.26
but the church can also use
the sword of the state to punish
00:56:03.29\00:56:07.03
dissenters who do not
agree with her doctrines,
00:56:07.06\00:56:09.53
and don't do
exactly what she says.
00:56:09.56\00:56:12.23
Now if you live in the
United States you know that some
00:56:12.27\00:56:15.84
amazing things have
happened in the last few years:
00:56:15.87\00:56:18.54
Some ex-president's kneeling
before the body of John Paul II,
00:56:18.57\00:56:24.31
the pope visiting the White
House, receiving a standing
00:56:24.35\00:56:31.55
ovation in the United Nations,
and many religious leaders
00:56:31.59\00:56:38.76
coming to a cathedral
in New York when he visited
00:56:38.79\00:56:44.40
the United States, including
representatives from practically
00:56:44.43\00:56:48.80
every major
Protestant denomination.
00:56:48.84\00:56:51.71
And each one of these leaders...
00:56:51.77\00:56:53.27
I watched it on television.
00:56:53.31\00:56:54.64
The Protestant churches came
forward and shook his hands,
00:56:54.68\00:56:58.18
and some of them even giving
him a bow, and saying some
00:56:58.21\00:57:01.95
real kind words to him.
00:57:01.98\00:57:03.32
Listen, if they understood
Bible prophecy as it was
00:57:03.35\00:57:06.92
understood 200-250 years
ago, they wouldn't even come
00:57:06.96\00:57:10.83
anywhere near this system.
00:57:10.86\00:57:12.19
But people have
forgotten the roots of prophecy.
00:57:12.23\00:57:16.63
So, folks, don't miss the next
exciting episode in this series:
00:57:16.67\00:57:21.34
The Beast That
Rose From the Earth.
00:57:21.37\00:57:25.27