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01:00 >>THIS PRESENTATION IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE FRIENDS OF THE
01:03 AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY. 01:09 >>THERE ARE FEW HUMANS WHOSE INTELLECT COULD MATCH THE GENIUS 01:12 OF LEONARDO DA VINCI, ONE OF THE GREATEST ARTISTS AND INVENTORS 01:16 OF ALL TIME. PROBABLY, HE'S MOST RENOWN 01:19 FOR HIS MONA LISA PAINTING. LEONARDO ALSO EXCELLED IN THE 01:24 FIELDS OF SCIENCE, OPTICS, ENGINEERING, ANATOMY, BOTANY, 01:30 ARCHITECTURE, GEOLOGY, ZOOLOGY, MECHANICS, AND MANY MORE. 01:35 IN MANY OF THESE AREAS HE WAS FAR AHEAD OF HIS TIME. 01:39 FOR EXAMPLE, HE DREW DESIGNS THAT WERE THE EQUIVALENT OF A 01:43 HELICOPTER, ONE FOR A PARACHUTE, A DIVING SUIT, AN ARMORED TANK, 01:48 AND MANY OTHER FASCINATING INVENTIONS OF OUR DAY. 01:51 HE EVEN BUILT A ROBOT CAPABLE OF WALKING, SITTING, AND MOVING ITS 01:55 JAW - AND SOME OF HIS ROBOTIC CONCEPTS ARE CURRENTLY BEING PUT 01:59 TO USE IN ROBOTS FOR SPACE EXPLORATION TODAY. 02:02 LOOKING BACK, IT ALMOST SEEMS LIKE LEONARDO COULD SEE INTO THE 02:06 FUTURE. WE MIGHT WONDER IF ANYONE 02:09 REALLY CAN PREDICT THE FUTURE. IN ANCIENT BABYLON, THE 02:13 PROPHET DANIEL INFORMED KING NEBUCHADNEZZAR ABOUT THE GOD OF 02:16 HEAVEN WHO REVEALED THE DEEP AND SECRET THINGS OF THE FUTURE. 02:20 SO JOIN ME NOW, FRIENDS, AS WE DISCOVER WHAT GOD'S WORD REALLY 02:23 SAYS ABOUT THE MYSTERIOUS BEASTS FROM THE PROPHECIES OF DANIEL 02:28 AND REVELATION. 02:34 >>A LITTLE WHILE AGO - A FEW YEARS AGO - A TEENAGE GIRL IN 02:37 VIRGINIA WAS KIND OF SHOCKED WHEN SHE SAW, IN HER BACKYARD, A 02:42 TURTLE WITH TWO HEADS. >>WOW. 02:44 >>AND SHE FELT SORRY FOR THE POOR THING AND WAS A LITTLE 02:48 SHOCKED AND DIDN'T KNOW EXACTLY HOW TO REACT. 02:50 SHE TRIED TO FEED IT SOME LETTUCE AND BOTH HEADS WERE SORT 02:52 OF FIGHTING FOR THE LETTUCE. BELIEVE IT OR NOT, 02:55 TWO-HEADEDNESS IS NOT COMPLETELY UNHEARD OF IN THE 02:59 ANIMAL KINGDOM. USUALLY THOSE CREATURES DO NOT 03:02 LIVE VERY LONG BECAUSE THEY FEEL - THE TWO MINDS ARE TELLING THE 03:07 BODY TO DO TWO DIFFERENT THINGS AND THEY CAN NEVER SEEM TO AGREE 03:11 AND THEY JUST DON'T SEEM TO SURVIVE IN THE WILD. 03:14 BUT YOU'VE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING WITH FOUR HEADS AND YOU'VE NEVER 03:19 SEEN ANYTHING WITH SEVEN HEADS, BUT THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT 03:23 CREATURES WITH FOUR HEADS AND SEVEN HEADS AND, IN PARTICULAR, 03:27 THERE'S A CREATURE THAT KEEPS REAPPEARING IN THE BOOK OF 03:31 REVELATION WITH SEVEN HEADS AND TEN HORNS, AND YOU'LL FIND THE 03:35 TEN HORNS ON ANOTHER BEAST IN THE BOOK OF DANIEL. 03:38 AND, AS WE LOOK AT THE EVIDENCE, YOU'LL SEE THAT THIS IS 03:42 TYPICALLY TALKING ABOUT THE SAME POWER. 03:45 WE NEED TO IDENTIFY THAT POWER BECAUSE IT'S ONE OF THE MAIN 03:49 PLAYERS IN THE LAST DAYS. THE PRESENTATION TONIGHT IS 03:51 DEALING WITH THE SUBJECT A WOMAN RIDES A BEAST . 03:55 AND THIS HEARKENS FROM A PROPHECY AND A PICTURE THAT 03:58 YOU'LL FIND IN REVELATION 17. 04:01 NOW, IN THIS PRESENTATION, IN PARTICULAR, WE'RE GOING TO BE 04:03 TALKING ABOUT, 'WHAT IS THIS BEAST THAT KEEPS REAPPEARING IN 04:09 THE BOOKS OF REVELATION AND DANIEL?' 04:12 IF YOU HAVE YOUR BIBLES YOU'LL WANT TO TAKE A LOOK AT 04:13 REVELATION CHAPTER 17 AND THERE IT SAYS, "SO HE CARRIED ME AWAY 04:19 IN THE SPIRIT INTO THE WILDERNESS. 04:22 AND I SAW A WOMAN SITTING ON A SCARLET BEAST WHICH WAS FULL OF 04:27 NAMES OF BLASPHEMY, HAVING SEVEN HEADS AND TEN HORNS." 04:32 NOW, WE DISCUSSED THIS EARLIER AND WE'LL GIVE YOU SOME MORE 04:34 SCRIPTURES FOR IT, BUT IN THESE BIBLE SYMBOLS A WOMAN REPRESENTS 04:38 A CHURCH. 'HUSBANDS LOVE YOUR WIVES,' PAUL 04:42 SAYS, 'EVEN AS CHRIST LOVED THE CHURCH AND GAVE HIMSELF FOR IT. 04:46 I'VE LIKENED THE DAUGHTER OF ZION TO A DELICATE AND COMELY 04:48 WOMAN.' ALL THROUGH THE OLD TESTAMENT 04:51 GOD COMPARES ISRAEL TO HIS BRIDE. 04:54 SO HIS PEOPLE - IT'S OFTEN IDENTIFIED WITH A WOMAN. 04:57 YOU'VE GOT TWO DIFFERENT KINDS OF WOMAN THAT ARE THERE, BOTH IN 05:00 THE OLD AND THE NEW TESTAMENT, THE FAITHFUL AND THE UNFAITHFUL, 05:04 AND THIS WOMAN IS, EVIDENTLY, NOT THE FAITHFUL ONE BECAUSE IT 05:08 SAYS SHE'S GOT A PARAGRAPH ON HER FOREHEAD THAT SAYS, 05:11 'MOTHER OF HARLOTS'. THAT WOULD SORT OF 05:12 BE A CLUE, RIGHT? SHE'S NOT THE FAITHFUL WIFE. 05:16 NOW, YOU SEE THESE TWO WOMEN IDENTIFIED THERE IN REVELATION - 05:19 REVELATION 12 YOU'VE GOT THE GOOD ONE. 05:22 SO, WHAT'S THE CONNECTION NOW BETWEEN THE WOMAN IN REVELATION 05:27 12 - THERE'S ANOTHER BEAST THAT APPEARS TO HER. 05:30 YOU LOOK IN REVELATION 12, VERSE 3, "AND THERE APPEARED ANOTHER 05:33 WONDER IN HEAVEN: AND BEHOLD A GREAT RED DRAGON - SAME AS THE 05:37 SCARLET THAT YOU FIND IN REVELATION 17 - "HAVING SEVEN 05:41 HEADS AND TEN HORNS," - SAME BEAST - "AND SEVEN CROWNS UPON 05:45 HIS HEADS." AND IT GOES ON TO SAY THAT THIS BEAST IS TRYING TO 05:50 ATTACK THIS WOMAN. SO HERE IN REVELATION 17 YOU'VE 05:52 GOT THIS RED SEVEN-HEADED TEN-HORNED BEAST THE 05:56 WOMAN IS RIDING THE BEAST. THEY'RE IN COOPERATION. 05:59 AND THEN YOU GO TO REVELATION 12, THAT SAME BEAST IS TRYING TO 06:02 DESTROY THIS WOMAN. SHE'S CLOTHED WITH LIGHT - 06:05 THE SYMBOL OF GOD'S CHURCH. I HAVE ANOTHER STUDY 06:07 TALKING ABOUT THAT. NOW GO TO REVELATION 13 - YOU 06:12 KNOW REVELATION 13 - YOU'VE HEARD OF 6-6-6? 06:15 >>YEAH. >>MARK OF THE BEAST? 06:16 THAT'S REVELATION 13. AND YOU CAN READ THERE, IT SAYS, 06:21 "AND I SAW A BEAST RISING UP OUT OF THE SEA," - NOTICE THE SEA 06:25 - "HAVING SEVEN HEADS AND TEN HORNS" - SOUND FAMILIAR? 06:30 - "AND ON HIS HORNS TEN CROWNS, AND ON HIS HEADS A BLASPHEMOUS 06:34 NAME." BLASPHEMY IS WHEN SOMEONE 06:37 IS DEGRADING GOD BY PUTTING THEMSELVES IN THE PLACE OF GOD 06:41 OR CLAIMING THE PREROGATIVES OF GOD. AND SO, YOU NOTICE THAT THE 06:45 WOMAN, NAMES OF BLASPHEMY - DANIEL 7 TALKS ABOUT THIS BEAST 06:49 POWER AS BLASPHEMY AND HERE YOU SEE THAT CREATURE AGAIN. 06:53 NOW, I JUST NEED TO TELL EVERYBODY, STRAIGHT UP, AS 06:57 NICELY AS I CAN, THAT - YOU WANT ME TO TELL YOU THE TRUTH, RIGHT? 07:01 >>YEAH. >>PAUL ASKS A QUESTION. 07:04 HE SAID, 'AM I YOUR ENEMY BECAUSE I TELL YOU THE TRUTH?' 07:07 I HOPE YOU DIDN'T COME BECAUSE YOU JUST WANT ME TO PREACH 07:09 SMOOTH THINGS. YOU WANT TO KNOW, 'WHAT 07:11 DOES THE BIBLE REALLY SAY?' IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, GOD'S WORD 07:15 IS VERY FAITHFUL TO NOT ONLY TALK ABOUT THE WAY HE 07:18 WOULD BLESS HIS PEOPLE. AND THERE WERE MANY TIMES GOD'S 07:20 PEOPLE WERE FAITHFUL AND THERE WERE MIRACLES WROUGHT. 07:23 HE SAID, 'ONE OF YOU WILL CHASE A THOUSAND.' AND THEN HE SAID, 07:27 'YOU'LL TURN FROM ME. YOU'LL WORSHIP OTHER GODS.' 07:29 AND HE PROPHESIED THEIR UNFAITHFULNESS. 07:32 AND THE WORD THAT GOD USED, HE SAID, 'YOU WILL GO WHORING AFTER 07:35 OTHER GODS.' HE'S TALKING ABOUT HIS PEOPLE. 07:39 NOW, HE ALSO DOES THAT IN NEW TESTAMENT TIMES. 07:44 EVEN PAUL SAID, 'I KNOW, AFTER MY DEPARTURE, GRIEVOUS WOLVES 07:47 WILL COME IN NOT SPARING THE FLOCK. 07:49 FROM AMONG YOUR OWN SELVES PEOPLE WILL ARISE SPEAKING 07:52 PERVERSE THINGS TO DRAW AWAY DISCIPLES AFTER THEMSELVES.' SO, 07:56 EVEN PAUL PREDICTED SOMETHING'S GOING TO HAPPEN TO THE CHURCH. 07:58 THE DEVIL IS GOING TO COME AFTER THE CHURCH AND THERE'S GOING TO 08:00 BE MAJOR UNFAITHFULNESS. WELL, I'M GOING TO TELL YOU 08:05 RIGHT NOW, IN REVELATION CHAPTER 13 - IT'S NOT JUST ONE BEAST - 08:09 REVELATION CHAPTER 13, THERE ARE TWO BEASTS. DID YOU KNOW THAT? 08:12 WE ALWAYS TALK ABOUT THE MARK OF THE BEAST - CHAPTER ACTUALLY HAS 08:14 TWO BEASTS. YOU SEE IN CHAPTER 13, FIRST FEW 08:18 VERSES TALKS ABOUT THE FIRST BEAST. LATER ON, YOU GET TO 08:22 VERSE 11, IT SAYS, 'AND THEN I SAW A SECOND BEAST.' 08:24 I'LL TELL YOU RIGHT NOW, I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT PEOPLE, I'M 08:28 TALKING ABOUT SYSTEMS AND AREAS WHERE CHURCHES HAVE BEEN 08:33 DISOBEDIENT. AND THIS HAS BEEN FORETOLD IN PROPHECY. 08:37 SO YOU WANT ME TO KEEP GOING? >>YES. 08:39 >>I JUST - I WANT TO BE FAITHFUL. 08:40 I WANT TO BE KIND, BUT I DON'T WANT TO MINCE WORDS WITH YOU. 08:44 SO WITH THAT BACKGROUND, YOU'VE GOT THIS BEAST THAT KEEPS 08:47 APPEARING - SEVEN HEADS, TEN HORNS. 08:49 WE'RE GOING TO FIND OUT 'WHO IS THIS BEAST?' 08:51 IT'S ALSO KNOW AS 'THE ANTICHRIST'. 08:53 NOW, THE WORD 'ANTICHRIST' MEANS 'AGAINST CHRIST'. 08:57 HOW MANY TIMES DOES THE WORD 'ANTICHRIST' APPEAR IN 08:59 REVELATION? NOT AT ALL. I TOLD YOU THAT EARLIER - IT'S 09:04 ONLY IN THE LETTERS OF JOHN. AND JOHN SAYS THERE ALREADY WERE 09:08 MANY ANTICHRISTS, EVEN IN HIS DAY. SO THE WORD 'ANTICHRIST' 09:11 CAN BE USED BROADLY, BUT THE MAIN BEAST IS ALSO CALLED 09:14 'THE ANTICHRIST'. IT'S LIKE THE INDUSTRIAL 09:17 STRENGTH ANTICHRIST ON STEROIDS THAT YOU FIND THERE 09:20 THROUGH THE BOOK. ALRIGHT, SO LET'S FIND 09:22 OUT FIRST ABOUT BEASTS. QUESTION #1: WHAT DOES A 09:26 BEAST REPRESENT IN PROPHECY? WE'RE GOING TO LET THE 09:29 BIBLE EXPLAIN ITSELF. IF YOU LOOK, FOR INSTANCE, IN 09:32 DANIEL CHAPTER 7, VERSE 17, IT SAYS, "THOSE GREAT BEASTS, WHICH 09:37 ARE FOUR, ARE FOUR KINGS WHICH ARISE OUT OF THE EARTH." 09:41 NOT JUST KINGS, BUT IT ALSO INCLUDES KINGDOMS - THOSE GREAT 09:44 BEASTS WHICH ARE FOUR - OR, "THE FOURTH BEAST" - RATHER - "SHALL 09:47 BE THE FOURTH KINGDOM" - SO YOU'VE GOT - IT'S KINGS - IT'S 09:51 KINGDOMS - IT'S TALKING ABOUT POWERS. 09:53 LOOK IN DANIEL 8, VERSE 20 AND YOU'LL SEE THERE WHERE THERE'S 09:56 THIS VISION OF SHEEP AND GOATS AND IT SAYS, 'THE RAM WHICH YOU 10:00 SAW, HAVING THE TWO HORNS - THEY ARE THE KINGS OF MEDIA AND 10:05 PERSIA, AND THE MALE GOAT IS THE KINGDOM OF GREECE." 10:09 SO HERE IT'S GOT A GOAT THAT REPRESENTS - AND IT SAYS THE 10:13 HORN BETWEEN HIS EYES IS THE FIRST KING. 10:16 LATER WE LEARN THAT'S ALEXANDER THE GREAT. 10:19 IT MAKES IT PRETTY CLEAR. SO, YOU KNOW, IF - TODAY, DO 10:23 WE SOMETIMES USE COUNTRIES TO ILLUSTRATE - OR ANIMALS 10:26 TO ILLUSTRATE COUNTRIES? IF I SAY 'BEAR' WHAT 10:29 COUNTRY DO YOU THINK OF? >>RUSSIA. 10:31 >>RUSSIA. AND, IF I SAY EAGLE - >>UNITED STATES. 10:34 >>THE UNITED STATES. AND THE LION IS - 10:37 GREAT BRITAIN, EXACTLY. SO, IT'S NOT NEW OR UNUSUAL. 10:42 COUNTRIES HAVE DONE THAT AND SO GOD DOES THIS ALSO IN PROPHECY. 10:45 ALRIGHT, QUESTION 2: IS THERE A BEAST WITH TEN HORNS IN DANIEL 10:49 CHAPTER 7. NOW WE'RE JUMPING TO THE OLD 10:52 TESTAMENT AND I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE WE SET THE 10:55 FOUNDATION FOR REVELATION. YOU REMEMBER WHAT I SAID, OUT 10:57 OF 404 VERSES IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION, 278 OF THEM ARE 11:03 FOUND ALMOST VERBATIM IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. 11:06 SO, TO UNDERSTAND REVELATION, IT'S ALL ROOTED IN THE OLD 11:10 TESTAMENT. YOU'VE GOT TO GO BACK. 11:13 >>DON'T GO ANYWHERE, FRIENDS, WE'LL BE BACK IN JUST A MOMENT 11:15 WITH THE REST OF TODAY'S PRESENTATION. 11:18 BECAUSE OF ITS MYSTERIOUS SYMBOLISM, MILLIONS FEEL THAT 11:21 THE BOOK OF REVELATION AND ITS PROPHECIES ARE CONFUSING. 11:25 HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED, 'CAN ANYONE REALLY KNOW FOR CERTAIN 11:28 WHAT ALL THIS SYMBOLISM MEANS?' WELL, WE CAN KNOW. 11:33 WHAT IF I TOLD YOU THAT THE KEY TO UNDERSTANDING REVELATION AND 11:36 DECODING YOUR FUTURE IS IN UNDERSTANDING THE PAST, 11:40 BEGINNING IN THE OLD TESTAMENT BOOK OF DANIEL. 11:43 AMAZING FACTS WANTS TO SEND YOU AN INCREDIBLE EYE-OPENING 11:46 MAGAZINE CALLED DANIEL & REVELATION: SECRETS OF PROPHECY . 11:50 IT'S A FREE RESOURCE THAT WILL GUIDE YOU STEP BY STEP THROUGH 11:54 THE BOOKS OF DANIEL AND REVELATION. 11:56 FEATURING STUNNING ARTWORK AND HISTORICAL IMAGES AND FACTS, THE 12:00 TRUE MYSTERIES OF PROPHECY WILL BECOME CLEAR FOR YOU LIKE NEVER 12:03 BEFORE AND YOU'LL EXPERIENCE A PEACE AND ASSURANCE THAT YOU'VE 12:07 NEVER HAD BEFORE. TO GET YOUR FREE COPY, CALL THE 12:10 PHONE NUMBER ON THE SCREEN AND ASK FOR OFFER #604 OR VISIT 12:14 THE WEB ADDRESS. AND, AFTER YOU READ THIS 12:16 INCREDIBLE RESOURCE, BE SURE AND SHARE IT WITH A FRIEND. 12:20 LET'S RETURN, NOW, TO TODAY'S PRESENTATION AND LEARN SOME MORE 12:23 AMAZING FACTS FROM THE WORD OF GOD. 12:27 >>LOOK IN DANIEL CHAPTER 7, VERSES 2 AND 3 AND DANIEL SAYS, 12:32 "...IN MY VISION BY NIGHT, AND BEHOLD, THE FOUR WINDS OF 12:36 HEAVEN WERE STIRRING UP THE GREAT SEA." 12:39 - SO IT TALKS ABOUT THESE WINDS STRIVING - "AND FOUR GREAT 12:42 BEASTS CAME UP FROM THE SEA, EACH DIFFERENT FROM THE OTHER." 12:46 MATTER OF FACT, I'M GOING TO READ SEVERAL VERSES HERE IN 12:48 DANIEL CHAPTER 7 - IF YOU BROUGHT YOUR BIBLE WITH YOU, YOU 12:51 MAY WANT TO JOIN ME AND TURN THERE REAL QUICK. 12:54 LET'S JUST TAKE A LOOK, FOR INSTANCE, VERSE 3 - DANIEL 7:3 - 12:57 "AND FOUR GREAT BEASTS CAME UP FROM THE SEA, EACH DIFFERENT 12:59 FROM THE OTHER. THE FIRST WAS LIKE A LION." 13:02 - LIKE A WHAT? >>LION. 13:04 >>"FIRST WAS LIKE A LION AND IT HAD EAGLE'S WINGS AND I WATCHED 13:08 UNTIL THE WINGS WERE PLUCKED OFF: AND IT WAS LIFTED UP FROM 13:11 THE EARTH AND MADE TO STAND ON TWO FEET LIKE A MAN, AND A MAN'S 13:14 HEART WAS GIVEN TO IT. AND SUDDENLY ANOTHER BEAST, A 13:18 SECOND LIKE A BEAR IT WAS RAISED UP ON ONE SIDE, AND HAD THREE 13:22 RIBS IN ITS MOUTH BETWEEN ITS TEETH. 13:24 AND THEY SAID THUS TO IT: 'ARISE, DEVOUR MUCH FLESH.' AND 13:27 AFTER THIS I LOOKED AND THERE WAS ANOTHER LIKE A LEOPARD WHICH 13:31 HAD ON ITS BACK FOUR WINGS OF A BIRD AND THE BEAST ALSO HAD FOUR 13:34 HEADS" - I TOLD YOU, YOU CAN FIND A BEAST WITH FOUR HEADS IN 13:37 THE BIBLE - "AND DOMINION WAS GIVEN TO IT." 13:40 AND THEN, NOW THIS IS THE BEAST THAT IS THE ANTICHRIST - "AND 13:45 THEN, AFTER THIS, I SAW IN THE NIGHT VISIONS AND BEHOLD, A 13:48 FOURTH BEAST, DREADFUL AND TERRIBLE, EXCEEDINGLY STRONG. 13:53 IT HAD HUGE IRON TEETH: IT WAS DEVOURING, BREAKING IN PIECES, 13:58 AND TRAMPLING THE RESIDUE WITH ITS FEET, IT WAS DIFFERENT FROM 14:01 ALL THE BEASTS THAT WERE BEFORE IT, AND IT HAD TEN HORNS." 14:06 THAT SOUND FAMILIAR? >>YEP. 14:08 >>I JUST WANT TO READ A LITTLE FURTHER. 14:09 LET'S GO TO VERSE 8, "I WAS CONSIDERING THE HORNS, AND THERE 14:13 WAS ANOTHER HORN, A LITTLE ONE, COMING UP AMONG THEM, BEFORE 14:17 WHOM THREE OF THE FIRST HORNS WERE PLUCKED OUT BY THE ROOTS." 14:20 YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU'RE YOUNG AND A KID STARTS GETTING THEIR 14:22 GROWN-UP TEETH AND STARTS PUSHING OUT THE BABY TEETH, IT'S 14:25 ALMOST THAT KIND OF A PICTURE THAT THIS LITTLE HORN COMES UP, 14:28 BUT IT'S PUSHING OUT THREE HORNS AS IT MAKES ITS WAY. 14:31 AND SO - AND IT SAYS, 'IN THIS HORN' - DON'T MISS THIS - "WERE 14:36 EYES LIKE THE EYES OF A MAN, AND A MOUTH SPEAKING POMPOUS WORDS." 14:40 OR THAT CAN BE INTERPRETED 'BLASPHEMOUS' WORDS. 14:44 ALRIGHT, AND THIS FINAL BEAST DANIEL IS REALLY WORRIED ABOUT 14:47 BECAUSE IT PERSECUTES GOD'S PEOPLE, YOU READ ON IN THE REST 14:50 OF THE CHAPTER THERE. BUT I JUST WANT TO GIVE YOU 14:52 THE FOUNDATION ABOUT THE BEAST BECAUSE WE'RE GOING TO TRY 14:54 TO IDENTIFY THIS BEAST IN REVELATION - I SHOULD SAY THE 14:58 BEASTS IN REVELATION - THAT WILL HAVE A PROMINENT ROLE 15:03 IN THE LAST DAYS. AND SO, WE LEARNED THAT ONE OF 15:06 THOSE BEASTS IN DANIEL, THE FOURTH BEAST, ALSO 15:08 HAD TEN HORNS. "...DEVOURING, BREAKING IN 15:11 PIECES, AND TRAMPLING THE RESIDUE WITH ITS FEET. 15:14 IT WAS DIFFERENT FROM ALL THE BEASTS THAT WERE BEFORE IT." 15:17 AND SO I WANT YOU TO NOTICE SOME OF THESE POINTS. 15:20 ALRIGHT, FIRST OF ALL, THESE CREATURES IN DANIEL, THEY COME 15:22 UP OUT OF THE SEA. SO WHAT DOES THE WIND 15:25 AND THE SEA REPRESENT? WELL, WIND, WE TALKED ABOUT THE 15:29 WINDS OF STRIFE THERE, REMEMBER, IN REVELATION CHAPTER 7. 15:33 IT'S TALKING ABOUT TURMOIL AND STRIFE, DESTRUCTION, COMMOTION. 15:37 AND WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT THE WATERS, THE DEFINITION FOR THESE 15:40 SYMBOLS IS IN THE BIBLE. THE ANGEL TOLD JOHN, IN 15:43 REVELATION 17, VERSE 15, "THE WATERS...ARE PEOPLES, AND 15:48 MULTITUDES, AND NATIONS, AND TONGUES." 15:50 HE'S TALKING ABOUT VAST NUMBERS OF PEOPLE. 15:53 BY THE WAY, IF YOU READ IN DANIEL CHAPTER 9 IT SAYS THAT 15:55 THE WICKED POWER WOULD COME LIKE A FLOOD - TALKING ABOUT A FLOOD 15:58 OF ARMY - A FLOOD OF PEOPLE. AND SO, THIS BEAST POWER RISES 16:02 UP OUT OF A DENSELY POPULATED PART OF CIVILIZATION 16:05 AND THE WORLD. ALRIGHT, NEXT, QUESTION 4: WHAT 16:09 KINGDOM DOES THE LION REPRESENT? I WANT TO MARCH THROUGH BECAUSE, 16:12 IN ORDER TO UNDERSTAND THE FOURTH BEAST, YOU'VE GOT TO LOOK 16:15 AT THE SEQUENCE OF HISTORY AND IT JUST BECOMES REALLY CLEAR. 16:18 WHAT KINGDOM DOES THE LION REPRESENT? 16:21 THE LION IS BABYLON. IF YOU LOOK IN CHAPTER 2 OF 16:26 DANIEL, DANIEL MAKES IT PRETTY CLEAR TO NEBUCHADNEZZAR. 16:29 HE SAID, 'YOU ARE THAT FIRST PRIMARY KINGDOM. 16:31 YOU ARE THE HEAD OF GOLD.' IT JUST SAYS BABYLON IS THE LION. 16:35 MATTER OF FACT, IF YOU GO TO SOME OF THE MUSEUMS, THEY HAVE 16:38 RECOVERED SOME OF THE ANCIENT GATES FROM BABYLON - I THINK 16:42 THEY CALL IT THE ISHTAR GATE - AND YOU CAN EVEN SEE THEY HAD 16:45 LIONS WITH WINGS THAT WERE ON - JUST LIKE IN DANIEL'S VISION, A 16:49 LION WITH TWO WINGS. WHY DID DANIEL SAY THE LION 16:52 WOULD STAND ON ITS FEET LIKE A MAN? 16:54 BECAUSE KING NEBUCHADNEZZAR ENDED UP BEING CONVERTED. 16:57 INSTEAD OF BEING A BEAST, HE BECAME A SON OF GOD. 17:01 HE BECAME CONVERTED BEFORE THE END OF HIS LIFE AND HE GLORIFIED 17:03 GOD. IF YOU'VE READ DANIEL CHAPTER 17:05 4, THAT WOULD BE IN. WHAT KINGDOM DOES 17:10 THE BEAR REPRESENT? SO YOU'VE GOT BABYLON, THEN 17:13 YOU'VE GOT THE NEXT KINGDOM. HE REPRESENTS, IN DANIEL CHAPTER 17:16 7:5, AND WHAT DO THE THREE RIBS IN HIS MOUTH SYMBOLIZE? 17:20 THIS IS THE MEDO-PERSIAN KINGDOM, LATER THE PERSIANS, 17:22 THEY WERE MORE POWERFUL AND THAT'S WHY IT SAYS THE BEAR WAS 17:25 RAISED UP ON ONE SIDE - HE'S STRONGER ON ONE SIDE - HE'S GOT 17:28 THREE RIBS IN HIS MOUTH. THIS REPRESENTS THE THREE 17:31 KINGDOMS THAT THE MEDO-PERSIANS CONQUERED WHEN THEY TOOK THE 17:35 EMPIRE AWAY - THIS WORLD POWER - FROM BABYLON. 17:38 AND THAT WAS, OF COURSE, BABYLON, LYDIA, AND EGYPT - 17:41 THAT'S THE THREE RIBS IN HIS MOUTH. 17:43 AND SO, ALL THESE THINGS HAPPENED HISTORICALLY. 17:46 NOW, BEFORE I GO ANY FARTHER, I JUST NEED TO INJECT A THOUGHT. 17:49 THESE BEASTS THAT ARE MENTIONED HERE IN DANIEL, THEY'RE NOT 17:53 SAYING THEY'RE THE ONLY KINGDOMS IN THE WORLD, I MEAN, AT THE 17:56 TIME THAT BABYLON RULED, IT WAS A VAST WORLD EMPIRE, AND SO WERE 18:00 THE GREEKS AND SO WERE THE PERSIANS. 18:03 IF YOU KNOW YOUR HISTORY, THERE WERE GREAT EMPIRES - THE INCAS 18:07 IN SOUTH AMERICA, THE TOLTECS AND YOU HAD THE ROU - KHMER 18:13 EMPIRE AND YOU HAD THE CHINESE, THE MONGOLS, AND THERE WAS OTHER 18:17 GREAT EMPIRES. THESE EMPIRES ARE MENTIONED 18:19 BECAUSE THEY ALL OCCUPIED GOD'S PEOPLE. 18:22 THEY CONTROLLED THE LAND OF ISRAEL. 18:25 SO THE ONLY EMPIRES THAT ARE BEING MENTIONED IN THESE VISIONS 18:28 ARE THE ONES THAT HAD A REAL IMPACT ON THE POLICIES AND THE 18:32 LAND OF ISRAEL, LATER, GOD'S PEOPLE, OKAY? 18:36 SO THESE ARE THE NATIONS THAT IT'S DEALING WITH, AND THAT'S 18:38 THE REASON. SO WHAT KINGDOM IS REPRESENTED 18:41 BY THE LEOPARD WITH FOUR HEADS? WHAT FOLLOWED THE 18:45 PERSIAN KINGDOM? >>GREECE. 18:47 >>I THINK WE ALL KNOW, ALEXANDER THE GREAT DEFEATED DARIUS. 18:50 HE WAS THAT NOTABLE HORN THAT WAS IN THE RAM'S HEAD - OR IN 18:56 THE GOAT'S HEAD - AND THEN HE ALSO REPRESENTS THE FIRST KING 19:00 OF THE LEOPARD, BUT HE DIED AND THEN HIS KINGDOM WAS THEN SPREAD 19:05 AMONG HIS FOUR GENERALS. AND YOU CAN SEE THAT 19:09 THEY HAD A VAST EMPIRE. THE FOUR GENERALS WHO HEADED THE 19:13 DIVISIONS OF ALEXANDER'S KINGDOM WERE CASSANDER, LYSIMACHUS, 19:18 PTOLEMY, AND SELEUCUS. AND SO THESE ARE 19:21 THE FOUR EMPIRES. YOU CAN SEE THE SCOPE OF 19:25 ALEXANDER'S KINGDOM THERE. SOMEONE TOLD ME THAT IN JUST TEN 19:29 YEARS HE MARCHED HIS SOLDIERS 22,000 MILES. 19:33 NOBODY HAS EVER DONE ANYTHING LIKE THAT IN HISTORY, JUST 19:36 CONQUERING EVERYTHING EVERY WHERE HE WENT. 19:38 AND HIS APPROACH WAS VERY DIFFERENT. 19:39 HE DIDN'T JUST WANT TO CONQUER, HE WANTED TO SPREAD THEIR 19:42 PHILOSOPHY AND WAY OF LIFE. THEY CALL IT HELLENIZATION. 19:45 THAT'S WHY THE NEW TESTAMENT'S WRITTEN IN GREEK, BECAUSE THAT 19:47 INFLUENCE EVEN STAYED WITH THE NEXT EMPIRE THAT WE'RE GOING TO 19:51 GET TO, WHICH IS OUR NEXT QUESTION. 19:55 WHICH WORLD KINGDOM IS REPRESENTED BY THE FOURTH BEAST? 19:59 NOW, IF YOU KNOW YOUR HISTORY, THE WORLD EMPIRE SURROUNDING THE 20:03 MEDITERRANEAN THAT OCCUPIED ISRAEL - YOU'VE GOT BABYLON, 20:08 YOU'VE GOT MEDO-PERSIA, YOU'VE GOT GREECE, THEN WHO CONQUERED 20:13 THE GREEKS? >>ROME. 20:15 >>ROME. AND, YOU KNOW, WHAT'S ALSO INTERESTING IS EACH KINGDOM 20:19 LASTED A LITTLE LONGER THAN THE ONE BEFORE IT. 20:23 SO THE DEVIL'S LEARNING SOMETHING ALONG THE WAY AND 20:25 THEY'RE GETTING STRONGER AND THEY'RE LASTING LONGER. 20:28 YOU CAN READ WHICH KINGDOM IT WAS, IT'S RIGHT THERE IN THE NEW 20:30 TESTAMENT. LUKE 2, VERSE 1, "AND IT CAME TO 20:33 PASS IN THOSE DAYS THAT A DECREE WENT OUT FROM CAESAR AUGUSTUS." 20:37 - OCTAVIAN - AUGUSTUS CAESAR ISSUED THAT DECREE THAT ALL THE 20:40 WORLD SHOULD BE TAXED. HE WAS THE EMPEROR OF ROME. 20:44 AND SO, THAT'S - BY THE WAY, WHERE YOU GET THE MONTH AUGUST. 20:48 AND THE REASON FEBRUARY IS SHORT IS BECAUSE JULIUS CAESAR NAMED A 20:55 MONTH AFTER HIMSELF, THAT'S CALLED JULY, AND AUGUSTUS CAESAR 20:58 DIDN'T THINK THAT WAS FAIR THAT JULY WOULD HAVE MORE DAYS AND SO 21:01 HE TOOK SOME DAYS OFF FEBRUARY TO MAKE SURE AUGUST WAS THE SAME 21:05 LENGTH OF TIME. THAT'S CALLED TOO MUCH INFORMATION, ISN'T IT? 21:09 (LAUGHTER) OKAY, 'THAT ALL THE WORLD SHOULD BE REGISTERED'. 21:13 SO, WHY WOULD ROME BE COMPARED WITH THE TEN HORNS? 21:19 WHY IS IT THE FOURTH BEAST? WHO WAS RULING THE WORLD 21:22 WHEN JESUS IS BORN? >>ROME. 21:25 >>ROME. IT WAS ROMAN SOLDIERS THAT 21:27 CRUCIFIED HIM, A ROMAN SPEAR PIERCED HIS SIDE, THE ROMAN 21:31 NAILS PIERCED HIS HANDS, ROMAN GUARDS WERE AT THE TOMB. 21:35 ROME WAS THE PRINCIPLE POWER THAT WAS RESPONSIBLE AT THAT 21:37 TIME, AND ROME WAS VERY INVOLVED IN ESPECIALLY PERSECUTING THE 21:41 EARLY CHURCH, AS YOU PROBABLY KNOW FROM JUST YOUR ELEMENTARY 21:45 SCHOOL. YOU ALL HEARD ABOUT HOW THEY 21:48 USED TO BURN THE CHRISTIANS IN THE COLOSSEUM. 21:50 SO "THE TEN HORNS WHICH YOU SAW" - YOU READ IN REVELATION 17:12 - 21:55 "ARE TEN KINGS." WHAT HAPPENED WHEN ROME, RULED 21:59 BY THE CAESARS, THAT'S BETTER KNOWN AS PAGAN ROME, WHEN IT 22:03 BEGAN TO FALL BECAUSE THE BARBARIAN HORDES WERE ATTACKING 22:06 DIFFERENT PARTS OF THEIR REALM, THEY STARTED LOSING CONTROL. 22:09 THEY HAD PLUNGED INTO SO MUCH DECADENCE THEY BECAME 22:12 PREOCCUPIED WITH ENTERTAINMENT - I DON'T KNOW IF YOU KNOW THAT. 22:16 IT'S KIND OF HAPPENING TO US - BECAME SO PREOCCUPIED WITH 22:19 ENTERTAINMENT THAT THE BARBARIANS STARTED CONQUERING 22:24 THE EDGES OF THE KINGDOM AND PRETTY SOON ROME FELL. 22:28 IT WASN'T BUILT IN A DAY, BUT IT FELL PRETTY QUICK - 22:29 ABOUT 476 AD. WHAT WAS IN ITS PLACE WHEN IT FELL? 22:34 THE ROMAN EMPIRE - AND HERE'S A MAP THAT REPRESENTS THE VASTNESS 22:38 OF THAT EMPIRE AT ITS ZENITH - IT THEN DISINTEGRATED AND IT 22:43 LARGELY WAS IN THE NORTHWESTERN TERRITORY. 22:47 IT FELL INTO TEN DIVISIONS, THE TEN BRANCHES OF THE ROMAN 22:52 EMPIRE. AND THIS IS A MAP WITH SOME 22:55 OF THE ANCIENT NAMES OF THOSE DIVISIONS OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. 22:59 YOU MIGHT KNOW THEM BY SOME OF THE MODERN NAMES. 23:02 YOU HAVE THE ALEMANNI, ANY OF YOU SPEAK SPANISH? 23:06 HOW DO YOU SAY 'GERMAN'? >>ALEMAN. 23:07 >>ALEMAN, YEAH. SO YOU'VE GOT THE ALEMANNI WERE THE GERMAN, 23:11 THE FRANKS WERE THE FRENCH, THE ANGLO-SAXONS WERE THE ENGLISH, 23:15 THE SUEVI WAS PORTUGAL, THE LOMBARDS - ITALY, THE VISIGOTHS 23:19 - SPAIN - AND THEN YOU'LL NOTICE THREE THAT YOU DON'T HEAR FROM 23:22 MUCH ANYMORE. WE'VE GOT ALL THE OTHERS ARE STILL THERE. 23:25 YOU'VE GOT THE VANDALS, THE HERULI, AND THE OSTRAGOTHS. 23:29 NOW THE VANDALS WERE IN NORTH AFRICA. 23:32 YOU EVER HEARD OF VANDALISM? THERE WERE A LOT OF CHRISTIANS 23:36 THAT SPREAD THROUGH THE ROMAN EMPIRE, BECAUSE EVEN BEFORE PAUL 23:39 WAS DEAD, HE SAID THE GOSPEL'S GONE TO EVERY CREATURE. 23:41 HE MEANT THROUGHOUT THE ROMAN EMPIRE. 23:42 THERE WERE CHRISTIANS ALL THROUGH NORTH AFRICA. 23:45 AND WHEN THE CHRISTIANS IN ROME BEGAN TO GET INVOLVED IN 23:48 IDOLATRY, THE CHRISTIANS IN NORTH AFRICA SAID, 'THAT'S 23:53 AGAINST THE LAW.' AND THEY WOULD DEFACE THE ROMAN GODS. 23:57 THEY CALLED IT 'VANDALISM'. SO WHENEVER ANYBODY IN ROME 24:00 BROKE THE ARMS OFF - YOU EVER SEE ROMAN STATUES AND THEY'RE 24:03 MISSING AN ARM AND THE NOSE IS GONE - A LOT OF THAT WAS DONE 24:05 BY VANDALS THAT SAID, 'THIS IS IDOLATRY. 24:08 YOU'RE WORSHIPING THESE ROMAN GODS.' BUT THOSE KINGDOMS WERE 24:12 LATER ATTACKED. ALRIGHT, SO BEFORE I LEAVE 24:15 DANIEL I WANT YOU TO NOTICE SOMETHING. 24:17 FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE BIBLE SCHOLARS, YOU'LL NOTICE THAT 24:20 THERE ARE SOME SIMILARITIES BETWEEN DANIEL 2, WHERE THERE'S 24:24 THIS IMAGE OUTLINING THE KINGDOMS OF THE WORLD. 24:27 THAT PROPHECY IS GIVEN IN A GREAT IDOL THAT IS THE DES - 24:31 IT'S THEN DESTROYED. IT'S A GREAT IDOL WITH A HEAD OF 24:33 GOLD AND ARMS OF SILVER AND A BELLY OF BRONZE AND LEGS OF 24:36 IRON AND FEET OF IRON AND CLAY. IN THE FOURTH BEAST, WHAT 24:41 KIND OF TEETH DID IT HAVE? >>IRON. 24:43 >>IRON TEETH. AND IN THE TOES YOU'VE GOT IRON 24:48 AND CLAY AND THERE'S TEN TOES. AND SO, YOU'LL SEE THAT 24:51 THERE'S SIMILARITIES. RIGHT AWAY YOU'LL NOTICE, 24:53 BETWEEN DANIEL 2, DANIEL 7, REVELATION 13, REVELATION 12 - 25:00 YOU'RE GOING TO SEE THAT ALL OF THESE THINGS ARE TALKING ABOUT 25:03 THE SAME WORLD POWERS THAT WOULD IMPACT GOD'S KINGDOM 25:06 IN THE LAST DAYS. AND SO, IF YOU LOOK NOW IN - 25:13 QUESTION #9: IN THE DANIEL 7 PROPHECY, WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? 25:20 IT SAYS, "I CONSIDERED" - AND I STARTED READING THIS TO YOU - "I 25:24 CONSIDERED THE HORNS, AND, BEHOLD, THERE CAME UP AMONG THEM 25:27 ANOTHER LITTLE HORN. BEFORE WHOM THERE WERE THREE OF 25:31 THE FIRST HORNS PLUCKED UP BY THE ROOTS:" - SO YOU'VE GOT 25:34 THESE TEN DIVISIONS OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE AND IT INCLUDED THE 25:38 VANDALS, THE HERULI, AND THE OSTRAGOTHS. 25:40 BUT WHEN THIS LITTLE HORN POWER COMES UP THAT SPEAKS GREAT WORDS 25:44 AGAINST THE MOST HIGH AND WEARS OUT THE SAINTS OF THE MOST HIGH 25:47 AND THINKS TO CHANGE TIMES AND LAWS, THAT POWER, WHEN IT COMES 25:51 UP, IT UPROOTS THREE. MAKE A NOTE OF THAT. I'M GOING TO SHOW 25:56 YOU, HISTORICALLY, HOW THAT WAS FULFILLED. 25:58 "AND, BEHOLD, IN THIS HORN WERE EYES LIKE THE EYES OF A MAN," - 26:01 SOMETHING DIFFERENT ABOUT THIS POWER - "AND A MOUTH SPEAKING" - 26:04 POMPOUS WORDS OR - "GREAT THINGS." 26:07 SO HOW IS THE BEAST IN REVELATION 13, NOW, SIMILAR TO 26:11 THE VISION IN DANIEL CHAPTER 7? IT SAYS, "NOW THE BEAST WHICH I 26:15 SAW WAS LIKE A LEOPARD, HIS FEET WERE LIKE THE FEET OF A BEAR. 26:18 AND HIS MOUTH LIKE THE MOUTH OF A LION." 26:21 NOW, DID YOU SEE, IN DANIEL 7, A LION, A BEAR, AND A LEOPARD? 26:28 THAT MEANS THIS BEAST IS ALL BUILT ON THE HISTORY OF THOSE 26:31 FOUR MAIN KINGDOMS. THERE'S A CONNECTION HERE. 26:34 YOU MIGHT NOTICE THAT, IN DANIEL, IT SAYS, 'LION, BEAR, 26:40 LEOPARD.' IN REVELATION IS SAYS, LEOPARD, BEAR, LION. 26:46 IT'S OPPOSITE. WHY? VERY SIMPLE, BECAUSE DANIEL IS 26:49 LOOKING FORWARD IN HIS PROPHECY. JOHN IS NOW LOOKING BACK. 26:54 SO YOU'VE GOT THE EXACT SAME SEQUENCE, TOO, FROM THEIR 26:56 PERSPECTIVE. AND SO, IT'S TALKING ABOUT THESE 26:59 POWERS THAT HAD OCCUPIED GOD'S PEOPLE AND PERSECUTED GOD'S 27:03 PEOPLE IN THE JEWISH HISTORY. AND THEN THERE'S A NEW POWER 27:07 THAT WAS HAPPENING IN REVELATION RIGHT DURING THE TIME 27:10 WHEN JOHN WROTE IT. ROME WAS IN POWER. 27:13 JOHN WAS A PRISONER ON THE ISLE OF PATMOS, BY THE KINGDOM OF 27:17 ROME, FOR HIS FAITH. AND IT SAYS - IN THIS BEAST, IT 27:22 SAYS, "HIS MOUTH LIKE THE MOUTH OF A LION. THE DRAGON GAVE HIM 27:25 HIS POWER, HIS THRONE, AND GREAT AUTHORITY." 27:30 NOW, WE ALL KNOW THAT THE DRAGON, OF COURSE, BEHIND THE 27:33 DRAGON YOU'VE GOT THE DEVIL - CALLS HIM THE OLD SERPENT, THE 27:35 DRAGON - BUT THE DRAGON WAS OPERATING THROUGH THE POWER OF 27:38 ROME. WHEN IT SAYS THE DRAGON TRIED TO 27:41 DEVOUR THE MAN CHILD AS SOON AS IT WAS BORN. 27:45 WELL, THE ROMAN POWER - THE DEVIL USED THE ROMAN POWER TO 27:47 DESTROY JESUS - OR TRY TO DESTROY HIM - WHEN HE WAS A 27:50 BABY. SO, THE DEVIL WAS WORKING 27:53 THROUGH ROME WHEN CHRIST WAS CRUCIFIED. 27:55 THE DEVIL WAS USING THAT KINGDOM TO PERSECUTE CHRISTIANITY, 27:59 BUT IT WAS THE KINGDOM OF PAGAN ROME. 28:02 BUT PAGAN ROME THEN GOES THROUGH A CHANGE WHEN IT FALLS. 28:11 >>CAN'T GET ENOUGH AMAZING FACTS BIBLE STUDY? 28:13 YOU DON'T HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL NEXT WEEK TO ENJOY MORE 28:16 TRUTH-FILLED PROGRAMMING, WATCH AMAZING FACTS TELEVISION BY 28:20 VISITING AFTV.ORG . AT 'AFTV.ORG' YOU CAN VIEW 28:27 AMAZING FACTS PROGRAMMING 24 HOURS A DAY 7 DAYS A WEEK, 28:31 RIGHT FROM YOUR COMPUTER OR MOBILE DEVICE. 28:34 WHY WAIT A WEEK? VISIT 'AFTV.ORG'. 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