>>THIS PRESENTATION IS BROUGHT
TO YOU BY THE FRIENDS OF THE
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AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY.
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>>THE 14TH CENTURY AZTEC EMPIRE
WAS ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL AND
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SOPHISTICATED CIVILIZATIONS
IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE; YET,
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THIS KINGDOM OF TWO MILLION
PEOPLE WAS CONQUERED WITHIN A
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YEAR BY A SPANISH FORCE OF
JUST 600 LIGHTLY ARMORED MEN.
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HOW DID IT HAPPEN?
WELL, THE AZTECS BELIEVED IN
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THE COMING OF QUETZALCOATL,
A LEGENDARY FEATHERED, BEARDED,
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LIGHT-SKINNED GOD-KING WHO
WAS GOING TO COME FROM ACROSS
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THE SEA TO MEXICO. WHEN
THE CONQUISTADORS ARRIVED
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IN 1519, HERNANDO
CORTEZ IMPERSONATED THIS GOD OF
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THE AZTECS TO BEFUDDLE THE
SUPERSTITIOUS KING MONTEZUMA.
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BY FOOLING THE NATIVE PEOPLE,
CORTEZ COMPLETED HIS CONQUEST
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THAT INCLUDED ENSLAVING
AND MURDERING MANY OF THEM.
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THE VAGUE PROPHECIES OF THEIR
AZTEC GOD EASILY PAVED THE WAY
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FOR A COUNTERFEIT.
JESUS HAS FORETOLD THAT IN THE
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LAST DAYS, MANY FALSE CHRISTS
AND FALSE PROPHETS WILL USE
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GREAT SIGNS AND WONDERS TO
DECEIVE, IF IT WERE POSSIBLE,
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EVEN GOD'S VERY ELECT.
HE ALSO SAID MOST PEOPLE
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WILL BE DECEIVED, WILL YOU?
THAT'S WHY YOU NEED TO JOIN ME
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FOR TODAY'S PROGRAM, AS WE LEARN
FROM THE BIBLE HOW TO IDENTIFY
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FALSE CHRISTS
AND FALSE PROPHETS.
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>>I WANT TO WELCOME THOSE,
AGAIN, WHO ARE WATCHING, TO THE
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PROPHECY ENCOUNTER SERIES.
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NOW, IF THIS IS THE FIRST TIME
YOU'RE TUNING IN, YOU DO NEED TO
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BRACE YOURSELF BECAUSE WE'RE
GOING TO BE - YOU'RE GOING TO BE
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HEARING JUST ONE OF THE
MOST INTENSE CONTROVERSIAL
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PRESENTATIONS THAT CAN BE COMING
FROM THE BOOK OF REVELATION, AND
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WE JUST ARE PRAYING FOR
GOD'S SPIRIT TO BE WITH US.
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YOU PRAY FOR ME THAT I'LL JUST
SAY THINGS GRACEFULLY, BUT I
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ALSO WANT TO BE FAITHFUL
IN SHARING THE TRUTH WITH YOU
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BECAUSE, AS CHRIST
SAID, THE TIME IS AT HAND.
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THE PRESENTATION TONIGHT
IS DEALING WITH THE SUBJECT A
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WOMAN RIDES A BEAST AND THIS
HEARKENS FROM A PROPHECY IN A
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PICTURE THAT YOU'LL
FIND IN REVELATION 17.
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NOW, IN THIS PRESENTATION IN
PARTICULAR, WE'RE GOING TO BE
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TALKING ABOUT 'WHAT IS THIS
BEAST THAT KEEPS REAPPEARING IN
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THE BOOKS OF
REVELATION AND DANIEL?'
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SO WHAT ARE SOME OF THE PRIMARY
CLUES TO IDENTIFY THE ANTICHRIST
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BEAST THAT YOU
FIND IN REVELATION 17?
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TURN IN YOUR BIBLES REAL QUICK
- REVELATION CHAPTER 17 AND THIS
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IS WHERE YOU NEED TO, LIKE, TAKE
A DEEP BREATH, "THEN ONE OF THE
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SEVEN ANGELS" - VERSE 1 - "WHO
HAD THE SEVEN BOWLS CAME AND
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TALKED WITH ME, SAYING TO
ME, 'COME, I WILL SHOW YOU THE
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JUDGMENT OF THE GREAT HARLOT'" -
THAT'S OBVIOUS SHE'S NOT GOOD -
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"WHO SITS ON MANY WATERS." -
WHAT DO THE WATERS REPRESENT?
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CONTROL OVER MANY PEOPLE - "WITH
WHOM THE KINGS OF THE EARTH" -
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THE GOVERNMENTS - "'COMMITTED
FORNICATION, AND THE INHABITANTS
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OF THE EARTH WERE MADE
DRUNK WITH THE WINE OF HER
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FORNICATION.' SO HE CARRIED
ME AWAY IN THE SPIRIT INTO THE
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WILDERNESS. AND I
SAW A WOMAN SITTING ON A
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SCARLET BEAST WHICH WAS FULL
OF NAMES OF BLASPHEMY HAVING
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SEVEN HEADS AND TEN HORNS.
THE WOMAN WAS ARRAYED" - SHE
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WAS CLOTHED - "IN
PURPLE AND SCARLET," -
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WHAT COLORS DID I SAY? >>PURPLE.
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>>"AND ADORNED WITH GOLD AND
PRECIOUS STONES AND PEARLS" -
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SOUNDS BEAUTIFUL - "AND A GOLDEN
CUP FULL OF ABOMINATIONS AND THE
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FILTHINESS OF HER
FORNICATION WAS IN HER HAND.
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AND ON HER FOREHEAD A
NAME WAS WRITTEN: MYSTERY.
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BABYLON THE GREAT. THE
MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF
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THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
I SAW THE WOMAN, DRUNK WITH THE
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BLOOD OF THE SAINTS AND WITH THE
BLOOD OF THE MARTYRS OF JESUS.
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AND WHEN I SAW HER, I
MARVELED WITH GREAT AMAZEMENT.
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BUT THE ANGEL SAID TO
ME, 'WHY DID YOU MARVEL?
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I WILL TELL YOU THE MYSTERY OF
THE WOMAN AND OF THE BEAST THAT
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CARRIES HER," - SO LET'S
GO AHEAD NOW AND GO INTO THE
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INTERPRETATIONS
THAT YOU'LL FIND HERE.
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WHO IS THIS WOMAN? "AND
THE WOMAN WHOM YOU SAW" -
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YOU LOOK IN THE LAST
VERSE IN CHAPTER 17 - YOU GOT
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YOUR BIBLE THERE? - IT
SAYS THE WOMAN THAT YOU SAW
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"IS THAT GREAT CITY WHICH REIGNS
OVER THE KINGS OF THE EARTH."
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WHEN JOHN WAS A PRISONER ON THE
ISLE OF PATMOS, WHAT GREAT CITY
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WAS REIGNING OVER
THE KINGS OF THE EARTH?
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>>ROME. >>ROME.
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SO WHAT DOES A
WOMAN REPRESENT? >>ROME.
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>>A WOMAN. >>CHURCH.
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>>A CHURCH. SO YOU'VE
GOT A WOMAN RIDING ROME.
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IF I SAID NOTHING ELSE, YOU
OUGHT TO START GETTING IT RIGHT
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THERE. BUT WE'RE
GOING TO KEEP GOING.
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IT JUST - THIS IS, I THINK,
A PRETTY VIVID EXAMPLE OF BIBLE
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PROPHECY BEING CLEAR. IT
SAYS THERE'S SEVEN HEADS.
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WHAT DO THE
SEVEN HEADS REPRESENT?
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IF YOU WANT TO ARGUE WITH
GABRIEL, YOU TAKE IT UP WITH
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HIM, BUT HE TOLD JOHN, "HERE IS
THE MIND WHICH HAS WISDOM: THE
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SEVEN HEADS ARE SEVEN MOUNTAINS
ON WHICH THE WOMAN SITS."
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NOW, IS EVERYBODY HERE AWARE
THAT IF YOU JUST LOOK IN THE
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ENCYCLOPEDIA IT'S GOING TO TELL
YOU ROME IS CALLED THE CITY OF
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SEVEN HILLS? IS THERE
A PRINCIPLE CHURCH THAT
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HAS ITS
HEADQUARTERS IN ROME? >>YES.
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>>MM HMM. >>WHAT
COLORS IS SHE WEARING?
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>>RED. >>PURPLE AND SCARLET.
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PURPLE AND SCARLET ARE THE
OFFICIAL COLORS OF THE HIERARCHY
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OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH.
CARDINALS WEAR SCARLET ROBES AND
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THE ARCHBISHOPS WEAR PURPLE.
AND YOU'LL EVEN FIND TIMES
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WHERE THE POPE WILL WEAR
BOTH. WHAT OTHER CLUES WERE
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GIVEN THERE IN CHAPTER
17? IT SAYS THAT THE WOMAN IS
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"ADORNED WITH GOLD AND
PRECIOUS STONES AND PEARLS."
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WELL, HAVE ANY OF
YOU EVER BEEN TO ROME?
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HAVE YOU SEEN THE VATICAN
AND SOME OF THE TREASURES THERE?
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IT'S ABSOLUTELY AMAZING. IT
SAYS THE VATICAN TREASURE OF
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SOLID GOLD HAS BEEN ESTIMATED
BY THE UNITED NATIONS WORLD
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MAGAZINE - IT NUMBERS
IN SEVERAL BILLION DOLLARS.
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NOW THAT'S JUST THE HOLDINGS OF
GOLD - THAT'S THE GOLD THAT IS
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IN THE AMERICAN RESERVE, IT'S IN
SWITZERLAND, IT'S IN A VARIETY
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OF BANKS. IT'S NOT
COUNTING THE GOLD IN THE ACTUAL
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PRICELESS TREASURES
THEY OWN AND IT DOESN'T COUNT
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THE REAL ESTATE. IT
DOES NOT COUNT ALL THEIR
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HOLDINGS IN SILVER AND THE
CASH THAT THEY HAVE INVESTED.
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THEY ARE ONE OF THE WEALTHIEST
INSTITUTIONS IN THE WORLD.
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SO SHE'S GOT A GOLDEN CUP IN
HER HAND AND IF YOU READ IN - IT
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SAYS "THE GOLDEN CHALICE" -
IN THERE - YOU CAN GO TO THE
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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA - IT
OCCUPIES THE FIRST PLACE AMONG
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ALL THE SACRED VESSELS OF THE
CHURCH." NOW WHERE IS THAT IN
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THE BIBLE? IS THAT A BIBLE
TEACHING? ARE THERE ANY CLEAR
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POINTS FROM WHICH WE CAN
DRAW FROM DANIEL 7 TO HELP US
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IDENTIFY THE ANTICHRIST POWER?
ALRIGHT, SO NOW WE'RE LOOKING
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BACK IN DANIEL 7 -
WE'RE COMPARING SCRIPTURE WITH
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SCRIPTURE - AND IT
GIVES US TEN CHARACTERISTICS.
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I PUT THEM IN LETTERS HERE
AND SO YOU CAN SEE, IT'LL GO A
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THROUGH J AND IT SAYS THAT,
FIRST OF ALL, IT ARISES FROM
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AMONG THE TEN; IT'S A HUMAN
LEADER; IT UPROOTS THREE OTHER
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LEADERS; IT'S DIVERSE OR
DIFFERENT; IT'S A PERSECUTING
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POWER; AND AFTER 476 AD IT
DIVIDES; IT RULES FOR 1260 YEARS
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OR A TIME, A TIME
AND THE DIVIDING OF TIME.
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IT'S GUILTY OF BLASPHEMY; IT'S
CHANGED GOD'S LAW - 'HE WOULD
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THINK TO CHANGE TIMES AND LAWS'
- AND THERE'S THIS LITTLE HORN
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POWER THAT'S GOT - IT'S UNIQUE
OR DIFFERENT FROM THE OTHERS.
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DOES THE PAPACY FIT THESE
TEN POINTS THAT WE JUST SAW?
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LOOK HERE, FIRST OF ALL, DID
IT COME UP FROM AMONG THE MAIN
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NATIONS THAT YOU
FIND IN EUROPE? IT DID.
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WHERE'S [ROME]? IT WAS
RIGHT IN THE VERY MIDDLE
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OF [ITALY] - IT CAME UP IN
THE MIDDLE OF THE MEDITERRANEAN.
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YOU NOTICE WHAT
IT SAID IN DANIEL 7?
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'I SAW THESE BEASTS
COME UP FROM THE GREAT SEA.'
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WHAT WAS THE GREAT
SEA FOR BIBLE WRITERS?
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THEY HAD THE SEA OF GALILEE,
THEY HAD THE DEAD SEA, AND THEN
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THEY HAD THE GREAT SEA,
WHICH IS THE MEDITERRANEAN.
00:09:06.88\00:09:10.31
AND, OF COURSE, ITALY IS A
PENINSULA IN THE VERY MIDST OF
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THE GREAT SEA.
AND SO THAT'S WHERE IT
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SAYS THIS POWER RISES UP.
IT SAYS "THE DRAGON GAVE HIM
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HIS POWER, HIS SEAT,
AND GREAT AUTHORITY."
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SO PAGAN ROME, WHICH IS
THE DRAGON, THEN GIVES THE VERY
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POSITION TO THIS NEW INSTITUTION
THAT DEVELOPED, AND YOU CAN JUST
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READ ABOUT THAT.
WITH THE CONVERSION OF
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CONSTANTINE - YOU REALIZE
CHRISTIANITY WAS CALLED 'RELIGIO
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ILLICITA' IN ROME TO BEGIN WITH.
CHRISTIANS WERE CHASED OUT OF
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ROME, AT ONE POINT - AND JEWS.
YOU CAN READ THAT IN THE BOOK OF
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ACTS - AND IT WAS FORBIDDEN AND
THEY WERE TERRIBLY PERSECUTED.
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BUT OVER TIME, CONSTANTINE WAS
FIGHTING BATTLES ON THE OUTSIDE
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- HE WAS A ROMAN EMPEROR - AND
HE SAID, 'YOU KNOW, CHRISTIANS
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AREN'T HURTING ANYBODY.
THEY'RE PRETTY PEACEFUL.' NERO
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WANTED TO WIPE THEM
OUT BUT IT DIDN'T WORK.
00:10:02.53\00:10:04.07
THE MORE THEY PERSECUTED
THEM THE MORE THEY GREW.
00:10:04.10\00:10:07.67
AND HE CLAIMED TO HAVE A VISION,
HE SAID, 'I'M NOW TO FIGHT AND
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CONQUER UNDER THE
SIGN OF THE CROSS.
00:10:10.57\00:10:13.14
CONSTANTINE LEGALIZED
CHRISTIANITY AND - HIS MOTHER
00:10:13.17\00:10:17.55
WAS A CHRISTIAN - AND ALMOST
OVERNIGHT IT BECAME VOGUE TO BE
00:10:17.58\00:10:22.18
A CHRISTIAN AND EVERYBODY IN
THE GOVERNMENT WANTED TO BE A
00:10:22.22\00:10:24.45
CHRISTIAN. AND, ALL
OF A SUDDEN, ALL THE
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PAGAN PRIESTS AND THE PAGAN GODS
IN ROME, THEY SAID, YOU KNOW,
00:10:26.39\00:10:31.56
'WHAT DO WE DO WITH OUR GODS?'
AND THERE WAS A BIG RUSH - ALL
00:10:31.59\00:10:34.50
OF A SUDDEN, EVERYONE
WANTED TO BE A CHRISTIAN.
00:10:34.56\00:10:36.80
BUT WHAT THE DEVIL COULD NOT DO
IN TRYING TO DESTROY THE CHURCH
00:10:36.83\00:10:40.77
ON THE OUTSIDE BY PERSECUTION -
FEEDING THE CHRISTIANS TO LIONS,
00:10:40.80\00:10:44.71
CHASING THEM UNDERGROUND TO
THE CATACOMBS - THE DEVIL NOW
00:10:44.74\00:10:47.74
ACCOMPLISHED BY
JOINING THE CHURCH.
00:10:47.78\00:10:51.25
HE LEGALIZED IT. AND
ALL OF A SUDDEN, THERE WAS
00:10:51.28\00:10:54.72
GREAT COMPROMISE
THAT CAME INTO THE CHURCH.
00:10:54.75\00:10:58.85
>>DON'T GO ANYWHERE, FRIENDS.
00:10:58.89\00:11:00.06
IN JUST A MOMENT WE WILL
RETURN TO TODAY'S PRESENTATION.
00:11:00.09\00:11:03.56
>>YOU KNOW, THERE'S QUITE A
BIT OF ZOOLOGY IN BIBLE SYMBOLS:
00:11:03.59\00:11:06.76
LIONS, AND LEOPARDS, AND BEARS
AND, AMONG THE OMINOUS CREATURES
00:11:06.80\00:11:10.77
THAT ARE PICTURED IN THE BOOK OF
REVELATION IS A 7-HEADED DRAGON
00:11:10.80\00:11:14.97
THAT'S BEING RIDDEN
BY A VISCIOUS WOMAN.
00:11:15.00\00:11:17.57
WHO DO THESE POWERS
REPRESENT? ARE THEY OPERATING
00:11:17.61\00:11:20.38
IN THE WORLD TODAY? DOES
AMERICA PLAY A ROLE IN THE
00:11:20.41\00:11:23.51
FINAL EVENTS OF BIBLE PROPHECY?
AND HOW CAN WE KNOW FOR SURE
00:11:23.55\00:11:27.58
WHAT THESE SYMBOLS MEAN?
FRIENDS, I BELIEVE WE ARE IN
00:11:27.62\00:11:31.89
THE LAST DAYS AND UNDERSTANDING
THESE PROPHECIES IS CRUCIAL FOR
00:11:31.92\00:11:35.86
THOSE WHO WANT TO KNOW
THEY'RE ON GOD'S SIDE IN
00:11:35.89\00:11:38.03
THESE TRYING TIMES.
TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THIS
00:11:38.06\00:11:40.83
SUBJECT, WE'D LIKE TO MAKE
AVAILABLE TO YOU A POWERFUL BOOK
00:11:40.86\00:11:43.87
CALLED THE BEAST, THE DRAGON,
AND THE WOMAN AND IT'LL WALK YOU
00:11:43.90\00:11:47.47
STEP BY STEP THROUGH EVERYTHING
YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT
00:11:47.50\00:11:49.90
REVELATION'S MOST
PERPLEXING END-TIME SYMBOLS.
00:11:49.94\00:11:53.21
YOU DON'T HAVE TO
BE CONFUSED ANY LONGER.
00:11:53.24\00:11:55.21
THIS STUDY GUIDE WILL OPEN YOUR
EYES AND INSPIRE YOU TO STAND
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FIRM FOR JESUS CHRIST
TODAY AND BE READY FOR THE END.
00:11:59.01\00:12:02.72
TO GET YOUR FREE COPY CALL THE
PHONE NUMBER ON THE SCREEN RIGHT
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NOW AND ASK FOR OFFER #126
OR VISIT THE WEB ADDRESS ON THE
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SCREEN. AND, AFTER YOU READ THIS
00:12:10.39\00:12:12.33
INCREDIBLE RESOURCE, MAKE
SURE AND SHARE IT WITH A FRIEND.
00:12:12.36\00:12:15.70
>>WELL, LET'S GET BACK NOW TO
TODAY'S PRESENTATION AND LEARN
00:12:15.73\00:12:18.47
SOME MORE AMAZING
FACTS FROM THE WORD OF GOD.
00:12:18.50\00:12:23.10
>>YOU KNOW, THERE'S A
COMMANDMENT THAT SAYS, 'DO NOT
00:12:23.14\00:12:24.84
MAKE IMAGES AND PRAY TO
THEM.' IT'S ONE OF THE TEN
00:12:24.87\00:12:26.94
COMMANDMENTS, RIGHT? YOU'VE GOT
TO TAKE THAT UP WITH THE LORD.
00:12:26.98\00:12:29.51
THAT'S WHAT IT SAYS,
RIGHT? SECOND COMMANDMENT.
00:12:29.54\00:12:32.81
WELL, THEY HAD ALL THESE IDOLS
OF ALL THE GODS ALL OVER ROME.
00:12:32.85\00:12:35.82
THEY HAD - SOMEONE SAID THEY HAD
MORE IDOLS IN ROME THAN THEY HAD
00:12:35.85\00:12:39.85
BIRDS. THEY WERE EVERYWHERE.
00:12:39.89\00:12:41.86
THEY HAD MERCURY AND APOLLOS AND
ZEUS AND ALL THE GREEK GODS THAT
00:12:41.89\00:12:45.46
THEY MINGLED WITH THE ROMAN GODS
AND THEY HAD PANTHEONS OF GODS
00:12:45.49\00:12:49.33
AND EVEN PAUL, IN THE BOOK OF
ACTS, HE GOES AND HE PREACHES TO
00:12:49.36\00:12:51.73
THE GREEKS - HE SAID, 'AS I WAS
LOOKING AT ALL YOUR GODS' - THEY
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HAD IDOLS AND STATUES OF DIANA
AND ATHENA AND ALL - AND WHEN
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EVERYONE BECAME A CHRISTIAN AND
THE BIBLE SAID, YOU KNOW, WE ARE
00:13:01.38\00:13:05.71
TO WORSHIP GOD, THEY SAID,
'WHAT ARE DO WE DO WITH OUR
00:13:05.75\00:13:07.45
IDOLS?' WELL, THEY
DIDN'T WANT TO LOSE
00:13:07.48\00:13:10.29
THE PAGANS AND THEY SAID, 'WELL,
YOU KNOW, WE NEED TO TEACH THEM
00:13:10.32\00:13:13.02
GRADUALLY.' AND SO, THEY SAID,
'GIVE THEM CHRISTIAN NAMES TO
00:13:13.05\00:13:16.16
START WITH.' AND SO THEY STARTED
CALLING THEIR IDOLS PETER,
00:13:16.19\00:13:20.26
JAMES, JOHN, JESUS, MARY -
ALL OF A SUDDEN EVERYTHING BEGAN
00:13:20.30\00:13:23.43
TO CHANGE IN THE
CHURCH. GOOD PEOPLE, BUT THEY
00:13:23.47\00:13:25.93
BEGAN TO COMPROMISE.
AND, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THE
00:13:25.97\00:13:29.00
CHRISTIAN LEADERS, THEY SAID,
'WELL, YOU KNOW, WE'LL GET MORE
00:13:29.04\00:13:31.17
PEOPLE INTO THE CHURCH IF
WE MAKE A FEW COMPROMISES.
00:13:31.21\00:13:34.21
WE'LL BRING MORE IN.'
AND THAT WAS THE WHOLE IDEA.
00:13:34.24\00:13:38.15
"THE TRANSFER OF THE EMPEROR'S
RESIDENCE TO CONSTANTINOPLE WAS
00:13:38.18\00:13:41.68
A SAD BLOW TO THE
PRESTIGE OF ROME."
00:13:41.72\00:13:44.52
NOW IT SAYS THAT THEY GOT THEIR
POWER, SEAT, AND AUTHORITY FROM
00:13:44.55\00:13:47.62
THIS FOURTH BEAST -
ROME. WHEN THE EMPEROR MOVED
00:13:47.66\00:13:52.49
THE CAPITAL FROM ROME TO
CONSTANTINOPLE, IT LOOKED LIKE
00:13:52.53\00:13:55.80
ROME WAS GOING
TO LOSE ITS GLORY.
00:13:55.83\00:13:57.37
BUT LISTEN TO WHAT THE
HISTORIANS SAY: 'SOMEONE MIGHT
00:13:57.40\00:13:59.60
HAVE PREDICTED AT THAT
TIME HER SPEEDY DECLINE, BUT THE
00:13:59.63\00:14:02.74
DEVELOPMENT OF THE CHURCH
AND THE GROWING AUTHORITY OF THE
00:14:02.77\00:14:06.21
BISHOP OF ROME,' - BETTER KNOWN
AS THE POPE - 'IT GAVE HER A NEW
00:14:06.24\00:14:10.45
LEASE ON LIFE AND MADE HER,
AGAIN, THE CAPITAL - THIS TIME
00:14:10.48\00:14:13.45
THE RELIGIOUS CAPITAL - OF THE
CIVILIZED WORLD.' WHERE IT USED
00:14:13.48\00:14:16.45
TO BE IN JERUSALEM, NOW THE
CHRISTIAN CAPITAL MOVED TO ROME.
00:14:16.48\00:14:19.62
AND WHERE ROME WAS THE WORLD
EMPIRE FOR POLITICAL POWER, NOW
00:14:19.65\00:14:24.26
IT BECAME THE SPIRITUAL CAPITAL
OF THE WORLD AND THAT HASN'T
00:14:24.29\00:14:28.36
CHANGED IN OVER A
THOUSAND YEARS, OF COURSE.
00:14:28.40\00:14:31.80
'TO THE SUCCESSION OF THE
CAESARS CAME THE SUCCESSION OF
00:14:31.83\00:14:34.60
THE PONTIFFS IN ROME.' AND
SO, INSTEAD OF IT NOW HAVING A
00:14:34.64\00:14:39.11
SUCCESSION OF ONE CAESAR
FOLLOWING ANOTHER, THE CAESARS
00:14:39.14\00:14:42.01
SORT OF LEFT TOWN - THEY BEGAN
TO LOSE POWER - BUT THE CHURCH
00:14:42.04\00:14:45.41
IN ROME BEGAN TO GAIN POWER.
THEY WERE ACTUALLY GIVEN AN
00:14:45.45\00:14:47.98
ARMY TO ENFORCE
RELIGION. AND WE'LL GET TO
00:14:48.02\00:14:51.22
THAT IN A MOMENT. WHEN
CONSTANTINE LEFT ROME, HE
00:14:51.25\00:14:54.29
GAVE HIS SEAT TO THE
PONTIFF. ISN'T THAT WHAT WE JUST
00:14:54.32\00:14:57.73
READ FROM THE BIBLE? GOT
HIS POWER AND HIS SEAT FROM
00:14:57.76\00:15:01.56
THE DRAGON - THAT'S EXACTLY
WHAT HAPPENED, HISTORICALLY.
00:15:01.60\00:15:06.23
IT WOULD HAVE A MAN AS ITS HEAD
WHO WOULD SPEAK FOR THE PAPACY.
00:15:06.27\00:15:10.97
THE PAPACY, OF COURSE, HAS ONE
MAN, THE POPE WHO SPEAKS FOR IT,
00:15:11.01\00:15:15.01
SO IT'S A SINGLE INDIVIDUAL
THAT IS THE LEADER OF THIS
00:15:15.04\00:15:17.91
ORGANIZATION, IT
MEETS THAT CRITERIA AS WELL.
00:15:17.95\00:15:21.85
IT SAYS, "AND AUTHORITY
WAS GIVEN HIM OVER EVERY TRIBE,
00:15:21.88\00:15:25.55
TONGUE, AND NATION." WHAT
DOES THE WORD 'CATHOLIC' MEAN?
00:15:25.59\00:15:29.79
>>UNIVERSAL.
>>IT MEANS UNIVERSAL.
00:15:29.82\00:15:33.26
MATTER OF FACT, SOME OF YOU, YOU
MAY EVEN BE A PROTESTANT AND YOU
00:15:33.29\00:15:35.70
MAY HAVE, FROM TIME TO
TIME, READ WHAT THEY CALL THE
00:15:35.73\00:15:38.07
APOSTLE'S CREED AND IT SAYS,
'I AM PART OF THE HOLY CATHOLIC
00:15:38.10\00:15:40.50
CHURCH'. WHEN I
FIRST READ THAT IN A
00:15:40.54\00:15:42.57
PROTESTANT
CHURCH I SAID, 'WHAT?'
00:15:42.60\00:15:43.67
THEY SAID, 'NO, THE WORD
'CATHOLIC' MEANS UNIVERSAL.' AND
00:15:43.71\00:15:47.11
SO, IT IS A GLOBAL MOVEMENT
- IT'S NOT JUST LOCALIZED.
00:15:47.14\00:15:52.25
AND IN ANOTHER STATEMENT, IT
SAYS HERE - POPE BONIFACE VIII
00:15:52.28\00:15:58.59
SAID, "WE, MOREOVER, PROCLAIM,
DECLARE AND PRONOUNCE THAT IT IS
00:15:58.62\00:16:02.59
ALTOGETHER NECESSARY TO
SALVATION FOR EVERY HUMAN BEING
00:16:02.62\00:16:06.46
TO BE SUBJECT TO
THE ROMAN PONTIFF."
00:16:06.49\00:16:09.26
THEY SAY THIS IS THEIR TEACHINGS
- THAT HE IS TO HAVE ABSOLUTE
00:16:09.30\00:16:12.83
RESPECT AS THE
SUPREME AUTHORITY.
00:16:12.87\00:16:14.74
IT SAYS IT WAS A MAN WITH A
MOUTH SPEAKING GREAT THINGS.
00:16:14.77\00:16:19.34
IT GOES ON AND TELLS US THEN
THAT THIS POWER WOULD PLUCK UP
00:16:19.37\00:16:22.88
OR UPROOT THREE OTHER KINGDOMS -
REMEMBER THAT LITTLE HORN COMES
00:16:22.91\00:16:25.88
UP? THREE OTHER HORNS ARE, SORT
00:16:25.91\00:16:27.92
OF, DISPLACED BECAUSE OF
THAT. HOW DID THAT HAPPEN?
00:16:27.95\00:16:31.19
YOU LOOK AT HISTORY, IT SAYS THE
THREE ARIAN KINGDOMS THAT DID
00:16:31.22\00:16:35.26
NOT SUPPORT THE PAPACY -
THE HERULI, THE VANDALS, AND THE
00:16:35.29\00:16:39.43
OSTRAGOTHS - WHEN THE POPE CAME
INTO POWER WITH AN ARMY ABOUT
00:16:39.46\00:16:43.70
538, ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS
HE DID WAS HE SENT HIS ARMIES TO
00:16:43.73\00:16:47.34
FIGHT AGAINST THESE KINGDOMS
THAT WOULD NOT RECOGNIZE HIS
00:16:47.37\00:16:50.27
AUTHORITY AND DID NOT
AGREE WITH THEIR THEOLOGY.
00:16:50.31\00:16:53.51
AND THEY WERE DESTROYED.
AND THAT'S WHY YOU DON'T SEE THE
00:16:53.54\00:16:56.14
OSTRAGOTHS AND THE
VANDALS AND THE HERULI ANYMORE.
00:16:56.18\00:16:58.78
IT'S BECAUSE THOSE KINGDOMS
WERE UPROOTED JUST AS IT SAID.
00:16:58.81\00:17:02.25
BUT, UP UNTIL THEN, IT HAD
TEN HORNS - THREE OF THOSE HORNS
00:17:02.28\00:17:05.29
WERE UPROOTED. THAT
HAPPENED BETWEEN 493 AND 538.
00:17:05.32\00:17:10.63
WHAT TIME? THE
LAST DATE: 493 TO 538.
00:17:10.66\00:17:14.40
I WANT YOU TO MAKE
A MENTAL NOTE OF THAT.
00:17:14.46\00:17:16.50
IT SAYS IT WOULD BE DIVERSE
FROM OR DIFFERENT FROM THE OTHER
00:17:16.53\00:17:20.10
KINGDOMS. IT'S
DIVERSE IN THAT IT'S NOT
00:17:20.14\00:17:22.67
JUST A
GOVERNMENT, IT'S A RELIGION.
00:17:22.70\00:17:26.37
THE ROMAN CHURCH HAS GOT ABOUT
1.2 BILLION MEMBERS AT THE TIME
00:17:26.41\00:17:29.91
OF THIS RECORDING. I
JUST CHECKED THE FIGURES -
00:17:29.94\00:17:32.21
THERE ARE ABOUT 2.2 BILLION
CHRISTIANS IN THE WORLD TODAY,
00:17:32.25\00:17:35.38
BECAUSE YOU ADD THE PROTESTANTS
- BUT CATHOLICS ARE THE LARGEST
00:17:35.42\00:17:39.02
SINGLE GROUP - ROMAN CATHOLICS.
IT GOES ON AND TELLS US THAT
00:17:39.05\00:17:42.96
THIS POWER WOULD MAKE WAR
WITH AND PERSECUTE THE SAINTS.
00:17:42.99\00:17:47.40
WHAT HAPPENED IS, BACK IN 2000,
THE POPE, JOHN PAUL II, HAD A
00:17:47.46\00:17:51.33
YEAR OF JUBILEE AND, DURING
THAT YEAR OF JUBILEE, THE CHURCH
00:17:51.37\00:17:55.24
PUBLICLY APOLOGIZED FOR
THE ACTIONS OF THE CHURCH IN
00:17:55.27\00:17:59.11
PERSECUTING DURING THE
TIME OF THE INQUISITION.
00:17:59.14\00:18:02.21
IT'S A FACT OF HISTORY THAT
THERE WERE GREAT PERSECUTIONS
00:18:02.24\00:18:04.95
THAT TOOK PLACE. YOU
CAN GO TO EUROPE - I'VE BEEN
00:18:04.98\00:18:07.25
THERE - THEY'VE TAKEN ME
IN CHURCHES AND THEY SAY,
00:18:07.28\00:18:09.25
'WANNA SEE THE DUNGEON?'
AND YOU CAN GO TO THE DUNGEON -
00:18:09.28\00:18:12.25
THEY SAY, 'HERE'S THE TORTURE
CHAMBERS' - AND THEY HAVE THESE
00:18:12.29\00:18:14.66
IMPLEMENTS OF TORTURE
ON DISPLAY IN THE BASEMENTS
00:18:14.69\00:18:17.56
OF THE CHURCHES. AND
SO, IT'S A PRETTY CLEAR FACT
00:18:17.59\00:18:21.83
OF HISTORY THAT
IT WOULD MAKE WAR.
00:18:21.86\00:18:24.53
AND THIS IS WHAT IT SAYS IN
REVELATION 13, THAT IT WOULD
00:18:24.57\00:18:26.70
"MAKE WAR WITH THE
SAINTS, AND TO OVERCOME THEM."
00:18:26.74\00:18:30.01
THEY HAD TO GO
UNDERGROUND DURING THAT TIME.
00:18:30.04\00:18:32.51
BRITISH HISTORIAN WILLIAM EDWARD
LECKY WROTE "THAT THE CHURCH OF
00:18:32.54\00:18:36.11
ROME HAS SHED MORE INNOCENT
BLOOD THAN ANY OTHER INSTITUTION
00:18:36.14\00:18:40.12
THAT HAS EVER EXISTED AMONG
MANKIND, WILL BE QUESTIONED BY
00:18:40.15\00:18:43.95
NO PROTESTANT WHO HAS A
COMPETENT KNOWLEDGE OF HISTORY."
00:18:43.99\00:18:47.29
IT GOES ON TO TELL US THAT
"GOD'S PEOPLE (THE SAINTS) WOULD
00:18:47.32\00:18:50.23
BE GIVEN INTO ITS
HAND FOR A PERIOD OF TIME."
00:18:50.26\00:18:52.43
WHAT IS THAT PERIOD OF
TIME? IT SAYS "A TIME AND TIMES
00:18:52.46\00:18:55.83
AND THE DIVIDING OF TIME."
THAT'S THREE AND A HALF YEARS.
00:18:55.86\00:18:59.40
"POWER WAS GIVEN" - LOOK IN
REVELATION 13:5 - "POWER WAS
00:18:59.43\00:19:02.87
GIVEN UNTO HIM TO
CONTINUE FORTY AND TWO MONTHS."
00:19:02.90\00:19:07.04
AND THIS IS A PERIOD OF TIME.
NOW, I TOLD YOU THE STARTING
00:19:07.08\00:19:09.11
DATE - 538 IS WHEN HE
FINALLY SECURED HIS POWER.
00:19:09.14\00:19:13.88
AND SO WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT
THAT. IF YOU GO FROM 538, 1260
00:19:13.92\00:19:19.22
YEARS - THAT'S A TIME -
REMEMBER, IN BIBLE PROPHECY,
00:19:19.25\00:19:23.09
A DAY EQUALS WHAT? >>A YEAR.
00:19:23.12\00:19:25.19
>>YOU FIND THAT IN EZEKIEL
4:6 AND NUMBERS AND LUKE.
00:19:25.23\00:19:28.70
YOU FIND SEVERAL PASSAGES THAT
TEACH US THAT'S A PRINCIPLE.
00:19:28.73\00:19:31.77
IF YOU GO FROM THE STARTING
POINT OF 538, IN 538 THE ROMAN
00:19:31.80\00:19:37.14
EMPEROR JUSTINIAN LEFT TOWN, HE
GAVE THE POPE AN ARMY, THE POPE
00:19:37.17\00:19:43.01
WAS THE SUPREME RULER, THEY
BEGAN TO USE FORCE TO COMPEL
00:19:43.04\00:19:46.88
PEOPLE TO BELIEVE - DID JESUS
EVER ENDORSE THAT WE USE ARMIES
00:19:46.92\00:19:50.02
TO GET CONVERTS? AND THREATEN
WITH DEATH OR PERSECUTE?
00:19:50.05\00:19:54.16
NO, HE SAID, 'WHOSOEVER
WILL, COME' - IT'S TO BE FREE.
00:19:54.19\00:19:57.26
IT'S NOT TO BE COMPULSORY.
NOW HERE YOU'VE GOT - THIS
00:19:57.29\00:20:00.70
IS ACTUALLY A
MOSAIC OF CONSTANTINE.
00:20:00.73\00:20:03.06
THE LEGALLY RECOGNIZED SUPREMACY
OF THE POPE BEGAN IN 538 A.D.
00:20:03.10\00:20:08.20
WHEN THERE WENT INTO EFFECT
A DECREE OF EMPEROR JUSTINIAN,
00:20:08.24\00:20:12.14
MAKING THE BISHOP OF ROME" -
BETTER KNOWN AS THE POPE - TO BE
00:20:12.17\00:20:15.98
"HEAD OVER ALL THE CHURCHES,"
- HOW DID THE LEADER OF THE
00:20:16.01\00:20:19.18
CHRISTIAN CHURCH GET TO ROME?
DIDN'T THE EARLY COUNSELS OF
00:20:19.21\00:20:23.79
THE CHURCH HAPPEN IN JERUSALEM?
YOU EVER WONDERED ABOUT THAT?
00:20:23.82\00:20:29.09
"MAKING THE BISHOP OF ROME
HEAD OVER ALL THE CHURCHES, THE
00:20:29.12\00:20:31.56
DEFINER OF DOCTRINE, AND
THE CORRECTOR OF HERETICS."
00:20:31.59\00:20:35.36
YOU CAN ALSO READ IN THE HISTORY
OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH ,
00:20:35.40\00:20:37.93
"VIGILIUS...ASCENDED THE
PAPAL CHAIR (538 AD) UNDER THE
00:20:37.97\00:20:42.10
MILITARY
PROTECTION OF BELISARIUS."
00:20:42.14\00:20:45.34
AND THE DATE IS
PRETTY WELL ESTABLISHED.
00:20:45.37\00:20:47.94
YOU START WITH 538, THEN IT SAYS
YOU GO 1260 YEARS - 42 MONTHS -
00:20:47.98\00:20:54.58
SAME TIME PERIOD - A TIME,
A TIME, AND HALF A TIME - THAT
00:20:54.62\00:20:58.82
TIME PERIOD IS A VERY IMPORTANT
TIME PERIOD AND IT'S GOING TO
00:20:58.85\00:21:01.42
REACH UNTO SOMETHING HAPPENING.
REVELATION 13:3, IT SAYS,
00:21:01.46\00:21:06.29
"...ONE OF THE HEADS AS
IT WERE WOUNDED TO DEATH:"
00:21:06.33\00:21:10.37
- BY THE SWORD. WHAT
DOES THE SWORD REPRESENT?
00:21:10.40\00:21:13.50
>>THE BIBLE. >>THE WORD OF GOD.
00:21:13.54\00:21:15.17
AND THE WORD OF GOD BEGAN TO GET
PRINTED AGAIN IN THE LANGUAGE OF
00:21:15.20\00:21:18.61
THE PEOPLE. THEY
STARTED SEEING SOME
00:21:18.64\00:21:20.28
OF THE INCONSISTENCIES.
THAT'S WHEN THE PROTESTANT
00:21:20.31\00:21:22.94
REFORMATION
STARTED IN THE 1500S.
00:21:22.98\00:21:24.95
BUT, FINALLY, THEY
LOST THEIR POLITICAL POWER.
00:21:24.98\00:21:27.75
IT SAYS THERE WAS A DEADLY WOUND
BUT THE WOUND WOULD BE HEALED
00:21:27.78\00:21:31.19
AND ALL THE WORLD
WOULD WONDER AFTER THE BEAST.
00:21:31.22\00:21:34.22
ALRIGHT, SO HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?
00:21:34.26\00:21:36.19
YOU'VE HEARD OF
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE?
00:21:36.22\00:21:38.86
HE'S SWEEPING ACROSS EUROPE,
HAD GREAT CONTROL, HE CONQUERED
00:21:38.89\00:21:41.03
ITALY - ONE OF THE THINGS THAT
HE DID IS HE DIDN'T REALLY LIKE
00:21:41.06\00:21:45.03
THAT THE CHURCH IN ROME
WAS NOT SUPPORTING HIS EMPIRE.
00:21:45.07\00:21:48.44
YOU KNOW, HE DECLARED
HIMSELF TO BE THE EMPEROR.
00:21:48.47\00:21:50.47
THEY HAD TOO MUCH INFLUENCE.
YOU'VE PROBABLY HEARD OF THE
00:21:50.51\00:21:52.71
FRENCH REVOLUTION - AND SO THE
MURDER OF A FRENCHMAN IN ROME
00:21:52.74\00:21:56.78
GAVE THEM THE EXCUSE FOR HIM TO
SEND HIS GENERAL, BERTHIER, INTO
00:21:56.81\00:22:01.48
ROME, HE ARRESTED THE POPE, HE
ABOLISHED THE PAPAL GOVERNMENT -
00:22:01.52\00:22:06.52
THAT HAPPENED IN 1798,
EXACTLY 1,260 YEARS AFTER 538.
00:22:06.55\00:22:13.70
BUT IT SAID THE DEADLY WOUND
WOULD BE HEALED AND ALL THE
00:22:13.73\00:22:16.90
WORLD WOULD
WONDER AFTER THE BEAST.
00:22:16.93\00:22:19.43
ANOTHER CHARACTER -
CHARACTERISTIC WE LEARNED, IT
00:22:19.47\00:22:22.07
SAID THIS BEAST POWER
WOULD BE GUILTY OF BLASPHEMY.
00:22:22.10\00:22:25.87
BLASPHEMY, BY DEFINITION,
THERE ARE TWO THINGS.
00:22:25.91\00:22:28.14
IT MEANS, FIRST OF ALL,
ONE CLAIMING THE POWERS OR
00:22:28.18\00:22:32.15
PREROGATIVES THAT BELONG TO GOD;
CLAIMING TO BE ABLE TO FORGIVE
00:22:32.18\00:22:35.38
SINS. AND SO,
DOES THIS BEAST POWER
00:22:35.42\00:22:38.92
MEET THOSE TWO DEFINITIONS?
APRIL 30, 1922, POPE PIUS SAID,
00:22:38.95\00:22:44.89
"YOU KNOW THAT I AM THE HOLY
FATHER, THE REPRESENTATIVE OF
00:22:44.93\00:22:48.23
GOD ON EARTH, THE VICAR
OF CHRIST, WHICH MEANS I
00:22:48.26\00:22:53.17
AM GOD ON THE EARTH."
THAT'S AN OFFICIAL STATEMENT
00:22:53.20\00:22:57.81
- A DECLARATION OF THE POPE.
POPE LEO XIII, "THE SUPREME
00:22:57.84\00:23:01.81
TEACHER IN THE
CHURCH IS THE ROMAN PONTIFF.
00:23:01.84\00:23:05.28
UNION OF MINDS, THEREFORE,
REQUIRES, TOGETHER WITH A
00:23:05.31\00:23:08.52
PERFECT ACCORD IN THE ONE
FAITH, COMPLETE SUBMISSION AND
00:23:08.55\00:23:12.99
OBEDIENCE OF WILL TO THE CHURCH
AND TO THE ROMAN PONTIFF, AS TO
00:23:13.02\00:23:17.39
GOD HIMSELF." SEE,
PROTESTANTS, TYPICALLY,
00:23:17.43\00:23:21.26
WOULD CATEGORIZE
THAT AS BLASPHEMY.
00:23:21.30\00:23:24.83
ONE MORE YOU CAN READ IN 2
THESSALONIANS, PAUL SAID IN THE
00:23:24.87\00:23:27.80
LAST DAYS THIS ANTICHRIST POWER
WILL SIT IN THE TEMPLE OF GOD,
00:23:27.84\00:23:32.71
SHOWING HIMSELF
THAT HE IS GOD. >>WOW.
00:23:32.74\00:23:35.71
>>NOW THAT - THE TEMPLE OF
GOD DOESN'T MEAN JEWISH TEMPLE.
00:23:35.74\00:23:38.21
THE BIBLE SAYS, 'DON'T YOU KNOW
THAT YOU ARE THE TEMPLE OF GOD?'
00:23:38.25\00:23:41.45
IT MEANS THERE WOULD BE A
RELIGIOUS POWER THAT WOULD SIT
00:23:41.48\00:23:43.39
OVER THE PEOPLE OF GOD CLAIMING
PREROGATIVES THAT BELONG TO GOD.
00:23:43.42\00:23:47.32
SO, WHEN WE PRAY, DO WE
NEED TO GO THROUGH THE POPE?
00:23:47.36\00:23:51.23
DO WE NEED TO GO
THROUGH THE PRIESTS?
00:23:51.26\00:23:53.19
DO WE NEED TO GO THROUGH MARY?
OR, THROUGH THE HOLY SPIRIT,
00:23:53.23\00:23:56.10
DO WE GO DIRECTLY TO
JESUS? AND THROUGH JESUS, WE
00:23:56.13\00:23:58.53
GO TO THE FATHER, RIGHT? >>AMEN.
00:23:58.57\00:24:00.27
>>RIGHT. >>AMEN.
00:24:00.30\00:24:01.50
>>AND SO THINGS CHANGED IN THE
CHURCH THAT SEPARATED IT FROM
00:24:01.54\00:24:04.37
THE BIBLE AND IT OBSCURED THE
TRUTH. THAT'S WHY THIS IS ALSO
00:24:04.41\00:24:07.34
VERY IMPORTANT - "SO THAT
HE SITS AS GOD IN THE TEMPLE OF
00:24:07.38\00:24:10.28
GOD, SHOWING HIMSELF THAT HE
IS GOD." SECOND DEFINITION OF
00:24:10.31\00:24:12.51
BLASPHEMY WAS CLAIMING
TO BE ABLE TO FORGIVE SINS.
00:24:12.55\00:24:16.82
WELL, IF YOU LOOK IN THE
WRITINGS OF THE PRIESTHOOD -
00:24:16.85\00:24:20.36
THESE ARE NOT THINGS THAT
I'VE WRITTEN - IT SAYS THAT "GOD
00:24:20.39\00:24:24.83
HIMSELF IS OBLIGED TO ABIDE
BY THE JUDGMENT OF HIS PRIESTS."
00:24:24.86\00:24:28.56
- GOD IS 'OBLIGED' TO ABIDE
BY THE JUDGMENT OF HIS PRIESTS -
00:24:28.60\00:24:31.97
"AND EITHER NOT TO PARDON OR TO
PARDON, ACCORDING AS THEY REFUSE
00:24:32.00\00:24:36.40
OR GIVE ABSOLUTION." SO
THE PRIESTS DECIDE WHETHER
00:24:36.44\00:24:40.18
OR NOT GOD IS
GOING TO PARDON A PERSON.
00:24:40.21\00:24:42.38
NOW THAT IS A VERY CONVENIENT
TEACHING BECAUSE IT MEANS YOU
00:24:42.41\00:24:45.28
CAN'T BE FORGIVEN WITHOUT GOING
THROUGH THE PAPAL HIERARCHY.
00:24:45.31\00:24:50.05
THE BIBLE SAYS YOU CAN GO
DIRECTLY - I CAN COME BOLDLY
00:24:50.09\00:24:52.85
BEFORE THE THRONE
OF GRACE THROUGH JESUS.
00:24:52.89\00:24:54.89
>>AMEN. >>AND, YOU
KNOW, DON'T MISUNDER
00:24:54.92\00:24:56.86
- THERE ARE GOOD PEOPLE - AND
EVEN SOME OF THE LEADERSHIP, I
00:24:56.89\00:24:59.69
THINK, DON'T
UNDERSTAND THESE THINGS.
00:24:59.73\00:25:01.26
I'VE HAD PRIESTS THAT HAVE COME
TO OR WATCHED THESE PROGRAMS AND
00:25:01.30\00:25:04.87
SAID, 'PASTOR DOUG, FOR THE
FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE MY EYES
00:25:04.90\00:25:07.30
ARE OPENED.' AND THEY CAME TO
CHRIST AND THEY UNDERSTOOD THE
00:25:07.34\00:25:09.74
BIBLE. AND SO, YOU KNOW, YOU'VE
00:25:09.77\00:25:11.67
GOT TO PREACH THE TRUTH. >>AMEN.
00:25:11.71\00:25:13.14
>>AND YOU'RE NOT ALWAYS GOING TO
MAKE FRIENDS WHEN YOU PREACH THE
00:25:13.17\00:25:15.04
TRUTH, BUT THE TRUTH IS THE
TRUTH AND IT DOESN'T CHANGE.
00:25:15.08\00:25:17.78
JESUS SAID, 'I'M THE SAME
YESTERDAY, TODAY, AND FOREVER.'
00:25:17.81\00:25:19.68
>>AMEN. >>OH, BY THE WAY, I
00:25:19.71\00:25:21.02
DIDN'T FINISH THAT QUOTE. IT
GOES ON TO SAY, "THE SENTENCE
00:25:21.05\00:25:23.85
OF THE PRIEST PRECEDES, AND
GOD SUBSCRIBES" - HE FOLLOWS THE
00:25:23.89\00:25:27.89
SENTENCE OF THE PRIESTS.
IT SAYS IT WOULD GO ON - THIS
00:25:27.92\00:25:33.53
BEAST POWER WOULD THINK
TO CHANGE TIMES AND LAWS.
00:25:33.56\00:25:37.17
DID YOU KNOW THAT IN
THE OFFICIAL WRITINGS OF THE
00:25:37.20\00:25:38.93
CATHOLIC CHURCH - AND YOU'VE
GOT THE REFERENCE THERE ON THE
00:25:38.97\00:25:41.84
SCREEN - IT SAYS, "THE POPE
HAS POWER TO CHANGE TIMES TO
00:25:41.87\00:25:46.14
ABROGATE LAWS AND TO DISPENSE
WITH ALL THINGS, EVEN THE
00:25:46.17\00:25:50.15
PRECEPTS OF CHRIST."
THE TEACHINGS OF CHRIST.
00:25:50.18\00:25:53.45
I - WHENEVER I GO PLAY
RACQUETBALL IN SACRAMENTO, I
00:25:53.48\00:25:56.45
DRIVE BY THIS CATHOLIC
CONGREGATION - VERY NICE - AND
00:25:56.48\00:26:00.66
THEY'VE GOT A TEN
COMMANDMENTS OUTSIDE.
00:26:00.69\00:26:02.16
I APPRECIATE THAT. AND
I STOPPED ONE TIME TO LOOK
00:26:02.19\00:26:03.79
AT IT - A BEAUTIFUL PEACE
OF ART - THEY DON'T HAVE THE
00:26:03.83\00:26:07.03
SECOND
COMMANDMENT. IT'S BEEN REMOVED.
00:26:07.10\00:26:10.23
WHAT THEY DID IS THEY DIVIDED
THE TENTH COMMANDMENT - CHECK
00:26:10.27\00:26:12.07
FOR YOURSELF - THEY DIVIDED THE
TENTH COMMANDMENT, THEY TOOK OUT
00:26:12.10\00:26:15.70
THE ONE ABOUT IDOLATRY SO THAT
THEY'D STILL HAVE THE NUMBER
00:26:15.74\00:26:19.04
TEN. THEY SIMPLY
SAY, 'THOU SHALT NOT
00:26:19.07\00:26:21.41
HAVE OTHER GODS' - THEY
SKIP OVER THE WHOLE THING ABOUT
00:26:21.44\00:26:23.28
MAKING IDOLS AND BOWING DOWN.
NOW, FRIENDS, AS I SHARE THESE
00:26:23.31\00:26:27.25
THINGS WITH YOU, THE MAIN
THING I WANT YOU TO DO IS SAY,
00:26:27.28\00:26:31.72
'WHAT DOES THE BIBLE
SAY?' DID GOD FORETELL WHAT WAS
00:26:31.75\00:26:35.36
GOING TO HAPPEN IN THE WORLD?
NOW I'VE TALKED A LITTLE BIT
00:26:35.39\00:26:38.06
TONIGHT ABOUT
CATHOLICISM IN PROPHECY.
00:26:38.09\00:26:41.46
ON ANOTHER NIGHT I'LL BE TALKING
ABOUT, YOU KNOW, REVELATION 17
00:26:41.50\00:26:44.47
IT SAYS THAT WOMAN THAT RIDES
THE BEAST IS CALLED THE MOTHER
00:26:44.50\00:26:47.24
OF HARLOTS. SO
SHE HAS DAUGHTERS.
00:26:47.27\00:26:51.34
WHAT DOES A WOMAN
REPRESENT? >>A CHURCH.
00:26:51.37\00:26:52.91
>>A CHURCH. IT
MEANS THERE'S OTHERS AND,
00:26:52.94\00:26:55.34
BECAUSE SHE'S A HARLOT, HER
DAUGHTERS ARE ALSO UNFAITHFUL.
00:26:55.38\00:26:58.78
AND HERE, WE'RE FINDING
OUT THAT THERE'S A LOT OF OTHER
00:26:58.81\00:27:02.12
CHRISTIANS IN OTHER
DENOMINATIONS - DAUGHTERS THAT
00:27:02.15\00:27:04.69
HAVE COME OUT OF
THE MOTHER CHURCH -
00:27:04.72\00:27:06.09
THAT ARE ALSO UNFAITHFUL.
00:27:06.12\00:27:07.86
SO I'M GOING TO BE TALKING -
BECAUSE PROPHECY TALKS ABOUT A
00:27:07.89\00:27:10.43
LOT OF UNFAITHFULNESS THAT
HAS TAKEN PLACE IN PROPHECY.
00:27:10.46\00:27:14.56
JESUS WANTS TO BRING HIS PEOPLE
BACK TO THE WORD BEFORE HE
00:27:14.56\00:27:18.17
RETURNS, AND THAT'S WHY
WE PROCLAIM THESE MESSAGES.
00:27:18.20\00:27:21.10
THE IDEA OF
PROPHECY IS REDEMPTIVE.
00:27:21.14\00:27:24.04
THIS ISN'T ABOUT BUILDING UP
OR PUTTING DOWN ONE INSTITUTION
00:27:24.07\00:27:26.94
OVER ANOTHER, IT'S ABOUT SAYING,
'WHAT ARE THE TEACHINGS OF
00:27:26.98\00:27:30.35
JESUS? WHAT IS
THE TRUTH THAT WILL
00:27:30.38\00:27:32.38
SAVE US FROM OUR SINS?' >>AMEN.
00:27:32.41\00:27:34.85
>>CHRIST GAVE US THESE
PROPHECIES, NOT TO INTRIGUE US,
00:27:34.88\00:27:38.65
BUT TO BE REDEMPTIVE - TO SAVE
US. AND THERE'S A LOT OF DEAR
00:27:38.69\00:27:41.96
PEOPLE THAT ARE MIXED
UP IN FALSE TEACHINGS.
00:27:41.99\00:27:45.46
AND WITH EVERY TRUTH THAT A
PERSON LEARNS - JESUS SAID THE
00:27:45.49\00:27:48.60
TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE - IT
LIBERATES - IT SAVES - IT HELPS
00:27:48.63\00:27:53.40
PEOPLE TO SEE THE LIGHT AND TO
UNDERSTAND THE CHARACTER OF GOD
00:27:53.44\00:27:56.71
BETTER. CAN YOU
SAY 'AMEN'? >>AMEN.
00:27:56.74\00:28:02.51
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