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00:02 >>THIS PRESENTATION IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE FRIENDS OF THE
00:05 AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY. 00:09 >> HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A BALD EAGLE'S NEST? 00:12 EAGLES OFTEN USE THE SAME NEST YEAR AFTER YEAR; 00:15 AND OVER TIME, SOME NESTS GROW TO ENORMOUS SIZE, 00:19 MANY UP TO 9 FEET IN DIAMETER AND WEIGHING 2 TONS. 00:23 BOTH PARENTS PROVIDE WELL FOR THEIR OFFSPRING, 00:26 AND THE YOUNG BIRDS GROW QUICKLY AS THEY EAT VORACIOUSLY, 00:29 ADDING A POUND EVERY FIVE DAYS. 00:32 BUT EVENTUALLY, THEY MUST LEARN TO FLY AND HUNT FOR THEMSELVES. 00:35 LIFE FOR YOUNG EAGLES IS TOUGH, AND TRAGICALLY, 00:38 ONLY 10 TO 20% SURVIVE TO ADULTHOOD. 00:41 THEY GET ELECTROCUTED BY LANDING ON WIRES, 00:43 THEY'RE HUNTED BY POACHERS, HIT BY VEHICLES, 00:46 AND SOMETIMES THEY SIMPLY STARVE. 00:48 THEY WERE ONCE DECLARED AN ENDANGERED SPECIES, 00:51 BUT THEY'VE MADE A SURPRISING COMEBACK. 00:53 BECAUSE OF ITS GRACE, SPEED, STRENGTH, 00:56 AND ITS SIZE, THE BALD EAGLE WAS CHOSEN TO SYMBOLIZE 00:59 THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 01:01 NOT ONLY DO NATIONS TODAY CHOOSE ANIMALS AS THEIR NATIONAL 01:05 MASCOTS OR SYMBOLS, THE BIBLE ALSO USES DIFFERENT BEASTS TO 01:10 IDENTIFY THE CHARACTERISTICS OF PROMINENT KINGDOMS IN PROPHECY. 01:15 SO JOIN ME NOW AS WE DISCOVER WHAT THE BIBLE REALLY SAYS ABOUT 01:19 THE FUTURE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 01:26 >>I THINK THAT WE WOULD ALL AGREE THAT THERE'S SOMETHING 01:29 THAT RESEMBLES A WAR HAPPENING IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF 01:32 THE WORLD RIGHT NOW AND WE'RE CALLING IT A WAR AGAINST 01:35 TERRORISM. I THINK EVEN POPE FRANCIS WAS 01:39 QUOTED THIS LAST YEAR AS SAYING, "IT LOOKS LIKE WORLD WAR III IS 01:43 GOING TO HAPPEN IN PIECEMEAL ALL OVER THE PLANET." 01:47 AND EVEN THIS WEEK ANOTHER TERRORIST INCIDENT. 01:51 JUST A FEW FACTS YOU MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN: LARGEST RELIGION 01:56 IN THE WORLD, WHEN YOU COMBINE PROTESTANTS AND CATHOLICS, IS 01:59 CHRISTIANITY. APPROXIMATELY 2.17 BILLION 02:03 CHRISTIANS IN THE WORLD, OUT OF - PUSHING 8 BILLION - PEOPLE. 02:07 THERE ARE 1.6 BILLION MUSLIMS IN THE WORLD. 02:11 VIRTUALLY EVERY OTHER MAJOR RELIGION IS EITHER FLAT, AS FAR 02:15 AS GROWTH, OR DECLINING. BUDDHISM IS DECLINING. 02:19 HINDUISM IS SHOWING FLAT GROWTH. JUDAISM - A NUMBER OF OTHER 02:22 RELIGIONS - THE TWO RELIGIONS THAT ARE STILL SHOWING GROWTH 02:26 - CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM. ISLAM IS GROWING FASTER. 02:31 HISTORIANS THAT LOOK AT WHAT'S HAPPENING TODAY REALIZE THIS IS 02:34 NOT A POLITICAL PROBLEM, IT'S A RELIGIOUS PROBLEM. 02:39 AND SOME HAVE WONDERED, 'DOES PROPHECY SAY ANYTHING ABOUT 02:43 ISLAM? DOES PROPHECY SAY ANYTHING ABOUT CHRISTIANITY AND 02:48 AMERICA?' AND THIS LESSON IS GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT THAT 02:52 AND THE ANSWER IS 'YES'. SO LET'S GET RIGHT INTO SOME 02:55 OF THESE PROPHECIES HERE IN REVELATION. 02:58 AND THE FIRST ONE IS REVELATION CHAPTER 13, VERSE 15 - THERE'S A 03:02 VERSE THERE I WANT YOU TO NOTICE - SPEAKING OF THE BEAST POWER 03:05 THAT YOU FIND IN REVELATION 13 - IT SAYS, "HE WAS GRANTED POWER 03:10 TO GIVE BREATH TO THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST, THAT THE IMAGE OF THE 03:13 BEAST SHOULD BOTH SPEAK AND CAUSE AS MANY AS WOULD NOT 03:18 WORSHIP THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST TO BE KILLED." 03:22 NOW, JUST FROM THAT VERSE RIGHT THERE, YOU CAN TELL THAT THERE 03:24 IS GOING TO BE SOME CONFLICT CONNECTED WITH RELIGION. 03:29 IT'S A WAR CONNECTED WITH WORSHIP. 03:32 AND YOU'VE SEEN IT PLAY OUT SEVERAL TIMES IN HISTORY. 03:35 LET'S GO INTO THE FIRST QUESTION AND IT'S GOING TO SET US UP FOR, 03:38 I THINK, WHAT YOU'LL FIND TO BE A VERY INTERESTING STUDY. 03:42 SO HOW LONG DOES A DAY REPRESENT IN BIBLICAL TIME? 03:46 WHEN YOU'RE CALCULATING BIBLICAL PROPHECIES, DOES IT MEAN A DAY 03:51 IS A DAY? >>NO. 03:53 >>SO WHEN IT TALKS ABOUT THIS THREE AND A HALF YEARS - 42 03:57 MONTHS - ONE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTY DAYS - YOU 04:00 REALIZE THAT THAT IS A TIME PROPHECY GIVEN MORE DIFFERENT 04:02 WAYS - YOU NOT ONLY FIND IT IN REVELATION 13, REVELATION 12, 04:07 DANIEL CHAPTER 7 - THIS IS A TIME PERIOD FOUND SEVERAL TIMES 04:11 IN THE BIBLE. SO WHAT DOES A DAY 04:14 EQUAL IN PROPHECY? SEVERAL VERSES SHARE WITH THAT. 04:17 IF YOU LOOK, FOR INSTANCE, IN THE BOOK OF NUMBERS CHAPTER 14, 04:20 VERSE 34, YOU CAN READ THERE: "ACCORDING TO THE NUMBER OF THE 04:24 DAYS IN WHICH YOU SPIED OUT THE LAND, FORTY DAYS, FOR EACH DAY 04:28 YOU SHALL BEAR YOUR GUILT ONE YEAR, NAMELY FORTY YEARS." 04:31 PERHAPS YOU REMEMBER WHEN THE SPIES FIRST WENT - TWELVE SPIES 04:34 - TO LOOK AT THE PROMISED LAND, THEY CAME BACK AND THEY GAVE A 04:37 DISCOURAGING REPORT. GOD SAID, 'WELL, BECAUSE YOU DID NOT HAVE 04:41 FAITH, FOR EVERY DAY YOU SPIED THE LAND YOU'RE GOING 04:43 TO WANDER IN THE WILDERNESS A YEAR' - A DAY FOR A YEAR. 04:46 AND THEN YOU CAN ALSO HEAR THAT IN EZEKIEL 4:6 - THAT "I HAVE 04:51 LAID ON YOU A DAY FOR EACH YEAR." 04:54 JESUS USED THIS PRINCIPLE - LUKE CHAPTER 13 - SOMEONE CAME TO 04:57 JESUS AND THEY SAID, 'YOU KNOW, HEROD IS GOING TO ARREST YOU, 05:01 JUST LIKE HE KILLED JOHN THE BAPTIST.' JESUS SAID, 'GO TELL 05:04 THAT FOX THAT I TEACH AND DO CURES AND CAST OUT DEVILS TODAY, 05:10 AND TOMORROW, AND THE THIRD DAY I WILL BE PERFECTED.' WELL THIS 05:14 IS EARLY IN JESUS' MINISTRY. HE DID NOT TEACH THREE MORE 05:16 DAYS, HE TAUGHT THREE MORE YEARS. 05:19 THAT WAS A PROPHECY CHRIST MADE AND IT WAS EXACTLY FULFILLED 05:24 THAT WAY - THREE MORE YEARS - JESUS USED A DAY FOR A YEAR. 05:27 SO WITH THAT PRINCIPLE IN MIND, HOW LONG DOES IT SAY THERE IN 05:31 REVELATION CHAPTER 13, WOULD THIS BEAST POWER RULE BEFORE IT 05:36 RECEIVES A DEADLY WOUND - BEFORE IT'S WOUNDED? 05:39 IF YOU LOOK IN REVELATION 13, VERSE 5, IT SAYS, "...AND HE WAS 05:43 GIVEN AUTHORITY TO CONTINUE FOR FORTY-TWO MONTHS." 05:48 NOW THAT NUMBER - KEEP IN MIND, IN THE JEWISH CALENDAR - THEY 05:54 HAD A LUNAR CALENDAR, IT WASN'T THE ROMAN CALENDAR. 05:57 THEY FIGURED THIRTY DAYS TO THE MONTH. 06:01 THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY DAYS TO THE YEAR AND THEN THEY'D 06:04 COMPENSATE BY ADDING ANOTHER MONTH EVERY FEW YEARS SO THAT IT 06:08 WOULD EVEN OUT WITH THE SEASONS. THAT NUMBER - FORTY-TWO MONTHS - 06:13 COMES TO THREE AND A HALF YEARS OR 1,260 DAYS WHICH, BY THE WAY, 06:20 IS EXACTLY HALF OF SEVEN - THREE AND A HALF YEARS IS 06:24 HALF OF SEVEN YEARS. YOU'LL FIND THAT NUMBER SEVERAL 06:28 TIMES AND IT'S OFTEN ASSOCIATED WITH PERSECUTION. 06:31 THREE AND A HALF YEARS - JESUS IS CRUCIFIED - THREE AND A HALF 06:35 YEARS AFTER THAT STEPHEN IS STONED - THE FIRST MARTYR. 06:38 AND SO, WHEN IT TALKS ABOUT THREE AND A HALF YEARS THERE IN 06:40 REVELATION, IT IS A TIME OF DARKNESS AND PERSECUTION. 06:44 ALRIGHT, WHEN DID THE TIME PERIOD FOR THE BEAST RULE BEGIN? 06:50 AND YOU FIND THE ANSWER FOR THAT IN HISTORY BECAUSE YOU CAN LOOK 06:54 AT HISTORY AND IT'S AFTER BIBLE TIMES WERE WRITTEN. THE 06:58 LEGALIZED - THE LEGALLY RECOGNIZED SUPREMACY 07:01 OF THE POPE BEGAN IN 538 A.D. WHEN THERE WENT INTO EFFECT A 07:06 DECREE OF EMPEROR JUSTINIAN MAKING THE BISHOP OF ROME, 07:10 BETTER KNOWN AS THE POPE, HEAD OVER THE CHURCHES AND THE 07:13 DEFINER OF DOCTRINES AND THE CORRECTOR OF HERETICS. 07:17 AND YOU CAN ALSO READ THERE VIGILIUS ASCENDED THE PAPAL 07:21 CHAIR 538 A.D. UNDER THE MILITARY PROTECTION OF 07:24 BELISARIUS. NOW WHAT WAS GOING ON IS JUSTINIAN, THE ROMAN 07:29 EMPEROR, HE MOVED THE CAPITAL OF ROME TO CONSTANTINOPLE. 07:35 HE MADE THE POPE IN ROME THE LEADER OF THE CHURCH AND HE GAVE 07:40 HIM A MILITARY AND CALLED HIM THE CORRECTOR OF HERETICS SO 07:43 THAT HE COULD NOW USE CIVIL POWER TO ENFORCE THE RELIGION. 07:49 DID JESUS EVER SAY THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO USE 07:51 CIVIL POWER TO MAKE PEOPLE BELIEVE? 07:53 >>NO. >>NOW THAT'S A VERY 07:55 IMPORTANT POINT. I'LL SAY MORE ABOUT THAT A LITTLE LATER. 07:59 THIS WAS A TURNING POINT. THAT HAPPENED IN 538, WHERE 08:02 CHRISTIANITY SUDDENLY BECAME A POWER THAT BEGAN TO PERSECUTE, 08:06 WHERE IT USED TO BE A POWER MOTIVATED BY LOVE. 08:08 JESUS SAID, 'FOLLOW ME' - IF SOMEONE DIDN'T WANT TO FOLLOW 08:10 HIM, THEY TURNED AND THEY WALKED AWAY. 08:13 AND SO, I THINK THAT Y'ALL UNDERSTAND - THAT WAS A CHANGE. 08:19 GOD - JESUS DOESN'T WANT US TO USE FORCE TO MAKE PEOPLE OBEY. 08:21 YOU CAN ALSO READ HERE IN ABBOTT'S ROMAN HISTORY , "THE 08:24 TRANSFER OF THE EMPEROR'S RESIDENCE TO CONSTANTINOPLE WAS 08:28 A SAD BLOW TO THE PRESTIGE OF ROME. 08:31 AND, AT THE SAME TIME, ONE MIGHT HAVE PREDICTED HER SPEEDY 08:35 DECLINE" - THE DECLINE OF THE CITY OF ROME. 08:37 BUT WHAT HAPPENED WAS THAT THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CHURCH AND 08:41 THE GROWING AUTHORITY OF THE BISHOP OF ROME - OR THE POPE - 08:44 GAVE HER A NEW LEASE ON LIFE. IT MADE HER AGAIN THE CAPITAL. 08:49 THIS TIME, NOT THE POLITICAL OR MILITARY CAPITAL, BUT THE 08:52 RELIGIOUS CAPITAL OF THE WORLD. 08:55 THERE WAS A TRANSFERENCE THAT TOOK PLACE DURING THAT TIME. 08:59 READING ON A LITTLE MORE, "TO THE SUCCESSION OF THE CAESARS 09:03 CAME THE SUCCESSION OF THE PONTIFFS IN ROME. 09:06 WHEN CONSTANTINE LEFT ROME, HE GAVE HIS SEAT TO THE PONTIFF." 09:10 NOW, THAT'S AN INTERESTING QUOTE FROM HISTORY BECAUSE YOU CAN 09:14 ACTUALLY READ IN THE BIBLE, IN REVELATION 13, IT SAYS THAT THE 09:18 BEAST POWER RECEIVES ITS SEAT FROM THE DRAGON. 09:23 THE ROMAN POWER, RULED BY THE CAESARS, LEFT TOWN AND SAID, 09:29 'WE'RE GOING TO VACATE OUR THRONE HERE, BUT YOU CAN HAVE 09:32 OUR THRONE; WE'RE MOVING TO ANOTHER TOWN.' AND INSTEAD OF 09:36 ROME BEING THE POWER THAT RULED THE WORLD WITH CIVIL POWER OR 09:41 MILITARY POWER, NOW IT WAS RULING THROUGH RELIGIOUS POWER. 09:45 538 A.D. - IT'S A VERY EASILY WELL-ESTABLISHED DATE IN 09:49 HISTORY. HOW LONG IS 1,260 DAYS 09:54 IN BIBLICAL PROPHECY? 1,260 YEARS. IF YOU GO 1,260 YEARS, 10:02 YOU COME TO WHERE? >>1798 10:04 >>1798. I WONDER WHAT'S GOING ON THEN. 10:08 WHAT HAPPENS TO THE BEAST AFTER 42 MONTHS? 10:12 YOU CAN READ IN REVELATION 13, IT SAYS, 'I SAW ONE OF ITS HEADS 10:16 AS IT WAS WOUNDED TO DEATH AND HIS DEADLY WOUND WAS HEALED AND 10:19 ALL THE WORLD WONDERED AFTER THE BEAST.' IT AT LEAST RECEIVES A 10:23 DEADLY WOUND. IT'S POWER IS INTERRUPTED. 10:26 INSTEAD OF IT HAVING SUCH GREAT CONTROL AND INFLUENCE AND BEING 10:30 - IT WASN'T JUST A RELIGIOUS POWER, IT WAS A CIVIL POWER OVER 10:35 ALL OF EUROPE AND EVEN PARTS BEYOND - IT STARTED TO REACH 10:39 INTO SOUTH AMERICA AT THAT POINT TOO - AND CENTRAL AMERICA - IT 10:43 WOULD BE WOUNDED - IT WOULD LOSE SOME OF THAT POWER. 10:46 WHAT DOES HISTORY TELL US HAPPENED? 10:48 IN 1798 - ANYONE EVER HEARD OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE? 10:52 HE WAS SWEEPING ACROSS EUROPE. IT WAS NOT A RELIGIOUS MOVEMENT. 10:57 IT WAS A VERY SECULAR MOVEMENT. 11:01 HE SENT HIS GENERAL, BERTHIER, INTO ROME AND THROUGH HIS 11:06 ENTRANCE IN ROME, HE ABOLISHED THE PAPAL GOVERNMENT AND 11:10 ESTABLISHED A SECULAR ONE. IT RECEIVED A DEADLY WOUND. 11:13 THE BIBLE SAYS IN REVELATION 13:10, 'HE THAT LEADS INTO 11:16 CAPTIVITY WILL GO INTO CAPTIVITY AND HE THAT KILLS WITH THE SWORD 11:20 WILL BE KILLED WITH THE SWORD.' AND THE TABLES WERE SORT OF 11:24 TURNED; INSTEAD OF THE INQUISITION AND THEM HAVING SO 11:26 MUCH POWER TO TORTURE AND FORCE PEOPLE TO CONVERT, AND THERE WAS 11:33 A PERSECUTION AGAINST THE PROTESTANTS - THE POPE WAS 11:36 CARRIED OFF INTO VALANCE, FRANCE TO A FORTRESS CITY AND HE DIED 11:39 IN PRISON THERE. AND, FOR OVER 130 YEARS, 11:43 THEY LOST THEIR CIVIL POWER. BUT IT SAID IT WOULD BE 11:46 TEMPORARY. IT SAID THE DEADLY WOUND WOULD 11:49 BE HEALED AND ALL THE WORLD WOULD WONDER. 11:53 YOU LOOK IN HISTORY AND IN 1929 THERE WAS A FELLOW NAMED BENITO 11:59 MUSSOLINI - ANYONE REMEMBER? YOU KNOW, I'M GETTING OLD. 12:04 SOME OF YOU REMEMBER WORLD WAR II - NOT TOO MANY LEFT ANYMORE - 12:09 MUSSOLINI, HE MADE A DEAL WITH THE POPE. 12:12 HE SAID, 'LOOK, I NEED YOU TO ENDORSE ME POLITICALLY. 12:15 IF YOU AGREE TO ENDORSE ME POLITICALLY, SO THAT MY STATION 12:19 WILL GROW, WE WILL AGAIN GIVE YOU YOUR INDEPENDENCE AS A 12:23 COUNTRY FOR THE VATICAN. WE WILL MAKE YOU, ONCE AGAIN, 12:25 A CIVIL POWER AS WELL AS RELIGIOUS, SO THAT YOU CAN SEND 12:29 YOUR AMBASSADORS AROUND THE WORLD. 12:31 AND SO THEY SIGNED THE LATERAN PACT . 12:34 AND THEY AGAIN BEGAN TO EXERCISE THEIR POWER. 12:39 IT SAYS, "THE ROMAN QUESTION TONIGHT WAS A THING OF THE PAST 12:41 AND THE VATICAN WAS AT PEACE WITH ITALY." 12:44 IT SAYS, "IN AFFIXING AUTOGRAPHS TO THE MEMORABLE DOCUMENT, 12:47 HEALING THE WOUND..." - EVEN USING THE VERY SAME WORDING. 12:51 AND AS YOU LOOK AT WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE WORLD TODAY, WOULD YOU 12:54 SAY THAT THEY'VE RETURNED TO, NOT JUST EUROPEAN, BUT 12:58 INTERNATIONAL PROMINENCE AS A POWER? 13:02 >> DON'T GO ANYWHERE, FRIENDS. 13:03 WE'LL BE BACK IN JUST A MOMENT FOR THE REST 13:05 OF TODAY'S PRESENTATION. 13:07 YOU PROBABLY ALREADY KNOW THAT THE UNITED STATES IS ONE OF THE 13:11 MOST POWERFUL ECONOMIC AND MILITARY NATIONS IN HISTORY. 13:15 BUT HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED IF THE BIBLE HAS ANYTHING 13:18 TO SAY ABOUT THE U.S. IN BIBLE PROPHECY? 13:21 WHAT IF I TOLD YOU IT DOES, WOULD IT SURPRISE YOU? 13:25 WELL, IT'S TRUE. 13:27 USING VIVID SYMBOLIC IMAGERY, THE BOOK OF REVELATION DETAILS 13:31 THE RISE OF AMERICA AND THE PROMINENT ROLE THAT IT WILL PLAY 13:34 IN THE LAST DAYS OF HUMAN HISTORY. 13:37 IF YOU'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THIS IMPORTANT SUBJECT, 13:40 AMAZING FACTS WANTS TO SEND YOU A SPECIAL GIFT CALLED, 13:43 "THE USA IN BIBLE PROPHECY." 13:46 THIS SHORT, BUT INSIGHTFUL STUDY GUIDE WILL ASTOUND YOU AS YOU 13:50 SEE FOR YOURSELF HOW THE BOOK OF REVELATION PINPOINTS THE UNITED 13:54 STATES AS A MAJOR PLAYER IN THESE END-TIME EVENTS, 13:58 AND WHAT YOU CAN DO TO BE READY FOR IT. 14:00 TO GET YOUR FREE COPY, CALL THE NUMBER ON YOUR SCREEN AND ASK 14:03 FOR OFFER 181 OR VISIT THE WEB ADDRESS. 14:07 AND AFTER YOU READ THIS INCREDIBLE RESOURCE, 14:09 MAKE SURE AND SHARE IT WITH A FRIEND. 14:11 WELL, LET'S GET BACK TO THE REST OF TODAY'S PRESENTATION AND 14:14 LEARN SOME MORE AMAZING FACTS FROM THE WORD OF GOD. 14:18 WHAT POWER WILL SUPPORT THE BEAST IN THE END TIME? 14:23 HERE'S WHERE IT GETS INTERESTING, FRIENDS. 14:25 REVELATION 13:11 IT SAYS, "AND I BEHELD ANOTHER BEAST COMING UP 14:29 OUT OF THE EARTH;" - NOW, THE FIRST BEAST COMES UP OUT OF THE 14:32 SEA; THIS BEAST COMES UP OUT OF THE EARTH. 14:35 AND HE HAS TWO HORNS LIKE A LAMB. 14:38 QUESTION, IS A LAMB A GOOD THING OR A BAD THING, IN REVELATION? 14:41 WHAT DID JOHN THE BAPTIST SAY ABOUT JESUS? 14:44 'BEHOLD THE' - >>LAMB. 14:46 >>"LAMB OF GOD THAT TAKES AWAY THE SIN OF THE WORLD." 14:48 LAMB'S GOOD - TWO HORNS LIKE A LAMB AND HE SPOKE LIKE A DRAGON. 14:51 QUESTION, IS THE DRAGON A GOOD THING OR A BAD THING IN 14:53 REVELATION? 14:54 >>BAD THING. SO IT STARTS OUT SOUNDING GOOD, 14:58 LIKE A LAMB; ENDS UP LIKE A DRAGON. 15:01 NOW WHAT IS THIS SECOND BEAST IN REVELATION? 15:06 I BELIEVE IT REPRESENTS NORTH AMERICA. 15:10 MORE SPECIFICALLY, THE UNITED STATES. 15:12 YOU NOTICE, WHEN THAT TIME PERIOD THAT WE LOOKED AT - IT 15:15 REACHED FROM 538 - WHO REMEMBERS THAT NUMBER? 15:18 1,260 YEARS FROM 538 COMES TO 1798. 15:23 WE ALREADY TOLD YOU WHAT WAS HAPPENING IN EUROPE; WHAT WAS 15:25 HAPPENING OVER HERE IN 1798? THE UNITED STATES DECLARED 15:29 ITS INDEPENDENCE IN WHEN? 1776. 15:34 IT VOTED THE CONSTITUTION IN 1787. 15:38 IT ADOPTED THE BILL OF RIGHTS IN 1791 AND WAS FINALLY RECOGNIZED 15:43 BY THE OTHER MAJOR EMPIRES AND COUNTRIES, AS A SEPARATE WORLD 15:48 POWER, IN 1798. 15:51 THE REASON IT SAYS THIS SECOND 15:52 BEAST ROSE UP OUT OF THE EARTH IS BECAUSE, COMPARED TO THE 15:57 TEEMING MULTITUDES IN EUROPE, THIS WAS A VAST WILDERNESS. 16:02 THERE WERE STILL MILLIONS OF PEOPLE HERE, BUT IT WAS 16:04 COMPARATIVELY VERY SPARSELY POPULATED. AND 16:08 WITH THE MASSIVE IMMIGRATIONS THAT CAME FROM ENGLAND, SPAIN, 16:14 AND THE NETHERLANDS TO THE NEW WORLD - AND PORTUGAL - THINGS 16:18 CHANGED VERY QUICKLY. IT SAYS HE SPOKE LIKE A DRAGON. 16:23 HOW DOES A COUNTRY SPEAK? A NATION SPEAKS THROUGH 16:27 ITS LEGISLATIVE BODY. THIS COUNTRY THAT STARTED LIKE 16:31 A LAMB, ENDS UP SPEAKING LIKE A DRAGON. 16:33 WHAT ARE THOSE TWO HORNS 'LIKE A LAMB'? 16:35 THE TWO THINGS THAT GAVE AMERICA SUCCESS AND POWER IS THAT WE HAD 16:39 A GOVERNMENT WITHOUT A KING AND WE HAD A CHURCH WITHOUT A POPE - 16:44 FREEDOM OF RELIGION; FREEDOM OF GOVERNMENT. 16:49 HE EXERCISES ALL THE POWER OF THE FIRST BEAST BEFORE HIM AND 16:54 HE FORCES THOSE WHO DWELL THEREIN TO WORSHIP THE FIRST 16:58 BEAST WHO HAD THE WOUND BY THE SWORD BUT WAS HEALED. 17:03 I DON'T KNOW IF ANY OF YOU REMEMBER THIS COVER FROM A TIME 17:05 MAGAZINE BACK IN 1982 - IT WAS FINALLY REVEALED HOW INVOLVED 17:10 THE U.S. WAS WITH THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN 17:14 HELPING OVERTHROW THE FORMER SOVIET UNION. 17:17 IT TALKS ABOUT THIS MEETING THAT RONALD REAGAN HAD WITH POPE JOHN 17:20 PAUL II, AND THEY AGREED THAT THE U.S. 17:23 SENT TONS OF COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT INTO POLAND TO HELP 17:27 SOLIDARITY, WITH LECH WALESA, OVERTHROW COMMUNISM IN THAT 17:30 COUNTRY. AND ONCE THAT HAPPENED, THE 17:31 DOMINOS BEGAN TO FALL AND IT JUST COLLAPSED. 17:34 IT WAS SOMETHING THAT WAS ORCHESTRATED AND IT'S ALL - IT 17:38 ALL CAME OUT BETWEEN - MATTER OF FACT, YOU GO TO POLAND YOU'LL 17:40 SEE A PICTURE. RONALD REAGAN - THERE'S A BRONZE 17:43 OF IT UP ON THE SCREEN - RONALD REAGAN WALKING WITH JOHN PAUL II 17:46 BECAUSE THEY GIVE THEM CREDIT FOR HELPING OVERTHROW COMMUNISM 17:50 IN THEIR COUNTRY AND HELPING THEM TO ACHIEVE FREEDOM. 17:53 THIS IS JUST PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE. YOU KNOW, I JUST CAN'T FORGET 17:56 THIS PICTURE THAT WHEN POPE JOHN PAUL II DIED AND HERE YOU'VE GOT 17:59 SEVERAL PRESIDENTS THAT WERE THERE KNEELING. 18:04 THAT'S VERY DIFFERENT FROM THE WAY THINGS USED TO BE. 18:09 AMERICA, PHILOSOPHICALLY, WAS IN A VERY DIFFERENT PLACE THAN THE 18:14 PAPACY. WE'RE ALL ABOUT RELIGIOUS FREEDOM. 18:18 YOU KNOW, WHEN AMERICA - WHEN AMERICA WAS FIRST FORMED, THEY 18:22 ACTUALLY TRIED TO TELL PEOPLE WHAT DAY TO GO TO CHURCH. 18:25 THAT'S WHY WE HAVE SUNDAY LAWS ON OUR BOOKS. 18:27 THERE WAS A PASTOR, WHO WAS ALSO A LEADER, NAMED ROGER WILLIAMS 18:31 AND HE SAID, 'YOU'RE MISUNDERSTANDING. 18:33 IT'S NOT A QUESTION OF WHETHER WE FORCE PEOPLE TO KEEP THE TEN 18:36 COMMANDMENTS, BUT WHICH ONES.' HE SAID, 'THE TEN COMMANDMENTS 18:39 ARE WRITTEN ON TWO TABLES OF STONE. 18:41 THE FIRST FOUR ARE OUR PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD, THE LAST 18:45 SIX DEAL WITH OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH OUR FELLOW MAN.' 18:48 HE SAID, 'YOU CANNOT HAVE A GOVERNMENT THAT TELLS PEOPLE HOW 18:51 TO KEEP THE FIRST FOUR.' YOU MUST DECIDE HOW YOU WORSHIP 18:56 YOUR GOD, WHO YOUR GOD IS, WHEN YOU WORSHIP HIM, 18:58 WHAT HIS NAME IS. YOU DON'T WANT ANYONE ELSE 19:01 TELLING YOU THAT, DO YOU? >>NO. 19:03 >>BUT YOU DON'T WANT A GOVERNMENT THAT DOES NOT ENFORCE 19:06 'YOU DON'T STEAL, YOU DON'T LIE, DOESN'T RESPECT PARENTAL 19:10 RIGHTS,' - THE LAST SIX COMMANDMENTS ARE CIVIL - THEY 19:15 NEED TO BE SUPPORTED BY THE GOVERNMENT. 19:18 YOU SEE THE DIFFERENCE? YOU KNOW WHY EVERYTHING 19:20 COSTS SO MUCH? BECAUSE EVERYBODY COVETS 19:22 EVERYBODY'S STUFF AND THEY'RE SUING EVERYBODY. 19:25 AND SO ROGER WILLIAMS UNDERSTOOD THAT. 19:29 WELL, RIGHT NOW, I'M HEARING IS PEOPLE SAY 'COMPLETELY GET RID 19:31 OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS', WHICH IS A BAD IDEA, OR 'FORCE 19:34 EVERYBODY TO KEEP ALL OF THEM', WHICH IS TELLING YOU WHO TO 19:36 WORSHIP. AND IF WE'D GO BACK AND REALIZE 19:39 WHAT OUR FOUNDING FATHERS UNDERSTOOD WAS THE BEST FORMULA 19:43 - THAT'S WHY GOD PUT THEM ON TWO DIFFERENT TABLES. 19:46 IT SAYS HE CAUSES "THE EARTH AND THEM THAT DWELL THEREIN TO 19:49 WORSHIP THE FIRST BEAST, WHOSE DEADLY WOUND WAS HEALED." 19:54 YOU KNOW, YOU JUST CAN'T GET OVER SOME OF THE THINGS YOU SAW 19:57 HAPPEN JUST A FEW MONTHS AGO - THIS HISTORIC TRIP OF POPE 20:05 FRANCIS TO THE UNITED STATES - THERE WAS NO IMPORTANT PLACE - 20:08 SIGNIFICANT PLACE - THAT HE MISSED. 20:11 HE WENT TO THE WHITE HOUSE, SPOKE TO OUR GREATEST AUGUST 20:15 BODY - CONGRESS, THE SENATORS, EVERYBODY - STANDING OVATION. 20:21 WOULD THEY DO THAT FOR A PASTOR? GOES TO THE UNITED NATIONS. 20:28 GOES TO PHILADELPHIA WHERE OUR GOVERNMENT WAS FOUNDED - IT WAS 20:32 ALL VERY - AND WENT TO THE 9/11 MEMORIAL - HAD A JOINT RELIGIOUS 20:35 SERVICE AT THE 9/11 MEMORIAL, SHOWING SOLIDARITY WITH THE 20:38 UNITED STATES AGAINST - WHAT BROUGHT ABOUT 9/11? 20:41 WASN'T IT SOME OF THIS WAR ON WORSHIP? 20:45 NOBODY WANTS TO SAY THAT BUT WE ALL KNOW IT WAS RELIGIOUS 20:48 ZEALOTS THAT DID THIS - THAT WERE READY TO DIE FOR WHAT THEY 20:53 BELIEVED, CRAZY AS IT WAS. AND SO, WHAT YOU'RE SEEING 20:59 HAPPENING, IS A HAND BEING REACHED ACROSS THE ATLANTIC, 21:05 BOTH WAYS, TO BUILD SOME SOLIDARITY. "THEY SHOULD MAKE AN 21:10 IMAGE TO THE BEAST, WHICH HAD THE WOUND BY A SWORD, AND DID 21:14 LIVE." NOW WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? IT MEANS THAT WHAT THE BEAST WAS 21:20 DOING DURING THAT 1,260 YEARS OF USING CIVIL POWER TO FORCE 21:26 RELIGION, IS GOING TO HAPPEN AGAIN. 21:29 THERE ARE GOING TO BE RELIGIOUS LAWS THAT WILL GO AGAINST THE 21:32 LAW OF GOD AND EVERY CHILD OF GOD IS GOING TO HAVE TO MAKE A 21:35 DECISION: DO YOU OBEY GOD OR MAN? 21:38 WHO IS GOING TO BE FIRST IN YOUR LIFE? 21:40 AND THE DECISION SHADRACH, MESHACH, AND ABEDNEGO HAD TO 21:43 MAKE, AND DANIEL HAD TO MAKE, WHETHER HE WAS GOING TO GO TO 21:46 THE LION'S DEN OR COMPROMISE HIS FAITH, EVERY BELIEVER IS GOING 21:50 TO HAVE TO MAKE. IF I WAS THE DEVIL, LET ME TELL 21:53 YOU WHAT I'D DO. NOW DON'T MISUNDERSTAND, I'M NOT. 21:56 (LAUGHTER) BUT IF I WAS - I HOPE NOT. IF THE IDEA IS TO TRY TO 22:04 GET GOD'S PEOPLE TO BREAK THE LAW OF GOD - DOESN'T THE DEVIL 22:07 WANT US TO SIN? >>YES. 22:09 >>BIBLE SAYS HE'S COME DOWN WITH GREAT WRATH BECAUSE HIS TIME IS 22:11 SHORT. HE WANTS TO GET US TO SIN. 22:13 AND, YOU KNOW, IN DANIEL CHAPTER 3 HE TRIED TO GET THEM TO BREAK 22:16 THE LAW ABOUT IDOLATRY. IT DOESN'T MATTER WHICH ONE, 22:20 BECAUSE IF YOU BREAK ONE, YOU'RE GUILTY OF ALL. 22:21 JAMES - IN DANIEL CHAPTER 6 IT WAS THE LAW - THE FIRST 22:26 COMMANDMENT - DON'T HAVE OTHER GODS. 22:28 AND SINCE IT'S GOING TO BE SOMETHING THAT DEALS WITH TIMES 22:32 AND LAWS - THE BEAST POWER WOULD THINK TO CHANGE TIMES AND LAWS - 22:35 THE ONLY COMMANDMENT THAT FITS INTO ALL THOSE CATEGORIES - 22:39 RELATED TO WORSHIP, A TIME, AND A LAW - IS THE SABBATH. 22:45 I WOULD SAY, 'YOU KNOW WHAT? I'M GOING TO TELL THEM, 'KEEP 22:47 ALL TEN COMMANDMENTS, BUT ON THAT FOURTH COMMANDMENT THAT HAS 22:50 THE NAME OF GOD, WHERE IT SAYS 'KEEP THE SEVENTH DAY HOLY' I 22:54 DON'T WANT YOU TO KEEP THE DAY OF GOD HOLY. 22:55 I WANT YOU TO KEEP THE DAY OF MAN HOLY AND I'M GOING TO GIVE 22:58 YOU A NEW COMMANDMENT: INSTEAD OF WORSHIPING ON THE SEVENTH 23:02 DAY, WORSHIP THE FIRST DAY. WHAT DIFFERENCE 23:05 DOES ONE DAY MAKE? AND IT IS SUCH A SUBTLE, SMALL 23:09 THING THAT MOST OF THE WORLD'S GOING TO SAY, 'IN THE 23:12 SAKE OF UNITY, SURE. WHY NOT? 23:15 WE ALL NEED TO MAKE LITTLE COMPROMISES FOR UNITY.'' AND 23:20 THERE'S GOING TO BE A COALITION OF SUPPOSED CHRISTIANS THAT WILL 23:23 GATHER TOGETHER AND SAY, 'WE ALL NEED TO COME BACK TO GOD AND 23:27 WORSHIP GOD.' AND IT'S GOING TO SOUND WONDERFUL. 23:30 AND THEY'RE GOING TO SAY MANY THINGS WE AGREE WITH. 23:32 THAT'S WHAT MAKES A COUNTERFEIT SO DANGEROUS, IT'S SIMILAR TO 23:35 THE TRUE. AND THEY'RE GOING TO SAY, 'WE 23:37 ALL NEED TO GO TO CHURCH.' FOLKS'LL SAY, 'AMEN! 23:40 EVERY SUNDAY WE NEED TO BE THERE.' AND THEY'RE GOING TO 23:44 MAKE LAWS THAT ARE GOING TO PERSECUTE THOSE THAT STAND UP 23:46 FOR THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD - NOT JUST THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT, 23:49 BUT PROBABLY THE OTHER COMMANDMENTS AS WELL. 23:51 IDOLATRY MAY BE INVOLVED. IT SAYS AN IMAGE TO 23:54 THE BEAST, DOESN'T IT? AND PEOPLE ARE GOING TO SAY, 23:56 'FOR THE SAKE OF UNITY WE ALL NEED TO MAKE LITTLE SACRIFICES 23:59 OF OUR CONVICTIONS.' AND THERE'LL BE GREAT PERSECUTION 24:03 AGAINST THOSE WHO STAND FOR GOD. 24:05 AT ONE POINT, THEY WON'T BE ABLE TO BUY OR SELL. 24:08 AND WE ALL KNOW - HOW EASY WOULD IT BE TODAY, IN AN ALMOST 24:11 CASHLESS SOCIETY, TO ENFORCE THAT? 24:13 YOU'LL GO TO SWIPE YOUR CARD OR TO USE YOUR PIN NUMBER AND IT'S 24:18 GOING TO SAY 'MALFUNCTION' - IT WON'T WORK - 'YOU WEREN'T AT THE 24:24 UNIVERSAL CHURCH LAST WEEK AND YOU CANNOT BUY OR SELL.' BUT 24:29 ECONOMIC SANCTIONS ARE MORE THAN JUST WHAT MIGHT HAPPEN AT THE 24:31 SUPERMARKET. DOES THE U.N. 24:34 AND THE UNITED STATES NOW ENFORCE ECONOMIC SANCTIONS, 24:37 TELLING COUNTRIES THAT IF YOU DON'T COOPERATE YOU CANNOT BUY 24:39 OR SELL? IT'S ALREADY HAPPENING. 24:43 IT'S AN INTERNATIONAL ECONOMY NOW. 24:46 YOU CAN LOOK AT THE WAVES - AMERICA SNEEZES AND THE WHOLE 24:47 WORLD GET RIPPLES, FINANCIALLY. EVERYONE - EVERYTHING'S 24:52 INTERCONNECTED NOW. WHAT'S THE ONLY THING THAT IS 24:55 GOING TO PREVENT GOD'S END-TIME PEOPLE FROM BEING DECEIVED? 24:59 TO THE LAW AND TO THE TESTIMONY, IF THEY DO NOT SPEAK ACCORDING 25:02 TO THIS WORD IT'S BECAUSE THERE'S NO LIGHT IN THEM. 25:06 IT SAYS, IN ACTS CHAPTER 17, VERSE 11, SPEAKING OF THE PEOPLE 25:09 IN BEREA, "THESE WERE MORE NOBLE THAN THOSE IN THESSALONICA, IN 25:13 THAT THEY RECEIVED THE WORD WITH ALL READINESS OF MIND, AND 25:16 SEARCHED THE SCRIPTURES DAILY, WHETHER THOSE THINGS WERE SO." 25:21 YOU KNOW, FRIENDS, IT'S NOT GOING TO GO ON LIKE THIS 25:24 FOREVER. JESUS IS GOING TO COME. 25:26 >>AMEN! >>THAT'S THE ONLY SOLUTION. 25:28 AND I'M NOT TELLING YOU THESE THINGS TO TROUBLE YOU BECAUSE, 25:32 YOU KNOW, I JUST WANT TO PAUSE RIGHT HERE AND REMIND YOU. 25:35 EVEN IF I COULD TELL YOU THE DAY AND HOUR OF JESUS' COMING, THAT 25:38 WOULD NOT SAVE YOU. >>NOPE. 25:39 >>AND I CAN'T TELL YOU BECAUSE NOBODY KNOWS. 25:41 THE PURPOSE OF PROPHECY IS REDEMPTIVE. 25:44 JESUS SAID, 'WHEN THESE THINGS BEGIN TO COME TO PASS LIFT UP 25:49 YOUR HEADS.' HE SAID, 'THEN YOU WILL KNOW - AFTER THESE THINGS 25:53 HAVE HAPPENED, THEN YOU WILL KNOW THAT I WAS TELLING THE 25:55 TRUTH.' AS YOU'RE LOOKING BACK AND SEEING HOW JESUS OUTLINED 25:58 THE HISTORY OF THE BEAST AND THE SECOND BEAST AND ALL THAT'S 26:01 HAPPENED, YOU SAY, 'WOW, IT'S ALL UNFOLDING JUST LIKE HE SAID. 26:05 WHY DOES HE WANT US TO KNOW THAT? 26:06 THAT MUST MEAN WHAT HE SAYS IN THE BIBLE ABOUT SAVING ME FROM 26:09 SIN IS TRUE.' >>AMEN. 26:12 >>SEE, THAT'S THE REASON FOR PROPHECY. 26:14 IT'S NOT TO JUST TANTALIZE YOU WITH THE FUTURE, I MEAN, THAT'S 26:17 WHAT ASTROLOGERS DO. THE REASON GOD SHOWS YOU HE 26:20 KNOWS ABOUT PROPHECY IS SO YOU'LL TRUST HIS WORD THAT IT IS 26:23 A SUPERNATURAL BOOK AND WHAT HE SAYS ABOUT SALVATION IS TRUE AND 26:27 THAT HE HAS - IF HE KNOWS THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD DOES 26:29 HE HAVE A HISTORY FOR YOU? >>YES. 26:31 >>HE HAS A PLAN FOR YOUR LIFE. AND NOTHING HAPPENS 26:34 BY ACCIDENT WITH GOD. >>AMEN. 26:36 >>HE SEES EVERYTHING THAT'S COMING. 26:37 >>AMEN. >>I'D LIKE TO ENCOURAGE THOSE 26:40 WHO ARE WITH YOUR GROUPS - SOME WHO MAY BE WATCHING ON 26:43 TELEVISION - YOU CAN SIMPLY GO TO THE LAST DAY OF PROPHECY 26:46 WEBSITE AND YOU CAN WATCH THE PRESENTATIONS - MAYBE YOU'VE 26:50 MISSED - AND PREPARE FOR WHAT'S COMING UPON THE 26:53 WORLD AS WE SPEAK. THESE ARE VERY 26:56 INTERESTING TIMES. THE BIBLE TELLS US A TIME OF 26:58 TROUBLE IS COMING SUCH AS THERE NEVER HAS BEEN. 27:01 BUT I'M NOT AFRAID. YOU KNOW WHY? 27:03 BECAUSE I KNOW JESUS HAS A PLAN FOR MY LIFE AND IF CHRIST IS 27:06 WITH YOU, DO YOU NEED TO BE AFRAID OF THE FIERY FURNACE? 27:09 IF CHRIST IS WITH YOU, DO YOU NEED TO BE AFRAID OF THE LION'S 27:12 DEN? IF JESUS IS WITH YOU, DO YOU 27:15 NEED TO BE AFRAID OF THE TIME OF TROUBLE? 27:17 HE WILL GO THROUGH IT ALL WITH YOU, FRIENDS, BUT YOU MUST 27:20 INVITE HIM TO BE IN YOUR HEART. 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