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- Known as a brood parasite,
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the common cuckoo
bird lays her eggs
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in the nest of smaller bird
species like a reed warbler.
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Once the cuckoo's
egg has been laid,
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which tends to match the
host egg in pattern and color,
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the unsuspecting little mothers
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incubate, feed, and
raise the young imposter,
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typically at the
expense of their own offspring.
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One of the tragedies of nature,
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is to watch a little
reed warbler and its mate
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nearly work
themselves to death to satisfy
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the voracious hunger of
a fat little cuckoo chick,
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while their own starving young
are crowded out of the nest.
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Many don't realize, that the
devil has laid a deceptive egg
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in the church
that's been hatched,
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adopted, and fed until
it's grown bigger than life.
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Jesus warned us about this,
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but what exactly
is this counterfeit,
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and how does it affect you?
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So join me now, as
we unravel this mystery.
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A very important
presentation today,
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dealing with the
subject of Bowing to the Beast.
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I thought that it might be fun
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to start with an amazing fact.
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In 2018, Prime
Minister Modi of India,
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dedicated the
world's tallest statue.
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It's called the Statue of Unity.
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Including its base,
it's over 790 feet high.
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To complete the massive
project it took 3,400 laborers,
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250 engineers working virtually
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around the clock for 42 months.
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It's visible for miles.
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It's twice the height
of the Statue of Liberty,
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and the cost for the
colossal statue is $430 million.
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Well, in the
Bible, there's a story
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where the king of
Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar,
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he builds this image.
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Now, the inspiration
for his building the image,
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is because if
you read in Daniel 2,
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you remember he
dreams about this great image
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and it's made of all
these different medals.
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The head of the image
was gold and it was silver,
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and then it was bronze,
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and then it was
iron, and iron and clay.
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And Daniel told the king,
"You are the head of gold."
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The king liked that, that
made him feel pretty good.
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But then Daniel said,
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"But after you, will
come another kingdom,
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that silver kingdom."
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He didn't like the idea that
Babylon would not last forever.
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So Nebuchadnezzar had an idea.
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He said, "Well, if
that statue represented
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the kingdoms of the world,
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and gold was the
kingdom of Babylon,
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maybe I can
overthrow this prophecy
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by making what I saw in my
dream, but make it all gold.
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Babylon will then last forever."
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And so the king did that.
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The king erected
a statue of gold,
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and it was 60 cubits
high, by six cubits wide.
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Very important
point I want you to know,
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that in a lot of
the Hebrew writings,
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if it does not give the depth,
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the depth will be
the same as the width.
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So you got 60 cubits
high, by six cubits wide,
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by six cubits deep.
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So, here you've got this
statue that's 60 by six, by six.
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That's starting
to sound familiar?
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Tells everybody, "Fall down."
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All nations, all people
are supposed to fall down
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and worship the image.
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And whoever does not
fall down and worship it
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shall be cast
immediately into the midst
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of a burning fiery furnace.
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And not too far
away was the furnace
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where they probably had
forged the gold for the image,
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and that was a motivator.
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So the king, he
gives this signal
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and tells
everybody that they need to
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bow down and worship it.
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Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego,
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they would not bow
down and worship the image.
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And the king said,
"What's the matter,
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you didn't hear the music play?"
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Now, you can
imagine the temptation.
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The king says, "When
you hear the music play,
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everybody's to
bow down and worship,
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and those that do not bow
down, you're not only gonna die,
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you're gonna die in
this fiery furnace."
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They had to make a decision.
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Are they gonna compromise
with everyone around them
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and break the
commandment of God that says,
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"You shall not bow down
and worship graven images."
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They decided to put God first.
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And so, when the music
played, they stood strong.
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You'd think, "Well, that
would've been a good time
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to tie your sandals, right?
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Just look like
you're bowing down.
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Or maybe you could
bow down and pray to God,
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just don't pray to the image."
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But they would not even look
like they were compromising.
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They stood for the
commandments of God
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even at the
potential cost of their life.
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And the king said,
"Maybe you didn't hear,
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I'll give you another chance."
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And they said, "We
don't need another chance."
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Daniel 3:18, they said,
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"'Our God, who we
serve can deliver us.
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But even if He doesn't,
let it be known to you, O king,
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that we will
not serve your gods,
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nor will we worship the gold
image that you have set up.'
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And so, these men were cast
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into the midst of
the burning furnace."
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Now, if you're wondering if
that furnace was hot or not,
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it tells us that the
king commanded his soldiers
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or just tie them up as they were
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with their
clothes and everything.
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And the soldiers
went to throw them in.
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The king had said, "Get
that furnace seven times hotter
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than it's
supposed to be heated."
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And the heat was
waffing out with such intensity,
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that the soldiers
that went to throw
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Shadrach, Meshach,
and Abednego in the fire,
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were killed by the heat.
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And so, this was not that the
fire just was not hot enough.
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"Nebuchadnezzar was astonished.
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He rose in hast
and he spoke and said,
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'Did we not cast three men bound
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into the midst of the fire?'
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And they said,
'It's true, O king.'
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He said, 'I see four
men loose in the fire
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and the form of the
fourth is like the Son of God.'"
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And so, this is telling
us that Jesus came to them
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during their time of trial,
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and the Lord will
come to us as well.
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So, we're gonna go
to our lesson for today.
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This experience
there in Daniel 3,
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is an echo of Revelation 13.
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It talks about
those who do not worship
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the image of the
beast should be killed.
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Says, "There's
a commandment that
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all people's,
nations, and tongues."
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Nebuchadnezzar said, "All
people's, nations, and tongues."
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Revelation 13 talks
about six, six, six.
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And here, you've
got this image that was,
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and it measures it
in cubits in the Bible,
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60 by six, presumably by six.
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That would've been 90
feet tall gold statue.
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May have cost
more than $430 million,
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like the Statue
of Unity in India.
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So, first question.
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What does a beast
represent in Bible prophecies?
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You can read
right here in Daniel 7,
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when you've got that prophecy
that talks about the lion
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and the leopard and the bear.
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It says, "Those
great," what? "Beasts."
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You can say the answers with me.
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"Those great beasts which
are four, are four," what?
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- Kings. - They're four kings.
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Again, you can
read in Daniel 7:23,
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"The fourth beast
shall be the fourth
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kingdom upon the earth."
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So when we are getting
ready to study the beast,
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do not think monster.
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These were different animals
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that represented
kingdoms or kings, okay?
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They were powers that ruled
over God's people in some way.
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So, how does the
Bible identify the beast?
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"I stood on the sand of the sea
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and I saw a beast
rising up out of the sea,
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seven heads and 10 horns.
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And on his 10 horns, 10 crowns,
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and on his heads
a blasphemous name.
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And the beast that I
saw was like leopard,
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and his feet were
like the feet of a bear,
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and his mouth was
like the mouth of a lion."
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Who is this first beast?
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Point one. It
rises up out of the sea.
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It says, "It
receives its power, seat,
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and authority from the dragon."
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"It becomes a worldwide power,"
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that's verses three and seven.
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It's guilty of blasphemy.
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It rules for 42
prophetic months.
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It receives a
deadly wound that heals.
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It is a religious
power that compels worship.
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It persecutes God's people.
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And it has
mysterious number 666,
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and it's led by one supreme man.
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It says there at the end,
"It is the number of a man."
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And so, this beast
arises from the sea.
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What does the sea or
the waters symbolize?
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It says, "The
waters which you saw
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are peoples and multitudes
and nations and tongues."
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So, it tells us one
of the characteristics
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is this beast power
would come up from waters,
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densely populated,
preexisting multitudes
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of nations, tongues, and
people, Revelation 17:15.
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The papacy arose from the
very center of civilization
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at that time, which was in Rome.
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Indeed it was surrounded.
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It's on a peninsula
surrounded by water as well.
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Who gives the beast
his power and his position?
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You read, "The
dragon gave him his power,
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his throne, and
great authority."
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Now, who is the dragon?
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Well, first and foremost
the dragon is the devil,
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was serpent and Satan,
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but the devil works through
kingdoms and governments.
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In the book of Exodus,
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you've got the dragon working
through the Pharaoh of Egypt
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to persecute God's people.
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You still with me?
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When you read in Revelation 12,
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and it tells us that this beast,
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again, with seven
heads and 10 horns
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is trying to destroy the
man child as soon as he's born.
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Who was the king
that tried to kill
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all the babies in Bethlehem?
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Well, he actually did
kill all the two year old boys.
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- Herod. - Herod.
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Who did he work for? Rome.
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He was operating as a vassal
under the kingdom of Rome,
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but the devil was doing that.
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Do you see what I'm
saying? Trying to destroy.
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So, one of the
clues we find out is,
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it says that the dragon gives
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his seat and his
power unto this beast.
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So, did that
happen historically?
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Where does the beast get his
seat of power, his authority?
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Look at history.
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Now we're gonna look
at Abbott's Roman history.
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"The transfer of the emperors
residence to Constantinople,"
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this is what Constantine did,
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"was a sad blow to
the prestige of Rome.
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And at that time,
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one might have
predicted her speedy decline.
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But the
development of the church
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and the growing
authority of the Bishop of Rome,
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or the Pope, gave
her a new lease on life,
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and made her again the capital,
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this time the religious
capital of the civilized world."
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So as the emperor
moved his throne out,
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he gave the local
throne to the church,
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and he gave them both
religious and civil power.
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And here's from LaBianca,
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professor of
history, University of Rome.
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"To the
succession of the Caesars
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came the
succession of the Pontiffs,"
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Pontiff's another
word for pope, "in Rome.
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When Constantine left Rome,
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he gave his
seat to the Pontiff."
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History says this is
exactly what happened.
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So it says, "This
is a religious body
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that follows the Roman power."
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How far reaching is
the influence of the beast?
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It says, "And all
the world marveled
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and followed the beast."
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Would you think it's safe to say
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that the Catholic Church
is an international power?
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- Yeah. - And now, I'm a pastor.
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Do you think
they're gonna let me
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address the United Nations?
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If the Pope is the
pastor of a church,
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how come they have
diplomats and ambassadors
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from around the world
that go and meet with him?
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Trump met with a
pope, Obama met with a pope,
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they all meet with a pope,
'cause it is a very powerful,
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like I said, you got, you know,
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2.2 billion
Christians in the world today.
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The majority of
them are Roman Catholic.
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It is a universal power and
as I travel around the world,
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you go to Mexico, you
go to the Philippines,
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you go to South America,
and many other countries,
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you're gonna find it
as a very universal power.
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The United Nations gathers
to be addressed by the Pope.
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And so, here you've got,
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it's ostensibly got
Christian trappings,
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but it is obviously much more
than just a Christian Church,
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because it's
got political clout.
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Don't go anywhere friends.
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In just a moment, we will
return to today's presentation.
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You know, there's quite a
bit of zoology in Bible symbols,
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lions and leopards and bears.
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And among the ominous creatures
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that are pictured in
the book of Revelation
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is a seven headed dragon
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that's being
ridden by a vicious woman.
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Who do these powers represent?
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Are they operating
in the world today?
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Does America play a role
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in the final
events of Bible prophecy?
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And how can we know for
sure what these symbols mean?
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now to today's presentation
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and learn some more amazing
facts from the Word of God.
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What comes out of
the mouth of the beast?
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We're continuing to go
through the identifying marks
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that you find in Revelation 13.
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It says, "He opens his
mouth in blasphemy against God,
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to blaspheme His name."
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Now, what does the
word blasphemy mean?
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You want to use
a Bible definition.
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Blasphemy,
according to the Bible,
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when Jesus said
"He could forgive sin,"
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they said, "You are
guilty of blasphemy."
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They said, "Only
God can forgive sin."
00:14:32.53\00:14:34.60
When Jesus
claimed equality with God,
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when He said,
"Before Abraham was, I am,"
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they took up
stones to stone Him,
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there in the gospel of John.
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Jesus was telling the
truth, He is equal with God.
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But they said,
"That's blasphemy."
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Taking the prerogatives of
belong to God is blasphemy.
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So you
understand the definition?
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Let's see if the Roman Catholic
Church meets that criteria.
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"We hold upon this earth
the place of God Almighty,"
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according to Pope Leo XIII.
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Now, is that being ambiguous
or is that pretty clear
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that they're saying,
"We hold the place of God?"
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Another definition,
"The scribes and Pharisees
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began to reason saying, 'Who
is this who speaks blasphemies?
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Who can forgive
sin but God alone?'"
00:15:15.54\00:15:17.41
So, to claim to be
able to forgive sin,
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the Bible calls blasphemy.
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Does the Roman Church claim
to have power to forgive sin?
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You can read in the book
that every priest goes through
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when he's
training to be a priest.
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"God Himself is obliged to abide
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by the judgment of His priests,
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and either to not
pardon or to pardon,
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according as they
refuse or give absolution.
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The sentence of
the priest proceeds,"
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that means the sentence
of the priest goes first,
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"and then God subscribes to it."
00:15:42.60\00:15:44.07
The priest is deciding
who is and is not forgiven.
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When a man claims
to have that power,
00:15:47.24\00:15:49.24
whether another
person sins will be forgiven,
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you're embracing the
prerogatives that belong to God.
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How long would
this first beast rule?
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Again, we're talking
about the first beast now
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in Revelation 13.
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It says, "And
he's given authority
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to continue 42 months."
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That's that time period
that continues to reappear,
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that 42 months, three
and a half years, 1,260 days.
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It's given all
three ways in Revelation,
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so you can't miss it.
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Now, what does a day
equal in Bible prophecy?
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- A year. - A day is a year.
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Does it fit that definition?
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"The legally
recognized supremacy of the Pope
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began in 538 A.D.
when there went into effect
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a decree of the
Emperor Justinian,
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making the bishop of Rome
the head over all the churches
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and the definer of doctrine
and the corrector of heretics.
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Vigilius ascended the
papal chair in 538 A.D."
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And this is the history
of the Christian Church.
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"Under the military
protection of Belisarius."
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And so here, it's telling us,
00:16:54.34\00:16:56.21
this was a time
when Justinian said,
00:16:56.24\00:16:58.18
"Look, I'm leaving
town, I'm giving you an army.
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I'm giving you both
political and religious
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absolute power over
the church and locally,
00:17:03.18\00:17:06.89
power over correcting heretics."
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What happened to the
beast after these 42 months?
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It says, "And I
saw one of his heads
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as it had been mortally wounded,
00:17:14.20\00:17:16.10
and the deadly wound was healed.
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And all the world marveled
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and followed the
beast," Revelation 13:3.
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We've learned that in
prophecy, a day is year.
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Now, not every
time you see a day,
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one says, "God made
the world in six days,"
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and not six years.
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It's not a prophecy.
00:17:31.05\00:17:32.81
But when you've got a prophecy,
00:17:32.85\00:17:34.28
especially if there's
signs in apocalyptic symbols,
00:17:34.32\00:17:36.38
it's you apply the principle
of a day equals a year.
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42 months is 1260 years.
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That's the same as
three and a half years,
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'cause a Jewish
year has got what?
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30 days to the
month and it starts with
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Justinian's decree in 538,
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uninterrupted power
until the Pope is actually
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arrested in France
by Napoleon's general.
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"Here in 1798, he, Berthier,
made his entrance into Rome.
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He abolished the
papal government."
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This is in the
Encyclopedia Americana.
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You ever heard of that?
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These are for the
authorities, this is history.
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"He abolished
the papal government
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and established a secular one."
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Here's an interesting headline
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from the San Francisco
Chronicle, February 11th, 1929.
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You probably heard of Mussolini.
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You know, one of the
things that Mussolini did
00:18:26.10\00:18:27.60
to try to get the
support of the Catholic Church
00:18:27.64\00:18:30.97
for his fascism, he needed
the people to support him.
00:18:31.01\00:18:34.61
He entered into a pact
with the pope there in Rome,
00:18:34.64\00:18:37.48
and he said, "We will once again
00:18:37.51\00:18:38.81
make you an independent state.
00:18:38.85\00:18:41.15
You'll not only be a religion,
00:18:41.18\00:18:42.65
we're gonna give you the Vatican
00:18:42.68\00:18:43.99
as an independent country now."
00:18:44.02\00:18:46.39
And they were resurrected again.
00:18:46.42\00:18:49.29
He said, "If you support
me," and they struck a deal.
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Here's the actual quote
from the headlines then.
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"The Roman question
was a thing of the past
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and the Vatican
was at peace with Italy
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in affixing the autographs
to the Memorable document
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healing the wound."
00:19:04.31\00:19:05.71
Interesting that the
writers used the same wording
00:19:05.74\00:19:08.11
that you find in the Bible.
00:19:08.14\00:19:09.64
Pope Francis often uses
that wording, healing the wound.
00:19:09.68\00:19:13.28
He says that we need to
reunite with Protestants,
00:19:13.31\00:19:15.72
healing the wound
of the Reformation.
00:19:15.75\00:19:18.59
So, it was, the wound
was healed politically here,
00:19:18.62\00:19:21.79
because they became
an independent state.
00:19:21.82\00:19:24.46
Now they're striving for the
spiritual healing of the wound
00:19:24.49\00:19:27.40
between
Protestants and Catholics,
00:19:27.40\00:19:29.46
and that's gone a long way.
00:19:29.50\00:19:30.93
Before the 500th year
anniversary of the Reformation,
00:19:30.97\00:19:34.84
Catholics,
Protestants, Episcopals,
00:19:35.87\00:19:38.31
they all met in Europe together,
00:19:38.34\00:19:40.24
embraced each other and said,
00:19:40.28\00:19:41.84
"The Protestant reformation
is over, the protest is over.
00:19:41.88\00:19:45.75
We are gonna reunite now."
00:19:45.78\00:19:47.82
Things are happening friends.
00:19:47.85\00:19:49.32
And it's not
because they've suddenly
00:19:49.35\00:19:50.79
rediscovered the Bible truth.
00:19:50.82\00:19:52.72
They're willing to sacrifice
truth for the sake of unity.
00:19:52.75\00:19:56.66
That's a big question.
00:19:56.69\00:19:58.19
Some people say, "Well as
long as we love each other."
00:19:58.23\00:19:59.79
You go to the average person
on the street and they'll say,
00:19:59.83\00:20:01.43
"As long as you love each other,
00:20:01.46\00:20:02.76
it doesn't
matter what you believe.
00:20:02.80\00:20:04.43
You get your
truth, I've got my truth,
00:20:04.47\00:20:06.17
and everyone's
got their own truth.
00:20:06.20\00:20:07.50
There's no absolute truth."
00:20:07.54\00:20:08.87
That is a lie.
00:20:09.84\00:20:11.64
The idea, there's no
absolute truth is a lie.
00:20:11.67\00:20:14.04
There is absolute truth,
and the truth sets you free.
00:20:14.08\00:20:16.31
It's not just your idea of
the truth and my idea of truth.
00:20:16.34\00:20:19.08
There are people in
history who absolutely believe
00:20:19.11\00:20:21.75
it's their job to annihilate
a whole race of people.
00:20:21.78\00:20:25.35
I mean, who will question
the sincerity of Hitler?
00:20:25.39\00:20:27.59
That was his
truth. Was he right?
00:20:27.62\00:20:30.59
See, there's right
and wrong in the world.
00:20:30.63\00:20:32.29
So it seems
innocent when people say,
00:20:32.33\00:20:33.86
"Well, you've got your
truth and I've got mine."
00:20:33.90\00:20:35.46
I think you should
respect people's freedom,
00:20:35.50\00:20:37.37
respect their beliefs,
00:20:37.40\00:20:38.87
but that doesn't mean
you agree with everything,
00:20:38.90\00:20:40.54
and you don't sacrifice
your convictions of truth
00:20:40.57\00:20:43.47
for the sake of
an illusion of unity.
00:20:43.51\00:20:46.47
I can't say that any clearer
than I just did, friends.
00:20:46.51\00:20:49.21
That's what's gonna
happen in the last days.
00:20:49.24\00:20:50.95
People for the sake of
some security and unity
00:20:50.98\00:20:55.02
are gonna sacrifice
convictions of truth.
00:20:55.05\00:20:57.25
Shadrach, Meshach, and
Abednego would not bow down,
00:20:57.29\00:21:00.59
even though they were gonna,
00:21:01.42\00:21:02.86
they were gonna ruin the
party for everybody that day.
00:21:02.89\00:21:05.69
They were gonna
make their boss mad.
00:21:05.73\00:21:07.96
You think,
wouldn't the loving thing be
00:21:08.00\00:21:09.50
to just bow down
like everyone else?
00:21:09.53\00:21:11.27
They were more concerned
with what God thought of them,
00:21:11.30\00:21:13.87
than what man thought of them.
00:21:13.90\00:21:15.40
That'll be the
question in the last days.
00:21:15.44\00:21:17.24
Who do you worship?
00:21:17.27\00:21:18.71
Is the beast a religious power?
00:21:18.74\00:21:21.94
Answer, "And cause as
many as would not worship
00:21:21.98\00:21:24.91
the image of the
beast should be killed."
00:21:24.95\00:21:26.72
You know, in the very beginning,
00:21:26.75\00:21:28.15
the battle was between
Cain and Able over worship.
00:21:28.18\00:21:31.12
You have these two brothers,
00:21:31.15\00:21:32.59
claiming to
worship the same God.
00:21:32.62\00:21:35.06
Able had modified the
worship to do it his way.
00:21:35.09\00:21:38.43
No, I'm sorry, Cain had modified
worship to do it his way.
00:21:38.46\00:21:41.46
Able wanted to worship
the way that God told him
00:21:41.50\00:21:43.43
by bringing a lamb and
trusting in the sacrifice
00:21:43.47\00:21:45.53
in the blood of the lamb.
00:21:45.57\00:21:46.87
Cain said, "That's messy.
00:21:46.90\00:21:48.20
Yeah, let's just
use fruit, vegetables."
00:21:48.24\00:21:50.71
And God said, "He would
not accept the offering of Cain
00:21:50.74\00:21:54.04
'cause he worshiped wrong,
00:21:54.08\00:21:55.78
and He would accept
the offering of Able."
00:21:55.81\00:21:57.71
Was there absolute
truth in that story?
00:21:57.75\00:22:00.42
And Cain then
persecuted his brother.
00:22:00.45\00:22:02.95
History is gonna repeat itself.
00:22:02.98\00:22:04.45
Was Cain marked, was
there a mark involved?
00:22:04.49\00:22:07.82
And so friends,
we're just seeing,
00:22:07.86\00:22:10.23
the way it started out
is the way it's gonna end.
00:22:10.26\00:22:12.49
It's a battle over worship.
00:22:12.53\00:22:14.10
What is the mysterious number
that identifies the beast?
00:22:14.10\00:22:17.63
It says, "His number is 666."
00:22:18.70\00:22:22.57
Now, let's find out what
the Pope's official title is.
00:22:22.60\00:22:25.51
This is a book, and I
remember when this book came out
00:22:25.54\00:22:28.41
by Pope John Paul II.
00:22:28.44\00:22:29.74
It's called "Crossing
the Threshold of Hope."
00:22:29.78\00:22:32.45
This is page three.
00:22:32.48\00:22:34.28
"Confronted with the Pope,
one must take make a choice.
00:22:34.32\00:22:37.75
The leader of the Catholic
Church is defined by the faith
00:22:37.79\00:22:40.92
as the Vicar of Jesus Christ,
00:22:40.96\00:22:43.22
and is accepted as
such by believers."
00:22:43.26\00:22:45.36
Official title is
"Vicarius Filii Dei."
00:22:45.39\00:22:48.73
So this is an official title.
00:22:48.76\00:22:50.70
When you take that title and
you convert the Roman numerals.
00:22:50.73\00:22:55.40
Some of you
remember your Roman numerals.
00:22:55.44\00:22:56.87
What is V? Five, right?
00:22:56.91\00:23:00.38
And then you've got I is one.
00:23:00.41\00:23:02.21
By the way V and U are
the same in Roman numerals.
00:23:02.24\00:23:05.58
So you take that
title, "Vicarius Filii Dei,"
00:23:05.61\00:23:09.62
and what does it add up to?
00:23:09.65\00:23:11.32
It's 666.
00:23:11.35\00:23:14.09
Well, friends, I think
that that's a pretty stunning.
00:23:14.12\00:23:16.89
Throughout
Revelation, the number seven
00:23:16.93\00:23:19.33
represents
perfection and completion.
00:23:19.36\00:23:22.40
First time you
hear the number seven
00:23:22.43\00:23:23.93
mention three times
in the Bible, who knows?
00:23:23.97\00:23:26.17
Genesis 2 says,
"The seventh day,
00:23:27.34\00:23:30.61
the seventh day,
the seventh day."
00:23:30.64\00:23:33.17
Then you get to
Revelation, it says, "666."
00:23:33.21\00:23:35.68
It's like a counterfeit trinity.
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Man was made on the 6th day,
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and it's talking
to manmade worship,
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or the worship of man in
place of the worship of God.
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You've got this
conflict of two worships
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that are juxtaposed
here in Bible history.
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Biblical true
worship, counterfeit
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or compromised worship.
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And again, I'm
not criticizing people
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that might view
things different.
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I'm just saying, "What
does the Bible say about this?"
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And it tells us
that this is the title
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of the Catholic Church,
that converted represents 666.
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Let me give you
couple of quotes from history
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that I think you might
find that are interesting.
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Some of the great reformers,
people like Martin Luther.
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Now, these are not my words,
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but what I'm
sharing with you is not new.
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What I'm sharing with
you is actually very old.
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Protestant
pastors always knew this,
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but they've sort of
drifted away from it now.
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Martin Luther, of course,
leader of the Lutheran movement,
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based on prophetic studies,
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Martin Luther finally declared,
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"We are of the conviction
that the papacy is the seat
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of the true and
the real anti-Christ."
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That cannot be misunderstood.
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Of course, he was excommunicated
because of that position.
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Charles Spurgeon, he's
called the Prince of Preachers.
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"It is the bound end
duty of every Christian
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to pray against the antichrist.
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And as to what
the antichrist is,
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no sane man ought
to raise a question.
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No sane man
ought to even question.
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If it'd be not popery
in the Church of Rome,
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there's nothing in the world
that we can call by that name."
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Friends, I hope this is clear.
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We're trying to be
as loving as we can,
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but I can't change
what the prophecies say.
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There's no question
about what the beast is.
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We know what the
number represents.
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So here's the question.
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Are you willing to
follow Jesus wherever He leads,
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even though you
may lose your friends?
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Now, you may go
through fiery trials
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if you stand for your faith.
00:25:37.87\00:25:39.17
Did Shadrach,
Meshach, and Abednego
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get thrown into
the fiery furnace?
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- Yes. - But who went through it
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with them? - Jesus.
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- The Bible says, "Though
you pass through the waters,
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I'll be with you, though
you go through the fires,
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I will be with you.
I will not leave you.
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I will not forsake you."
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We may go through fiery
trials in the last days,
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but friends, the
only safe thing to do
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The words of Jesus,
the teachings of Jesus,
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the law of God.
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We're saved by faith, but He
wants us to be obedient, amen.
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