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Doug Batchelor: The study
today is based on Revelation
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chapter 12.
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If you have your Bibles, you
may want to thumb your way there
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right now or on your Bible
device that you're holding,
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beginning with a
really amazing fact.
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In 1954, a four year old girl
was abducted from her home in
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Colombia in the mountains, and
with the idea of kidnapping her
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and asking for ransom.
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We don't know exactly what went
wrong, but something went wrong
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and they didn't want to kill the
child, so they took her off down
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a logging road in the jungle and
they let her go, four years old.
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And of course, she
cried and mourned for a while.
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And she didn't struggle so
much with thirst because it did
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rain frequently.
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There was water there and the
climate was somewhat mild, and
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so she did not freeze, but she
wandered around and looked for
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food, and eventually a group of
capuchin monkeys were intrigued
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with her and they
began to drop food.
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She lived in the
jungle for five years.
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It's just an amazing story.
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Often tormented by
insects, eventually she wore her
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clothes off.
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She followed this troupe of
monkeys that were watching her
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from the tree that
kind of adopted her.
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She even got to the place where
she could climb pretty well and
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learned to forage for
food and she stayed alive.
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When she was finally found after
these years of living in the
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jungle, she lost all natural
social inhibitions, she had no
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clothes, she'd forgotten how to
speak her language, she didn't
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remember her name, and they did
not ever find her real parents.
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They gave her the name Marina.
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She eventually was young enough
where she could still learn,
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relearn to speak
both English and Spanish.
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She moved to Britain, she
was married, and all of this is
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contained in a fascinating book
called "The Girl with No Name."
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God provided for her in the
wilderness in a miraculous way.
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Right now she's nearly 70
years old and she can still
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climb trees.
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You know, the Bible talks about
a woman, which is a symbol for
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the church, and we have a true
woman and a counterfeit woman in
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Revelation 12 and Revelation 17.
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We're going to study a
very important subject.
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There are Christians
all over the world, go to
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different churches.
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How do you know?
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Does it matter what church?
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Is there a true church?
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Do you even
need to go to church?
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We're going to find out what
people on the street think about
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this subject and so let's take a
look at some of their comments.
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female: I guess you
don't really know, right?
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I guess just whatever feels
best for each person, right?
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female: I think
it really depends.
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I think a lot of religions have
a lot of different things, but I
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think revelation is one
of the important things.
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I think there's only so
much that Old Testaments and all
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things can predict.
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You know, there's only so
many coincidences, I feel like.
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male: I guess typically it would
be how you're raised originally,
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and then as you get older,
you do your own investigation.
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female: One I grew up with.
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male: I think you just got to
go back to whatever your parents
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are and stick with
that, don't change it.
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male: How do you know
what churches are false?
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Well, depends which culture
you're into really, doesn't it?
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male: People just need to pray
a lot and you know, get some
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discernment, read, do their
own research, read their own
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literature, and
that's probably the best way.
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female: We don't,
every church has its flaw.
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You believe what you believe
in your soul, and that's how
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you live.
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female: Well, what,
how can a church be false?
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It it may not appeal
to you or to another.
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male: Like if there's no
cross in the top or like no like
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religious signs.
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male: I don't believe so.
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I wouldn't say
it matters too much.
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male: I believe it does
only because the Bible preaches
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baptism for admission of sins,
and so I believe you must be
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baptized, and there's a lot of
churches that don't teach them.
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male: No, it doesn't.
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Just have the same, if
it's the same Bible, it's fine.
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male: Not really, at least
you're attending church and
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believe in something.
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Doug: Does truth matter?
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Most important question that
was ever asked was when Pontius
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Pilate said to
Jesus, "What is truth?"
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And then he walked away
from Jesus and did not wait for
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the answer.
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He was standing there in
front of the person who is the
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embodiment of truth.
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Said, "What is truth?"
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And with cynicism, he walked
away figuring, "Nobody can
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really know the truth."
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And you can tell from the
answers that we've been hearing
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some people say, "Well, you've
got your truth and I've got my
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truth, and there is
really no absolute truth.
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What you believe is good for
you and what I believe is good
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for me."
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How many of you would like to go
to a doctor that's doing brain
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surgery on you and have him say,
"Well, I think it's a brain, but
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he thinks it's a cantaloupe, so,
you know, whatever you believe
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is okay."
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Or when you're on the airplane
and you're flying across the
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ocean and the pilot comes on the
air and says, "I realize that
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some of you think there are
absolute laws of aerodynamics,
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but you know, I'd
like to try an experiment.
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I think this plane will work
just fine as a submarine because
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I believe it and I'm sincere."
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Would you want to
get on that airplane?
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Or how many of you want to
know that that pilot has learned
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there are certain absolute rules
of aerodynamics and aviation.
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And if you violate those rules,
there are terrible consequences
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because it's unforgiving.
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There is absolute truth
regarding God and eternal life.
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This notion that has become
popular in society that, "Well,
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you got your truth and I got
my truth, and who can know what
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truth is?"
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It's not what the Bible teaches.
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God says, "Thy Word is
truth," that's what Jesus said.
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There is truth.
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Jesus said, "I am the way, I
am the truth, I am the life."
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Don't believe the devil's lie
that it doesn't really matter,
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and as long as you're
sincere--how many of you have
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been sincere and you found
out you were wrong and it didn't
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help that you were sincere.
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I was driving cross country
one time, going from California
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to Texas.
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Late at night, finally
needed some gas, got off on the
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cloverleaf and looped around.
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This is before you had GPS.
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I looped around a
couple of times and I found the
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gas station.
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I filled up and I got back
on the freeway and I was feeling
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pretty good that I was
going to make great progress.
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But as I was going down
Interstate 10, I kept seeing the
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signs that said Interstate
10, I said, "I'm on the
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right interstate."
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But then I started saying,
"Well, they must have a chain of
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those restaurants everywhere,
because I just saw one a few
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miles back.
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Then I realized I was looking at
the same restaurant and it said
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Interstate 10 West.
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Well, I'm going to Texas,
I needed to be going east."
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I had been perfectly happy and
sincere, but I was never going
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to get to Texas
going the wrong direction.
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It didn't matter
how sincere I was.
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And there's a lot of people
in the world today, they think,
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"Well, it doesn't really matter
as long as you're sincere."
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Oh, it does matter,
friends, what you believe.
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The truth will set you free.
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There is a truth and knowing the
truth and every element of Bible
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truth makes you free-er.
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So number one, first question,
how does Revelation picture
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God's true church?
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Turn to your Bibles,
we're going to read it first.
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Turn to Revelation
chapter 12, please.
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We'll read a few verses here,
"And now a great sign appeared,"
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verse 1, "a great sign appeared
in heaven; a woman clothed with
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the sun, and the moon under
her feet, and on her head a
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garland," that means a crown,
a Stephanos, "with twelve stars:
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Then being with child, she cried
out in labor and pain to give
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birth," this woman
is great with child.
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"And another sign appeared in
heaven; and behold a great fiery
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red dragon, having
seven heads," how many heads?
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"Seven heads and ten horns."
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How many horns?
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"And seven crowns on his heads.
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And his tail drew a third of the
stars of heaven, and he threw
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them to the earth: and the
dragon stood before the woman
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who was ready to give birth, to
devour her child as soon as it
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was born.
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And she bore a male child, who
was to rule all nations with a
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rod of iron: and her
child was caught up to God, and
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His throne.
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And the woman fled into
the wilderness, where she had a
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place prepared by God, that
they should feed her there one
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thousand two hundred and sixty
days," fed in the wilderness.
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Now we're going to talk about
that and we're going to go back
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to the Bible in just a moment.
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So the answer, Revelation
chapter 12, what does it say
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about this woman?
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It says, a what?
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"A WOMAN clothed with the sun,
and the moon under her feet, and
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on her head a
garland of twelve stars.
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Being with CHILD,
she cried out in labor."
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She's going through labor pains,
"and in pain to give birth, and
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she bears a male Child who is
to rule all nations with a ROD
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of iron."
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Who do you think that is?
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That male child
is Jesus, the Christ.
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He is caught up to God's throne,
we know Jesus ascended to
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heaven, who is the woman?
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What does a woman represent?
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In the Bible when it talks about
this woman, she may appear here
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before it's over with.
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A woman represents God's bride,
and this woman who's great with
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child is a symbol of a church.
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What is she wearing?
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She's clothed with the what?
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The sun, that's the light of
God's truth that you find in the
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New Testament.
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Standing on the moon, does
the moon give light at night?
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Does the moon have light of its
own or does the moon reflect the
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light of the sun that will rise?
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It is the Old Testament
reflecting the light of the Son
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of righteousness who would
arise with healing in His wings.
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The New Testament church
stands on the foundation of the
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promises of God
in the Old Testament.
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And above her head, above the
head is a symbol of leadership.
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You've got the 12 stars, and
that represents the 12 tribes in
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the Old Testament.
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You've got the 12
apostles in the New Testament.
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You even have the 12 princes
of Moses leading Israel, the 12
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judges of Israel and the
book of Judges, 12, a symbol
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of leadership.
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This is God's church.
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He is clothed
with sun, moon, stars.
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Who made the sun?
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Who made the moon?
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Look at Genesis,
who made the stars?
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This is God's light.
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The Bible says to the bride,
"You are the light of the world.
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Let your light so shine before
men that they may see your good
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works and glorify your
Father which is in heaven."
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So this woman represents
the true church, okay?
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It says, and
how do we know that?
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You read in Jeremiah 6:2, God's
church is symbolized by woman,
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"I have likened the daughter
of Zion to a lovely and a
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delicate woman."
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The sun representing the light
of Jesus, Psalm 84, Malachi 4:2,
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giving you these verses.
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The moon represents the promises
and the history of the Old
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Testament, which
the church was built on.
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This will all be in your lesson.
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The stars above her head
symbolize the leadership of the
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church and you read about
the stars, it says there in
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Revelation chapter 1, which were
the ministers of the church, it
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was leadership.
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The One who is to rule all
nations with a rod of iron, this
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Man child, is Jesus, amen?
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And the dragon wants to
devour the Man child as soon as
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it's born.
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Now you see this woman,
but she's juxtaposed against a
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different woman than
you find in Revelation 17.
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Okay, back to our Bibles.
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Go in your Bible to
Revelation chapter 17.
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We're going to start with verse
3, and you'll find that these
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two women are,
they're actually opposites.
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And this woman exists
in the world today too.
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Revelation 17, start with verse
3, "So he," the angel, "carried
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me away in the
Spirit into the wilderness.
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And I saw a woman sitting on
a scarlet colored beast that was
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full of names of blasphemy,"
having how many heads?
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Seven heads, and how many horns?
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Now, when was the last time you
saw a beast with seven heads and
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ten horns?
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They're not that
common, are they?
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How many would agree
this is the same beast?
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By the way, it
appears in Revelation 13 too.
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This beast who is trying to
destroy the woman in Revelation
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12 is in cooperation with
the woman in Revelation 17.
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What is a woman?
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Church, so you got one woman
clothed with God's light, but
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this woman, it says
she's arrayed, this is verse 4,
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"purple, scarlet, adorned with
gold, precious stones, pearls,"
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all things you would find
on earth that can be manmade,
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"having in her hand a golden
cup full of abominations and the
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filthiness of her fornication."
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And if you have any doubt about
this woman, she's got on her
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forehead, people have things
in their forehead in revelation.
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She's got this stamp: "Mystery
Babylon the great, the mother
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of harlots."
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She's got daughters that
have come out of her, "And of
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abominations of the earth.
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And the woman is drunken with
the blood of the saints," so
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this is the wrong woman.
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You got these two women.
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So, a woman represents what?
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Can we use the Bible and Bible
prophecy to try and find out if
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God has a people
in the world today?
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Is the Bible pretty clear there
is the true woman of light, and
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there is a counterfeit?
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One is riding with the beast,
the other is being persecuted by
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the beast.
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Doesn't matter
what church you're in.
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You don't want to be with that
woman in Babylon because you
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read Revelation chapter 18:19.
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It says Babylon is
going to be destroyed.
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That harkens back to the tower
of Babel, man-made worship that
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was confused and cursed by God.
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There in Genesis chapter
11, these are the keys to
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understanding these things.
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Says a woman was arrayed in
purple and scarlet adorned with
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gold and precious
stones and pearls.
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So you've got this woman
riding a beast in Revelation 17.
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This beast is a great
persecuting power that we find,
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if we go from chapter 12 to
chapter 13, you're going to see
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that beast appears again.
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All right, number two, who is
the great red dragon, and what
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does he try to do?
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Now we're going back to chapter
12, "That great dragon was cast
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out, called the
serpent of old," called what?
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"The DEVIL and SATAN."
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So it's saying that the devil
is manipulating this power,
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this beast.
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Now you, when you read in Isaiah
14, it describes the devil, but
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it uses the king of Tyre.
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If you look in Ezekiel 28, it
talks about the devil, but he's
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working through
the king of Babylon.
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When you read Revelation 12, it
talks about the devil, but he's
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operating through the
kingdom of pagan Rome.
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Says the dragon tries to devour
the Man child as soon as He is
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born, "The dragon stood before
the woman who's ready to give
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birth, to DEVOUR her
child as soon as it is born."
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So this dragon is an enemy of
Christ, wants to destroy Christ.
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You know, there's several times
in Bible history when the devil
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has tried to stop
the savior from coming.
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Now the devil knew
that the Messiah would come.
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He knew the
incarnation would happen.
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He didn't know exactly when.
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When the children of Israel were
in Egypt, he thought, "Now would
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be the time when God
would send the savior.
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So what did he do?
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The dragon tried to
destroy all the male baby boys.
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Do you remember the Pharaoh was
telling them to throw all the
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baby boys to the crocodiles
in the Nile River, but Moses is
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spared, one is spared.
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He becomes a savior.
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Do you know, back during the
time of Athaliah, if you know
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your Bible, if you get
to 2 Kings, it tells about a
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wicked queen.
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She's the daughter of
Jezebel, another wicked queen.
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By the way, in the time of
Jezebel and Athaliah, there is a
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three and half year
period, 1,260 days, just
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like Revelation.
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And her son Ahaziah is
killed in battle by Jehu.
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She does not want one of
the sons of David to rule.
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Athaliah is a pagan.
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Her mother, Jezebel is a pagan.
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She wants to be queen.
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Well, among the Jews they had
kings, they didn't have queens.
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The men ruled.
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So, but she wants to be queen,
so she kills all of the babies
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of David, the
descendants of David.
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She kills all of
her grandchildren.
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Boy, talk about cold-blooded.
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But one escapes.
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His name is Joash, and he ends
up being in the temple of God.
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He comes out of the temple of
God when he's seven years old.
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They blow the trumpets,
they coronate him king, she is
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destroyed, something like when
Jesus, our Savior, the Son of
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David, Christ.
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He's going to come from the
heavenly temple, the trumpets
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will blow, the
people will rejoice, and
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Babylon's destroyed.
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What you see happening in the
Bible is going to be repeated in
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the future.
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This is what
Revelation is talking about.
00:18:51.63\00:18:54.20
So the devil under
Herod using the Roman power.
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How many remember when Herod
sent his soldiers to Bethlehem?
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they said well there's a baby,
he's the new king of the Jews.
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You know what
Herod's official title was?
00:19:04.81\00:19:06.91
The Romans gave him the
title "king of the Jews."
00:19:06.94\00:19:10.25
So when the wise men come into
Jerusalem, they said, "Where is
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He that is born
King of the Jews."
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And Herod said,
"What did you say?"
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He said, "Oh, yeah, yeah.
00:19:18.55\00:19:20.39
I'd like to know
about when you find Him.
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Tell me when you find Him, I
would like to worship Him too."
00:19:22.52\00:19:26.39
He wanted to kill Him.
00:19:26.43\00:19:28.70
The devil was working,
the dragon through pagan Rome.
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And then later you find the
devil starts working through the
00:19:36.50\00:19:39.44
church papal Rome
during the dark ages.
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Number three, what happens after
Satan fails to destroy Jesus?
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You know, did the devil try
to destroy Jesus on the cross?
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Did he try to
keep Him in the tomb?
00:19:49.78\00:19:51.99
Could the devil
keep Him in the tomb?
00:19:52.02\00:19:54.26
Did Christ ascend to heaven?
00:19:54.29\00:19:56.56
Now the devil cannot
hurt Jesus anymore, can he?
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He's out of his reach.
00:20:00.60\00:20:02.00
So what does the devil do now?
00:20:02.03\00:20:04.53
Says, "her Child is CAUGHT
UP to God and His throne."
00:20:04.57\00:20:08.44
As the disciples watch in Acts
chapter 2 , Jesus ascended, and
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he's caught up in
a cloud of angels.
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And the Bible said that as
He left, He will come, amen?
00:20:14.14\00:20:17.11
He's coming in the clouds with
all of the angels of heaven.
00:20:17.15\00:20:21.68
But in the meantime, the devil
now vents his fury, the devil
00:20:21.72\00:20:25.89
wants to hurt Jesus by
hurting what Jesus loves.
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If you want to hurt somebody,
you don't just torture them, but
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torture their
child in front of them.
00:20:34.93\00:20:39.27
I remember once when one of our
boys was 18 months old, he had
00:20:39.30\00:20:45.14
spinal meningitis.
00:20:45.17\00:20:47.14
They didn't know, so they
had to do a test it's called the
00:20:47.18\00:20:51.55
spinal tap.
00:20:51.58\00:20:53.92
But because we had come to the
doctor off hours, they had an
00:20:53.95\00:20:56.69
intern there that was
in training, they call it
00:20:56.72\00:21:00.36
practicing medicine.
00:21:00.39\00:21:03.02
And we watched as the hospital
staff held down our beautiful 18
00:21:03.06\00:21:07.73
month baby boy, and he tried to
push the needle into his spine
00:21:07.76\00:21:12.80
and find the right spot to drain
out spinal fluid, and our little
00:21:12.83\00:21:16.84
boy, they can't numb them at
the time, and our little boy is
00:21:16.87\00:21:20.54
looking up with his eyes wild
with tears, he's going, "Daddy,
00:21:20.58\00:21:24.01
daddy, daddy, why are
you letting them hurt me?"
00:21:24.05\00:21:27.18
And it broke my heart.
00:21:27.22\00:21:28.52
I would have traded
places with him just like that.
00:21:28.55\00:21:32.15
The devil knows
that Jesus loves us.
00:21:32.19\00:21:34.82
He wants to hurt
Jesus by hurting His people.
00:21:34.86\00:21:38.13
That's why he
persecutes the church.
00:21:38.16\00:21:41.46
After Jesus is caught up to
heaven, what does Satan do to
00:21:41.50\00:21:44.43
the church?
00:21:44.47\00:21:46.20
"When the dragon saw that he
had been cast to the earth, he
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PERSECUTED the woman who
gave birth to the child."
00:21:50.97\00:21:56.11
After Christ ascended to
heaven, some of the most severe
00:21:56.14\00:21:58.95
persecution
came upon the church.
00:21:58.98\00:22:01.68
How many have heard the stories
of what Nero and Diocletian and
00:22:01.72\00:22:06.49
the different Roman emperors
did to the Christians in
00:22:06.52\00:22:08.66
the Colosseums?
00:22:08.69\00:22:09.99
It's not just the fables,
they were fed to wild beasts.
00:22:10.03\00:22:14.23
Nero smeared pitch on the
Christians and lit them on fire
00:22:14.30\00:22:18.53
alive to light his
gardens as they writhed in pain.
00:22:18.57\00:22:23.71
It was terrible.
00:22:23.74\00:22:25.07
Why do you think the
catacombs are under Rome?
00:22:25.11\00:22:27.78
Because they had to go
underground, so to speak.
00:22:27.81\00:22:30.71
It was called
"religio illicita."
00:22:30.75\00:22:32.91
Even in the Bible, you can see
where Paul and the Jews had been
00:22:32.95\00:22:35.98
expelled from
Rome by the emperor.
00:22:36.02\00:22:40.42
See, the Roman Empire had
tolerated many religions as long
00:22:40.46\00:22:43.86
as you still held up the Roman
religion is supreme, but when
00:22:43.89\00:22:47.30
the Christians said "No, we're
not going to offer incense to
00:22:47.36\00:22:49.86
your pagan gods, they outlawed
the religion, and it became
00:22:49.90\00:22:53.74
"religio illicita."
00:22:53.77\00:22:55.47
That's why Paul says it may be
better if you don't get married
00:22:55.50\00:22:58.94
and have a family right now
because of the persecution is
00:22:58.97\00:23:01.64
so intense.
00:23:01.68\00:23:03.85
So the devil tried to
destroy the church with Plan A.
00:23:03.88\00:23:07.98
Plan A was annihilation,
extermination, genocide.
00:23:08.02\00:23:12.42
Feed them to the lions, kill
them off in the mines, work them
00:23:12.45\00:23:15.76
to death, crucify them.
00:23:15.79\00:23:18.56
When Nero burned Rome, he
blamed it on the Christians.
00:23:18.59\00:23:21.73
Nero burned Rome
because he didn't like the
00:23:21.76\00:23:24.33
wooden tenements.
00:23:24.37\00:23:25.70
He wanted marble structures and
he thought, "I got to get rid of
00:23:25.73\00:23:27.57
all these poor people."
00:23:27.60\00:23:29.64
He set the city on fire, watched
it burn, played his fiddle,
00:23:29.67\00:23:32.67
you've heard the story.
00:23:32.71\00:23:34.38
And when they were outraged, he
said, "The Christians did it."
00:23:34.41\00:23:37.08
He said, "By the way, you
know, the Christians are living
00:23:37.11\00:23:38.85
underground, and
they're cannibals.
00:23:38.88\00:23:42.48
They believe in eating the flesh
and drinking the blood of Jesus,
00:23:42.52\00:23:46.15
they're cannibals," and they
had terrible propaganda against
00:23:46.19\00:23:49.06
Christians, and the
Christians experienced a
00:23:49.09\00:23:51.36
terrible persecution.
00:23:51.39\00:23:52.69
Not only that, during this time,
the Jews rebelled against the
00:23:52.73\00:23:56.73
Romans, and people saw
Christianity and Judaism.
00:23:56.77\00:23:59.70
They kept the same Sabbath, they
worship the same God, they read
00:23:59.73\00:24:02.84
the same Bible, they saw
them as sort of the same thing.
00:24:02.87\00:24:05.71
And so the Jews became
very hated after 70 AD.
00:24:05.74\00:24:10.91
And so Judaism and Christianity
were both outlawed, and
00:24:10.95\00:24:15.92
Christians and Jews were being
exterminated in mass, destroyed,
00:24:15.95\00:24:22.19
enslaved, property taken away,
scattered around the empire.
00:24:22.22\00:24:27.23
But you know what happened?
00:24:27.30\00:24:29.56
The seed of Christianity
is the blood of the martyrs.
00:24:29.60\00:24:35.30
The more they mowed them
down, the more they grew.
00:24:35.34\00:24:39.07
Because the pagans would come to
the Colosseum and they'd watch
00:24:39.11\00:24:41.94
these Christians before they're
being fed to wild animals,
00:24:41.98\00:24:45.15
calmly pray.
00:24:45.18\00:24:47.35
They had
expressions of peace and joy.
00:24:47.38\00:24:50.69
They looked like they were on
their way to a wedding, because
00:24:50.72\00:24:52.82
they knew their next conscious
thought was the resurrection and
00:24:52.85\00:24:56.09
seeing the Lord.
00:24:56.12\00:24:57.46
And they said, "Why
are they so peaceful?
00:24:57.49\00:24:59.89
Why are they so brave?"
00:24:59.93\00:25:02.53
And they started asking
questions and Christianity
00:25:02.56\00:25:05.20
kept spreading.
00:25:05.23\00:25:07.50
And the devil said,
"This is not working."
00:25:07.54\00:25:09.90
So he went to Plan B, whereas if
you can't destroy them from the
00:25:09.94\00:25:14.31
outside, destroy
them from the inside.
00:25:14.34\00:25:16.78
He legalized Christianity
and he co-mingled paganism
00:25:16.81\00:25:21.48
and Christianity.
00:25:21.52\00:25:23.62
Constantine ostensibly he
legalized Christianity, and he
00:25:23.65\00:25:27.69
said, "Yeah, well, my mother is
converted to Christianity, so I
00:25:27.72\00:25:30.33
can't kill them off.
00:25:30.36\00:25:31.69
They're really
not hurting anybody."
00:25:31.73\00:25:32.96
And all of a sudden it became
very vogue to be a Christian.
00:25:32.99\00:25:35.93
Doug: You know, Jesus came into
our world for three reasons.
00:25:35.96\00:25:39.30
First of all, He came as our
example, to live a life that we
00:25:39.33\00:25:42.77
might follow His steps.
00:25:42.80\00:25:44.41
He came to show us the Father.
00:25:44.44\00:25:46.37
He said, "If you've seen
me, you've seen the Father."
00:25:46.41\00:25:49.28
And then He came
as our sacrifice.
00:25:49.31\00:25:51.68
He died on the cross as a
substitute for all our sins, but
00:25:51.71\00:25:55.52
we must come to Him.
00:25:55.55\00:25:56.89
We repent of our sins, we
confess, He'll receive us with
00:25:56.92\00:25:59.82
loving arms.
00:25:59.85\00:26:01.22
Why don't you ask Him now?
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This fascinating study guide
is going to show you the Bible
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prophecies that answer
this important question.
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To get your free copy, simply
follow the instructions on
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your screen.
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male announcer: In six days,
God created the heavens and
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the earth.
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For thousands of years, man has
worshiped God on the seventh day
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of the week.
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Now each week, millions of
people worship on the first day,
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what happened?
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Why did God
create a day of rest?
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Does it really
matter what day we worship?
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Who was behind this great shift?
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Discover the truth behind God's
law and how it was changed.
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Visit SabbathTruth.com.
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Doug: What you've seen
just now is only part one in
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this presentation.
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Make sure and join us for part
two in our next broadcast for
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some of the most important
points on this topic and to
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complete the
corresponding study guides.
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Until then, God bless.
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male announcer: This
presentation was brought to you
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by the friends of the
Amazing Facts ministry.
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