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friends, welcome back to
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"Prophecy Odyssey."
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In our previous episode, we saw
how Satan furiously persecuted
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God's church after
Jesus ascended to heaven.
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today's study is for you.
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We're going to discover the
seven identifying marks of God's
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true church, and three vital
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the world.
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Doug: Where did the woman go
during this terrifying period of
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persecution--and
how long did it last?
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Now, let me tell you what
happened, and then we'll get
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to the answer.
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So, with the conversion of
Constantine and Christianity
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being legalized--and suddenly
it's very popular--all over Rome
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they had all
these pagan priests.
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Constantine said,
"Christianity is legalized."
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His mother became a Christian,
and the pagan priest said,
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"Well, I'd like to stay on the
government payroll, I'll be a
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Christian," and all of these
pagans began to join the church
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before they were
converted or even taught.
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In fact, when Constantine
was fighting the battle of
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Maximilian and he came to the
Tiber River, he claimed to see a
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vision where he was to conquer
under the sign of the cross, and
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they began to paint red crosses
on their shields, and he ordered
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his army for good luck to march
through the Tiber River, and he
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says, "I'm going to baptize the
whole lot of you, march through
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the river."
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Well, they had not been taught,
and so you got all of these dry
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pagans that go through the
river, and they come up wet
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pagans, but they're being
told, "You're Christians now."
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They have no idea what that
means, and they have all these
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idols all over Rome.
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They had more idols than tiles
on the rooftop in Rome, and they
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said, "What do we
do with our idols?"
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And they said, "Well, let's
change their names, give them
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Christian names.
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And Diana, we'll call her Mary;
and Jupiter, Apollo, Mercury:
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Peter, James, and John."
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And all of a sudden, idolatry
just swept into the church.
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And the priests, instead of
being like the people--you know,
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Jesus did not dress in special
vestments, he dressed like a
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carpenter--but now they started
to priest for an upper class.
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And they said, "You know, we
better not give the Bibles to
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the people, if you give
the Bibles to the people,
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they're going to find
out salvation is a gift
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and we've been selling it.
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And if they want forgiveness,
they've got to pay indulgences
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to the church."
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And all of a sudden, the priests
became a special class, and they
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were living in palaces, and the
people were being ground down,
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and the religion became
a government institution.
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That's how the capital
of Christianity moved from
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Jerusalem to Rome.
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You still with me?
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This is history, friends.
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I mean, anybody
can look this up.
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And all of a sudden, there was
tremendous compromise, and what
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you had is there are still many
sincere Christians that were in
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Rome, and they were fighting
against the compromise, but all
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of a sudden you had the
co-mingling of Christianity
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and paganism.
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They started saying "Hell burns
forever" because they got that
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from Greek mythology with Pluto,
and they started saying you have
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to--you can pay for your sins,
salvation by works; everything
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began to change.
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True Christians
began to get persecuted.
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By the time of Justinian--about
538 AD--Justinian, the Roman
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Emperor, he said, "I'm moving
the capital of Constantinople.
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I'm going to give--the bishop of
Rome is now going to be the head
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of the church.
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We're going to call him
the supreme papa, the father,
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the Pope.
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That happened years after Jesus.
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Jesus never said Peter
was the leader of the church.
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Jesus is the
leader of the church.
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In fact, right after Jesus says,
"Peter--yeah, you--because of
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your declaration that I'm the
Messiah, on that rock of your
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declaration I'm
going to build my church.
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The gates of hell will not
prevail against it, and I'm
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going to go to Jerusalem where
I'm going to die," and Peter
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said, "No, no,
Lord, don't do that."
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Jesus turned to Peter and
said, "Get behind me, Satan."
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In the same passage where people
say he's the first pope, Jesus
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calls him Satan.
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Totally misunderstood.
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So Christians had to
flee into the wilderness.
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Notice: "The woman"--now, we're
still in Revelation 12, you
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tracking with me?
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"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."
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A time of great persecution
happened because the church in
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Rome became a government
institution that not only ruled
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over Rome, they began to rule
over all of the empires under
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the Roman Empire.
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And with the conversion of
Clovis, the king of the Franks,
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you had the Holy Roman Empire.
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And, how many of
you have played chess?
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You got the king and the queen,
and who's on the right of the
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king and the queen?
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Bishop, bishop.
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You look at the churches all
through Europe during that time
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of history, and you had the king
and the queen, and then you had
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the Church, and they had
to clear everything with the
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Church, and if the king and the
queen did not clear it with the
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church, then the whole
nation could be excommunicated.
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And the reason that you got
the Church of England is because
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Henry kept killing his
wives because they couldn't have
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children, and the church
said, "Look, enough is enough.
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You've killed five
or six wives, you know.
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We can't approve your divorce."
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He said, "Well then, I'm just
going to start my own church,"
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and the Church of England broke
away because they're--and the
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whole nation was
excommunicated at that time.
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And so, the Church had
tremendous power over Europe
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during this time.
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True Christians that read the
Bible for themselves had to flee
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into the mountains.
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They went into the Italian and
the Swiss Alps, and they kept
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the purity of the faith,
and they would copy out the
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scriptures by hand, and they'd
send their merchants and their
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children into town to give
little sections of Scripture to
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people to spread the
faith and keep it alive, but the
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Church--"clothed in
the sackcloth" is what
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Revelation says.
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You know what sackcloth is?
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When I was a kid,
we had potato bags.
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You don't have them
anymore, they're plastic now.
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How many remember burlap bags?
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Kind of cloth, but it's cheap
cloth, and light can still get
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through it, but it's obscured.
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And the church, the light of the
church was obscured during that
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time, had to go underground.
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You know how long it lasted?
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From 538 when the Pope became
the supreme ruler, it was given
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an army, and Christianity was
enforced by an army--Jesus never
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told us to force people to be
Christians--until Napoleon came
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along in 1798.
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The Pope was arrested, they lost
their universal power, and he
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died in captivity.
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From 538 to 1798,
you've got 1260 years.
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It says "for 1260 days," 42
months, a time, a time, and the
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dividing of time; that
time period is in prophecy
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many times.
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By the way, what is God's number
in the Bible, God's number?
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Seven, what is half of seven?
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Three and a half.
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It usually represents
a time of persecution.
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How long did Jesus preach?
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Three and a half
years, and then He died.
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And then the apostles preached
for 3.5 years, and then Stephen
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was killed
exactly 3.5 years later.
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And you look at the story
in the Old Testament of Elijah.
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For 3.5 years, Elijah preached,
and the prophets had to
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go underground.
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They were hidden in caves
until he had his Mount Carmel
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experience, and even
then he had great persecution.
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Elijah had to run from his
life from Jezebel, a woman.
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I'm talking about a
woman representing the church.
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She was a pagan woman
that married a Jewish king.
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The combination of paganism and
the truth was persecuting the
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prophets of God.
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What happened in the Old
Testament was repeated in
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history, and it's going to
happen again in the last days.
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You--is it making sense?
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All right, so she
flees into the wilderness.
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Number 6: what are two
other identifying marks of God's
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true church?
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You get down to the end of
chapter 12, it says, "And the
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dragon was enraged with the
woman, and he went to make war
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with the rest," that means the
remnant, "of her offspring," who
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do what?
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"Keeps the Commandments of God,
and has the testimony of Jesus."
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If you read in Isaiah, chapter
8, says, "Bind up the testimony,
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seal the law among My
disciples," the law and
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the testimony.
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Read in Revelation 19, verse 10.
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John is talking to an angel, he
falls down to worship the angel.
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The angel says, "Don't
worship me, don't worship anyone
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but God--we're not to pray
to angels, we're not to pray to
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statues," say amen?
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Said, "Pray to God."
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You don't even pray to angels.
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And the angel said, "Fear God,
I am of your fellow servants who
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keep the testimony of God,
for the testimony of God is the
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spirit of prophecy."
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The law and the testimony,
the law and the prophets,
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two characteristics.
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Read in Isaiah chapter 8, verse
20; according to the law and the
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testimony, the Word of God, "If
they speak not according to this
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Word, there's no light in them."
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The Word of God is dual in
nature: Ten Commandments, two
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tables of stone.
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You've got the Bible, the
New and the Old Testament.
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These are the two witnesses in
Revelation 11--we'll get to that
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another time--symbolized by
Moses and Elijah, the law and
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the prophets, and God's people
will have the Word of God.
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Now, you might say, "Well,
yeah, every church keeps the
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Commandments, some of them."
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Oh, no, no friends, God's
looking for people that will
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believe in all ten.
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God does not call
them the ten suggestions.
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They are not called the ten good
ideas, they're not God's ten
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recommendations, they are the
Ten Commandments of God, amen?
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Everybody in jail keeps
some of them some of the time.
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You keep them when you're
sleeping for a few hours each
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night, and even then
you might be dubious.
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God is looking for people
that believe in all ten, amen?
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Keeping not just the letter, but
keeping the spirit of the law as
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well, amen?
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So the dragon especially
hates that group of people.
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Number 7: how did Jesus say that
we're to demonstrate our love
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for Him?
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He said what?
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"If you love
Me, honk your horn."
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I heard about a woman that--she
was stuck in traffic and she
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began to honk her horn and shake
her fist; didn't know that the
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policeman was behind her.
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He jumped out of his car and he
pulled his gun and he said, "Get
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out of your car, hands
up, up against the car."
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He searched her, checked her ID.
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She said,
"What's all that about?"
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He said, "Well, I saw the way
that you were gesturing to the
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driver in front of you, and I
heard you honking your horn, and
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I saw your bumper sticker.
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It said, 'Honk
if you love Jesus.'
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I just figured
you stole the car."
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We need to be
living it too, amen?
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Bible says, "This is the
love of God, that we keep
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His Commandments."
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Isn't it all about
love, friends, amen?
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Number 8: what three angelic
messages will God's end-time
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church be
preaching to the world?
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Answer--and you read about this
in Revelation 14, go to your
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Bible real quick.
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In Revelation 14, you're going
to notice that something unique
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happens here.
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It tells us that Jesus comes
in Revelation 14, verse 14.
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You can see here where it says,
"Then I looked, behold a white
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cloud, and on the cloud
one sat like the son of man."
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Remember, He had been
caught up chapter 12, now He's
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coming back.
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"On His head, a golden crown;
in His hand, a sharp sickle."
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He's coming to
harvest the earth.
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It's the great Judgment Day.
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What message goes to the
world before Jesus comes?
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Look in chapter 14;
starts with verse 6, gives three
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angel messages.
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"I saw another angel flying in
the midst of heaven, having the
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everlasting gospel to preach to
those who dwell on the earth--to
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every nation."
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It's going to be international:
"every nation, every tongue,
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tribe, people.
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With a loud voice"--it's going
to go by radio and television,
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by internet.
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"'Fear God and give glory
to Him, for the hour of His
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judgment has come.'"
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We have a lesson on
that coming tomorrow night.
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"'Worship Him that made,'"
calling us back to the Creator
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and the Sabbath truth, "'the
springs and the earth and the
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sea and the waters.'
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And another angel followed,
saying, 'Babylon has fallen, has
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fallen, that great city, because
she made all nations drink the
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wine of the wrath
of her fornication.'
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And a third angel followed them,
saying with a loud voice, 'If
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anyone worships the beast and
his image and receives his mark
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on his forehead or his hand, the
same will drink the wine of the
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wrath of God that has poured out
full strength into the cup of
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His indignation.'"
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You don't want to get
the mark of the beast.
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We've got a lesson
coming on that, friends.
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You don't want to
make that mistake.
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So, let's look at those
three angels' messages quickly.
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Number 1: "Fear God," and you'll
see them on the screen, say the
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answer with me.
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"Fear God, give glory to Him,
for the hour of His judgment
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has come."
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Do you realize
that's the end of time?
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Do you know that part of God's
judgment happens before He even
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gets here?
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How do you know that?
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Says, "Behold, I come; My
reward is with Me to give to
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every man."
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Does God know who's going
up and who's not when He comes?
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Some judgment happens.
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"Judgment must
begin at the house of God.
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If judgment begins at us, what
will be the end of them that
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obey not the gospel?"
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I'm quoting the Bible.
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Judgment has come.
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Second angel's message: "And
worship Him who made the heaven
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and the earth, and the sea," and
that means worship Him the right
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way, the right day;
true worship of God.
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Is there a lot of
counterfeit worship today?
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There's some people, bless their
hearts, they go to church and
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these pastors deceive them.
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They say, "Send me your money
and God's going to get you a new
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pickup truck," right?
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Just say--they take advantage of
people, the counterfeit worship.
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Answer the next one, and it
says: "Another angel followed,
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saying, 'Babylon is fallen, is
fallen, that great city, because
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she has made all nations
drink the wine of the wrath of
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her fornication.'"
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There'll be a judgment on the
people that are in Babylon, but
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God wants to save Babylon.
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He's got His people in Babylon.
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Now, why does
it talk about that?
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During the time of Jeremiah,
King Nebuchadnezzar, king of
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Babylon, conquered Jerusalem,
brought the Jews to Babylon, and
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they were there for 70 years.
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How comfortable
would you be for 70 years?
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We're only here for three weeks
in New York City, and Karen and
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I have gotten real
comfortable in our hotel room.
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We just may stay.
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But after 70 years, when
God said, "You're free now to go
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back," they said, "Well,
we kind of like it in Babylon.
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We've learned the language,
we've learned the customs, we're
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a little Babylon-ish ourselves,"
and He couldn't get His people
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out of Babylon.
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He said, "But
judgment's coming on Babylon.
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The Persians are
going to destroy them.
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You don't want to
be there, go home."
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And God is telling His people in
Babylon, "Today they're mixed up
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in false
religions, false churches.
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Babylon is going to fall, the
plagues will fall on Babylon,
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the seven last plagues.
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Come out of her, My people."
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Jesus has His people in
Babylon, He's calling them out.
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"And a third angel followed
them, saying, 'If anyone
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worships the beast in his image,
and receives his mark on his
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forehead or on his hand, he will
drink the wine of the wrath of
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God,'" and that's that same
wine--Babylon has made people
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drunk with her wine.
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Number 9: to whom will God's
church preach these messages in
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the last days?
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Where does it go,
the everlasting gospel?
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"Having the everlasting
gospel to preach to," who?
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"Every nation."
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Jesus said the gospel will be
preached in all the world, then
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the end will come.
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Friends, you're living in the
generation that will see that
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fulfillment, I believe.
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Are you ready for Jesus to come?
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What specifications has God
given in His Word to help us
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identify His end-time church?
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Well, let's look at what
some of the criteria are.
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Answer A, let's reevaluate
what we just read in our study.
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"It's going to appear and do its
visible work after it emerges
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from the wilderness in 1798."
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Now, I just got to stop here
and just say something to you.
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I believe that
God's got a remnant.
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You know what a remnant is?
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It's the remainder.
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How many of you ladies
have ever done any sewing?
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You go to the store
and you buy a remnant.
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When I take my wallet out,
everyone gets real quiet for
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some reason.
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Okay, I've
got--what do I got here?
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I got a $10 bill, all right.
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When they make cloth at the
factory on the loom, they get
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the bolt--you know, the
cardboard tube--and they begin
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to roll the cloth onto
the cardboard tube, right?
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What goes on first?
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And they roll it all up, and
then they--people come to the
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store and they say, "I'd like to
buy some," and they buy little
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pieces and they cut it off,
and they buy what they need for
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their pillows and their
curtains, they cut off the
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cloth, and finally someone will
say, "Well, I only need so much,
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and I got this little piece left
over," and what's it called?
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It's a remnant.
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It's what's at the end,
but you know what's at the end?
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It's what went on first.
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What comes off at the
end is what went on first.
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God's church in the last days
is going to be following the
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scriptures the way the
church did in the beginning.
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The Bible says, "We are going
to return to the faith that was
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once delivered to the saints."
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The Bible tells us that
"there'll be a remnant."
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God saved a remnant in
the days of Noah, right?
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He saved a remnant
called Abraham from Babel.
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Ur of the Chaldees, He
saved a remnant out of Babylon.
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And after the persecution of
1260 years and the church went
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underground, there was a great
revival movement that took place
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about 150 years ago where
Christians from all different
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backgrounds said, "Let's find
out what the Bible really says.
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Jesus does not want us
divided by our denominations.
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Let's pray for the Spirit
and open the Word, and kneel and
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spend nights in prayer
and get back to the Bible."
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That was the birth of the
movement that's bringing you
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this seminar.
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Now, you say, "Well,
what church is that?"
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I don't like to call it a
denomination, but we're called
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Seventh Day Adventists.
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I don't often say it because I
don't like to brag about it, but
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I'm a Seventh Day
Adventist Christian.
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It's very simple, it means
we believe in keeping all the
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Commandments, including the
7th, and we believe Christ is
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coming back.
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It's the blessed hope, and we're
telling people, "Get ready, get
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ready, get ready."
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And we are--do you know,
North America, the Seventh Day
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Adventist Church is voted as the
most diverse church ethnically
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in that we have people from all
different backgrounds, and it is
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the fastest growing Protestant
church in the world today, and
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they have the biggest
educational system, second to
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the Catholic Church.
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They have the biggest medical
system, second to the Catholic
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Church, and they're spreading
everywhere because people are
00:21:15.87\00:21:18.91
saying, "Hey, if you're going to
be a Bible Christian, where else
00:21:18.94\00:21:21.38
are you going to go?"
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What does your church believe?
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"Well, my church
believes like my pastor."
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What does your pastor believe?
00:21:28.38\00:21:29.95
"Like my church."
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What does your pastor
and your church believe?
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"Same thing I believe."
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People don't know
what they believe, do they?
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We got to go by the
Bible, friends, amen?
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This church began
during that time period.
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It's following the
'798 year time period.
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It says, answer B, "It'll teach
the same truths the apostles
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taught," we mentioned that.
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Answer C: "It will keep the
Ten Commandments, including the
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Sabbath," amen?
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Answer D: "It will have
the spirit of prophecy."
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It goes by the law and the
prophets, and believes in all
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the gifts of the
Spirit, friends, amen?
00:22:08.69\00:22:10.96
I believe the power of
God is still alive today.
00:22:10.99\00:22:14.00
"It'll proclaim God's three-time
end-time message with a
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loud voice."
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It'll be a global
international church.
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It's not a local
corner fellowship, it is an
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international movement.
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We meet that criteria.
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"It'll teach the everlasting
gospel, which is salvation
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through Christ alone," which
is what we teach and believe.
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Now Jesus, number 11: He
gives us these seven prophetic
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identifying points.
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He said, "Go find My church."
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What is the promise
of Jesus if we seek?
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"Seek, and you will find."
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Where do we search?
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In the Word, you run to and
fro through the Word of God.
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How many church organizations
in the world will fit these
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seven points?
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The Bible says, there is
"One Lord, one faith," how many?
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One faith; God wants His people
united on truth, "one baptism."
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Since there's so many different
churches in the world today and
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so many different denominations
call themselves the truth, does
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that make them
God's true church?
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No, read Isaiah chapter 4,
verse 1: "And in that day seven
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women," what's
a woman represent?
00:23:27.90\00:23:29.20
congregation: The church.
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Doug: "Will take hold of
one man," Jesus, the son of man,
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"saying, 'We'll eat our own
bread," our own Word of God.
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"We'll wear our own
apparel," our own righteousness.
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"Only let us call ourselves by
your name," we're going to call
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ourselves Christian,
"to take away our reproach."
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There are more different
churches that call themselves
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Christians that don't follow the
Bible than any other religion.
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Christianity is the most divided
because it's the genuine and the
00:23:54.36\00:23:57.23
devil is fighting it; but there
is a truth, friends, based on
00:23:57.27\00:24:03.04
God's Word.
00:24:03.07\00:24:04.41
Jesus said in the last days,
wolves would come in not sparing
00:24:04.44\00:24:07.24
the flock.
00:24:07.28\00:24:08.68
So once a person discovers God's
true end-time church, is it
00:24:08.71\00:24:13.01
necessary to become a member?
00:24:13.05\00:24:15.28
"And the Lord added to
the"--who added to the church?
00:24:15.32\00:24:20.02
"The Lord added to the church,"
His body, "daily those who were
00:24:20.06\00:24:25.13
being saved."
00:24:25.16\00:24:26.49
Jesus had the 12 apostles,
and then later He numbered 70
00:24:26.53\00:24:29.03
disciples, and then they went,
and the counts when they joined:
00:24:29.06\00:24:31.90
3000, then 5000.
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God has His people.
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Number 15: How many ways of
escape were there in Noah's day?
00:24:36.44\00:24:42.14
Jesus said it'll be like
it was in the days of Noah.
00:24:42.18\00:24:45.08
"By faith, Noah
built a fleet of arks."
00:24:45.11\00:24:49.08
No: "He prepared an ark," one.
00:24:49.12\00:24:53.66
One Lord, one faith, "for
the saving of his household."
00:24:53.69\00:24:57.29
Christ has an ark in
the last days, friends.
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There's a boat, and He wants
you to be part of His people.
00:25:01.00\00:25:06.07
Since there are many sincere
Christians in other churches,
00:25:06.10\00:25:11.01
and there's one remnant church,
what is God going to do in the
00:25:11.04\00:25:13.34
last days?
00:25:13.38\00:25:15.41
He says, "Other sheep I
have that are not of this fold."
00:25:15.44\00:25:19.01
See, I believe there
are sincere Christians in
00:25:19.05\00:25:20.95
different churches.
00:25:20.98\00:25:23.99
"Them also I must bring."
00:25:24.02\00:25:26.39
What does Christ say
He's doing in the last days?
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"I must bring them.
00:25:28.16\00:25:30.06
They will hear My voice," how?
00:25:30.09\00:25:31.49
Through his Word, and
there will be how many?
00:25:31.53\00:25:34.30
There's going to be
"one foal, one shepherd."
00:25:34.36\00:25:37.57
"All men," Jesus said, "will
know you're My disciples by your
00:25:37.60\00:25:40.27
love for one another."
00:25:40.30\00:25:41.54
Before God pours out the Spirit
on His people in the last days,
00:25:41.57\00:25:44.11
there's going to be a coming
together of His people on the
00:25:44.14\00:25:46.68
Word of God.
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Do you believe that?
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How can we witness to this
lost world when Christians are
00:25:49.44\00:25:51.58
so divided?
00:25:51.61\00:25:53.05
But we're not to unite for the
sake of unity, that's what the
00:25:53.08\00:25:55.68
beast is going to do.
00:25:55.72\00:25:57.35
We're to unite based on truth.
00:25:57.39\00:26:00.46
Doug: Friends, I hope you've
been blessed by today's message,
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but really, the reason we
do this is so that people might
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know Christ.
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You know, information
is not going to save us.
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It's a relationship with Jesus,
the one who died on the cross
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for your sins.
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You must personally accept Him,
and that's the most important
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thing, and why we
do these programs.
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If you've not asked Him
into your heart before, then I'd
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encourage you
to do it right now.
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His arms are open wide,
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just come to Him as
you are and ask Him.
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