>> COMING UP NEXT ON 00:00:00.16\00:00:09.00 "AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS." 00:00:09.63\00:00:11.83 >> WHAT I AM SHARING WITH YOU IS THE TEACHING THAT CHURCHES 00:00:11.83\00:00:15.23 HAD BELIEVED FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS THAT HAS BEEN ALMOST 00:00:15.23\00:00:19.63 COMPLETELY LOST SIGHT OF. 00:00:19.63\00:00:21.46 IT'S ALMOST EXTINCT AND IT'S LIKE THERE'S A PLAN TO HIDE IT. 00:00:21.46\00:00:29.86 >> FOR OVER 40 YEARS "AMAZING FACTS" HAS BEEN 00:00:29.86\00:00:32.83 DEDICATED TO SHARING GOD'S WORD THROUGH MEDIA. 00:00:32.83\00:00:36.63 THIS PROGRAM FEATURES HIGHLIGHTS FROM SOME OF OUR 00:00:36.63\00:00:38.70 BEST TELEVISION BROADCASTS. 00:00:38.70\00:00:41.30 WE INVITE YOU TO SIT BACK AND ENJOY THIS EDITION OF 00:00:41.30\00:00:44.16 "AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS." 00:00:44.16\00:00:48.66 TODAY'S PRESENTATION IS AN EXCERPT FROM 00:00:48.66\00:00:50.46 "THE MOST AMAZING PROPHECIES" VIDEO SERIES. 00:00:50.46\00:00:55.10 >> AND TONIGHT WE'RE GONNA DEAL WITH SOMETHING THAT HAS BEEN 00:00:58.23\00:01:00.10 IN THE NEWS A LOT LATELY AND THEY'VE MADE MOVIES ABOUT IT, 00:01:00.10\00:01:03.03 AND BOOKS HAVE BEEN WRITTEN ABOUT IT, THE SUBJECT OF 00:01:03.03\00:01:05.96 THE ANTICHRIST. 00:01:05.96\00:01:07.23 AND THE STUDY TONIGHT IS TITLED, 00:01:07.23\00:01:09.16 "THE BRIDE OF ANTICHRIST." 00:01:09.16\00:01:11.43 AND IT'S BASED ON REVELATION 17 WHERE YOU'VE GOT THIS WOMAN 00:01:11.43\00:01:15.60 THAT IS SITTING ON A BEAST. 00:01:15.60\00:01:18.03 AND IT ALSO MARRIES INTO REVELATION 13 WHERE YOU HAVE 00:01:18.03\00:01:23.23 THE BEAST AND THE MARK OF THE BEAST, REVELATION 12. 00:01:23.23\00:01:26.13 AND WE'RE GONNA SPEND A LITTLE TIME IN DANIEL 7. 00:01:26.13\00:01:29.43 SO THAT'S YOUR HOMEWORK AFTER YOU GO HOME. 00:01:29.43\00:01:31.76 HOPE YOU'LL READ, BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE TIME TO READ ALL OF 00:01:31.76\00:01:33.56 THOSE CHAPTERS RIGHT NOW, REVELATION 17, REVELATION 13, 00:01:33.56\00:01:38.46 REVELATION 12 AND DANIEL 7. 00:01:38.46\00:01:41.90 WE'VE ALREADY STUDIED REVELATION 12 A LITTLE BIT. 00:01:41.90\00:01:44.90 WHY DON'T WE GO TO REVELATION 17:3? 00:01:44.90\00:01:48.86 "SO HE CARRIED ME AWAY IN THE SPIRIT INTO THE WILDERNESS. 00:01:48.86\00:01:51.96 AND I SAW A WOMAN," THAT'S THE BRIDE OF ANTICHRIST. 00:01:51.96\00:01:56.33 "SITTING ON A SCARLET COLORED BEAST, WHICH WAS FULL OF NAMES 00:01:56.33\00:01:59.83 OF BLASPHEMY, HAVING SEVEN," HOW MANY HEADS? 00:01:59.83\00:02:04.30 "SEVEN HEADS AND TEN HORNS." 00:02:04.30\00:02:07.76 SAY IT AGAIN, "SEVEN HEADS, TEN HORNS." 00:02:07.76\00:02:10.00 THAT'S IMPORTANT YOU REMEMBER THAT. 00:02:10.00\00:02:11.96 NOW, THIS WOMAN IN REVELATION 17 IS SOMEHOW IN COLLUSION WITH 00:02:11.96\00:02:17.46 THE BEAST. 00:02:17.46\00:02:19.00 SHE'S RIDING ON THE BEAST, THEY'RE TRAVELING 00:02:19.00\00:02:20.80 TOGETHER. 00:02:20.80\00:02:23.83 THERE'S ANOTHER WOMAN, WHO IS IN REVELATION 12, WHO IS 00:02:23.83\00:02:27.66 THE ANTITHESIS OF THE WOMAN IN REVELATION 17. 00:02:27.66\00:02:31.40 WE STUDIED HER, SHE IS THE BRIDE OF CHRIST CLOTHED 00:02:31.40\00:02:33.60 WITH THE SUN, MOON AND STARS. 00:02:33.60\00:02:35.10 WHAT DOES THIS BEAST WITH SEVEN HEADS AND TEN HORNS--OH, 00:02:35.10\00:02:39.33 BY THE WAY, LET'S READ THAT, REVELATION 12:3. 00:02:39.33\00:02:41.86 SAME BEAST, "THERE APPEARED ANOTHER WONDER IN HEAVEN, 00:02:41.86\00:02:44.50 BEHOLD A GREAT RED DRAGON, HAVING," HOW MANY? 00:02:44.50\00:02:47.63 "SEVEN HEADS AND TEN HORNS AND SEVEN CROWNS UPON HIS HEADS." 00:02:47.63\00:02:53.30 AND THAT DRAGON IS INFURIATED WITH THIS OTHER WOMAN. 00:02:53.30\00:02:59.10 SO THE WOMAN IN REVELATION 17 IS THE BRIDE OF ANTICHRIST 00:02:59.10\00:03:02.13 THAT WE'RE STUDYING. 00:03:02.13\00:03:03.33 AND WE'RE GONNA FIND OUT MORE ABOUT WHO THAT IS AND WHO THIS 00:03:03.33\00:03:06.60 BEAST IS. 00:03:06.60\00:03:08.63 WHAT IS THE ANTICHRIST POWER? 00:03:08.63\00:03:10.26 PROBABLY APPROPRIATE FOR ME TO JUST SAY AT THIS POINT, 00:03:10.26\00:03:12.93 HOW MANY TIMES DO YOU THINK THE WORD "ANTICHRIST" APPEARS 00:03:12.93\00:03:15.10 IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION? 00:03:15.10\00:03:18.03 ZERO, IT'S NOT EVEN IN THERE. 00:03:18.03\00:03:21.36 THE TEACHING IS THERE, BUT ANTICHRIST IS FOUND IN FIRST 00:03:21.36\00:03:24.53 AND SECOND LETTERS OF JOHN. 00:03:24.53\00:03:27.23 YOU'LL FIND THAT THAT BEAST WITH THE SEVEN HEADS 00:03:27.23\00:03:29.40 AND TEN HORNS APPEARS AGAIN IN REVELATION 13. 00:03:29.40\00:03:32.50 AND IT SAYS, "I SAW A BEAST RISING UP OUT OF THE SEA, 00:03:32.50\00:03:34.83 HAVING," WHAT? 00:03:34.83\00:03:35.73 "SEVEN HEADS AND TEN HORNS. 00:03:35.73\00:03:39.00 AND ON HIS HORNS TEN CROWNS, AND ON HIS HEADS BLASPHEMOUS 00:03:39.00\00:03:43.56 NAMES. 00:03:43.56\00:03:45.13 NOW THE BEAST THAT I SAW WAS LIKE A LEOPARD, AND HIS FEET 00:03:45.13\00:03:51.13 WERE LIKE THE FEET OF A BEAR, AND HIS MOUTH LIKE THE MOUTH OF 00:03:51.13\00:03:54.36 A LION: AND THE DRAGON GAVE HIM HIS POWER, HIS THRONE AND GREAT 00:03:54.36\00:04:00.13 AUTHORITY." 00:04:00.13\00:04:01.23 NOW, IF YOU REMEMBER FROM OUR STUDY EARLIER, WHERE WE TALKED 00:04:01.23\00:04:04.30 ABOUT THE FOUR MAJOR KINGDOMS IN DANIEL 2, HOW MANY OF YOU 00:04:04.30\00:04:09.36 WERE HERE FOR THAT FIRST STUDY? 00:04:09.36\00:04:12.56 YOU HAD THE BABYLON, MEDO-PERSIA, GREECE AND THEN 00:04:12.56\00:04:15.90 THE FOURTH BEAST WAS ROME. 00:04:15.90\00:04:17.30 HERE WE JUST IDENTIFIED THIS BEAST IN REVELATION 13, IT SAYS 00:04:17.30\00:04:21.00 IT'S LIKE A LION AND IT'S LIKE A LEOPARD, AND IT'S LIKE A BEAR 00:04:21.00\00:04:24.03 AND THE DRAGON'S THERE. 00:04:24.03\00:04:26.16 AND SO YOU'VE GOT THOSE SAME ENTITIES. 00:04:26.16\00:04:28.86 YOU'LL FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THOSE FEATURES OF THE LION 00:04:28.86\00:04:31.63 AND THE BEAR AND THE LEOPARD, BY GOING TO DANIEL 7. 00:04:31.63\00:04:36.10 SO JUMP THERE WITH ME REAL QUICK, DANIEL 7, AND I'M GONNA 00:04:36.10\00:04:39.20 READ VERSES 2 AND 3 HERE ON THE SCREEN. 00:04:39.20\00:04:43.50 "I SAW IN MY VISIONS BY NIGHT AND BEHOLD THE FOUR WINDS OF 00:04:43.50\00:04:47.26 HEAVEN WERE STIRRING UP THE GREAT SEA." 00:04:47.26\00:04:51.03 THAT GREAT SEA IS PROBABLY, THE MEDITERRANEAN WAS THE BIGGEST 00:04:51.03\00:04:53.33 SEA NEAR THE MIDDLE EAST THERE. 00:04:53.33\00:04:55.63 "AND FOUR GREAT BEASTS CAME UP FROM THE SEA, EACH ONE 00:04:55.63\00:05:00.50 DIFFERENT FROM THE OTHER." 00:05:00.50\00:05:02.23 SO THESE FOUR BEASTS THAT ARE DIFFERENT. 00:05:02.23\00:05:05.56 NOW, LET'S GET INTO QUESTION NUMBER ONE AS WE BEGIN TO 00:05:05.56\00:05:07.53 DISSECT THESE PROPHECIES AND UNDERSTAND WHO THE CHARACTERS 00:05:07.53\00:05:10.83 ARE, WHO THESE PLAYERS ARE. 00:05:10.83\00:05:12.43 NUMBER ONE, WHAT DOES A BEAST REPRESENT IN PROPHECY? 00:05:12.43\00:05:17.16 ANSWER? 00:05:17.16\00:05:18.13 YOU FIND IT RIGHT THERE IN DANIEL 17, "THESE GREAT BEASTS, 00:05:18.13\00:05:21.90 WHICH ARE FOUR, ARE FOR KINGS." 00:05:21.90\00:05:25.80 AND IT ALSO SAYS IN DANIEL 7:23, NOT JUST KINGS, 00:05:25.80\00:05:28.83 AS IN ONE SINGLE MONARCH, BUT IT SAYS THE FOURTH BEAST 00:05:28.83\00:05:32.00 SHALL BE THE FOURTH KINGDOM. 00:05:32.00\00:05:34.43 SO THESE BEASTS REPRESENT KINGS AND KINGDOMS. 00:05:34.43\00:05:38.33 WHAT DOES THE WIND AND THE SEA OR THE WATERS REPRESENT? 00:05:38.33\00:05:42.80 WHEN YOU GET SYMBOLS IN THE BIBLE, IT TELLS YOU WHAT THEY 00:05:42.80\00:05:45.46 REPRESENT IN THE BIBLE. 00:05:45.46\00:05:47.46 REVELATION 7:1-3, YOU FIND OUT THAT THE WINDS REPRESENT STRIFE 00:05:47.46\00:05:52.46 AND COMMOTION AND DESTRUCTION. 00:05:52.46\00:05:54.80 BOTH WITH A HURRICANE AND A TORNADO, THE WINDS ARE GOING 00:05:54.80\00:05:59.06 IN ALL FOUR DIRECTIONS AT ONE TIME, NORTH, SOUTH, 00:05:59.06\00:06:02.30 EAST AND WEST. 00:06:02.30\00:06:03.53 AND SO WHEN IT TALKS ABOUT THE FOUR WINDS AND THESE WINDS OF 00:06:03.53\00:06:05.96 STRIFE, THAT'S WHAT YOU SEE WITH A VORTEX OF A STORM. 00:06:05.96\00:06:10.76 WHETHER IT'S A HURRICANE OR A TORNADO, IT CREATES A GREAT 00:06:10.76\00:06:13.63 STRIFE, TURMOIL, TURBULENCE. 00:06:13.63\00:06:17.06 AND AGAIN, THE WATERS REPRESENT, REVELATION 17:15, 00:06:17.06\00:06:20.93 THE ANGEL TELLS JOHN WHAT THE SYMBOLS MEAN. 00:06:20.93\00:06:23.63 THE WATERS ARE PEOPLES AND MULTITUDES AND NATIONS 00:06:23.63\00:06:28.36 AND TONGUES. 00:06:28.36\00:06:31.03 YOU'LL READ FOR INSTANCE IN DANIEL 9, WHERE IT TALKS ABOUT 00:06:31.03\00:06:33.83 THIS ABOMINATION POWER, IT SAYS, "THE PRINCE OF THAT 00:06:33.83\00:06:37.70 KINGDOM THAT WILL COME WILL OVERRUN LIKE A FLOOD." 00:06:37.70\00:06:40.83 AND AGAIN IN REVELATION 12 IT SAYS, "THE DRAGON OPENED HIS 00:06:40.83\00:06:43.66 MOUTH, HE SENT A FLOOD." 00:06:43.66\00:06:45.16 THAT MEANS HE SENDS ARMIES AFTER THEM, PEOPLES. 00:06:45.16\00:06:48.30 AND SO WHEN THESE POWERS RISE UP OUT OF THE SEA, IT MEANS 00:06:48.30\00:06:50.70 THEY'RE RISING UP OUT OF THE EXISTING NATIONS. 00:06:50.70\00:06:53.96 THAT'S IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER, BECAUSE WHEN YOU GET TO 00:06:53.96\00:06:56.00 REVELATION 13 THERE'S A SECOND BEAST. 00:06:56.00\00:06:58.60 EVERYONE TALKS ABOUT THE BEAST IN REVELATION 13, THERE ARE 00:06:58.60\00:07:00.90 TWO BEASTS IN REVELATION 13. 00:07:00.90\00:07:03.80 YOU'VE GOT VERSES 1 AND 2, AND THEN YOU GOT VERSE 11 HAS 00:07:03.80\00:07:07.16 ANOTHER BEAST. 00:07:07.16\00:07:08.73 DANIEL 7, DO YOU HAVE YOUR BIBLES? 00:07:08.73\00:07:10.70 LET'S LOOK AT THIS TOGETHER, WE'RE GONNA QUICKLY READ THIS 00:07:10.70\00:07:13.36 PROPHECY AND THEN WE'RE GONNA UNPACK IT. 00:07:13.36\00:07:17.56 IT SAYS HERE IN VERSE 4, HE HAS THIS VISION. 00:07:17.56\00:07:22.50 AND THESE, WE'LL START WITH VERSE 3. 00:07:22.50\00:07:24.86 "THESE FOUR GREAT BEASTS COME UP FROM THE SEA, EACH DIFFERENT 00:07:24.86\00:07:28.96 FROM THE OTHER. 00:07:28.96\00:07:30.56 THE FIRST WAS LIKE A LION AND HAS EAGLES' WINGS. 00:07:30.56\00:07:33.70 I WATCHED 'TIL ITS WINGS WERE PLUCKED OFF AND IT WAS LIFTED 00:07:33.70\00:07:35.86 UP FROM THE EARTH AND MADE TO STAND ON ITS FEET LIKE A MAN, 00:07:35.86\00:07:38.90 AND A MAN'S HEART WAS GIVEN TO IT." 00:07:38.90\00:07:40.96 SUDDENLY ANOTHER BEAST, A SECOND, SUDDENLY, LIKE A BEAR. 00:07:40.96\00:07:45.23 IT'S RAISED UP ON ONE SIDE, AND HAD THREE RIBS IN THE MOUTH 00:07:45.23\00:07:47.83 BETWEEN ITS TEETH. 00:07:47.83\00:07:49.23 AND THEY SAID THUS TO IT, 'ARISE AND DEVOUR MUCH FLESH!' 00:07:49.23\00:07:51.96 AFTER THIS I LOOKED AND BEHOLD THERE WAS ANOTHER LIKE 00:07:51.96\00:07:54.63 A LEOPARD, WHICH HAD ON ITS BACK FOUR WINGS AS OF A BIRD. 00:07:54.63\00:07:57.96 AND THE BEAST ALSO HAD FOUR HEADS AND DOMINION WAS GIVEN 00:07:57.96\00:08:00.60 TO IT. 00:08:00.60\00:08:01.53 AND AFTER THIS I SAW IN THE NIGHT VISIONS, AND BEHOLD 00:08:01.53\00:08:05.46 A FOURTH BEAST, DREADFUL AND TERRIBLE, EXCEEDINGLY STRONG. 00:08:05.46\00:08:10.50 IT HAD HUGE IRON TEETH, IT WAS DEVOURING, BREAKING IN PIECES 00:08:10.50\00:08:15.13 AND TRAMPLING THE RESIDUE WITH THE FEET OF IT. 00:08:15.13\00:08:17.40 IT WAS DIFFERENT," DIVERSE, "FROM ALL THE BEASTS THAT WERE 00:08:17.40\00:08:20.16 BEFORE IT, AND IT HAD," YOU READING? 00:08:20.16\00:08:22.90 "TEN HORNS." 00:08:22.90\00:08:25.40 THAT OUGHT TO BE A CLUE THERE. 00:08:25.40\00:08:27.40 THAT'S CORRESPONDING WITH THE BEAST THAT YOU FIND, THAT 00:08:27.40\00:08:30.06 FOURTH BEAST IS WHAT'S HAPPENING THERE IN REVELATION. 00:08:30.06\00:08:33.16 MATTER OF FACT, IF YOU TURN YOUR PAGE IN DANIEL 7 AND JUMP 00:08:33.16\00:08:36.83 DOWN TO VERSE 23, THE ANGEL ELABORATES ON THE FOURTH BEAST 00:08:36.83\00:08:40.50 THERE. 00:08:40.50\00:08:41.50 HE'S TRANSLATING, INTERPRETING FOR DANIEL. 00:08:41.50\00:08:44.60 "THE FOURTH BEAST SHALL BE A FOURTH KINGDOM OF THE EARTH, 00:08:44.60\00:08:48.00 WHICH SHALL BE DIFFERENT FROM ALL THE OTHER KINGDOMS. 00:08:48.00\00:08:50.46 AND IT WILL DEVOUR THE WHOLE EARTH, TRAMPLE IT, 00:08:50.46\00:08:52.63 BREAK IN PIECES. 00:08:52.63\00:08:53.73 AND THE TEN HORNS ARE TEN KINGS WHO SHALL ARISE FROM THIS 00:08:53.73\00:08:57.23 KINGDOM, AND ANOTHER SHALL RISE AFTER THEM. 00:08:57.23\00:09:00.63 HE'LL BE DIFFERENT FROM THE FIRST ONES; HE'LL SUBDUE 00:09:00.63\00:09:02.80 THREE KINGS." 00:09:02.80\00:09:03.96 THREE OF THE TEN ARE KICKED OUT. 00:09:03.96\00:09:05.60 "HE'LL SPEAK POMPOUS WORDS, BLASPHEMOUS WORDS AGAINST THE 00:09:05.60\00:09:08.46 MOST HIGH AND WILL PERSECUTE THE SAINTS OF THE MOST HIGH 00:09:08.46\00:09:11.73 AND INTEND OR THINK TO CHANGE TIMES AND LAWS. 00:09:11.73\00:09:16.16 THEN THE SAINTS SHALL BE GIVEN INTO HIS HAND FOR A TIME, 00:09:16.16\00:09:21.83 AND TIMES AND HALF A TIME." 00:09:21.83\00:09:23.90 AND THE CHAPTER GOES ON THERE. 00:09:23.90\00:09:25.76 I NEED TO STOP, BECAUSE I'VE GOT SO MUCH TO COVER. 00:09:25.76\00:09:28.26 I'M JUST GONNA RUN AHEAD HERE REAL QUICK. 00:09:28.26\00:09:30.63 THE FIRST OF THESE FOUR BEASTS IN DANIEL IS WHAT? 00:09:30.63\00:09:33.70 HE SAYS IT'S A LION, A LION WITH TWO WINGS. 00:09:33.70\00:09:37.40 WE KNOW THAT REPRESENTS BABYLON, BECAUSE THESE ARE 00:09:37.40\00:09:39.20 THE FOUR SAME KINGDOMS THAT WE SAW IN DANIEL 2. 00:09:39.20\00:09:42.70 AND MATTER OF FACT, EVEN IN THE EXCAVATIONS THAT THEY'VE DONE 00:09:42.70\00:09:46.83 FROM ANCIENT BABYLON, THEY FOUND THAT ONE OF THE SIGNS 00:09:46.83\00:09:50.23 FOR THE KINGDOM WAS THIS LION WITH WINGS. 00:09:50.23\00:09:53.56 BABYLON TYPIFIED THEMSELVES THAT WAY. 00:09:53.56\00:09:56.03 QUESTION NUMBER 4, WHAT DOES THE BEAR REPRESENT? 00:09:56.03\00:10:00.43 YOU FIND THAT IN DANIEL 7:5. 00:10:00.43\00:10:01.70 AND WHAT DO THE THREE RIBS IN ITS MOUTH SYMBOLIZE? 00:10:01.70\00:10:04.63 WELL, WHAT KINGDOM FOLLOWED BABYLON THAT WE STUDIED? 00:10:04.63\00:10:07.86 THE MEDO-PERSIAN KINGDOM. 00:10:07.86\00:10:10.20 IN DANIEL 8:20 IT IDENTIFIES IT BY NAME, THE KING OF PERSIA. 00:10:10.20\00:10:14.53 THE THREE RIBS IN THE MOUTH OF THIS BEAR, THEY REPRESENT 00:10:14.53\00:10:17.93 THE THREE PRINCIPLE POWERS THAT WERE CONQUERED WHEN PERSIA CAME 00:10:17.93\00:10:20.76 INTO POWER. 00:10:20.76\00:10:21.56 WE KNOW THEY CONQUERED BABYLON. 00:10:21.56\00:10:22.63 MEDO-PERSIA ALSO CONQUERED LYDIA AND EGYPT. 00:10:22.63\00:10:27.00 AND THE THREE RIBS REPRESENT THAT THEY HAD DEFEATED THESE 00:10:27.00\00:10:29.86 KINGDOMS. 00:10:29.86\00:10:31.00 NUMBER FIVE, WE'RE MOVING QUICKLY THROUGH HISTORY 00:10:31.00\00:10:33.20 HERE, WHAT KINGDOM IS REPRESENTED BY THE FOUR-HEADED 00:10:33.20\00:10:36.63 LEOPARD? 00:10:36.63\00:10:37.73 WHAT EMPIRE FOLLOWED THE PERSIAN EMPIRE, 00:10:37.73\00:10:40.33 DO YOU REMEMBER? 00:10:40.33\00:10:41.50 THE KINGDOM OF GREECE. 00:10:41.50\00:10:43.40 AND IT'S SYMBOLIZED BY THIS LEOPARD. 00:10:43.40\00:10:45.40 I THREW A PICTURE IN HERE, BECAUSE I THOUGHT YOU'D FIND 00:10:45.40\00:10:47.23 IT INTERESTING, THAT ALEXANDER, TRADITIONALLY THEY SAID THAT HE 00:10:47.23\00:10:51.13 HAD A LEOPARD SKIN AS HIS SADDLE. 00:10:51.13\00:10:54.06 AND I THOUGHT, "WELL, THAT MATCHES ALONG WITH WHAT 00:10:54.06\00:10:55.70 THE LEOPARD WAS." 00:10:55.70\00:10:56.53 FOUR HEADS AND FOUR WINGS, BECAUSE HE MOVED WITH SUCH 00:10:56.53\00:11:01.00 GREAT SPEED, THE FOUR WINGS. 00:11:01.00\00:11:02.73 FOUR HEADS, BECAUSE WHEN ALEXANDER DIED, I THINK HE 00:11:02.73\00:11:07.06 MARCHED HIS ARMIES VERY RAPIDLY, 20,000 MILES 00:11:07.06\00:11:10.73 IN 10 YEARS. 00:11:10.73\00:11:12.10 IT'S ALMOST INCONCEIVABLE TO MOVE ARMIES THAT FAST, BACK IN 00:11:12.10\00:11:16.06 THOSE DAYS. 00:11:16.06\00:11:17.86 BUT WHEN HE DIED, 32 YEARS OF AGE, HIS KINGDOM WAS DIVIDED 00:11:17.86\00:11:22.20 IN FOUR PARTS AMONG HIS FOUR GENERALS. 00:11:22.20\00:11:25.23 AND THEY BECAME THE FOUR DIVISIONS OF THE GREEK EMPIRE. 00:11:25.23\00:11:27.63 AND LET ME SEE IF I CAN SAY THESE, THE PTOLEMY, LYSIMACHUS, 00:11:27.63\00:11:30.43 SELEUCIUS AND CASSANDER. 00:11:30.43\00:11:33.53 THOSE FOUR GENERALS DIVIDED HIS KINGDOM UP, FOUR HEADS. 00:11:33.53\00:11:37.53 NUMBER SIX, THE ROMAN EMPIRE, OR THE FOURTH WORLD KINGDOM, IS 00:11:37.53\00:11:42.46 REPRESENTED BY A HORRIBLE MONSTER, WHO HAS IRON TEETH 00:11:42.46\00:11:46.96 AND TEN HORNS. 00:11:46.96\00:11:48.50 WHAT DO THE HORNS REPRESENT? 00:11:48.50\00:11:51.40 IT SAYS IN REVELATION 17:12, "THE TEN HORNS, WHICH YOU SAW, 00:11:51.40\00:11:55.20 ARE TEN," WHAT? 00:11:55.20\00:11:56.50 "TEN KINGS," OR, TEN KINGDOMS. 00:11:56.50\00:11:59.63 AND, BY THE WAY, IRON TEETH, IT'S NOT IN YOUR 00:11:59.63\00:12:01.80 QUESTION HERE, WHAT KINGDOM REPRESENTED THE LEGS OF IRON 00:12:01.80\00:12:05.70 THAT WE READ ABOUT IN DANIEL'S VISION, CHAPTER 2? 00:12:05.70\00:12:10.00 THAT WAS--ROME WAS THE IRON LEGS. 00:12:10.00\00:12:13.36 AND SO ROME IS THIS KINGDOM THAT THEN DIVIDES INTO 00:12:13.36\00:12:16.80 TEN PARTS, THAT'S WHY YOU END UP WITH THE TOES OF IRON AND CLAY. 00:12:16.80\00:12:20.20 HERE ARE THE TEN DIVISIONS OF THESE GERMANIC KINGDOMS THAT 00:12:20.20\00:12:23.56 MADE UP THE ROMAN EMPIRE. 00:12:23.56\00:12:25.70 AND THE NAMES, THE ANCIENT NAMES THAT YOU'D FIND HERE ARE 00:12:25.70\00:12:28.40 THE GERMANS, THE ALLAMANNI; THE FRENCH, THE FRANKS; 00:12:28.40\00:12:32.33 THE SWISS, THE BURGUNDIANS; THE PORTUGUESE WERE THE SUEVI; 00:12:32.33\00:12:37.86 THE ITALIANS, THE LOMBARDS; THE SPANISH, THE VISIGOTHS; 00:12:37.86\00:12:40.43 THE ENGLISH, THE ANGLO-SAXONS; AS YOU KNOW. 00:12:40.43\00:12:43.23 AND THERE WERE THREE OTHERS THAT WERE UPROOTED, 00:12:43.23\00:12:45.10 THE VANDALS, THE HERULI AND THE OSTROGOTHS. 00:12:45.10\00:12:47.36 NOW, IF YOU TAKE TEN AND YOU SUBTRACT THREE, WHAT DO YOU 00:12:47.36\00:12:51.00 GET? 00:12:51.00\00:12:52.03 SEVEN. 00:12:52.03\00:12:53.10 WHEN YOU FIND THAT BEAST, IT'S GOT SEVEN HEADS AND TEN HORNS 00:12:53.10\00:12:57.93 IN REVELATION. 00:12:57.93\00:12:59.36 IT ALL MATCHES UP PERFECTLY. 00:12:59.36\00:13:01.23 DON'T MISS A VERY SIMPLE PRINCIPLE HERE, YOU'VE GOT THAT 00:13:01.23\00:13:05.70 VISION IN DANIEL 2, THE LION, THE HEAD OF GOLD. 00:13:05.70\00:13:11.03 YOU NOTICE THAT THE MOST ILLUSTRIOUS METAL IS GOLD, 00:13:11.03\00:13:14.46 RIGHT? 00:13:14.46\00:13:15.93 AND THE LION IS CONSIDERED THE GREATEST OF THE BEASTS. 00:13:15.93\00:13:18.70 AND WHAT KIND OF WINGS DOES A LION HAVE? 00:13:18.70\00:13:20.16 EAGLES' WINGS. 00:13:20.16\00:13:20.90 BABYLON HAD THE BEST OF EVERYTHING, GOLD, LION, 00:13:20.90\00:13:23.60 EAGLES, IT WAS THE MOST MAJESTIC. 00:13:23.60\00:13:26.00 AS YOU MOVE SUCCESSIVELY DOWN THAT VISION, YOU SEE THE OTHER 00:13:26.00\00:13:29.60 KINGDOMS. 00:13:29.60\00:13:30.90 AND THERE'S A CORRESPONDING THERE BETWEEN THE GOLDEN HEAD 00:13:30.90\00:13:34.50 AND THE LION. 00:13:34.50\00:13:35.50 YOU'VE GOT THE SILVER ARMS AND YOU'VE GOT THE BEAR. 00:13:35.50\00:13:41.43 THEN YOU'VE GOT THE BRONZE BELLY, YOU'VE GOT THE LEOPARD. 00:13:41.43\00:13:44.83 YOU'VE GOT THE IRON LEGS, YOU'VE GOT THIS STRANGE BEAST 00:13:44.83\00:13:48.36 WITH TEN HORNS. 00:13:48.36\00:13:49.86 WHEN YOU GET TO THE FEET OF IRON AND CLAY, SOMETHING'S 00:13:49.86\00:13:53.13 HAPPENED TO THE LEGS. 00:13:53.13\00:13:54.86 THE LEGS HAVE GONE THROUGH A CHANGE. 00:13:54.86\00:13:55.96 THEY'RE NOT JUST IRON, THEY'RE IRON AND CLAY. 00:13:55.96\00:13:57.40 SOMETHING HAPPENS TO THE HORNS, ANOTHER LITTLE HORN 00:13:57.40\00:13:59.56 COMES UP, UPROOTS THREE HORNS. 00:13:59.56\00:14:01.33 DO YOU SEE THE PARALLEL? 00:14:01.33\00:14:03.00 BY THE WAY, IN PROPHECY, THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT, SO EVEN IF 00:14:03.00\00:14:06.50 IT TAKES TIME AWAY FROM MY OTHER QUESTIONS, IF YOU CATCH 00:14:06.50\00:14:10.16 THIS, IT REALLY HELPED ME, WHEN GOD TEACHES PROPHETIC TRUTH, HE 00:14:10.16\00:14:14.70 OFTEN TEACHES ONE TRUTH WITH MANY DIFFERENT VANTAGE POINTS. 00:14:14.70\00:14:20.26 JESUS TOLD TRUTH WITH MANY DIFFERENT PARABLES. 00:14:20.26\00:14:23.96 HE WOULD TEACH THE TRUTHS OF SALVATION, A NUMBER OF PARABLES 00:14:23.96\00:14:26.46 TO GIVE YOU PERSPECTIVE. 00:14:26.46\00:14:27.80 SO YOU COULD WALK AROUND SOMETHING AND GET A PERSPECTIVE 00:14:27.80\00:14:29.83 OF WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE. 00:14:29.83\00:14:31.70 IN REVELATION YOU'VE GOT THE VISION OF THE SEVEN CHURCHES, 00:14:31.70\00:14:35.33 SEVEN SEALS, SEVEN TRUMPETS. 00:14:35.33\00:14:40.03 THEY ARE GIVING YOU THE HISTORY OF GOD'S PEOPLE, SEVEN CHURCHES 00:14:40.03\00:14:43.53 OF THE RELIGIOUS HISTORY OF GOD'S PEOPLE, FROM THE FIRST 00:14:43.53\00:14:46.16 COMING TO THE SECOND COMING. 00:14:46.16\00:14:47.96 SEVEN SEALS ARE GIVING YOU THE POLITICAL HISTORY, FROM THE 00:14:47.96\00:14:50.76 FIRST COMING TO THE SECOND COMING. 00:14:50.76\00:14:52.86 THE SEVEN TRUMPETS ARE GIVING YOU A MILITARY HISTORY, 00:14:52.86\00:14:54.86 FROM THE FIRST COMING TO THE SECOND COMING. 00:14:54.86\00:14:56.70 THAT'S NOT ALL IT MEANS, THERE'S A LOT MORE THERE TO IT 00:14:56.70\00:14:58.53 THAN THAT. 00:14:58.53\00:14:59.50 BUT THEY'RE GIVING YOU THE PERSPECTIVE. 00:14:59.50\00:15:01.43 IN DANIEL YOU SEE THE SAME THING, HE'S SHOWING THE POWERS 00:15:01.43\00:15:04.70 THAT WOULD INFLUENCE GOD'S PEOPLE. 00:15:04.70\00:15:06.76 AND HE DOES IT ONCE THROUGH THE VISION OF NEBUCHADNEZZAR'S 00:15:06.76\00:15:08.93 IMAGE, AND NOW DANIEL'S GETTING A VISION OF THESE FOUR BEASTS. 00:15:08.93\00:15:12.46 AND IN DANIEL 8 HE'S GOT THE SAME TRUTHS ARE BEING TAUGHT 00:15:12.46\00:15:15.96 WITH A GOAT AND A RAM VISION. 00:15:15.96\00:15:19.20 AND SO GOD IS OVERLAPPING THESE THINGS SO YOU WON'T MISS IT, 00:15:19.20\00:15:23.13 BY GIVING US SEVERAL DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES OF THE ONE TRUTH. 00:15:23.13\00:15:26.06 NOW, WHEN WE GET DOWN TO THE FEET, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE 00:15:26.06\00:15:29.46 BEAST POWER OR THE ANTICHRIST. 00:15:29.46\00:15:31.46 YOU'LL NOTICE THAT IN THE FEET OF IRON AND CLAY, HOW MANY 00:15:31.46\00:15:33.96 TOES? 00:15:33.96\00:15:35.50 TEN TOES. 00:15:35.50\00:15:36.26 THEN IN REVELATION 17 YOU'VE GOT A WOMAN RIDING ON A 00:15:36.26\00:15:39.66 BEAST, SEVEN HEADS, TEN HORNS. 00:15:39.66\00:15:43.00 AND YOU'VE GOT THE SAME THING IN REVELATION 12 AND THE SAME 00:15:43.00\00:15:45.53 THING IN REVELATION 13. 00:15:45.53\00:15:47.63 QUESTION NUMBER 7, IN THE DANIEL 7 PROPHECY, 00:15:47.63\00:15:51.66 WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? 00:15:51.66\00:15:53.76 DANIEL 7:8, "I CONSIDERED THE HORNS, AND BEHOLD THERE CAME UP 00:15:53.76\00:15:59.10 AMONG THEM ANOTHER LITTLE HORN, BEFORE WHOM THREE OF THE FIRST 00:15:59.10\00:16:04.86 HORNS WERE PLUCKED UP BY THE ROOTS. 00:16:04.86\00:16:07.23 AND BEHOLD, IN THIS HORN WERE THE EYES LIKE THE EYES OF A 00:16:07.23\00:16:11.03 MAN, AND A MOUTH SPEAKING GREAT OR EXALTED OR EVEN BLASPHEMOUS 00:16:11.03\00:16:16.30 THINGS." 00:16:16.30\00:16:18.06 NOW, CONSIDER SOME OF THE PARALLELS THAT WE'RE SEEING 00:16:18.06\00:16:21.10 BETWEEN THE PROPHECIES OF THIS ANTICHRIST POWER IN DANIEL 7 00:16:21.10\00:16:26.03 AND IN REVELATION 13. 00:16:26.03\00:16:28.50 LOOK FOR INSTANCE AT THE CHART WE'VE GOT ON THE SCREEN HERE. 00:16:28.50\00:16:31.13 DANIEL 7 TALKS ABOUT A LION, REVELATION 13, 00:16:31.13\00:16:33.83 MOUTH LIKE A LION. 00:16:33.83\00:16:34.90 DANIEL 7 HAS A BEAR, REVELATION 13 HAS GOT PAWS 00:16:34.90\00:16:38.36 LIKE A BEAR. 00:16:38.36\00:16:39.76 DANIEL 7 HAS A LEOPARD, REVELATION 13 HAS A LEOPARD. 00:16:39.76\00:16:43.33 DANIEL 7 HAS A DRAGON, REVELATION HAS A DRAGON. 00:16:43.33\00:16:47.56 THEY BOTH HAVE THE TEN HORNS. 00:16:47.56\00:16:49.30 THEY BOTH HAVE A MOUTH THAT SPEAKS. 00:16:49.30\00:16:51.16 THEY BOTH MAKE WAR WITH THE SAINTS. 00:16:51.16\00:16:52.80 THEY SEEM TO BE VICTORIOUS, AT LEAST TEMPORARILY, 00:16:52.80\00:16:55.70 OVER THE SAINTS. 00:16:55.70\00:16:57.00 THEY RULE, OR AT LEAST THEY'RE ABLE TO PUSH 'EM 00:16:57.00\00:16:58.93 UNDERGROUND, THEY RULE 3 & 1/2 YEARS, 42 MONTHS, 00:16:58.93\00:17:02.86 IN REVELATION 13. 00:17:02.86\00:17:04.43 IN A JEWISH CALENDAR, 42 MONTHS IS 3 & 1/2 YEARS. 00:17:04.43\00:17:09.53 MATTER OF FACT, THAT'S ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT TIME PERIODS 00:17:09.53\00:17:11.36 IN THE BIBLE. 00:17:11.36\00:17:12.73 IT CALLS IT A TIME, A TIMES AND THE DIVIDING OF TIME. 00:17:12.73\00:17:16.60 A TIME IN THE JEWISH THINKING WAS ONE COMPLETE CYCLE OF 00:17:16.60\00:17:20.03 THE SEASONS, OR ONE YEAR. 00:17:20.03\00:17:22.10 A TIMES MEANT A COUPLE OR A PAIR, SO THAT'S TWO, THAT 00:17:22.10\00:17:25.76 WOULD MAKE A TOTAL OF THREE. 00:17:25.76\00:17:26.80 AND THE DIVIDING OR HALF OF 1, 3 & 1/2, 00:17:26.80\00:17:29.40 3 & 1/2 JEWISH YEARS, THEY'VE GOT 360 DAYS 00:17:29.40\00:17:32.63 IN THE JEWISH LUNAR CALENDAR. 00:17:32.63\00:17:35.06 AND IT'S ACTUALLY EASIER TO WORK MATHEMATICALLY, THAT'S 00:17:35.06\00:17:38.00 WHY THERE'S 360 DEGREES IN A CIRCLE. 00:17:38.00\00:17:41.86 PILOTS ALL USE A 360-DEGREE CIRCLE FOR FLYING AND IT WORKS 00:17:41.86\00:17:44.76 BETTER MATHEMATICALLY THAN 365 AND ONE QUARTER. 00:17:44.76\00:17:48.33 SO THE JEWS DID THAT, BECAUSE IT WAS MATHEMATICALLY BETTER. 00:17:48.33\00:17:50.73 THEY WOULD ADD ANOTHER MONTH EVERY 13 YEARS TO COMPENSATE 00:17:50.73\00:17:52.76 FOR THE SEASON CHANGE. 00:17:52.76\00:17:56.10 BUT THAT SAME TIME PERIOD, 42 MONTHS, A TIME, TIMES, 00:17:56.10\00:18:00.80 AND THE DIVIDING OF TIME, 1260 DAYS IS A TIME 00:18:00.80\00:18:03.86 THAT GOD WANTS US TO UNDERSTAND, 'CAUSE IT'S THE SAME PERIOD 00:18:03.86\00:18:07.10 THAT THIS BEAST POWER IN THE LAST AGE OF THE CHURCH HERE, 00:18:07.10\00:18:10.73 CREATES A LOT OF HAVOC. 00:18:10.73\00:18:13.70 NUMBER EIGHT, HERE IS THE MILLION-DOLLAR QUESTION: 00:18:13.70\00:18:17.33 SO, WHO IS THE LITTLE HORN OF DANIEL 7 AND THE FIRST BEAST OF 00:18:17.33\00:18:22.16 REVELATION 13? 00:18:22.16\00:18:23.60 WHAT I'M ABOUT TO SHARE WITH YOU IS NOTHING ORIGINAL 00:18:23.60\00:18:26.20 WITH ME. 00:18:26.20\00:18:27.66 MATTER OF FACT, IT'S NOT EVEN NEW. 00:18:27.66\00:18:29.16 IT IS NOT EXCLUSIVE WITH THE CHURCH I HAPPEN TO BELONG TO. 00:18:29.16\00:18:32.20 WHAT I AM SHARING WITH YOU IS THE TEACHING THAT CHURCHES HAD 00:18:32.20\00:18:35.93 BELIEVED FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS THAT HAS BEEN ALMOST COMPLETELY 00:18:35.93\00:18:40.63 LOST SIGHT OF. 00:18:40.63\00:18:41.80 IT'S ALMOST EXTINCT AND IT'S LIKE THERE'S A PLAN TO HIDE IT. 00:18:41.80\00:18:47.13 NOW, LET ME SAY VERY CAREFULLY, AND FIRST I'M GONNA 00:18:47.13\00:18:49.96 TELL YOU STRAIGHT OUT WHAT I BELIEVE, THEN I'M GONNA TRY AND 00:18:49.96\00:18:52.26 GIVE YOU THE EVIDENCE FOR WHY I BELIEVE WHAT I BELIEVE, AND SEE 00:18:52.26\00:18:55.36 IF I CAN PUT A LITTLE BALM ON THE SHARPNESS OF THIS SUBJECT. 00:18:55.36\00:19:03.56 I BELIEVE THAT THE BEAST POWER DESCRIBED, THE FIRST--THERE ARE 00:19:03.56\00:19:07.06 TWO BEASTS IN REVELATION 13, I BELIEVE THE FIRST BEAST 00:19:07.06\00:19:11.23 REPRESENTS THE CHURCH IN ROME, KNOWN AS THE PAPACY. 00:19:11.23\00:19:15.46 I BELIEVE THE SECOND BEAST REPRESENTS THE UNITED STATES. 00:19:15.46\00:19:18.73 NOW, I'M AN AMERICAN, I LOVE MY COUNTRY, BUT I THINK IT'S IN 00:19:18.73\00:19:21.33 PROPHECY, SO I HAVE TO BE HONEST WITH YOU ABOUT WHO 00:19:21.33\00:19:23.56 THEY ARE. 00:19:23.56\00:19:25.26 I WENT TO TWO DIFFERENT CATHOLIC SCHOOLS GROWING UP, 00:19:25.26\00:19:28.30 LOVE THE PEOPLE THERE. 00:19:28.30\00:19:29.46 I AM NOT SPEAKING AGAINST AMERICANS AND I'M NOT SPEAKING 00:19:29.46\00:19:32.06 AGAINST CATHOLICS, IS THAT CLEAR TO EVERYBODY? 00:19:32.06\00:19:34.86 THERE ARE GOING TO BE A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO ARE MEMBERS OF MY 00:19:34.86\00:19:37.26 CHURCH THAT AREN'T GONNA BE IN THE KINGDOM. 00:19:37.26\00:19:40.06 THERE ARE GONNA BE A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO ARE MEMBERS OF 00:19:40.06\00:19:41.53 THE CATHOLIC CHURCH THAT ARE GONNA BE THERE. 00:19:41.53\00:19:44.33 BUT WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT NOW, REMEMBER WHAT I SAID IN MY 00:19:44.33\00:19:46.56 SPEECH ABOUT READ THE INGREDIENTS? 00:19:46.56\00:19:49.76 LOOK AT WHAT THE TEACHINGS ARE, THESE THINGS ARE SEEN IN 00:19:49.76\00:19:52.80 HISTORY. 00:19:52.80\00:19:54.20 GOD'S PEOPLE IN THE OLD TESTAMENT WERE ISRAEL, 00:19:54.20\00:19:57.63 HOW MANY AGREE WITH THAT? 00:19:57.63\00:19:59.36 HOW MANY OF YOU KNOW THAT THE KINGDOM OF ISRAEL WENT THROUGH 00:19:59.36\00:20:01.23 A TREMENDOUS SPLIT? 00:20:01.23\00:20:03.53 YOU ENDED UP WITH THE SOUTHERN KINGDOM THAT STILL 00:20:03.53\00:20:05.23 HAD THE TEMPLE THAT TRIED TO BE FAITHFUL TO THE LORD FOR 00:20:05.23\00:20:07.36 A WHILE. 00:20:07.36\00:20:08.26 THE NORTHERN KINGDOM BEGAN TO SLIP TOWARDS IDOLATRY 00:20:08.26\00:20:10.30 AND PAGANISM. 00:20:10.30\00:20:12.53 THEY BEGAN TO WORSHIP IDOLS OF BETHEL AND DAN. 00:20:12.53\00:20:14.80 THE SAME THING THAT HAPPENED IN THE OLD TESTAMENT TO GOD'S 00:20:14.80\00:20:17.03 PEOPLE, HAPPENED AFTER THE TIME OF CHRIST TO GOD'S CHURCH. 00:20:17.03\00:20:21.56 WHAT NORTHERN ISRAEL WAS IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, THE PAPACY 00:20:21.56\00:20:25.53 IS AFTER THE TIME OF CHRIST. 00:20:25.53\00:20:28.80 NOW, LET ME READ TO YOU FROM WHAT THE CHURCH FATHERS, AND 00:20:28.80\00:20:33.16 MOST OF THESE ARE THE LEADERS OF THE REFORMATION THAT I THINK 00:20:33.16\00:20:35.86 YOU'LL RECOGNIZE THEIR NAMES. 00:20:35.86\00:20:37.13 I'M JUST GONNA READ FROM WHAT THEY SAY AND THEN I'M GONNA 00:20:37.13\00:20:39.13 READ FROM THE WRITINGS OF THE PAPACY. 00:20:39.13\00:20:40.93 AND I REMEMBER WHEN I FIRST LEARNED THESE THINGS, EVEN 00:20:40.93\00:20:42.60 THOUGH I WENT TO CATHOLIC SCHOOL, I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT 00:20:42.60\00:20:44.20 THE PAPACY WAS. 00:20:44.20\00:20:45.13 I THOUGHT PAPACY WAS A LITTLE LETTER TOO SMALL TO NEED 00:20:45.13\00:20:47.00 AN ENVELOPE. 00:20:47.00\00:20:48.43 I'LL SEND YOU A PAPACY, I DON'T NEED A--IT'S A SMALL LETTER. 00:20:48.43\00:20:50.93 I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT IT WAS, AND SO SOMEONE HAD TO EXPLAIN 00:20:50.93\00:20:53.96 THAT TO ME. 00:20:53.96\00:20:55.40 AND I EVEN WENT TO CATHOLIC SCHOOL. 00:20:55.40\00:20:56.70 BUT THE PAPACY IS SPEAKING OF THE HIERARCHY OF THE CATHOLIC 00:20:56.70\00:20:59.46 CHURCH, IT COMES FROM THE WORD, "PAPAL," OR, "POPE." 00:20:59.46\00:21:01.83 AND LISTEN TO WHAT MARTIN LUTHER SAID. 00:21:01.83\00:21:04.23 BY THE WAY, HE WAS A CATHOLIC PRIEST, THAT'S HOW HE STARTED 00:21:04.23\00:21:06.16 OUT. 00:21:06.16\00:21:07.30 GONNA READ A NUMBER OF QUOTES, STAY WITH ME. 00:21:07.30\00:21:10.83 "MEN WHO SAW THE PAPACY AS THE ANTICHRIST, MARTIN LUTHER. 00:21:10.83\00:21:14.33 LUTHER PROVED BY THE REVELATIONS OF DANIEL AND 00:21:14.33\00:21:17.53 ST. JOHN, BY THE EPISTLES OF ST. PAUL, ST. PETER 00:21:17.53\00:21:21.73 AND ST. JUDE THAT THE REIGN OF ANTICHRIST PREDICTED 00:21:21.73\00:21:24.86 AND DESCRIBED IN THE BIBLE WAS THE PAPACY." 00:21:24.86\00:21:27.96 OF COURSE THE FATHER OF THE LUTHERAN CHURCH. 00:21:27.96\00:21:30.70 IF YOU READ FROM THE WRITINGS OF JOHN CALVIN, A PRESBYTERIAN 00:21:30.70\00:21:35.20 LEADER, "SOME PERSONS THINK US TOO SEVERE AND CENSORIOUS WHEN 00:21:35.20\00:21:40.13 WE CALL THE ROMAN PONTIFF ANTICHRIST. 00:21:40.13\00:21:42.93 BUT THOSE WHO ARE OF THIS OPINION DO NOT CONSIDER THAT 00:21:42.93\00:21:45.36 THEY BRING THE SAME CHARGE OR PRESUMPTION AGAINST PAUL 00:21:45.36\00:21:48.33 HIMSELF, AFTER WHOM WE SPEAK AND WHOSE LANGUAGE WE ADOPT. 00:21:48.33\00:21:53.20 I SHALL BRIEFLY SHOW THAT IN PAUL'S WORDS, 00:21:53.20\00:21:55.50 IN 2 THESSALONIANS 2, THEY ARE NOT CAPABLE OF ANY OTHER 00:21:55.50\00:21:59.10 INTERPRETATION THAN THAT WHICH APPLIES THEM TO THE PAPACY. 00:21:59.10\00:22:03.70 JOHN KNOX, THE GREAT SCOTTISH REFORMER. 00:22:03.70\00:22:07.00 JOHN KNOX SOUGHT TO COUNTERACT THAT TYRANNY, WHICH THE POPE 00:22:07.00\00:22:10.33 HIMSELF HAS FOR SO MANY AGES EXERCISED OVER THE CHURCH. 00:22:10.33\00:22:14.66 AS WITH LUTHER, HE FINALLY CONCLUDED THAT THE PAPACY WAS 00:22:14.66\00:22:17.73 THE VERY ANTICHRIST AND THE SON OF PERDITION OF WHOM PAUL 00:22:17.73\00:22:21.43 SPEAKS," PAUL WARNS ABOUT IN HIS WRITINGS. 00:22:21.43\00:22:24.56 "WHEREFORE IT FOLLOWED ROME TO BE THE SEAT OF ANTICHRIST." 00:22:24.56\00:22:28.43 AND THESE ARE FROM THE WORKS OF CRAMER, WHO WAS THE MARTYR OF 00:22:28.43\00:22:30.76 THE CHURCH. 00:22:30.76\00:22:32.46 "AND THE POPE TO BE THE VERY ANTICHRIST HIMSELF. 00:22:32.46\00:22:35.80 I COULD PROVE THE SAME BY MANY OTHER SCRIPTURES, OLD WRITERS 00:22:35.80\00:22:38.93 AND STRONG REASONS." 00:22:38.93\00:22:40.63 CRAMER, WHO WAS ONE OF THE GREAT ANGLICAN LEADERS, WAS PUT 00:22:40.63\00:22:43.53 TO DEATH, BURNED AT THE STAKE BY THE CHURCH. 00:22:43.53\00:22:46.83 SOME OF YOU, OF COURSE, HAVE HEARD OF ROGER WILLIAMS, 00:22:46.83\00:22:49.23 WHO WAS ONE OF THE FOUNDERS OF THE FREEDOM OF RELIGION 00:22:49.23\00:22:50.90 IN OUR COUNTRY. 00:22:50.90\00:22:52.10 RHODE ISLAND, OR PROVIDENCE, WAS ESTABLISHED BY HIM. 00:22:52.10\00:22:55.16 "ROGER WILLIAMS, A BAPTIST PASTOR IN THE AMERICAS, 00:22:55.16\00:22:57.80 HE SPOKE OF THE POPE AS THE PRETENDER, PRETENDED VICAR OF 00:22:57.80\00:23:02.86 CHRIST ON EARTH, WHO SITS AS GOD, OVER THE TEMPLE OF GOD, 00:23:02.86\00:23:05.90 EXALTING HIMSELF, NOT ONLY ABOVE ALL THAT IS CALLED GOD, 00:23:05.90\00:23:10.06 BUT OVER THE SOULS AND CONSCIENCES OF ALL HIS 00:23:10.06\00:23:13.00 VASSALS, YEA, OVER THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST, OVER THE HOLY SPIRIT 00:23:13.00\00:23:16.30 AND GOD HIMSELF. 00:23:16.30\00:23:18.70 SPEAKING AGAINST THE GOD OF HEAVEN, THINKING TO CHANGE 00:23:18.70\00:23:21.10 TIMES AND LAWS, BUT HE IS THE SON OF PERDITION." 00:23:21.10\00:23:23.83 YOU DON'T HEAR--THESE ARE CHURCH LEADERS AND THIS IS WHAT 00:23:23.83\00:23:27.13 THEY BELIEVE. 00:23:27.13\00:23:27.90 IF YOU'RE A METHODIST, LISTEN TO WHAT JOHN WESLEY SAID, 00:23:27.90\00:23:30.46 FOUNDER OF THE METHODIST CHURCH IN HIS COMMENTARY ON THE BIBLE. 00:23:30.46\00:23:34.10 "THAT IS EUROPE, THIS BEAST IS THE ROMAN PAPACY, AS IT CAME TO 00:23:34.10\00:23:38.96 THE POINT 600 YEARS SINCE, STANDS NOW AND WILL FOR 00:23:38.96\00:23:42.53 SOMETIME LONGER. 00:23:42.53\00:23:44.33 TO THIS AND NO OTHER POWER OF EARTH AGREES THE WHOLE TEXT 00:23:44.33\00:23:48.00 AND EVERY PART OF IT, AND EVERY POINT, THE BEAST IS A SPIRITUAL 00:23:48.00\00:23:52.66 SECULAR POWER, OPPOSITE TO THE KINGDOM OF CHRIST, A POWER NOT 00:23:52.66\00:23:56.73 MERELY SPIRITUAL OR ECCLESIASTICAL, NOT MERELY 00:23:56.73\00:23:59.80 SECULAR OR POLITICAL, BUT A MIXTURE OF BOTH." 00:23:59.80\00:24:03.83 AND THEN YOU'VE GOT THE, FROM THE BOOK, "ALL ROADS LEAD TO 00:24:03.83\00:24:07.90 ROME," IT SAYS, "A GREAT CLOUD OF WITNESSES, WYCLIFFE, 00:24:07.90\00:24:12.76 TYNDALE, LUTHER, CALVIN, CRAMER. 00:24:12.76\00:24:15.86 IN THE 17TH CENTURY, BUNYAN AND THE TRANSLATORS OF 00:24:15.86\00:24:19.00 THE KING JAMES BIBLE, THE MEN WHO PUBLISHED THE WESTMINSTER 00:24:19.00\00:24:22.00 AND BAPTIST CONFESSIONS OF FAITH, SIR ISAAC NEWTON, 00:24:22.00\00:24:25.23 WESLEY, WHITFIELD, JONATHAN EDWARDS, 00:24:25.23\00:24:27.60 AND MORE RECENTLY, SPURGEON, BISHOP J.C. RYLE 00:24:27.60\00:24:31.00 AND DR. MARTIN LLOYD JONES," THESE MEN, AMONG 00:24:31.00\00:24:35.03 COUNTLESS OTHERS, ALL SAW THE OFFICE OF THE PAPACY AS 00:24:35.03\00:24:38.96 THE ANTICHRIST. 00:24:38.96\00:24:40.26 SO YOU DON'T EVER HEAR SERMONS, IT'S VERY POLITICALLY INCORRECT, 00:24:40.26\00:24:44.56 BUT WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT IS WHO DID PROPHECY IDENTIFY 00:24:44.56\00:24:47.86 AS THIS POWER? 00:24:47.86\00:24:50.20 AND ALSO KEEP IN MIND, WE'RE NOT SUGGESTING THAT ANY HUMAN, 00:24:50.20\00:24:54.40 ANY PERSON WITHIN THESE INSTITUTIONS OR ORGANIZATIONS 00:24:54.40\00:24:57.53 IS AN UNKIND PERSON. 00:24:57.53\00:24:59.20 WE'RE NOT JUDGING THEM, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE POWER, 00:24:59.20\00:25:01.50 THE ORGANIZATION. 00:25:01.50\00:25:04.26 >> STAY TUNED, PASTOR DOUG WILL BE RIGHT BACK WITH THIS WEEK'S 00:25:04.26\00:25:07.66 SPECIAL FREE OFFER. 00:25:07.66\00:25:10.76 >> NOW, FIRST I'M GONNA TELL YOU STRAIGHT OUT WHAT I BELIEVE, 00:25:10.76\00:25:13.06 THEN I'M GONNA TRY AND GIVE YOU THE EVIDENCE FOR WHY I BELIEVE 00:25:13.06\00:25:15.33 WHAT I BELIEVE. 00:25:15.33\00:25:19.23 >> THERE ARE TWO BEASTS IN REVELATION 13, I HAVE TO BE 00:25:19.23\00:25:21.70 HONEST WITH YOU ABOUT WHO THEY ARE. 00:25:21.70\00:25:24.56 I BELIEVE THE FIRST BEAST REPRESENTS-- 00:25:24.56\00:25:30.03 >> I BELIEVE THE SECOND BEAST REPRESENTS-- 00:25:30.03\00:25:33.86 >> AND IT'S LIKE THERE'S A PLAN TO HIDE IT. 00:25:33.86\00:25:39.63 >>LIFE'S A CURIOUS THING. 00:25:41.50\00:25:43.36 I MEAN, JUST WHEN THINGS SEEM UNDER CONTROL, WHAM! 00:25:43.36\00:25:46.86 YOU'RE HIT WITH SOMETHING NEW. 00:25:46.86\00:25:48.73 YOUR MARRIAGE IS GOOD - SUDDENLY IT'S ON THE BRINK OF DIVORCE. 00:25:48.73\00:25:53.23 THAT JOB'S GREAT AND THEN IT'S GONE - AND SO'S 00:25:53.23\00:25:57.36 YOUR LIFE SAVINGS. 00:25:57.36\00:25:59.23 YOU FEEL HEALTHY THEN YOUR DOCTOR GIVES THE BAD NEWS. 00:25:59.23\00:26:03.73 WHAT'S COMING NEXT? 00:26:03.73\00:26:05.40 YOU COULD LOOK TO THE STARS BUT THEY DON'T HAVE THE ANSWERS. 00:26:05.40\00:26:09.50 BUT THIS DOES. 00:26:09.50\00:26:11.40 THE PROPHECY STUDY BIBLE BY AMAZING FACTS. 00:26:11.40\00:26:14.70 THIS BIBLE IS SPECIAL. 00:26:14.70\00:26:16.50 ITS 27 PERSONAL STUDY GUIDES LEAD YOU ON A LIFE-CHANGING 00:26:16.50\00:26:19.86 JOURNEY THROUGH GOD'S WORD TO DISCOVER REAL ANSWERS TO 00:26:19.86\00:26:23.63 LIFE'S QUESTIONS - FROM HEALTH AND RELATIONSHIPS TO FAMILY 00:26:23.63\00:26:27.36 AND THE FUTURE. 00:26:27.36\00:26:28.93 THE HOPE'S IN HERE. 00:26:28.93\00:26:31.50 >>GET YOUR AMAZING FACTS PROPHECY STUDY BIBLE TODAY BY 00:26:31.50\00:26:34.60 CALLING 800-538-7275 OR VISIT 'AFBOOKSTORE.COM'. 00:26:34.60\00:26:46.33 >> FOR MANY CENTURIES, BIBLE READERS HAVE BEEN INTRIGUED BY 00:26:46.33\00:26:49.53 THE SUBJECT OF THE ANTICHRIST. 00:26:49.53\00:26:52.36 THE SCRIPTURES CLEARLY DESCRIBE A SINISTER POWER WHOSE PURPOSE 00:26:52.36\00:26:56.03 IS TO DECEIVE AND MISLEAD THE ENTIRE WORLD. 00:26:56.03\00:26:59.80 MANY CONFUSED PEOPLE ARE ANTICIPATING BAR CODES, 00:26:59.80\00:27:03.63 TATTOOED NUMBERS OR COMPUTER CHIPS IMPLANTED UNDER THE SKIN 00:27:03.63\00:27:07.23 OF SOMEONE'S HAND OR FOREHEAD. 00:27:07.23\00:27:09.60 UNFORTUNATELY, THESE POPULAR AND EVEN FRIGHTENING CONCEPTS 00:27:09.60\00:27:13.30 HAVE ECLIPSED THE MANY CLEAR WARNING SIGNS THAT GOD HAS 00:27:13.30\00:27:16.93 GIVEN US IN HIS WORD TO HELP US REALLY UNDERSTAND THE SUBJECT 00:27:16.93\00:27:19.63 OF THE ANTICHRIST. 00:27:19.63\00:27:21.26 TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THIS INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT TOPIC, 00:27:21.26\00:27:24.30 WE HAVE PREPARED A FREE STUDY GUIDE FOR YOU, IT'S ENTITLED, 00:27:24.30\00:27:27.66 "WHO IS THE ANTICHRIST." 00:27:27.66\00:27:30.30 WHEN YOU READ THIS STUDY GUIDE SIDE BY SIDE WITH YOUR BIBLE, 00:27:30.30\00:27:33.63 YOU'LL HAVE NO DOUBTS ABOUT WHAT THE ANSWER IS. 00:27:33.63\00:27:36.86 PLEASE CALL THE TOLL-FREE NUMBER NOW AND ASK FOR 00:27:36.86\00:27:39.50 OFFER NUMBER 125á OR YOU CAN WRITE US. 00:27:39.50\00:27:43.03 IT'S AMAZING FACTS, OFFER 125á, P.O. 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