Participants: Pr. Doug Batchelor
Series Code: AFP
Program Code: AFP000032
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00:09 "AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS." 00:11 >> WHAT I AM SHARING WITH YOU IS THE TEACHING THAT CHURCHES 00:15 HAD BELIEVED FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS THAT HAS BEEN ALMOST 00:19 COMPLETELY LOST SIGHT OF. 00:21 IT'S ALMOST EXTINCT AND IT'S LIKE THERE'S A PLAN TO HIDE IT. 00:29 >> FOR OVER 40 YEARS "AMAZING FACTS" HAS BEEN 00:32 DEDICATED TO SHARING GOD'S WORD THROUGH MEDIA. 00:36 THIS PROGRAM FEATURES HIGHLIGHTS FROM SOME OF OUR 00:38 BEST TELEVISION BROADCASTS. 00:41 WE INVITE YOU TO SIT BACK AND ENJOY THIS EDITION OF 00:44 "AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS." 00:48 TODAY'S PRESENTATION IS AN EXCERPT FROM 00:50 "THE MOST AMAZING PROPHECIES" VIDEO SERIES. 00:58 >> AND TONIGHT WE'RE GONNA DEAL WITH SOMETHING THAT HAS BEEN 01:00 IN THE NEWS A LOT LATELY AND THEY'VE MADE MOVIES ABOUT IT, 01:03 AND BOOKS HAVE BEEN WRITTEN ABOUT IT, THE SUBJECT OF 01:05 THE ANTICHRIST. 01:07 AND THE STUDY TONIGHT IS TITLED, 01:09 "THE BRIDE OF ANTICHRIST." 01:11 AND IT'S BASED ON REVELATION 17 WHERE YOU'VE GOT THIS WOMAN 01:15 THAT IS SITTING ON A BEAST. 01:18 AND IT ALSO MARRIES INTO REVELATION 13 WHERE YOU HAVE 01:23 THE BEAST AND THE MARK OF THE BEAST, REVELATION 12. 01:26 AND WE'RE GONNA SPEND A LITTLE TIME IN DANIEL 7. 01:29 SO THAT'S YOUR HOMEWORK AFTER YOU GO HOME. 01:31 HOPE YOU'LL READ, BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE TIME TO READ ALL OF 01:33 THOSE CHAPTERS RIGHT NOW, REVELATION 17, REVELATION 13, 01:38 REVELATION 12 AND DANIEL 7. 01:41 WE'VE ALREADY STUDIED REVELATION 12 A LITTLE BIT. 01:44 WHY DON'T WE GO TO REVELATION 17:3? 01:48 "SO HE CARRIED ME AWAY IN THE SPIRIT INTO THE WILDERNESS. 01:51 AND I SAW A WOMAN," THAT'S THE BRIDE OF ANTICHRIST. 01:56 "SITTING ON A SCARLET COLORED BEAST, WHICH WAS FULL OF NAMES 01:59 OF BLASPHEMY, HAVING SEVEN," HOW MANY HEADS? 02:04 "SEVEN HEADS AND TEN HORNS." 02:07 SAY IT AGAIN, "SEVEN HEADS, TEN HORNS." 02:10 THAT'S IMPORTANT YOU REMEMBER THAT. 02:11 NOW, THIS WOMAN IN REVELATION 17 IS SOMEHOW IN COLLUSION WITH 02:17 THE BEAST. 02:19 SHE'S RIDING ON THE BEAST, THEY'RE TRAVELING 02:20 TOGETHER. 02:23 THERE'S ANOTHER WOMAN, WHO IS IN REVELATION 12, WHO IS 02:27 THE ANTITHESIS OF THE WOMAN IN REVELATION 17. 02:31 WE STUDIED HER, SHE IS THE BRIDE OF CHRIST CLOTHED 02:33 WITH THE SUN, MOON AND STARS. 02:35 WHAT DOES THIS BEAST WITH SEVEN HEADS AND TEN HORNS--OH, 02:39 BY THE WAY, LET'S READ THAT, REVELATION 12:3. 02:41 SAME BEAST, "THERE APPEARED ANOTHER WONDER IN HEAVEN, 02:44 BEHOLD A GREAT RED DRAGON, HAVING," HOW MANY? 02:47 "SEVEN HEADS AND TEN HORNS AND SEVEN CROWNS UPON HIS HEADS." 02:53 AND THAT DRAGON IS INFURIATED WITH THIS OTHER WOMAN. 02:59 SO THE WOMAN IN REVELATION 17 IS THE BRIDE OF ANTICHRIST 03:02 THAT WE'RE STUDYING. 03:03 AND WE'RE GONNA FIND OUT MORE ABOUT WHO THAT IS AND WHO THIS 03:06 BEAST IS. 03:08 WHAT IS THE ANTICHRIST POWER? 03:10 PROBABLY APPROPRIATE FOR ME TO JUST SAY AT THIS POINT, 03:12 HOW MANY TIMES DO YOU THINK THE WORD "ANTICHRIST" APPEARS 03:15 IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION? 03:18 ZERO, IT'S NOT EVEN IN THERE. 03:21 THE TEACHING IS THERE, BUT ANTICHRIST IS FOUND IN FIRST 03:24 AND SECOND LETTERS OF JOHN. 03:27 YOU'LL FIND THAT THAT BEAST WITH THE SEVEN HEADS 03:29 AND TEN HORNS APPEARS AGAIN IN REVELATION 13. 03:32 AND IT SAYS, "I SAW A BEAST RISING UP OUT OF THE SEA, 03:34 HAVING," WHAT? 03:35 "SEVEN HEADS AND TEN HORNS. 03:39 AND ON HIS HORNS TEN CROWNS, AND ON HIS HEADS BLASPHEMOUS 03:43 NAMES. 03:45 NOW THE BEAST THAT I SAW WAS LIKE A LEOPARD, AND HIS FEET 03:51 WERE LIKE THE FEET OF A BEAR, AND HIS MOUTH LIKE THE MOUTH OF 03:54 A LION: AND THE DRAGON GAVE HIM HIS POWER, HIS THRONE AND GREAT 04:00 AUTHORITY." 04:01 NOW, IF YOU REMEMBER FROM OUR STUDY EARLIER, WHERE WE TALKED 04:04 ABOUT THE FOUR MAJOR KINGDOMS IN DANIEL 2, HOW MANY OF YOU 04:09 WERE HERE FOR THAT FIRST STUDY? 04:12 YOU HAD THE BABYLON, MEDO-PERSIA, GREECE AND THEN 04:15 THE FOURTH BEAST WAS ROME. 04:17 HERE WE JUST IDENTIFIED THIS BEAST IN REVELATION 13, IT SAYS 04:21 IT'S LIKE A LION AND IT'S LIKE A LEOPARD, AND IT'S LIKE A BEAR 04:24 AND THE DRAGON'S THERE. 04:26 AND SO YOU'VE GOT THOSE SAME ENTITIES. 04:28 YOU'LL FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THOSE FEATURES OF THE LION 04:31 AND THE BEAR AND THE LEOPARD, BY GOING TO DANIEL 7. 04:36 SO JUMP THERE WITH ME REAL QUICK, DANIEL 7, AND I'M GONNA 04:39 READ VERSES 2 AND 3 HERE ON THE SCREEN. 04:43 "I SAW IN MY VISIONS BY NIGHT AND BEHOLD THE FOUR WINDS OF 04:47 HEAVEN WERE STIRRING UP THE GREAT SEA." 04:51 THAT GREAT SEA IS PROBABLY, THE MEDITERRANEAN WAS THE BIGGEST 04:53 SEA NEAR THE MIDDLE EAST THERE. 04:55 "AND FOUR GREAT BEASTS CAME UP FROM THE SEA, EACH ONE 05:00 DIFFERENT FROM THE OTHER." 05:02 SO THESE FOUR BEASTS THAT ARE DIFFERENT. 05:05 NOW, LET'S GET INTO QUESTION NUMBER ONE AS WE BEGIN TO 05:07 DISSECT THESE PROPHECIES AND UNDERSTAND WHO THE CHARACTERS 05:10 ARE, WHO THESE PLAYERS ARE. 05:12 NUMBER ONE, WHAT DOES A BEAST REPRESENT IN PROPHECY? 05:17 ANSWER? 05:18 YOU FIND IT RIGHT THERE IN DANIEL 17, "THESE GREAT BEASTS, 05:21 WHICH ARE FOUR, ARE FOR KINGS." 05:25 AND IT ALSO SAYS IN DANIEL 7:23, NOT JUST KINGS, 05:28 AS IN ONE SINGLE MONARCH, BUT IT SAYS THE FOURTH BEAST 05:32 SHALL BE THE FOURTH KINGDOM. 05:34 SO THESE BEASTS REPRESENT KINGS AND KINGDOMS. 05:38 WHAT DOES THE WIND AND THE SEA OR THE WATERS REPRESENT? 05:42 WHEN YOU GET SYMBOLS IN THE BIBLE, IT TELLS YOU WHAT THEY 05:45 REPRESENT IN THE BIBLE. 05:47 REVELATION 7:1-3, YOU FIND OUT THAT THE WINDS REPRESENT STRIFE 05:52 AND COMMOTION AND DESTRUCTION. 05:54 BOTH WITH A HURRICANE AND A TORNADO, THE WINDS ARE GOING 05:59 IN ALL FOUR DIRECTIONS AT ONE TIME, NORTH, SOUTH, 06:02 EAST AND WEST. 06:03 AND SO WHEN IT TALKS ABOUT THE FOUR WINDS AND THESE WINDS OF 06:05 STRIFE, THAT'S WHAT YOU SEE WITH A VORTEX OF A STORM. 06:10 WHETHER IT'S A HURRICANE OR A TORNADO, IT CREATES A GREAT 06:13 STRIFE, TURMOIL, TURBULENCE. 06:17 AND AGAIN, THE WATERS REPRESENT, REVELATION 17:15, 06:20 THE ANGEL TELLS JOHN WHAT THE SYMBOLS MEAN. 06:23 THE WATERS ARE PEOPLES AND MULTITUDES AND NATIONS 06:28 AND TONGUES. 06:31 YOU'LL READ FOR INSTANCE IN DANIEL 9, WHERE IT TALKS ABOUT 06:33 THIS ABOMINATION POWER, IT SAYS, "THE PRINCE OF THAT 06:37 KINGDOM THAT WILL COME WILL OVERRUN LIKE A FLOOD." 06:40 AND AGAIN IN REVELATION 12 IT SAYS, "THE DRAGON OPENED HIS 06:43 MOUTH, HE SENT A FLOOD." 06:45 THAT MEANS HE SENDS ARMIES AFTER THEM, PEOPLES. 06:48 AND SO WHEN THESE POWERS RISE UP OUT OF THE SEA, IT MEANS 06:50 THEY'RE RISING UP OUT OF THE EXISTING NATIONS. 06:53 THAT'S IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER, BECAUSE WHEN YOU GET TO 06:56 REVELATION 13 THERE'S A SECOND BEAST. 06:58 EVERYONE TALKS ABOUT THE BEAST IN REVELATION 13, THERE ARE 07:00 TWO BEASTS IN REVELATION 13. 07:03 YOU'VE GOT VERSES 1 AND 2, AND THEN YOU GOT VERSE 11 HAS 07:07 ANOTHER BEAST. 07:08 DANIEL 7, DO YOU HAVE YOUR BIBLES? 07:10 LET'S LOOK AT THIS TOGETHER, WE'RE GONNA QUICKLY READ THIS 07:13 PROPHECY AND THEN WE'RE GONNA UNPACK IT. 07:17 IT SAYS HERE IN VERSE 4, HE HAS THIS VISION. 07:22 AND THESE, WE'LL START WITH VERSE 3. 07:24 "THESE FOUR GREAT BEASTS COME UP FROM THE SEA, EACH DIFFERENT 07:28 FROM THE OTHER. 07:30 THE FIRST WAS LIKE A LION AND HAS EAGLES' WINGS. 07:33 I WATCHED 'TIL ITS WINGS WERE PLUCKED OFF AND IT WAS LIFTED 07:35 UP FROM THE EARTH AND MADE TO STAND ON ITS FEET LIKE A MAN, 07:38 AND A MAN'S HEART WAS GIVEN TO IT." 07:40 SUDDENLY ANOTHER BEAST, A SECOND, SUDDENLY, LIKE A BEAR. 07:45 IT'S RAISED UP ON ONE SIDE, AND HAD THREE RIBS IN THE MOUTH 07:47 BETWEEN ITS TEETH. 07:49 AND THEY SAID THUS TO IT, 'ARISE AND DEVOUR MUCH FLESH!' 07:51 AFTER THIS I LOOKED AND BEHOLD THERE WAS ANOTHER LIKE 07:54 A LEOPARD, WHICH HAD ON ITS BACK FOUR WINGS AS OF A BIRD. 07:57 AND THE BEAST ALSO HAD FOUR HEADS AND DOMINION WAS GIVEN 08:00 TO IT. 08:01 AND AFTER THIS I SAW IN THE NIGHT VISIONS, AND BEHOLD 08:05 A FOURTH BEAST, DREADFUL AND TERRIBLE, EXCEEDINGLY STRONG. 08:10 IT HAD HUGE IRON TEETH, IT WAS DEVOURING, BREAKING IN PIECES 08:15 AND TRAMPLING THE RESIDUE WITH THE FEET OF IT. 08:17 IT WAS DIFFERENT," DIVERSE, "FROM ALL THE BEASTS THAT WERE 08:20 BEFORE IT, AND IT HAD," YOU READING? 08:22 "TEN HORNS." 08:25 THAT OUGHT TO BE A CLUE THERE. 08:27 THAT'S CORRESPONDING WITH THE BEAST THAT YOU FIND, THAT 08:30 FOURTH BEAST IS WHAT'S HAPPENING THERE IN REVELATION. 08:33 MATTER OF FACT, IF YOU TURN YOUR PAGE IN DANIEL 7 AND JUMP 08:36 DOWN TO VERSE 23, THE ANGEL ELABORATES ON THE FOURTH BEAST 08:40 THERE. 08:41 HE'S TRANSLATING, INTERPRETING FOR DANIEL. 08:44 "THE FOURTH BEAST SHALL BE A FOURTH KINGDOM OF THE EARTH, 08:48 WHICH SHALL BE DIFFERENT FROM ALL THE OTHER KINGDOMS. 08:50 AND IT WILL DEVOUR THE WHOLE EARTH, TRAMPLE IT, 08:52 BREAK IN PIECES. 08:53 AND THE TEN HORNS ARE TEN KINGS WHO SHALL ARISE FROM THIS 08:57 KINGDOM, AND ANOTHER SHALL RISE AFTER THEM. 09:00 HE'LL BE DIFFERENT FROM THE FIRST ONES; HE'LL SUBDUE 09:02 THREE KINGS." 09:03 THREE OF THE TEN ARE KICKED OUT. 09:05 "HE'LL SPEAK POMPOUS WORDS, BLASPHEMOUS WORDS AGAINST THE 09:08 MOST HIGH AND WILL PERSECUTE THE SAINTS OF THE MOST HIGH 09:11 AND INTEND OR THINK TO CHANGE TIMES AND LAWS. 09:16 THEN THE SAINTS SHALL BE GIVEN INTO HIS HAND FOR A TIME, 09:21 AND TIMES AND HALF A TIME." 09:23 AND THE CHAPTER GOES ON THERE. 09:25 I NEED TO STOP, BECAUSE I'VE GOT SO MUCH TO COVER. 09:28 I'M JUST GONNA RUN AHEAD HERE REAL QUICK. 09:30 THE FIRST OF THESE FOUR BEASTS IN DANIEL IS WHAT? 09:33 HE SAYS IT'S A LION, A LION WITH TWO WINGS. 09:37 WE KNOW THAT REPRESENTS BABYLON, BECAUSE THESE ARE 09:39 THE FOUR SAME KINGDOMS THAT WE SAW IN DANIEL 2. 09:42 AND MATTER OF FACT, EVEN IN THE EXCAVATIONS THAT THEY'VE DONE 09:46 FROM ANCIENT BABYLON, THEY FOUND THAT ONE OF THE SIGNS 09:50 FOR THE KINGDOM WAS THIS LION WITH WINGS. 09:53 BABYLON TYPIFIED THEMSELVES THAT WAY. 09:56 QUESTION NUMBER 4, WHAT DOES THE BEAR REPRESENT? 10:00 YOU FIND THAT IN DANIEL 7:5. 10:01 AND WHAT DO THE THREE RIBS IN ITS MOUTH SYMBOLIZE? 10:04 WELL, WHAT KINGDOM FOLLOWED BABYLON THAT WE STUDIED? 10:07 THE MEDO-PERSIAN KINGDOM. 10:10 IN DANIEL 8:20 IT IDENTIFIES IT BY NAME, THE KING OF PERSIA. 10:14 THE THREE RIBS IN THE MOUTH OF THIS BEAR, THEY REPRESENT 10:17 THE THREE PRINCIPLE POWERS THAT WERE CONQUERED WHEN PERSIA CAME 10:20 INTO POWER. 10:21 WE KNOW THEY CONQUERED BABYLON. 10:22 MEDO-PERSIA ALSO CONQUERED LYDIA AND EGYPT. 10:27 AND THE THREE RIBS REPRESENT THAT THEY HAD DEFEATED THESE 10:29 KINGDOMS. 10:31 NUMBER FIVE, WE'RE MOVING QUICKLY THROUGH HISTORY 10:33 HERE, WHAT KINGDOM IS REPRESENTED BY THE FOUR-HEADED 10:36 LEOPARD? 10:37 WHAT EMPIRE FOLLOWED THE PERSIAN EMPIRE, 10:40 DO YOU REMEMBER? 10:41 THE KINGDOM OF GREECE. 10:43 AND IT'S SYMBOLIZED BY THIS LEOPARD. 10:45 I THREW A PICTURE IN HERE, BECAUSE I THOUGHT YOU'D FIND 10:47 IT INTERESTING, THAT ALEXANDER, TRADITIONALLY THEY SAID THAT HE 10:51 HAD A LEOPARD SKIN AS HIS SADDLE. 10:54 AND I THOUGHT, "WELL, THAT MATCHES ALONG WITH WHAT 10:55 THE LEOPARD WAS." 10:56 FOUR HEADS AND FOUR WINGS, BECAUSE HE MOVED WITH SUCH 11:01 GREAT SPEED, THE FOUR WINGS. 11:02 FOUR HEADS, BECAUSE WHEN ALEXANDER DIED, I THINK HE 11:07 MARCHED HIS ARMIES VERY RAPIDLY, 20,000 MILES 11:10 IN 10 YEARS. 11:12 IT'S ALMOST INCONCEIVABLE TO MOVE ARMIES THAT FAST, BACK IN 11:16 THOSE DAYS. 11:17 BUT WHEN HE DIED, 32 YEARS OF AGE, HIS KINGDOM WAS DIVIDED 11:22 IN FOUR PARTS AMONG HIS FOUR GENERALS. 11:25 AND THEY BECAME THE FOUR DIVISIONS OF THE GREEK EMPIRE. 11:27 AND LET ME SEE IF I CAN SAY THESE, THE PTOLEMY, LYSIMACHUS, 11:30 SELEUCIUS AND CASSANDER. 11:33 THOSE FOUR GENERALS DIVIDED HIS KINGDOM UP, FOUR HEADS. 11:37 NUMBER SIX, THE ROMAN EMPIRE, OR THE FOURTH WORLD KINGDOM, IS 11:42 REPRESENTED BY A HORRIBLE MONSTER, WHO HAS IRON TEETH 11:46 AND TEN HORNS. 11:48 WHAT DO THE HORNS REPRESENT? 11:51 IT SAYS IN REVELATION 17:12, "THE TEN HORNS, WHICH YOU SAW, 11:55 ARE TEN," WHAT? 11:56 "TEN KINGS," OR, TEN KINGDOMS. 11:59 AND, BY THE WAY, IRON TEETH, IT'S NOT IN YOUR 12:01 QUESTION HERE, WHAT KINGDOM REPRESENTED THE LEGS OF IRON 12:05 THAT WE READ ABOUT IN DANIEL'S VISION, CHAPTER 2? 12:10 THAT WAS--ROME WAS THE IRON LEGS. 12:13 AND SO ROME IS THIS KINGDOM THAT THEN DIVIDES INTO 12:16 TEN PARTS, THAT'S WHY YOU END UP WITH THE TOES OF IRON AND CLAY. 12:20 HERE ARE THE TEN DIVISIONS OF THESE GERMANIC KINGDOMS THAT 12:23 MADE UP THE ROMAN EMPIRE. 12:25 AND THE NAMES, THE ANCIENT NAMES THAT YOU'D FIND HERE ARE 12:28 THE GERMANS, THE ALLAMANNI; THE FRENCH, THE FRANKS; 12:32 THE SWISS, THE BURGUNDIANS; THE PORTUGUESE WERE THE SUEVI; 12:37 THE ITALIANS, THE LOMBARDS; THE SPANISH, THE VISIGOTHS; 12:40 THE ENGLISH, THE ANGLO-SAXONS; AS YOU KNOW. 12:43 AND THERE WERE THREE OTHERS THAT WERE UPROOTED, 12:45 THE VANDALS, THE HERULI AND THE OSTROGOTHS. 12:47 NOW, IF YOU TAKE TEN AND YOU SUBTRACT THREE, WHAT DO YOU 12:51 GET? 12:52 SEVEN. 12:53 WHEN YOU FIND THAT BEAST, IT'S GOT SEVEN HEADS AND TEN HORNS 12:57 IN REVELATION. 12:59 IT ALL MATCHES UP PERFECTLY. 13:01 DON'T MISS A VERY SIMPLE PRINCIPLE HERE, YOU'VE GOT THAT 13:05 VISION IN DANIEL 2, THE LION, THE HEAD OF GOLD. 13:11 YOU NOTICE THAT THE MOST ILLUSTRIOUS METAL IS GOLD, 13:14 RIGHT? 13:15 AND THE LION IS CONSIDERED THE GREATEST OF THE BEASTS. 13:18 AND WHAT KIND OF WINGS DOES A LION HAVE? 13:20 EAGLES' WINGS. 13:20 BABYLON HAD THE BEST OF EVERYTHING, GOLD, LION, 13:23 EAGLES, IT WAS THE MOST MAJESTIC. 13:26 AS YOU MOVE SUCCESSIVELY DOWN THAT VISION, YOU SEE THE OTHER 13:29 KINGDOMS. 13:30 AND THERE'S A CORRESPONDING THERE BETWEEN THE GOLDEN HEAD 13:34 AND THE LION. 13:35 YOU'VE GOT THE SILVER ARMS AND YOU'VE GOT THE BEAR. 13:41 THEN YOU'VE GOT THE BRONZE BELLY, YOU'VE GOT THE LEOPARD. 13:44 YOU'VE GOT THE IRON LEGS, YOU'VE GOT THIS STRANGE BEAST 13:48 WITH TEN HORNS. 13:49 WHEN YOU GET TO THE FEET OF IRON AND CLAY, SOMETHING'S 13:53 HAPPENED TO THE LEGS. 13:54 THE LEGS HAVE GONE THROUGH A CHANGE. 13:55 THEY'RE NOT JUST IRON, THEY'RE IRON AND CLAY. 13:57 SOMETHING HAPPENS TO THE HORNS, ANOTHER LITTLE HORN 13:59 COMES UP, UPROOTS THREE HORNS. 14:01 DO YOU SEE THE PARALLEL? 14:03 BY THE WAY, IN PROPHECY, THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT, SO EVEN IF 14:06 IT TAKES TIME AWAY FROM MY OTHER QUESTIONS, IF YOU CATCH 14:10 THIS, IT REALLY HELPED ME, WHEN GOD TEACHES PROPHETIC TRUTH, HE 14:14 OFTEN TEACHES ONE TRUTH WITH MANY DIFFERENT VANTAGE POINTS. 14:20 JESUS TOLD TRUTH WITH MANY DIFFERENT PARABLES. 14:23 HE WOULD TEACH THE TRUTHS OF SALVATION, A NUMBER OF PARABLES 14:26 TO GIVE YOU PERSPECTIVE. 14:27 SO YOU COULD WALK AROUND SOMETHING AND GET A PERSPECTIVE 14:29 OF WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE. 14:31 IN REVELATION YOU'VE GOT THE VISION OF THE SEVEN CHURCHES, 14:35 SEVEN SEALS, SEVEN TRUMPETS. 14:40 THEY ARE GIVING YOU THE HISTORY OF GOD'S PEOPLE, SEVEN CHURCHES 14:43 OF THE RELIGIOUS HISTORY OF GOD'S PEOPLE, FROM THE FIRST 14:46 COMING TO THE SECOND COMING. 14:47 SEVEN SEALS ARE GIVING YOU THE POLITICAL HISTORY, FROM THE 14:50 FIRST COMING TO THE SECOND COMING. 14:52 THE SEVEN TRUMPETS ARE GIVING YOU A MILITARY HISTORY, 14:54 FROM THE FIRST COMING TO THE SECOND COMING. 14:56 THAT'S NOT ALL IT MEANS, THERE'S A LOT MORE THERE TO IT 14:58 THAN THAT. 14:59 BUT THEY'RE GIVING YOU THE PERSPECTIVE. 15:01 IN DANIEL YOU SEE THE SAME THING, HE'S SHOWING THE POWERS 15:04 THAT WOULD INFLUENCE GOD'S PEOPLE. 15:06 AND HE DOES IT ONCE THROUGH THE VISION OF NEBUCHADNEZZAR'S 15:08 IMAGE, AND NOW DANIEL'S GETTING A VISION OF THESE FOUR BEASTS. 15:12 AND IN DANIEL 8 HE'S GOT THE SAME TRUTHS ARE BEING TAUGHT 15:15 WITH A GOAT AND A RAM VISION. 15:19 AND SO GOD IS OVERLAPPING THESE THINGS SO YOU WON'T MISS IT, 15:23 BY GIVING US SEVERAL DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES OF THE ONE TRUTH. 15:26 NOW, WHEN WE GET DOWN TO THE FEET, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE 15:29 BEAST POWER OR THE ANTICHRIST. 15:31 YOU'LL NOTICE THAT IN THE FEET OF IRON AND CLAY, HOW MANY 15:33 TOES? 15:35 TEN TOES. 15:36 THEN IN REVELATION 17 YOU'VE GOT A WOMAN RIDING ON A 15:39 BEAST, SEVEN HEADS, TEN HORNS. 15:43 AND YOU'VE GOT THE SAME THING IN REVELATION 12 AND THE SAME 15:45 THING IN REVELATION 13. 15:47 QUESTION NUMBER 7, IN THE DANIEL 7 PROPHECY, 15:51 WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? 15:53 DANIEL 7:8, "I CONSIDERED THE HORNS, AND BEHOLD THERE CAME UP 15:59 AMONG THEM ANOTHER LITTLE HORN, BEFORE WHOM THREE OF THE FIRST 16:04 HORNS WERE PLUCKED UP BY THE ROOTS. 16:07 AND BEHOLD, IN THIS HORN WERE THE EYES LIKE THE EYES OF A 16:11 MAN, AND A MOUTH SPEAKING GREAT OR EXALTED OR EVEN BLASPHEMOUS 16:16 THINGS." 16:18 NOW, CONSIDER SOME OF THE PARALLELS THAT WE'RE SEEING 16:21 BETWEEN THE PROPHECIES OF THIS ANTICHRIST POWER IN DANIEL 7 16:26 AND IN REVELATION 13. 16:28 LOOK FOR INSTANCE AT THE CHART WE'VE GOT ON THE SCREEN HERE. 16:31 DANIEL 7 TALKS ABOUT A LION, REVELATION 13, 16:33 MOUTH LIKE A LION. 16:34 DANIEL 7 HAS A BEAR, REVELATION 13 HAS GOT PAWS 16:38 LIKE A BEAR. 16:39 DANIEL 7 HAS A LEOPARD, REVELATION 13 HAS A LEOPARD. 16:43 DANIEL 7 HAS A DRAGON, REVELATION HAS A DRAGON. 16:47 THEY BOTH HAVE THE TEN HORNS. 16:49 THEY BOTH HAVE A MOUTH THAT SPEAKS. 16:51 THEY BOTH MAKE WAR WITH THE SAINTS. 16:52 THEY SEEM TO BE VICTORIOUS, AT LEAST TEMPORARILY, 16:55 OVER THE SAINTS. 16:57 THEY RULE, OR AT LEAST THEY'RE ABLE TO PUSH 'EM 16:58 UNDERGROUND, THEY RULE 3 & 1/2 YEARS, 42 MONTHS, 17:02 IN REVELATION 13. 17:04 IN A JEWISH CALENDAR, 42 MONTHS IS 3 & 1/2 YEARS. 17:09 MATTER OF FACT, THAT'S ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT TIME PERIODS 17:11 IN THE BIBLE. 17:12 IT CALLS IT A TIME, A TIMES AND THE DIVIDING OF TIME. 17:16 A TIME IN THE JEWISH THINKING WAS ONE COMPLETE CYCLE OF 17:20 THE SEASONS, OR ONE YEAR. 17:22 A TIMES MEANT A COUPLE OR A PAIR, SO THAT'S TWO, THAT 17:25 WOULD MAKE A TOTAL OF THREE. 17:26 AND THE DIVIDING OR HALF OF 1, 3 & 1/2, 17:29 3 & 1/2 JEWISH YEARS, THEY'VE GOT 360 DAYS 17:32 IN THE JEWISH LUNAR CALENDAR. 17:35 AND IT'S ACTUALLY EASIER TO WORK MATHEMATICALLY, THAT'S 17:38 WHY THERE'S 360 DEGREES IN A CIRCLE. 17:41 PILOTS ALL USE A 360-DEGREE CIRCLE FOR FLYING AND IT WORKS 17:44 BETTER MATHEMATICALLY THAN 365 AND ONE QUARTER. 17:48 SO THE JEWS DID THAT, BECAUSE IT WAS MATHEMATICALLY BETTER. 17:50 THEY WOULD ADD ANOTHER MONTH EVERY 13 YEARS TO COMPENSATE 17:52 FOR THE SEASON CHANGE. 17:56 BUT THAT SAME TIME PERIOD, 42 MONTHS, A TIME, TIMES, 18:00 AND THE DIVIDING OF TIME, 1260 DAYS IS A TIME 18:03 THAT GOD WANTS US TO UNDERSTAND, 'CAUSE IT'S THE SAME PERIOD 18:07 THAT THIS BEAST POWER IN THE LAST AGE OF THE CHURCH HERE, 18:10 CREATES A LOT OF HAVOC. 18:13 NUMBER EIGHT, HERE IS THE MILLION-DOLLAR QUESTION: 18:17 SO, WHO IS THE LITTLE HORN OF DANIEL 7 AND THE FIRST BEAST OF 18:22 REVELATION 13? 18:23 WHAT I'M ABOUT TO SHARE WITH YOU IS NOTHING ORIGINAL 18:26 WITH ME. 18:27 MATTER OF FACT, IT'S NOT EVEN NEW. 18:29 IT IS NOT EXCLUSIVE WITH THE CHURCH I HAPPEN TO BELONG TO. 18:32 WHAT I AM SHARING WITH YOU IS THE TEACHING THAT CHURCHES HAD 18:35 BELIEVED FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS THAT HAS BEEN ALMOST COMPLETELY 18:40 LOST SIGHT OF. 18:41 IT'S ALMOST EXTINCT AND IT'S LIKE THERE'S A PLAN TO HIDE IT. 18:47 NOW, LET ME SAY VERY CAREFULLY, AND FIRST I'M GONNA 18:49 TELL YOU STRAIGHT OUT WHAT I BELIEVE, THEN I'M GONNA TRY AND 18:52 GIVE YOU THE EVIDENCE FOR WHY I BELIEVE WHAT I BELIEVE, AND SEE 18:55 IF I CAN PUT A LITTLE BALM ON THE SHARPNESS OF THIS SUBJECT. 19:03 I BELIEVE THAT THE BEAST POWER DESCRIBED, THE FIRST--THERE ARE 19:07 TWO BEASTS IN REVELATION 13, I BELIEVE THE FIRST BEAST 19:11 REPRESENTS THE CHURCH IN ROME, KNOWN AS THE PAPACY. 19:15 I BELIEVE THE SECOND BEAST REPRESENTS THE UNITED STATES. 19:18 NOW, I'M AN AMERICAN, I LOVE MY COUNTRY, BUT I THINK IT'S IN 19:21 PROPHECY, SO I HAVE TO BE HONEST WITH YOU ABOUT WHO 19:23 THEY ARE. 19:25 I WENT TO TWO DIFFERENT CATHOLIC SCHOOLS GROWING UP, 19:28 LOVE THE PEOPLE THERE. 19:29 I AM NOT SPEAKING AGAINST AMERICANS AND I'M NOT SPEAKING 19:32 AGAINST CATHOLICS, IS THAT CLEAR TO EVERYBODY? 19:34 THERE ARE GOING TO BE A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO ARE MEMBERS OF MY 19:37 CHURCH THAT AREN'T GONNA BE IN THE KINGDOM. 19:40 THERE ARE GONNA BE A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO ARE MEMBERS OF 19:41 THE CATHOLIC CHURCH THAT ARE GONNA BE THERE. 19:44 BUT WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT NOW, REMEMBER WHAT I SAID IN MY 19:46 SPEECH ABOUT READ THE INGREDIENTS? 19:49 LOOK AT WHAT THE TEACHINGS ARE, THESE THINGS ARE SEEN IN 19:52 HISTORY. 19:54 GOD'S PEOPLE IN THE OLD TESTAMENT WERE ISRAEL, 19:57 HOW MANY AGREE WITH THAT? 19:59 HOW MANY OF YOU KNOW THAT THE KINGDOM OF ISRAEL WENT THROUGH 20:01 A TREMENDOUS SPLIT? 20:03 YOU ENDED UP WITH THE SOUTHERN KINGDOM THAT STILL 20:05 HAD THE TEMPLE THAT TRIED TO BE FAITHFUL TO THE LORD FOR 20:07 A WHILE. 20:08 THE NORTHERN KINGDOM BEGAN TO SLIP TOWARDS IDOLATRY 20:10 AND PAGANISM. 20:12 THEY BEGAN TO WORSHIP IDOLS OF BETHEL AND DAN. 20:14 THE SAME THING THAT HAPPENED IN THE OLD TESTAMENT TO GOD'S 20:17 PEOPLE, HAPPENED AFTER THE TIME OF CHRIST TO GOD'S CHURCH. 20:21 WHAT NORTHERN ISRAEL WAS IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, THE PAPACY 20:25 IS AFTER THE TIME OF CHRIST. 20:28 NOW, LET ME READ TO YOU FROM WHAT THE CHURCH FATHERS, AND 20:33 MOST OF THESE ARE THE LEADERS OF THE REFORMATION THAT I THINK 20:35 YOU'LL RECOGNIZE THEIR NAMES. 20:37 I'M JUST GONNA READ FROM WHAT THEY SAY AND THEN I'M GONNA 20:39 READ FROM THE WRITINGS OF THE PAPACY. 20:40 AND I REMEMBER WHEN I FIRST LEARNED THESE THINGS, EVEN 20:42 THOUGH I WENT TO CATHOLIC SCHOOL, I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT 20:44 THE PAPACY WAS. 20:45 I THOUGHT PAPACY WAS A LITTLE LETTER TOO SMALL TO NEED 20:47 AN ENVELOPE. 20:48 I'LL SEND YOU A PAPACY, I DON'T NEED A--IT'S A SMALL LETTER. 20:50 I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT IT WAS, AND SO SOMEONE HAD TO EXPLAIN 20:53 THAT TO ME. 20:55 AND I EVEN WENT TO CATHOLIC SCHOOL. 20:56 BUT THE PAPACY IS SPEAKING OF THE HIERARCHY OF THE CATHOLIC 20:59 CHURCH, IT COMES FROM THE WORD, "PAPAL," OR, "POPE." 21:01 AND LISTEN TO WHAT MARTIN LUTHER SAID. 21:04 BY THE WAY, HE WAS A CATHOLIC PRIEST, THAT'S HOW HE STARTED 21:06 OUT. 21:07 GONNA READ A NUMBER OF QUOTES, STAY WITH ME. 21:10 "MEN WHO SAW THE PAPACY AS THE ANTICHRIST, MARTIN LUTHER. 21:14 LUTHER PROVED BY THE REVELATIONS OF DANIEL AND 21:17 ST. JOHN, BY THE EPISTLES OF ST. PAUL, ST. PETER 21:21 AND ST. JUDE THAT THE REIGN OF ANTICHRIST PREDICTED 21:24 AND DESCRIBED IN THE BIBLE WAS THE PAPACY." 21:27 OF COURSE THE FATHER OF THE LUTHERAN CHURCH. 21:30 IF YOU READ FROM THE WRITINGS OF JOHN CALVIN, A PRESBYTERIAN 21:35 LEADER, "SOME PERSONS THINK US TOO SEVERE AND CENSORIOUS WHEN 21:40 WE CALL THE ROMAN PONTIFF ANTICHRIST. 21:42 BUT THOSE WHO ARE OF THIS OPINION DO NOT CONSIDER THAT 21:45 THEY BRING THE SAME CHARGE OR PRESUMPTION AGAINST PAUL 21:48 HIMSELF, AFTER WHOM WE SPEAK AND WHOSE LANGUAGE WE ADOPT. 21:53 I SHALL BRIEFLY SHOW THAT IN PAUL'S WORDS, 21:55 IN 2 THESSALONIANS 2, THEY ARE NOT CAPABLE OF ANY OTHER 21:59 INTERPRETATION THAN THAT WHICH APPLIES THEM TO THE PAPACY. 22:03 JOHN KNOX, THE GREAT SCOTTISH REFORMER. 22:07 JOHN KNOX SOUGHT TO COUNTERACT THAT TYRANNY, WHICH THE POPE 22:10 HIMSELF HAS FOR SO MANY AGES EXERCISED OVER THE CHURCH. 22:14 AS WITH LUTHER, HE FINALLY CONCLUDED THAT THE PAPACY WAS 22:17 THE VERY ANTICHRIST AND THE SON OF PERDITION OF WHOM PAUL 22:21 SPEAKS," PAUL WARNS ABOUT IN HIS WRITINGS. 22:24 "WHEREFORE IT FOLLOWED ROME TO BE THE SEAT OF ANTICHRIST." 22:28 AND THESE ARE FROM THE WORKS OF CRAMER, WHO WAS THE MARTYR OF 22:30 THE CHURCH. 22:32 "AND THE POPE TO BE THE VERY ANTICHRIST HIMSELF. 22:35 I COULD PROVE THE SAME BY MANY OTHER SCRIPTURES, OLD WRITERS 22:38 AND STRONG REASONS." 22:40 CRAMER, WHO WAS ONE OF THE GREAT ANGLICAN LEADERS, WAS PUT 22:43 TO DEATH, BURNED AT THE STAKE BY THE CHURCH. 22:46 SOME OF YOU, OF COURSE, HAVE HEARD OF ROGER WILLIAMS, 22:49 WHO WAS ONE OF THE FOUNDERS OF THE FREEDOM OF RELIGION 22:50 IN OUR COUNTRY. 22:52 RHODE ISLAND, OR PROVIDENCE, WAS ESTABLISHED BY HIM. 22:55 "ROGER WILLIAMS, A BAPTIST PASTOR IN THE AMERICAS, 22:57 HE SPOKE OF THE POPE AS THE PRETENDER, PRETENDED VICAR OF 23:02 CHRIST ON EARTH, WHO SITS AS GOD, OVER THE TEMPLE OF GOD, 23:05 EXALTING HIMSELF, NOT ONLY ABOVE ALL THAT IS CALLED GOD, 23:10 BUT OVER THE SOULS AND CONSCIENCES OF ALL HIS 23:13 VASSALS, YEA, OVER THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST, OVER THE HOLY SPIRIT 23:16 AND GOD HIMSELF. 23:18 SPEAKING AGAINST THE GOD OF HEAVEN, THINKING TO CHANGE 23:21 TIMES AND LAWS, BUT HE IS THE SON OF PERDITION." 23:23 YOU DON'T HEAR--THESE ARE CHURCH LEADERS AND THIS IS WHAT 23:27 THEY BELIEVE. 23:27 IF YOU'RE A METHODIST, LISTEN TO WHAT JOHN WESLEY SAID, 23:30 FOUNDER OF THE METHODIST CHURCH IN HIS COMMENTARY ON THE BIBLE. 23:34 "THAT IS EUROPE, THIS BEAST IS THE ROMAN PAPACY, AS IT CAME TO 23:38 THE POINT 600 YEARS SINCE, STANDS NOW AND WILL FOR 23:42 SOMETIME LONGER. 23:44 TO THIS AND NO OTHER POWER OF EARTH AGREES THE WHOLE TEXT 23:48 AND EVERY PART OF IT, AND EVERY POINT, THE BEAST IS A SPIRITUAL 23:52 SECULAR POWER, OPPOSITE TO THE KINGDOM OF CHRIST, A POWER NOT 23:56 MERELY SPIRITUAL OR ECCLESIASTICAL, NOT MERELY 23:59 SECULAR OR POLITICAL, BUT A MIXTURE OF BOTH." 24:03 AND THEN YOU'VE GOT THE, FROM THE BOOK, "ALL ROADS LEAD TO 24:07 ROME," IT SAYS, "A GREAT CLOUD OF WITNESSES, WYCLIFFE, 24:12 TYNDALE, LUTHER, CALVIN, CRAMER. 24:15 IN THE 17TH CENTURY, BUNYAN AND THE TRANSLATORS OF 24:19 THE KING JAMES BIBLE, THE MEN WHO PUBLISHED THE WESTMINSTER 24:22 AND BAPTIST CONFESSIONS OF FAITH, SIR ISAAC NEWTON, 24:25 WESLEY, WHITFIELD, JONATHAN EDWARDS, 24:27 AND MORE RECENTLY, SPURGEON, BISHOP J.C. 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MARTIN LLOYD JONES," THESE MEN, AMONG 24:35 COUNTLESS OTHERS, ALL SAW THE OFFICE OF THE PAPACY AS 24:38 THE ANTICHRIST. 24:40 SO YOU DON'T EVER HEAR SERMONS, IT'S VERY POLITICALLY INCORRECT, 24:44 BUT WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT IS WHO DID PROPHECY IDENTIFY 24:47 AS THIS POWER? 24:50 AND ALSO KEEP IN MIND, WE'RE NOT SUGGESTING THAT ANY HUMAN, 24:54 ANY PERSON WITHIN THESE INSTITUTIONS OR ORGANIZATIONS 24:57 IS AN UNKIND PERSON. 24:59 WE'RE NOT JUDGING THEM, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE POWER, 25:01 THE ORGANIZATION. 25:04 >> STAY TUNED, PASTOR DOUG WILL BE RIGHT BACK WITH THIS WEEK'S 25:07 SPECIAL FREE OFFER. 25:10 >> NOW, FIRST I'M GONNA TELL YOU STRAIGHT OUT WHAT I BELIEVE, 25:13 THEN I'M GONNA TRY AND GIVE YOU THE EVIDENCE FOR WHY I BELIEVE 25:15 WHAT I BELIEVE. 25:19 >> THERE ARE TWO BEASTS IN REVELATION 13, I HAVE TO BE 25:21 HONEST WITH YOU ABOUT WHO THEY ARE. 25:24 I BELIEVE THE FIRST BEAST REPRESENTS-- 25:30 >> I BELIEVE THE SECOND BEAST REPRESENTS-- 25:33 >> AND IT'S LIKE THERE'S A PLAN TO HIDE IT. 25:41 >>LIFE'S A CURIOUS THING. 25:43 I MEAN, JUST WHEN THINGS SEEM UNDER CONTROL, WHAM! 25:46 YOU'RE HIT WITH SOMETHING NEW. 25:48 YOUR MARRIAGE IS GOOD - SUDDENLY IT'S ON THE BRINK OF DIVORCE. 25:53 THAT JOB'S GREAT AND THEN IT'S GONE - AND SO'S 25:57 YOUR LIFE SAVINGS. 25:59 YOU FEEL HEALTHY THEN YOUR DOCTOR GIVES THE BAD NEWS. 26:03 WHAT'S COMING NEXT? 26:05 YOU COULD LOOK TO THE STARS BUT THEY DON'T HAVE THE ANSWERS. 26:09 BUT THIS DOES. 26:11 THE PROPHECY STUDY BIBLE BY AMAZING FACTS. 26:14 THIS BIBLE IS SPECIAL. 26:16 ITS 27 PERSONAL STUDY GUIDES LEAD YOU ON A LIFE-CHANGING 26:19 JOURNEY THROUGH GOD'S WORD TO DISCOVER REAL ANSWERS TO 26:23 LIFE'S QUESTIONS - FROM HEALTH AND RELATIONSHIPS TO FAMILY 26:27 AND THE FUTURE. 26:28 THE HOPE'S IN HERE. 26:31 >>GET YOUR AMAZING FACTS PROPHECY STUDY BIBLE TODAY BY 26:34 CALLING 800-538-7275 OR VISIT 'AFBOOKSTORE.COM'. 26:46 >> FOR MANY CENTURIES, BIBLE READERS HAVE BEEN INTRIGUED BY 26:49 THE SUBJECT OF THE ANTICHRIST. 26:52 THE SCRIPTURES CLEARLY DESCRIBE A SINISTER POWER WHOSE PURPOSE 26:56 IS TO DECEIVE AND MISLEAD THE ENTIRE WORLD. 26:59 MANY CONFUSED PEOPLE ARE ANTICIPATING BAR CODES, 27:03 TATTOOED NUMBERS OR COMPUTER CHIPS IMPLANTED UNDER THE SKIN 27:07 OF SOMEONE'S HAND OR FOREHEAD. 27:09 UNFORTUNATELY, THESE POPULAR AND EVEN FRIGHTENING CONCEPTS 27:13 HAVE ECLIPSED THE MANY CLEAR WARNING SIGNS THAT GOD HAS 27:16 GIVEN US IN HIS WORD TO HELP US REALLY UNDERSTAND THE SUBJECT 27:19 OF THE ANTICHRIST. 27:21 TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THIS INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT TOPIC, 27:24 WE HAVE PREPARED A FREE STUDY GUIDE FOR YOU, IT'S ENTITLED, 27:27 "WHO IS THE ANTICHRIST." 27:30 WHEN YOU READ THIS STUDY GUIDE SIDE BY SIDE WITH YOUR BIBLE, 27:33 YOU'LL HAVE NO DOUBTS ABOUT WHAT THE ANSWER IS. 27:36 PLEASE CALL THE TOLL-FREE NUMBER NOW AND ASK FOR 27:39 OFFER NUMBER 125á OR YOU CAN WRITE US. 27:43 IT'S AMAZING FACTS, OFFER 125á, P.O. 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