>>THIS PRESENTATION IS BROUGHT
TO YOU BY THE FRIENDS OF THE
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AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY. (MUSIC)
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>>PEOPLE SHOULD NOT
BE WORSHIPED AS GODS.
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THAT MAKES ANOTHER
GOD. THAT'S WHY DANIEL WOULD
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NOT PRAY TO DARIUS. BUT
DOES THE CATHOLIC CHURCH PUT
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ITSELF IN A POSITION OF MAKING
A MAN MORE THAN JUST A MAN?
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>>FOR OVER 40 YEARS AMAZING
FACTS HAS BEEN DEDICATED TO
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SHARING GOD'S
WORD THROUGH MEDIA.
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THIS PROGRAM FEATURES HIGHLIGHTS
FROM SOME OF OUR BEST TELEVISION
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BROADCASTS. WE
INVITE YOU TO SIT BACK AND
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ENJOY THIS EDITION OF
AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS.
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>>I WANT TO WELCOME YOU, AGAIN,
TO THIS SPECIAL PRESENTATION OF
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THE LANDMARKS OF PROPHECY AND
TODAY WE HAVE A STUDY TALKING
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ABOUT BOWING TO THE BEAST
AND IT'S BASED UPON A STORY THAT
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WE'VE ALREADY TOUCHED ON
BEGINNING IN DANIEL CHAPTER 2.
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YOU REMEMBER KING NEBUCHADNEZZAR
HAD A DREAM OF A GIANT IMAGE.
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REMEMBER THE HEAD WAS OF GOLD?
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IT OUTLINES THE
HISTORY OF THE WORLD.
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IT GIVES US THOSE LANDMARKS OF
PROPHECY: SILVER - MEDO-PERSIA;
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BRONZE - BELLY - WAS GREECE; THE
IRON LEGS - ROME; FEET OF IRON
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AND CLAY - THE BREAK
UP OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE.
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NEBUCHADNEZZAR LIKED THE PART OF
IT WHERE IT SAID, 'YOU ARE THIS
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HEAD OF GOLD.' BUT HE DIDN'T
LIKE THE OTHER PART OF THE
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INTERPRETATION THAT SAID, 'AFTER
THEE SHALL ARISE ANOTHER KINGDOM
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INFERIOR TO THEE.' SO
HE CAME UP WITH AN IDEA.
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HE THOUGHT, 'IF THAT GREAT
IMAGE - THAT GREAT STATUE THAT I
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DREAMED OF REPRESENTS THE
KINGDOMS OF THE WORLD - IF THE
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TOP BEING GOLD REPRESENTS
BABYLON, WHAT IF I MAKE WHAT I
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SAW IN THAT DREAM,
EXCEPT MAKE IT ALL GOLD.
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AND I'LL TELL THE WHOLE WORLD,
'THIS IS GOING TO BE THE GOD
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THAT WE WORSHIP.' BABYLON WILL
LAST FOREVER.' HE THOUGHT HE
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COULD SOMEHOW CHANGE THE DREAM
BY DOING THIS - A VERY DRIVEN
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KING. SO THAT'S
JUST WHAT HE DID.
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HE MADE AN IMAGE OF GOLD AND
IT WAS PROBABLY THE BIGGEST ONE
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THAT'S EVER
BEEN MADE IN HISTORY.
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AND THEN HE TELLS EVERYBODY
- GATHERS THE WHO'S WHO IN HIS
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EMPIRE AND THEY ALL COME TO THE
PLAINS OF DURA AND HE'S GOT THE
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WHOLE MASSIVE ORCHESTRA THERE
AND HE WAITS 'TIL THE RIGHT
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MOMENT AS THE SUN IS COMING UP.
AND IT'S COVERED WITH A SHEET
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AND HE TELLS EVERYBODY THAT
'WHEN WE UNVEIL THIS STATUE AND
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YOU HEAR THE MUSIC, EVERYBODY
MUST BOW DOWN AND WORSHIP.
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WE'RE GOING TO UNITE THE
EMPIRE OF BABYLON THROUGH COMMON
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WORSHIP.' IS THE
BEAST POWER GOING TO TRY
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THAT IN THE LAST DAYS? >>AMEN.
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>>AND SO HE GIVES THE SIGNAL,
THE MUSIC PLAYS, AND EVERYBODY
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BOWS DOWN. NOW THERE
WAS A LITTLE ENCOURAGEMENT.
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HE SAID, 'NOW, IF YOU DON'T
BOW DOWN' AND 'WHOSO FALLS NOT
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DOWN AND WORSHIPS, THE SAME HOUR
WILL BE CAST INTO THE MIDST OF A
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BURNING, FIERY FURNACE.' SO
THEY PLAYED THE MUSIC AND ALMOST
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EVERYBODY BOWED DOWN, EXCEPT
THERE WERE THREE HEBREWS AND
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NEBUCHADNEZZAR
KNEW WHO THEY WERE.
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HE RESPECTED THEM -
THREE OF HIS COUNSELORS.
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THEIR NAMES WERE HANANIAH,
MISHAEL, AND AZARIAH - HEBREW
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NAMES - BABYLONIAN NAMES -
SHADRACH, MESHACH, AND ABEDNEGO.
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AND THEY COULD
NOT BOW DOWN. WHY NOT?
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ONE OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS SAYS
YOU WILL NOT MAKE A GRAVEN IMAGE
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AND BOW DOWN TO
IT. IT'S VERY CLEAR.
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AND THEY SAID,
'WE HAVE TO CHOOSE.
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DO WE OBEY GOD
OR DO WE OBEY MAN?'
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THE LORD ACCOMPLISHED, THROUGH
THOSE THREE YOUNG MEN THAT DAY
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ON THE PLAINS OF DURA, WHAT HE
HAD BEEN WANTING TO DO THROUGH
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THE HEBREW NATION
FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS.
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HE HAD THEM STAND UP FOR
HIM AMONG THE PAGANS AND GLORIFY
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GOD.
NEBUCHADNEZZAR WAS OUTRAGED.
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HE SAID, 'DID I GET IT RIGHT
THAT YOU WOULDN'T BOW DOWN?
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I'LL TELL YOU WHAT,
I'LL GIVE YOU ANOTHER CHANCE.
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MAYBE YOU DIDN'T HEAR IT. I
DON'T WANT TO LOSE YOU GUYS,
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WHEN I PLAY THE MUSIC - WE'LL
PLAY IT ONE MORE TIME - YOU BOW
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DOWN OR YOU'RE GOING TO THE
FIERY FURNACE AND WHO'S GOING TO
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- WHAT GOD IS IT THAT'S
GOING TO SAVE YOU?' HE KNEW THEY
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WORSHIPED JEHOVAH - 'WHAT GOD IS
GOING TO SAVE YOU FROM MY HAND?'
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ONE OF THEM ANSWERED AND SAID,
'WE'RE NOT GOING TO BOW DOWN.
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YOU DON'T NEED TO
PLAY THE MUSIC AGAIN.
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'BUT BE IT KNOWN UNTO THEE, O
KING, THAT WE WILL NOT SERVE THY
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GODS NOR WORSHIP THE GOLDEN
IMAGE THAT THOU HAS SET UP.'
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NEBUCHADNEZZAR WAS IN A RAGE AND
IN HIS FURY, EVEN AS MUCH AS HE
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LOVED THESE YOUNG MEN, HE SAID,
'HOW DARE YOU TALK TO ME LIKE
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THAT? I'M THE KING!
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THIS IS A GOVERNMENT LAW.'
HE HAD THEM ALL TIED UP, JUST AS
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THEY WERE IN THEIR ROBES -
STRONGEST MEN IN THE KINGDOM -
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CHARGED TO THE MOUTH OF THIS
FURNACE THAT WAS HEATED UP SEVEN
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TIMES HOTTER THAN IT
SHOULD HAVE BEEN HEATED.
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THE WAVES OF HEAT
WERE JUST WAFTING OUT.
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ALL THREE OF THEM
WERE THROWN IN THE FURNACE.
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AND THEN NEBUCHADNEZZAR SAID,
'DID NOT WE CAST THREE MEN BOUND
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INTO THE MIDST OF THE FIRE?'
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AND HIS ADVISORS SAID, 'THAT'S
TRUE, O KING.' THE KING, PEERING
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OFF INTO THE FURNACE, HE SAID,
'I SEE FOUR MEN LOOSE WALKING IN
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THE MIDST OF THE FIRE AND THE
FORM OF THE FOURTH IS LIKE THE
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SON OF GOD.' YOU MAY GO THROUGH
FIERY TRIALS WHEN YOU STAND UP
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FOR JESUS, BUT THE GOOD
NEWS IS YOU DON'T GO ALONE.
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JUST LIKE GOD SENT HIS ANGEL TO
DANIEL IN THE LION'S DEN, JESUS
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WILL COME TO YOU
DURING YOUR TIME OF TRIAL.
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HE SAID, 'I WILL NEVER LEAVE
YOU NOR FORSAKE YOU.' AMEN?
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>>AMEN. >>NOW, THAT SAME TEST IS
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SOMETHING WE'RE GOING
TO FACE IN THE LAST DAYS.
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QUESTION #1: HOW DOES OUR STORY
IN DANIEL RELATE TO REVELATION?
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WE ALREADY SAW THIS, REVELATION
CHAPTER 13, VERSE 15, "...AS
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MANY AS WOULD NOT" - >>WORSHIP.
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>>"WORSHIP THE IMAGE OF
THE BEAST TO BE KILLED."
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WE'VE GOT TO KNOW AHEAD OF TIME
WHAT THE BEAST IS AND THAT WE'RE
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NOT GOING TO
COMPROMISE OUR CONVICTIONS.
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IT'S A DEATH
DECREE. IT DOESN'T GET ANY
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MORE SERIOUS THAN THAT.
QUESTION #2: NOW WHAT ARE THE
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THREE ANGELS'
MESSAGES IN REVELATION 14?
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VERY QUICKLY, IN REVELATION 14,
VERSE 7, THIS ANGEL COMES DOWN
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FROM HEAVEN, HE SAYS, 'FEAR GOD
AND GIVE GLORY TO HIM FOR THE
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HOUR OF HIS' - >>JUDGMENT.
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>>'JUDGMENT' -
WILL COME OR IS COME?
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>>IS COME. >>'IS COME.
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WORSHIP HIM THAT MADE HEAVEN AND
EARTH, THE SEA AND THE FOUNTAINS
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OF WATERS.' NOW,
YOU KNOW WHERE YOU FIND
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THAT PHRASE IN
THE OLD TESTAMENT?
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MOST OF REVELATION CAN BE FOUND
IN OTHER PLACES IN THE BIBLE.
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THAT COMES FROM
THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT.
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YOU CAN SEE IT THERE IN EXODUS
20, "FOR IN SIX DAYS THE LORD
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MADE THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH
AND THE SEA AND ALL THAT IS IN
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THEM. AND HE
RESTED THE SEVENTH DAY.
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THEREFORE THE LORD BLESSED THE
SABBATH DAY AND HALLOWED IT.'
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THIS IS A COMMANDMENT THAT
HAS LARGELY BEEN FORGOTTEN OR AT
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LEAST NEGLECTED BY MANY
CHRISTIANS AND IT MAY BE THE
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POINT OF
CONTROVERSY IN THE LAST DAYS.
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JUST LIKE YOU FIND IN DANIEL
CHAPTER 3, THE GOVERNMENT MAKES
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A LAW THAT SAYS YOU NEED TO
BREAK THE SECOND COMMANDMENT
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ABOUT IDOLATRY AND YOU'VE GOT TO
DECIDE, 'DO I WORSHIP GOD OR DO
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I BREAK THE SECOND COMMANDMENT?'
DANIEL CHAPTER 6, THE KING MAKES
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A LAW THAT SAYS EVERYBODY MUST
WORSHIP DARIUS INSTEAD OF GOD.
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DANIEL HAS TO DECIDE, 'DO
I KEEP THE FIRST COMMANDMENT
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OR DO I OBEY
THE GOVERNMENT LAW?'
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IN THE LAST DAYS THE DEVIL'S
GOING TO TAKE ONE OF GOD'S
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COMMANDMENTS - I BELIEVE IT'S
THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT - AND
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HE'S GOING TO SAY, 'DON'T WORRY
ABOUT THAT. EVEN THOUGH WE KNOW
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WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS.'
AND TELL US TO CHANGE IT.
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WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO CHOOSE
BETWEEN OBEYING GOD AND OBEYING
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MEN. IT HAS TO DO WITH WORSHIP.
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IT SAYS THE BEAST POWER WILL
THINK TO CHANGE TIMES AND LAWS.
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ONLY ONE COMMANDMENT
IS BOTH A TIME AND A LAW.
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REVELATION 14, CONTINUING ON
WITH THE SECOND ANGELS' MESSAGE,
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'THERE FOLLOWED ANOTHER
ANGEL SAYING,' - WHAT IS IT?
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- 'BABYLON IS FALLEN' - NOT
WILL FALL, IT'S HAPPENING NOW -
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'FALLEN, THAT
GREAT CITY,' - WHY?
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'BECAUSE SHE' - WHAT DOES
A WOMAN REPRESENT IN BIBLE
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ANALOGY? >>CHURCH.
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>>SO IF BABYLON IS A WOMAN, IS
IT A TRUE CHURCH OR A FALSE OR
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COUNTERFEIT? >>FALSE.
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>>OR COMPROMISED, AT LEAST,
CHURCH - 'BECAUSE SHE MADE ALL
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NATIONS DRINK THE WINE OF THE
WRATH OF HER FORNICATION.' AND
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THEN YOU COME TO ONE OF THE MOST
FEARFUL MESSAGES IN THE WHOLE
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NEW TESTAMENT - REVELATION 14,
SPEAKING OF THE THIRD ANGEL'S
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MESSAGE, 'IF ANY MAN WORSHIPS
THE BEAST AND HIS IMAGE, AND
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RECEIVES HIS MARK IN HIS
FOREHEAD OR HIS HAND, THE SAME
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WILL DRINK THE WINE OF THE
WRATH OF GOD.' SO THESE MESSAGES
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WARNING US ABOUT
WE'RE IN A TIME OF JUDGMENT.
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WE MUST RETURN TO
WORSHIPING THE TRUE GOD.
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DO NOT WORSHIP THE
BEAST. BABYLON IS FALLEN.
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COME OUT OF HER MY PEOPLE.
YOU SEE, GOD HAS HIS PEOPLE,
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RIGHT NOW, IN MANY DIFFERENT
CHURCHES AND RELIGIONS AROUND
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THE WORLD, BUT THE DEVIL HAS
BROUGHT ALL KINDS OF CONFUSION
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- THAT'S WHAT BABYLON IS ABOUT.
THE TOWER OF BABEL WAS CONFUSION
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- RELIGIOUS CONFUSION
HAS PERMEATED THE CHURCHES.
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ALL THESE DIFFERENT DOCTRINES
THAT DIVIDE US, WE'RE GOING TO
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COME BACK ON
BIBLICAL UNITY BASED ON TRUTH.
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WHAT DOES A BEAST
REPRESENT IN BIBLE PROPHECIES?
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WHEN I TALK TO YOU ABOUT
THE EAGLE, WHAT COUNTRY IS OFTEN
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SYMBOLIZED BY
THE EAGLE? >>AMERICA.
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>>UNITED STATES. AND WHEN
WE SAY, 'OH, THE BEAR IS HAVING
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PROBLEMS WITH THE
EAGLE' WHO AM I TALKING ABOUT?
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>>RUSSIA. >>AND THE
LION - WELL, SEVERAL
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COUNTRIES CLAIM THE
LION, BUT GREAT BRITAIN IS -
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AND WHEN YOU SAY 'THE
DRAGON' YOU THINK CHINA, RIGHT?
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THAT'S WHAT THEY USE. AND
SO, WHEN WE SAY 'MARK OF THE
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BEAST', MOST OF US ARE PICTURING
SOME DIABOLICAL-LOOKING,
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HORNED, HOOFED MONSTER.
AND WHEN YOU SAY THE U.S.
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IS ONE OF THESE BEASTS IN
PROPHECY, PEOPLE THINK YOU'RE
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BEING UNPATRIOTIC.
BUT BIBLICALLY, THEY USED
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BEASTS TO IDENTIFY NATIONS.
YOU LOOK IN DANIEL 7, VERSE 17,
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"THOSE GREAT" WHAT? "BEASTS,
WHICH ARE FOUR, ARE FOUR' WHAT?
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>>KINGS. >>FOUR
MONSTERS - NO, KINGDOMS.
00:11:04.89\00:11:07.76
SO WHEN I SAY THAT THE CATHOLIC
CHURCH AND THE UNITED STATES ARE
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BEASTS, WE'RE NOT
CALLING THEM MONSTERS.
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WE'RE SAYING THEY ARE POWERS.
THEY ARE POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS
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POWERS - THIS IS WHAT
THE BIBLE SAYS - THEY WERE
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KINGS OR KINGDOMS.
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>>YOU KNOW, FRIENDS, EVERYONE
IS INTERESTED IN WHAT THE BIBLE
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SAYS ABOUT THE FUTURE, AND WE
KNOW BIBLE PROPHECY TALKS ABOUT
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SOME OF THE ANCIENT KINGDOMS
LIKE BABYLON, MEDO-PERSIA, ROME
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- BUT YOU MIGHT BE
SURPRISED TO LEARN THE BOOK OF
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REVELATION, IN CHAPTER 13, TALKS
VERY SPECIFICALLY ABOUT THE
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND WE
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>>DANIEL 7:23, "...'THE FOURTH
BEAST SHALL BE A FOURTH KINGDOM
00:12:01.65\00:12:07.06
ON THE EARTH.'" ALRIGHT,
QUESTION #4 - SO WE KNOW WHAT A
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BEAST IS NOW. NOW, WITH THAT AS
A BACKGROUND, 'I STOOD UPON THE
00:12:09.66\00:12:13.29
SAND OF THE SEA
AND I SAW A' - WHAT?
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>>BEAST.
00:12:16.70\00:12:17.77
>>A BEAST RISE UP OUT OF
THE SEA.' MAKE A NOTE - SEA -
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BECAUSE THAT COMES UP LATER.
WHAT DOES THE OCEAN REPRESENT?
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- 'HAVING SEVEN HEADS AND
TEN HORNS AND UPON HIS HORNS TEN
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CROWNS AND UPON HIS HEADS THE
NAMES OF BLASPHEMY.' THIS BEAST
00:12:27.88\00:12:33.25
ARISES FROM THE SEA.
WHAT DOES SEA OR WATER
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SYMBOLIZE, BIBLICALLY?
YOU CAN LOOK IN REVELATION 17.
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THE ANGEL TELLS JOHN
WHAT THE WATERS REPRESENT.
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'THE WATERS WHICH THOU SAWEST
ARE PEOPLES AND MULTITUDES AND
00:12:43.86\00:12:48.86
NATIONS AND TONGUES' - MEANING
THIS POWER IS RISING UP FROM A
00:12:48.90\00:12:54.14
DENSELY POPULATED
CENTER OF CIVILIZATION.
00:12:54.17\00:12:58.47
WHERE DID THE ROMAN
CHURCH RISE UP FROM? ROME.
00:12:58.51\00:13:02.94
WHAT WAS THE CENTER OF
CIVILIZATION BACK IN THAT DAY?
00:13:02.98\00:13:06.48
WHO WAS IT THAT IMPRISONED
JOHN WHEN HE HAD HIS VISION?
00:13:06.51\00:13:09.78
ROME. HAVE YOU
HEARD THE EXPRESSION
00:13:09.82\00:13:12.59
'ALL ROADS LEAD TO' - >>ROME.
00:13:12.62\00:13:14.82
>>MINNEAPOLIS. NO,
THAT'S NOT HOW IT GOES.
00:13:14.86\00:13:17.23
(LAUGHTER) THEY ALL LEAD TO
ROME. AND SO IT WAS THE CENTER
00:13:17.26\00:13:20.73
AND IT'S TALKING ABOUT - OF
MANY PEOPLES - MANY NATIONS.
00:13:20.76\00:13:24.67
THAT'S WHY PAUL
WANTED TO GO PREACH IN ROME.
00:13:24.70\00:13:26.84
HE ENDED UP DYING THERE - AS DID
PETER - THEY WANTED TO GO AND
00:13:26.87\00:13:29.40
GET THE GOSPEL AT THIS
FOUNTAIN OF CIVILIZATION.
00:13:29.44\00:13:32.34
SO THAT'S WHERE IT
WOULD RISE UP FROM.
00:13:32.37\00:13:34.71
WHO GIVES THE BEAST
HIS POWER AND HIS POSITION?
00:13:34.74\00:13:37.75
REVELATION 13:2, "AND THE" -
00:13:37.78\00:13:40.92
>>THE DRAGON.
>>"THE DRAGON GAVE HIM HIS
00:13:40.95\00:13:43.15
POWER, AND HIS SEAT, AND GREAT
AUTHORITY." NOW, THE DRAGON, WE
00:13:43.18\00:13:47.89
KNOW WHO'S BEHIND THE
DRAGON IS PRINCIPALLY THE DEVIL.
00:13:47.92\00:13:51.33
BUT, IN PARTICULAR, IN
REVELATION 12, IT'S ALSO TALKING
00:13:51.36\00:13:56.16
ABOUT THE ROMAN EMPIRE RULED
BY THE CAESARS OR PAGAN ROME.
00:13:56.20\00:14:02.17
WHEN YOU LOOK IN REVELATION 12
- WE HAVE ANOTHER STUDY THAT'S
00:14:02.20\00:14:05.57
GOING TO GO INTO THAT - IT TALKS
ABOUT THIS BEAST POWER, THE
00:14:05.61\00:14:10.05
DRAGON, TRYING TO KILL ALL
THE MALE CHILDREN IN BETHLEHEM.
00:14:10.08\00:14:15.22
THAT'S IN REVELATION 12.
WHAT POWER IS IT THAT TRIED
00:14:15.25\00:14:18.15
TO KILL ALL THE
BABY BOYS? IT WAS ROME.
00:14:18.19\00:14:20.82
ROME - YOU'VE GOT TWO ROMES IN
PROPHECY HERE, YOU'VE GOT ROME
00:14:20.86\00:14:25.43
THAT IS IRON AND YOU HAVE
ROME THAT IS IRON AND CLAY.
00:14:25.46\00:14:29.80
ONE IS
POLITICAL/MILITARY, THE OTHER IS
00:14:29.83\00:14:33.10
POLITICAL/MILITARY/RELIGIOUS
- MAN IS MADE OUT OF CLAY.
00:14:33.13\00:14:36.81
YOU'VE GOT ONE ROME LED BY
CAESARS, BUT THEN AS THE CAESARS
00:14:36.84\00:14:40.61
BEGAN TO DECLINE, IN THEIR PLACE
THE CHURCH BECAME LEGAL AND NOW
00:14:40.64\00:14:44.85
YOU HAVE ROME LED
BY THE CHURCH, RIGHT?
00:14:44.88\00:14:48.45
AND SO THIS IS ALL IT'S SAYING
IS THE DRAGON, MEANING PAGAN
00:14:48.48\00:14:50.75
ROME, RULED BY CAESARS, GAVE HIS
SEAT - HANDED OVER THE SEAT -
00:14:50.79\00:14:55.46
SAME KINGDOM, SAME CITY, SAME
PALACE - TO THE CHURCH OF ROME.
00:14:55.49\00:14:59.93
AND SO THESE PAGANS THAT WERE
TOLD 'NOW YOU'RE CHRISTIANS',
00:14:59.96\00:15:02.73
THEY BROUGHT ALL THEIR
PAGAN BELIEFS INTO THE CHURCH.
00:15:02.76\00:15:08.54
ONE COMMENTATOR FROM HISTORY -
THIS IS ABBOTT'S ROMAN HISTORY -
00:15:08.57\00:15:12.47
HE SAID "THE TRANSFER OF
THE EMPEROR'S RESIDENCE TO
00:15:12.51\00:15:15.01
CONSTANTINOPLE" - CONSTANTINOPLE
NAMED AFTER CONSTANTINE - "WAS
00:15:15.04\00:15:19.58
A SAD BLOW TO THE PRESTIGE OF
ROME AND, AT THE TIME, ONE MIGHT
00:15:19.61\00:15:22.98
HAVE PREDICTED HER SPEEDY
DECLINE BUT, WHEN THE EMPEROR
00:15:23.02\00:15:26.82
JUSTINIAN TRANSFERRED
THE HEADQUARTERS FROM ROME TO
00:15:26.86\00:15:29.96
CONSTANTINOPLE YOU WOULD HAVE
THOUGHT THE CITY OF ROME IS NO
00:15:29.99\00:15:32.43
LONGER THE CAPITOL, IT'S
JUST GOING TO FALL APART.
00:15:32.46\00:15:34.76
BUT HISTORIANS TELL US THE
DEVELOPMENT OF THE CHURCH AND
00:15:34.83\00:15:39.60
THE GROWING AUTHORITY OF THE
BISHOP OF ROME - OR THE POPE -
00:15:39.63\00:15:43.14
GAVE HER (ROME) A NEW LEASE
ON LIFE AND MADE HER, AGAIN, THE
00:15:43.17\00:15:46.88
CAPITOL OF THE RELIGIOUS -
CAPITOL OF THE WORLD - THIS TIME
00:15:46.91\00:15:49.88
THE RELIGIOUS CAPITOL
OF THE CIVILIZED WORLD."
00:15:49.91\00:15:52.98
AND WE KNOW FROM HISTORY,
THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED.
00:15:53.01\00:15:55.48
THAT'S WHY IT'S NOT JUST CALLED
THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH OR EVEN THE
00:15:55.52\00:15:57.65
CATHOLIC CHURCH, BUT IT'S CALLED
THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH.
00:15:57.69\00:16:01.19
HOW DID THE HEADQUARTERS OF
CHRISTIANITY MOVE FROM JERUSALEM
00:16:01.22\00:16:04.09
TO ROME? WHERE
WAS THAT AUTHORIZED?
00:16:04.13\00:16:07.76
YOU READ IN THE BIBLE THEY
HAD THEIR COUNCILS IN JERUSALEM.
00:16:07.76\00:16:11.53
DO YOU REMEMBER READING THAT
IN ACTS CHAPTER 15 AND OTHER
00:16:11.57\00:16:13.77
PLACES? IN THE HISTORY FROM THE
00:16:13.80\00:16:16.24
UNIVERSITY OF ROME IT SAYS, "TO
THE SUCCESSION OF THE CAESARS
00:16:16.27\00:16:19.27
CAME THE SUCCESSION OF THE
PONTIFFS OR THE POPES IN ROME.
00:16:19.31\00:16:23.24
WHEN CONSTANTINE LEFT ROME HE
GAVE HIS SEAT TO THE PONTIFF."
00:16:23.28\00:16:27.68
AND SO THERE WAS A TRANSFER OF
AUTHORITY. DIDN'T WE JUST READ
00:16:27.72\00:16:30.29
THAT - IT SAYS IN THE BIBLE,
'HE WILL GIVE HIM HIS SEAT'?
00:16:30.32\00:16:33.52
THE DRAGON GAVE HIM
HIS SEAT, POWER, AND
00:16:33.56\00:16:35.26
GREAT AUTHORITY. THAT'S
THAT DRAGON POWER OF ROME
00:16:35.29\00:16:38.19
THAT KILLED JESUS THAT
DROVE THE NAILS IN HIS HANDS.
00:16:38.23\00:16:40.70
HOW FAR-REACHING IS
THE INFLUENCE OF THE BEAST?
00:16:40.73\00:16:44.00
WELL, IT SAYS HE CAUSES ALL -
REVELATION 13:3 - HE MAKES ALL
00:16:44.03\00:16:48.77
THE WORLD TO WORSHIP AND ALL THE
WORLD WONDERS AFTER THE BEAST.
00:16:48.80\00:16:53.31
IT TELLS US IN REVELATION 13:7,
'AN AUTHORITY WAS GIVEN HIM OVER
00:16:53.34\00:16:57.25
EVERY TRIBE, TONGUE AND NATION'
IT'S A GLOBAL POWER. DO YOU KNOW
00:16:57.28\00:17:04.09
WHAT THE WORD CATHOLIC
MEANS? IT MEANS UNIVERSAL.
00:17:04.12\00:17:07.86
DOES ANYONE HERE NOT KNOW THAT
THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH IS A
00:17:07.89\00:17:11.03
UNIVERSAL - NOT A
CHURCH ONLY, BUT A POWER.
00:17:11.06\00:17:16.83
ARE YOU AWARE THAT THE VATICAN
IS NOT ONLY A RELIGION, THE
00:17:16.87\00:17:19.03
VATICAN IS THE
SMALLEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD?
00:17:19.07\00:17:21.24
IT HAS AMBASSADORS.
IT HAS ITS OWN MONEY.
00:17:21.27\00:17:23.57
IT HAS ITS OWN
RAILROAD. IT'S VERY SMALL.
00:17:23.61\00:17:25.87
IT HAS ITS OWN POSTAL SYSTEM.
IT'S OWN GUARD - SWISS GUARD -
00:17:25.91\00:17:30.41
IT IS AN INDEPENDENT
COUNTRY. WHAT COMES OUT OF THE
00:17:30.45\00:17:33.55
MOUTH OF THE BEAST?
WELL, I TELL - THIS IS WHERE IT
00:17:33.58\00:17:37.05
GETS A LITTLE SERIOUS, FRIENDS,
BUT WE'VE GOT TO BE HONEST.
00:17:37.09\00:17:39.29
REVELATION 13, VERSE 6, IT SAYS,
"AND HE OPENED HIS MOUTH IN" -
00:17:39.32\00:17:43.16
WHAT'S THAT WORD? -
"BLASPHEMY AGAINST GOD,
00:17:43.19\00:17:46.73
TO BLASPHEME HIS NAME."
NOW YOU CAN ALSO READ ABOUT THE
00:17:46.76\00:17:51.60
BEAST POWER IN 2 THESSALONIANS
CHAPTER 2, VERSE 4.
00:17:51.63\00:17:56.30
IT SAYS, HE "OPPOSES AND EXALTS
HIMSELF ABOVE ALL THAT IS CALLED
00:17:56.34\00:17:59.57
GOD, OR THAT IS WORSHIPPED;
SO THAT HE AS GOD SITS IN THE
00:17:59.61\00:18:04.18
TEMPLE OF GOD, SHOWING
HIMSELF THAT HE IS GOD."
00:18:04.21\00:18:06.85
BLASPHEMY MEANS WHEN A PERSON
PUTS THEMSELF IN THE POSITION OF
00:18:06.88\00:18:10.35
GOD. NOW JUST IN CASE YOU DON'T
00:18:10.39\00:18:11.95
BELIEVE MY DEFINITION,
THIS IS THE BIBLICAL DEFINITION.
00:18:11.99\00:18:15.76
IF YOU LOOK IN JOHN 10:33
IT SAYS THAT THE JEWS WERE
00:18:15.79\00:18:20.16
PREPARING TO STONE JESUS.
THEY ANSWERED AND SAID, 'FOR A
00:18:20.20\00:18:23.67
GOOD WORK WE DO NOT
STONE YOU, BUT FOR' - WHAT?
00:18:23.70\00:18:27.07
- FOR BLASPHEMY AND BECAUSE YOU,
BEING A MAN, MAKE YOURSELF GOD.'
00:18:27.10\00:18:33.91
PEOPLE SHOULD NOT
BE WORSHIPED AS GODS.
00:18:33.94\00:18:37.15
THAT MAKES ANOTHER
GOD. THAT'S WHY DANIEL WOULD
00:18:37.18\00:18:39.78
NOT PRAY TO DARIUS. BUT
DOES THE CATHOLIC CHURCH PUT
00:18:39.81\00:18:43.79
ITSELF IN A POSITION OF MAKING
A MAN MORE THAN JUST A MAN?
00:18:43.82\00:18:47.29
THIS IS A QUOTE FROM POPE
LEO THE XIII, "WE HOLD UPON THIS
00:18:47.32\00:18:51.49
EARTH THE PLACE
OF GOD ALMIGHTY."
00:18:51.53\00:18:54.13
- THAT'S ACTUALLY A
PAINTING OF HIM AS WELL.
00:18:54.20\00:18:55.96
ANOTHER DEFINITION OF BLASPHEMY:
'AND THE SCRIBES AND THE
00:18:56.00\00:18:58.83
PHARISEES BEGAN TO REASON
SAYING, 'WHO IS THIS THAT SPEAKS
00:18:58.87\00:19:02.14
BLASPHEMY? WHO CAN FORGIVE
00:19:02.17\00:19:04.01
SINS BUT GOD ALONE?'
SO, FOR A MAN TO CLAIM THE
00:19:04.04\00:19:07.54
ABILITY TO
FORGIVE SINS IS BLASPHEMY.
00:19:07.58\00:19:09.98
DID JESUS SAY HE
COULD FORGIVE SIN?
00:19:10.01\00:19:12.01
HE DID. WHAT RIGHT DID HE
00:19:12.05\00:19:13.62
HAVE TO DO THAT?
HE IS THE SON OF GOD.
00:19:13.65\00:19:16.22
NOW HE TOLD THE WOMAN - MAYBE IT
WAS MARY MAGDALENE - 'GO AND SIN
00:19:16.25\00:19:19.25
NO MORE.' HE WAS
GOING TO FORGIVE HER.
00:19:19.29\00:19:20.69
HE TOLD THE MAN LET DOWN
THROUGH THE ROOF, 'YOUR SINS ARE
00:19:20.72\00:19:22.66
FORGIVEN.' THEY
SAID, 'THAT'S BLASPHEMY!'
00:19:22.69\00:19:24.83
AND THEY WERE RIGHT - IF
HE WASN'T THE SON OF GOD.
00:19:24.86\00:19:28.33
BUT WHEN A MAN SAYS, 'I HAVE THE
AUTHORITY TO DECIDE WHOSE SINS
00:19:28.36\00:19:31.13
I'M GOING TO FORGIVE'
THAT'S DEFINED AS BLASPHEMY.
00:19:31.17\00:19:33.87
NOW, HERE'S FROM THE BOOK
ON DIGNITIES AND DUTIES OF THE
00:19:33.90\00:19:37.47
PRIESTS, VOL. 12 , "GOD HIMSELF
IS OBLIGED TO ABIDE BY THE
00:19:37.51\00:19:42.18
JUDGMENT OF HIS PRIESTS
AND EITHER NOT TO PARDON OR TO
00:19:42.21\00:19:45.65
PARDON AS THEY EITHER REFUSE OR
GIVE ABSOLUTION. THE SENTENCE OF
00:19:45.68\00:19:50.79
THE PRIEST PROCEEDS
AND GOD SUBSCRIBES TO IT."
00:19:50.82\00:19:54.12
IT'S SAYING THE MAN - THE CHURCH
- DECIDES WHO IS FORGIVEN.
00:19:54.16\00:19:57.99
WHERE IN THE BIBLE DOES IT SAY
YOU HAVE TO CONFESS YOUR SINS TO
00:19:58.03\00:20:00.86
A PRIEST IN
ORDER TO BE FORGIVEN?
00:20:00.90\00:20:02.93
THE BIBLE SAYS YOU
CONFESS YOUR SINS TO GOD.
00:20:02.96\00:20:05.37
YOU CONFESS YOUR
FAULTS TO ONE ANOTHER.
00:20:05.40\00:20:08.00
HOW LONG WOULD THIS FIRST BEAST
POWER - TALKING ABOUT REVELATION
00:20:08.04\00:20:11.87
13:1 - THE FIRST BEAST NOW - HOW
LONG WOULD BE ITS PRIMARY RULE?
00:20:11.91\00:20:16.48
IT GIVES US A TIME PERIOD,
"AND POWER WAS GIVEN UNTO HIM TO
00:20:16.51\00:20:19.58
CONTINUE" - HOW LONG?
- "FORTY AND TWO MONTHS."
00:20:19.61\00:20:23.52
FORTY-TWO MONTHS - THE
JEWISH YEAR HAD 360 DAYS - LUNAR
00:20:23.55\00:20:27.32
CALENDAR - 42 MONTHS WAS THREE
AND A HALF YEARS - 1,260 DAYS.
00:20:27.36\00:20:34.40
THE LEGALLY RECOGNIZED SUPREMACY
OF THE POPE BEGAN IN 538.
00:20:34.46\00:20:38.80
THIS IS A VERY WELL ESTABLISHED
DATE IN HISTORY WHEN THERE WENT
00:20:38.83\00:20:41.77
INTO EFFECT A DECREE OF EMPEROR
JUSTINIAN MAKING THE BISHOP OF
00:20:41.80\00:20:44.91
ROME THE HEAD OVER ALL THE
CHURCHES, DEFINER OF DOCTRINE,
00:20:44.94\00:20:49.04
CORRECTOR OF HERETICS, AND
HE WAS GIVEN AN ARMY TO FORCE
00:20:49.08\00:20:52.98
PEOPLE TO BELIEVE.
NOW, DID JESUS USE AN
00:20:53.01\00:20:54.85
ARMY TO GET BELIEVERS? SO
IT STARTED TO KILL PEOPLE THAT
00:20:54.88\00:20:58.75
DIDN'T BELIEVE
WHAT THE CHURCH TAUGHT.
00:20:58.79\00:21:00.86
THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH
WAS NEVER TOLD TO DO THAT.
00:21:00.89\00:21:03.56
AND THEN YOU CAN READ "VIGILIUS
ASCENDED THE PAPAL CHAIR IN 538
00:21:03.59\00:21:08.30
UNDER THE MILITARY
PROTECTION OF BELISARIUS."
00:21:08.33\00:21:11.87
THAT'S HISTORY OF THE
CHRISTIAN CHURCH, VOL. 3 .
00:21:11.90\00:21:14.30
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE
BEAST AFTER THE 42 MONTHS?
00:21:14.34\00:21:17.57
YOU CAN READ IN REVELATION
CHAPTER 13, VERSE 3, "AND I SAW
00:21:17.61\00:21:21.94
ONE OF HIS HEADS AS IT WERE
WOUNDED TO DEATH; AND HIS DEADLY
00:21:21.98\00:21:25.91
WOUND WAS HEALED: AND ALL THE
WORLD WONDERED AFTER THE BEAST."
00:21:25.95\00:21:30.42
WELL, IF YOU START WITH 42
MONTHS, A DAY IN BIBLE PROPHECY
00:21:30.45\00:21:36.49
IS HOW LONG? 'I HAVE
APPOINTED YOU A DAY FOR
00:21:36.52\00:21:38.69
A YEAR.' 42 MONTHS HAS
1,260 DAYS, BUT THAT REALLY
00:21:38.73\00:21:43.13
MEANS 1,260 YEARS. IF
YOU START IN 538 AND YOU GO
00:21:43.16\00:21:48.84
1,260 YEARS, THAT COMES TO 1798.
AND SO WHAT HAPPENED IN 1798?
00:21:48.87\00:21:56.71
DO YOU REALIZE THAT FROM 538
UNTIL 1798, THE ROMAN CHURCH HAD
00:21:56.75\00:22:00.38
VIRTUALLY
UNINTERRUPTED POWER OVER EUROPE?
00:22:00.42\00:22:03.22
BUT IN 1798, FOLLOWING THE WARS
OF NAPOLEON, NAPOLEON SENT HIS
00:22:03.25\00:22:08.32
GENERAL BERTHIER INTO ROME, HE
ABOLISHED THE PAPAL GOVERNMENT
00:22:08.36\00:22:15.10
AND HE
ESTABLISHED A SECULAR ONE.
00:22:15.13\00:22:17.33
AT THAT TIME THE ROMAN
CHURCH RECEIVED A DEADLY WOUND.
00:22:17.37\00:22:20.54
THEY LOST THEIR SWAY OVER EUROPE
AND MANY OF THE CHURCH LEADERS
00:22:20.57\00:22:23.81
WERE SLAIN DURING THAT TIME.
THE POPE, HIMSELF, WAS CARRIED
00:22:23.84\00:22:26.17
OFF INTO CAPTIVITY IN
VALANCE, WHERE HE DIED.
00:22:26.21\00:22:30.68
NOW IT STAYED THAT WAY.
IT LOOKED LIKE THE CHURCH HAD
00:22:30.71\00:22:33.21
LOST ITS SWAY OVER EUROPE,
BUT THE DEADLY WOUND WAS HEALED.
00:22:33.25\00:22:38.05
HERE IS ACTUALLY A COPY OF THE
NEWSPAPER FROM 1929 - THIS IS
00:22:38.09\00:22:42.12
THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE -
WHEN THE VATICAN WAS ONCE AGAIN
00:22:42.16\00:22:46.03
RE-INSTATED AS AN
INDEPENDENT COUNTRY.
00:22:46.06\00:22:49.10
IT SAYS, "THE ROMAN QUESTION
TONIGHT WAS A THING OF THE PAST
00:22:49.13\00:22:51.43
AND THE VATICAN WAS AT PEACE.
00:22:51.47\00:22:52.97
IN AFFIXING AUTOGRAPHS TO THE
MEMORABLE DOCUMENT, HEALING THE
00:22:53.00\00:22:57.07
WOUND" - ISN'T THAT
INTERESTING LANGUAGE?
00:22:57.11\00:22:59.17
DIDN'T WE FIND THAT THE
DEADLY WOUND WAS HEALED?
00:22:59.21\00:23:01.84
- "HEALING THE WOUND
THAT HAD GONE ON SINCE 1798.
00:23:01.88\00:23:05.08
THERE WAS GREAT CORDIALITY
DISPLAYED BY BOTH PARTIES.
00:23:05.11\00:23:08.22
THIS ESTABLISHED" - AND
MUSSOLINI WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN
00:23:08.25\00:23:10.92
THAT. YOU'VE
HEARD OF HIM - "THIS
00:23:10.95\00:23:13.15
ESTABLISHED THE VATICAN, ONCE
AGAIN, AS AN INDEPENDENT COUNTRY
00:23:13.19\00:23:16.99
THAT HAD AMBASSADORS GOING,
NOT NOW JUST TO THE LEADERS OF
00:23:17.03\00:23:19.89
EUROPE, BUT TO THE
WHOLE WORLD. THE U.S.
00:23:19.93\00:23:23.43
HAS AN
AMBASSADOR TO THE VATICAN.
00:23:23.47\00:23:24.87
WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
THAT'S A LOT OF POWER.
00:23:24.90\00:23:28.40
MATTER OF FACT, POPE FRANCIS,
IN PARTICULAR, IS A VERY UNIQUE
00:23:28.44\00:23:31.01
MAN. HE'S THE
FIRST JESUIT POPE AND,
00:23:31.04\00:23:35.24
TO HAVE ONE POPE RESIGN - POPE
BENEDICT XVI - AND THEN TO HAVE
00:23:35.28\00:23:39.51
ANOTHER POPE WHO COMES FROM
OBSCURITY FROM ANOTHER COUNTRY -
00:23:39.55\00:23:44.52
FROM ANOTHER CONTINENT, WHO
HAS GONE TO SUCH INTERNATIONAL
00:23:44.55\00:23:47.12
PROMINENCE - HE'S IN THE
HEADLINES EVERY SINGLE WEEK
00:23:47.16\00:23:50.56
AND IT'S USUALLY SOME
KIND OF EARTH-SHAKING NEWS.
00:23:50.59\00:23:54.56
THE PAPACY HAS DEFINITELY GAINED
WORLDWIDE INFLUENCE, PRESTIGE,
00:23:54.60\00:23:58.57
AND PROMINENCE. HE
SEEMS LIKE A LOVELY MAN.
00:23:58.60\00:24:02.07
I'M NOT TALKING
ABOUT THE PERSON.
00:24:02.10\00:24:03.84
HE JUST SEEMS SO KIND AND
APPROACHABLE AND DOWN TO EARTH,
00:24:03.87\00:24:08.41
BUT WHAT WE'RE DEALING
WITH IS THE TEACHINGS -
00:24:08.44\00:24:11.01
THE OFFICIAL
TEACHINGS HAVE NOT CHANGED.
00:24:11.05\00:24:12.71
YOU KNOW THE CHURCH, THEY
BASICALLY CLAIM INFALLIBILITY.
00:24:12.75\00:24:15.72
I CAN SHOW YOU
THAT IN BLACK AND WHITE.
00:24:15.75\00:24:17.72
THEY CLAIM TO HAVE THE
ABILITY TO FORGIVE SINS.
00:24:17.75\00:24:19.89
WHAT IS THE MYSTERIOUS NUMBER
THAT IDENTIFIES THE BEAST?
00:24:19.92\00:24:24.39
THIS IS WHERE IT
GETS VERY INTERESTING.
00:24:24.43\00:24:26.06
NOW WE'RE GETTING TO THE END OF
REVELATION 13:18 - IT SAYS, "HIS
00:24:26.09\00:24:29.90
NUMBER IS" - WHAT? - "SIX
HUNDRED THREESCORE AND SIX."
00:24:29.93\00:24:34.74
THE OFFICIAL TITLE FOR THE POPE
- IT SAYS 'IT'S THE NUMBER OF A
00:24:34.77\00:24:39.37
MAN' - IT MEANS A FIGUREHEAD.
IT'S NOT ANY ONE PARTICULAR
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POPE, BUT IT'S A
POSITION. IT'S AN OFFICE.
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THIS IS FROM POPE JOHN PAUL'S
BOOK CROSSING THE THRESHOLD OF
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HOPE , "CONFRONTED WITH THE
POPE ONE MUST MAKE A CHOICE, THE
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LEADER OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
IS DEFINED BY THE FAITH AS THE
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VICAR OF JESUS CHRIST" - THAT
TITLE - VICAR OF JESUS CHRIST -
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IN LATIN IS VICARIUS FILII
DEI. THAT'S THE POSITION THAT -
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THAT'S HIS OFFICIAL
TITLE - "AND IS ACCEPTED AS
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SUCH BY BELIEVERS. THE
POPE IS CONSIDERED THE MAN
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WHO ON EARTH REPRESENTS THE
SON OF GOD WHO TAKES THE PLACE
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OF THE SECOND PERSON OF THE
OMNIPOTENT GOD OF THE TRINITY."
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IT FRIGHTENS ME FOR ANY MAN TO
SAY, 'I TAKE THE PLACE OF JESUS
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ON EARTH. THAT'S THEIR TEACHING.
00:25:23.42\00:25:26.62
NOW, HERE'S A QUOTE FROM
A DOCUMENT THAT ACTUALLY HAS
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MYSTERIOUSLY GONE MISSING.
WHAT ARE THE LETTERS ON THE
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POPE'S CROWN AND WHAT DO THEY
SIGNIFY? AND IT SAYS - THIS WAS
00:25:34.76\00:25:39.03
FROM APRIL 18, 1915 - "THE
LETTERS ON THE POPE'S CROWN ARE
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THESE: VICARIUS FILII
DEI, WHICH IS LATIN FOR
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VICAR OF THE SON OF GOD."
WHEN YOU TAKE THAT LATIN TITLE
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AND YOU CONVERT IT TO USING
ROMAN NUMERALS TO THEIR NUMBER
00:25:48.51\00:25:53.82
EQUIVALENT, YOU KNOW, IN
ENGLISH, OUR LETTERS DON'T HAVE
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NUMERICAL VALUE, BUT THE
ROMAN LETTER V REPRESENTS WHAT?
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>>FIVE. >>HOW MANY
OF YOU REMEMBER YOUR
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ROMAN NUMERALS? I IS? >>ONE.
00:26:02.56\00:26:05.09
>>X IS? >>TEN.
00:26:05.13\00:26:07.40
>>TEN. C? A HUNDRED
- LIKE CENTURY, RIGHT?
00:26:07.40\00:26:12.20
M IS MILLENNIUM OR A THOUSAND.
SO YOU TAKE THE ROMAN NUMERALS,
00:26:12.23\00:26:16.84
YOU TAKE THE TITLE OF THE POPE -
VICARIUS FILII DEI - AND YOU ADD
00:26:16.87\00:26:20.54
THAT UP AND WHAT
DOES IT COME TO? 666.
00:26:20.58\00:26:25.05
IT'S THE NUMBER OF
A MAN - HIS OWN TITLE.
00:26:25.08\00:26:28.45
THROUGHOUT REVELATION THAT
NUMBER, 7, REPRESENTS PERFECTION
00:26:28.48\00:26:32.32
OR COMPLETENESS.
THE NUMBER 6 REPRESENTS
00:26:32.35\00:26:34.39
IMPERFECTION.
IT'S THE BASIS FOR THE
00:26:34.42\00:26:36.62
BABYLONIAN
SYSTEM OF CALCULATION.
00:26:36.66\00:26:39.23
A TRIPLE 6, THEREFORE,
SYMBOLIZES A TRIPLE UNION OF
00:26:39.26\00:26:42.30
ERROR - THE UNION OF THE
DRAGON, THE BEAST, AND THE FALSE
00:26:42.33\00:26:45.60
PROPHET. THE BIBLE IS WHAT WE
00:26:45.63\00:26:48.64
NEED TO GO BY, AMEN? THE
BIBLE SAYS THAT WE'RE NOT
00:26:48.67\00:26:51.91
TO BOW DOWN TO
STATUES, RIGHT? >>RIGHT.
00:26:51.94\00:26:55.08
>>THE CATHOLIC CHURCH SAYS THAT
WE CAN BOW DOWN - AND SHOULD -
00:26:55.11\00:26:57.48
BOW DOWN TO STATUES.
THE BIBLE TEACHES THAT ALL
00:26:57.51\00:26:59.88
CHRISTIANS ARE
SAINTS AND PRIESTS.
00:26:59.91\00:27:02.12
CATHOLIC CHURCH TEACHES THAT
SAINTS AND PRIESTS ARE A SPECIAL
00:27:02.15\00:27:05.09
CLASS WITHIN THE
CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY.
00:27:05.12\00:27:07.86
THE BIBLE TEACHES THAT WE SHOULD
CALL NO RELIGIOUS LEADER FATHER
00:27:07.89\00:27:11.23
- MATTHEW 23:9 - YOU KNOW,
JESUS SAID CALL NO MAN FATHER.
00:27:11.26\00:27:14.76
YOU HAVE ONE
FATHER WHICH IS IN HEAVEN.
00:27:14.83\00:27:16.56
OF COURSE, THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
TELLS US TO CALL PRIESTS AND THE
00:27:16.60\00:27:19.20
POPE 'FATHER'. THE
BIBLE TEACHES TO CONFESS
00:27:19.23\00:27:21.77
YOUR SINS TO GOD ONLY.
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH SAYS YOU
00:27:21.80\00:27:24.31
MUST CONFESS YOUR SINS TO
THE PRIEST FOR FORGIVENESS.
00:27:24.34\00:27:27.14
THE TEACHING OF PURGATORY,
LIMBO, PRAYERS FOR THE DEAD -
00:27:27.18\00:27:30.35
ARE NOWHERE IN SCRIPTURES, BUT
THEY'RE RELICS OF PAGANISM THAT
00:27:30.38\00:27:33.25
FOUND THEIR WAY INTO
CHRISTIANITY AND BEFORE JESUS
00:27:33.28\00:27:35.75
COMES HE IS CALLING
HIS PEOPLE OUT OF BABYLON.
00:27:35.78\00:27:39.75
THERE ARE GOOD, LOVING,
SPIRIT-FILLED PEOPLE IN MANY
00:27:39.79\00:27:42.52
DIFFERENT CHURCHES WHO
HAVE BEEN CONFUSED BY UNBIBLICAL
00:27:42.56\00:27:45.56
TEACHINGS AND GOD IS WANTING
PEOPLE TO RETURN TO BIBLICAL
00:27:45.59\00:27:49.63
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USED MARTIN LUTHER TO INSPIRE A
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GREAT REFORMATION; HOWEVER,
IN THE CENTURIES THAT FOLLOWED,
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THE CHURCH HAS SLIPPED OFF THE
BEDROCK OF TRUTH INTO THE VALLEY
00:28:28.90\00:28:32.41
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THAT'S WHY, THIS FALL, I'LL BE
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