Participants: Pr. Doug Batchelor
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01:03 AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY. (MUSIC) 01:11 >>PEOPLE SHOULD NOT BE WORSHIPED AS GODS. 01:14 THAT MAKES ANOTHER GOD. THAT'S WHY DANIEL WOULD 01:17 NOT PRAY TO DARIUS. BUT DOES THE CATHOLIC CHURCH PUT 01:21 ITSELF IN A POSITION OF MAKING A MAN MORE THAN JUST A MAN? 01:26 >>FOR OVER 40 YEARS AMAZING FACTS HAS BEEN DEDICATED TO 01:30 SHARING GOD'S WORD THROUGH MEDIA. 01:32 THIS PROGRAM FEATURES HIGHLIGHTS FROM SOME OF OUR BEST TELEVISION 01:36 BROADCASTS. WE INVITE YOU TO SIT BACK AND 01:38 ENJOY THIS EDITION OF AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS. 01:48 >>I WANT TO WELCOME YOU, AGAIN, TO THIS SPECIAL PRESENTATION OF 01:51 THE LANDMARKS OF PROPHECY AND TODAY WE HAVE A STUDY TALKING 01:54 ABOUT BOWING TO THE BEAST AND IT'S BASED UPON A STORY THAT 01:59 WE'VE ALREADY TOUCHED ON BEGINNING IN DANIEL CHAPTER 2. 02:03 YOU REMEMBER KING NEBUCHADNEZZAR HAD A DREAM OF A GIANT IMAGE. 02:07 REMEMBER THE HEAD WAS OF GOLD? 02:09 IT OUTLINES THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD. 02:10 IT GIVES US THOSE LANDMARKS OF PROPHECY: SILVER - MEDO-PERSIA; 02:14 BRONZE - BELLY - WAS GREECE; THE IRON LEGS - ROME; FEET OF IRON 02:19 AND CLAY - THE BREAK UP OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. 02:22 NEBUCHADNEZZAR LIKED THE PART OF IT WHERE IT SAID, 'YOU ARE THIS 02:26 HEAD OF GOLD.' BUT HE DIDN'T LIKE THE OTHER PART OF THE 02:30 INTERPRETATION THAT SAID, 'AFTER THEE SHALL ARISE ANOTHER KINGDOM 02:34 INFERIOR TO THEE.' SO HE CAME UP WITH AN IDEA. 02:40 HE THOUGHT, 'IF THAT GREAT IMAGE - THAT GREAT STATUE THAT I 02:43 DREAMED OF REPRESENTS THE KINGDOMS OF THE WORLD - IF THE 02:47 TOP BEING GOLD REPRESENTS BABYLON, WHAT IF I MAKE WHAT I 02:50 SAW IN THAT DREAM, EXCEPT MAKE IT ALL GOLD. 02:54 AND I'LL TELL THE WHOLE WORLD, 'THIS IS GOING TO BE THE GOD 02:57 THAT WE WORSHIP.' BABYLON WILL LAST FOREVER.' HE THOUGHT HE 03:00 COULD SOMEHOW CHANGE THE DREAM BY DOING THIS - A VERY DRIVEN 03:05 KING. SO THAT'S JUST WHAT HE DID. 03:07 HE MADE AN IMAGE OF GOLD AND IT WAS PROBABLY THE BIGGEST ONE 03:11 THAT'S EVER BEEN MADE IN HISTORY. 03:13 AND THEN HE TELLS EVERYBODY - GATHERS THE WHO'S WHO IN HIS 03:17 EMPIRE AND THEY ALL COME TO THE PLAINS OF DURA AND HE'S GOT THE 03:20 WHOLE MASSIVE ORCHESTRA THERE AND HE WAITS 'TIL THE RIGHT 03:23 MOMENT AS THE SUN IS COMING UP. AND IT'S COVERED WITH A SHEET 03:27 AND HE TELLS EVERYBODY THAT 'WHEN WE UNVEIL THIS STATUE AND 03:30 YOU HEAR THE MUSIC, EVERYBODY MUST BOW DOWN AND WORSHIP. 03:33 WE'RE GOING TO UNITE THE EMPIRE OF BABYLON THROUGH COMMON 03:36 WORSHIP.' IS THE BEAST POWER GOING TO TRY 03:39 THAT IN THE LAST DAYS? >>AMEN. 03:41 >>AND SO HE GIVES THE SIGNAL, THE MUSIC PLAYS, AND EVERYBODY 03:45 BOWS DOWN. NOW THERE WAS A LITTLE ENCOURAGEMENT. 03:49 HE SAID, 'NOW, IF YOU DON'T BOW DOWN' AND 'WHOSO FALLS NOT 03:53 DOWN AND WORSHIPS, THE SAME HOUR WILL BE CAST INTO THE MIDST OF A 03:58 BURNING, FIERY FURNACE.' SO THEY PLAYED THE MUSIC AND ALMOST 04:04 EVERYBODY BOWED DOWN, EXCEPT THERE WERE THREE HEBREWS AND 04:07 NEBUCHADNEZZAR KNEW WHO THEY WERE. 04:09 HE RESPECTED THEM - THREE OF HIS COUNSELORS. 04:12 THEIR NAMES WERE HANANIAH, MISHAEL, AND AZARIAH - HEBREW 04:16 NAMES - BABYLONIAN NAMES - SHADRACH, MESHACH, AND ABEDNEGO. 04:21 AND THEY COULD NOT BOW DOWN. WHY NOT? 04:25 ONE OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS SAYS YOU WILL NOT MAKE A GRAVEN IMAGE 04:27 AND BOW DOWN TO IT. IT'S VERY CLEAR. 04:30 AND THEY SAID, 'WE HAVE TO CHOOSE. 04:33 DO WE OBEY GOD OR DO WE OBEY MAN?' 04:36 THE LORD ACCOMPLISHED, THROUGH THOSE THREE YOUNG MEN THAT DAY 04:39 ON THE PLAINS OF DURA, WHAT HE HAD BEEN WANTING TO DO THROUGH 04:41 THE HEBREW NATION FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS. 04:45 HE HAD THEM STAND UP FOR HIM AMONG THE PAGANS AND GLORIFY 04:50 GOD. NEBUCHADNEZZAR WAS OUTRAGED. 04:52 HE SAID, 'DID I GET IT RIGHT THAT YOU WOULDN'T BOW DOWN? 04:55 I'LL TELL YOU WHAT, I'LL GIVE YOU ANOTHER CHANCE. 04:56 MAYBE YOU DIDN'T HEAR IT. I DON'T WANT TO LOSE YOU GUYS, 04:59 WHEN I PLAY THE MUSIC - WE'LL PLAY IT ONE MORE TIME - YOU BOW 05:01 DOWN OR YOU'RE GOING TO THE FIERY FURNACE AND WHO'S GOING TO 05:05 - WHAT GOD IS IT THAT'S GOING TO SAVE YOU?' HE KNEW THEY 05:07 WORSHIPED JEHOVAH - 'WHAT GOD IS GOING TO SAVE YOU FROM MY HAND?' 05:11 ONE OF THEM ANSWERED AND SAID, 'WE'RE NOT GOING TO BOW DOWN. 05:14 YOU DON'T NEED TO PLAY THE MUSIC AGAIN. 05:16 'BUT BE IT KNOWN UNTO THEE, O KING, THAT WE WILL NOT SERVE THY 05:20 GODS NOR WORSHIP THE GOLDEN IMAGE THAT THOU HAS SET UP.' 05:25 NEBUCHADNEZZAR WAS IN A RAGE AND IN HIS FURY, EVEN AS MUCH AS HE 05:29 LOVED THESE YOUNG MEN, HE SAID, 'HOW DARE YOU TALK TO ME LIKE 05:33 THAT? I'M THE KING! 05:35 THIS IS A GOVERNMENT LAW.' HE HAD THEM ALL TIED UP, JUST AS 05:38 THEY WERE IN THEIR ROBES - STRONGEST MEN IN THE KINGDOM - 05:41 CHARGED TO THE MOUTH OF THIS FURNACE THAT WAS HEATED UP SEVEN 05:44 TIMES HOTTER THAN IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN HEATED. 05:46 THE WAVES OF HEAT WERE JUST WAFTING OUT. 05:49 ALL THREE OF THEM WERE THROWN IN THE FURNACE. 05:53 AND THEN NEBUCHADNEZZAR SAID, 'DID NOT WE CAST THREE MEN BOUND 05:59 INTO THE MIDST OF THE FIRE?' 06:01 AND HIS ADVISORS SAID, 'THAT'S TRUE, O KING.' THE KING, PEERING 06:04 OFF INTO THE FURNACE, HE SAID, 'I SEE FOUR MEN LOOSE WALKING IN 06:09 THE MIDST OF THE FIRE AND THE FORM OF THE FOURTH IS LIKE THE 06:13 SON OF GOD.' YOU MAY GO THROUGH FIERY TRIALS WHEN YOU STAND UP 06:17 FOR JESUS, BUT THE GOOD NEWS IS YOU DON'T GO ALONE. 06:20 JUST LIKE GOD SENT HIS ANGEL TO DANIEL IN THE LION'S DEN, JESUS 06:24 WILL COME TO YOU DURING YOUR TIME OF TRIAL. 06:26 HE SAID, 'I WILL NEVER LEAVE YOU NOR FORSAKE YOU.' AMEN? 06:30 >>AMEN. >>NOW, THAT SAME TEST IS 06:32 SOMETHING WE'RE GOING TO FACE IN THE LAST DAYS. 06:35 QUESTION #1: HOW DOES OUR STORY IN DANIEL RELATE TO REVELATION? 06:42 WE ALREADY SAW THIS, REVELATION CHAPTER 13, VERSE 15, "...AS 06:46 MANY AS WOULD NOT" - >>WORSHIP. 06:48 >>"WORSHIP THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST TO BE KILLED." 06:52 WE'VE GOT TO KNOW AHEAD OF TIME WHAT THE BEAST IS AND THAT WE'RE 06:55 NOT GOING TO COMPROMISE OUR CONVICTIONS. 06:57 IT'S A DEATH DECREE. IT DOESN'T GET ANY 06:59 MORE SERIOUS THAN THAT. QUESTION #2: NOW WHAT ARE THE 07:03 THREE ANGELS' MESSAGES IN REVELATION 14? 07:07 VERY QUICKLY, IN REVELATION 14, VERSE 7, THIS ANGEL COMES DOWN 07:12 FROM HEAVEN, HE SAYS, 'FEAR GOD AND GIVE GLORY TO HIM FOR THE 07:15 HOUR OF HIS' - >>JUDGMENT. 07:18 >>'JUDGMENT' - WILL COME OR IS COME? 07:20 >>IS COME. >>'IS COME. 07:22 WORSHIP HIM THAT MADE HEAVEN AND EARTH, THE SEA AND THE FOUNTAINS 07:27 OF WATERS.' NOW, YOU KNOW WHERE YOU FIND 07:29 THAT PHRASE IN THE OLD TESTAMENT? 07:31 MOST OF REVELATION CAN BE FOUND IN OTHER PLACES IN THE BIBLE. 07:34 THAT COMES FROM THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT. 07:37 YOU CAN SEE IT THERE IN EXODUS 20, "FOR IN SIX DAYS THE LORD 07:40 MADE THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH AND THE SEA AND ALL THAT IS IN 07:43 THEM. AND HE RESTED THE SEVENTH DAY. 07:46 THEREFORE THE LORD BLESSED THE SABBATH DAY AND HALLOWED IT.' 07:49 THIS IS A COMMANDMENT THAT HAS LARGELY BEEN FORGOTTEN OR AT 07:51 LEAST NEGLECTED BY MANY CHRISTIANS AND IT MAY BE THE 07:55 POINT OF CONTROVERSY IN THE LAST DAYS. 07:57 JUST LIKE YOU FIND IN DANIEL CHAPTER 3, THE GOVERNMENT MAKES 08:04 A LAW THAT SAYS YOU NEED TO BREAK THE SECOND COMMANDMENT 08:06 ABOUT IDOLATRY AND YOU'VE GOT TO DECIDE, 'DO I WORSHIP GOD OR DO 08:09 I BREAK THE SECOND COMMANDMENT?' DANIEL CHAPTER 6, THE KING MAKES 08:14 A LAW THAT SAYS EVERYBODY MUST WORSHIP DARIUS INSTEAD OF GOD. 08:17 DANIEL HAS TO DECIDE, 'DO I KEEP THE FIRST COMMANDMENT 08:19 OR DO I OBEY THE GOVERNMENT LAW?' 08:23 IN THE LAST DAYS THE DEVIL'S GOING TO TAKE ONE OF GOD'S 08:26 COMMANDMENTS - I BELIEVE IT'S THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT - AND 08:29 HE'S GOING TO SAY, 'DON'T WORRY ABOUT THAT. EVEN THOUGH WE KNOW 08:32 WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS.' AND TELL US TO CHANGE IT. 08:35 WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO CHOOSE BETWEEN OBEYING GOD AND OBEYING 08:37 MEN. IT HAS TO DO WITH WORSHIP. 08:39 IT SAYS THE BEAST POWER WILL THINK TO CHANGE TIMES AND LAWS. 08:42 ONLY ONE COMMANDMENT IS BOTH A TIME AND A LAW. 08:46 REVELATION 14, CONTINUING ON WITH THE SECOND ANGELS' MESSAGE, 08:51 'THERE FOLLOWED ANOTHER ANGEL SAYING,' - WHAT IS IT? 08:55 - 'BABYLON IS FALLEN' - NOT WILL FALL, IT'S HAPPENING NOW - 09:00 'FALLEN, THAT GREAT CITY,' - WHY? 09:02 'BECAUSE SHE' - WHAT DOES A WOMAN REPRESENT IN BIBLE 09:04 ANALOGY? >>CHURCH. 09:06 >>SO IF BABYLON IS A WOMAN, IS IT A TRUE CHURCH OR A FALSE OR 09:09 COUNTERFEIT? >>FALSE. 09:11 >>OR COMPROMISED, AT LEAST, CHURCH - 'BECAUSE SHE MADE ALL 09:14 NATIONS DRINK THE WINE OF THE WRATH OF HER FORNICATION.' AND 09:18 THEN YOU COME TO ONE OF THE MOST FEARFUL MESSAGES IN THE WHOLE 09:22 NEW TESTAMENT - REVELATION 14, SPEAKING OF THE THIRD ANGEL'S 09:26 MESSAGE, 'IF ANY MAN WORSHIPS THE BEAST AND HIS IMAGE, AND 09:32 RECEIVES HIS MARK IN HIS FOREHEAD OR HIS HAND, THE SAME 09:36 WILL DRINK THE WINE OF THE WRATH OF GOD.' SO THESE MESSAGES 09:39 WARNING US ABOUT WE'RE IN A TIME OF JUDGMENT. 09:42 WE MUST RETURN TO WORSHIPING THE TRUE GOD. 09:45 DO NOT WORSHIP THE BEAST. BABYLON IS FALLEN. 09:47 COME OUT OF HER MY PEOPLE. YOU SEE, GOD HAS HIS PEOPLE, 09:53 RIGHT NOW, IN MANY DIFFERENT CHURCHES AND RELIGIONS AROUND 09:56 THE WORLD, BUT THE DEVIL HAS BROUGHT ALL KINDS OF CONFUSION 09:59 - THAT'S WHAT BABYLON IS ABOUT. THE TOWER OF BABEL WAS CONFUSION 10:03 - RELIGIOUS CONFUSION HAS PERMEATED THE CHURCHES. 10:06 ALL THESE DIFFERENT DOCTRINES THAT DIVIDE US, WE'RE GOING TO 10:09 COME BACK ON BIBLICAL UNITY BASED ON TRUTH. 10:13 WHAT DOES A BEAST REPRESENT IN BIBLE PROPHECIES? 10:17 WHEN I TALK TO YOU ABOUT THE EAGLE, WHAT COUNTRY IS OFTEN 10:22 SYMBOLIZED BY THE EAGLE? >>AMERICA. 10:24 >>UNITED STATES. AND WHEN WE SAY, 'OH, THE BEAR IS HAVING 10:26 PROBLEMS WITH THE EAGLE' WHO AM I TALKING ABOUT? 10:28 >>RUSSIA. >>AND THE LION - WELL, SEVERAL 10:30 COUNTRIES CLAIM THE LION, BUT GREAT BRITAIN IS - 10:33 AND WHEN YOU SAY 'THE DRAGON' YOU THINK CHINA, RIGHT? 10:38 THAT'S WHAT THEY USE. AND SO, WHEN WE SAY 'MARK OF THE 10:41 BEAST', MOST OF US ARE PICTURING SOME DIABOLICAL-LOOKING, 10:44 HORNED, HOOFED MONSTER. AND WHEN YOU SAY THE U.S. 10:48 IS ONE OF THESE BEASTS IN PROPHECY, PEOPLE THINK YOU'RE 10:50 BEING UNPATRIOTIC. BUT BIBLICALLY, THEY USED 10:55 BEASTS TO IDENTIFY NATIONS. YOU LOOK IN DANIEL 7, VERSE 17, 10:59 "THOSE GREAT" WHAT? "BEASTS, WHICH ARE FOUR, ARE FOUR' WHAT? 11:04 >>KINGS. >>FOUR MONSTERS - NO, KINGDOMS. 11:07 SO WHEN I SAY THAT THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND THE UNITED STATES ARE 11:11 BEASTS, WE'RE NOT CALLING THEM MONSTERS. 11:13 WE'RE SAYING THEY ARE POWERS. THEY ARE POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS 11:16 POWERS - THIS IS WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS - THEY WERE 11:18 KINGS OR KINGDOMS. 11:21 >>YOU KNOW, FRIENDS, EVERYONE IS INTERESTED IN WHAT THE BIBLE 11:22 SAYS ABOUT THE FUTURE, AND WE KNOW BIBLE PROPHECY TALKS ABOUT 11:26 SOME OF THE ANCIENT KINGDOMS LIKE BABYLON, MEDO-PERSIA, ROME 11:31 - BUT YOU MIGHT BE SURPRISED TO LEARN THE BOOK OF 11:33 REVELATION, IN CHAPTER 13, TALKS VERY SPECIFICALLY ABOUT THE 11:37 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND WE HAVE A STUDY GUIDE THAT EXPLAINS 11:41 IT ALL. WE'LL MAKE IT AVAILABLE TO YOU FOR FREE. IF YOU'D LIKE 11:44 TO GET THIS FREE RESOURCE, VISIT AMAZINGFACTS.ORG OR CALL THE 11:49 PHONE NUMBER ON YOUR SCREEN AND ASK FOR OFFER #181. AND ONCE YOU 11:54 GET YOUR FREE OFFER, MAKE SURE AND READ IT AND THEN SHARE IT 11:57 WITH SOMEONE ELSE BECAUSE GOD'S MESSAGE IS OUR MISSION. 12:01 >>DANIEL 7:23, "...'THE FOURTH BEAST SHALL BE A FOURTH KINGDOM 12:07 ON THE EARTH.'" ALRIGHT, QUESTION #4 - SO WE KNOW WHAT A 12:09 BEAST IS NOW. NOW, WITH THAT AS A BACKGROUND, 'I STOOD UPON THE 12:13 SAND OF THE SEA AND I SAW A' - WHAT? 12:16 >>BEAST. 12:17 >>A BEAST RISE UP OUT OF THE SEA.' MAKE A NOTE - SEA - 12:20 BECAUSE THAT COMES UP LATER. WHAT DOES THE OCEAN REPRESENT? 12:23 - 'HAVING SEVEN HEADS AND TEN HORNS AND UPON HIS HORNS TEN 12:27 CROWNS AND UPON HIS HEADS THE NAMES OF BLASPHEMY.' THIS BEAST 12:33 ARISES FROM THE SEA. WHAT DOES SEA OR WATER 12:36 SYMBOLIZE, BIBLICALLY? YOU CAN LOOK IN REVELATION 17. 12:40 THE ANGEL TELLS JOHN WHAT THE WATERS REPRESENT. 12:43 'THE WATERS WHICH THOU SAWEST ARE PEOPLES AND MULTITUDES AND 12:48 NATIONS AND TONGUES' - MEANING THIS POWER IS RISING UP FROM A 12:54 DENSELY POPULATED CENTER OF CIVILIZATION. 12:58 WHERE DID THE ROMAN CHURCH RISE UP FROM? ROME. 13:02 WHAT WAS THE CENTER OF CIVILIZATION BACK IN THAT DAY? 13:06 WHO WAS IT THAT IMPRISONED JOHN WHEN HE HAD HIS VISION? 13:09 ROME. HAVE YOU HEARD THE EXPRESSION 13:12 'ALL ROADS LEAD TO' - >>ROME. 13:14 >>MINNEAPOLIS. NO, THAT'S NOT HOW IT GOES. 13:17 (LAUGHTER) THEY ALL LEAD TO ROME. AND SO IT WAS THE CENTER 13:20 AND IT'S TALKING ABOUT - OF MANY PEOPLES - MANY NATIONS. 13:24 THAT'S WHY PAUL WANTED TO GO PREACH IN ROME. 13:26 HE ENDED UP DYING THERE - AS DID PETER - THEY WANTED TO GO AND 13:29 GET THE GOSPEL AT THIS FOUNTAIN OF CIVILIZATION. 13:32 SO THAT'S WHERE IT WOULD RISE UP FROM. 13:34 WHO GIVES THE BEAST HIS POWER AND HIS POSITION? 13:37 REVELATION 13:2, "AND THE" - 13:40 >>THE DRAGON. >>"THE DRAGON GAVE HIM HIS 13:43 POWER, AND HIS SEAT, AND GREAT AUTHORITY." NOW, THE DRAGON, WE 13:47 KNOW WHO'S BEHIND THE DRAGON IS PRINCIPALLY THE DEVIL. 13:51 BUT, IN PARTICULAR, IN REVELATION 12, IT'S ALSO TALKING 13:56 ABOUT THE ROMAN EMPIRE RULED BY THE CAESARS OR PAGAN ROME. 14:02 WHEN YOU LOOK IN REVELATION 12 - WE HAVE ANOTHER STUDY THAT'S 14:05 GOING TO GO INTO THAT - IT TALKS ABOUT THIS BEAST POWER, THE 14:10 DRAGON, TRYING TO KILL ALL THE MALE CHILDREN IN BETHLEHEM. 14:15 THAT'S IN REVELATION 12. WHAT POWER IS IT THAT TRIED 14:18 TO KILL ALL THE BABY BOYS? IT WAS ROME. 14:20 ROME - YOU'VE GOT TWO ROMES IN PROPHECY HERE, YOU'VE GOT ROME 14:25 THAT IS IRON AND YOU HAVE ROME THAT IS IRON AND CLAY. 14:29 ONE IS POLITICAL/MILITARY, THE OTHER IS 14:33 POLITICAL/MILITARY/RELIGIOUS - MAN IS MADE OUT OF CLAY. 14:36 YOU'VE GOT ONE ROME LED BY CAESARS, BUT THEN AS THE CAESARS 14:40 BEGAN TO DECLINE, IN THEIR PLACE THE CHURCH BECAME LEGAL AND NOW 14:44 YOU HAVE ROME LED BY THE CHURCH, RIGHT? 14:48 AND SO THIS IS ALL IT'S SAYING IS THE DRAGON, MEANING PAGAN 14:50 ROME, RULED BY CAESARS, GAVE HIS SEAT - HANDED OVER THE SEAT - 14:55 SAME KINGDOM, SAME CITY, SAME PALACE - TO THE CHURCH OF ROME. 14:59 AND SO THESE PAGANS THAT WERE TOLD 'NOW YOU'RE CHRISTIANS', 15:02 THEY BROUGHT ALL THEIR PAGAN BELIEFS INTO THE CHURCH. 15:08 ONE COMMENTATOR FROM HISTORY - THIS IS ABBOTT'S ROMAN HISTORY - 15:12 HE SAID "THE TRANSFER OF THE EMPEROR'S RESIDENCE TO 15:15 CONSTANTINOPLE" - CONSTANTINOPLE NAMED AFTER CONSTANTINE - "WAS 15:19 A SAD BLOW TO THE PRESTIGE OF ROME AND, AT THE TIME, ONE MIGHT 15:23 HAVE PREDICTED HER SPEEDY DECLINE BUT, WHEN THE EMPEROR 15:26 JUSTINIAN TRANSFERRED THE HEADQUARTERS FROM ROME TO 15:29 CONSTANTINOPLE YOU WOULD HAVE THOUGHT THE CITY OF ROME IS NO 15:32 LONGER THE CAPITOL, IT'S JUST GOING TO FALL APART. 15:34 BUT HISTORIANS TELL US THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CHURCH AND 15:39 THE GROWING AUTHORITY OF THE BISHOP OF ROME - OR THE POPE - 15:43 GAVE HER (ROME) A NEW LEASE ON LIFE AND MADE HER, AGAIN, THE 15:46 CAPITOL OF THE RELIGIOUS - CAPITOL OF THE WORLD - THIS TIME 15:49 THE RELIGIOUS CAPITOL OF THE CIVILIZED WORLD." 15:53 AND WE KNOW FROM HISTORY, THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED. 15:55 THAT'S WHY IT'S NOT JUST CALLED THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH OR EVEN THE 15:57 CATHOLIC CHURCH, BUT IT'S CALLED THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. 16:01 HOW DID THE HEADQUARTERS OF CHRISTIANITY MOVE FROM JERUSALEM 16:04 TO ROME? WHERE WAS THAT AUTHORIZED? 16:07 YOU READ IN THE BIBLE THEY HAD THEIR COUNCILS IN JERUSALEM. 16:11 DO YOU REMEMBER READING THAT IN ACTS CHAPTER 15 AND OTHER 16:13 PLACES? IN THE HISTORY FROM THE 16:16 UNIVERSITY OF ROME IT SAYS, "TO THE SUCCESSION OF THE CAESARS 16:19 CAME THE SUCCESSION OF THE PONTIFFS OR THE POPES IN ROME. 16:23 WHEN CONSTANTINE LEFT ROME HE GAVE HIS SEAT TO THE PONTIFF." 16:27 AND SO THERE WAS A TRANSFER OF AUTHORITY. DIDN'T WE JUST READ 16:30 THAT - IT SAYS IN THE BIBLE, 'HE WILL GIVE HIM HIS SEAT'? 16:33 THE DRAGON GAVE HIM HIS SEAT, POWER, AND 16:35 GREAT AUTHORITY. THAT'S THAT DRAGON POWER OF ROME 16:38 THAT KILLED JESUS THAT DROVE THE NAILS IN HIS HANDS. 16:40 HOW FAR-REACHING IS THE INFLUENCE OF THE BEAST? 16:44 WELL, IT SAYS HE CAUSES ALL - REVELATION 13:3 - HE MAKES ALL 16:48 THE WORLD TO WORSHIP AND ALL THE WORLD WONDERS AFTER THE BEAST. 16:53 IT TELLS US IN REVELATION 13:7, 'AN AUTHORITY WAS GIVEN HIM OVER 16:57 EVERY TRIBE, TONGUE AND NATION' IT'S A GLOBAL POWER. DO YOU KNOW 17:04 WHAT THE WORD CATHOLIC MEANS? IT MEANS UNIVERSAL. 17:07 DOES ANYONE HERE NOT KNOW THAT THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH IS A 17:11 UNIVERSAL - NOT A CHURCH ONLY, BUT A POWER. 17:16 ARE YOU AWARE THAT THE VATICAN IS NOT ONLY A RELIGION, THE 17:19 VATICAN IS THE SMALLEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD? 17:21 IT HAS AMBASSADORS. IT HAS ITS OWN MONEY. 17:23 IT HAS ITS OWN RAILROAD. IT'S VERY SMALL. 17:25 IT HAS ITS OWN POSTAL SYSTEM. IT'S OWN GUARD - SWISS GUARD - 17:30 IT IS AN INDEPENDENT COUNTRY. WHAT COMES OUT OF THE 17:33 MOUTH OF THE BEAST? WELL, I TELL - THIS IS WHERE IT 17:37 GETS A LITTLE SERIOUS, FRIENDS, BUT WE'VE GOT TO BE HONEST. 17:39 REVELATION 13, VERSE 6, IT SAYS, "AND HE OPENED HIS MOUTH IN" - 17:43 WHAT'S THAT WORD? - "BLASPHEMY AGAINST GOD, 17:46 TO BLASPHEME HIS NAME." NOW YOU CAN ALSO READ ABOUT THE 17:51 BEAST POWER IN 2 THESSALONIANS CHAPTER 2, VERSE 4. 17:56 IT SAYS, HE "OPPOSES AND EXALTS HIMSELF ABOVE ALL THAT IS CALLED 17:59 GOD, OR THAT IS WORSHIPPED; SO THAT HE AS GOD SITS IN THE 18:04 TEMPLE OF GOD, SHOWING HIMSELF THAT HE IS GOD." 18:06 BLASPHEMY MEANS WHEN A PERSON PUTS THEMSELF IN THE POSITION OF 18:10 GOD. NOW JUST IN CASE YOU DON'T 18:11 BELIEVE MY DEFINITION, THIS IS THE BIBLICAL DEFINITION. 18:15 IF YOU LOOK IN JOHN 10:33 IT SAYS THAT THE JEWS WERE 18:20 PREPARING TO STONE JESUS. THEY ANSWERED AND SAID, 'FOR A 18:23 GOOD WORK WE DO NOT STONE YOU, BUT FOR' - WHAT? 18:27 - FOR BLASPHEMY AND BECAUSE YOU, BEING A MAN, MAKE YOURSELF GOD.' 18:33 PEOPLE SHOULD NOT BE WORSHIPED AS GODS. 18:37 THAT MAKES ANOTHER GOD. THAT'S WHY DANIEL WOULD 18:39 NOT PRAY TO DARIUS. BUT DOES THE CATHOLIC CHURCH PUT 18:43 ITSELF IN A POSITION OF MAKING A MAN MORE THAN JUST A MAN? 18:47 THIS IS A QUOTE FROM POPE LEO THE XIII, "WE HOLD UPON THIS 18:51 EARTH THE PLACE OF GOD ALMIGHTY." 18:54 - THAT'S ACTUALLY A PAINTING OF HIM AS WELL. 18:56 ANOTHER DEFINITION OF BLASPHEMY: 'AND THE SCRIBES AND THE 18:58 PHARISEES BEGAN TO REASON SAYING, 'WHO IS THIS THAT SPEAKS 19:02 BLASPHEMY? WHO CAN FORGIVE 19:04 SINS BUT GOD ALONE?' SO, FOR A MAN TO CLAIM THE 19:07 ABILITY TO FORGIVE SINS IS BLASPHEMY. 19:10 DID JESUS SAY HE COULD FORGIVE SIN? 19:12 HE DID. WHAT RIGHT DID HE 19:13 HAVE TO DO THAT? HE IS THE SON OF GOD. 19:16 NOW HE TOLD THE WOMAN - MAYBE IT WAS MARY MAGDALENE - 'GO AND SIN 19:19 NO MORE.' HE WAS GOING TO FORGIVE HER. 19:20 HE TOLD THE MAN LET DOWN THROUGH THE ROOF, 'YOUR SINS ARE 19:22 FORGIVEN.' THEY SAID, 'THAT'S BLASPHEMY!' 19:24 AND THEY WERE RIGHT - IF HE WASN'T THE SON OF GOD. 19:28 BUT WHEN A MAN SAYS, 'I HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO DECIDE WHOSE SINS 19:31 I'M GOING TO FORGIVE' THAT'S DEFINED AS BLASPHEMY. 19:33 NOW, HERE'S FROM THE BOOK ON DIGNITIES AND DUTIES OF THE 19:37 PRIESTS, VOL. 12 , "GOD HIMSELF IS OBLIGED TO ABIDE BY THE 19:42 JUDGMENT OF HIS PRIESTS AND EITHER NOT TO PARDON OR TO 19:45 PARDON AS THEY EITHER REFUSE OR GIVE ABSOLUTION. THE SENTENCE OF 19:50 THE PRIEST PROCEEDS AND GOD SUBSCRIBES TO IT." 19:54 IT'S SAYING THE MAN - THE CHURCH - DECIDES WHO IS FORGIVEN. 19:58 WHERE IN THE BIBLE DOES IT SAY YOU HAVE TO CONFESS YOUR SINS TO 20:00 A PRIEST IN ORDER TO BE FORGIVEN? 20:02 THE BIBLE SAYS YOU CONFESS YOUR SINS TO GOD. 20:05 YOU CONFESS YOUR FAULTS TO ONE ANOTHER. 20:08 HOW LONG WOULD THIS FIRST BEAST POWER - TALKING ABOUT REVELATION 20:11 13:1 - THE FIRST BEAST NOW - HOW LONG WOULD BE ITS PRIMARY RULE? 20:16 IT GIVES US A TIME PERIOD, "AND POWER WAS GIVEN UNTO HIM TO 20:19 CONTINUE" - HOW LONG? - "FORTY AND TWO MONTHS." 20:23 FORTY-TWO MONTHS - THE JEWISH YEAR HAD 360 DAYS - LUNAR 20:27 CALENDAR - 42 MONTHS WAS THREE AND A HALF YEARS - 1,260 DAYS. 20:34 THE LEGALLY RECOGNIZED SUPREMACY OF THE POPE BEGAN IN 538. 20:38 THIS IS A VERY WELL ESTABLISHED DATE IN HISTORY WHEN THERE WENT 20:41 INTO EFFECT A DECREE OF EMPEROR JUSTINIAN MAKING THE BISHOP OF 20:44 ROME THE HEAD OVER ALL THE CHURCHES, DEFINER OF DOCTRINE, 20:49 CORRECTOR OF HERETICS, AND HE WAS GIVEN AN ARMY TO FORCE 20:53 PEOPLE TO BELIEVE. NOW, DID JESUS USE AN 20:54 ARMY TO GET BELIEVERS? SO IT STARTED TO KILL PEOPLE THAT 20:58 DIDN'T BELIEVE WHAT THE CHURCH TAUGHT. 21:00 THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH WAS NEVER TOLD TO DO THAT. 21:03 AND THEN YOU CAN READ "VIGILIUS ASCENDED THE PAPAL CHAIR IN 538 21:08 UNDER THE MILITARY PROTECTION OF BELISARIUS." 21:11 THAT'S HISTORY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH, VOL. 3 . 21:14 WHAT HAPPENED TO THE BEAST AFTER THE 42 MONTHS? 21:17 YOU CAN READ IN REVELATION CHAPTER 13, VERSE 3, "AND I SAW 21:21 ONE OF HIS HEADS AS IT WERE WOUNDED TO DEATH; AND HIS DEADLY 21:25 WOUND WAS HEALED: AND ALL THE WORLD WONDERED AFTER THE BEAST." 21:30 WELL, IF YOU START WITH 42 MONTHS, A DAY IN BIBLE PROPHECY 21:36 IS HOW LONG? 'I HAVE APPOINTED YOU A DAY FOR 21:38 A YEAR.' 42 MONTHS HAS 1,260 DAYS, BUT THAT REALLY 21:43 MEANS 1,260 YEARS. IF YOU START IN 538 AND YOU GO 21:48 1,260 YEARS, THAT COMES TO 1798. AND SO WHAT HAPPENED IN 1798? 21:56 DO YOU REALIZE THAT FROM 538 UNTIL 1798, THE ROMAN CHURCH HAD 22:00 VIRTUALLY UNINTERRUPTED POWER OVER EUROPE? 22:03 BUT IN 1798, FOLLOWING THE WARS OF NAPOLEON, NAPOLEON SENT HIS 22:08 GENERAL BERTHIER INTO ROME, HE ABOLISHED THE PAPAL GOVERNMENT 22:15 AND HE ESTABLISHED A SECULAR ONE. 22:17 AT THAT TIME THE ROMAN CHURCH RECEIVED A DEADLY WOUND. 22:20 THEY LOST THEIR SWAY OVER EUROPE AND MANY OF THE CHURCH LEADERS 22:23 WERE SLAIN DURING THAT TIME. THE POPE, HIMSELF, WAS CARRIED 22:26 OFF INTO CAPTIVITY IN VALANCE, WHERE HE DIED. 22:30 NOW IT STAYED THAT WAY. IT LOOKED LIKE THE CHURCH HAD 22:33 LOST ITS SWAY OVER EUROPE, BUT THE DEADLY WOUND WAS HEALED. 22:38 HERE IS ACTUALLY A COPY OF THE NEWSPAPER FROM 1929 - THIS IS 22:42 THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE - WHEN THE VATICAN WAS ONCE AGAIN 22:46 RE-INSTATED AS AN INDEPENDENT COUNTRY. 22:49 IT SAYS, "THE ROMAN QUESTION TONIGHT WAS A THING OF THE PAST 22:51 AND THE VATICAN WAS AT PEACE. 22:53 IN AFFIXING AUTOGRAPHS TO THE MEMORABLE DOCUMENT, HEALING THE 22:57 WOUND" - ISN'T THAT INTERESTING LANGUAGE? 22:59 DIDN'T WE FIND THAT THE DEADLY WOUND WAS HEALED? 23:01 - "HEALING THE WOUND THAT HAD GONE ON SINCE 1798. 23:05 THERE WAS GREAT CORDIALITY DISPLAYED BY BOTH PARTIES. 23:08 THIS ESTABLISHED" - AND MUSSOLINI WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN 23:10 THAT. YOU'VE HEARD OF HIM - "THIS 23:13 ESTABLISHED THE VATICAN, ONCE AGAIN, AS AN INDEPENDENT COUNTRY 23:17 THAT HAD AMBASSADORS GOING, NOT NOW JUST TO THE LEADERS OF 23:19 EUROPE, BUT TO THE WHOLE WORLD. THE U.S. 23:23 HAS AN AMBASSADOR TO THE VATICAN. 23:24 WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? THAT'S A LOT OF POWER. 23:28 MATTER OF FACT, POPE FRANCIS, IN PARTICULAR, IS A VERY UNIQUE 23:31 MAN. HE'S THE FIRST JESUIT POPE AND, 23:35 TO HAVE ONE POPE RESIGN - POPE BENEDICT XVI - AND THEN TO HAVE 23:39 ANOTHER POPE WHO COMES FROM OBSCURITY FROM ANOTHER COUNTRY - 23:44 FROM ANOTHER CONTINENT, WHO HAS GONE TO SUCH INTERNATIONAL 23:47 PROMINENCE - HE'S IN THE HEADLINES EVERY SINGLE WEEK 23:50 AND IT'S USUALLY SOME KIND OF EARTH-SHAKING NEWS. 23:54 THE PAPACY HAS DEFINITELY GAINED WORLDWIDE INFLUENCE, PRESTIGE, 23:58 AND PROMINENCE. HE SEEMS LIKE A LOVELY MAN. 24:02 I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT THE PERSON. 24:03 HE JUST SEEMS SO KIND AND APPROACHABLE AND DOWN TO EARTH, 24:08 BUT WHAT WE'RE DEALING WITH IS THE TEACHINGS - 24:11 THE OFFICIAL TEACHINGS HAVE NOT CHANGED. 24:12 YOU KNOW THE CHURCH, THEY BASICALLY CLAIM INFALLIBILITY. 24:15 I CAN SHOW YOU THAT IN BLACK AND WHITE. 24:17 THEY CLAIM TO HAVE THE ABILITY TO FORGIVE SINS. 24:19 WHAT IS THE MYSTERIOUS NUMBER THAT IDENTIFIES THE BEAST? 24:24 THIS IS WHERE IT GETS VERY INTERESTING. 24:26 NOW WE'RE GETTING TO THE END OF REVELATION 13:18 - IT SAYS, "HIS 24:29 NUMBER IS" - WHAT? - "SIX HUNDRED THREESCORE AND SIX." 24:34 THE OFFICIAL TITLE FOR THE POPE - IT SAYS 'IT'S THE NUMBER OF A 24:39 MAN' - IT MEANS A FIGUREHEAD. IT'S NOT ANY ONE PARTICULAR 24:42 POPE, BUT IT'S A POSITION. IT'S AN OFFICE. 24:45 THIS IS FROM POPE JOHN PAUL'S BOOK CROSSING THE THRESHOLD OF 24:49 HOPE , "CONFRONTED WITH THE POPE ONE MUST MAKE A CHOICE, THE 24:53 LEADER OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IS DEFINED BY THE FAITH AS THE 24:57 VICAR OF JESUS CHRIST" - THAT TITLE - VICAR OF JESUS CHRIST - 25:02 IN LATIN IS VICARIUS FILII DEI. THAT'S THE POSITION THAT - 25:07 THAT'S HIS OFFICIAL TITLE - "AND IS ACCEPTED AS 25:11 SUCH BY BELIEVERS. THE POPE IS CONSIDERED THE MAN 25:14 WHO ON EARTH REPRESENTS THE SON OF GOD WHO TAKES THE PLACE 25:17 OF THE SECOND PERSON OF THE OMNIPOTENT GOD OF THE TRINITY." 25:21 IT FRIGHTENS ME FOR ANY MAN TO SAY, 'I TAKE THE PLACE OF JESUS 25:23 ON EARTH. THAT'S THEIR TEACHING. 25:26 NOW, HERE'S A QUOTE FROM A DOCUMENT THAT ACTUALLY HAS 25:31 MYSTERIOUSLY GONE MISSING. WHAT ARE THE LETTERS ON THE 25:34 POPE'S CROWN AND WHAT DO THEY SIGNIFY? AND IT SAYS - THIS WAS 25:39 FROM APRIL 18, 1915 - "THE LETTERS ON THE POPE'S CROWN ARE 25:41 THESE: VICARIUS FILII DEI, WHICH IS LATIN FOR 25:45 VICAR OF THE SON OF GOD." WHEN YOU TAKE THAT LATIN TITLE 25:48 AND YOU CONVERT IT TO USING ROMAN NUMERALS TO THEIR NUMBER 25:53 EQUIVALENT, YOU KNOW, IN ENGLISH, OUR LETTERS DON'T HAVE 25:56 NUMERICAL VALUE, BUT THE ROMAN LETTER V REPRESENTS WHAT? 26:01 >>FIVE. >>HOW MANY OF YOU REMEMBER YOUR 26:02 ROMAN NUMERALS? I IS? >>ONE. 26:05 >>X IS? >>TEN. 26:07 >>TEN. C? A HUNDRED - LIKE CENTURY, RIGHT? 26:12 M IS MILLENNIUM OR A THOUSAND. SO YOU TAKE THE ROMAN NUMERALS, 26:16 YOU TAKE THE TITLE OF THE POPE - VICARIUS FILII DEI - AND YOU ADD 26:20 THAT UP AND WHAT DOES IT COME TO? 666. 26:25 IT'S THE NUMBER OF A MAN - HIS OWN TITLE. 26:28 THROUGHOUT REVELATION THAT NUMBER, 7, REPRESENTS PERFECTION 26:32 OR COMPLETENESS. THE NUMBER 6 REPRESENTS 26:34 IMPERFECTION. IT'S THE BASIS FOR THE 26:36 BABYLONIAN SYSTEM OF CALCULATION. 26:39 A TRIPLE 6, THEREFORE, SYMBOLIZES A TRIPLE UNION OF 26:42 ERROR - THE UNION OF THE DRAGON, THE BEAST, AND THE FALSE 26:45 PROPHET. THE BIBLE IS WHAT WE 26:48 NEED TO GO BY, AMEN? THE BIBLE SAYS THAT WE'RE NOT 26:51 TO BOW DOWN TO STATUES, RIGHT? >>RIGHT. 26:55 >>THE CATHOLIC CHURCH SAYS THAT WE CAN BOW DOWN - AND SHOULD - 26:57 BOW DOWN TO STATUES. THE BIBLE TEACHES THAT ALL 26:59 CHRISTIANS ARE SAINTS AND PRIESTS. 27:02 CATHOLIC CHURCH TEACHES THAT SAINTS AND PRIESTS ARE A SPECIAL 27:05 CLASS WITHIN THE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY. 27:07 THE BIBLE TEACHES THAT WE SHOULD CALL NO RELIGIOUS LEADER FATHER 27:11 - MATTHEW 23:9 - YOU KNOW, JESUS SAID CALL NO MAN FATHER. 27:14 YOU HAVE ONE FATHER WHICH IS IN HEAVEN. 27:16 OF COURSE, THE CATHOLIC CHURCH TELLS US TO CALL PRIESTS AND THE 27:19 POPE 'FATHER'. THE BIBLE TEACHES TO CONFESS 27:21 YOUR SINS TO GOD ONLY. THE CATHOLIC CHURCH SAYS YOU 27:24 MUST CONFESS YOUR SINS TO THE PRIEST FOR FORGIVENESS. 27:27 THE TEACHING OF PURGATORY, LIMBO, PRAYERS FOR THE DEAD - 27:30 ARE NOWHERE IN SCRIPTURES, BUT THEY'RE RELICS OF PAGANISM THAT 27:33 FOUND THEIR WAY INTO CHRISTIANITY AND BEFORE JESUS 27:35 COMES HE IS CALLING HIS PEOPLE OUT OF BABYLON. 27:39 THERE ARE GOOD, LOVING, SPIRIT-FILLED PEOPLE IN MANY 27:42 DIFFERENT CHURCHES WHO HAVE BEEN CONFUSED BY UNBIBLICAL 27:45 TEACHINGS AND GOD IS WANTING PEOPLE TO RETURN TO BIBLICAL 27:49 TRUTH. >>CAN'T GET ENOUGH 27:52 AMAZING FACTS BIBLE STUDY? YOU DON'T HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL 27:55 NEXT WEEK TO ENJOY MORE TRUTH-FILLED PROGRAMMING, VISIT 27:59 THE AMAZING FACTS MEDIA LIBRARY AT 'AFTV.ORG'. 28:03 AT 'AFTV.ORG' YOU CAN ENJOY VIDEO AND AUDIO PRESENTATIONS AS 28:09 WELL AS PRINTED MATERIAL ALL FREE OF CHARGE, 24 HOURS A DAY 7 28:13 DAYS A WEEK, RIGHT FROM YOUR COMPUTER OR MOBILE DEVICE. 28:16 VISIT 'AFTV.ORG'. 28:21 >>FIVE HUNDRED YEARS AGO, GOD USED MARTIN LUTHER TO INSPIRE A 28:25 GREAT REFORMATION; HOWEVER, IN THE CENTURIES THAT FOLLOWED, 28:28 THE CHURCH HAS SLIPPED OFF THE BEDROCK OF TRUTH INTO THE VALLEY 28:32 OF LUKEWARM WORLDLINESS. THAT'S WHY, THIS FALL, I'LL BE 28:36 PRESENTING A BRAND-NEW NINE-PART SERIES CALLED FOUNDATIONS OF 28:40 FAITH - PLEASE PLAN, NOW, TO JOIN ME IN PERSON, ONLINE, OR ON 28:44 TELEVISION AND BE SURE TO INVITE OTHERS TO JOIN YOU AS WELL. 28:47 THE REFORMATION CONTINUES. >>THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT. 29:25 >>THIS PRESENTATION WAS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE FRIENDS OF THE 29:28 AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY. |
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