MALE ANNOUNCER: THIS PRESENTATION IS BROUGHT TO YOU 00:01:00.76\00:01:02.29 BY THE FRIENDS OF THE AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY. 00:01:02.32\00:01:05.69 DOUG BATCHELOR: YOU KNOW, IN REVELATION, EVERYONE SAYS, "I 00:01:11.80\00:01:13.70 DON'T WANT THE MARK IN THE LAST DAYS." 00:01:13.74\00:01:15.17 WELL, IT DEPENDS ON WHAT MARK. 00:01:15.20\00:01:17.61 EVERYONE'S MARKED. 00:01:17.64\00:01:19.34 YOU EITHER HAVE THE MARK OF THE BEAST, OR YOU HAVE 00:01:19.37\00:01:20.81 THE MARK OF GOD, WHICH IS CALLED THE SEAL OF GOD. 00:01:20.84\00:01:24.05 ANNOUNCER: FOR OVER 40 YEARS, AMAZING FACTS HAS BEEN 00:01:25.98\00:01:28.25 DEDICATED TO SHARING GOD'S WORD THROUGH MEDIA. 00:01:28.28\00:01:31.99 THIS PROGRAM FEATURES HIGHLIGHTS FROM SOME 00:01:32.02\00:01:33.92 OF OUR BEST TELEVISION BROADCASTS. 00:01:33.96\00:01:36.76 WE INVITE YOU TO SIT BACK AND ENJOY THIS EDITION 00:01:36.79\00:01:39.09 OF "AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS." 00:01:39.13\00:01:42.56 DOUG: THERE ARE A NUMBER OF IDENTIFYING CHARACTERISTICS THAT 00:01:47.10\00:01:49.67 ARE GIVEN IN THE BIBLE TO HELP US KNOW WHAT ARE THE BEAST 00:01:49.70\00:01:53.98 POWERS SPOKEN OF IN REVELATION, AND HOW THAT RELATES 00:01:54.01\00:01:57.55 TO THE MARK OF THE BEAST. 00:01:57.58\00:01:59.18 OBVIOUSLY, YOU NEED TO KNOW WHAT THE BEAST IS TO UNDERSTAND WHAT 00:01:59.21\00:02:01.48 THE MARK OF THE BEAST IS, AND LIKEWISE THE SEAL OF GOD. 00:02:01.52\00:02:05.49 "SATAN'S MARK, GOD'S SEAL." 00:02:05.52\00:02:07.29 AND IN THIS PRESENTATION, WE'LL BE TALKING ABOUT THE MARK 00:02:07.32\00:02:10.66 OF THE BEAST, THE SEAL OF GOD, THE ANTICHRIST, 666, 00:02:10.69\00:02:16.53 ALL IN ONE PRESENTATION. 00:02:16.56\00:02:19.00 SO PRAY, AMEN? 00:02:19.03\00:02:21.90 SO, WE'RE GOING TO GET RIGHT INTO OUR LESSON WITH OUR FIRST 00:02:21.94\00:02:23.61 QUESTION, WHAT DOES A BEAST REPRESENT IN BIBLE PROPHECY? 00:02:23.64\00:02:28.98 IF YOU GO TO DANIEL CHAPTER 7, VERSE 17, IT SAYS, "AND THESE 00:02:29.01\00:02:33.25 GREAT BEASTS ARE FOUR KINGS WHICH ARISE UP 00:02:33.28\00:02:38.35 OUT OF THE EARTH." 00:02:38.39\00:02:40.06 NOW, KINGS MEAN KINGDOMS. 00:02:40.09\00:02:42.66 AND THIS COMES FROM DANIEL CHAPTER 7, WHERE IT TALKS ABOUT 00:02:42.69\00:02:46.03 THESE BEASTS, ONE LIKE A LION, AND ONE LIKE A LEOPARD, 00:02:46.06\00:02:48.80 AND ONE LIKE A BEAR, AND NOT IN THAT ORDER. 00:02:48.83\00:02:51.23 IT'S ACTUALLY LION, BEAR, LEOPARD, 00:02:51.27\00:02:55.07 AND THEN THIS NONDESCRIPT BEAST. 00:02:55.10\00:02:57.24 KEEP THAT IN YOUR MIND. 00:02:57.27\00:02:59.37 IT'S THE ANTICHRIST POWER THAT IS THAT FINAL BEAST 00:02:59.41\00:03:02.34 THAT IS MENTIONED. 00:03:02.38\00:03:03.58 BUT YOU'RE NOT--YOU KNOW, WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE MARK OF THE 00:03:03.61\00:03:05.51 BEAST, WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT SOME MONSTER. 00:03:05.55\00:03:08.12 IT WAS CUSTOMARY BACK THEN, AS IT IS TODAY, TO HAVE DIFFERENT 00:03:08.15\00:03:11.19 ANIMALS THAT REPRESENTED KINGDOMS. 00:03:11.22\00:03:14.56 WHEN I THINK OF THE EAGLE, OR WHEN I SAY THAT, 00:03:14.59\00:03:16.76 WHAT COUNTRY DO YOU THINK OF? US. 00:03:16.79\00:03:19.73 AND IF I SAY THE BEAR? RUSSIA. 00:03:19.76\00:03:22.73 THE LION? 00:03:22.76\00:03:24.87 GREAT BRITAIN LIKES--SEVERAL COUNTRIES ACTUALLY 00:03:24.90\00:03:26.97 CLAIM THE LION. 00:03:27.00\00:03:28.67 AND SO, WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE BEAST, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT 00:03:28.70\00:03:31.67 THIS POLITICAL-RELIGIOUS POWER IN THE LAST DAYS. 00:03:31.71\00:03:35.18 NEXT QUESTION, HOW DO THE BEASTS OF REVELATION 12, 13, 00:03:35.21\00:03:39.95 AND 17 COMPARE? 00:03:39.98\00:03:42.38 ALL RIGHT, FIRST WE'RE GOING TO START WITH REVELATION 13 00:03:42.42\00:03:44.55 BECAUSE THIS IS THE ONE THAT HAS THE MARK OF THE BEAST. 00:03:44.59\00:03:46.72 YOU READ THERE IN VERSES 1 AND 2, "I STOOD UPON THE SAND 00:03:46.76\00:03:50.23 OF THE SEA, AND I SAW A BEAST RISE UP OUT OF THE SEA." 00:03:50.26\00:03:54.60 AND IT SAID IT HAD SEVEN HEADS AND TEN HORNS. 00:03:54.63\00:03:58.27 NOTICE THAT, SEVEN HEADS, TEN HORNS. 00:03:58.30\00:04:00.60 "AND UPON HIS HEADS THE NAMES OF BLASPHEMY. 00:04:00.64\00:04:03.87 NOW THE BEAST THAT I SAW WAS LIKE A LEOPARD, HIS FEET 00:04:03.91\00:04:09.11 WERE LIKE THE FEET OF A BEAR." 00:04:09.14\00:04:11.75 AND IT SAYS HIS MOUTH WAS LIKE THE MOUTH OF A LION. 00:04:11.78\00:04:15.12 DIDN'T WE JUST SEE THOSE BEASTS IN DANIEL CHAPTER 7? 00:04:15.15\00:04:19.69 BECAUSE THE LION REPRESENTED BABYLON, THE BEAR REPRESENTED 00:04:19.72\00:04:22.26 MEDO-PERSIA, AND THE LEOPARD REPRESENTED GREECE, 00:04:22.29\00:04:24.89 AND THEN CAME ROME. 00:04:24.93\00:04:27.50 JUST KEEP THAT IN MIND. 00:04:27.56\00:04:29.00 NOW, WHEN YOU GO TO REVELATION 12, THERE'S A DRAGON. 00:04:29.03\00:04:32.10 IT SAYS THIS DRAGON TRIES TO DEVOUR THIS MAN-CHILD, 00:04:32.13\00:04:36.34 THIS BABY, AS SOON AS HE'S BORN. 00:04:36.37\00:04:38.01 IT'S THE--IT'S JESUS. 00:04:38.04\00:04:40.18 IT WAS THE ROMAN POWER THAT WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR EXECUTING HIM, 00:04:40.21\00:04:44.35 FOR TRYING TO KILL THE BABIES IN BETHLEHEM, SO MOST SCHOLARS 00:04:44.38\00:04:47.45 BELIEVE THAT THE DRAGON HERE WAS WORKING THROUGH 00:04:47.48\00:04:49.75 THE EMPIRE OF ROME. 00:04:49.78\00:04:51.52 BUT IT'S A DRAGON WITH, NOTICE, "GREAT RED DRAGON, 00:04:51.55\00:04:55.66 HAVING SEVEN HEADS AND TEN HORNS." 00:04:55.69\00:04:59.73 AND THEN YOU LOOK IN REVELATION CHAPTER 17, "I SAW A WOMAN." 00:04:59.76\00:05:03.83 NOW, WHAT DOES A WOMAN REPRESENT IN BIBLE ANALOGIES? 00:05:03.87\00:05:07.14 IT'S A CHURCH. 00:05:07.17\00:05:08.54 WE'VE DISCOVERED THAT. 00:05:08.57\00:05:10.01 IT SAYS, "HUSBANDS, LOVE YOUR WIVES AS CHRIST 00:05:10.04\00:05:11.74 LOVED THE CHURCH." 00:05:11.77\00:05:13.21 BUT SOMETIMES, GOD'S CHURCH WAS UNFAITHFUL IN THE BIBLE. 00:05:13.24\00:05:15.34 IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, GOD SAID, "ISRAEL HAS GONE 00:05:15.38\00:05:17.51 WHORING AFTER OTHER GODS. 00:05:17.55\00:05:19.81 I WAS YOUR HUSBAND, AND LOOK, YOU'VE BEEN UNFAITHFUL TO ME." 00:05:19.85\00:05:24.22 SO, HERE YOU HAVE A WOMAN, A CHURCH, THAT HAS BEEN 00:05:24.25\00:05:26.96 UNFAITHFUL BECAUSE HE CALLS HER BABYLON, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS. 00:05:26.99\00:05:30.83 BUT SHE'S RIDING ON A BEAST. 00:05:30.86\00:05:33.60 THAT WAS ROME IN CHAPTER 12. 00:05:33.63\00:05:35.66 SEVEN HEADS, TEN HORNS. 00:05:35.70\00:05:37.87 WHAT POWER HAVE PROTESTANTS HISTORICALLY 00:05:37.90\00:05:41.44 ASSOCIATED WITH THE BEAST OF REVELATION 13 AND 17? 00:05:41.47\00:05:47.14 ALL RIGHT, EVERYONE TAKE A DEEP BREATH, ALL RIGHT? 00:05:47.18\00:05:50.85 WE ARE GOING TO TALK ABOUT PROTESTANTS IN NORTH AMERICA 00:05:50.88\00:05:54.12 AND AROUND THE WORLD. 00:05:54.15\00:05:55.72 WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT AMERICA, A COUNTRY I LOVE. 00:05:55.75\00:05:57.89 I'M AN AMERICAN, I'M A PROTESTANT. 00:05:57.92\00:05:59.35 WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT CATHOLICISM AND THE PAPACY. 00:05:59.39\00:06:02.39 A LOT OF LOVELY CATHOLICS, I WENT TO TWO DIFFERENT CATHOLIC 00:06:02.42\00:06:04.33 SCHOOLS GROWING UP. 00:06:04.36\00:06:05.83 WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT PEOPLE. 00:06:05.86\00:06:08.06 WE'RE TALKING ABOUT POWERS AND SYSTEMS THAT ARE MENTIONED 00:06:08.10\00:06:11.07 IN PROPHECY, IS THAT CLEAR? 00:06:11.10\00:06:13.97 NOW, I'M JUST GOING TO GIVE YOU HISTORY, SO HOPEFULLY EVERYONE 00:06:14.00\00:06:16.14 KNOWS WE'RE IN THIS TOGETHER. 00:06:16.17\00:06:18.37 I PROMISE I'LL TALK ABOUT EVERYBODY BEFORE WE'RE DONE, 00:06:18.41\00:06:20.18 SO CHEER UP. 00:06:20.21\00:06:22.51 SO, JUST BEAR WITH ME. 00:06:22.54\00:06:24.61 I WANT TO DO THIS IN THE RIGHT SPIRIT. 00:06:24.65\00:06:26.98 WHAT POWER DID THE GREAT PROTESTANT REFORMERS IDENTIFY 00:06:27.02\00:06:30.39 WITH THE BEASTS OF REVELATION CHAPTER 13 AND 17? 00:06:30.42\00:06:34.36 LET ME QUOTE MARTIN LUTHER, "WE ARE OF THE CONVICTION THAT 00:06:34.39\00:06:37.36 THE PAPACY," THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, "IS THE SEAT 00:06:37.39\00:06:41.26 OF THE TRUE AND THE REAL ANTICHRIST." 00:06:41.30\00:06:43.90 I DON'T THINK THAT COMES TO ANYBODY AS A SHOCK. 00:06:43.93\00:06:47.10 HOW ABOUT JOHN CALVIN? 00:06:47.14\00:06:49.07 "I DENY HIM TO BE THE VICAR OF CHRIST, 00:06:49.10\00:06:51.07 WHO IS FURIOUSLY PERSECUTING THE GOSPEL, 00:06:51.11\00:06:54.81 DEMONSTRATES BY HIS CONDUCT THAT HE IS ANTICHRIST." 00:06:54.84\00:06:59.35 AND IT GOES ON TO SAY, "I DENY HIM TO BE 00:06:59.38\00:07:01.78 THE HEAD OF THE CHURCH. 00:07:01.82\00:07:03.35 SOME PERSONS THINK US TOO SEVERE AND CENSORIOUS 00:07:03.39\00:07:06.25 WHEN WE CALL THE ROMAN PONTIFFS ANTICHRIST." 00:07:06.29\00:07:10.16 NOW, THE REASON THEY CALL HIM ANTICHRIST IS BECAUSE 00:07:10.19\00:07:12.19 THERE ARE ANTI-BIBLICAL TEACHINGS. 00:07:12.23\00:07:16.30 DOESN'T MEAN THAT THE CHURCH IS A MONSTER, OR THAT THE POPE 00:07:16.33\00:07:20.17 IS THE DEVIL INCARNATE. 00:07:20.20\00:07:23.37 IT'S NOT WHAT IT'S SAYING, YOU UNDERSTAND? 00:07:23.41\00:07:24.84 PEOPLE HAVE THESE MISCONCEPTIONS. 00:07:24.87\00:07:26.68 IT'S TALKING THE SYSTEM OF BELIEFS. 00:07:26.71\00:07:28.78 MATTER OF FACT, DO YOU KNOW WHO THE FIRST PERSON WAS, ONE OF 00:07:28.81\00:07:32.28 THE FIRST PEOPLE, TO CALL THE OFFICE OF THE POPE ANTICHRIST? 00:07:32.31\00:07:37.19 THE POPE. 00:07:37.22\00:07:38.99 POPE GREGORY THE GREAT SAID, "WHEN YOU BEGIN TO WORSHIP 00:07:39.02\00:07:41.69 THIS OFFICE AS THOUGH IT'S DIVINE, THAT IS--THAT 00:07:41.72\00:07:44.33 MAKES IT ANTICHRIST." 00:07:44.36\00:07:47.00 AND SO, THEY ALL UNDERSTOOD THIS. 00:07:47.03\00:07:49.06 JOHN WESLEY, IF YOU'RE METHODIST, "HE IS IT THAT EXALTS 00:07:49.10\00:07:53.64 HIMSELF ABOVE ALL THAT IS CALLED GOD, OR THAT IS WORSHIPPED, 00:07:53.67\00:07:57.57 CLAIMING THE HIGHEST POWER, AND THE HIGHEST HONOR, 00:07:57.61\00:08:01.11 CLAIMING THE PREROGATIVES WHICH BELONG TO GOD ALONE." 00:08:01.14\00:08:04.21 AND WE'LL GIVE YOU SOME EXAMPLES OF THAT. 00:08:04.25\00:08:06.45 HOW ABOUT JOHN KNOX? 00:08:06.48\00:08:08.55 "AS WITH LUTHER, HE FINALLY CONCLUDED THAT THE PAPACY WAS 00:08:08.58\00:08:11.82 THE VERY ANTICHRIST, AND THE SON OF PERDITION, OF WHO PAUL 00:08:11.85\00:08:15.92 SPEAKS," THERE IN 2 THESSALONIANS. 00:08:15.96\00:08:19.06 COTTON MATHER, THIS WAS A BRILLIANT 00:08:19.09\00:08:20.96 EARLY AMERICA PREACHER. 00:08:21.00\00:08:22.46 HE HAD THE WHOLE NEW TESTAMENT MEMORIZED. 00:08:22.50\00:08:26.07 "THE ORACLES OF GOD FORETOLD THE RISING OF AN ANTICHRIST 00:08:26.10\00:08:29.44 IN THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. 00:08:29.47\00:08:31.07 AND IN THE POPE OF ROME, ALL THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THAT 00:08:31.11\00:08:34.28 ANTICHRIST ARE SO MARVELOUSLY ANSWERED THAT IF ANYONE WHO 00:08:34.31\00:08:38.31 READS THE SCRIPTURES AND DOES NOT SEE IT, THERE IS A MARVELOUS 00:08:38.35\00:08:41.65 BLINDNESS UPON THEM." 00:08:41.68\00:08:44.02 YOU'VE HEARD OF SPURGEON, HE WAS CALLED THE PRINCE 00:08:44.05\00:08:45.92 OF PREACHERS, GREAT PREACHER. 00:08:45.95\00:08:47.82 HE SAID, "BEHOLD ON HER FOREHEAD THE NAME MYSTERY, BABYLON THE 00:08:47.86\00:08:50.93 GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. 00:08:50.96\00:08:53.80 THE CHURCH OF ROME AND HER TEACHINGS ARE THE VAST MOUNTAIN 00:08:53.83\00:08:57.30 OF RUBBISH COVERING THE TRUTH OF GOD." 00:08:57.33\00:09:01.37 AND SO, WHY DID THEY SAY THOSE THINGS? 00:09:01.40\00:09:04.94 BECAUSE THE BIBLE, FOR INSTANCE, TEACHES BAPTISM BY IMMERSION. 00:09:04.97\00:09:09.34 THEY TEACH OF SPRINKLING. 00:09:09.38\00:09:10.85 THE BIBLE SAYS DO NOT PRAY TO IDOLS, THEY PRAY TO IDOLS. 00:09:10.88\00:09:13.45 JESUS SAID, "CALL NO MAN FATHER. 00:09:13.48\00:09:15.52 YOU HAVE ONE FATHER IN HEAVEN." 00:09:15.55\00:09:16.99 THEY CALL THEIR RELIGIOUS LEADERS FATHER. 00:09:17.02\00:09:18.95 THE BIBLE SAYS, "DO NOT PRAY IN VAIN REPETITION; 00:09:18.99\00:09:21.79 GOD IS NOT DEAF." 00:09:21.82\00:09:23.26 THEY SAY, "YOU WANT FORGIVENESS, CONFESS YOUR SINS 00:09:23.29\00:09:25.99 TO THE PRIEST." 00:09:26.03\00:09:27.30 YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO CONFESS THEM TO GOD. 00:09:27.36\00:09:28.50 "AND SAY HAIL MARY OR OUR FATHER MULTIPLE TIMES IN REPETITION." 00:09:28.53\00:09:32.07 AND YOU COULD GO THROUGH A WHOLE LITANY OF THINGS THAT THE GREAT 00:09:32.10\00:09:35.20 PROTESTANT REFORMERS PROTESTED AGAINST BECAUSE 00:09:35.24\00:09:38.21 THEY FELT IT WAS UNBIBLICAL. 00:09:38.24\00:09:41.18 WHAT OTHER EVIDENCE FROM REVELATION 17 PROVES 00:09:41.21\00:09:44.91 THAT BABYLON REFERS TO WHAT WE WOULD CALL PAPAL ROME, 00:09:44.95\00:09:48.12 OR THE CATHOLIC CHURCH? 00:09:48.15\00:09:50.89 WE'RE GOING TO GO THROUGH SEVEN POINTS HERE, 00:09:50.92\00:09:52.92 LIKE A THROUGH G. JUST STAY WITH ME. 00:09:52.95\00:09:55.46 FIRST OF ALL, IT SAYS THAT SHE IS GUILTY OF BLASPHEMY. 00:09:55.49\00:09:58.26 BLASPHEMY MEANS PUTTING YOURSELF IN THE PLACE OF GOD, 00:09:58.29\00:10:01.23 OR ASSUMING THE NAMES OF GOD. 00:10:01.26\00:10:03.83 LET'S SEE IF IT FITS THAT DEFINITION. 00:10:03.87\00:10:06.27 HERE IN FERRARIS' ECCLESIASTICAL DICTIONARY, THE CATHOLIC CHURCH 00:10:06.30\00:10:09.90 SAYS ABOUT THEMSELVES, "THE POPE IS SO GREAT A DIGNITY 00:10:09.94\00:10:14.31 AND SO EXALTED THAT IS NOT A MERE MAN, BUT IS, AS IT WERE, 00:10:14.34\00:10:19.08 GOD, AND THE VICAR OF GOD." 00:10:19.11\00:10:22.15 SEE, I BELIEVE THAT'S BLASPHEMOUS. 00:10:22.18\00:10:24.35 I DON'T THINK A MAN CAN PUT HIMSELF IN THAT POSITION. 00:10:24.39\00:10:27.22 POPE LEO XIII SAID, "WE HOLD UPON THIS EARTH 00:10:27.26\00:10:30.43 THE PLACE OF GOD ALMIGHTY." 00:10:30.46\00:10:34.03 AND YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU LIVE IN A VIRTUAL PALACE, AND YOU SIT ON A 00:10:34.10\00:10:38.37 THRONE--YOU KNOW, THE POPE SITS ON A THRONE WITH TWO ANGELS 00:10:38.40\00:10:41.80 ON THE RIGHT AND THE LEFT, SIMILAR TO THE HOLY OF HOLIES 00:10:41.84\00:10:45.37 IN THE SANCTUARY THAT WAS THE DWELLING PLACE OF GOD, 00:10:45.41\00:10:48.28 BETWEEN THE TWO ANGELS. 00:10:48.31\00:10:49.91 THAT WAS THE SHEKINAH SEAT, MERCY SEAT. 00:10:49.94\00:10:52.71 B, SHE'S DRESSED IN PURPLE AND SCARLET. 00:10:52.75\00:10:56.65 WELL, I THINK MOST OF US KNOW THAT THE CARDINALS, THEIR 00:10:56.69\00:10:59.19 PRINCIPLE COLOR IS SCARLET, AND THE BISHOPS IS PURPLE. 00:10:59.22\00:11:02.76 AND YOU'LL SEE A LOT OF THAT IF YOU GO THE VATICAN. 00:11:02.79\00:11:05.89 FURTHERMORE, IT SAYS, "AND ADORNED WITH GOLD 00:11:05.93\00:11:07.96 AND PRECIOUS STONES AND PEARLS." 00:11:08.00\00:11:11.07 AND SO, IT'S A VERY WEALTHY INSTITUTION. 00:11:11.10\00:11:14.27 YOU REALIZE THE CATHOLIC CHURCH OWNS MORE PRICELESS TREASURES 00:11:14.30\00:11:18.37 THAN ANY OTHER PRIVATE INSTITUTION IN THE WORLD? 00:11:18.41\00:11:21.21 AT ONE TIME, THEY OWNED THE MAJORITY OF THE WORLD'S SILVER. 00:11:21.24\00:11:23.95 I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S STILL TRUE TODAY. 00:11:23.98\00:11:26.08 BUT NO ONE WILL QUESTION IF YOU GO TO SOME OF THESE CHURCHES, 00:11:26.11\00:11:28.52 AND YOU SEE THE GOLD RELICS AND THE ART, SOME OF THE MOST 00:11:28.55\00:11:32.05 EXQUISITE ART AND TREASURES, GOLD AND PEARLS AND SO FORTH. 00:11:32.09\00:11:36.42 "HAVING IN HER HAND A GOLDEN CUP FULL OF ABOMINATIONS." 00:11:36.46\00:11:41.70 NOW, THE REASON THEY SAY FULL OF ABOMINATIONS THERE IS 00:11:41.73\00:11:44.00 BECAUSE--ONE REASON THE WHOLE PROTESTANT CHURCH AND ALL THESE 00:11:44.03\00:11:47.10 CHURCHES SPLIT OFF FROM THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IS BECAUSE 00:11:47.14\00:11:49.87 OF THEIR TEACHING REGARDING THE MASS, 00:11:49.90\00:11:52.41 OR WHAT THEY CALL TRANSUBSTANTIATION. 00:11:52.44\00:11:55.04 THE PRIEST, WHEN HE GOES THROUGH HIS INCANTATIONS 00:11:55.08\00:11:58.45 DURING THE MASS, SUPPOSEDLY IS TRANSFERRING THAT GRAPE 00:11:58.48\00:12:03.25 JUICE--THAT IS NOT GRAPE JUICE. 00:12:03.28\00:12:04.99 IN THE CATHOLIC MASS, IT'S ACTUALLY ALCOHOLIC. 00:12:05.02\00:12:08.39 JESUS SAID THAT IT WAS TO BE NEW WINE THAT'S UNFERMENTED, 00:12:08.42\00:12:12.36 AND UNLEAVENED BREAD. 00:12:12.39\00:12:14.00 UNLEAVENED BREAD, UNFERMENTED WINE BECAUSE IT REPRESENTS 00:12:14.00\00:12:15.50 THE BLOOD OF JESUS, WHICH IS PURE. 00:12:15.53\00:12:18.53 NOT ONLY THAT, THEY SAY THEY ARE TURNING IT 00:12:18.57\00:12:20.74 INTO THE ACTUAL BLOOD OF CHRIST. 00:12:20.77\00:12:24.51 AND IT IS THE ACTUAL BODY, MEANING THAT THE PRIEST 00:12:24.54\00:12:27.18 HAS THE POWER TO MAKE GOD WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT. 00:12:27.21\00:12:30.31 THAT WAS A BIG DEBATE DURING THE REFORMATION. 00:12:30.35\00:12:33.82 AND IF YOU LOOK IN THE CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA, IF YOU DOUBT ME, 00:12:33.85\00:12:36.62 THEY SAY, "THE CHALICE, THE GOLDEN CUP, 00:12:36.65\00:12:38.92 IS THE MOST IMPORTANT OF THE SACRED VESSELS," 00:12:38.95\00:12:42.02 HAVING IN HER HAND A GOLDEN CUP. 00:12:42.06\00:12:44.13 SHE'S CALLED THE MOTHER. 00:12:44.16\00:12:46.09 WELL, DID YOU KNOW THAT THE POPE NOT ONLY LIVES IN THE VATICAN, 00:12:46.13\00:12:48.70 BUT HE IS THE PASTOR OF A CHURCH IN ROME? 00:12:48.73\00:12:51.33 HE'S THE PASTOR OF THE LATERAN CHURCH. 00:12:51.37\00:12:53.54 AND YOU KNOW WHAT IT SAYS ON THE DOOR OF THE LATERAN CHURCH? 00:12:53.57\00:12:56.44 "THE SACRED--" I'M TRANSLATING THE LATIN THAT YOU SEE THERE 00:12:56.47\00:12:58.87 ON THE PLAQUE FOR YOU. 00:12:58.91\00:13:00.61 "THE SACRED LATERAN MOTHER AND HEAD OF ALL CHURCHES 00:13:00.64\00:13:03.98 OF THE CITY AND THE WORLD." 00:13:04.01\00:13:06.75 IT DOESN'T SAY JUST THE CATHOLIC CHURCHES OF THE WORLD, 00:13:06.78\00:13:08.38 ALL CHURCHES OF THE WORLD. 00:13:08.42\00:13:10.22 CALLS ITSELF THE MOTHER. 00:13:10.25\00:13:12.19 ANSWER E, IT'S A PERSECUTING POWER. 00:13:12.22\00:13:14.89 DRUNKEN WITH THE BLOOD OF THE SAINTS. 00:13:14.92\00:13:17.19 "HISTORY OF THE POPES," "GREAT NUMBERS OF CHRISTIANS AND JEWS 00:13:17.23\00:13:21.30 WERE DRIVEN FROM THEIR HABITATIONS WITH THEIR WIVES 00:13:21.33\00:13:24.10 AND THEIR CHILDREN, STRIPPED AND NAKED, 00:13:24.13\00:13:26.27 MANY OF THEM INHUMANELY MASSACRED." 00:13:26.30\00:13:28.40 THIS HAPPENED OVER A PERIOD OF OVER 1,000 YEARS. 00:13:28.44\00:13:32.34 AND SOME ESTIMATES SAY AS MANY AS 50 MILLION CHRISTIANS AND 00:13:32.37\00:13:36.85 JEWS AND OTHERS THAT THEY CALLED HERETICS WERE KILLED. 00:13:36.88\00:13:39.51 YOU'VE HEARD OF THE SPANISH INQUISITION. 00:13:39.55\00:13:41.78 THIS IS JUST HISTORY. 00:13:41.82\00:13:43.32 YOU COULD GO TO THE CHURCHES OF EUROPE, SEE THE DUNGEONS 00:13:43.35\00:13:45.12 WHERE THEY TORTURED PEOPLE, AND THE TORTURE IMPLEMENTS. 00:13:45.15\00:13:47.66 THEY'LL TAKE YOU ON A TOUR. I'VE SEEN THEM. 00:13:47.69\00:13:51.66 IT SAYS SHE SITS ON SEVEN HILLS. 00:13:51.69\00:13:53.36 NOW, THAT OUGHT IT MAKE IT CLEAR. 00:13:53.40\00:13:54.73 JUST GOOGLE SEVEN HILLS. YOU KNOW WHAT POPS UP? ROME. 00:13:54.76\00:14:00.17 IT'S CALLED THE CITY OF THE SEVEN HILLS, 00:14:00.20\00:14:02.34 AND THERE YOU HAVE IT. 00:14:02.37\00:14:03.81 ROME WAS FOUNDED IN 753 BC ON THE SEVEN HILLS, 00:14:03.84\00:14:07.01 A TERM USED FOR CENTURIES TO DESCRIBE THE PRIMARY HILLS 00:14:07.04\00:14:10.05 SURROUNDING THE OLD CITY. I THINK WE ALL KNOW THAT. 00:14:10.08\00:14:14.42 G, SHE RULES OVER THE KINGS OF THE EARTH. 00:14:14.45\00:14:17.02 THIS IS AN INTERNATIONAL POWER. 00:14:17.05\00:14:19.59 THE POPE HAS BEEN FACILITATING PEACE BETWEEN NATIONS. 00:14:19.62\00:14:22.72 HERE, HE'S GOT THE PALESTINIAN AND ISRAELI PRESIDENT 00:14:22.76\00:14:25.46 MEETING TOGETHER AT THE VATICAN. 00:14:25.49\00:14:28.06 "FROM CUBA TO CLIMATE CHANGE," THIS IS TIME MAGAZINE 00:14:28.10\00:14:30.37 THIS LAST YEAR, "HE HAS REVITALIZED THE VATICAN'S ROLE 00:14:30.40\00:14:33.64 IN GLOBAL DIPLOMACY. 00:14:33.67\00:14:36.00 NOW, HE'S BRINGING HIS ACTIVIST AGENDA TO THE US." 00:14:36.04\00:14:38.81 THIS WAS WRITTEN, OF COURSE, 00:14:38.84\00:14:40.44 JUST BEFORE HIS RECENT TRIP TO THE US. 00:14:40.48\00:14:42.04 NOW, ONTO THE NUMBER. 00:14:42.08\00:14:43.68 WHAT IS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE MYSTIC NUMBER 666? 00:14:43.71\00:14:48.25 SO, WHERE DOES THAT NUMBER COME FROM? 00:14:48.28\00:14:49.68 "HERE IS WISDOM." 00:14:49.72\00:14:51.32 YOU FIND THIS REVELATION 13:18, "LET HIM WHO HAS UNDERSTANDING 00:14:51.35\00:14:56.12 CALCULATE THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST, 00:14:56.16\00:14:57.83 FOR IT THE NUMBER OF A MAN." 00:14:57.86\00:14:59.33 IT'LL BE CONNECTED WITH A MAN. 00:14:59.36\00:15:01.96 "AND THE NUMBER IS 666." 00:15:02.00\00:15:04.47 GOD CREATED THE WORLD IN 7 DAYS REALLY, INCLUDING 00:15:04.50\00:15:08.50 THE SABBATH BECAUSE HE MADE THAT PART OF HIS WEEK. 00:15:08.54\00:15:12.01 FIRST TIME YOU HEAR A NUMBER REPEATED THREE TIMES 00:15:12.04\00:15:14.11 IN THE BIBLE IS THE SABBATH. 00:15:14.14\00:15:16.38 IT SAYS IN GENESIS CHAPTER 2, "ON THE SEVENTH DAY, 00:15:16.41\00:15:18.78 THE SEVENTH DAY, THE SEVENTH DAY." 00:15:18.81\00:15:20.52 A NUMBER ASSOCIATED WITH GOD, AND THE WORSHIP OF GOD, 00:15:20.55\00:15:23.12 AND THE NAME OF GOD, THAT HE IS CREATOR. 00:15:23.15\00:15:27.86 AND THE NUMBER FOR MAN, MAN WAS MADE ON THE SIXTH DAY, IS SIX. 00:15:27.89\00:15:31.53 THIS IS ALL ABOUT WORSHIPPING MAN OR GOD, 00:15:31.56\00:15:34.60 WHICH IS A BIG QUESTION. 00:15:34.63\00:15:36.90 WHAT IS THE OFFICIAL TITLE OF THE POPE? 00:15:36.93\00:15:41.07 IF YOU LOOK FOR PROMPTA BIBLIOTHECA, ACCORDING 00:15:41.10\00:15:43.27 TO THE 1913 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA UNDER THE HEADING 00:15:43.30\00:15:46.11 PAPA, THE TITLE IS VICARIUS, THIS IS IN LATIN, FILII DEI. 00:15:46.14\00:15:52.11 AND IT APPEARS FOR THE TITLE OF THE POPE. 00:15:52.15\00:15:53.68 LET ME GIVE YOU SOME OTHER ONES. 00:15:53.72\00:15:55.28 IF YOU CAN READ DR. J. QUASTEN, PROFESSOR OF ANCIENT HISTORY 00:15:55.32\00:15:58.32 OF CHRISTIAN ARCHAEOLOGY, CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA, 00:15:58.35\00:16:01.36 THERE ARE THEIR OWN TEACHINGS. 00:16:01.39\00:16:03.02 "THE TITLE VICARIUS FILII DEI IS COMMON 00:16:03.06\00:16:06.76 AS THE TITLE OF THE POPE." 00:16:06.80\00:16:09.56 YOU CAN ALSO LOOK HERE IN A BOOK BY POPE JOHN PAUL II, IT SAYS, 00:16:09.60\00:16:14.30 "THE POPE: A SCANDAL AND A MYSTERY." 00:16:14.34\00:16:16.94 "COMFORTED WITH--OR CONFRONTED WITH THE POPE, 00:16:16.97\00:16:20.04 ONE MUST MAKE A CHOICE. 00:16:20.08\00:16:21.54 THE LEADER OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IS DEFINED BY THE FAITH 00:16:21.58\00:16:23.81 AS THE VICAR OF JESUS CHRIST." THAT MEANS VICARIUS FILII DEI. 00:16:23.85\00:16:28.32 "THE POPE IS CONSIDERED THE MAN ON EARTH WHO REPRESENTS THE SON 00:16:28.35\00:16:31.45 OF GOD, WHO TAKES THE PLACE OF THE SECOND PERSON 00:16:31.49\00:16:35.06 OF THE OMNIPOTENT GOD OF THE TRINITY." 00:16:35.09\00:16:38.79 THOSE ARE BOLD--DEFINED AS BLASPHEMOUS STATEMENTS, 00:16:38.83\00:16:42.73 BUT NOTICE THE TITLE AGAIN. 00:16:42.76\00:16:45.27 THEY'RE TAKING THE TITLE OF CHRIST. 00:16:45.30\00:16:48.77 IF YOU LOOK AT THIS QUOTE FROM THE SUNDAY VISITOR, 00:16:48.80\00:16:51.71 "THE TITLE OF THE POPE OF ROME IS VICARIOUS FILII DEI. 00:16:51.74\00:16:55.61 THIS IS INSCRIBED ON HIS MITRE." 00:16:55.64\00:16:58.65 NOW, POPE--MODERN POPES DON'T WEAR THE CROWN VERY MUCH. 00:16:58.68\00:17:01.72 THEY USED TO ALWAYS WEAR THEIR CROWN. 00:17:01.75\00:17:03.32 THEY HAD SEVERAL CROWNS. 00:17:03.35\00:17:04.59 THESE TRIPLE TIERED CROWNS THAT REPRESENTED THE POPE IS THE KING 00:17:04.62\00:17:07.39 OF HEAVEN, THE KING OF EARTH, AND THE KING OF PURGATORY, 00:17:07.42\00:17:10.29 AND THAT'S IN THEIR OWN TEACHINGS. 00:17:10.33\00:17:12.23 THAT'S WHY THEY HAD THESE TRIPLE TIERED CROWNS. 00:17:12.26\00:17:15.60 THEY USED TO HAVE A LITTLE PLACARD, LIKE THE HIGH PRIEST 00:17:15.63\00:17:18.30 OF ISRAEL HAD A PLACARD ON HIS CROWN THAT SAID 00:17:18.33\00:17:20.24 HOLINESS TO THE LORD. 00:17:20.27\00:17:22.40 THE POPE HAD VICARIUS FILII DEI AS A PLACARD ON HIS CROWN. 00:17:22.44\00:17:26.71 YOU ADD UP THAT TITLE USING ROMAN NUMERALS. 00:17:26.74\00:17:28.88 YOU REALIZE NAMES HAD NUMERICAL VALUE, LETTERS HAD 00:17:28.91\00:17:33.18 NUMERICAL VALUE IN HEBREW, AND GREEK, AND LATIN. 00:17:33.21\00:17:36.15 WE DON'T DO THAT SO MUCH IN AMERICA. 00:17:36.18\00:17:38.25 A WOULD BE ONE, B WOULD BE TWO I GUESS IF YOU DID IT LIKE THAT. 00:17:38.29\00:17:42.09 THAT'S KIND OF THE CRACKER JACK'S CODE. 00:17:42.12\00:17:44.53 BUT IN THESE LANGUAGES, IN ROMAN NUMERALS, WHAT IS V? 00:17:44.56\00:17:48.93 FIVE. WHAT IS I? 00:17:48.96\00:17:51.03 YOU TAKE THE TITLE OF THE POPE, VICARIUS FILII DEI--U 00:17:51.07\00:17:54.77 AND V ARE THE SAME. 00:17:54.80\00:17:56.34 YOU'LL SEE THAT IN MANY ANCIENT ROMAN WRITINGS. 00:17:56.37\00:18:00.14 VICARIUS IS 112, FILII 53, DEI 501. 00:18:00.18\00:18:06.28 THE NUMBER OF HIS NAME, 666, ABOVE THE HEAD 00:18:06.31\00:18:11.72 OF THE POPE ON HIS CROWN. 00:18:11.75\00:18:14.02 A LITTLE DIFFERENT CROWN THAN THE ONE THAT JESUS WORE 00:18:14.06\00:18:15.96 WHEN HE HUNG ON THE CROSS. NOW, LET'S TALK ABOUT THE MARK. 00:18:15.99\00:18:21.66 IF YOU LOOK IN THE BOOK OF EZEKIEL CHAPTER 9, 00:18:21.70\00:18:24.17 I CAN'T READ IT. YOU READ THE WHOLE CHAPTER, 00:18:24.20\00:18:26.27 BUT I'LL GIVE YOU A COUPLE OF EXCERPTS. 00:18:26.30\00:18:27.87 "THE LORD SAID TO HIM, 'GO THROUGH THE MIDST OF THE CITY, 00:18:27.90\00:18:30.41 THROUGH THE MIDST OF JERUSALEM, AND PUT A MARK ON THE FOREHEADS 00:18:30.44\00:18:34.14 OF THE MEN WHO SIGH AND CRY OVER ALL THE ABOMINATIONS 00:18:34.18\00:18:37.61 THAT ARE DONE.'" THIS IS A GOOD MARK. 00:18:37.65\00:18:39.91 THESE ARE THE PEOPLE WHO ARE PRAYING, AND THEY'RE SAD 00:18:39.95\00:18:41.92 FOR THE SIN IN THE CHURCH, AND THEY'RE PRAYING FOR REVIVAL. 00:18:41.95\00:18:44.35 "PUT A MARK ON THEM," GOD SAYS. 00:18:44.39\00:18:46.35 NOTICE IT'S A GOOD MARK BECAUSE THEN AN ANGEL OF JUDGMENT 00:18:46.39\00:18:49.12 IS SENT AFTER THE ANGELS WITH THE MARK. 00:18:49.16\00:18:52.99 YOU CAN READ IN REVELATION 7, VERSE 3, IT SAYS, "HURT NOT THE 00:18:53.03\00:18:56.50 EARTH, NEITHER THE SEA, NOR THE TREES, TILL WE HAVE SEALED THE 00:18:56.53\00:19:01.30 SERVANTS OF GOD IN THEIR FOREHEADS." 00:19:01.34\00:19:03.74 NOW WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE GOOD MARK. 00:19:03.77\00:19:05.71 THOSE THAT HAVE THE SEAL ARE GOING TO BE PROTECTED. 00:19:05.74\00:19:08.38 ANGELS ARE HOLDING BACK THE WINDS OF STRIFE NOW READY 00:19:08.41\00:19:10.68 TO RELEASE, BUT GOD IS SEALING HIS PEOPLE. 00:19:10.71\00:19:13.85 WHAT IS THIS SEAL THE RIGHTEOUS HAVE IN THEIR FOREHEADS BEFORE 00:19:13.88\00:19:17.22 ALL THE FURY IS RELEASED? 00:19:17.25\00:19:20.19 FIRST OF ALL, THOSE WHO HAVE THE MARK OF THE BEAST 00:19:20.22\00:19:22.19 HAVE THE SPIRIT OF THE DEVIL. 00:19:22.22\00:19:24.09 THOSE WHO HAVE THE SEAL OF GOD HAVE THE HOLY SPIRIT. 00:19:24.13\00:19:26.43 DOES EVERYONE ALREADY KNOW THAT? 00:19:26.46\00:19:28.33 OBVIOUSLY, THEY'VE GOT THE SPIRIT OF THE POWER. 00:19:28.36\00:19:30.57 AND IT SAYS HERE IN EPHESIANS, "DO NOT GRIEVE THE HOLY SPIRIT 00:19:30.60\00:19:33.87 OF GOD, BY WHOM YOU ARE SEALED FOR THE DAY OF REDEMPTION." 00:19:33.90\00:19:37.74 2 CORINTHIANS 1:22, "WHO WAS SEALED US AND GIVEN US 00:19:37.77\00:19:41.54 THE SPIRIT IN OUR HEARTS AS A GUARANTEE." 00:19:41.58\00:19:44.61 HOW MANY OF YOU WANT THAT SEAL? 00:19:44.65\00:19:47.05 BUT THERE'S ANOTHER SEAL THAT IS MORE DISTINCTIVE IN THE LIFE 00:19:47.08\00:19:50.62 THAT IDENTIFIES US AS UNIQUE. 00:19:50.65\00:19:52.65 ISAIAH 8:6, "BIND UP THE TESTIMONY, SEAL THE LAW 00:19:52.69\00:19:58.66 AMONG MY DISCIPLES." 00:19:58.69\00:20:00.43 IN THE HEART OF THE CONVERT, WHEN GOD CREATES A NEW HEART 00:20:00.46\00:20:03.97 AND THEY ARE UNDER THE NEW COVENANT, HE SAYS, 00:20:04.00\00:20:05.97 "I'LL WRITE MY," WHAT IN THEIR HEARTS? 00:20:06.00\00:20:08.34 "MY LAW." 00:20:08.37\00:20:09.94 AND WITHIN THE LAW OF GOD IS THE SEAL OF GOD. 00:20:09.97\00:20:14.64 WHAT IS A SEAL? 00:20:14.68\00:20:17.05 A GOVERNMENT SEAL ALWAYS HAS THREE PRIMARY CHARACTERISTICS. 00:20:17.08\00:20:20.85 IT'S GOING TO HAVE THE NAME OF THE POWER IT REPRESENTS, 00:20:20.88\00:20:24.22 IT'S TITLE, TERRITORY. 00:20:24.25\00:20:27.06 PRESIDENTIAL SEAL WOULD SAY, AT THE TIME OF THIS RECORDING, 00:20:27.09\00:20:31.79 OBAMA, BARACK OBAMA, NAME. 00:20:31.83\00:20:35.60 PRESIDENT, TITLE. UNITED STATES, TERRITORY. 00:20:35.63\00:20:38.30 HERE, I'VE GOT ONE FROM CANADA, WHERE THEY RECOGNIZE THE QUEEN 00:20:38.33\00:20:41.74 OF ENGLAND, AND IT SAYS, "ELIZABETH, QUEEN, CANADA." 00:20:41.77\00:20:45.04 YOU GOT THE NAME. 00:20:45.07\00:20:46.47 WHEN THERE WAS A SEAL PUT ON THE TOMB OF JESUS, 00:20:46.51\00:20:47.98 YOU KNOW WHAT IT SAID? PONTIUS PILATE, THE NAME. 00:20:48.01\00:20:51.85 GOVERNOR, TITLE. JUDEA, TERRITORY. 00:20:51.88\00:20:55.48 SEAL WILL ALWAYS HAVE THOSE THREE THINGS, THAT CLEAR? 00:20:55.52\00:20:58.35 WHERE DO YOU FIND THE SEAL OF GOD? 00:20:58.39\00:21:01.22 WHICH OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS CONTAINS 00:21:01.26\00:21:03.22 ALL THE ELEMENTS OF A SEAL? 00:21:03.26\00:21:06.13 IT'S IN THE MIDDLE COMMANDMENT, IN THE LONGEST COMMANDMENT 00:21:06.16\00:21:08.40 THAT HAS THE NAME OF GOD. 00:21:08.43\00:21:10.03 IT SAYS, "FOR IN SIX DAYS THE LORD, JEHOVAH, MADE THE HEAVEN, 00:21:10.07\00:21:15.34 AND THE EARTH, AND THE SEA, AND ALL THAT IS IN THEM." 00:21:15.37\00:21:19.81 GOD'S HIS NAME, THE CREATOR, HIS TERRITORY ARE ALL THERE 00:21:19.84\00:21:26.51 IN THAT COMMANDMENT. 00:21:26.55\00:21:27.98 AND THAT'S WHY GOD SAID, "DON'T FORGET THIS." 00:21:28.02\00:21:30.45 IT'S THE SEAL OF GOD. 00:21:30.49\00:21:32.02 IT SHOWS THAT YOU GIVE HIM YOUR TIME AND YOUR WORSHIP. 00:21:32.05\00:21:35.66 THE SABBATH CONTAINS THE ELEMENTS OF A SEAL. 00:21:35.69\00:21:39.36 SO, WE'VE IDENTIFIED WHAT THE SEAL OF GOD IS. 00:21:39.39\00:21:42.10 WHAT ABOUT--AND WHAT THE BEAST IS NOW. 00:21:42.13\00:21:44.83 WHAT IS THE MARK OF THE BEAST AND ITS AUTHORITY? 00:21:44.87\00:21:48.90 ALL RIGHT, JUST LOOKING NOW IN A CATHOLIC CATECHISM, 00:21:48.94\00:21:52.74 THEY TEACH QUESTION AND ANSWER FORMAT. 00:21:52.77\00:21:55.71 WHAT IS THE SABBATH DAY? 00:21:55.74\00:21:57.85 ANSWER, SATURDAY IS THE SABBATH DAY. 00:21:57.88\00:22:01.32 QUESTION, WHY DO WE OBSERVE SUNDAY INSTEAD OF SATURDAY? 00:22:01.35\00:22:06.42 ANSWER, WE OBSERVE SUNDAY INSTEAD OF SATURDAY 00:22:06.45\00:22:09.79 BECAUSE THE CATHOLIC CHURCH TRANSFERRED THE SOLEMNITY 00:22:09.82\00:22:13.03 FROM SATURDAY TO SUNDAY. IT WASN'T FROM THE BIBLE. 00:22:13.06\00:22:18.00 IT WAS TRANSFERRED BY THE CHURCH. 00:22:18.03\00:22:21.40 IT GOES ON TO SAY, HAVE YOU ANY OTHER WAYS OF PROVING THAT THE 00:22:21.44\00:22:24.31 CATHOLIC CHURCH HAS POWER TO INSTITUTE FESTIVALS OF PRECEPT? 00:22:24.34\00:22:29.54 ANSWER, HAD THE CATHOLIC CHURCH NOT SUCH POWER, 00:22:29.58\00:22:33.55 SHE COULD NOT HAVE DONE THAT IN WHICH ALL MODERN 00:22:33.58\00:22:36.28 RELIGIONISTS AGREE WITH HER. 00:22:36.32\00:22:38.42 SHE COULD NOT HAVE SUBSTITUTED THE OBSERVANCE OF SUNDAY, 00:22:38.45\00:22:41.46 THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK, FOR THE OBSERVANCE OF SATURDAY, 00:22:41.49\00:22:45.59 THE SEVENTH DAY OF THE WEEK, A CHANGE FOR WHICH THERE 00:22:45.63\00:22:48.23 IS NO, ZERO SCRIPTURAL AUTHORITY. 00:22:48.26\00:22:51.80 YOU'VE GOT THE LAW OF MAN--ARE YOU GETTING IT, FRIENDS? 00:22:51.83\00:22:53.77 YOU'VE GOT TRADITIONS OF MEN; YOU'VE GOT THE LAW OF GOD. 00:22:53.80\00:22:56.91 YOU'VE GOT THE SEAL OF GOD; YOU'VE GOT A MARK 00:22:56.94\00:22:59.54 OF THE BEAST'S AUTHORITY. 00:22:59.57\00:23:02.71 "NOW, PASTOR DOUG, ARE YOU SAYING THAT PEOPLE THAT GO 00:23:02.74\00:23:05.05 TO CHURCH ON SUNDAY HAVE THE MARK OF THE BEAST?" 00:23:05.08\00:23:07.52 NO, STICK WITH ME. 00:23:07.55\00:23:10.62 ONE OF THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE BEAST POWER, 00:23:10.65\00:23:12.32 HE WOULD THINK TO CHANGE TIMES AND LAWS. 00:23:12.35\00:23:15.49 IT SAYS HERE IN DECRETAL DE TRANSCRIPT, "THE POPE 00:23:15.52\00:23:18.99 HAS THE POWER TO CHANGE TIMES, TO ABROGATE LAWS, AND TO 00:23:19.03\00:23:23.33 DISPENSE WITH ALL THINGS, EVEN THE PRECEPTS OF CHRIST." 00:23:23.37\00:23:27.07 DID YOU KNOW THAT? 00:23:27.10\00:23:28.44 THAT'S CALLED BLASPHEMY WHEN IT SAYS THAT THE LEADER 00:23:28.47\00:23:30.44 OF THE CHURCH CAN EVEN CHANGE THE TEACHING OF CHRIST. 00:23:30.47\00:23:32.94 THAT'S OFFICIALLY THEIR TEACHING. 00:23:32.97\00:23:35.61 THAT'S WHY I TOLD YOU THEY DON'T BLUSH. 00:23:35.64\00:23:38.08 I SHOWED YOU A PICTURE OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. 00:23:38.11\00:23:40.58 THE SECOND COMMANDMENT ABOUT IDOLATRY IS JUST, LIKE, DELETED. 00:23:40.62\00:23:45.09 AND THEY TAKE THE SABBATH, THEY MAKE IT THE THIRD COMMANDMENT. 00:23:45.12\00:23:49.42 AND THEY CHANGE THE DAY FROM THE SEVENTH TO THE FIRST. 00:23:49.46\00:23:52.49 AND MOST MODERN RELIGIONISTS AGREE WITH THAT. 00:23:52.53\00:23:55.63 AND WHETHER KNOWINGLY OR UNKNOWINGLY, THEY'RE PAYING 00:23:55.66\00:23:57.97 HOMAGE TO A MANMADE LAW. 00:23:58.00\00:24:00.67 "OF COURSE THE CATHOLIC CHURCH CLAIMS THAT THE CHANGE WAS 00:24:00.70\00:24:03.94 HER ACT, AND THIS ACT IS A MARK OF HER ECCLESIASTICAL POWER 00:24:03.97\00:24:08.44 AND AUTHORITY IN RELIGIOUS MATTERS." 00:24:08.48\00:24:11.45 THAT'S FROM C.F. THOMAS, THE CARDINAL. 00:24:11.48\00:24:14.05 IS THE MARK OF THE BEAST OR THE SEAL OF GOD A VISIBLE MARK? 00:24:14.08\00:24:17.62 NOW, THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT. 00:24:17.65\00:24:19.15 SOME BIBLE TRANSLATIONS EVEN SAY, 00:24:19.19\00:24:21.12 "DON'T GET THE TATTOO IN YOUR FOREHEAD." 00:24:21.16\00:24:23.63 DOESN'T SAY THAT IN THE ORIGINAL. 00:24:23.66\00:24:25.19 IT SAYS IN THE HAND OR IN THE FOREHEAD. 00:24:25.23\00:24:27.03 WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? 00:24:27.03\00:24:28.66 IF YOU LOOK IN HEBREWS 10:16, "THUS SAYS THE LORD, 'I WILL PUT 00:24:28.70\00:24:31.73 MY LAW IN THEIR HEARTS, AND IN THEIR MINDS I WILL WRITE THEM." 00:24:31.77\00:24:36.54 THE BIBLE SAYS, "WHATEVER YOUR HAND FINDS TO DO, 00:24:36.57\00:24:39.17 DO IT WITH YOUR MIND." WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? 00:24:39.21\00:24:41.84 DOES IT MEAN YOUR HAND GOES OFF BY ITSELF, 00:24:41.88\00:24:43.18 OR DOES IT MEAN YOUR ACTIONS? 00:24:43.21\00:24:44.95 IN THE MIND MEANS IN THE THOUGHTS. 00:24:44.98\00:24:46.85 IN THE HEAD MEANS IN THE THOUGHTS. 00:24:46.88\00:24:48.35 IN THE HAND MEANS IN THE WORKS. 00:24:48.38\00:24:50.59 FOR EXAMPLE, YOU CAN READ IN ISAIAH 59:6, "THEIR WORKS 00:24:50.62\00:24:53.99 ARE WORKS OF INIQUITY, AND THEIR ACTS OF VIOLENCE 00:24:54.02\00:24:57.33 ARE IN THEIR HAND. 00:24:57.36\00:24:59.13 THEIR THOUGHT ARE THOUGHTS OF INIQUITY." 00:24:59.16\00:25:01.90 IT'S TALKING ABOUT IN THE HAND BEING THE ACTIONS; 00:25:01.93\00:25:04.37 IN THE FOREHEAD ARE THE THOUGHTS. 00:25:04.40\00:25:05.87 LET ME GIVE YOU ONE MORE. 00:25:05.90\00:25:07.10 EXODUS 13:9, "AND IT SHALL BE FOR A SIGN UNTO THEE UPON THY 00:25:07.14\00:25:11.07 HAND, AND A MEMORIAL BETWEEN THINE EYES, THAT THE LORD'S LAW 00:25:11.11\00:25:14.71 MIGHT BE IN YOUR HEART." 00:25:14.74\00:25:16.38 YOU CAN ALSO READ THIS IN DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 6, "THESE 00:25:16.41\00:25:19.51 WORDS I COMMAND YOU, THIS DAY SHALL BE IN YOUR HEART. 00:25:19.55\00:25:21.98 YOU SHALL BIND THEM FOR A SIGN UPON YOUR HAND. 00:25:22.02\00:25:24.42 THEY SHALL BE FRONTLETS BETWEEN YOUR EYES." 00:25:24.45\00:25:27.09 VERY SIMPLY, IF YOU DON'T HAVE THE LAW OF GOD IN YOUR HAND 00:25:27.12\00:25:29.09 AND IN YOUR HEAD, YOU WILL HAVE THE MARK OF THE BEAST 00:25:29.12\00:25:30.86 IN YOUR HAND AND IN YOUR HEAD. IT'S TALKING ABOUT THE ACTIONS. 00:25:30.89\00:25:33.73 IF YOU'RE WAITING FOR SOMEONE TO GET EVERYONE TO LINE UP WITH 00:25:33.76\00:25:35.76 A RUBBER STAMP AND GO KA-CHINK, KA-CHINK, AND STAMP EVERYBODY 00:25:35.80\00:25:38.70 ON THE FOREHEAD, THAT'S NOT WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN. 00:25:38.73\00:25:41.90 IT'S SOMETHING INTERNAL. 00:25:41.94\00:25:44.47 THE BEAST HAS A MARK THAT REPRESENTS 00:25:44.51\00:25:46.14 ITS POWER AND AUTHORITY. 00:25:46.17\00:25:47.68 DOES GOD HAVE A SIGN OF HIS POWER? 00:25:47.71\00:25:49.98 YES. "I GAVE THEM," MY WHAT? 00:25:50.01\00:25:53.31 "MY SABBATHS, TO BE A SIGN BETWEEN ME AND THEM, THAT 00:25:53.35\00:25:55.88 THEY MIGHT KNOW THAT I AM THE LORD THAT SANCTIFIES THEM. 00:25:55.92\00:25:59.32 HALLOW MY SABBATHS. 00:25:59.35\00:26:00.99 IT WILL BE A SIGN BETWEEN ME AND YOU, THAT YOU MIGHT KNOW 00:26:01.02\00:26:03.59 THAT I AM THE LORD YOUR GOD. 00:26:03.63\00:26:06.49 VERILY MY SABBATHS YOU WILL KEEP, FOR IT IS A SIGN 00:26:06.53\00:26:08.66 BETWEEN ME AND YOU THROUGHOUT YOUR GENERATIONS." 00:26:08.70\00:26:11.50 A SIGN, A SEAL. 00:26:11.53\00:26:14.17 "THAT YOU MIGHT KNOW THAT I AM THE LORD 00:26:14.20\00:26:15.70 THAT DOES SANCTIFY YOU." 00:26:15.74\00:26:17.17 WE JUST NEED TO ASK THIS QUESTION, FRIENDS, 00:26:17.21\00:26:19.47 THAT PETER SAID. 00:26:19.51\00:26:21.14 "WE OUGHT TO OBEY GOD RATHER THAN MEN." 00:26:21.18\00:26:25.18 WHO WILL YOU WANT TO OBEY? 00:26:25.21\00:26:28.02 DOUG BATTCHELOR: IN REVELATION CHAPTER 13 WE READ ABOUT THIS 00:26:31.65\00:26:34.49 BEAST POWER THAT COMPELS EVERYBODY IN THE WORLD TO 00:26:34.52\00:26:38.06 WORSHIP A CERTAIN WAY AND THEY NEED TO RECEIVE A MARK OR THEY 00:26:38.09\00:26:42.03 CANNOT BUY OR SELL. 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