Participants: Pr. Doug Batchelor
Series Code: AFP
Program Code: AFP000180A
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00:03 AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY.
00:11 >>WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT THE MARK OF THE BEAST OR THE BEAST IN 00:13 REVELATION 13, YOU REALIZE THAT'S A MISNOMER. 00:16 THE WAY YOU SHOULD SAY IT IS 'THE BEASTS OF REVELATION 13'. 00:20 NOW WHAT IS THIS SECOND BEAST IN REVELATION? 00:25 I BELIEVE IT REPRESENTS NORTH AMERICA. 00:31 >>FOR OVER 40 YEARS AMAZING FACTS HAS BEEN DEDICATED TO 00:34 SHARING GOD'S WORD THROUGH MEDIA. 00:37 THIS PROGRAM FEATURES HIGHLIGHTS FROM SOME OF OUR BEST TELEVISION 00:40 BROADCASTS. WE INVITE YOU TO SIT BACK AND 00:43 ENJOY THIS EDITION OF AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS . 00:52 >>I THINK THAT WE WOULD ALL AGREE THAT THERE'S SOMETHING 00:55 THAT RESEMBLES A WAR HAPPENING IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF 00:58 THE WORLD RIGHT NOW AND WE'RE CALLING IT A WAR AGAINST 01:02 TERRORISM. I THINK EVEN POPE FRANCIS WAS 01:05 QUOTED THIS LAST YEAR AS SAYING, "IT LOOKS LIKE WORLD WAR III IS 01:09 GOING TO HAPPEN IN PIECEMEAL ALL OVER THE PLANET." 01:13 AND EVEN THIS WEEK ANOTHER TERRORIST INCIDENT. 01:17 JUST A FEW FACTS YOU MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN: LARGEST RELIGION 01:22 IN THE WORLD, WHEN YOU COMBINE PROTESTANTS AND CATHOLICS, IS 01:25 CHRISTIANITY. APPROXIMATELY 2.17 BILLION 01:29 CHRISTIANS IN THE WORLD, OUT OF - PUSHING 8 BILLION - PEOPLE. 01:33 THERE ARE 1.6 BILLION MUSLIMS IN THE WORLD. 01:38 VIRTUALLY EVERY OTHER MAJOR RELIGION IS EITHER FLAT, AS FAR 01:41 AS GROWTH, OR DECLINING. BUDDHISM IS DECLINING. 01:45 HINDUISM IS SHOWING FLAT GROWTH. JUDAISM - A NUMBER OF OTHER 01:49 RELIGIONS - THE TWO RELIGIONS THAT ARE STILL SHOWING GROWTH 01:52 - CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM. ISLAM IS GROWING FASTER. 01:57 HISTORIANS THAT LOOK AT WHAT'S HAPPENING TODAY REALIZE THIS IS 02:01 NOT A POLITICAL PROBLEM, IT'S A RELIGIOUS PROBLEM. 02:05 AND SOME HAVE WONDERED, 'DOES PROPHECY SAY ANYTHING ABOUT 02:09 ISLAM? DOES PROPHECY SAY ANYTHING ABOUT CHRISTIANITY AND 02:14 AMERICA?' AND THIS LESSON IS GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT THAT 02:18 AND THE ANSWER IS 'YES'. SO LET'S GET RIGHT INTO SOME 02:22 OF THESE PROPHECIES HERE IN REVELATION. 02:24 AND THE FIRST ONE IS REVELATION CHAPTER 13, VERSE 15 - THERE'S A 02:28 VERSE THERE I WANT YOU TO NOTICE - SPEAKING OF THE BEAST POWER 02:31 THAT YOU FIND IN REVELATION 13 - IT SAYS, "HE WAS GRANTED POWER 02:36 TO GIVE BREATH TO THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST, THAT THE IMAGE OF THE 02:40 BEAST SHOULD BOTH SPEAK AND CAUSE AS MANY AS WOULD NOT 02:44 WORSHIP THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST TO BE KILLED." 02:48 NOW, JUST FROM THAT VERSE RIGHT THERE, YOU CAN TELL THAT THERE 02:50 IS GOING TO BE SOME CONFLICT CONNECTED WITH RELIGION. 02:55 IT'S A WAR CONNECTED WITH WORSHIP. 02:58 AND YOU'VE SEEN IT PLAY OUT SEVERAL TIMES IN HISTORY. 03:01 LET'S GO INTO THE FIRST QUESTION AND IT'S GOING TO SET US UP FOR, 03:05 I THINK, WHAT YOU'LL FIND TO BE A VERY INTERESTING STUDY. 03:08 SO HOW LONG DOES A DAY REPRESENT IN BIBLICAL TIME? 03:12 WHEN YOU'RE CALCULATING BIBLICAL PROPHECIES, DOES IT MEAN A DAY 03:17 IS A DAY? >>NO. 03:19 >>SO WHEN IT TALKS ABOUT THIS THREE AND A HALF YEARS - 42 03:24 MONTHS - ONE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTY DAYS - YOU 03:26 REALIZE THAT THAT IS A TIME PROPHECY GIVEN MORE DIFFERENT 03:28 WAYS - YOU NOT ONLY FIND IT IN REVELATION 13, REVELATION 12, 03:33 DANIEL CHAPTER 7 - THIS IS A TIME PERIOD FOUND SEVERAL TIMES 03:38 IN THE BIBLE. SO WHAT DOES A DAY 03:40 EQUAL IN PROPHECY? SEVERAL VERSES SHARE WITH THAT. 03:44 IF YOU LOOK, FOR INSTANCE, IN THE BOOK OF NUMBERS CHAPTER 14, 03:46 VERSE 34, YOU CAN READ THERE: "ACCORDING TO THE NUMBER OF THE 03:50 DAYS IN WHICH YOU SPIED OUT THE LAND, FORTY DAYS, FOR EACH DAY 03:54 YOU SHALL BEAR YOUR GUILT ONE YEAR, NAMELY FORTY YEARS." 03:58 PERHAPS YOU REMEMBER WHEN THE SPIES FIRST WENT - TWELVE SPIES 04:01 - TO LOOK AT THE PROMISED LAND, THEY CAME BACK AND THEY GAVE A 04:03 DISCOURAGING REPORT. GOD SAID, 'WELL, BECAUSE YOU DID NOT HAVE 04:07 FAITH, FOR EVERY DAY YOU SPIED THE LAND YOU'RE GOING 04:09 TO WANDER IN THE WILDERNESS A YEAR' - A DAY FOR A YEAR. 04:13 AND THEN YOU CAN ALSO HEAR THAT IN EZEKIEL 4:6 - THAT "I HAVE 04:17 LAID ON YOU A DAY FOR EACH YEAR." 04:20 JESUS USED THIS PRINCIPLE - LUKE CHAPTER 13 - SOMEONE CAME TO 04:23 JESUS AND THEY SAID, 'YOU KNOW, HEROD IS GOING TO ARREST YOU, 04:27 JUST LIKE HE KILLED JOHN THE BAPTIST.' JESUS SAID, 'GO TELL 04:31 THAT FOX THAT I TEACH AND DO CURES AND CAST OUT DEVILS TODAY, 04:37 AND TOMORROW, AND THE THIRD DAY I WILL BE PERFECTED.' WELL THIS 04:40 IS EARLY IN JESUS' MINISTRY. HE DID NOT TEACH THREE MORE 04:43 DAYS, HE TAUGHT THREE MORE YEARS. 04:46 THAT WAS A PROPHECY CHRIST MADE AND IT WAS EXACTLY FULFILLED 04:51 THAT WAY - THREE MORE YEARS - JESUS USED A DAY FOR A YEAR. 04:53 SO WITH THAT PRINCIPLE IN MIND, HOW LONG DOES IT SAY THERE IN 04:57 REVELATION CHAPTER 13, WOULD THIS BEAST POWER RULE BEFORE IT 05:03 RECEIVES A DEADLY WOUND - BEFORE IT'S WOUNDED? 05:06 IF YOU LOOK IN REVELATION 13, VERSE 5, IT SAYS, "...AND HE WAS 05:09 GIVEN AUTHORITY TO CONTINUE FOR FORTY-TWO MONTHS." 05:15 NOW THAT NUMBER - KEEP IN MIND, IN THE JEWISH CALENDAR - THEY 05:21 HAD A LUNAR CALENDAR, IT WASN'T THE ROMAN CALENDAR. 05:24 THEY FIGURED THIRTY DAYS TO THE MONTH. 05:28 THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY DAYS TO THE YEAR AND THEN THEY'D 05:31 COMPENSATE BY ADDING ANOTHER MONTH EVERY FEW YEARS SO THAT IT 05:34 WOULD EVEN OUT WITH THE SEASONS. THAT NUMBER - FORTY-TWO MONTHS - 05:39 COMES TO THREE AND A HALF YEARS OR 1,260 DAYS WHICH, BY THE WAY, 05:47 IS EXACTLY HALF OF SEVEN - THREE AND A HALF YEARS IS 05:51 HALF OF SEVEN YEARS. YOU'LL FIND THAT NUMBER SEVERAL 05:54 TIMES AND IT'S OFTEN ASSOCIATED WITH PERSECUTION. 05:57 THREE AND A HALF YEARS - JESUS IS CRUCIFIED - THREE AND A HALF 06:01 YEARS AFTER THAT STEPHEN IS STONED - THE FIRST MARTYR. 06:04 AND SO, WHEN IT TALKS ABOUT THREE AND A HALF YEARS THERE IN 06:07 REVELATION, IT IS A TIME OF DARKNESS AND PERSECUTION. 06:11 ALRIGHT, WHEN DID THE TIME PERIOD FOR THE BEAST RULE BEGIN? 06:16 AND YOU FIND THE ANSWER FOR THAT IN HISTORY BECAUSE YOU CAN LOOK 06:20 AT HISTORY AND IT'S AFTER BIBLE TIMES WERE WRITTEN. THE 06:24 LEGALIZED - THE LEGALLY RECOGNIZED SUPREMACY 06:27 OF THE POPE BEGAN IN 538 A.D. WHEN THERE WENT INTO EFFECT A 06:32 DECREE OF EMPEROR JUSTINIAN MAKING THE BISHOP OF ROME, 06:37 BETTER KNOWN AS THE POPE, HEAD OVER THE CHURCHES AND THE 06:40 DEFINER OF DOCTRINES AND THE CORRECTOR OF HERETICS. 06:43 AND YOU CAN ALSO READ THERE VIGILIUS ASCENDED THE PAPAL 06:47 CHAIR 538 A.D. UNDER THE MILITARY PROTECTION OF 06:51 BELISARIUS. NOW WHAT WAS GOING ON IS JUSTINIAN, THE ROMAN 06:55 EMPEROR, HE MOVED THE CAPITAL OF ROME TO CONSTANTINOPLE. 07:02 HE MADE THE POPE IN ROME THE LEADER OF THE CHURCH AND HE GAVE 07:06 HIM A MILITARY AND CALLED HIM THE CORRECTOR OF HERETICS SO 07:10 THAT HE COULD NOW USE CIVIL POWER TO ENFORCE THE RELIGION. 07:15 DID JESUS EVER SAY THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO USE 07:18 CIVIL POWER TO MAKE PEOPLE BELIEVE? 07:20 >>NO. >>NOW THAT'S A VERY 07:21 IMPORTANT POINT. I'LL SAY MORE ABOUT THAT A LITTLE LATER. 07:26 THIS WAS A TURNING POINT. THAT HAPPENED IN 538, WHERE 07:28 CHRISTIANITY SUDDENLY BECAME A POWER THAT BEGAN TO PERSECUTE, 07:32 WHERE IT USED TO BE A POWER MOTIVATED BY LOVE. 07:34 JESUS SAID, 'FOLLOW ME' - IF SOMEONE DIDN'T WANT TO FOLLOW 07:36 HIM, THEY TURNED AND THEY WALKED AWAY. 07:39 AND SO, I THINK THAT Y'ALL UNDERSTAND - THAT WAS A CHANGE. 07:45 GOD - JESUS DOESN'T WANT US TO USE FORCE TO MAKE PEOPLE OBEY. 07:48 YOU CAN ALSO READ HERE IN ABBOTT'S ROMAN HISTORY , "THE 07:50 TRANSFER OF THE EMPEROR'S RESIDENCE TO CONSTANTINOPLE WAS 07:55 A SAD BLOW TO THE PRESTIGE OF ROME. 07:57 AND, AT THE SAME TIME, ONE MIGHT HAVE PREDICTED HER SPEEDY 08:01 DECLINE" - THE DECLINE OF THE CITY OF ROME. 08:04 BUT WHAT HAPPENED WAS THAT THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CHURCH AND 08:07 THE GROWING AUTHORITY OF THE BISHOP OF ROME - OR THE POPE - 08:10 GAVE HER A NEW LEASE ON LIFE. IT MADE HER AGAIN THE CAPITAL. 08:15 THIS TIME, NOT THE POLITICAL OR MILITARY CAPITAL, BUT THE 08:19 RELIGIOUS CAPITAL OF THE WORLD. 08:21 THERE WAS A TRANSFERENCE THAT TOOK PLACE DURING THAT TIME. 08:25 READING ON A LITTLE MORE, "TO THE SUCCESSION OF THE CAESARS 08:30 CAME THE SUCCESSION OF THE PONTIFFS IN ROME. 08:32 WHEN CONSTANTINE LEFT ROME, HE GAVE HIS SEAT TO THE PONTIFF." 08:37 NOW, THAT'S AN INTERESTING QUOTE FROM HISTORY BECAUSE YOU CAN 08:40 ACTUALLY READ IN THE BIBLE, IN REVELATION 13, IT SAYS THAT THE 08:45 BEAST POWER RECEIVES ITS SEAT FROM THE DRAGON. 08:50 THE ROMAN POWER, RULED BY THE CAESARS, LEFT TOWN AND SAID, 08:55 'WE'RE GOING TO VACATE OUR THRONE HERE, BUT YOU CAN HAVE 08:59 OUR THRONE; WE'RE MOVING TO ANOTHER TOWN.' AND INSTEAD OF 09:02 ROME BEING THE POWER THAT RULED THE WORLD WITH CIVIL POWER OR 09:08 MILITARY POWER, NOW IT WAS RULING THROUGH RELIGIOUS POWER. 09:12 538 A.D. - IT'S A VERY EASILY WELL-ESTABLISHED DATE IN 09:15 HISTORY. HOW LONG IS 1,260 DAYS 09:20 IN BIBLICAL PROPHECY? 1,260 YEARS. IF YOU GO 1,260 YEARS, 09:28 YOU COME TO WHERE? >>1798 09:30 >>1798. I WONDER WHAT'S GOING ON THEN. 09:34 WHAT HAPPENS TO THE BEAST AFTER 42 MONTHS? 09:38 YOU CAN READ IN REVELATION 13, IT SAYS, 'I SAW ONE OF ITS HEADS 09:42 AS IT WAS WOUNDED TO DEATH AND HIS DEADLY WOUND WAS HEALED AND 09:46 ALL THE WORLD WONDERED AFTER THE BEAST.' IT AT LEAST RECEIVES A 09:50 DEADLY WOUND. IT'S POWER IS INTERRUPTED. 09:53 INSTEAD OF IT HAVING SUCH GREAT CONTROL AND INFLUENCE AND BEING 09:57 - IT WASN'T JUST A RELIGIOUS POWER, IT WAS A CIVIL POWER OVER 10:01 ALL OF EUROPE AND EVEN PARTS BEYOND - IT STARTED TO REACH 10:06 INTO SOUTH AMERICA AT THAT POINT TOO - AND CENTRAL AMERICA - IT 10:09 WOULD BE WOUNDED - IT WOULD LOSE SOME OF THAT POWER. 10:12 WHAT DOES HISTORY TELL US HAPPENED? 10:14 IN 1798 - ANYONE EVER HEARD OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE? 10:18 HE WAS SWEEPING ACROSS EUROPE. IT WAS NOT A RELIGIOUS MOVEMENT. 10:24 IT WAS A VERY SECULAR MOVEMENT. 10:28 HE SENT HIS GENERAL, BERTHIER, INTO ROME AND THROUGH HIS 10:32 ENTRANCE IN ROME, HE ABOLISHED THE PAPAL GOVERNMENT AND 10:36 ESTABLISHED A SECULAR ONE. IT RECEIVED A DEADLY WOUND. 10:40 THE BIBLE SAYS IN REVELATION 13:10, 'HE THAT LEADS INTO 10:43 CAPTIVITY WILL GO INTO CAPTIVITY AND HE THAT KILLS WITH THE SWORD 10:46 WILL BE KILLED WITH THE SWORD.' AND THE TABLES WERE SORT OF 10:50 TURNED; INSTEAD OF THE INQUISITION AND THEM HAVING SO 10:53 MUCH POWER TO TORTURE AND FORCE PEOPLE TO CONVERT, AND THERE WAS 10:59 A PERSECUTION AGAINST THE PROTESTANTS - THE POPE WAS 11:02 CARRIED OFF INTO VALANCE, FRANCE TO A FORTRESS CITY AND HE DIED 11:05 IN PRISON THERE. AND, FOR OVER 130 YEARS, 11:10 THEY LOST THEIR CIVIL POWER. BUT IT SAID IT WOULD BE 11:13 TEMPORARY. IT SAID THE DEADLY WOUND WOULD 11:16 BE HEALED AND ALL THE WORLD WOULD WONDER. 11:19 YOU LOOK IN HISTORY AND IN 1929 THERE WAS A FELLOW NAMED BENITO 11:25 MUSSOLINI - ANYONE REMEMBER? YOU KNOW, I'M GETTING OLD. 11:30 SOME OF YOU REMEMBER WORLD WAR II - NOT TOO MANY LEFT ANYMORE - 11:35 MUSSOLINI, HE MADE A DEAL WITH THE POPE. 11:38 HE SAID, 'LOOK, I NEED YOU TO ENDORSE ME POLITICALLY. 11:41 IF YOU AGREE TO ENDORSE ME POLITICALLY, SO THAT MY STATION 11:45 WILL GROW, WE WILL AGAIN GIVE YOU YOUR INDEPENDENCE AS A 11:49 COUNTRY FOR THE VATICAN. WE WILL MAKE YOU, ONCE AGAIN, 11:52 A CIVIL POWER AS WELL AS RELIGIOUS, SO THAT YOU CAN SEND 11:55 YOUR AMBASSADORS AROUND THE WORLD. 11:58 AND SO THEY SIGNED THE LATERAN PACT . 12:00 AND THEY AGAIN BEGAN TO EXERCISE THEIR POWER. 12:05 IT SAYS, "THE ROMAN QUESTION TONIGHT WAS A THING OF THE PAST 12:08 AND THE VATICAN WAS AT PEACE WITH ITALY." 12:10 IT SAYS, "IN AFFIXING AUTOGRAPHS TO THE MEMORABLE DOCUMENT, 12:13 HEALING THE WOUND..." - EVEN USING THE VERY SAME WORDING. 12:18 AND AS YOU LOOK AT WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE WORLD TODAY, WOULD YOU 12:20 SAY THAT THEY'VE RETURNED TO, NOT JUST EUROPEAN, BUT 12:24 INTERNATIONAL PROMINENCE AS A POWER? 12:27 WHAT POWER WILL SUPPORT THE BEAST IN THE END TIME? 12:32 HERE'S WHERE IT GETS INTERESTING, FRIENDS. 12:34 REVELATION 13:11 IT SAYS, "AND I BEHELD ANOTHER BEAST COMING UP 12:38 OUT OF THE EARTH;" - NOW, THE FIRST BEAST COMES UP OUT OF THE 12:41 SEA; THIS BEAST COMES UP OUT OF THE EARTH. 12:44 AND HE HAS TWO HORNS LIKE A LAMB. 12:47 QUESTION, IS A LAMB A GOOD THING OR A BAD THING, IN REVELATION? 12:51 WHAT DID JOHN THE BAPTIST SAY ABOUT JESUS? 12:53 'BEHOLD THE' - >>LAMB. 12:55 >>"LAMB OF GOD THAT TAKES AWAY THE SIN OF THE WORLD." 12:57 LAMB'S GOOD - TWO HORNS LIKE A LAMB AND HE SPOKE LIKE A DRAGON. 13:00 QUESTION, IS THE DRAGON A GOOD THING OR A BAD THING IN 13:02 REVELATION? >>BAD. 13:04 >>BAD THING. SO IT STARTS OUT SOUNDING GOOD, 13:07 LIKE A LAMB; ENDS UP LIKE A DRAGON. 13:10 NOW WHAT IS THIS SECOND BEAST IN REVELATION? 13:15 I BELIEVE IT REPRESENTS NORTH AMERICA. 13:19 MORE SPECIFICALLY, THE UNITED STATES. 13:21 YOU NOTICE, WHEN THAT TIME PERIOD THAT WE LOOKED AT - IT 13:24 REACHED FROM 538 - WHO REMEMBERS THAT NUMBER? 13:27 1,260 YEARS FROM 538 COMES TO 1798. 13:32 WE ALREADY TOLD YOU WHAT WAS HAPPENING IN EUROPE; WHAT WAS 13:34 HAPPENING OVER HERE IN 1798? THE UNITED STATES DECLARED 13:38 ITS INDEPENDENCE IN WHEN? 1776. 13:43 IT VOTED THE CONSTITUTION IN 1787. 13:47 IT ADOPTED THE BILL OF RIGHTS IN 1791 AND WAS FINALLY RECOGNIZED 13:52 BY THE OTHER MAJOR EMPIRES AND COUNTRIES, AS A SEPARATE WORLD 13:57 POWER, IN 1798. THE REASON IT SAYS THIS SECOND 14:01 BEAST ROSE UP OUT OF THE EARTH IS BECAUSE, COMPARED TO THE 14:06 TEEMING MULTITUDES IN EUROPE, THIS WAS A VAST WILDERNESS. 14:11 THERE WERE STILL MILLIONS OF PEOPLE HERE, BUT IT WAS 14:13 COMPARATIVELY VERY SPARSELY POPULATED. AND 14:17 WITH THE MASSIVE IMMIGRATIONS THAT CAME FROM ENGLAND, SPAIN, 14:23 AND THE NETHERLANDS TO THE NEW WORLD - AND PORTUGAL - THINGS 14:27 CHANGED VERY QUICKLY. IT SAYS HE SPOKE LIKE A DRAGON. 14:32 HOW DOES A COUNTRY SPEAK? A NATION SPEAKS THROUGH 14:36 ITS LEGISLATIVE BODY. THIS COUNTRY THAT STARTED LIKE 14:40 A LAMB, ENDS UP SPEAKING LIKE A DRAGON. 14:42 WHAT ARE THOSE TWO HORNS 'LIKE A LAMB'? 14:44 THE TWO THINGS THAT GAVE AMERICA SUCCESS AND POWER IS THAT WE HAD 14:48 A GOVERNMENT WITHOUT A KING AND WE HAD A CHURCH WITHOUT A POPE - 14:53 FREEDOM OF RELIGION; FREEDOM OF GOVERNMENT. 14:58 HE EXERCISES ALL THE POWER OF THE FIRST BEAST BEFORE HIM AND 15:03 HE FORCES THOSE WHO DWELL THEREIN TO WORSHIP THE FIRST 15:07 BEAST WHO HAD THE WOUND BY THE SWORD BUT WAS HEALED. 15:12 I DON'T KNOW IF ANY OF YOU REMEMBER THIS COVER FROM A TIME 15:14 MAGAZINE BACK IN 1982 - IT WAS FINALLY REVEALED HOW INVOLVED 15:19 THE U.S. WAS WITH THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN 15:23 HELPING OVERTHROW THE FORMER SOVIET UNION. 15:26 IT TALKS ABOUT THIS MEETING THAT RONALD REAGAN HAD WITH POPE JOHN 15:29 PAUL II, AND THEY AGREED THAT THE U.S. 15:32 SENT TONS OF COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT INTO POLAND TO HELP 15:36 SOLIDARITY, WITH LECH WALENSA, OVERTHROW COMMUNISM IN THAT 15:39 COUNTRY. AND ONCE THAT HAPPENED, THE 15:41 DOMINOS BEGAN TO FALL AND IT JUST COLLAPSED. 15:43 IT WAS SOMETHING THAT WAS ORCHESTRATED AND IT'S ALL - IT 15:47 ALL CAME OUT BETWEEN - MATTER OF FACT, YOU GO TO POLAND YOU'LL 15:49 SEE A PICTURE. RONALD REAGAN - THERE'S A BRONZE 15:52 OF IT UP ON THE SCREEN - RONALD REAGAN WALKING WITH JOHN PAUL II 15:55 BECAUSE THEY GIVE THEM CREDIT FOR HELPING OVERTHROW COMMUNISM 15:59 IN THEIR COUNTRY AND HELPING THEM TO ACHIEVE FREEDOM. 16:02 THIS IS JUST PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE. YOU KNOW, I JUST CAN'T FORGET 16:05 THIS PICTURE THAT WHEN POPE JOHN PAUL II DIED AND HERE YOU'VE GOT 16:08 SEVERAL PRESIDENTS THAT WERE THERE KNEELING. 16:13 THAT'S VERY DIFFERENT FROM THE WAY THINGS USED TO BE. 16:18 AMERICA, PHILOSOPHICALLY, WAS IN A VERY DIFFERENT PLACE THAN THE 16:23 PAPACY. WE'RE ALL ABOUT RELIGIOUS FREEDOM. 16:27 YOU KNOW, WHEN AMERICA - WHEN AMERICA WAS FIRST FORMED, THEY 16:31 ACTUALLY TRIED TO TELL PEOPLE WHAT DAY TO GO TO CHURCH. 16:34 THAT'S WHY WE HAVE SUNDAY LAWS ON OUR BOOKS. 16:36 THERE WAS A PASTOR, WHO WAS ALSO A LEADER, NAMED ROGER WILLIAMS 16:40 AND HE SAID, 'YOU'RE MISUNDERSTANDING. 16:42 IT'S NOT A QUESTION OF WHETHER WE FORCE PEOPLE TO KEEP THE TEN 16:45 COMMANDMENTS, BUT WHICH ONES.' HE SAID, 'THE TEN COMMANDMENTS 16:48 ARE WRITTEN ON TWO TABLES OF STONE. 16:50 THE FIRST FOUR ARE OUR PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD, THE LAST 16:55 SIX DEAL WITH OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH OUR FELLOW MAN.' 16:57 HE SAID, 'YOU CANNOT HAVE A GOVERNMENT THAT TELLS PEOPLE HOW 17:00 TO KEEP THE FIRST FOUR.' YOU MUST DECIDE HOW YOU WORSHIP 17:05 YOUR GOD, WHO YOUR GOD IS, WHEN YOU WORSHIP HIM, 17:07 WHAT HIS NAME IS. YOU DON'T WANT ANYONE ELSE 17:10 TELLING YOU THAT, DO YOU? >>NO. 17:12 >>BUT YOU DON'T WANT A GOVERNMENT THAT DOES NOT ENFORCE 17:15 'YOU DON'T STEAL, YOU DON'T LIE, DOESN'T RESPECT PARENTAL 17:19 RIGHTS,' - THE LAST SIX COMMANDMENTS ARE CIVIL - THEY 17:24 NEED TO BE SUPPORTED BY THE GOVERNMENT. 17:27 YOU SEE THE DIFFERENCE? YOU KNOW WHY EVERYTHING 17:29 COSTS SO MUCH? BECAUSE EVERYBODY COVETS 17:31 EVERYBODY'S STUFF AND THEY'RE SUING EVERYBODY. 17:34 AND SO ROGER WILLIAMS UNDERSTOOD THAT. 17:38 WELL, RIGHT NOW, I'M HEARING IS PEOPLE SAY 'COMPLETELY GET RID 17:40 OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS', WHICH IS A BAD IDEA, OR 'FORCE 17:43 EVERYBODY TO KEEP ALL OF THEM', WHICH IS TELLING YOU WHO TO 17:45 WORSHIP. AND IF WE'D GO BACK AND REALIZE 17:48 WHAT OUR FOUNDING FATHERS UNDERSTOOD WAS THE BEST FORMULA 17:52 - THAT'S WHY GOD PUT THEM ON TWO DIFFERENT TABLES. 17:55 IT SAYS HE CAUSES "THE EARTH AND THEM THAT DWELL THEREIN TO 17:58 WORSHIP THE FIRST BEAST, WHOSE DEADLY WOUND WAS HEALED." 18:03 YOU KNOW, YOU JUST CAN'T GET OVER SOME OF THE THINGS YOU SAW 18:06 HAPPEN JUST A FEW MONTHS AGO - THIS HISTORIC TRIP OF POPE 18:14 FRANCIS TO THE UNITED STATES - THERE WAS NO IMPORTANT PLACE - 18:18 SIGNIFICANT PLACE - THAT HE MISSED. 18:20 HE WENT TO THE WHITE HOUSE, SPOKE TO OUR GREATEST AUGUST 18:25 BODY - CONGRESS, THE SENATORS, EVERYBODY - STANDING OVATION. 18:30 WOULD THEY DO THAT FOR A PASTOR? GOES TO THE UNITED NATIONS. 18:37 GOES TO PHILADELPHIA WHERE OUR GOVERNMENT WAS FOUNDED - IT WAS 18:41 ALL VERY - AND WENT TO THE 9/11 MEMORIAL - HAD A JOINT RELIGIOUS 18:44 SERVICE AT THE 9/11 MEMORIAL, SHOWING SOLIDARITY WITH THE 18:47 UNITED STATES AGAINST - WHAT BROUGHT ABOUT 9/11? 18:50 WASN'T IT SOME OF THIS WAR ON WORSHIP? 18:54 NOBODY WANTS TO SAY THAT BUT WE ALL KNOW IT WAS RELIGIOUS 18:57 ZEALOTS THAT DID THIS - THAT WERE READY TO DIE FOR WHAT THEY 19:02 BELIEVED, CRAZY AS IT WAS. AND SO, WHAT YOU'RE SEEING 19:08 HAPPENING, IS A HAND BEING REACHED ACROSS THE ATLANTIC, 19:14 BOTH WAYS, TO BUILD SOME SOLIDARITY. "THEY SHOULD MAKE AN 19:19 IMAGE TO THE BEAST, WHICH HAD THE WOUND BY A SWORD, AND DID 19:23 LIVE." NOW WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? IT MEANS THAT WHAT THE BEAST WAS 19:29 DOING DURING THAT 1,260 YEARS OF USING CIVIL POWER TO FORCE 19:35 RELIGION, IS GOING TO HAPPEN AGAIN. 19:38 THERE ARE GOING TO BE RELIGIOUS LAWS THAT WILL GO AGAINST THE 19:41 LAW OF GOD AND EVERY CHILD OF GOD IS GOING TO HAVE TO MAKE A 19:44 DECISION: DO YOU OBEY GOD OR MAN? 19:47 WHO IS GOING TO BE FIRST IN YOUR LIFE? 19:50 AND THE DECISION SHADRACH, MESHACH, AND ABEDNEGO HAD TO 19:53 MAKE, AND DANIEL HAD TO MAKE, WHETHER HE WAS GOING TO GO TO 19:55 THE LION'S DEN OR COMPROMISE HIS FAITH, EVERY BELIEVER IS GOING 19:59 TO HAVE TO MAKE. IF I WAS THE DEVIL, LET ME TELL 20:02 YOU WHAT I'D DO. NOW DON'T MISUNDERSTAND, I'M NOT. 20:05 (LAUGHTER) BUT IF I WAS - I HOPE NOT. IF THE IDEA IS TO TRY TO 20:13 GET GOD'S PEOPLE TO BREAK THE LAW OF GOD - DOESN'T THE DEVIL 20:16 WANT US TO SIN? >>YES. 20:18 >>BIBLE SAYS HE'S COME DOWN WITH GREAT WRATH BECAUSE HIS TIME IS 20:20 SHORT. HE WANTS TO GET US TO SIN. 20:22 AND, YOU KNOW, IN DANIEL CHAPTER 3 HE TRIED TO GET THEM TO BREAK 20:25 THE LAW ABOUT IDOLATRY. IT DOESN'T MATTER WHICH ONE, 20:29 BECAUSE IF YOU BREAK ONE, YOU'RE GUILTY OF ALL. 20:30 JAMES - IN DANIEL CHAPTER 6 IT WAS THE LAW - THE FIRST 20:35 COMMANDMENT - DON'T HAVE OTHER GODS. 20:37 AND SINCE IT'S GOING TO BE SOMETHING THAT DEALS WITH TIMES 20:41 AND LAWS - THE BEAST POWER WOULD THINK TO CHANGE TIMES AND LAWS - 20:45 THE ONLY COMMANDMENT THAT FITS INTO ALL THOSE CATEGORIES - 20:48 RELATED TO WORSHIP, A TIME, AND A LAW - IS THE SABBATH. 20:54 I WOULD SAY, 'YOU KNOW WHAT? I'M GOING TO TELL THEM, 'KEEP 20:56 ALL TEN COMMANDMENTS, BUT ON THAT FOURTH COMMANDMENT THAT HAS 20:59 THE NAME OF GOD, WHERE IT SAYS 'KEEP THE SEVENTH DAY HOLY' I 21:03 DON'T WANT YOU TO KEEP THE DAY OF GOD HOLY. 21:05 I WANT YOU TO KEEP THE DAY OF MAN HOLY AND I'M GOING TO GIVE 21:08 YOU A NEW COMMANDMENT: INSTEAD OF WORSHIPING ON THE SEVENTH 21:11 DAY, WORSHIP THE FIRST DAY. WHAT DIFFERENCE 21:14 DOES ONE DAY MAKE? AND IT IS SUCH A SUBTLE, SMALL 21:18 THING THAT MOST OF THE WORLD'S GOING TO SAY, 'IN THE 21:21 SAKE OF UNITY, SURE. WHY NOT? 21:24 WE ALL NEED TO MAKE LITTLE COMPROMISES FOR UNITY.'' AND 21:29 THERE'S GOING TO BE A COALITION OF SUPPOSED CHRISTIANS THAT WILL 21:32 GATHER TOGETHER AND SAY, 'WE ALL NEED TO COME BACK TO GOD AND 21:36 WORSHIP GOD.' AND IT'S GOING TO SOUND WONDERFUL. 21:39 AND THEY'RE GOING TO SAY MANY THINGS WE AGREE WITH. 21:41 THAT'S WHAT MAKES A COUNTERFEIT SO DANGEROUS, IT'S SIMILAR TO 21:44 THE TRUE. AND THEY'RE GOING TO SAY, 'WE 21:46 ALL NEED TO GO TO CHURCH.' FOLKS'LL SAY, 'AMEN! 21:49 EVERY SUNDAY WE NEED TO BE THERE.' AND THEY'RE GOING TO 21:53 MAKE LAWS THAT ARE GOING TO PERSECUTE THOSE THAT STAND UP 21:55 FOR THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD - NOT JUST THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT, 21:58 BUT PROBABLY THE OTHER COMMANDMENTS AS WELL. 22:00 IDOLATRY MAY BE INVOLVED. IT SAYS AN IMAGE TO 22:03 THE BEAST, DOESN'T IT? AND PEOPLE ARE GOING TO SAY, 22:06 'FOR THE SAKE OF UNITY WE ALL NEED TO MAKE LITTLE SACRIFICES 22:08 OF OUR CONVICTIONS.' AND THERE'LL BE GREAT PERSECUTION 22:12 AGAINST THOSE WHO STAND FOR GOD. 22:14 AT ONE POINT, THEY WON'T BE ABLE TO BUY OR SELL. 22:17 AND WE ALL KNOW - HOW EASY WOULD IT BE TODAY, IN AN ALMOST 22:20 CASHLESS SOCIETY, TO ENFORCE THAT? 22:22 YOU'LL GO TO SWIPE YOUR CARD OR TO USE YOUR PIN NUMBER AND IT'S 22:27 GOING TO SAY 'MALFUNCTION' - IT WON'T WORK - 'YOU WEREN'T AT THE 22:33 UNIVERSAL CHURCH LAST WEEK AND YOU CANNOT BUY OR SELL.' BUT 22:38 ECONOMIC SANCTIONS ARE MORE THAN JUST WHAT MIGHT HAPPEN AT THE 22:40 SUPERMARKET. DOES THE U.N. 22:43 AND THE UNITED STATES NOW ENFORCE ECONOMIC SANCTIONS, 22:46 TELLING COUNTRIES THAT IF YOU DON'T COOPERATE YOU CANNOT BUY 22:48 OR SELL? IT'S ALREADY HAPPENING. 22:52 IT'S AN INTERNATIONAL ECONOMY NOW. 22:55 YOU CAN LOOK AT THE WAVES - AMERICA SNEEZES AND THE WHOLE 22:57 WORLD GET RIPPLES, FINANCIALLY. EVERYONE - EVERYTHING'S 23:01 INTERCONNECTED NOW. WHAT'S THE ONLY THING THAT IS 23:04 GOING TO PREVENT GOD'S END-TIME PEOPLE FROM BEING DECEIVED? 23:08 TO THE LAW AND TO THE TESTIMONY, IF THEY DO NOT SPEAK ACCORDING 23:12 TO THIS WORD IT'S BECAUSE THERE'S NO LIGHT IN THEM. 23:15 IT SAYS, IN ACTS CHAPTER 17, VERSE 11, SPEAKING OF THE PEOPLE 23:18 IN BEREA, "THESE WERE MORE NOBLE THAN THOSE IN THESSALONICA, IN 23:22 THAT THEY RECEIVED THE WORD WITH ALL READINESS OF MIND, AND 23:25 SEARCHED THE SCRIPTURES DAILY, WHETHER THOSE THINGS WERE SO." 23:30 YOU KNOW, FRIENDS, IT'S NOT GOING TO GO ON LIKE THIS 23:33 FOREVER. JESUS IS GOING TO COME. 23:35 >>AMEN! >>THAT'S THE ONLY SOLUTION. 23:37 AND I'M NOT TELLING YOU THESE THINGS TO TROUBLE YOU BECAUSE, 23:41 YOU KNOW, I JUST WANT TO PAUSE RIGHT HERE AND REMIND YOU. 23:44 EVEN IF I COULD TELL YOU THE DAY AND HOUR OF JESUS' COMING, THAT 23:47 WOULD NOT SAVE YOU. >>NOPE. 23:48 >>AND I CAN'T TELL YOU BECAUSE NOBODY KNOWS. 23:50 THE PURPOSE OF PROPHECY IS REDEMPTIVE. 23:54 JESUS SAID, 'WHEN THESE THINGS BEGIN TO COME TO PASS LIFT UP 23:58 YOUR HEADS.' HE SAID, 'THEN YOU WILL KNOW - AFTER THESE THINGS 24:02 HAVE HAPPENED, THEN YOU WILL KNOW THAT I WAS TELLING THE 24:04 TRUTH.' AS YOU'RE LOOKING BACK AND SEEING HOW JESUS OUTLINED 24:07 THE HISTORY OF THE BEAST AND THE SECOND BEAST AND ALL THAT'S 24:10 HAPPENED, YOU SAY, 'WOW, IT'S ALL UNFOLDING JUST LIKE HE SAID. 24:14 WHY DOES HE WANT US TO KNOW THAT? 24:15 THAT MUST MEAN WHAT HE SAYS IN THE BIBLE ABOUT SAVING ME FROM 24:19 SIN IS TRUE.' >>AMEN. 24:21 >>SEE, THAT'S THE REASON FOR PROPHECY. 24:23 IT'S NOT TO JUST TANTALIZE YOU WITH THE FUTURE, I MEAN, THAT'S 24:26 WHAT ASTROLOGERS DO. THE REASON GOD SHOWS YOU HE 24:29 KNOWS ABOUT PROPHECY IS SO YOU'LL TRUST HIS WORD THAT IT IS 24:32 A SUPERNATURAL BOOK AND WHAT HE SAYS ABOUT SALVATION IS TRUE AND 24:36 THAT HE HAS - IF HE KNOWS THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD DOES 24:38 HE HAVE A HISTORY FOR YOU? >>YES. 24:40 >>HE HAS A PLAN FOR YOUR LIFE. AND NOTHING HAPPENS 24:43 BY ACCIDENT WITH GOD. >>AMEN. 24:45 >>HE SEES EVERYTHING THAT'S COMING. 24:46 >>AMEN. >>I'D LIKE TO ENCOURAGE THOSE 24:49 WHO ARE WITH YOUR GROUPS - SOME WHO MAY BE WATCHING ON 24:52 TELEVISION - YOU CAN SIMPLY GO TO THE LAST DAY OF PROPHECY 24:55 WEBSITE AND YOU CAN WATCH THE PRESENTATIONS - MAYBE YOU'VE 24:59 MISSED - AND PREPARE FOR WHAT'S COMING UPON THE 25:02 WORLD AS WE SPEAK. THESE ARE VERY 25:05 INTERESTING TIMES. THE BIBLE TELLS US A TIME OF 25:07 TROUBLE IS COMING SUCH AS THERE NEVER HAS BEEN. 25:10 BUT I'M NOT AFRAID. YOU KNOW WHY? 25:12 BECAUSE I KNOW JESUS HAS A PLAN FOR MY LIFE AND IF CHRIST IS 25:15 WITH YOU, DO YOU NEED TO BE AFRAID OF THE FIERY FURNACE? 25:18 IF CHRIST IS WITH YOU, DO YOU NEED TO BE AFRAID OF THE LION'S 25:21 DEN? IF JESUS IS WITH YOU, DO YOU 25:24 NEED TO BE AFRAID OF THE TIME OF TROUBLE? 25:26 HE WILL GO THROUGH IT ALL WITH YOU, FRIENDS, BUT YOU MUST 25:29 INVITE HIM TO BE IN YOUR HEART. HAVE YOU DONE THAT YET? 25:34 (MUSIC) >>YOU KNOW, FRIENDS, EVERYONE IS INTERESTED IN WHAT 25:38 THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT THE FUTURE, AND WE KNOW BIBLE PROPHECY TALKS 25:42 ABOUT SOME OF THE ANCIENT KINGDOMS LIKE BABYLON, 25:45 MEDO-PERSIA, ROME. BUT YOU MIGHT BE SURPRISED TO 25:48 LEARN THE BOOK OF REVELATION, IN CHAPTER 13, TALKS VERY 25:52 SPECIFICALLY ABOUT THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND WE HAVE 25:56 A STUDY GUIDE THAT EXPLAINS IT ALL. 25:58 WE'LL MAKE IT AVAILABLE TO YOU FOR FREE. 26:00 IF YOU'D TO GET THIS FREE RESOURCE, VISIT AMAZINGFACTS.ORG 26:05 OR CALL THE PHONE NUMBER ON YOUR SCREEN AND ASK FOR OFFER #181. 26:10 AND ONCE YOU GET YOUR FREE OFFER, MAKE SURE AND READ IT AND 26:12 THEN SHARE IT WITH SOMEONE ELSE, BECAUSE GOD'S MESSAGE IS OUR 26:16 MISSION. >>CAN'T GET ENOUGH 26:19 AMAZING FACTS BIBLE STUDY? 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