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01:03 AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY. 01:11 >>IN DANIEL IT SAYS, 'LION, BEAR, LEOPARD'. YOU'RE GOING TO 01:16 SEE THAT ALL OF THESE THINGS ARE TALKING ABOUT THE SAME WORLD 01:20 POWERS THAT WOULD IMPACT GOD'S KINGDOM IN THE LAST DAYS. 01:27 >>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 01:39 ENJOY THIS EDITION OF AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS. 01:48 >>A LITTLE WHILE AGO - A FEW YEARS AGO - A TEENAGE GIRL IN 01:51 VIRGINIA WAS KIND OF SHOCKED WHEN SHE SAW, IN HER BACKYARD, A 01:56 TURTLE WITH TWO HEADS. >>WOW. 01:58 >>AND SHE FELT SORRY FOR THE POOR THING AND WAS A LITTLE 02:02 SHOCKED AND DIDN'T KNOW EXACTLY HOW TO REACT. 02:04 SHE TRIED TO FEED IT SOME LETTUCE AND BOTH HEADS WERE SORT 02:07 OF FIGHTING FOR THE LETTUCE. BELIEVE IT OR NOT, 02:09 TWO-HEADEDNESS IS NOT COMPLETELY UNHEARD OF IN THE 02:13 ANIMAL KINGDOM. USUALLY THOSE CREATURES DO NOT 02:16 LIVE VERY LONG BECAUSE THEY FEEL - THE TWO MINDS ARE TELLING THE 02:21 BODY TO DO TWO DIFFERENT THINGS AND THEY CAN NEVER SEEM TO AGREE 02:25 AND THEY JUST DON'T SEEM TO SURVIVE IN THE WILD. 02:28 BUT YOU'VE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING WITH FOUR HEADS AND YOU'VE NEVER 02:34 SEEN ANYTHING WITH SEVEN HEADS, BUT THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT 02:38 CREATURES WITH FOUR HEADS AND SEVEN HEADS AND, IN PARTICULAR, 02:41 THERE'S A CREATURE THAT KEEPS REAPPEARING IN THE BOOK OF 02:45 REVELATION WITH SEVEN HEADS AND TEN HORNS, AND YOU'LL FIND THE 02:49 TEN HORNS ON ANOTHER BEAST IN THE BOOK OF DANIEL. 02:52 AND, AS WE LOOK AT THE EVIDENCE, YOU'LL SEE THAT THIS IS 02:56 TYPICALLY TALKING ABOUT THE SAME POWER. 02:59 WE NEED TO IDENTIFY THAT POWER BECAUSE IT'S ONE OF THE MAIN 03:03 PLAYERS IN THE LAST DAYS. THE PRESENTATION TONIGHT IS 03:06 DEALING WITH THE SUBJECT A WOMAN RIDES A BEAST . 03:10 AND THIS HEARKENS FROM A PROPHECY AND A PICTURE THAT 03:12 YOU'LL FIND IN REVELATION 17. 03:15 NOW, IN THIS PRESENTATION, IN PARTICULAR, WE'RE GOING TO BE 03:17 TALKING ABOUT, 'WHAT IS THIS BEAST THAT KEEPS REAPPEARING IN 03:23 THE BOOKS OF REVELATION AND DANIEL?' 03:26 IF YOU HAVE YOUR BIBLES YOU'LL WANT TO TAKE A LOOK AT 03:27 REVELATION CHAPTER 17 AND THERE IT SAYS, "SO HE CARRIED ME AWAY 03:33 IN THE SPIRIT INTO THE WILDERNESS. 03:36 AND I SAW A WOMAN SITTING ON A SCARLET BEAST WHICH WAS FULL OF 03:41 NAMES OF BLASPHEMY, HAVING SEVEN HEADS AND TEN HORNS." 03:46 NOW, WE DISCUSSED THIS EARLIER AND WE'LL GIVE YOU SOME MORE 03:48 SCRIPTURES FOR IT, BUT IN THESE BIBLE SYMBOLS A WOMAN REPRESENTS 03:52 A CHURCH. 'HUSBANDS LOVE YOUR WIVES,' PAUL 03:56 SAYS, 'EVEN AS CHRIST LOVED THE CHURCH AND GAVE HIMSELF FOR IT. 04:00 I'VE LIKENED THE DAUGHTER OF ZION TO A DELICATE AND COMELY 04:03 WOMAN.' ALL THROUGH THE OLD TESTAMENT 04:05 GOD COMPARES ISRAEL TO HIS BRIDE. 04:08 SO HIS PEOPLE - IT'S OFTEN IDENTIFIED WITH A WOMAN. 04:11 YOU'VE GOT TWO DIFFERENT KINDS OF WOMAN THAT ARE THERE, BOTH IN 04:14 THE OLD AND THE NEW TESTAMENT, THE FAITHFUL AND THE UNFAITHFUL, 04:18 AND THIS WOMAN IS, EVIDENTLY, NOT THE FAITHFUL ONE BECAUSE IT 04:22 SAYS SHE'S GOT A PARAGRAPH ON HER FOREHEAD THAT SAYS, 04:25 'MOTHER OF HARLOTS'. THAT WOULD SORT OF 04:27 BE A CLUE, RIGHT? SHE'S NOT THE FAITHFUL WIFE. 04:31 NOW, YOU SEE THESE TWO WOMEN IDENTIFIED THERE IN REVELATION - 04:33 REVELATION 12 YOU'VE GOT THE GOOD ONE. 04:36 SO, WHAT'S THE CONNECTION NOW BETWEEN THE WOMAN IN REVELATION 04:41 12 - THERE'S ANOTHER BEAST THAT APPEARS TO HER. 04:44 YOU LOOK IN REVELATION 12, VERSE 3, "AND THERE APPEARED ANOTHER 04:47 WONDER IN HEAVEN: AND BEHOLD A GREAT RED DRAGON - SAME AS THE 04:51 SCARLET THAT YOU FIND IN REVELATION 17 - "HAVING SEVEN 04:55 HEADS AND TEN HORNS," - SAME BEAST - "AND SEVEN CROWNS UPON 04:59 HIS HEADS." AND IT GOES ON TO SAY THAT THIS BEAST IS TRYING TO 05:04 ATTACK THIS WOMAN. SO HERE IN REVELATION 17 YOU'VE 05:07 GOT THIS RED SEVEN-HEADED TEN-HORNED BEAST THE 05:10 WOMAN IS RIDING THE BEAST. THEY'RE IN COOPERATION. 05:13 AND THEN YOU GO TO REVELATION 12, THAT SAME BEAST IS TRYING TO 05:17 DESTROY THIS WOMAN. SHE'S CLOTHED WITH LIGHT - 05:19 THE SYMBOL OF GOD'S CHURCH. I HAVE ANOTHER STUDY 05:21 TALKING ABOUT THAT. NOW GO TO REVELATION 13 - YOU 05:26 KNOW REVELATION 13 - YOU'VE HEARD OF 6-6-6? 05:29 >>YEAH. >>MARK OF THE BEAST? 05:30 THAT'S REVELATION 13. AND YOU CAN READ THERE, IT SAYS, 05:35 "AND I SAW A BEAST RISING UP OUT OF THE SEA," - NOTICE THE SEA 05:39 - "HAVING SEVEN HEADS AND TEN HORNS" - SOUND FAMILIAR? 05:44 - "AND ON HIS HORNS TEN CROWNS, AND ON HIS HEADS A BLASPHEMOUS 05:48 NAME." BLASPHEMY IS WHEN SOMEONE 05:51 IS DEGRADING GOD BY PUTTING THEMSELVES IN THE PLACE OF GOD 05:55 OR CLAIMING THE PREROGATIVES OF GOD. AND SO, YOU NOTICE THAT THE 05:59 WOMAN, NAMES OF BLASPHEMY - DANIEL 7 TALKS ABOUT THIS BEAST 06:03 POWER AS BLASPHEMY AND HERE YOU SEE THAT CREATURE AGAIN. 06:07 NOW, I JUST NEED TO TELL EVERYBODY, STRAIGHT UP, AS 06:11 NICELY AS I CAN, THAT - YOU WANT ME TO TELL YOU THE TRUTH, RIGHT? 06:15 >>YEAH. >>PAUL ASKS A QUESTION. 06:18 HE SAID, 'AM I YOUR ENEMY BECAUSE I TELL YOU THE TRUTH?' 06:21 I HOPE YOU DIDN'T COME BECAUSE YOU JUST WANT ME TO PREACH 06:23 SMOOTH THINGS. YOU WANT TO KNOW, 'WHAT 06:25 DOES THE BIBLE REALLY SAY?' IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, GOD'S WORD 06:29 IS VERY FAITHFUL TO NOT ONLY TALK ABOUT THE WAY HE 06:32 WOULD BLESS HIS PEOPLE. AND THERE WERE MANY TIMES GOD'S 06:35 PEOPLE WERE FAITHFUL AND THERE WERE MIRACLES WROUGHT. 06:37 HE SAID, 'ONE OF YOU WILL CHASE A THOUSAND.' AND THEN HE SAID, 06:41 'YOU'LL TURN FROM ME. YOU'LL WORSHIP OTHER GODS.' 06:43 AND HE PROPHESIED THEIR UNFAITHFULNESS. 06:46 AND THE WORD THAT GOD USED, HE SAID, 'YOU WILL GO WHORING AFTER 06:49 OTHER GODS.' HE'S TALKING ABOUT HIS PEOPLE. 06:54 NOW, HE ALSO DOES THAT IN NEW TESTAMENT TIMES. 06:58 EVEN PAUL SAID, 'I KNOW, AFTER MY DEPARTURE, GRIEVOUS WOLVES 07:01 WILL COME IN NOT SPARING THE FLOCK. 07:03 FROM AMONG YOUR OWN SELVES PEOPLE WILL ARISE SPEAKING 07:06 PERVERSE THINGS TO DRAW AWAY DISCIPLES AFTER THEMSELVES.' SO, 07:10 EVEN PAUL PREDICTED SOMETHING'S GOING TO HAPPEN TO THE CHURCH. 07:12 THE DEVIL IS GOING TO COME AFTER THE CHURCH AND THERE'S GOING TO 07:15 BE MAJOR UNFAITHFULNESS. WELL, I'M GOING TO TELL YOU 07:19 RIGHT NOW, IN REVELATION CHAPTER 13 - IT'S NOT JUST ONE BEAST - 07:23 REVELATION CHAPTER 13, THERE ARE TWO BEASTS. DID YOU KNOW THAT? 07:26 WE ALWAYS TALK ABOUT THE MARK OF THE BEAST - CHAPTER ACTUALLY HAS 07:28 TWO BEASTS. YOU SEE IN CHAPTER 13, FIRST FEW 07:32 VERSES TALKS ABOUT THE FIRST BEAST. LATER ON, YOU GET TO 07:36 VERSE 11, IT SAYS, 'AND THEN I SAW A SECOND BEAST.' 07:38 I'LL TELL YOU RIGHT NOW, I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT PEOPLE, I'M 07:42 TALKING ABOUT SYSTEMS AND AREAS WHERE CHURCHES HAVE BEEN 07:47 DISOBEDIENT. AND THIS HAS BEEN FORETOLD IN PROPHECY. 07:51 SO YOU WANT ME TO KEEP GOING? >>YES. 07:53 >>I JUST - I WANT TO BE FAITHFUL. 07:54 I WANT TO BE KIND, BUT I DON'T WANT TO MINCE WORDS WITH YOU. 07:58 SO WITH THAT BACKGROUND, YOU'VE GOT THIS BEAST THAT KEEPS 08:01 APPEARING - SEVEN HEADS, TEN HORNS. 08:03 WE'RE GOING TO FIND OUT 'WHO IS THIS BEAST?' 08:05 IT'S ALSO KNOW AS 'THE ANTICHRIST'. 08:08 NOW, THE WORD 'ANTICHRIST' MEANS 'AGAINST CHRIST'. 08:11 HOW MANY TIMES DOES THE WORD 'ANTICHRIST' APPEAR IN 08:13 REVELATION? NOT AT ALL. I TOLD YOU THAT EARLIER - IT'S 08:18 ONLY IN THE LETTERS OF JOHN. AND JOHN SAYS THERE ALREADY WERE 08:22 MANY ANTICHRISTS, EVEN IN HIS DAY. SO THE WORD 'ANTICHRIST' 08:25 CAN BE USED BROADLY, BUT THE MAIN BEAST IS ALSO CALLED 08:28 'THE ANTICHRIST'. IT'S LIKE THE INDUSTRIAL 08:31 STRENGTH ANTICHRIST ON STEROIDS THAT YOU FIND THERE 08:34 THROUGH THE BOOK. ALRIGHT, SO LET'S FIND 08:36 OUT FIRST ABOUT BEASTS. QUESTION #1: WHAT DOES A 08:40 BEAST REPRESENT IN PROPHECY? WE'RE GOING TO LET THE 08:43 BIBLE EXPLAIN ITSELF. IF YOU LOOK, FOR INSTANCE, IN 08:46 DANIEL CHAPTER 7, VERSE 17, IT SAYS, "THOSE GREAT BEASTS, WHICH 08:51 ARE FOUR, ARE FOUR KINGS WHICH ARISE OUT OF THE EARTH." 08:55 NOT JUST KINGS, BUT IT ALSO INCLUDES KINGDOMS - THOSE GREAT 08:59 BEASTS WHICH ARE FOUR - OR, "THE FOURTH BEAST" - RATHER - "SHALL 09:02 BE THE FOURTH KINGDOM" - SO YOU'VE GOT - IT'S KINGS - IT'S 09:05 KINGDOMS - IT'S TALKING ABOUT POWERS. 09:07 LOOK IN DANIEL 8, VERSE 20 AND YOU'LL SEE THERE WHERE THERE'S 09:10 THIS VISION OF SHEEP AND GOATS AND IT SAYS, 'THE RAM WHICH YOU 09:15 SAW, HAVING THE TWO HORNS - THEY ARE THE KINGS OF MEDIA AND 09:19 PERSIA, AND THE MALE GOAT IS THE KINGDOM OF GREECE." 09:24 SO HERE IT'S GOT A GOAT THAT REPRESENTS - AND IT SAYS THE 09:27 HORN BETWEEN HIS EYES IS THE FIRST KING. 09:31 LATER WE LEARN THAT'S ALEXANDER THE GREAT. 09:33 IT MAKES IT PRETTY CLEAR. SO, YOU KNOW, IF - TODAY, DO 09:38 WE SOMETIMES USE COUNTRIES TO ILLUSTRATE - OR ANIMALS 09:40 TO ILLUSTRATE COUNTRIES? IF I SAY 'BEAR' WHAT 09:44 COUNTRY DO YOU THINK OF? >>RUSSIA. 09:45 >>RUSSIA. AND, IF I SAY EAGLE - >>UNITED STATES. 09:48 >>THE UNITED STATES. AND THE LION IS - 09:51 GREAT BRITAIN, EXACTLY. SO, IT'S NOT NEW OR UNUSUAL. 09:56 COUNTRIES HAVE DONE THAT AND SO GOD DOES THIS ALSO IN PROPHECY. 09:59 ALRIGHT, QUESTION 2: IS THERE A BEAST WITH TEN HORNS IN DANIEL 10:04 CHAPTER 7. NOW WE'RE JUMPING TO THE OLD 10:07 TESTAMENT AND I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE WE SET THE 10:09 FOUNDATION FOR REVELATION. YOU REMEMBER WHAT I SAID, OUT 10:12 OF 404 VERSES IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION, 278 OF THEM ARE 10:17 FOUND ALMOST VERBATIM IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. 10:20 SO, TO UNDERSTAND REVELATION, IT'S ALL ROOTED IN THE OLD 10:24 TESTAMENT. YOU'VE GOT TO GO BACK. 10:26 >>YOU KNOW, I UNDERSTAND THAT EVERY MONTH ON GOOGLE, ABOUT 20 10:30 MILLION PEOPLE DO A SEARCH ASKING 'HOW WILL THE WORLD END?' 10:34 PEOPLE WANT TO KNOW. THE ANSWERS TO THOSE QUESTIONS 10:38 ARE REALLY FOUND IN THE BIBLE AND THE BIBLE PROPHECIES, 10:40 IN PARTICULAR. THAT'S WHY AMAZING FACTS HAS 10:43 SPENT A LOT OF TIME PREPARING A VERY SPECIAL MAGAZINE - WE'RE SO 10:46 EXCITED ABOUT THIS - ON DANIEL & REVELATION . 10:49 IT COVERS THE PRIMARY PROPHECIES. 10:52 IT'S A FULL MAGAZINE - 84 PAGES - FULLY ILLUSTRATED WITH 10:55 BEAUTIFUL COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS. WOULD YOU LIKE A FREE COPY OF 10:59 THIS NEW MAGAZINE ON DANIEL AND REVELATION? ALL YOU'VE GOT TO DO 11:02 - GO TO AMAZINGFACTS.ORG OR CALL THE NUMBER ON YOUR SCREEN AND 11:07 ASK FOR OFFER #604. SO WHEN YOU GET YOUR COPY OF THE 11:11 MAGAZINE, REMEMBER TO READ IT AND THEN SHARE IT WITH SOMEONE 11:14 ELSE, BECAUSE GOD'S MESSAGE IS OUR MISSION. 11:19 >>LOOK IN DANIEL CHAPTER 7, VERSES 2 AND 3 AND DANIEL SAYS, 11:23 "...IN MY VISION BY NIGHT, AND BEHOLD, THE FOUR WINDS OF 11:27 HEAVEN WERE STIRRING UP THE GREAT SEA." 11:30 - SO IT TALKS ABOUT THESE WINDS STRIVING - "AND FOUR GREAT 11:33 BEASTS CAME UP FROM THE SEA, EACH DIFFERENT FROM THE OTHER." 11:37 MATTER OF FACT, I'M GOING TO READ SEVERAL VERSES HERE IN 11:39 DANIEL CHAPTER 7 - IF YOU BROUGHT YOUR BIBLE WITH YOU, YOU 11:43 MAY WANT TO JOIN ME AND TURN THERE REAL QUICK. 11:45 LET'S JUST TAKE A LOOK, FOR INSTANCE, VERSE 3 - DANIEL 7:3 - 11:48 "AND FOUR GREAT BEASTS CAME UP FROM THE SEA, EACH DIFFERENT 11:51 FROM THE OTHER. THE FIRST WAS LIKE A LION." 11:53 - LIKE A WHAT? >>LION. 11:55 >>"FIRST WAS LIKE A LION AND IT HAD EAGLE'S WINGS AND I WATCHED 11:59 UNTIL THE WINGS WERE PLUCKED OFF: AND IT WAS LIFTED UP FROM 12:02 THE EARTH AND MADE TO STAND ON TWO FEET LIKE A MAN, AND A MAN'S 12:05 HEART WAS GIVEN TO IT. AND SUDDENLY ANOTHER BEAST, A 12:09 SECOND LIKE A BEAR IT WAS RAISED UP ON ONE SIDE, AND HAD THREE 12:13 RIBS IN ITS MOUTH BETWEEN ITS TEETH. 12:15 AND THEY SAID THUS TO IT: 'ARISE, DEVOUR MUCH FLESH.' AND 12:19 AFTER THIS I LOOKED AND THERE WAS ANOTHER LIKE A LEOPARD WHICH 12:22 HAD ON ITS BACK FOUR WINGS OF A BIRD AND THE BEAST ALSO HAD FOUR 12:26 HEADS" - I TOLD YOU, YOU CAN FIND A BEAST WITH FOUR HEADS IN 12:28 THE BIBLE - "AND DOMINION WAS GIVEN TO IT." 12:31 AND THEN, NOW THIS IS THE BEAST THAT IS THE ANTICHRIST - "AND 12:36 THEN, AFTER THIS, I SAW IN THE NIGHT VISIONS AND BEHOLD, A 12:39 FOURTH BEAST, DREADFUL AND TERRIBLE, EXCEEDINGLY STRONG. 12:45 IT HAD HUGE IRON TEETH: IT WAS DEVOURING, BREAKING IN PIECES, 12:49 AND TRAMPLING THE RESIDUE WITH ITS FEET, IT WAS DIFFERENT FROM 12:52 ALL THE BEASTS THAT WERE BEFORE IT, AND IT HAD TEN HORNS." 12:57 THAT SOUND FAMILIAR? >>YEP. 12:59 >>I JUST WANT TO READ A LITTLE FURTHER. 13:00 LET'S GO TO VERSE 8, "I WAS CONSIDERING THE HORNS, AND THERE 13:05 WAS ANOTHER HORN, A LITTLE ONE, COMING UP AMONG THEM, BEFORE 13:08 WHOM THREE OF THE FIRST HORNS WERE PLUCKED OUT BY THE ROOTS." 13:12 YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU'RE YOUNG AND A KID STARTS GETTING THEIR 13:13 GROWN-UP TEETH AND STARTS PUSHING OUT THE BABY TEETH, IT'S 13:16 ALMOST THAT KIND OF A PICTURE THAT THIS LITTLE HORN COMES UP, 13:19 BUT IT'S PUSHING OUT THREE HORNS AS IT MAKES ITS WAY. 13:22 AND SO - AND IT SAYS, 'IN THIS HORN' - DON'T MISS THIS - "WERE 13:27 EYES LIKE THE EYES OF A MAN, AND A MOUTH SPEAKING POMPOUS WORDS." 13:31 OR THAT CAN BE INTERPRETED 'BLASPHEMOUS' WORDS. 13:35 ALRIGHT, AND THIS FINAL BEAST DANIEL IS REALLY WORRIED ABOUT 13:39 BECAUSE IT PERSECUTES GOD'S PEOPLE, YOU READ ON IN THE REST 13:42 OF THE CHAPTER THERE. BUT I JUST WANT TO GIVE YOU 13:43 THE FOUNDATION ABOUT THE BEAST BECAUSE WE'RE GOING TO TRY 13:45 TO IDENTIFY THIS BEAST IN REVELATION - I SHOULD SAY THE 13:49 BEASTS IN REVELATION - THAT WILL HAVE A PROMINENT ROLE 13:54 IN THE LAST DAYS. AND SO, WE LEARNED THAT ONE OF 13:57 THOSE BEASTS IN DANIEL, THE FOURTH BEAST, ALSO 13:59 HAD TEN HORNS. "...DEVOURING, BREAKING IN 14:02 PIECES, AND TRAMPLING THE RESIDUE WITH ITS FEET. 14:05 IT WAS DIFFERENT FROM ALL THE BEASTS THAT WERE BEFORE IT." 14:09 AND SO I WANT YOU TO NOTICE SOME OF THESE POINTS. 14:11 ALRIGHT, FIRST OF ALL, THESE CREATURES IN DANIEL, THEY COME 14:13 UP OUT OF THE SEA. SO WHAT DOES THE WIND 14:17 AND THE SEA REPRESENT? WELL, WIND, WE TALKED ABOUT THE 14:21 WINDS OF STRIFE THERE, REMEMBER, IN REVELATION CHAPTER 7. 14:24 IT'S TALKING ABOUT TURMOIL AND STRIFE, DESTRUCTION, COMMOTION. 14:28 AND WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT THE WATERS, THE DEFINITION FOR THESE 14:31 SYMBOLS IS IN THE BIBLE. THE ANGEL TOLD JOHN, IN 14:35 REVELATION 17, VERSE 15, "THE WATERS...ARE PEOPLES, AND 14:39 MULTITUDES, AND NATIONS, AND TONGUES." 14:41 HE'S TALKING ABOUT VAST NUMBERS OF PEOPLE. 14:44 BY THE WAY, IF YOU READ IN DANIEL CHAPTER 9 IT SAYS THAT 14:47 THE WICKED POWER WOULD COME LIKE A FLOOD - TALKING ABOUT A FLOOD 14:49 OF ARMY - A FLOOD OF PEOPLE. AND SO, THIS BEAST POWER RISES 14:53 UP OUT OF A DENSELY POPULATED PART OF CIVILIZATION 14:56 AND THE WORLD. ALRIGHT, NEXT, QUESTION 4: WHAT 15:00 KINGDOM DOES THE LION REPRESENT? I WANT TO MARCH THROUGH BECAUSE, 15:04 IN ORDER TO UNDERSTAND THE FOURTH BEAST, YOU'VE GOT TO LOOK 15:06 AT THE SEQUENCE OF HISTORY AND IT JUST BECOMES REALLY CLEAR. 15:10 WHAT KINGDOM DOES THE LION REPRESENT? 15:12 THE LION IS BABYLON. IF YOU LOOK IN CHAPTER 2 OF 15:17 DANIEL, DANIEL MAKES IT PRETTY CLEAR TO NEBUCHADNEZZAR. 15:20 HE SAID, 'YOU ARE THAT FIRST PRIMARY KINGDOM. 15:22 YOU ARE THE HEAD OF GOLD.' IT JUST SAYS BABYLON IS THE LION. 15:26 MATTER OF FACT, IF YOU GO TO SOME OF THE MUSEUMS, THEY HAVE 15:29 RECOVERED SOME OF THE ANCIENT GATES FROM BABYLON - I THINK 15:33 THEY CALL IT THE ISHTAR GATE - AND YOU CAN EVEN SEE THEY HAD 15:36 LIONS WITH WINGS THAT WERE ON - JUST LIKE IN DANIEL'S VISION, A 15:40 LION WITH TWO WINGS. WHY DID DANIEL SAY THE LION 15:43 WOULD STAND ON ITS FEET LIKE A MAN? 15:45 BECAUSE KING NEBUCHADNEZZAR ENDED UP BEING CONVERTED. 15:48 INSTEAD OF BEING A BEAST, HE BECAME A SON OF GOD. 15:52 HE BECAME CONVERTED BEFORE THE END OF HIS LIFE AND HE GLORIFIED 15:54 GOD. IF YOU'VE READ DANIEL CHAPTER 15:56 4, THAT WOULD BE IN. WHAT KINGDOM DOES 16:01 THE BEAR REPRESENT? SO YOU'VE GOT BABYLON, THEN 16:04 YOU'VE GOT THE NEXT KINGDOM. HE REPRESENTS, IN DANIEL CHAPTER 16:07 7:5, AND WHAT DO THE THREE RIBS IN HIS MOUTH SYMBOLIZE? 16:11 THIS IS THE MEDO-PERSIAN KINGDOM, LATER THE PERSIANS, 16:14 THEY WERE MORE POWERFUL AND THAT'S WHY IT SAYS THE BEAR WAS 16:16 RAISED UP ON ONE SIDE - HE'S STRONGER ON ONE SIDE - HE'S GOT 16:20 THREE RIBS IN HIS MOUTH. THIS REPRESENTS THE THREE 16:22 KINGDOMS THAT THE MEDO-PERSIANS CONQUERED WHEN THEY TOOK THE 16:26 EMPIRE AWAY - THIS WORLD POWER - FROM BABYLON. 16:29 AND THAT WAS, OF COURSE, BABYLON, LYDIA, AND EGYPT - 16:32 THAT'S THE THREE RIBS IN HIS MOUTH. 16:34 AND SO, ALL THESE THINGS HAPPENED HISTORICALLY. 16:37 NOW, BEFORE I GO ANY FARTHER, I JUST NEED TO INJECT A THOUGHT. 16:40 THESE BEASTS THAT ARE MENTIONED HERE IN DANIEL, THEY'RE NOT 16:45 SAYING THEY'RE THE ONLY KINGDOMS IN THE WORLD, I MEAN, AT THE 16:48 TIME THAT BABYLON RULED, IT WAS A VAST WORLD EMPIRE, AND SO WERE 16:51 THE GREEKS AND SO WERE THE PERSIANS. 16:54 IF YOU KNOW YOUR HISTORY, THERE WERE GREAT EMPIRES - THE INCAS 16:58 IN SOUTH AMERICA, THE TOLTECS AND YOU HAD THE ROU - KHMER 17:04 EMPIRE AND YOU HAD THE CHINESE, THE MONGOLS, AND THERE WAS OTHER 17:08 GREAT EMPIRES. THESE EMPIRES ARE MENTIONED 17:11 BECAUSE THEY ALL OCCUPIED GOD'S PEOPLE. 17:14 THEY CONTROLLED THE LAND OF ISRAEL. 17:16 SO THE ONLY EMPIRES THAT ARE BEING MENTIONED IN THESE VISIONS 17:19 ARE THE ONES THAT HAD A REAL IMPACT ON THE POLICIES AND THE 17:24 LAND OF ISRAEL, LATER, GOD'S PEOPLE, OKAY? 17:27 SO THESE ARE THE NATIONS THAT IT'S DEALING WITH, AND THAT'S 17:29 THE REASON. SO WHAT KINGDOM IS REPRESENTED 17:32 BY THE LEOPARD WITH FOUR HEADS? WHAT FOLLOWED THE 17:36 PERSIAN KINGDOM? >>GREECE. 17:38 >>I THINK WE ALL KNOW, ALEXANDER THE GREAT DEFEATED DARIUS. 17:41 HE WAS THAT NOTABLE HORN THAT WAS IN THE RAM'S HEAD - OR IN 17:47 THE GOAT'S HEAD - AND THEN HE ALSO REPRESENTS THE FIRST KING 17:51 OF THE LEOPARD, BUT HE DIED AND THEN HIS KINGDOM WAS THEN SPREAD 17:56 AMONG HIS FOUR GENERALS. AND YOU CAN SEE THAT 18:00 THEY HAD A VAST EMPIRE. THE FOUR GENERALS WHO HEADED THE 18:04 DIVISIONS OF ALEXANDER'S KINGDOM WERE CASSANDER, LYSIMACHUS, 18:09 PTOLEMY, AND SELEUCUS. AND SO THESE ARE 18:13 THE FOUR EMPIRES. YOU CAN SEE THE SCOPE OF 18:16 ALEXANDER'S KINGDOM THERE. SOMEONE TOLD ME THAT IN JUST TEN 18:20 YEARS HE MARCHED HIS SOLDIERS 22,000 MILES. 18:24 NOBODY HAS EVER DONE ANYTHING LIKE THAT IN HISTORY, JUST 18:27 CONQUERING EVERYTHING EVERY WHERE HE WENT. 18:29 AND HIS APPROACH WAS VERY DIFFERENT. 18:31 HE DIDN'T JUST WANT TO CONQUER, HE WANTED TO SPREAD THEIR 18:33 PHILOSOPHY AND WAY OF LIFE. THEY CALL IT HELLENIZATION. 18:36 THAT'S WHY THE NEW TESTAMENT'S WRITTEN IN GREEK, BECAUSE THAT 18:39 INFLUENCE EVEN STAYED WITH THE NEXT EMPIRE THAT WE'RE GOING TO 18:42 GET TO, WHICH IS OUR NEXT QUESTION. 18:46 WHICH WORLD KINGDOM IS REPRESENTED BY THE FOURTH BEAST? 18:50 NOW, IF YOU KNOW YOUR HISTORY, THE WORLD EMPIRE SURROUNDING THE 18:55 MEDITERRANEAN THAT OCCUPIED ISRAEL - YOU'VE GOT BABYLON, 18:59 YOU'VE GOT MEDO-PERSIA, YOU'VE GOT GREECE, THEN WHO CONQUERED 19:04 THE GREEKS? >>ROME. 19:06 >>ROME. AND, YOU KNOW, WHAT'S ALSO INTERESTING IS EACH KINGDOM 19:11 LASTED A LITTLE LONGER THAN THE ONE BEFORE IT. 19:14 SO THE DEVIL'S LEARNING SOMETHING ALONG THE WAY AND 19:16 THEY'RE GETTING STRONGER AND THEY'RE LASTING LONGER. 19:19 YOU CAN READ WHICH KINGDOM IT WAS, IT'S RIGHT THERE IN THE NEW 19:21 TESTAMENT. LUKE 2, VERSE 1, "AND IT CAME TO 19:24 PASS IN THOSE DAYS THAT A DECREE WENT OUT FROM CAESAR AUGUSTUS." 19:28 - OCTAVIAN - AUGUSTUS CAESAR ISSUED THAT DECREE THAT ALL THE 19:31 WORLD SHOULD BE TAXED. HE WAS THE EMPEROR OF ROME. 19:36 AND SO, THAT'S - BY THE WAY, WHERE YOU GET THE MONTH AUGUST. 19:39 AND THE REASON FEBRUARY IS SHORT IS BECAUSE JULIUS CAESAR NAMED A 19:46 MONTH AFTER HIMSELF, THAT'S CALLED JULY, AND AUGUSTUS CAESAR 19:49 DIDN'T THINK THAT WAS FAIR THAT JULY WOULD HAVE MORE DAYS AND SO 19:53 HE TOOK SOME DAYS OFF FEBRUARY TO MAKE SURE AUGUST WAS THE SAME 19:57 LENGTH OF TIME. THAT'S CALLED TOO MUCH INFORMATION, ISN'T IT? 20:00 (LAUGHTER) OKAY, 'THAT ALL THE WORLD SHOULD BE REGISTERED'. 20:04 SO, WHY WOULD ROME BE COMPARED WITH THE TEN HORNS? 20:10 WHY IS IT THE FOURTH BEAST? WHO WAS RULING THE WORLD 20:13 WHEN JESUS IS BORN? >>ROME. 20:16 >>ROME. IT WAS ROMAN SOLDIERS THAT 20:19 CRUCIFIED HIM, A ROMAN SPEAR PIERCED HIS SIDE, THE ROMAN 20:22 NAILS PIERCED HIS HANDS, ROMAN GUARDS WERE AT THE TOMB. 20:26 ROME WAS THE PRINCIPLE POWER THAT WAS RESPONSIBLE AT THAT 20:28 TIME, AND ROME WAS VERY INVOLVED IN ESPECIALLY PERSECUTING THE 20:32 EARLY CHURCH, AS YOU PROBABLY KNOW FROM JUST YOUR ELEMENTARY 20:36 SCHOOL. YOU ALL HEARD ABOUT HOW THEY 20:39 USED TO BURN THE CHRISTIANS IN THE COLOSSEUM. 20:41 SO "THE TEN HORNS WHICH YOU SAW" - YOU READ IN REVELATION 17:12 - 20:46 "ARE TEN KINGS." WHAT HAPPENED WHEN ROME, RULED 20:50 BY THE CAESARS, THAT'S BETTER KNOWN AS PAGAN ROME, WHEN IT 20:54 BEGAN TO FALL BECAUSE THE BARBARIAN HORDES WERE ATTACKING 20:57 DIFFERENT PARTS OF THEIR REALM, THEY STARTED LOSING CONTROL. 21:01 THEY HAD PLUNGED INTO SO MUCH DECADENCE THEY BECAME 21:03 PREOCCUPIED WITH ENTERTAINMENT - I DON'T KNOW IF YOU KNOW THAT. 21:07 IT'S KIND OF HAPPENING TO US - BECAME SO PREOCCUPIED WITH 21:11 ENTERTAINMENT THAT THE BARBARIANS STARTED CONQUERING 21:15 THE EDGES OF THE KINGDOM AND PRETTY SOON ROME FELL. 21:19 IT WASN'T BUILT IN A DAY, BUT IT FELL PRETTY QUICK - 21:21 ABOUT 476 AD. WHAT WAS IN ITS PLACE WHEN IT FELL? 21:25 THE ROMAN EMPIRE - AND HERE'S A MAP THAT REPRESENTS THE VASTNESS 21:29 OF THAT EMPIRE AT ITS ZENITH - IT THEN DISINTEGRATED AND IT 21:34 LARGELY WAS IN THE NORTHWESTERN TERRITORY. 21:39 IT FELL INTO TEN DIVISIONS, THE TEN BRANCHES OF THE ROMAN 21:44 EMPIRE. AND THIS IS A MAP WITH SOME 21:46 OF THE ANCIENT NAMES OF THOSE DIVISIONS OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. 21:50 YOU MIGHT KNOW THEM BY SOME OF THE MODERN NAMES. 21:53 YOU HAVE THE ALEMANNI, ANY OF YOU SPEAK SPANISH? 21:57 HOW DO YOU SAY 'GERMAN'? >>ALEMAN. 21:58 >>ALEMAN, YEAH. SO YOU'VE GOT THE ALEMANNI WERE THE GERMAN, 22:02 THE FRANKS WERE THE FRENCH, THE ANGLO-SAXONS WERE THE ENGLISH, 22:06 THE SUEVI WAS PORTUGAL, THE LOMBARDS - ITALY, THE VISIGOTHS 22:11 - SPAIN - AND THEN YOU'LL NOTICE THREE THAT YOU DON'T HEAR FROM 22:13 MUCH ANYMORE. WE'VE GOT ALL THE OTHERS ARE STILL THERE. 22:16 YOU'VE GOT THE VANDALS, THE HERULI, AND THE OSTRAGOTHS. 22:20 NOW THE VANDALS WERE IN NORTH AFRICA. 22:23 YOU EVER HEARD OF VANDALISM? THERE WERE A LOT OF CHRISTIANS 22:27 THAT SPREAD THROUGH THE ROMAN EMPIRE, BECAUSE EVEN BEFORE PAUL 22:30 WAS DEAD, HE SAID THE GOSPEL'S GONE TO EVERY CREATURE. 22:32 HE MEANT THROUGHOUT THE ROMAN EMPIRE. 22:33 THERE WERE CHRISTIANS ALL THROUGH NORTH AFRICA. 22:36 AND WHEN THE CHRISTIANS IN ROME BEGAN TO GET INVOLVED IN 22:39 IDOLATRY, THE CHRISTIANS IN NORTH AFRICA SAID, 'THAT'S 22:44 AGAINST THE LAW.' AND THEY WOULD DEFACE THE ROMAN GODS. 22:48 THEY CALLED IT 'VANDALISM'. SO WHENEVER ANYBODY IN ROME 22:51 BROKE THE ARMS OFF - YOU EVER SEE ROMAN STATUES AND THEY'RE 22:54 MISSING AN ARM AND THE NOSE IS GONE - A LOT OF THAT WAS DONE 22:56 BY VANDALS THAT SAID, 'THIS IS IDOLATRY. 22:59 YOU'RE WORSHIPING THESE ROMAN GODS.' BUT THOSE KINGDOMS WERE 23:03 LATER ATTACKED. ALRIGHT, SO BEFORE I LEAVE 23:06 DANIEL I WANT YOU TO NOTICE SOMETHING. 23:08 FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE BIBLE SCHOLARS, YOU'LL NOTICE THAT 23:11 THERE ARE SOME SIMILARITIES BETWEEN DANIEL 2, WHERE THERE'S 23:15 THIS IMAGE OUTLINING THE KINGDOMS OF THE WORLD. 23:18 THAT PROPHECY IS GIVEN IN A GREAT IDOL THAT IS THE DES - 23:22 IT'S THEN DESTROYED. IT'S A GREAT IDOL WITH A HEAD OF 23:24 GOLD AND ARMS OF SILVER AND A BELLY OF BRONZE AND LEGS OF 23:28 IRON AND FEET OF IRON AND CLAY. IN THE FOURTH BEAST, WHAT 23:32 KIND OF TEETH DID IT HAVE? >>IRON. 23:34 >>IRON TEETH. AND IN THE TOES YOU'VE GOT IRON 23:39 AND CLAY AND THERE'S TEN TOES. AND SO, YOU'LL SEE THAT 23:42 THERE'S SIMILARITIES. RIGHT AWAY YOU'LL NOTICE, 23:44 BETWEEN DANIEL 2, DANIEL 7, REVELATION 13, REVELATION 12 - 23:51 YOU'RE GOING TO SEE THAT ALL OF THESE THINGS ARE TALKING ABOUT 23:54 THE SAME WORLD POWERS THAT WOULD IMPACT GOD'S KINGDOM 23:57 IN THE LAST DAYS. AND SO, IF YOU LOOK NOW IN - 24:04 QUESTION #9: IN THE DANIEL 7 PROPHECY, WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? 24:12 IT SAYS, "I CONSIDERED" - AND I STARTED READING THIS TO YOU - "I 24:15 CONSIDERED THE HORNS, AND, BEHOLD, THERE CAME UP AMONG THEM 24:18 ANOTHER LITTLE HORN. BEFORE WHOM THERE WERE THREE OF 24:23 THE FIRST HORNS PLUCKED UP BY THE ROOTS:" - SO YOU'VE GOT 24:25 THESE TEN DIVISIONS OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE AND IT INCLUDED THE 24:29 VANDALS, THE HERULI, AND THE OSTRAGOTHS. 24:31 BUT WHEN THIS LITTLE HORN POWER COMES UP THAT SPEAKS GREAT WORDS 24:35 AGAINST THE MOST HIGH AND WEARS OUT THE SAINTS OF THE MOST HIGH 24:38 AND THINKS TO CHANGE TIMES AND LAWS, THAT POWER, WHEN IT COMES 24:43 UP, IT UPROOTS THREE. MAKE A NOTE OF THAT. I'M GOING TO SHOW 24:47 YOU, HISTORICALLY, HOW THAT WAS FULFILLED. 24:49 "AND, BEHOLD, IN THIS HORN WERE EYES LIKE THE EYES OF A MAN," - 24:52 SOMETHING DIFFERENT ABOUT THIS POWER - "AND A MOUTH SPEAKING" - 24:55 POMPOUS WORDS OR - "GREAT THINGS." 24:58 SO HOW IS THE BEAST IN REVELATION 13, NOW, SIMILAR TO 25:02 THE VISION IN DANIEL CHAPTER 7? IT SAYS, "NOW THE BEAST WHICH I 25:06 SAW WAS LIKE A LEOPARD, HIS FEET WERE LIKE THE FEET OF A BEAR. 25:10 AND HIS MOUTH LIKE THE MOUTH OF A LION." 25:12 NOW, DID YOU SEE, IN DANIEL 7, A LION, A BEAR, AND A LEOPARD? 25:19 THAT MEANS THIS BEAST IS ALL BUILT ON THE HISTORY OF THOSE 25:23 FOUR MAIN KINGDOMS. THERE'S A CONNECTION HERE. 25:25 YOU MIGHT NOTICE THAT, IN DANIEL, IT SAYS, 'LION, BEAR, 25:32 LEOPARD.' IN REVELATION IS SAYS, LEOPARD, BEAR, LION. 25:37 IT'S OPPOSITE. WHY? VERY SIMPLE, BECAUSE DANIEL IS 25:41 LOOKING FORWARD IN HIS PROPHECY. JOHN IS NOW LOOKING BACK. 25:45 SO YOU'VE GOT THE EXACT SAME SEQUENCE, TOO, FROM THEIR 25:47 PERSPECTIVE. AND SO, IT'S TALKING ABOUT THESE 25:51 POWERS THAT HAD OCCUPIED GOD'S PEOPLE AND PERSECUTED GOD'S 25:54 PEOPLE IN THE JEWISH HISTORY. AND THEN THERE'S A NEW POWER 25:58 THAT WAS HAPPENING IN REVELATION RIGHT DURING THE TIME 26:01 WHEN JOHN WROTE IT. ROME WAS IN POWER. 26:04 JOHN WAS A PRISONER ON THE ISLE OF PATMOS, BY THE KINGDOM OF 26:08 ROME, FOR HIS FAITH. AND IT SAYS - IN THIS BEAST, IT 26:13 SAYS, "HIS MOUTH LIKE THE MOUTH OF A LION. THE DRAGON GAVE HIM 26:17 HIS POWER, HIS THRONE, AND GREAT AUTHORITY." 26:21 NOW, WE ALL KNOW THAT THE DRAGON, OF COURSE, BEHIND THE 26:24 DRAGON YOU'VE GOT THE DEVIL - CALLS HIM THE OLD SERPENT, THE 26:26 DRAGON - BUT THE DRAGON WAS OPERATING THROUGH THE POWER OF 26:30 ROME. WHEN IT SAYS THE DRAGON TRIED TO 26:32 DEVOUR THE MAN CHILD AS SOON AS IT WAS BORN. 26:36 WELL, THE ROMAN POWER - THE DEVIL USED THE ROMAN POWER TO 26:39 DESTROY JESUS - OR TRY TO DESTROY HIM - WHEN HE WAS A 26:41 BABY. SO, THE DEVIL WAS WORKING 26:44 THROUGH ROME WHEN CHRIST WAS CRUCIFIED. 26:47 THE DEVIL WAS USING THAT KINGDOM TO PERSECUTE CHRISTIANITY, 26:50 BUT IT WAS THE KINGDOM OF PAGAN ROME. 26:53 BUT PAGAN ROME THEN GOES THROUGH A CHANGE WHEN IT FALLS. 26:58 >>CAN'T GET ENOUGH AMAZING FACTS BIBLE STUDY? 27:01 YOU DON'T HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL NEXT WEEK TO ENJOY MORE 27:04 TRUTH-FILLED PROGRAMMING, VISIT THE AMAZING FACTS MEDIA LIBRARY 27:08 AT 'AFTV.ORG'. AT 'AFTV.ORG' YOU CAN ENJOY 27:13 VIDEO AND AUDIO PRESENTATIONS AS WELL AS PRINTED MATERIAL ALL 27:17 FREE OF CHARGE, 24 HOURS A DAY 7 DAYS A WEEK, RIGHT FROM YOUR 27:22 COMPUTER OR MOBILE DEVICE. 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