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01:03 AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY. 01:11 >>WHAT THE DEVIL COULD NOT DO IN TRYING TO DESTROY THE CHURCH ON 01:14 THE OUTSIDE, BY PERSECUTION, THE DEVIL NOW ACCOMPLISHED BY 01:18 JOINING THE CHURCH. AND, ALL OF A SUDDEN, THERE WAS 01:21 GREAT COMPROMISE THAT CAME INTO THE CHURCH. 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. 01:47 >>I WANT TO WELCOME THOSE, AGAIN, WHO ARE WATCHING, TO THE 01:49 PROPHECY ENCOUNTER SERIES. 01:51 NOW, IF THIS IS THE FIRST TIME YOU'RE TUNING IN, YOU DO NEED TO 01:55 BRACE YOURSELF BECAUSE WE'RE GOING TO BE - YOU'RE GOING TO BE 01:58 HEARING JUST ONE OF THE MOST INTENSE CONTROVERSIAL 02:02 PRESENTATIONS THAT CAN BE COMING FROM THE BOOK OF REVELATION, AND 02:06 WE JUST ARE PRAYING FOR GOD'S SPIRIT TO BE WITH US. 02:09 YOU PRAY FOR ME THAT I'LL JUST SAY THINGS GRACEFULLY, BUT I 02:12 ALSO WANT TO BE FAITHFUL IN SHARING THE TRUTH WITH YOU 02:15 BECAUSE, AS CHRIST SAID, THE TIME IS AT HAND. 02:18 THE PRESENTATION TONIGHT IS DEALING WITH THE SUBJECT A 02:22 WOMAN RIDES A BEAST AND THIS HEARKENS FROM A PROPHECY IN A 02:26 PICTURE THAT YOU'LL FIND IN REVELATION 17. 02:29 NOW, IN THIS PRESENTATION IN PARTICULAR, WE'RE GOING TO BE 02:31 TALKING ABOUT 'WHAT IS THIS BEAST THAT KEEPS REAPPEARING IN 02:36 THE BOOKS OF REVELATION AND DANIEL?' 02:40 SO WHAT ARE SOME OF THE PRIMARY CLUES TO IDENTIFY THE ANTICHRIST 02:44 BEAST THAT YOU FIND IN REVELATION 17? 02:48 TURN IN YOUR BIBLES REAL QUICK - REVELATION CHAPTER 17 AND THIS 02:56 IS WHERE YOU NEED TO, LIKE, TAKE A DEEP BREATH, "THEN ONE OF THE 03:00 SEVEN ANGELS" - VERSE 1 - "WHO HAD THE SEVEN BOWLS CAME AND 03:04 TALKED WITH ME, SAYING TO ME, 'COME, I WILL SHOW YOU THE 03:06 JUDGMENT OF THE GREAT HARLOT'" - THAT'S OBVIOUS SHE'S NOT GOOD - 03:10 "WHO SITS ON MANY WATERS." - WHAT DO THE WATERS REPRESENT? 03:13 CONTROL OVER MANY PEOPLE - "WITH WHOM THE KINGS OF THE EARTH" - 03:16 THE GOVERNMENTS - "'COMMITTED FORNICATION, AND THE INHABITANTS 03:20 OF THE EARTH WERE MADE DRUNK WITH THE WINE OF HER 03:22 FORNICATION.' SO HE CARRIED ME AWAY IN THE SPIRIT INTO THE 03:25 WILDERNESS. AND I SAW A WOMAN SITTING ON A 03:27 SCARLET BEAST WHICH WAS FULL OF NAMES OF BLASPHEMY HAVING 03:30 SEVEN HEADS AND TEN HORNS. THE WOMAN WAS ARRAYED" - SHE 03:34 WAS CLOTHED - "IN PURPLE AND SCARLET," - 03:36 WHAT COLORS DID I SAY? >>PURPLE. 03:38 >>"AND ADORNED WITH GOLD AND PRECIOUS STONES AND PEARLS" - 03:42 SOUNDS BEAUTIFUL - "AND A GOLDEN CUP FULL OF ABOMINATIONS AND THE 03:47 FILTHINESS OF HER FORNICATION WAS IN HER HAND. 03:50 AND ON HER FOREHEAD A NAME WAS WRITTEN: MYSTERY. 03:53 BABYLON THE GREAT. THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF 03:55 THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. I SAW THE WOMAN, DRUNK WITH THE 03:59 BLOOD OF THE SAINTS AND WITH THE BLOOD OF THE MARTYRS OF JESUS. 04:02 AND WHEN I SAW HER, I MARVELED WITH GREAT AMAZEMENT. 04:05 BUT THE ANGEL SAID TO ME, 'WHY DID YOU MARVEL? 04:07 I WILL TELL YOU THE MYSTERY OF THE WOMAN AND OF THE BEAST THAT 04:10 CARRIES HER," - SO LET'S GO AHEAD NOW AND GO INTO THE 04:15 INTERPRETATIONS THAT YOU'LL FIND HERE. 04:19 WHO IS THIS WOMAN? "AND THE WOMAN WHOM YOU SAW" - 04:23 YOU LOOK IN THE LAST VERSE IN CHAPTER 17 - YOU GOT 04:25 YOUR BIBLE THERE? - IT SAYS THE WOMAN THAT YOU SAW 04:27 "IS THAT GREAT CITY WHICH REIGNS OVER THE KINGS OF THE EARTH." 04:31 WHEN JOHN WAS A PRISONER ON THE ISLE OF PATMOS, WHAT GREAT CITY 04:35 WAS REIGNING OVER THE KINGS OF THE EARTH? 04:37 >>ROME. >>ROME. 04:38 SO WHAT DOES A WOMAN REPRESENT? >>ROME. 04:41 >>A WOMAN. >>CHURCH. 04:43 >>A CHURCH. SO YOU'VE GOT A WOMAN RIDING ROME. 04:50 IF I SAID NOTHING ELSE, YOU OUGHT TO START GETTING IT RIGHT 04:53 THERE. BUT WE'RE GOING TO KEEP GOING. 04:54 IT JUST - THIS IS, I THINK, A PRETTY VIVID EXAMPLE OF BIBLE 04:57 PROPHECY BEING CLEAR. IT SAYS THERE'S SEVEN HEADS. 05:00 WHAT DO THE SEVEN HEADS REPRESENT? 05:02 IF YOU WANT TO ARGUE WITH GABRIEL, YOU TAKE IT UP WITH 05:04 HIM, BUT HE TOLD JOHN, "HERE IS THE MIND WHICH HAS WISDOM: THE 05:08 SEVEN HEADS ARE SEVEN MOUNTAINS ON WHICH THE WOMAN SITS." 05:11 NOW, IS EVERYBODY HERE AWARE THAT IF YOU JUST LOOK IN THE 05:14 ENCYCLOPEDIA IT'S GOING TO TELL YOU ROME IS CALLED THE CITY OF 05:17 SEVEN HILLS? IS THERE A PRINCIPLE CHURCH THAT 05:20 HAS ITS HEADQUARTERS IN ROME? >>YES. 05:22 >>MM HMM. >>WHAT COLORS IS SHE WEARING? 05:25 >>RED. >>PURPLE AND SCARLET. 05:30 PURPLE AND SCARLET ARE THE OFFICIAL COLORS OF THE HIERARCHY 05:34 OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. CARDINALS WEAR SCARLET ROBES AND 05:38 THE ARCHBISHOPS WEAR PURPLE. AND YOU'LL EVEN FIND TIMES 05:41 WHERE THE POPE WILL WEAR BOTH. WHAT OTHER CLUES WERE 05:44 GIVEN THERE IN CHAPTER 17? IT SAYS THAT THE WOMAN IS 05:47 "ADORNED WITH GOLD AND PRECIOUS STONES AND PEARLS." 05:54 WELL, HAVE ANY OF YOU EVER BEEN TO ROME? 05:57 HAVE YOU SEEN THE VATICAN AND SOME OF THE TREASURES THERE? 06:00 IT'S ABSOLUTELY AMAZING. IT SAYS THE VATICAN TREASURE OF 06:04 SOLID GOLD HAS BEEN ESTIMATED BY THE UNITED NATIONS WORLD 06:07 MAGAZINE - IT NUMBERS IN SEVERAL BILLION DOLLARS. 06:11 NOW THAT'S JUST THE HOLDINGS OF GOLD - THAT'S THE GOLD THAT IS 06:15 IN THE AMERICAN RESERVE, IT'S IN SWITZERLAND, IT'S IN A VARIETY 06:19 OF BANKS. IT'S NOT COUNTING THE GOLD IN THE ACTUAL 06:22 PRICELESS TREASURES THEY OWN AND IT DOESN'T COUNT 06:26 THE REAL ESTATE. IT DOES NOT COUNT ALL THEIR 06:28 HOLDINGS IN SILVER AND THE CASH THAT THEY HAVE INVESTED. 06:32 THEY ARE ONE OF THE WEALTHIEST INSTITUTIONS IN THE WORLD. 06:36 SO SHE'S GOT A GOLDEN CUP IN HER HAND AND IF YOU READ IN - IT 06:41 SAYS "THE GOLDEN CHALICE" - IN THERE - YOU CAN GO TO THE 06:44 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA - IT OCCUPIES THE FIRST PLACE AMONG 06:48 ALL THE SACRED VESSELS OF THE CHURCH." NOW WHERE IS THAT IN 06:51 THE BIBLE? IS THAT A BIBLE TEACHING? ARE THERE ANY CLEAR 06:55 POINTS FROM WHICH WE CAN DRAW FROM DANIEL 7 TO HELP US 07:00 IDENTIFY THE ANTICHRIST POWER? ALRIGHT, SO NOW WE'RE LOOKING 07:03 BACK IN DANIEL 7 - WE'RE COMPARING SCRIPTURE WITH 07:06 SCRIPTURE - AND IT GIVES US TEN CHARACTERISTICS. 07:09 I PUT THEM IN LETTERS HERE AND SO YOU CAN SEE, IT'LL GO A 07:14 THROUGH J AND IT SAYS THAT, FIRST OF ALL, IT ARISES FROM 07:19 AMONG THE TEN; IT'S A HUMAN LEADER; IT UPROOTS THREE OTHER 07:24 LEADERS; IT'S DIVERSE OR DIFFERENT; IT'S A PERSECUTING 07:27 POWER; AND AFTER 476 AD IT DIVIDES; IT RULES FOR 1260 YEARS 07:34 OR A TIME, A TIME AND THE DIVIDING OF TIME. 07:37 IT'S GUILTY OF BLASPHEMY; IT'S CHANGED GOD'S LAW - 'HE WOULD 07:41 THINK TO CHANGE TIMES AND LAWS' - AND THERE'S THIS LITTLE HORN 07:45 POWER THAT'S GOT - IT'S UNIQUE OR DIFFERENT FROM THE OTHERS. 07:50 DOES THE PAPACY FIT THESE TEN POINTS THAT WE JUST SAW? 07:55 LOOK HERE, FIRST OF ALL, DID IT COME UP FROM AMONG THE MAIN 07:59 NATIONS THAT YOU FIND IN EUROPE? IT DID. 08:02 WHERE'S [ROME]? IT WAS RIGHT IN THE VERY MIDDLE 08:04 OF [ITALY] - IT CAME UP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE MEDITERRANEAN. 08:08 YOU NOTICE WHAT IT SAID IN DANIEL 7? 08:09 'I SAW THESE BEASTS COME UP FROM THE GREAT SEA.' 08:13 WHAT WAS THE GREAT SEA FOR BIBLE WRITERS? 08:15 THEY HAD THE SEA OF GALILEE, THEY HAD THE DEAD SEA, AND THEN 08:18 THEY HAD THE GREAT SEA, WHICH IS THE MEDITERRANEAN. 08:21 AND, OF COURSE, ITALY IS A PENINSULA IN THE VERY MIDST OF 08:25 THE GREAT SEA. AND SO THAT'S WHERE IT 08:27 SAYS THIS POWER RISES UP. IT SAYS "THE DRAGON GAVE HIM 08:31 HIS POWER, HIS SEAT, AND GREAT AUTHORITY." 08:35 SO PAGAN ROME, WHICH IS THE DRAGON, THEN GIVES THE VERY 08:39 POSITION TO THIS NEW INSTITUTION THAT DEVELOPED, AND YOU CAN JUST 08:45 READ ABOUT THAT. WITH THE CONVERSION OF 08:47 CONSTANTINE - YOU REALIZE CHRISTIANITY WAS CALLED 'RELIGIO 08:50 ILLICITA' IN ROME TO BEGIN WITH. CHRISTIANS WERE CHASED OUT OF 08:55 ROME, AT ONE POINT - AND JEWS. YOU CAN READ THAT IN THE BOOK OF 08:58 ACTS - AND IT WAS FORBIDDEN AND THEY WERE TERRIBLY PERSECUTED. 09:03 BUT OVER TIME, CONSTANTINE WAS FIGHTING BATTLES ON THE OUTSIDE 09:08 - HE WAS A ROMAN EMPEROR - AND HE SAID, 'YOU KNOW, CHRISTIANS 09:10 AREN'T HURTING ANYBODY. THEY'RE PRETTY PEACEFUL.' NERO 09:13 WANTED TO WIPE THEM OUT BUT IT DIDN'T WORK. 09:15 THE MORE THEY PERSECUTED THEM THE MORE THEY GREW. 09:18 AND HE CLAIMED TO HAVE A VISION, HE SAID, 'I'M NOW TO FIGHT AND 09:21 CONQUER UNDER THE SIGN OF THE CROSS. 09:24 CONSTANTINE LEGALIZED CHRISTIANITY AND - HIS MOTHER 09:28 WAS A CHRISTIAN - AND ALMOST OVERNIGHT IT BECAME VOGUE TO BE 09:33 A CHRISTIAN AND EVERYBODY IN THE GOVERNMENT WANTED TO BE A 09:35 CHRISTIAN. AND, ALL OF A SUDDEN, ALL THE 09:37 PAGAN PRIESTS AND THE PAGAN GODS IN ROME, THEY SAID, YOU KNOW, 09:42 'WHAT DO WE DO WITH OUR GODS?' AND THERE WAS A BIG RUSH - ALL 09:45 OF A SUDDEN, EVERYONE WANTED TO BE A CHRISTIAN. 09:48 BUT WHAT THE DEVIL COULD NOT DO IN TRYING TO DESTROY THE CHURCH 09:52 ON THE OUTSIDE BY PERSECUTION - FEEDING THE CHRISTIANS TO LIONS, 09:56 CHASING THEM UNDERGROUND TO THE CATACOMBS - THE DEVIL NOW 09:59 ACCOMPLISHED BY JOINING THE CHURCH. 10:02 HE LEGALIZED IT. AND ALL OF A SUDDEN, THERE WAS 10:06 GREAT COMPROMISE THAT CAME INTO THE CHURCH. 10:10 >>ONE OF THE MOST COMMON QUESTIONS WE GET HERE AT AMAZING 10:12 FACTS IS REGARDING THE MYSTERIOUS IDENTITY OF THIS 10:15 ENIGMATIC CHARACTER CALLED 'THE ANTICHRIST'. 10:19 PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD ARE WONDERING, 'WHO IS THE 10:21 ANTICHRIST?' IS IT A POLITICAL PARTY? 10:24 OR IS THIS SOME EVIL FIEND THAT IS THE DEVIL INCARNATE? 10:28 WELL, WE HAVE A STUDY GUIDE THAT WILL DEFINITELY HELP YOU 10:31 UNDERSTAND THIS. YOU MIGHT EVEN FIND 10:33 IT A LITTLE SHOCKING. IT'S CALLED WHO 10:35 IS THE ANTICHRIST? AND YOU'LL BE AMAZED TO LEARN 10:38 THE ANTICHRIST IS ALIVE AND IN THE WORLD TODAY. 10:41 TO GET YOUR FREE COPY, GO TO AMAZINGFACTS.ORG OR CALL THE 10:46 NUMBER ON YOUR SCREEN AND ASK FOR OFFER #125. 10:50 AND FRIENDS, WHEN YOU RECEIVE THIS FREE RESOURCE, PLEASE READ 10:53 IT AND THEN SHARE IT WITH A FRIEND. 10:55 WE WANT TO GET THE WORD OUT, BECAUSE GOD'S MESSAGE IS OUR 10:58 MISSION. >>YOU KNOW, THERE'S A 11:01 COMMANDMENT THAT SAYS, 'DO NOT MAKE IMAGES AND PRAY TO 11:03 THEM.' IT'S ONE OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, RIGHT? 11:06 YOU'VE GOT TO TAKE THAT UP WITH THE LORD. 11:07 THAT'S WHAT IT SAYS, RIGHT? SECOND COMMANDMENT. 11:10 WELL, THEY HAD ALL THESE IDOLS OF ALL THE GODS ALL OVER ROME. 11:13 THEY HAD - SOMEONE SAID THEY HAD MORE IDOLS IN ROME THAN THEY HAD 11:17 BIRDS. THEY WERE EVERYWHERE. 11:19 THEY HAD MERCURY AND APOLLOS AND ZEUS AND ALL THE GREEK GODS THAT 11:23 THEY MINGLED WITH THE ROMAN GODS AND THEY HAD PANTHEONS OF GODS 11:27 AND EVEN PAUL, IN THE BOOK OF ACTS, HE GOES AND HE PREACHES TO 11:29 THE GREEKS - HE SAID, 'AS I WAS LOOKING AT ALL YOUR GODS' - THEY 11:33 HAD IDOLS AND STATUES OF DIANA AND ATHENA AND ALL - AND WHEN 11:39 EVERYONE BECAME A CHRISTIAN AND THE BIBLE SAID, YOU KNOW, WE ARE 11:43 TO WORSHIP GOD, THEY SAID, 'WHAT ARE DO WE DO WITH OUR 11:45 IDOLS?' WELL, THEY DIDN'T WANT TO LOSE 11:47 THE PAGANS AND THEY SAID, 'WELL, YOU KNOW, WE NEED TO TEACH THEM 11:50 GRADUALLY.' AND SO, THEY SAID, 'GIVE THEM CHRISTIAN NAMES TO 11:53 START WITH.' AND SO THEY STARTED CALLING THEIR IDOLS PETER, 11:57 JAMES, JOHN, JESUS, MARY - ALL OF A SUDDEN EVERYTHING BEGAN 12:01 TO CHANGE IN THE CHURCH. GOOD PEOPLE, BUT THEY 12:03 BEGAN TO COMPROMISE. AND, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THE 12:06 CHRISTIAN LEADERS, THEY SAID, 'WELL, YOU KNOW, WE'LL GET MORE 12:08 PEOPLE INTO THE CHURCH IF WE MAKE A FEW COMPROMISES. 12:11 WE'LL BRING MORE IN.' AND THAT WAS THE WHOLE IDEA. 12:15 "THE TRANSFER OF THE EMPEROR'S RESIDENCE TO CONSTANTINOPLE WAS 12:19 A SAD BLOW TO THE PRESTIGE OF ROME." 12:22 NOW IT SAYS THAT THEY GOT THEIR POWER, SEAT, AND AUTHORITY FROM 12:25 THIS FOURTH BEAST - ROME. WHEN THE EMPEROR MOVED 12:30 THE CAPITAL FROM ROME TO CONSTANTINOPLE, IT LOOKED LIKE 12:33 ROME WAS GOING TO LOSE ITS GLORY. 12:35 BUT LISTEN TO WHAT THE HISTORIANS SAY: 'SOMEONE MIGHT 12:37 HAVE PREDICTED AT THAT TIME HER SPEEDY DECLINE, BUT THE 12:40 DEVELOPMENT OF THE CHURCH AND THE GROWING AUTHORITY OF THE 12:43 BISHOP OF ROME,' - BETTER KNOWN AS THE POPE - 'IT GAVE HER A NEW 12:48 LEASE ON LIFE AND MADE HER, AGAIN, THE CAPITAL - THIS TIME 12:51 THE RELIGIOUS CAPITAL - OF THE CIVILIZED WORLD.' WHERE IT USED 12:54 TO BE IN JERUSALEM, NOW THE CHRISTIAN CAPITAL MOVED TO ROME. 12:57 AND WHERE ROME WAS THE WORLD EMPIRE FOR POLITICAL POWER, NOW 13:01 IT BECAME THE SPIRITUAL CAPITAL OF THE WORLD AND THAT HASN'T 13:06 CHANGED IN OVER A THOUSAND YEARS, OF COURSE. 13:09 'TO THE SUCCESSION OF THE CAESARS CAME THE SUCCESSION OF 13:12 THE PONTIFFS IN ROME.' AND SO, INSTEAD OF IT NOW HAVING A 13:16 SUCCESSION OF ONE CAESAR FOLLOWING ANOTHER, THE CAESARS 13:19 SORT OF LEFT TOWN - THEY BEGAN TO LOSE POWER - BUT THE CHURCH 13:23 IN ROME BEGAN TO GAIN POWER. THEY WERE ACTUALLY GIVEN AN 13:25 ARMY TO ENFORCE RELIGION. AND WE'LL GET TO 13:28 THAT IN A MOMENT. WHEN CONSTANTINE LEFT ROME, HE 13:32 GAVE HIS SEAT TO THE PONTIFF. ISN'T THAT WHAT WE JUST 13:35 READ FROM THE BIBLE? GOT HIS POWER AND HIS SEAT FROM 13:39 THE DRAGON - THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED, HISTORICALLY. 13:43 IT WOULD HAVE A MAN AS ITS HEAD WHO WOULD SPEAK FOR THE PAPACY. 13:48 THE PAPACY, OF COURSE, HAS ONE MAN, THE POPE WHO SPEAKS FOR IT, 13:52 SO IT'S A SINGLE INDIVIDUAL THAT IS THE LEADER OF THIS 13:55 ORGANIZATION, IT MEETS THAT CRITERIA AS WELL. 13:59 IT SAYS, "AND AUTHORITY WAS GIVEN HIM OVER EVERY TRIBE, 14:03 TONGUE, AND NATION." WHAT DOES THE WORD 'CATHOLIC' MEAN? 14:07 >>UNIVERSAL. >>IT MEANS UNIVERSAL. 14:10 MATTER OF FACT, SOME OF YOU, YOU MAY EVEN BE A PROTESTANT AND YOU 14:13 MAY HAVE, FROM TIME TO TIME, READ WHAT THEY CALL THE 14:15 APOSTLE'S CREED AND IT SAYS, 'I AM PART OF THE HOLY CATHOLIC 14:18 CHURCH'. WHEN I FIRST READ THAT IN A 14:20 PROTESTANT CHURCH I SAID, 'WHAT?' 14:21 THEY SAID, 'NO, THE WORD 'CATHOLIC' MEANS UNIVERSAL.' AND 14:24 SO, IT IS A GLOBAL MOVEMENT - IT'S NOT JUST LOCALIZED. 14:29 AND IN ANOTHER STATEMENT, IT SAYS HERE - POPE BONIFACE VIII 14:36 SAID, "WE, MOREOVER, PROCLAIM, DECLARE AND PRONOUNCE THAT IT IS 14:40 ALTOGETHER NECESSARY TO SALVATION FOR EVERY HUMAN BEING 14:44 TO BE SUBJECT TO THE ROMAN PONTIFF." 14:46 THEY SAY THIS IS THEIR TEACHINGS - THAT HE IS TO HAVE ABSOLUTE 14:50 RESPECT AS THE SUPREME AUTHORITY. 14:52 IT SAYS IT WAS A MAN WITH A MOUTH SPEAKING GREAT THINGS. 14:56 IT GOES ON AND TELLS US THEN THAT THIS POWER WOULD PLUCK UP 15:00 OR UPROOT THREE OTHER KINGDOMS - REMEMBER THAT LITTLE HORN COMES 15:03 UP? THREE OTHER HORNS ARE, SORT 15:05 OF, DISPLACED BECAUSE OF THAT. HOW DID THAT HAPPEN? 15:08 YOU LOOK AT HISTORY, IT SAYS THE THREE ARIAN KINGDOMS THAT DID 15:12 NOT SUPPORT THE PAPACY - THE HERULI, THE VANDALS, AND THE 15:17 OSTRAGOTHS - WHEN THE POPE CAME INTO POWER WITH AN ARMY ABOUT 15:21 538, ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS HE DID WAS HE SENT HIS ARMIES TO 15:25 FIGHT AGAINST THESE KINGDOMS THAT WOULD NOT RECOGNIZE HIS 15:28 AUTHORITY AND DID NOT AGREE WITH THEIR THEOLOGY. 15:31 AND THEY WERE DESTROYED. AND THAT'S WHY YOU DON'T SEE THE 15:33 OSTRAGOTHS AND THE VANDALS AND THE HERULI ANYMORE. 15:36 IT'S BECAUSE THOSE KINGDOMS WERE UPROOTED JUST AS IT SAID. 15:39 BUT, UP UNTIL THEN, IT HAD TEN HORNS - THREE OF THOSE HORNS 15:42 WERE UPROOTED. THAT HAPPENED BETWEEN 493 AND 538. 15:48 WHAT TIME? THE LAST DATE: 493 TO 538. 15:52 I WANT YOU TO MAKE A MENTAL NOTE OF THAT. 15:54 IT SAYS IT WOULD BE DIVERSE FROM OR DIFFERENT FROM THE OTHER 15:57 KINGDOMS. IT'S DIVERSE IN THAT IT'S NOT 16:00 JUST A GOVERNMENT, IT'S A RELIGION. 16:04 THE ROMAN CHURCH HAS GOT ABOUT 1.2 BILLION MEMBERS AT THE TIME 16:07 OF THIS RECORDING. I JUST CHECKED THE FIGURES - 16:09 THERE ARE ABOUT 2.2 BILLION CHRISTIANS IN THE WORLD TODAY, 16:13 BECAUSE YOU ADD THE PROTESTANTS - BUT CATHOLICS ARE THE LARGEST 16:16 SINGLE GROUP - ROMAN CATHOLICS. IT GOES ON AND TELLS US THAT 16:20 THIS POWER WOULD MAKE WAR WITH AND PERSECUTE THE SAINTS. 16:25 WHAT HAPPENED IS, BACK IN 2000, THE POPE, JOHN PAUL II, HAD A 16:29 YEAR OF JUBILEE AND, DURING THAT YEAR OF JUBILEE, THE CHURCH 16:32 PUBLICLY APOLOGIZED FOR THE ACTIONS OF THE CHURCH IN 16:36 PERSECUTING DURING THE TIME OF THE INQUISITION. 16:39 IT'S A FACT OF HISTORY THAT THERE WERE GREAT PERSECUTIONS 16:42 THAT TOOK PLACE. YOU CAN GO TO EUROPE - I'VE BEEN 16:44 THERE - THEY'VE TAKEN ME IN CHURCHES AND THEY SAY, 16:46 'WANNA SEE THE DUNGEON?' AND YOU CAN GO TO THE DUNGEON - 16:49 THEY SAY, 'HERE'S THE TORTURE CHAMBERS' - AND THEY HAVE THESE 16:52 IMPLEMENTS OF TORTURE ON DISPLAY IN THE BASEMENTS 16:55 OF THE CHURCHES. AND SO, IT'S A PRETTY CLEAR FACT 16:59 OF HISTORY THAT IT WOULD MAKE WAR. 17:02 AND THIS IS WHAT IT SAYS IN REVELATION 13, THAT IT WOULD 17:04 "MAKE WAR WITH THE SAINTS, AND TO OVERCOME THEM." 17:07 THEY HAD TO GO UNDERGROUND DURING THAT TIME. 17:10 BRITISH HISTORIAN WILLIAM EDWARD LECKY WROTE "THAT THE CHURCH OF 17:13 ROME HAS SHED MORE INNOCENT BLOOD THAN ANY OTHER INSTITUTION 17:17 THAT HAS EVER EXISTED AMONG MANKIND, WILL BE QUESTIONED BY 17:21 NO PROTESTANT WHO HAS A COMPETENT KNOWLEDGE OF HISTORY." 17:25 IT GOES ON TO TELL US THAT "GOD'S PEOPLE (THE SAINTS) WOULD 17:27 BE GIVEN INTO ITS HAND FOR A PERIOD OF TIME." 17:30 WHAT IS THAT PERIOD OF TIME? IT SAYS "A TIME AND TIMES 17:33 AND THE DIVIDING OF TIME." THAT'S THREE AND A HALF YEARS. 17:37 "POWER WAS GIVEN" - LOOK IN REVELATION 13:5 - "POWER WAS 17:40 GIVEN UNTO HIM TO CONTINUE FORTY AND TWO MONTHS." 17:44 AND THIS IS A PERIOD OF TIME. NOW, I TOLD YOU THE STARTING 17:46 DATE - 538 IS WHEN HE FINALLY SECURED HIS POWER. 17:51 AND SO WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT THAT. IF YOU GO FROM 538, 1260 17:56 YEARS - THAT'S A TIME - REMEMBER, IN BIBLE PROPHECY, 18:00 A DAY EQUALS WHAT? >>A YEAR. 18:02 >>YOU FIND THAT IN EZEKIEL 4:6 AND NUMBERS AND LUKE. 18:06 YOU FIND SEVERAL PASSAGES THAT TEACH US THAT'S A PRINCIPLE. 18:09 IF YOU GO FROM THE STARTING POINT OF 538, IN 538 THE ROMAN 18:14 EMPEROR JUSTINIAN LEFT TOWN, HE GAVE THE POPE AN ARMY, THE POPE 18:20 WAS THE SUPREME RULER, THEY BEGAN TO USE FORCE TO COMPEL 18:24 PEOPLE TO BELIEVE - DID JESUS EVER ENDORSE THAT WE USE ARMIES 18:27 TO GET CONVERTS? AND THREATEN WITH DEATH OR PERSECUTE? 18:31 NO, HE SAID, 'WHOSOEVER WILL, COME' - IT'S TO BE FREE. 18:34 IT'S NOT TO BE COMPULSORY. NOW HERE YOU'VE GOT - THIS 18:38 IS ACTUALLY A MOSAIC OF CONSTANTINE. 18:40 THE LEGALLY RECOGNIZED SUPREMACY OF THE POPE BEGAN IN 538 A.D. 18:45 WHEN THERE WENT INTO EFFECT A DECREE OF EMPEROR JUSTINIAN, 18:49 MAKING THE BISHOP OF ROME" - BETTER KNOWN AS THE POPE - TO BE 18:53 "HEAD OVER ALL THE CHURCHES," - HOW DID THE LEADER OF THE 18:56 CHRISTIAN CHURCH GET TO ROME? DIDN'T THE EARLY COUNSELS OF 19:01 THE CHURCH HAPPEN IN JERUSALEM? YOU EVER WONDERED ABOUT THAT? 19:06 "MAKING THE BISHOP OF ROME HEAD OVER ALL THE CHURCHES, THE 19:09 DEFINER OF DOCTRINE, AND THE CORRECTOR OF HERETICS." 19:13 YOU CAN ALSO READ IN THE HISTORY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH , 19:15 "VIGILIUS...ASCENDED THE PAPAL CHAIR (538 AD) UNDER THE 19:19 MILITARY PROTECTION OF BELISARIUS." 19:23 AND THE DATE IS PRETTY WELL ESTABLISHED. 19:25 YOU START WITH 538, THEN IT SAYS YOU GO 1260 YEARS - 42 MONTHS - 19:32 SAME TIME PERIOD - A TIME, A TIME, AND HALF A TIME - THAT 19:36 TIME PERIOD IS A VERY IMPORTANT TIME PERIOD AND IT'S GOING TO 19:39 REACH UNTO SOMETHING HAPPENING. REVELATION 13:3, IT SAYS, 19:44 "...ONE OF THE HEADS AS IT WERE WOUNDED TO DEATH:" 19:48 - BY THE SWORD. WHAT DOES THE SWORD REPRESENT? 19:51 >>THE BIBLE. >>THE WORD OF GOD. 19:52 AND THE WORD OF GOD BEGAN TO GET PRINTED AGAIN IN THE LANGUAGE OF 19:56 THE PEOPLE. THEY STARTED SEEING SOME 19:58 OF THE INCONSISTENCIES. THAT'S WHEN THE PROTESTANT 20:00 REFORMATION STARTED IN THE 1500S. 20:02 BUT, FINALLY, THEY LOST THEIR POLITICAL POWER. 20:05 IT SAYS THERE WAS A DEADLY WOUND BUT THE WOUND WOULD BE HEALED 20:08 AND ALL THE WORLD WOULD WONDER AFTER THE BEAST. 20:11 ALRIGHT, SO HOW DID THIS HAPPEN? 20:13 YOU'VE HEARD OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE? 20:16 HE'S SWEEPING ACROSS EUROPE, HAD GREAT CONTROL, HE CONQUERED 20:18 ITALY - ONE OF THE THINGS THAT HE DID IS HE DIDN'T REALLY LIKE 20:22 THAT THE CHURCH IN ROME WAS NOT SUPPORTING HIS EMPIRE. 20:26 YOU KNOW, HE DECLARED HIMSELF TO BE THE EMPEROR. 20:28 THEY HAD TOO MUCH INFLUENCE. YOU'VE PROBABLY HEARD OF THE 20:30 FRENCH REVOLUTION - AND SO THE MURDER OF A FRENCHMAN IN ROME 20:34 GAVE THEM THE EXCUSE FOR HIM TO SEND HIS GENERAL, BERTHIER, INTO 20:39 ROME, HE ARRESTED THE POPE, HE ABOLISHED THE PAPAL GOVERNMENT - 20:44 THAT HAPPENED IN 1798, EXACTLY 1,260 YEARS AFTER 538. 20:51 BUT IT SAID THE DEADLY WOUND WOULD BE HEALED AND ALL THE 20:54 WORLD WOULD WONDER AFTER THE BEAST. 20:57 ANOTHER CHARACTER - CHARACTERISTIC WE LEARNED, IT 20:59 SAID THIS BEAST POWER WOULD BE GUILTY OF BLASPHEMY. 21:03 BLASPHEMY, BY DEFINITION, THERE ARE TWO THINGS. 21:05 IT MEANS, FIRST OF ALL, ONE CLAIMING THE POWERS OR 21:09 PREROGATIVES THAT BELONG TO GOD; CLAIMING TO BE ABLE TO FORGIVE 21:13 SINS. AND SO, DOES THIS BEAST POWER 21:16 MEET THOSE TWO DEFINITIONS? APRIL 30, 1922, POPE PIUS SAID, 21:22 "YOU KNOW THAT I AM THE HOLY FATHER, THE REPRESENTATIVE OF 21:25 GOD ON EARTH, THE VICAR OF CHRIST, WHICH MEANS I 21:30 AM GOD ON THE EARTH." THAT'S AN OFFICIAL STATEMENT 21:35 - A DECLARATION OF THE POPE. POPE LEO XIII, "THE SUPREME 21:39 TEACHER IN THE CHURCH IS THE ROMAN PONTIFF. 21:42 UNION OF MINDS, THEREFORE, REQUIRES, TOGETHER WITH A 21:46 PERFECT ACCORD IN THE ONE FAITH, COMPLETE SUBMISSION AND 21:50 OBEDIENCE OF WILL TO THE CHURCH AND TO THE ROMAN PONTIFF, AS TO 21:54 GOD HIMSELF." SEE, PROTESTANTS, TYPICALLY, 21:58 WOULD CATEGORIZE THAT AS BLASPHEMY. 22:02 ONE MORE YOU CAN READ IN 2 THESSALONIANS, PAUL SAID IN THE 22:05 LAST DAYS THIS ANTICHRIST POWER WILL SIT IN THE TEMPLE OF GOD, 22:10 SHOWING HIMSELF THAT HE IS GOD. >>WOW. 22:13 >>NOW THAT - THE TEMPLE OF GOD DOESN'T MEAN JEWISH TEMPLE. 22:15 THE BIBLE SAYS, 'DON'T YOU KNOW THAT YOU ARE THE TEMPLE OF GOD?' 22:19 IT MEANS THERE WOULD BE A RELIGIOUS POWER THAT WOULD SIT 22:21 OVER THE PEOPLE OF GOD CLAIMING PREROGATIVES THAT BELONG TO GOD. 22:25 SO, WHEN WE PRAY, DO WE NEED TO GO THROUGH THE POPE? 22:28 DO WE NEED TO GO THROUGH THE PRIESTS? 22:30 DO WE NEED TO GO THROUGH MARY? OR, THROUGH THE HOLY SPIRIT, 22:33 DO WE GO DIRECTLY TO JESUS? AND THROUGH JESUS, WE 22:36 GO TO THE FATHER, RIGHT? >>AMEN. 22:37 >>RIGHT. >>AMEN. 22:39 >>AND SO THINGS CHANGED IN THE CHURCH THAT SEPARATED IT FROM 22:41 THE BIBLE AND IT OBSCURED THE TRUTH. THAT'S WHY THIS IS ALSO 22:44 VERY IMPORTANT - "SO THAT HE SITS AS GOD IN THE TEMPLE OF 22:47 GOD, SHOWING HIMSELF THAT HE IS GOD." SECOND DEFINITION OF 22:50 BLASPHEMY WAS CLAIMING TO BE ABLE TO FORGIVE SINS. 22:54 WELL, IF YOU LOOK IN THE WRITINGS OF THE PRIESTHOOD - 22:57 THESE ARE NOT THINGS THAT I'VE WRITTEN - IT SAYS THAT "GOD 23:02 HIMSELF IS OBLIGED TO ABIDE BY THE JUDGMENT OF HIS PRIESTS." 23:06 - GOD IS 'OBLIGED' TO ABIDE BY THE JUDGMENT OF HIS PRIESTS - 23:09 "AND EITHER NOT TO PARDON OR TO PARDON, ACCORDING AS THEY REFUSE 23:14 OR GIVE ABSOLUTION." SO THE PRIESTS DECIDE WHETHER 23:17 OR NOT GOD IS GOING TO PARDON A PERSON. 23:20 NOW THAT IS A VERY CONVENIENT TEACHING BECAUSE IT MEANS YOU 23:23 CAN'T BE FORGIVEN WITHOUT GOING THROUGH THE PAPAL HIERARCHY. 23:27 THE BIBLE SAYS YOU CAN GO DIRECTLY - I CAN COME BOLDLY 23:30 BEFORE THE THRONE OF GRACE THROUGH JESUS. 23:32 >>AMEN. >>AND, YOU KNOW, DON'T MISUNDER 23:34 - THERE ARE GOOD PEOPLE - AND EVEN SOME OF THE LEADERSHIP, I 23:37 THINK, DON'T UNDERSTAND THESE THINGS. 23:38 I'VE HAD PRIESTS THAT HAVE COME TO OR WATCHED THESE PROGRAMS AND 23:42 SAID, 'PASTOR DOUG, FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE MY EYES 23:44 ARE OPENED.' AND THEY CAME TO CHRIST AND THEY UNDERSTOOD THE 23:47 BIBLE. AND SO, YOU KNOW, YOU'VE 23:49 GOT TO PREACH THE TRUTH. >>AMEN. 23:50 >>AND YOU'RE NOT ALWAYS GOING TO MAKE FRIENDS WHEN YOU PREACH THE 23:52 TRUTH, BUT THE TRUTH IS THE TRUTH AND IT DOESN'T CHANGE. 23:55 JESUS SAID, 'I'M THE SAME YESTERDAY, TODAY, AND FOREVER.' 23:57 >>AMEN. >>OH, BY THE WAY, I 23:58 DIDN'T FINISH THAT QUOTE. IT GOES ON TO SAY, "THE SENTENCE 24:01 OF THE PRIEST PRECEDES, AND GOD SUBSCRIBES" - HE FOLLOWS THE 24:05 SENTENCE OF THE PRIESTS. IT SAYS IT WOULD GO ON - THIS 24:11 BEAST POWER WOULD THINK TO CHANGE TIMES AND LAWS. 24:14 DID YOU KNOW THAT IN THE OFFICIAL WRITINGS OF THE 24:16 CATHOLIC CHURCH - AND YOU'VE GOT THE REFERENCE THERE ON THE 24:19 SCREEN - IT SAYS, "THE POPE HAS POWER TO CHANGE TIMES TO 24:23 ABROGATE LAWS AND TO DISPENSE WITH ALL THINGS, EVEN THE 24:27 PRECEPTS OF CHRIST." THE TEACHINGS OF CHRIST. 24:31 I - WHENEVER I GO PLAY RACQUETBALL IN SACRAMENTO, I 24:34 DRIVE BY THIS CATHOLIC CONGREGATION - VERY NICE - AND 24:38 THEY'VE GOT A TEN COMMANDMENTS OUTSIDE. 24:39 I APPRECIATE THAT. AND I STOPPED ONE TIME TO LOOK 24:41 AT IT - A BEAUTIFUL PEACE OF ART - THEY DON'T HAVE THE 24:44 SECOND COMMANDMENT. IT'S BEEN REMOVED. 24:47 WHAT THEY DID IS THEY DIVIDED THE TENTH COMMANDMENT - CHECK 24:49 FOR YOURSELF - THEY DIVIDED THE TENTH COMMANDMENT, THEY TOOK OUT 24:53 THE ONE ABOUT IDOLATRY SO THAT THEY'D STILL HAVE THE NUMBER 24:56 TEN. THEY SIMPLY SAY, 'THOU SHALT NOT 24:59 HAVE OTHER GODS' - THEY SKIP OVER THE WHOLE THING ABOUT 25:00 MAKING IDOLS AND BOWING DOWN. NOW, FRIENDS, AS I SHARE THESE 25:04 THINGS WITH YOU, THE MAIN THING I WANT YOU TO DO IS SAY, 25:09 'WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY?' DID GOD FORETELL WHAT WAS 25:13 GOING TO HAPPEN IN THE WORLD? NOW I'VE TALKED A LITTLE BIT 25:15 TONIGHT ABOUT CATHOLICISM IN PROPHECY. 25:19 ON ANOTHER NIGHT I'LL BE TALKING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, REVELATION 17 25:22 IT SAYS THAT WOMAN THAT RIDES THE BEAST IS CALLED THE MOTHER 25:24 OF HARLOTS. SO SHE HAS DAUGHTERS. 25:29 WHAT DOES A WOMAN REPRESENT? >>A CHURCH. 25:30 >>A CHURCH. IT MEANS THERE'S OTHERS AND, 25:33 BECAUSE SHE'S A HARLOT, HER DAUGHTERS ARE ALSO UNFAITHFUL. 25:36 AND HERE, WE'RE FINDING OUT THAT THERE'S A LOT OF OTHER 25:39 CHRISTIANS IN OTHER DENOMINATIONS - DAUGHTERS THAT 25:42 HAVE COME OUT OF THE MOTHER CHURCH - 25:43 THAT ARE ALSO UNFAITHFUL. 25:45 SO I'M GOING TO BE TALKING - BECAUSE PROPHECY TALKS ABOUT A 25:48 LOT OF UNFAITHFULNESS THAT HAS TAKEN PLACE IN PROPHECY. 25:52 JESUS WANTS TO BRING HIS PEOPLE BACK TO THE WORD BEFORE HE 25:55 RETURNS, AND THAT'S WHY WE PROCLAIM THESE MESSAGES. 25:58 THE IDEA OF PROPHECY IS REDEMPTIVE. 26:01 THIS ISN'T ABOUT BUILDING UP OR PUTTING DOWN ONE INSTITUTION 26:04 OVER ANOTHER, IT'S ABOUT SAYING, 'WHAT ARE THE TEACHINGS OF 26:08 JESUS? WHAT IS THE TRUTH THAT WILL 26:10 SAVE US FROM OUR SINS?' >>AMEN. 26:12 >>CHRIST GAVE US THESE PROPHECIES, NOT TO INTRIGUE US, 26:16 BUT TO BE REDEMPTIVE - TO SAVE US. AND THERE'S A LOT OF DEAR 26:19 PEOPLE THAT ARE MIXED UP IN FALSE TEACHINGS. 26:23 AND WITH EVERY TRUTH THAT A PERSON LEARNS - JESUS SAID THE 26:26 TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE - IT LIBERATES - IT SAVES - IT HELPS 26:31 PEOPLE TO SEE THE LIGHT AND TO UNDERSTAND THE CHARACTER OF GOD 26:34 BETTER. CAN YOU SAY 'AMEN'? >>AMEN. 26:36 >>IN SIX DAYS GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH. 26:40 FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS MAN HAS WORSHIPED GOD ON THE SEVENTH DAY 26:44 OF THE WEEK. NOW, EACH WEEK, MILLIONS OF 26:47 PEOPLE WORSHIP ON THE FIRST DAY. WHAT HAPPENED? 26:51 WHY DID GOD CREATE A DAY OF REST? 26:53 DOES IT REALLY MATTER WHAT DAY WE WORSHIP? 26:56 WHO WAS BEHIND THIS GREAT SHIFT? DISCOVER THE TRUTH BEHIND GOD'S 27:00 LAW AND HOW IT WAS CHANGED. VISIT SABBATHTRUTH.COM. 27:07 >>WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW GOD'S PLAN FOR OUR BROKEN WORLD, AS 27:11 REVEALED IN BIBLE PROPHECY? 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