And we are here for
the final in this series,
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and it has
really been a blessing.
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We had some folks
back in the green room
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talking to Pastor
Cox and sharing with him
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how much this has meant to them.
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And you can see what a
tremendous group we have here
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that has come
back this afternoon.
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I think that's testament
to Elder Cox's ability to make
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prophecy plain.
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Prophecy can trip you up
if you don't really take it
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a spoonful at a time.
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Like we said, like
eating an elephant;
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just one little bite at a time.
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But the messages have been
plain, they've been powerful.
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And the Elder is
doing a fine job.
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You know, there are
many, many interpretations
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of some of these things.
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And if you go back to,
for instance, Uriah Smith,
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you're going to find a
different king of the North
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than you heard
about this morning.
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And you will find
different students of prophecy
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that may apply some of these
things slightly differently.
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However, when it
comes down to the end,
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it all leads to the same thing.
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Do you see what I'm saying?
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Maybe a different
little road for getting there,
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but when they get there,
they're at the same spot.
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Now I know there are
purists who are going to say,
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"Well, if you don't interpret
something according to the way
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I interpret that prophecy,
then you're totally wrong."
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But you know what I
love about this, is that
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people are studying prophecy
now more than ever before.
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You know, they had quit
studying prophecy in our church.
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It was like, "Everybody
has everything all set.
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Nothing can be any
different and there can be no...
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We can't learn anything else."
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And a few years ago,
some of our Bible students
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began to show us that
we are learning something
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every single day.
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Again, the end
result is the same.
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But the road to that result
is sometimes a little different
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than we had studied before.
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Very true, our early church
fathers held some beliefs,
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shut door, and
other kinds of things.
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Then they realized
they weren't right.
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Then about 20 years
ago DARCOM began to meet;
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the Daniel and
Revelation Committee.
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And they began to
re-examine some of these things.
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And we found that Uriah
Smith didn't get everything
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directly from the
mouth of the Lord.
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Some things he put in
there a little bit himself.
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And so prophecy, like
the study of the Bible,
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is a growing thing.
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You learn more
as you study more.
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But it all leads to one thing.
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And that's the second
coming of Jesus Christ.
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And one thing that Ellen White
warned us about is she said
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be careful with
unfulfilled prophecy.
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It's a whole lot easier to look
back at what has been fulfilled.
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And those that had been
Millerites, and so forth,
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learned that very
difficult and painful lesson
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in the early years
of this denomination.
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Well listen, this is a special
Anchors Of Truth program.
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It is, this is our 100th
Anchors Of Truth program.
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This is program number 100.
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And do you recall the
very first Anchors Of Truth?
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Yeah, this was Ty Gibson.
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It was in January,
I believe, of 2011.
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You missed it by a month.
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- Okay,
February. - There you go.
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You know, a month
here a month there.
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I deal with prophetic months.
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And we, if I
remember, was it on love?
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It was extravagant love.
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Extravagant love.
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And we are planning again for
next year another exciting year
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of Anchors Of Truth.
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And I want to thank
you for being the producer
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and keeping everything in line.
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And we're even
talking about maybe some new
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graphics for next year.
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So we'll be looking forward.
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Now we have one
more Anchors this year.
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Tell us about that.
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I just want to share with
you, we've got a whole crew
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of people here that it
would not be possible without.
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People in the truck,
different directors, producers.
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So many people that make
all of this come together.
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We've got one more this year.
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Let's see...
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Jim Nix.
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Jim Nix is coming in December.
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Jim Nix is a
fabulous church historian
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and we're going to get
some real good information.
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We're looking forward.
December 4, 5, 6, and 7.
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And then we're going to sit
down and plan for next year.
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In October through November,
we've got a great series
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coming out of Charlotte with
John Bradshaw of It Is Written.
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We're really
looking forward to that.
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So that will take
up two months, and then
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Jim Nix comes in December.
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And in September, we
have our camp meeting.
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with David Asscherick to be
our main speaker at that time.
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So you see, with some of
those we don't put in an Anchors
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because we have other lives
that are taking place here.
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And September is our
fall camp meeting month.
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And then October and November,
we are going to have our crew
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in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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We can put in a little
plug for John Dinzey because
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in August, 3ABN Latino is doing
a number of lives on this stage.
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It is their 10th anniversary.
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So we're
excited about that also.
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Absolutely, and this
is the 150th year of the
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Seventh-day Adventist Church.
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Talking about from the
time that is was organized
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and named in 1863.
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And so this 150th year
we want to do something
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that honors that
or looks back at that.
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And the first time we
could get Jim Nix here was
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in December of this year.
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It's still in the 150th year.
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But it didn't happen right
at the date when things started.
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But he will be presenting a
series on our church history,
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our heritage, how a lot of
some of these things developed,
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some of the
pioneers and looking at them.
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And I am looking forward
to that series in December.
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We will just have returned
from Israel at that time.
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In fact, we've got
nearly a hundred people
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already deciding to
go with us to Israel.
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And we hope some
more of you do come.
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Now let me take this
opportunity to bail you out.
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Because the other night
he introduced our singer,
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who's singing
today again, as Tina.
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And people said, "Boy Brother
Gilley, you're getting old.
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Her name is
Celestine, she is not Tina.
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But just before she
came on, we're back stage
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and the question was, is
it Celestine or Celestine.
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So he asked her, "What
do you want to be called,
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Celestine or Celestine?"
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I said, "What does
your mother call you?"
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And her mother calls her...
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Tina.
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So, you know, I was trying to
get the correct pronunciation.
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I can't even
pronounce "correct."
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And I was trying to get
the correct pronunciation,
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and she said Tina.
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- So I said, "Okay,
it's Tina." - "It's Tina."
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And so her husband, Mike,
is going to be on the piano.
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And Tina is going to sing
for us one of my favorite songs,
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How Great Thou Art.
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And when she has finished
singing a praise to the Lord,
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then Kenneth Cox will
come and he will speak on
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the antichrist power.
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Oh Lord my God,
when I in awesome wonder,
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consider all the
worlds Thy Hands have made;
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I see the stars, I
hear the rolling thunder,
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Thy power throughout
the universe displayed.
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Then sings my soul,
my Savior God, to Thee;
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How great Thou
art, How great Thou art.
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Then sings my soul,
my Savior God, to Thee;
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how great Thou
art, how great Thou art.
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When Christ shall come
with shout of acclamation
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and take me home, what
joy shall fill my heart.
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Then I shall bow
in humble adoration,
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and then proclaim, "My
God, how great Thou art!"
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Then sings my soul,
my Savior God, to Thee;
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how great Thou
art, how great Thou art.
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Then sings my soul,
my Savior God, to Thee;
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how great Thou art,
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how great Thou art.
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How great Thou art,
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how great Thou art.
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Thank you, thank you very much.
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Father in heaven,
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as we come before You this
afternoon and open Your Word,
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we do so, Lord, realizing
that little do we understand
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Your might, Your power,
and how great You really are.
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We pray that You will
be with us this afternoon.
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We pray, Lord, for wisdom.
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We realize how incapable we are.
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But we also thank
You for the promises of
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the Scripture that
tells us that Your Holy Spirit
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will lead us into all truth.
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Bless us here.
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Give us the
understanding that we need.
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May our hearts be open
and respond to the work of
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Your Spirit upon our hearts.
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Bless each one.
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We pray in Your name, amen.
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Well welcome.
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We're very happy to see
you here this afternoon.
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And we'd like to
welcome all those that are
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joining us by
television or by radio.
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We welcome you and glad
that you're here for the final
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presentation in this
Anchors Of Truth series,
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The Rise of the Antichrist.
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And we have done four
presentations on the antichrist.
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And now we're
down to the fifth one.
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And we hope it'll help
you put things together
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as we have continued to study
through God's Word together.
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This presentation that
we're doing now is entitled...
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And so we're going to see
what the Scripture has to say
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in the 17th
chapter of Revelation.
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That's where we're going to be,
the 17th chapter of Revelation
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as it talks about
the very last days.
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You understand, don't
you, that when you get to the
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17th chapter, as far
as prophecy is concerned,
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it's pretty well over.
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Because the other few
chapters that are left
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deals with heaven, deals with
the marriage supper of the Lamb,
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deals with the millennium.
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It's all past.
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So this is a very,
very important chapter
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that we look at as we take a
look here at the 17th chapter.
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So let's start with verse
1, and we're going to read
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what it has to say
about this particular power.
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So here we have a harlot sitting
on, not a few, but many waters.
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And water in Bible
prophecy represents...
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...people, nations, tongues.
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So this is saying
that she has control.
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You understand what that means?
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That means
they're in bed with her.
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That's what it means.
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They have committed
fornication with her.
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So we find that
they've been made drunk
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with the wine
of her fornication.
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So this woman, now,
is sitting on a beast.
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It has seven heads, ten horns.
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"The woman was arrayed
in purple and scarlet..."
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It has something to do with what
she's deceiving the world with.
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John sees this.
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It's hard for him to
believe what he's seeing.
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Sitting on this beast.
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That means basically
she's in control of it,
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this beast, this scarlet beast.
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And in Bible prophecy, a
beast represents a civil power.
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That's what it
stands for, a civil power.
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In Bible prophecy, a woman...
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Now let's look.
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Referring to the church.
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So God just simply
takes a woman and uses a woman
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in Bible prophecy
to represent a church,
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a spiritual power.
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And in Revelation the
12th chapter, you have
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a good woman.
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You have a good woman represents
a good spiritual power.
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So this
represented God's church.
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It says she was
clothed with the sun,
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which represented the beauty
of the gospel as it came forth
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at the time of
Christ and the disciples.
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It says the moon was under
her feet, which represented
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the Old Testament period
that she was coming out of.
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And on her head was a
garland of twelve stars,
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which represented
that of the apostles
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that carried the gospel.
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So this is God's
church, went forth.
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But in Revelation 17, you have
a woman that is the opposite
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sitting on a
scarlet colored beast.
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Now what is important
is that we identify...
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And we've done
this each presentation.
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We've tried to identify the
power that it's talking about
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...that we
identify who this power is.
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Four points for
identification here.
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You cannot go looking for some
power, some civil government,
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controlled by a church.
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You can't go looking
over in some corner for it.
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It has to be a world
power because it says,
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"With whom the..." What?
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It didn't say "king."
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It said, "kings of the earth
have committed fornication."
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So this is a power that
has worldwide acceptance
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and control.
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And that of the
papacy fulfills that point.
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Because she, for 1260 years,
held control very definitely.
00:19:06.69\00:19:12.58
Two, leads the world
astray from God's Word.
00:19:13.67\00:19:17.21
When it speaks about
the wine of her fornication,
00:19:21.60\00:19:25.94
the wine in this
case is what she teaches.
00:19:25.97\00:19:29.12
In other words, she
takes the Word of God
00:19:32.53\00:19:35.48
and leads people astray from
what the Word of God teaches.
00:19:35.51\00:19:40.26
So it's the wine
of her fornication.
00:19:40.66\00:19:43.89
So it has to be a
power that is worldwide,
00:19:52.06\00:19:55.19
has to be a power that has led
people contrary to Scripture,
00:19:55.22\00:19:59.90
and three, it has to be a
power that has persecuted.
00:19:59.93\00:20:04.30
And history tells us this
is exactly what has happened.
00:20:04.98\00:20:08.10
All you got to do
is go back and read.
00:20:08.49\00:20:11.32
Read about such things as the
Massacre of Saint Bartholomew.
00:20:11.35\00:20:16.90
Read about the
Spanish Inquisition.
00:20:17.92\00:20:20.43
The Inquisition of the Dutch.
00:20:21.08\00:20:22.89
And history
will tell you this...
00:20:23.38\00:20:25.55
And I mentioned
this the other night
00:20:40.11\00:20:42.26
when I was speaking about it.
00:20:42.29\00:20:43.55
Pope John Paul II
made a public apology
00:20:43.85\00:20:47.50
for all they had done,
lives of people they had taken
00:20:47.85\00:20:51.67
by the millions over the years.
00:20:51.70\00:20:54.96
And so when it says he
would make war or would slay
00:20:55.34\00:20:59.56
the saints of the Most
High, he's done just that.
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Point four.
00:21:02.53\00:21:03.56
Any time you have a woman
sitting on a scarlet beast,
00:21:11.08\00:21:15.39
that means the woman is
in control of the beast.
00:21:15.42\00:21:20.03
And so what you have
is a civil government,
00:21:20.06\00:21:22.29
and you have a spiritual
power that is controlling it.
00:21:22.32\00:21:26.23
In other words, you
have here this woman
00:21:26.26\00:21:29.21
who represents
a spiritual power.
00:21:29.93\00:21:32.67
And she is controlling
the beast, which represents
00:21:32.70\00:21:36.41
a civil power.
00:21:36.44\00:21:38.41
And so what you have is a
uniting of church and state.
00:21:38.44\00:21:44.10
That's what you
have in this case.
00:21:44.75\00:21:46.86
And history tells us
that's exactly what took place.
00:21:46.89\00:21:50.23
Alright.
00:21:50.63\00:21:51.69
Let's take a look and see
what's going to happen here.
00:21:52.16\00:21:54.17
So this particular
beast that it's talking about,
00:22:20.57\00:22:22.83
it says this beast was,
existed, is not, and yet it is.
00:22:23.13\00:22:33.12
"Here is the
mind that has wisdom."
00:22:44.34\00:22:47.68
Does that ring any bell
with you that I've shared
00:22:47.71\00:22:50.72
with you from night to night?
00:22:50.75\00:22:51.78
That is talking
about those that are wise.
00:22:51.81\00:22:55.91
This is the maskilim.
00:22:55.94\00:22:57.78
These are God's people.
00:22:57.81\00:22:59.28
These are the people
that understand what God has
00:22:59.31\00:23:02.80
written in His Word and
revealed, that they might know
00:23:02.83\00:23:06.38
where they are, what's
happening, what's taking place.
00:23:07.34\00:23:11.13
"There are also seven kings..."
00:23:11.77\00:23:14.94
So it tells us here, on
this beast who had seven heads,
00:23:26.96\00:23:31.51
that of those seven
heads five have fallen,
00:23:31.98\00:23:35.71
one is, one is yet to come.
00:23:37.73\00:23:42.81
Alright, so let's take a
look and see where we are,
00:23:43.72\00:23:47.05
what that's telling us.
00:23:47.08\00:23:48.73
Well, we've gone
through this several times
00:23:49.34\00:23:51.74
in our presentations now.
00:23:51.77\00:23:53.24
You remember Daniel.
00:23:53.50\00:23:55.53
Daniel lays it down step
by step so that you and I can
00:23:56.25\00:24:00.19
put it all together.
00:24:00.42\00:24:01.60
And he talks in Daniel
7 about a beast; a lion.
00:24:01.63\00:24:06.78
And that beast, he
said, represented Babylon.
00:24:07.39\00:24:11.61
Okay, Babylon existed.
00:24:11.64\00:24:15.17
Then it says that Babylon
was overthrown by Medo-Persia.
00:24:15.80\00:24:21.69
That's the next one that
came on the scene of action.
00:24:22.43\00:24:24.56
Well he's lining it up again,
the Scripture is lining it up
00:24:25.83\00:24:28.80
for you and I so we
don't have to be in doubt.
00:24:28.83\00:24:30.77
The first was Babylon,
the second was Medo-Persia.
00:24:31.21\00:24:35.16
Medo-Persia was
overcome by Greece.
00:24:35.47\00:24:39.46
Greece came in and
overthrew it, 331 BC.
00:24:40.70\00:24:44.70
And Greece was
overthrown by Rome.
00:24:45.24\00:24:50.85
Pagan Rome, right.
00:24:51.72\00:24:52.82
168 BC, Rome took over and now
controlled everything that was
00:24:52.85\00:25:00.43
in the area.
00:25:00.46\00:25:02.30
She was in charge.
00:25:02.33\00:25:03.75
And then we find that
pagan Rome evolved into,
00:25:04.07\00:25:09.53
or was overthrown by papal Rome.
00:25:09.56\00:25:14.00
Papal Rome took over.
00:25:14.70\00:25:16.83
538 AD, papal Rome now ruled.
00:25:17.17\00:25:23.28
"Five have fallen."
00:25:23.31\00:25:26.25
Those are the five.
00:25:27.04\00:25:28.48
"Five have fallen."
00:25:28.51\00:25:30.01
Babylon, Medo-Persia,
Greece, pagan Rome, papal Rome.
00:25:30.05\00:25:35.42
Those are the
five that have fallen.
00:25:35.45\00:25:36.89
One is not, yet is.
00:25:37.24\00:25:43.22
Okay, five have fallen.
00:25:44.34\00:25:46.21
"One is," it says.
00:25:46.24\00:25:48.33
It uses it both ways, "one is."
00:25:48.58\00:25:50.80
And so there has to be
some power that shows itself
00:25:51.29\00:25:55.05
that brought down papal Rome.
00:25:55.25\00:25:58.51
And the power that
brought down papal Rome
00:25:58.98\00:26:01.57
was atheism.
00:26:01.60\00:26:03.21
Atheistic communism, and
they overthrew the papal power.
00:26:03.99\00:26:08.78
And I've quoted this
night after night that Napoleon
00:26:08.81\00:26:12.52
sent his general into
Rome, overthrew the papal power,
00:26:12.55\00:26:17.90
and thus brought
about a secular government.
00:26:17.93\00:26:22.26
Ended it.
00:26:22.29\00:26:23.32
So five have fallen.
00:26:23.50\00:26:24.75
One is; that is
atheistic communism.
00:26:25.35\00:26:28.92
And then it says,
"one is yet to come."
00:26:28.95\00:26:32.85
That's what the Scripture says.
00:26:33.77\00:26:35.14
"And the other
has not yet come..."
00:26:37.35\00:26:39.13
And that one that had not come
was that of the United States.
00:26:43.50\00:26:48.41
And so we find
that as one went down,
00:26:49.00\00:26:51.17
the other two-horned
beast of Revelation 13,
00:26:51.20\00:26:54.84
the United States,
was coming into action.
00:26:54.87\00:26:58.99
So just exactly as
the Scripture says,
00:26:59.02\00:27:01.23
those are the seven
beasts, or the seven horns,
00:27:01.26\00:27:06.68
that you have
there that represented
00:27:06.71\00:27:08.99
these different powers.
00:27:09.02\00:27:10.88
So the Scripture has
lined them up for us.
00:27:11.67\00:27:14.39
We don't have to be in doubt.
00:27:14.42\00:27:15.93
Okay, "The beast
that was, is not,
00:27:37.36\00:27:43.40
is himself also the
eight, and is of the seven,
00:27:44.29\00:27:50.08
and is going to perdition."
00:27:50.53\00:27:51.64
So if I'm looking for
who this is, where do I look?
00:27:51.67\00:27:54.95
I look among the seven, right?
00:27:57.21\00:27:59.10
That's what the Scripture says.
00:27:59.30\00:28:00.45
I look among the seven.
00:28:00.48\00:28:01.93
Alright, the Scripture says,
00:28:02.61\00:28:04.29
"Here is a mind
that has wisdom."
00:28:04.32\00:28:07.46
"Here is a mind
that has wisdom."
00:28:08.16\00:28:10.31
God is saying,
"Look at it, study it.
00:28:10.34\00:28:12.85
You need to know where
this is, what is happening,
00:28:12.88\00:28:15.42
what's taking place."
00:28:15.45\00:28:16.89
So let's see if we can
establish who this is that
00:28:16.92\00:28:20.04
John is talking about, as
far as this beast that was,
00:28:20.07\00:28:23.89
is not, and yet is.
00:28:23.92\00:28:27.01
Revelation 17 verse 3.
00:28:27.98\00:28:30.33
Now let's take a
moment to talk here.
00:28:36.84\00:28:38.83
John at this point is in vision.
00:28:39.62\00:28:44.00
Are you with me?
00:28:45.76\00:28:46.89
He's in vision,
he's seeing this.
00:28:47.51\00:28:49.25
He's seeing this beast
that was, and is not, yet is.
00:28:49.28\00:28:52.19
So he says that the Holy
Spirit has taken him in vision
00:28:52.22\00:28:57.19
and carried him
into the wilderness.
00:28:57.22\00:29:00.83
Folks, he is not, as
far as John is concerned,
00:29:01.48\00:29:05.92
he is not on the
island of Patmos.
00:29:05.95\00:29:09.01
Are you
following what I'm saying?
00:29:12.34\00:29:13.86
He's in vision.
00:29:13.89\00:29:15.33
He's not aware of where he's at.
00:29:15.63\00:29:18.31
He's aware of where
he is in the vision.
00:29:18.34\00:29:20.79
John is in vision. Okay?
00:29:21.24\00:29:23.49
"And I saw a woman
sitting on a scarlet beast..."
00:29:24.54\00:29:28.59
So in vision, he's seeing
this woman in the wilderness,
00:29:34.09\00:29:40.17
in which this woman
is sitting on this beast
00:29:41.34\00:29:44.38
that has seven
heads and ten horns.
00:29:44.41\00:29:47.78
"The beast that you saw was..."
00:29:48.77\00:29:52.27
Now he said this
beast that she's riding on
00:29:57.74\00:30:00.40
"was, and is not, and will
ascend out of the bottomless pit
00:30:01.17\00:30:11.11
and go to perdition."
00:30:11.14\00:30:12.30
So he's taking something
very, very clear for us.
00:30:32.81\00:30:35.89
So let's put it together.
00:30:35.92\00:30:37.21
John is in the wilderness.
00:30:37.62\00:30:40.25
I want to make that clear.
00:30:40.28\00:30:41.31
He's not, as far as his
surroundings are concerned,
00:30:41.34\00:30:45.44
he's not on the
island of Patmos.
00:30:45.47\00:30:47.34
He's in the wilderness
and he's seeing this beast.
00:30:47.37\00:30:50.57
Okay?
00:30:50.80\00:30:51.97
When he says he
sees a beast that was,
00:30:53.20\00:30:56.04
what tense is that?
00:30:56.54\00:30:58.16
Okay, that's past.
00:30:58.74\00:31:00.38
That means that beast was,
sometime it existed in the past.
00:31:00.41\00:31:05.72
Okay?
00:31:06.08\00:31:07.11
Then he says,
secondly, "is not."
00:31:07.17\00:31:10.73
That would be present.
00:31:11.13\00:31:13.95
Saying, right
now that beast isn't.
00:31:13.98\00:31:17.14
"Is not."
00:31:17.98\00:31:19.01
And then he says
that beast, "yet is."
00:31:19.63\00:31:23.22
And that would be future.
00:31:23.52\00:31:26.68
So we find that this
beast he's talking about;
00:31:27.21\00:31:29.50
something in the past, at
the time that John is in the
00:31:29.90\00:31:33.21
wilderness there
it doesn't exist,
00:31:33.24\00:31:35.79
and it is going to
exist in the future.
00:31:35.82\00:31:39.89
That's what he's
telling us there.
00:31:39.92\00:31:41.70
Okay.
00:31:42.42\00:31:43.45
Now he gives eight
points to identify this beast.
00:31:43.81\00:31:49.01
We need to look at each one.
00:31:49.76\00:31:51.37
To begin with, it tells us that
this beast is one of the seven.
00:31:52.11\00:31:58.89
Okay, so I don't need
to go out here looking
00:31:59.30\00:32:02.12
some place else for it.
00:32:02.32\00:32:03.67
And people that want to do that
are moving away from Scripture.
00:32:03.70\00:32:07.22
I've got to stick
with what it says.
00:32:07.25\00:32:09.24
It's one of the seven.
00:32:09.27\00:32:11.31
It's got to be that.
00:32:11.34\00:32:12.49
Can't be something else. Okay?
00:32:12.52\00:32:14.90
Secondly, it
says this beast was.
00:32:15.36\00:32:19.08
When it says that it
was, John is in the wilderness
00:32:19.11\00:32:23.08
and he says this beast is
not, so "was" means it's past.
00:32:23.11\00:32:28.13
So it really means that the
beast has to be one of the five.
00:32:28.16\00:32:32.64
Did you follow the logic?
00:32:33.92\00:32:35.46
John is in the wilderness.
00:32:36.32\00:32:37.78
And he says "it is not."
00:32:38.23\00:32:39.76
And he says, this beast was.
00:32:39.79\00:32:41.80
So it has to be one of the five.
00:32:41.83\00:32:45.35
Okay, so that
narrows it down for us.
00:32:45.84\00:32:48.02
He said, at this present
time, John is in the wilderness,
00:32:49.39\00:32:52.35
he says, "it is not."
00:32:52.38\00:32:54.21
It doesn't exist.
00:32:55.29\00:32:56.79
Okay, four, it says he
himself is also the eight.
00:32:58.34\00:33:04.18
So it means that this
beast that was, and is not,
00:33:04.71\00:33:10.92
has to be again,
it has to be reborn.
00:33:11.22\00:33:16.31
It has to come
into existence again.
00:33:16.34\00:33:19.37
This is what he's telling you.
00:33:19.83\00:33:21.28
It had to make
war with the saints.
00:33:22.54\00:33:24.74
It had to be a
persecuting power.
00:33:25.28\00:33:27.49
It had to be a
church in which the woman
00:33:28.99\00:33:31.31
was riding on the beast.
00:33:31.34\00:33:34.20
So it has to be
uniting of church and state.
00:33:34.23\00:33:37.12
It says there was a
time in which it was not.
00:33:37.15\00:33:40.76
That means that it had
to receive a deadly wound.
00:33:40.79\00:33:44.61
Something had to
wound it so that it wasn't.
00:33:45.00\00:33:47.95
And finally, it says that
its deadly wound was healed.
00:33:47.98\00:33:51.11
It has to come back to life.
00:33:51.14\00:33:53.15
Now if you look at those points,
those eight points that it gives
00:33:53.18\00:33:56.51
step by step, the
only power in the world
00:33:56.54\00:33:59.99
that fits those eight points
is that of the papal power.
00:34:00.02\00:34:04.63
I mean, you can take it and
look at it any way you want to,
00:34:05.58\00:34:08.39
but that's the
only one that fits that.
00:34:08.42\00:34:11.70
Nobody else does.
00:34:11.73\00:34:13.14
So okay, let's
look at it real quick.
00:34:13.80\00:34:16.17
Is the papal
power one of the seven?
00:34:16.20\00:34:18.66
Yes, it was one of the seven.
00:34:20.02\00:34:22.36
It's number five of those.
00:34:22.39\00:34:25.28
Secondly, was the
time in which it was not?
00:34:25.31\00:34:30.33
Sure, Napoleon brought his
general in and did away with it.
00:34:31.73\00:34:35.38
And so there was definitely a
time for a hundred years there,
00:34:35.84\00:34:40.69
as far as being a
civil government, it was not.
00:34:40.72\00:34:44.14
If it comes back, which it
does with the signing of the
00:34:45.97\00:34:50.28
Lateran Treaty in 1929, it
was given back its sovereignty.
00:34:50.31\00:34:55.72
It was made a civil government
again and it came back.
00:34:55.75\00:34:58.94
And so the Scripture
says now it is the eight.
00:34:58.97\00:35:02.94
It has come back, the eight.
00:35:04.74\00:35:06.72
Did it make war with the saints?
00:35:07.28\00:35:09.52
Yes, it persecuted the
saints of the Most High.
00:35:10.36\00:35:13.55
So it definitely did that.
00:35:13.75\00:35:15.62
It was a uniting
of church and state.
00:35:17.01\00:35:21.38
Those two came together with
the woman riding on the beast.
00:35:22.07\00:35:26.68
You have
unification of church and state.
00:35:26.71\00:35:29.68
Did it receive a deadly wound?
00:35:31.46\00:35:33.37
Yes.
00:35:33.40\00:35:34.43
Napoleon gave it
the deadly wound.
00:35:34.63\00:35:37.14
And did that deadly wound heal?
00:35:37.17\00:35:39.86
Yes, in 1929 the
deadly wound was healed.
00:35:39.89\00:35:44.24
So all those eight
points fit the papal power.
00:35:44.27\00:35:47.28
All I can say is, show me
some other power that does that.
00:35:49.15\00:35:53.67
Show me some other power that
fits all those eight points.
00:35:54.53\00:35:57.72
Only the papal.
00:35:58.20\00:35:59.24
Which the Scripture
identifies this power clearly
00:35:59.27\00:36:03.13
is that of the antichrist.
00:36:03.16\00:36:05.62
This is what it will do.
00:36:06.47\00:36:07.91
The antichrist.
00:36:07.94\00:36:08.99
Alright, let's continue.
00:36:09.84\00:36:11.43
Babylon the great,
the mother of harlots.
00:36:19.24\00:36:22.54
And what is she going to do?
00:36:23.62\00:36:24.91
"And I saw three
unclean spirits like frogs..."
00:36:25.84\00:36:31.17
And we identified the
dragon the other night, right?
00:36:34.35\00:36:36.95
The dragon is that of the devil.
00:36:38.06\00:36:41.49
He's the dragon.
00:36:41.99\00:36:43.13
Or as they use it in
Revelation 12 and in Daniel 7,
00:36:43.16\00:36:49.62
the dragon
represented pagan Rome as well.
00:36:49.65\00:36:53.70
And so it says...
00:36:53.73\00:36:54.91
So these frogs, which
the Scripture says clearly
00:37:01.79\00:37:05.88
are demons, come out of
the mouth of the dragon,
00:37:05.91\00:37:09.34
out of the mouth of the beast,
and out of the mouth of the
00:37:09.74\00:37:12.52
false prophet.
00:37:12.55\00:37:13.65
And they have a
definite purpose.
00:37:13.68\00:37:15.61
It says, "For they
are the spirits..."
00:37:15.81\00:37:18.06
So these powers are uniting
all the kings of the earth
00:37:29.79\00:37:36.34
to this battle.
00:37:36.37\00:37:37.62
And we don't have time to talk
about the battle of Armageddon.
00:37:37.65\00:37:42.26
But just let me say this.
00:37:43.45\00:37:45.01
The Bible says that this
battle is the battle of what?
00:37:45.61\00:37:49.64
It's the battle of God Almighty.
00:37:50.85\00:37:52.87
It does not say
it's man's battle.
00:37:53.34\00:37:55.60
It says it's God's battle.
00:37:55.63\00:37:57.55
And we need to
look at it from that.
00:37:58.03\00:37:59.52
In other words, it's those
that are in opposition to God.
00:37:59.55\00:38:03.97
They're fighting against God.
00:38:04.00\00:38:05.75
And so it's talking
definitely about that.
00:38:06.05\00:38:08.49
Not about Russia
fighting Israel, and so forth.
00:38:08.52\00:38:12.34
That's not what it's about.
00:38:12.37\00:38:13.79
It's in opposition to God.
00:38:14.37\00:38:16.91
This is what they're fighting.
00:38:16.94\00:38:18.50
And so they go out to gather
all these together to do battle.
00:38:18.88\00:38:24.49
Alright, now put on your
thinking caps a little bit.
00:38:24.79\00:38:29.02
Okay, we've got three powers.
00:38:29.23\00:38:31.09
We've got the dragon.
00:38:32.34\00:38:34.05
The dragon as described in
Revelation 12 and in Daniel 7
00:38:34.84\00:38:39.04
is pagan Rome.
00:38:39.07\00:38:40.50
Also it says that is the devil.
00:38:40.53\00:38:43.14
It uses that.
00:38:43.75\00:38:44.90
Okay, the spiritual
power is that of paganism.
00:38:45.44\00:38:49.79
Paganism is a religion. Okay?
00:38:49.82\00:38:53.04
And that's the
spiritual power that's with it.
00:38:53.07\00:38:55.56
That's why it talks
about this frog coming out the
00:38:55.59\00:38:58.49
mouth of the dragon.
00:38:58.52\00:38:59.65
Okay.
00:39:00.43\00:39:01.46
Then we have the beast.
00:39:01.88\00:39:04.07
And the beast is
that of Catholicism.
00:39:04.92\00:39:09.28
And Catholicism is
the spiritual power.
00:39:09.31\00:39:11.94
The beast is the civil power,
00:39:12.34\00:39:14.39
Catholicism is
the spiritual power.
00:39:14.42\00:39:17.05
And this is what she teaches.
00:39:17.25\00:39:20.29
She's teaching people.
00:39:20.98\00:39:22.19
And then we have the false
prophet that we talked about.
00:39:22.22\00:39:26.71
And the spiritual
power with the false prophet
00:39:26.74\00:39:29.39
is apostate Protestantism.
00:39:29.42\00:39:32.03
Okay, these are
the three powers.
00:39:33.03\00:39:35.37
And these powers will,
in the last days, unite.
00:39:35.40\00:39:40.58
Unite the world
together in what they believe.
00:39:41.16\00:39:45.34
That's what the
scripture tells us.
00:39:45.54\00:39:46.88
That's what they're going to do.
00:39:46.91\00:39:48.47
And it's most important
that you and I understand this.
00:39:48.50\00:39:52.11
Because these are the
things that will happen
00:39:53.41\00:39:55.44
in the last days
just before Jesus comes.
00:39:55.47\00:39:59.48
So this woman, which
represents a spiritual power...
00:39:59.78\00:40:05.29
And by the way,
the woman is who?
00:40:05.32\00:40:07.63
Now I want you to be clear.
00:40:10.40\00:40:11.43
Who is the woman?
00:40:11.46\00:40:12.49
Well, who's the woman?
00:40:13.31\00:40:15.09
The woman is called...
00:40:16.06\00:40:17.83
What's her name?
00:40:18.76\00:40:20.05
Her name is Babylon.
00:40:20.72\00:40:22.50
The woman is Babylon.
00:40:22.92\00:40:24.76
Now listen to me.
00:40:24.79\00:40:26.08
Babylon is not
the Catholic church.
00:40:26.11\00:40:28.82
Babylon is not something else.
00:40:29.88\00:40:33.78
Babylon is a
unification of three.
00:40:33.81\00:40:36.92
Babylon is made up of the
dragon, made up of Catholicism,
00:40:36.95\00:40:42.92
and made up of
apostate Protestantism.
00:40:42.95\00:40:45.71
That's Babylon.
00:40:46.05\00:40:48.10
That's why the word
"Babylon" means confusion.
00:40:48.13\00:40:51.01
So how can you take
paganism, and how can you take
00:40:51.37\00:40:56.53
Catholicism, and how can
you take apostate Protestantism
00:40:56.56\00:41:00.82
and put them together
and it not be confusing?
00:41:00.85\00:41:05.75
How can you do that?
00:41:06.08\00:41:07.86
But this is what the
Scripture says happens.
00:41:09.10\00:41:10.65
That's why it says, "the great
harlot who sits on many waters."
00:41:10.68\00:41:16.15
Okay.
00:41:16.81\00:41:17.84
That means,
folks, she has control.
00:41:23.48\00:41:26.15
She's in charge.
00:41:26.18\00:41:28.19
She's sitting on these.
00:41:28.63\00:41:29.80
They are under her
power and under her control.
00:41:29.83\00:41:33.82
And this is what is
coming in the last days.
00:41:33.85\00:41:38.02
This is what is taking place.
00:41:38.05\00:41:39.67
Okay, then it says...
00:41:40.09\00:41:41.82
Interesting.
00:41:49.54\00:41:50.57
How do you commit
spiritual fornication?
00:41:51.25\00:41:55.06
How do you do that?
00:41:57.18\00:41:58.35
How do you commit
spiritual fornication?
00:41:59.84\00:42:03.58
Well the way you
commit spiritual fornication
00:42:04.83\00:42:07.83
is by
adulterating the Word of God.
00:42:08.45\00:42:10.90
That's spiritual fornication.
00:42:12.40\00:42:13.81
When I teach something that
is contrary to the Word of God,
00:42:13.84\00:42:19.37
that is spiritual fornication.
00:42:19.40\00:42:21.57
And it says these kings
of the earth have committed
00:42:22.34\00:42:26.59
spiritual
fornication with this woman.
00:42:26.62\00:42:29.19
"And the inhabitants of the
earth have been made..." What?
00:42:29.22\00:42:33.37
In other words,
what she is serving up
00:42:35.88\00:42:38.88
and what they are
drinking makes the drunk.
00:42:40.02\00:42:44.39
I want to ask you a question.
00:42:46.75\00:42:48.00
Have you ever tried to
reason with a drunk person?
00:42:49.02\00:42:51.48
Huh?
00:42:52.46\00:42:53.51
You don't get very far, do you?
00:42:54.11\00:42:55.77
It just doesn't work.
00:42:55.80\00:42:57.67
Well the same
thing here is true.
00:42:57.70\00:42:59.58
What she is serving up in
many ways does not make sense.
00:42:59.61\00:43:04.56
You just can't take it logically
and make it fit the Word of God.
00:43:06.29\00:43:10.15
It doesn't make sense.
00:43:10.18\00:43:11.26
But to a drunk person, you
can't explain that to them.
00:43:11.56\00:43:14.60
They're drunk with the
wine of her fornication,
00:43:15.16\00:43:17.96
what she is teaching.
00:43:18.30\00:43:19.51
This is what they're drunk with.
00:43:19.54\00:43:21.05
And it's hard to get across
to them what it's talking about.
00:43:21.08\00:43:24.40
What is there something
that paganism, and Catholicism,
00:43:26.59\00:43:35.88
and apostate
Protestantism holds in common?
00:43:37.13\00:43:41.66
What is there something that
you could take the whole world
00:43:43.43\00:43:47.00
and make them deceived
that they hold in common
00:43:47.03\00:43:51.05
and they believe
and makes them drunk?
00:43:51.08\00:43:56.07
The wine of the fornication.
00:43:57.03\00:43:58.90
"And the woman was arrayed
in purple and scarlet..."
00:43:59.98\00:44:02.54
So she has in her
hand a golden cup.
00:44:14.70\00:44:17.79
That golden cup is
full of abominations.
00:44:18.88\00:44:24.05
That means it's full of
things that she's teaching
00:44:24.87\00:44:28.11
that is contrary
to the Word of God.
00:44:28.14\00:44:31.49
That's what it is.
00:44:32.30\00:44:33.33
It's full of teachings that
are contrary to the Word of God.
00:44:33.36\00:44:36.66
And she is serving this up
and people are drinking it,
00:44:37.00\00:44:40.98
and they're
being made drunk by it.
00:44:41.18\00:44:44.33
So what are some of
these deceptions that the world
00:44:49.54\00:44:54.12
is accepting
hook, line, and sinker?
00:44:56.07\00:45:01.47
Accepting it and being deceived.
00:45:02.38\00:45:05.36
And when you pick up your Bible
and you sit down with the Bible,
00:45:06.25\00:45:10.79
and you start going through and
finding biblical basis for it,
00:45:10.82\00:45:14.91
it's not there.
00:45:15.97\00:45:17.38
And yet they accept it.
00:45:18.66\00:45:20.09
What is it serving up?
00:45:21.47\00:45:23.75
Well, let's look and
see what it's serving up.
00:45:24.94\00:45:26.87
One...
00:45:26.90\00:45:27.93
Do you understand
what I mean by that?
00:45:35.54\00:45:37.01
Natural immortality
of the soul simply means
00:45:37.90\00:45:40.83
they're teaching
that man is immortal.
00:45:40.86\00:45:44.15
That he cannot die.
00:45:45.53\00:45:47.05
That is soul goes on living
forever and ever and ever.
00:45:47.98\00:45:52.38
And, dear friend, almost
every television program today
00:45:53.85\00:46:00.65
teaches that.
00:46:00.68\00:46:01.79
You can listen to
them one after another.
00:46:02.63\00:46:04.21
Magazines are full of it.
00:46:04.24\00:46:05.65
Teaching that people don't die.
00:46:06.02\00:46:08.83
Teaching that they're
up in heaven looking down.
00:46:08.86\00:46:12.34
And there is no
such thing anywhere here
00:46:13.63\00:46:16.51
in the Word of God.
00:46:16.54\00:46:17.86
That doesn't exist
here in the Scripture.
00:46:18.73\00:46:20.91
Just not there.
00:46:21.36\00:46:22.88
And yet it's
taught and believed.
00:46:23.66\00:46:25.42
And you know where it came from?
00:46:25.45\00:46:26.79
It came from paganism.
00:46:27.72\00:46:29.14
That's where it came from.
00:46:30.20\00:46:31.41
You see, the pagans, the Greeks,
taught that the body was the
00:46:31.44\00:46:36.30
prison house of the soul.
00:46:36.33\00:46:38.32
And when you died,
the soul was set free.
00:46:39.22\00:46:42.30
In fact, that's how they
got their Spartan soldiers.
00:46:42.75\00:46:47.33
When a male child was
born, they took that male child
00:46:49.44\00:46:53.44
to the highest mountain,
laid him on top of a shield,
00:46:53.47\00:46:57.81
and left him for 24
hours, and came back.
00:46:57.84\00:47:02.36
And if the child was alive,
he made a Spartan soldier.
00:47:02.39\00:47:06.32
If he died, well it
was better because his soul
00:47:06.79\00:47:09.44
had been set free.
00:47:09.47\00:47:10.96
That's what they believed.
00:47:13.21\00:47:14.68
And if you want to read
the story, read about Plato.
00:47:15.19\00:47:19.25
Read about Socrates.
00:47:19.82\00:47:21.72
Read about the poison he drank.
00:47:21.75\00:47:24.12
And he
describes his whole death.
00:47:24.23\00:47:26.41
And they did it
believing that their soul was
00:47:26.44\00:47:28.53
going to be set free.
00:47:28.56\00:47:30.36
This is pure paganism
in every sense of the word.
00:47:30.39\00:47:34.51
And that pagan concept was
handed to the Catholic church.
00:47:36.77\00:47:42.21
And the Catholic church
put her blessing upon it
00:47:45.09\00:47:48.88
and handed it to Protestantism.
00:47:49.18\00:47:51.18
And when it comes to
the Scripture, there is
00:47:51.89\00:47:54.92
no scriptural basis
for teaching the natural
00:47:54.95\00:48:00.17
immortality of the soul.
00:48:00.20\00:48:02.88
Just not there.
00:48:02.91\00:48:04.78
And I'm talking about how
the world is being deceived
00:48:06.33\00:48:10.15
and led astray on that concept.
00:48:10.18\00:48:12.82
Another concept that
they believe, and that is
00:48:13.87\00:48:17.26
Sunday sacredness.
00:48:17.29\00:48:18.75
Sunday sacredness
is not in this book.
00:48:20.60\00:48:22.88
It's just not there.
00:48:24.14\00:48:25.34
Where did it come from?
00:48:26.79\00:48:28.17
Paganism.
00:48:29.25\00:48:30.39
Straight from paganism.
00:48:31.31\00:48:32.87
Because the sun
was their greatest god.
00:48:33.87\00:48:37.61
They worshipped it.
00:48:38.37\00:48:39.73
You can travel, if you go
overseas and throughout Europe,
00:48:40.47\00:48:44.73
you can see sign after
sign in different places
00:48:44.76\00:48:48.28
where they worshipped it.
00:48:48.31\00:48:49.34
If you look particularly
at the Greeks, you'll see this
00:48:49.37\00:48:52.97
chariot, four horses, with
this man riding on this chariot
00:48:53.36\00:48:58.67
coming up out of the ocean.
00:48:58.70\00:49:00.28
This represents the sun.
00:49:00.31\00:49:02.04
It was their greatest hero.
00:49:02.07\00:49:04.45
Always went forward,
never went backwards.
00:49:05.16\00:49:08.44
It was the god of conquest.
00:49:08.80\00:49:10.94
This was their greatest god.
00:49:11.93\00:49:13.85
And they believe
it and followed it.
00:49:16.08\00:49:18.14
Handed it to Catholicism.
00:49:20.41\00:49:22.70
They enforced it,
00:49:24.45\00:49:25.78
baptized it, and
gave it to Protestants.
00:49:27.09\00:49:31.07
And dear friends, no that's
not what the book teaches.
00:49:32.63\00:49:37.58
It does not teach
Sunday sacredness.
00:49:37.61\00:49:42.81
Let me just share
something else with you.
00:49:44.35\00:49:46.19
The Bible teaches
the seventh day Sabbath.
00:49:46.48\00:49:51.38
And by the way, the Bible
says clearly the Sabbath doesn't
00:49:52.04\00:49:56.49
belong to you, it
doesn't belong to me,
00:49:56.52\00:50:00.05
it doesn't
belong to anybody else.
00:50:00.34\00:50:02.73
He calls it, "My
Sabbath. My holy day."
00:50:02.76\00:50:06.90
And He tells you and
I that we are to keep
00:50:06.93\00:50:10.26
His holy day.
00:50:10.29\00:50:12.53
That's what He tells us.
00:50:13.25\00:50:14.52
And so the
Scripture is 100% clear
00:50:14.55\00:50:17.97
what we are to do with that.
00:50:18.00\00:50:19.86
Another thing that they teach.
00:50:22.03\00:50:25.29
And that's eternal torment.
00:50:26.05\00:50:28.02
That when a person dies, if he's
lost he goes to eternal torment
00:50:29.82\00:50:35.97
where he will burn through
the ceaseless ages of eternity.
00:50:36.00\00:50:40.61
Coming again, folks,
directly from paganism.
00:50:40.64\00:50:44.84
These are pagan teachings
that were brought into the
00:50:46.19\00:50:49.79
Christian church,
baptized, and handed to them.
00:50:49.82\00:50:54.09
And today, we find that
they are throughout the world.
00:50:54.12\00:50:57.45
And not just in Christianity.
00:50:57.48\00:50:59.92
They are in pagan religions.
00:51:00.15\00:51:02.07
They are in many,
many different beliefs.
00:51:02.10\00:51:05.04
And so this is
something in which this woman
00:51:05.07\00:51:08.00
riding on this scarlet beast
can unite the whole world in.
00:51:08.03\00:51:12.89
Get them to accept it.
00:51:14.29\00:51:15.81
And those who
don't will be at odds.
00:51:15.84\00:51:20.87
And I can just tell
you this, dear friend,
00:51:23.23\00:51:28.24
if you're struggling...
00:51:28.85\00:51:29.96
And those of you
that are watching by TV.
00:51:29.99\00:51:32.15
If you're struggling
and you know good and well
00:51:32.74\00:51:35.76
that's what the Scripture
teaches, and you're having
00:51:35.79\00:51:38.79
struggle
stepping out and doing it,
00:51:38.99\00:51:41.57
then I'm telling
you, don't, stop it.
00:51:42.18\00:51:44.83
Just step out in faith and
accept what God's Word says
00:51:45.98\00:51:50.02
and stand with the Lord.
00:51:50.05\00:51:51.69
Do not go along with
this, because it is contrary
00:51:51.72\00:51:56.04
to Scripture.
00:51:56.07\00:51:57.26
It is what the world
is being made drunk by.
00:51:57.29\00:52:00.43
And you and I must be clear
in our thought, in what we do,
00:52:00.96\00:52:05.68
and what we say.
00:52:05.71\00:52:07.03
Okay?
00:52:07.55\00:52:08.58
"The inhabitants of the earth
00:52:16.67\00:52:17.87
were made drunk."
00:52:19.11\00:52:20.47
So don't expect,
unless a person has a heart
00:52:21.05\00:52:25.68
that leans or is
in tune with God,
00:52:26.53\00:52:31.32
they're not
going to understand it.
00:52:32.28\00:52:34.04
It's just contrary to them.
00:52:35.08\00:52:37.37
They've got to be willing
to follow the Word of God
00:52:37.40\00:52:41.49
and to walk with Him.
00:52:41.52\00:52:43.09
This they have
to be willing to do.
00:52:43.12\00:52:45.23
"And the woman whom you saw..."
00:52:46.13\00:52:48.01
So the Bible makes it clear
she's going to be in control.
00:52:55.45\00:52:59.51
And she's going to be in control
clear down to the end of time.
00:53:01.32\00:53:07.44
So as we've talked
about the antichrist,
00:53:08.96\00:53:11.14
I'm pleading with you,
stay with the Scripture.
00:53:11.83\00:53:16.26
Stay with the Scripture because
the Scripture lines it up and
00:53:17.02\00:53:20.07
says there was Babylon,
Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome.
00:53:20.10\00:53:25.30
And Rome goes
clear to the end of time.
00:53:25.50\00:53:28.84
I don't care whether
you're talking about pagan Rome
00:53:28.87\00:53:31.61
or papal Rome, or
whether you're talking about
00:53:31.92\00:53:34.66
the Roman Catholic church.
00:53:34.69\00:53:37.17
It goes clear
to the end of time.
00:53:37.20\00:53:41.47
That's what you
have to watch for.
00:53:42.73\00:53:44.46
That's what you and I have
to look for and understand.
00:53:44.49\00:53:48.48
Okay, so what it's saying is
they get down to the end of time
00:54:04.01\00:54:07.65
and time is running out.
00:54:08.89\00:54:10.17
These ten horns,
which are political powers,
00:54:10.20\00:54:14.03
they're going to
turn against who?
00:54:15.14\00:54:17.50
They're going to
turn against the harlot.
00:54:19.25\00:54:20.98
It does not say, I
want to stress again,
00:54:21.01\00:54:23.35
it does not say
they turn on the beast.
00:54:23.38\00:54:26.64
It says they turn on the harlot.
00:54:27.24\00:54:29.60
And they will destroy her.
00:54:30.76\00:54:32.80
They turn because they
find and they understand.
00:54:33.20\00:54:36.10
Finally, they begin to
see that they have been
00:54:36.13\00:54:38.30
led down the wrong road.
00:54:38.33\00:54:40.34
And they turn on
her and destroy her.
00:54:41.68\00:54:44.05
But these same ten
kings that turn on the harlot
00:54:44.08\00:54:49.09
are those that will
war against the Lord.
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Revelation 17 verse 14.
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So they're going to
turn against her right here
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at the end of time.
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But they also
turn against the Lamb.
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They make war with
Christ and they're overcome.
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Because He is the King of
kings and the Lord of lords.
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And those who are
called, chosen, and faithful,
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do you know who those are?
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Those are the wise.
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Those are the maskilim.
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They're the ones who are
called, chosen, and faithful.
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And dear friend, you and I
need to make sure that we're
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among that group.
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And, you know, God
has given you a brain.
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Use it.
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Get into the Word of God,
study it, follow what it says.
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And the Lord will
bless you in a special way.
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This is a time, a
serious time, to be living.
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We're seeing things
that our forefathers
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couldn't even imagine.
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And I don't know
what you want to call it.
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I don't know if you
want to call it a privilege.
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But when you have
the opportunity to live
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as long as I've lived,
you can see a lot of things
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that have happened and
you can see the changes
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that are taking place.
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And there becomes
no doubt in your mind
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as to where you are,
and what's happening,
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and what's going to take place.
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We're not far, we're not
far, to the coming of the Lord.
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Let me pray with you.
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Father in heaven,
as we see these things
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that are happening
and that are taking place,
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we pray, Lord, that
You'll bless each one here.
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May they place
themselves squarely
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on the side of the Lord.
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May they be willing to follow
Him against all opposition.
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That they're
willing to walk with Him.
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They're called, they're
faithful, they're chosen.
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They're among the wise
that will be in Your kingdom.
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And we thank You that Jesus has
made all this possible for us.
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