Well, we're on the
final stretch for today.
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One more study together and we
will be finished with number 12.
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One for each of
the twelve apostles.
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And then we have 12 more left.
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We still have to
study, we're going to do
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right now the fourth seal.
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And I believe that
we'll be able to finish that.
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And then tomorrow we'll dedicate
the first two hours probably
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to the fifth seal.
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And then we'll dedicate the
next two hours in the afternoon
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to the sixth seal.
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And then we have to dedicate
two or three sessions to
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the interlude, one
to the seventh seal,
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and then whatever
time we have left over
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we'll dedicate to the last
five lessons in the syllabus
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on the issue of the seal of
God and the mark of the beast.
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Let's have a word of prayer
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before we begin
our last session.
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Our Father and our
God, we thank You for
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being the Guide and
the Arbiter of history.
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Many times it appears to us
that Satan is the one who wins
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and You lose, but
we know that in the end
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what You allow and what
You cause will eventually
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lead to total
and complete victory.
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And, Lord, we want
to continue studying
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to see how You
have led in the past.
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Because we know that the
same God who has led in the past
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will lead us in the future.
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So give us clear minds
and give us willing hearts
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that Your word will
not return unto You void.
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We pray this in the
precious name of Jesus, amen.
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Page 191.
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Page 191.
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We are now going to study about
the fourth seal, the pale horse.
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Some versions
say the yellow horse.
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But really a better
translation is the pale horse.
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Now what is the meaning?
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Let's just see what the
meaning of this period is.
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The fourth seal represents
the period of papal dominion
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during what is
known as the Dark Ages.
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The scarcity of God's
Word and rain led to spiritual
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famine, pestilence, and death.
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In addition, the
apostate church literally killed
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the martyrs who did not agree
with the traditions of men.
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So let's read Revelation 6:7-8
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where you have a
description of the fourth seal.
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Certainly this
isn't Jesus, right?
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And I have in
brackets, pestilence.
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Because that's
probably what, "death," means.
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So we have several
symbols in this fourth seal.
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First of all, the color, "pale."
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The Greek word is, chloros.
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The color of this horse
is really a greenish pale,
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as when a young
shoot comes out of a tree.
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It is the paleness of death.
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And then you
have death and hades.
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When a person dies,
the grave follows death.
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Because people are
buried after they die.
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The fourth part of the
earth shows that the devastating
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power of the fourth horse
and its rider is not universal.
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It's only partial.
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The famine represents the
fact that there is a scarcity
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of God's Word.
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Pestilence, and
there's a note on this,
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in the New Testament
Greek, the word, thanatos,
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technically means, death.
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However, in 30 of the 50
times that this word appears
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in the Greek Old Testament,
it is translated, pestilence.
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To say that the
fourth horse kills with death
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would be redundant.
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You can't kill any
other way than with death.
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So probably what it
means is famine follows it.
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And we have death by
the sword, and famine
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brings pestilence
or disease in its train
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and ultimately leads
to death and to the grave.
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And then we
have the wild beasts.
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I have several text that
explains what this means.
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They are wicked leaders
and nations who were inimical
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to God's people and
behaved like wild beasts.
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The Bible defends that view, as
well as the spirit of prophecy.
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Now, let's notice an
Old Testament background,
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first of all, to the
fourth seal, the fourth horse.
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In Old Testament times...
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By the way, I'll
give you this homework.
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Read Leviticus 26:21-26.
That's an important passage.
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I didn't include it,
but it speaks about the
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four judgments of
God upon apostate Israel.
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In Old Testament times
when Israel broke the covenant,
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apostatized from truth,
and assimilated pagan customs,
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which is what
happened in the third horse,
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God would send the
very same four judgments
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that are mentioned in connection
with the fourth horse.
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And those judgments
were: sword, famine,
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pestilence, which
follows famine by the way,
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and ultimately wild beasts.
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You can find all four of
these judgments in Leviticus 26.
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That's the foundation.
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Did the church,
during the third period,
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break God's covenant?
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It most certainly did.
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Now because Israel, this
is an important principle,
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because Israel in
the Old Testament period
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were God's literal people living
in the literal land of Canaan,
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these judgments
were what? Literal.
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However, under the fourth seal,
as well as in the other seals,
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we are dealing
with... Which Israel?
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...spiritual Israel in a
spiritual land, which is the
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Christian church, and therefore
we need to interpret these
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calamities in a symbolic manner.
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And then we have in parenthesis,
the texts that you need to
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look at, this is very important,
in Daniel 11:28, 30, 32.
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This is the
period of papal dominion.
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It's the period
of the fourth horse.
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And there we are
explicitly told that the papacy
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trampled on God's holy
covenant during the 1260 years.
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So would we expect
the same four judgments
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if the papacy
trampled on the covenant?
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Absolutely.
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Now let's talk
about death and hades.
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The immediate aftermath of death
is the place where the dead go.
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And where is that?
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The grave.
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The word, hades, is
the Greek equivalent of the
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Hebrew word, sheol,
and it should consistently
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be translated, "the grave."
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We find the link between
the Hebrew and the Greek words
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in 1 Corinthians 15:54-55...
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We'll read these
a little bit later.
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...where the apostle
Paul quotes Hosea 13:14
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and uses the word,
hades, in place of, sheol.
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So in the book of Hosea,
the word for, grave, is, sheol,
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and the apostle Paul
uses the word, hades.
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That shows that, sheol,
and, hades, are synonymous
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words in different languages.
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Unfortunately, the King James
Version 31 times mistakenly
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translates the Hebrew word,
sheol, with the word, hell.
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It really should be
translated, "the grave."
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The Old Testament
regularly links the concepts of
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death and the grave in
synonymous parallelism.
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In other words, death and the
grave are somewhat synonymous.
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Because when person
dies, they go to the grave.
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Notice Psalms 6:5.
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Does the second line explain
and amplify the first line?
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Is it the same thought
in different words? Yeah.
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It's the same to say,
"For in death there is no
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remembrance of you; in the
grave who will give you thanks?"
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So death and the
grave are linked together.
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Because when a person
dies, they go to the grave.
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Notice Psalm 89:48.
And there are many more.
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In, The State of the
Dead, series I have an entire
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presentation on death and
hades, particularly on hades,
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as it appears all
throughout Scripture
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in the Old and
the New Testaments.
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Psalm 89:48
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Notice once again,
death and the grave together.
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Psalm 116:3, here
the psalmist says...
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So once again, death and
sheol are used synonymously.
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Notice Isaiah 38:18.
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See, once again, death
and the grave together.
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Isaiah 28:15
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I've only given you a sampling
here so that you see that
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I'm not just
choosing one little verse
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and making an entire
application out of that.
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The fact is that death and
the grave are linked together,
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not only in
Revelation chapter 6.
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So it says in Isaiah
28:15, "Because you have said,
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'We have made a
covenant with death,
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and with sheol we
are in agreement.'"
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Is a covenant an agreement?
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So are death and the
grave linked together?
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Are they
synonymous, basically? Yes.
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Now here comes the
key text, Hosea 13:14.
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Hosea 13:14
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God is speaking here.
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The apostle Paul paraphrases
this in 1 Corinthians 15.
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So let's go there
just for a moment.
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1 Corinthians 15
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And let's notice
how the apostle Paul
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is actually drawing on Hosea.
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He doesn't quote is textually,
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but he's drawing
on the terminology.
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Only instead of the
word, grave, which is, hades,
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he uses the word,
sheol, which is the
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Hebrew Old Testament word.
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1 Corinthians 15:54
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So is Paul drawing
on the book of Hosea.
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Yes, he's drawing on Hosea.
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Only, in Hosea the
word for, grave, is, sheol;
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the word for, grave,
in the New Testament Greek
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is, hades.
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And so, death and
hades are linked together.
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Just like death and
sheol are linked together.
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So the question is,
does the word, sheol,
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and does the word, hades,
mean, hell, a place of burning?
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No.
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It simply means, the grave.
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When a person dies,
the next step is what?
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To be buried in the grave.
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Death and the grave
followed this yellow horse.
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Now another place where
we can link the word, sheol,
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with the word, hades,
is in Acts 2:25-27, 30-31.
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Here, Peter on the day
of Pentecost is drawing
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on a passage that we
find in Psalm 16:8-10.
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And in the Greek, the
word, grave, is the word, hades;
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whereas in the Old
Testament in Psalm 16
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the word is, sheol.
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That's why we know that
sheol and hades are synonymous
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in different languages.
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Notice Acts 2:25-27, 30-31.
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He's getting this
from Psalm 16:8-10.
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This is Jesus
speaking prophetically.
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The New King James
transliterates the word
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from the Greek, hades.
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Other versions like the
New International Version
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like I was saying, the
New International Version
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doesn't translate, "For you will
not leave My soul in hades,"
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or in hell like the
King James Version says.
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The New International Version
says, "You will not leave
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Me in the grave."
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It's a much better translation.
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"You will not leave My soul,"
or, "You will not leave Me
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in hades," or the grave, "nor
will you allow your Holy One
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to see corruption."
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So the word here
for, grave, is, hades.
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In the Old Testament
where this is coming from
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the word is, sheol.
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So sheol and hades are the same
word in different languages.
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Verse 30...
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This is David foreseeing this.
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So basically, when this horse,
you have a reference to death
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and hades, it
doesn't mean death and hell.
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It means death and
what? Death and the grave.
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Because this is the pale horse.
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This is the horse
that brings death.
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First by famine, because there's
famine for the Word of God.
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And there's darkness that we
noticed under the third horse.
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And secondly, because those
who don't agree with the church
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are being killed.
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Physically killed.
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That's why the martyrs are
crying out in the fifth seal.
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So far so good?
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Now the key question
at this point is this:
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What caused this church to
die and to go to the grave?
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The answer is that four factors
led to death and to the grave.
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First of all, the sword.
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The key verses, and we
have covered this before
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so we don't have
to dwell a lot on it,
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the key verses to understand
the symbolic meaning of
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the sword in the
fourth seal are Romans 13:1-4
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and Revelation 13:10, 14.
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As we have seen,
more often than not
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when the sword of the
Spirit convicts of sin,
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what happens?
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It awakens the sword of
persecution on the part of
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those who wish to suppress it.
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And we noticed that
in the third seal, right?
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Matthew 10:34-37
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I'm not going to
read Romans 13 again.
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Romans 13:1-4, let's just
read verse 4 in that passage.
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Speaking about the civil
power, it says, "For he is
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God's minister to you for good.
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But if you do evil, be afraid;
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for he," that
is the civil ruler,
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"does not bear
the sword in vain.
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For he is God's minister,
an avenger to execute wrath
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on him who practices evil."
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Now let's read the note,
and then I'm going to give you
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additional explanation.
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In apocalyptic
prophecy, symbols are fluid.
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They take different shapes
depending on where they appear.
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That is, that the
sword can represent
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the Word of God, right?
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But when the Word of God
is proclaimed, what happens?
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The church then appeals
to the sword of civil power
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to punish those who
don't agree with the church.
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Let me ask you this.
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Did the papacy use the sword
during this period to kill?
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It used the
Bible to kill, right?
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It can't represent the Bible.
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The papacy did not
use the Bible to kill.
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What did it use?
00:18:23.26\00:18:24.60
It used the sword
of the civil power.
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How many armies
does the papacy have?
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How many tanks?
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How many missiles?
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It will have all of them because
it links up with the states
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and it has all of the
support of the states.
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But it has none of its own.
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Right?
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What did the papacy
do during the 1260 years?
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It linked up with the state and
it used the sword of the state
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to punish those who did
not agree with its practices
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and its beliefs.
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It killed with what?
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With the sword.
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But the interesting
thing is, that this same power
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that killed with
the sword received a
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deadly wound by the sword.
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Notice Revelation 13:9-10.
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This is at the top of page 196.
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Revelation 13:9-10
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It says, "If anyone
has an ear, let him hear."
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Did the papacy
lead into captivity?
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Yes. Was the
papacy led into captivity?
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So the papacy
killed with the sword.
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And the sword gave the
papacy its deadly wound.
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The papacy led into captivity
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and the papacy was
taken into captivity.
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So the first thing
that this yellow horse does
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is take away peace by killing
those who did not agree with
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the church with the
sword, with the aid or the help
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of the state.
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Now let's notice the note under
this text, Revelation 13:9-10.
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The New King James
Version of Revelation 6:8
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tells us that power was given...
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Listen to the tense of the verb.
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...power was given...
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And a better translation
is not power, but authority.
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There are two Greek words
that are translated, power,
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in the King James
and the New King James.
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The first is the
word, dunamis, where we get
00:20:38.63\00:20:41.64
the word, dynamite, from.
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That's not the word here.
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The word is, exousia,
which means, authority.
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So it says here that
this power was given authority
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to death and the grave
to kill with the sword.
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It is hardly a coincidence
that the little horn...
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If you read Daniel
7:25, it says, "was given."
00:21:03.19\00:21:06.93
...power to make war against
the saints and overcome them.
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In Revelation 13:7, the beast,
which is equivalent to the
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little horn in Daniel 7,
once again tells us the beast
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was given power to
make war with the saints.
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Are you catching the picture?
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Now, how else did the
papal system kill people?
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In symbolic terms, famine
comes when the Holy Spirit,
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speaking through
the Word, is scarce.
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Famine comes
when it doesn't rain.
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And when it doesn't rain,
there's a scarcity of food.
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Right?
00:21:49.97\00:21:51.31
Now, during the Dark
Ages there was no, what?
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No rain. We're not
talking about literal rain.
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You say, "How do we know
that during the 1260 years
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there was no rain?"
00:22:01.92\00:22:03.25
Because in Revelation 11
it says that the two witnesses
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closed the heavens so
that it would not rain
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during their prophecy.
00:22:07.86\00:22:09.19
The same period.
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So there was no rain.
00:22:12.26\00:22:13.60
And therefore, what happened?
00:22:14.00\00:22:15.86
Bread was scarce.
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The result was what?
00:22:20.24\00:22:21.94
Famine, spiritual hunger.
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Famine, in turn, led to what?
00:22:25.27\00:22:27.74
Malnutrition, and malnutrition
led to pestilence, disease.
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And ultimately,
pestilence led to what?
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To death.
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Are you catching the picture?
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The prophet Isaiah explained
the symbolic meaning of
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rain, bread, and the Word.
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"For as the rain comes
down, and the snow from heaven,
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and do not return
there, but water the earth
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and make it bring forth
and bud that it may give seed
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to the sower and
bread to the eater..."
00:23:03.98\00:23:06.01
So does rain, does the
falling of rain have anything
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to do with giving bread?
00:23:08.78\00:23:10.12
Yes or no?
00:23:11.82\00:23:13.15
Yes.
00:23:13.19\00:23:14.52
Now comes the
comparison to rain and bread.
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Rain makes the crop grow,
and then the grain is harvested,
00:23:19.79\00:23:25.90
and bread is made.
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When there's no rain, the
result is that you don't have,
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you know, it's very expensive.
00:23:31.51\00:23:32.84
Like we noticed
in the third seal.
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Here comes the
comparison, verse 11.
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"...so shall My word be
that goes forth from My mouth;
00:23:37.21\00:23:41.95
it shall not return to Me
void, but it shall accomplish
00:23:42.62\00:23:46.15
what I please, and it
shall prosper in the thing
00:23:46.19\00:23:48.69
for which I sent it."
00:23:48.72\00:23:50.06
Was there a scarcity of the
Holy Spirit during the period
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of the Roman Catholic papacy?
00:23:53.60\00:23:55.60
Was there a
scarcity of the Word of God?
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Listen, the Waldenses
had to hide in the Piedmont.
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And they wrote text of Scripture
on little pieces of parchment.
00:24:04.41\00:24:08.48
They were traveling
salesmen, and they would
00:24:08.88\00:24:11.51
give these pieces of parchment
with scriptures to people.
00:24:11.55\00:24:15.98
Because reading the
Scriptures to the lay people
00:24:16.02\00:24:18.32
was strictly forbidden.
00:24:18.35\00:24:20.12
So was there
famine during this period?
00:24:21.02\00:24:23.69
Yes. Because the
Spirit was scarce.
00:24:23.73\00:24:26.80
Was there spiritual hunger? Yes.
00:24:27.20\00:24:29.56
And whoever did not
agree with the church,
00:24:29.76\00:24:31.57
what did the church do?
00:24:31.60\00:24:32.93
It used the state,
the sword of the state,
00:24:32.97\00:24:35.77
to kill those who did
not agree with the church.
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Notice Deuteronomy 32:2.
00:24:40.01\00:24:42.28
"Let my
teaching drop as rain..."
00:24:43.31\00:24:45.61
So teaching, once
again, is related to rain.
00:24:45.65\00:24:49.12
Notice Hosea.
00:24:58.69\00:25:00.03
Once again, knowledge of
the Lord, speech, God's Word,
00:25:00.06\00:25:05.30
all have to do with
God communicating to us.
00:25:05.50\00:25:08.57
It says, "Let us know..."
00:25:08.77\00:25:10.11
A time is coming when there's
going to be famine on the earth.
00:25:24.99\00:25:28.62
Was there famine
during the 1260 years? Yes.
00:25:29.26\00:25:32.56
But Amos 8:11-12 is
talking about a famine...
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You know, even during
the Dark Ages when the papacy
00:25:37.53\00:25:40.24
had dominion, there was
still some of God's Word
00:25:40.27\00:25:43.87
and there was still
some of God's faithful people
00:25:43.91\00:25:46.57
that assimilated the Word.
00:25:46.61\00:25:47.94
But the time is
coming when probation closes
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when nobody is going to be
able to find the Word of God
00:25:50.11\00:25:53.31
because there's going
to be a famine in the land.
00:25:53.35\00:25:55.48
And they will seek
for the Word of God,
00:25:55.52\00:25:56.89
they will not
be able to find it.
00:25:56.92\00:25:58.55
Notice what it says...
00:25:59.25\00:26:00.59
Once again, bread
is related with water,
00:26:11.50\00:26:13.30
with the Holy Spirit.
00:26:13.34\00:26:14.67
See, when it
rains, the crop grows.
00:26:19.44\00:26:22.24
The Holy Spirit falls,
it's connected with the Word.
00:26:22.81\00:26:25.51
And as a result, people
are spiritually healthy.
00:26:26.38\00:26:28.55
Verse 12...
00:26:28.95\00:26:30.29
In other words,
they're looking for bread.
00:26:39.16\00:26:40.80
But there's famine.
00:26:41.16\00:26:42.70
Are you catching the picture?
00:26:45.80\00:26:47.20
Now what about the wild beasts?
00:26:48.30\00:26:50.14
The wild beasts
are also symbolic.
00:26:51.57\00:26:53.21
We're dealing
with symbols. Right?
00:26:53.24\00:26:55.24
Now in Scripture, individuals
who are hateful and want to
00:26:56.54\00:27:02.25
destroy God's people
are compared to wild beasts.
00:27:02.28\00:27:04.95
Let's read several texts.
00:27:05.92\00:27:07.26
Psalm 74:18-19
00:27:07.29\00:27:10.46
So who is compared
with the wild beasts?
00:27:31.68\00:27:33.68
The enemy.
00:27:34.72\00:27:36.05
Notice Psalm 7:1-2.
00:27:36.92\00:27:39.12
Who is, "they"?
00:27:51.73\00:27:53.07
Those that persecute, right?
00:27:53.44\00:27:54.87
Once again, enemies
are compared to a lion
00:28:04.38\00:28:07.68
that devours
and tears in pieces.
00:28:07.72\00:28:10.35
Psalm 10:9-11
00:28:10.99\00:28:13.05
What principle are we
using here to understand
00:28:13.09\00:28:15.09
what the wild beasts
represent symbolically?
00:28:15.12\00:28:17.56
What are we doing?
00:28:17.59\00:28:18.93
Does the fourth seal explain
what the wild beasts are?
00:28:19.76\00:28:22.90
Does it tell you what
the wild beasts symbolize?
00:28:23.53\00:28:25.63
No, it doesn't tell you.
00:28:25.83\00:28:27.17
So what do we do?
00:28:27.20\00:28:28.54
Well, we see what wild
beasts mean symbolically
00:28:29.24\00:28:31.64
in other places in Scripture.
00:28:31.67\00:28:33.31
It's that simple.
00:28:33.64\00:28:34.98
Now notice Psalm 10:9-11.
00:28:35.64\00:28:39.25
This is the enemy.
00:28:40.68\00:28:42.02
Notice, it's using all of
the mannerisms of the lion.
00:28:51.56\00:28:54.60
Is that what the
religious leaders said
00:29:07.48\00:29:08.91
during the 1260 years?
00:29:08.94\00:29:10.65
Was God seeing?
00:29:11.21\00:29:12.55
He was writing it all
in the heavenly books.
00:29:12.58\00:29:14.38
Because He's going to rectify
all of those wrong judgments.
00:29:14.88\00:29:17.35
You know, it makes
me think of John Huss.
00:29:17.39\00:29:20.12
You ever heard of John Huss?
00:29:20.16\00:29:21.49
You know, he was tried there
in the cathedral in Prague.
00:29:23.22\00:29:29.86
In Constance actually, he was
taken to Constance from Prague.
00:29:29.90\00:29:33.13
He was tried in the Cathedral,
and he was found guilty.
00:29:33.17\00:29:36.57
Was he guilty? No.
00:29:36.60\00:29:38.57
And he was taken and he
was burned at the stake.
00:29:38.91\00:29:41.24
Was that just?
00:29:42.54\00:29:43.88
No, totally unjust.
00:29:44.25\00:29:45.78
The earthly judgment was wrong.
00:29:46.08\00:29:48.48
Does the time have to come
when that needs to be rectified?
00:29:50.02\00:29:52.55
Where is it rectified?
00:29:53.36\00:29:54.69
When Huss' name appears
in the heavenly judgment.
00:29:55.56\00:29:58.69
It will be shows that those
who did that to him were wrong
00:29:59.13\00:30:02.73
and Huss was right.
00:30:02.76\00:30:04.10
And the reward
will be given to Huss.
00:30:05.83\00:30:07.90
In other words, the
reward will be reversed.
00:30:07.94\00:30:10.47
Huss will be
rewarded with eternal life,
00:30:11.84\00:30:14.14
like should
have happened before,
00:30:14.18\00:30:15.91
and those who oppressed
him will suffer eternal death.
00:30:16.11\00:30:18.91
The purpose of the
judgment, to rectify,
00:30:20.42\00:30:23.15
there in Daniel chapter 7.
00:30:23.82\00:30:25.15
Notice Psalm 17:9-12.
00:30:25.19\00:30:29.66
Psalm 22:12-13
00:30:52.11\00:30:54.15
This is a Messianic psalm.
00:30:54.18\00:30:55.52
It's talking about
the sufferings of Christ
00:30:55.55\00:30:57.02
at the hand of His enemies.
00:30:57.05\00:30:58.39
"Many bulls have surrounded
Me; strong bulls of Bashan
00:30:58.42\00:31:02.99
have encircled Me.
00:31:03.43\00:31:04.99
They gape at Me
with their mouths
00:31:05.09\00:31:07.26
like a raging and roaring lion."
00:31:07.30\00:31:09.90
Proverbs 28:15
00:31:10.80\00:31:12.73
"Like a roaring
lion and a charging bear
00:31:12.77\00:31:16.10
is a wicked
ruler over poor people.
00:31:16.30\00:31:19.51
Zechariah 10:3
00:31:20.71\00:31:22.54
"My anger is kindled
against the shepherds,
00:31:22.88\00:31:25.61
and I will
punish the goatherds."
00:31:25.98\00:31:28.18
Literally in the Hebrew,
the goatherds are the leaders.
00:31:28.88\00:31:34.99
Such as in the NIV.
00:31:35.02\00:31:36.83
"For the Lord of
hosts will visit His flock,
00:31:37.16\00:31:39.13
the house of
Judah, and will make them
00:31:39.16\00:31:41.23
as His royal
horse in the battle."
00:31:41.26\00:31:43.77
The apostle Paul
in the New Testament
00:31:44.83\00:31:46.60
warned the church at Ephesus
with the following words.
00:31:47.37\00:31:50.97
Is that speaking
about real literal wolves
00:31:59.25\00:32:01.68
or is it symbolic wolves?
00:32:01.72\00:32:03.52
Symbolic wolves.
00:32:03.55\00:32:04.92
Notice Matthew
7:15. Here Jesus speaks.
00:32:05.29\00:32:08.12
Are you catching the picture
of what, wild beasts, mean?
00:32:16.97\00:32:19.37
Now Ellen White
adds her testimony.
00:32:20.34\00:32:22.60
Review and
Herald, August 18, 1896.
00:32:23.97\00:32:26.64
"The symbols of earthly
governments are..." What?
00:32:27.38\00:32:30.28
"...wild beasts, but
in the kingdom of Christ,
00:32:30.88\00:32:34.05
men are called upon to
behold, not a ferocious beast,
00:32:34.08\00:32:37.39
but the Lamb of God."
00:32:37.69\00:32:39.35
Ellen White is speaking
here about the hatred that Doeg,
00:32:41.02\00:32:44.89
the Edomite, had
against Saul, King Saul.
00:32:44.93\00:32:48.06
It says...
00:32:49.46\00:32:50.80
Actually, Doeg led to the
destruction of an entire city
00:32:51.07\00:32:57.54
with all of the priests, 85
priests, all of people there,
00:32:57.57\00:33:00.71
all of the beasts.
00:33:00.74\00:33:02.08
The city was totally demolished.
00:33:02.11\00:33:04.21
Because Doeg hated David.
00:33:04.41\00:33:05.85
But I won't get into
that story right now.
00:33:07.42\00:33:09.55
He didn't hate
Saul, he hated David.
00:33:10.35\00:33:12.22
"Like savage beasts
who have tasted of blood,
00:33:12.62\00:33:16.46
so where..." Who?
"...Saul and Doeg."
00:33:17.26\00:33:20.93
They allied themselves
to try and get rid of David.
00:33:21.26\00:33:24.70
So notice, Saul and
Doeg are compared to what?
00:33:24.90\00:33:29.00
To savage beasts.
00:33:29.27\00:33:30.67
Notice the following statement.
00:33:31.27\00:33:34.18
This the condemnation of Christ.
00:33:34.81\00:33:37.08
"When the condemnation of Jesus
was pronounced by the judges,
00:33:37.11\00:33:39.91
a satanic fury took
possession of the people.
00:33:40.42\00:33:43.55
The roar of voices
was like that of..." What?
00:33:44.22\00:33:47.59
"...wild beasts.
00:33:47.76\00:33:49.42
They made a rush toward
Jesus, crying, 'He is guilty.
00:33:49.66\00:33:52.73
Put Him to death.'
00:33:52.76\00:33:54.10
And had it not been
for the Roman soldiers,
00:33:54.30\00:33:56.36
Jesus would not
have lived to be hanged
00:33:56.56\00:33:59.03
upon the cross of Calvary.
00:33:59.07\00:34:00.40
He would have been..."
What? "...torn in pieces..."
00:34:00.44\00:34:03.44
What is it that
tears things in pieces?
00:34:03.47\00:34:05.54
Wild beasts.
00:34:05.74\00:34:07.08
"He would have been torn
in pieces before His judges
00:34:07.11\00:34:09.44
had not Roman authority
interfered and by force of arms
00:34:09.48\00:34:13.48
withheld the
violence of the mob."
00:34:13.52\00:34:15.98
Sketches From the
Life of Paul, page 19,
00:34:17.95\00:34:20.56
"At this, the priests
and rulers were beside
00:34:21.39\00:34:24.63
themselves with anger."
00:34:24.66\00:34:25.99
This is the stoning of Stephen.
00:34:26.03\00:34:27.53
"They were more
like wild beasts of prey
00:34:27.90\00:34:30.67
than like human beings.
00:34:30.97\00:34:32.63
They rushed upon
Stephen, gnashing their teeth."
00:34:32.67\00:34:36.00
Just like a wild animal.
00:34:36.04\00:34:37.51
Notice what we find
about the Waldenses.
00:34:38.47\00:34:40.78
Now we're
entering the papal period.
00:34:40.81\00:34:42.54
Because the fourth horse is
the period of papal dominion.
00:34:42.58\00:34:45.45
Once again, the papacy
is compared to wild beasts.
00:34:45.48\00:34:48.98
It says, "From some
hiding place among the tombs
00:34:49.02\00:34:52.05
two madmen rush upon them
as if to tear them to pieces."
00:34:52.42\00:34:57.49
Actually, you know, I put the
Waldenses there in the brackets,
00:34:58.59\00:35:03.10
but really this is
speaking about the two
00:35:03.13\00:35:04.93
demon possessed men.
00:35:05.23\00:35:06.77
So anyway,
let's go back to this.
00:35:06.94\00:35:08.50
"From some hiding
place among the tombs
00:35:08.54\00:35:11.27
two madmen rush upon them..."
00:35:11.31\00:35:12.77
You need to cross
out there the Waldenses.
00:35:13.64\00:35:16.18
These are the two demon
possessed men of Gadara.
00:35:16.21\00:35:18.98
"...as if to..." Do what?
00:35:19.01\00:35:20.55
"...to tear them in pieces.
00:35:20.95\00:35:22.68
Hanging about these
men are parts of chains
00:35:23.08\00:35:25.62
that they have broken in
escaping from confinement.
00:35:25.65\00:35:27.92
Their flesh is
torn and bleeding,
00:35:28.02\00:35:29.72
their eyes glare out from
their long and matted hair,
00:35:29.76\00:35:33.19
the very likeness of humanity
seems to have been blotted out.
00:35:33.60\00:35:37.03
They look more like..." What?
00:35:37.43\00:35:39.03
"...like wild
beasts than like men."
00:35:39.33\00:35:42.27
Notice what Ellen White
has to say about the papacy.
00:35:42.30\00:35:44.67
"As the ravenous beast
is rendered more furious
00:35:45.04\00:35:48.84
by the taste of blood,
so the rage of the papist
00:35:48.88\00:35:53.11
was kindled to greater intensity
00:35:53.15\00:35:55.28
by the sufferings
of their victims."
00:35:55.32\00:35:57.75
On the death of
Jerome, who was martyred around
00:35:59.25\00:36:02.56
the same time as John
Huss, "Their thirst for blood
00:36:02.59\00:36:06.19
whetted by the death of Huss,
clamored for fresh victims.
00:36:07.10\00:36:11.97
Only by an unreserved
surrender of the truth
00:36:12.43\00:36:15.00
could Jerome preserve his life.
00:36:15.04\00:36:16.64
But he had
determined to avow his faith
00:36:17.11\00:36:19.54
and follow his
brother martyr to the flames."
00:36:19.57\00:36:22.64
Have you ever read where
the apostle Paul stated that
00:36:23.58\00:36:26.05
he fought against the wild
beasts in the amphitheater?
00:36:26.08\00:36:30.45
That doesn't mean that Paul
was thrown into the colosseum
00:36:31.69\00:36:34.66
to fight with lions.
00:36:34.69\00:36:36.02
Notice this perceptive
remark by Ellen White.
00:36:36.06\00:36:38.76
This is found in, Sketches
From the Life of Paul, page 78.
00:36:39.36\00:36:43.23
"Paul informed the Corinthians
of his trouble in Asia
00:36:43.47\00:36:46.63
where, he says, 'We
were pressed out of measure,
00:36:47.14\00:36:50.17
above strength, insomuch
that we despaired even of life.'
00:36:50.21\00:36:55.04
In his first epistle,
he speaks of fighting with
00:36:55.64\00:36:58.65
beasts at Ephesus.
00:36:58.68\00:37:00.85
He thus refers to the fanatical
mob that clamored for his life.
00:37:01.22\00:37:05.82
They were indeed more like
furious wild beasts than men."
00:37:06.02\00:37:10.43
So how did the
papacy treat God's people
00:37:12.43\00:37:16.67
and try to get
rid of God's people?
00:37:16.70\00:37:18.03
They were like wild beasts.
00:37:18.07\00:37:19.40
The wild beasts represent
the leaders of the papal church
00:37:19.43\00:37:22.70
that persecuted and
tried to kill God's people.
00:37:22.74\00:37:25.01
The papacy killed
people with famine.
00:37:25.51\00:37:28.08
They killed
people with the sword.
00:37:28.11\00:37:29.74
They acted like wild beasts.
00:37:30.21\00:37:32.01
Is this all true of
that period of history,
00:37:32.05\00:37:34.78
of the period of the 1260 years?
00:37:34.82\00:37:36.95
No doubt whatsoever.
00:37:37.62\00:37:38.95
Absolutely.
00:37:38.99\00:37:40.32
Now, the period
of the fourth horse
00:37:40.66\00:37:45.39
is the same period
as the fourth church.
00:37:46.09\00:37:48.60
The fourth horse is
the period of the papacy.
00:37:50.23\00:37:52.57
Is that clear in your mind?
00:37:52.60\00:37:54.00
The fourth horse represents
the period of the papacy
00:37:54.20\00:37:56.97
where death is being
brought about by wild beasts.
00:37:57.51\00:37:59.84
By, you know, leaders of
the church that are just furious
00:37:59.87\00:38:04.48
and want to destroy
God's people by the sword,
00:38:04.58\00:38:07.12
using the power of the state.
00:38:07.15\00:38:08.68
By famine because there's no
rain; the Holy Spirit is scarce.
00:38:08.98\00:38:12.72
The Word of God is scarce.
00:38:12.75\00:38:14.46
People are dying spiritually.
00:38:14.86\00:38:16.79
And many are being
killed physically as well.
00:38:16.89\00:38:19.33
This parallel to the church
of Thyatira, the fourth church.
00:38:20.10\00:38:23.63
Let's draw the parallel.
00:38:24.33\00:38:25.67
This is where it gets
very, very interesting.
00:38:25.70\00:38:28.60
The period of the
fourth horse is parallel to the
00:38:29.57\00:38:31.84
period of the
fourth church, Thyatira.
00:38:31.87\00:38:34.94
The Old Testament background
to the church of Thyatira
00:38:35.64\00:38:38.28
is the story of Elijah.
00:38:38.31\00:38:40.05
Jezebel was the central
protagonist during this period.
00:38:40.98\00:38:44.82
And by the way, the fourth
church mentions Jezebel by name.
00:38:45.92\00:38:50.66
So the church during
this period is like Jezebel.
00:38:52.13\00:38:55.73
So do we need to know
something about Jezebel
00:38:56.87\00:38:59.97
to understand what
happened during this
00:39:00.07\00:39:01.77
period of the church?
00:39:01.80\00:39:03.14
See, it's going to help
us understand even better
00:39:03.17\00:39:05.24
by noticing what
happened during the church
00:39:05.67\00:39:08.34
parallel to what
happened during the fourth seal,
00:39:08.74\00:39:11.01
during the yellow horse.
00:39:11.05\00:39:12.61
So let's go to the notes here.
00:39:13.31\00:39:14.95
Because Israel apostatized
from the covenant of the Lord,
00:39:14.98\00:39:18.82
the four judgments of
Leviticus 26 befell the people.
00:39:19.29\00:39:23.96
This is in the days of Elijah.
00:39:23.99\00:39:25.43
In the Old Testament
story, Jezebel employed
00:39:26.96\00:39:29.83
the civil power
of Ahab's sword...
00:39:29.86\00:39:32.63
Is that correct?
00:39:32.67\00:39:34.00
...to extend her
apostate syncretistic religion
00:39:34.40\00:39:38.24
that blended the
worship of the sun god Baal
00:39:38.54\00:39:41.51
with the worship of the Lord.
00:39:41.54\00:39:43.18
Was Israel only worshiping Baal
00:39:44.58\00:39:47.05
or were they
claiming to worship both?
00:39:47.08\00:39:48.72
Elijah said, "How long
halt ye between two opinions?
00:39:49.85\00:39:53.69
If the Lord is God, follow
Him. And if Baal, follow him."
00:39:54.12\00:39:56.39
In other words, Don't
think that you can serve God
00:39:56.59\00:39:59.06
and also serve
Baal at the same time.
00:39:59.33\00:40:02.16
We're told in the story, and
we can't read all these verses,
00:40:03.26\00:40:05.83
but you can look them
up, Ahab killed the prophets
00:40:05.87\00:40:08.14
of the Lord, how?
00:40:08.17\00:40:09.50
With the sword.
00:40:10.07\00:40:11.41
Is that one of the
judgments of the fourth horse?
00:40:11.44\00:40:14.21
Yes.
00:40:14.24\00:40:15.58
This apostasy
led to a severe what?
00:40:15.61\00:40:18.25
We're dealing with literal now.
00:40:18.78\00:40:20.25
It led to a severe drought.
00:40:20.92\00:40:22.58
Because there was no what?
00:40:22.62\00:40:23.95
Because there was no rain.
00:40:24.79\00:40:26.15
Does this sound familiar?
00:40:26.19\00:40:27.92
There was no rain for
three and a half years.
00:40:30.56\00:40:32.69
We're talking now
about literal Israel.
00:40:32.73\00:40:35.03
But it's symbolic
of the 1260 years.
00:40:35.53\00:40:38.43
The drought led to what?
00:40:38.80\00:40:40.37
Famine and pestilence.
Read it in 1 Kings 18:1-6.
00:40:41.07\00:40:44.61
The four judgments because
Israel forsook the covenant.
00:40:44.64\00:40:47.81
And the famine and the
pestilence in turn led to what?
00:40:48.38\00:40:52.35
To death and to the grave.
00:40:52.71\00:40:54.42
Fourth church, fourth horse.
00:40:56.12\00:40:58.45
Parallel.
00:40:59.25\00:41:00.59
For a time span of
three and a half years,
00:41:01.69\00:41:04.99
Jezebel slaughtered whom?
00:41:05.19\00:41:07.46
The prophets of the Lord.
00:41:08.40\00:41:09.73
Is that what the papacy did?
00:41:09.76\00:41:11.23
Yes.
00:41:11.47\00:41:12.80
For not embracing her
apostate syncretistic religion.
00:41:12.83\00:41:16.30
She taught God's
servants to, what?
00:41:17.07\00:41:18.87
You can read this in the
story of the fourth church.
00:41:18.91\00:41:21.74
She taught them to, what?
00:41:21.98\00:41:23.31
To fornicate and
to practice idolatry.
00:41:23.58\00:41:26.18
Therefore, the blood of
God's servants and prophets
00:41:28.18\00:41:30.69
cried out for what?
00:41:30.72\00:41:32.05
For justice.
00:41:32.75\00:41:34.19
Prophetically, this
story of Jezebel was fulfilled
00:41:35.86\00:41:39.46
during the period of the
dominion of the little horn
00:41:39.49\00:41:42.13
and of the beast who massacred
the saints of the Most High
00:41:42.16\00:41:46.03
for three and a
half prophetic years.
00:41:46.47\00:41:49.04
During this period, the
apostate church employed
00:41:49.74\00:41:52.14
the sword of the
state to kill dissenters.
00:41:52.17\00:41:55.94
As a result, the
church fled to the wilderness
00:41:56.38\00:41:59.01
where God
nourished her in exile.
00:41:59.58\00:42:01.98
Did this happen
during the 1260 years?
00:42:02.02\00:42:04.65
Did Elijah flee
to the wilderness
00:42:05.09\00:42:07.02
and God fed him there?
00:42:07.06\00:42:08.39
Yes.
00:42:09.79\00:42:11.13
How about the church
during the 1260 years?
00:42:11.59\00:42:13.80
Did she flee to the wilderness
and God fed her there?
00:42:13.83\00:42:16.40
See, this is typology.
00:42:17.60\00:42:19.07
As a result, the
church fled to the wilderness
00:42:20.34\00:42:22.24
where God
nourished her in exile.
00:42:22.27\00:42:24.27
This was the period
when the two witnesses
00:42:24.64\00:42:27.11
prophesied in sackcloth.
00:42:27.14\00:42:29.18
Which would
represent darkness, right?
00:42:29.48\00:42:31.51
For 1260 prophetic
years, God shut up the heavens
00:42:32.31\00:42:35.48
and there was no rain.
00:42:35.58\00:42:36.92
As a result, there
was spiritual famine and
00:42:37.69\00:42:39.62
pestilence in the church.
00:42:39.65\00:42:41.79
The famine and pestilence
ultimately led to what?
00:42:41.89\00:42:45.26
To death and to the grave.
00:42:45.36\00:42:46.70
The same thing that happened
literally in the days of Elijah
00:42:46.73\00:42:48.76
happened during the 1260 years.
00:42:48.80\00:42:51.53
This horse brought death
and the grave for two reasons.
00:42:52.03\00:42:55.47
First, because there
was spiritual starvation
00:42:55.84\00:42:59.21
and pestilence in the church.
00:42:59.24\00:43:02.01
And second, because people what?
00:43:02.11\00:43:04.41
People died by the sword.
00:43:04.51\00:43:06.18
During this period, the man
of sin suppressed the Bible,
00:43:07.08\00:43:10.15
forbidding lay people to
read it under the pain of death.
00:43:10.52\00:43:14.22
It was a capital
crime even to have a Bible
00:43:14.92\00:43:18.23
in one's possession.
00:43:18.26\00:43:19.59
As a result, there was
famine for the Word of God.
00:43:20.10\00:43:22.96
This famine led to
spiritual pestilence,
00:43:23.53\00:43:25.97
and pestilence led to
death and to the grave.
00:43:26.10\00:43:28.84
Are you catching the picture?
00:43:28.87\00:43:30.21
This was fulfilled
exactly during the fourth period
00:43:30.84\00:43:34.91
of the history of
the Christian church.
00:43:34.94\00:43:36.78
Notice how Ellen
White describes this period.
00:43:37.45\00:43:39.88
"For hundreds of
years the circulation of the
00:43:40.68\00:43:44.09
Bible was..." What?
"...was prohibited."
00:43:44.12\00:43:47.16
So is there going
to be famine if the
00:43:47.72\00:43:49.22
reading of the
Bible is prohibited?
00:43:49.26\00:43:50.86
Yes.
00:43:50.96\00:43:52.29
"The people were
forbidden to read it,
00:43:52.33\00:43:54.23
or to have it in their houses,
00:43:54.73\00:43:56.60
and unprincipled
priests and prelates interpreted
00:43:57.10\00:43:59.83
its teachings to
sustain their pretensions."
00:43:59.87\00:44:02.57
Speaking about the Waldensians,
"From earliest childhood
00:44:03.54\00:44:06.61
the youth were instructed
in the Scriptures and taught
00:44:06.64\00:44:10.68
to regard sacredly the
claims of the law of God.
00:44:10.71\00:44:14.05
Copies of the
Bible were..." What?
00:44:14.75\00:44:16.92
"...rare..." So
was the bread scarce?
00:44:17.35\00:44:19.95
Yes.
00:44:20.39\00:44:21.72
"Therefore, its precious
words were committed to memory.
00:44:22.16\00:44:25.63
Many were able to
repeat large portions of both
00:44:25.86\00:44:29.20
the Old and the New Testament."
00:44:29.23\00:44:31.33
Notice that there was
not an absence of bread.
00:44:31.37\00:44:34.67
Bread was expensive
because it was rare.
00:44:35.30\00:44:38.77
Notice the statement
from, Spirit of Prophecy,
00:44:40.34\00:44:42.38
volume 4, page 192.
00:44:42.41\00:44:44.28
"The work which the
papacy had begun..."
00:44:44.75\00:44:47.15
That is, during the 1260 years.
00:44:47.45\00:44:49.42
"...atheism completed."
This is the French Revolution.
00:44:49.82\00:44:52.72
"The one," that is the papacy,
"withheld from the people
00:44:52.99\00:44:56.93
the truths of the Bible;
00:44:56.96\00:44:58.29
the other," the
French Revolution,
00:44:58.79\00:45:00.76
"taught them to reject
both the Bible and its Author.
00:45:01.03\00:45:04.27
The seed sown by
priests and prelates
00:45:04.83\00:45:07.24
was yielding its evil fruit."
00:45:07.50\00:45:10.57
During this time,
the vile office of the
00:45:12.91\00:45:15.11
Inquisition was established.
00:45:15.14\00:45:17.18
Which basically was the church
using the power of the state
00:45:17.38\00:45:21.88
to punish
dissenters from the church.
00:45:22.48\00:45:26.25
They slew those who studied
and obeyed the Word of God.
00:45:27.62\00:45:30.79
During this time, the papal
leaders behaved as wild beasts
00:45:30.83\00:45:34.70
toward God's people.
00:45:34.73\00:45:36.33
Notice how Ellen White describes
the violence during this period.
00:45:37.10\00:45:40.84
"In the sixth century the papacy
had become firmly established.
00:45:41.47\00:45:44.81
Its seat of power was
fixed in the imperial city,
00:45:45.31\00:45:48.21
and the bishop of Rome
was declared to be the head
00:45:48.74\00:45:51.38
over the entire church.
00:45:51.41\00:45:53.42
Paganism had given
place to the papacy.
00:45:53.85\00:45:56.32
The dragon had given
to the beast 'his power,
00:45:56.79\00:45:59.19
and his seat,
and great authority.'
00:45:59.22\00:46:01.12
And now began the 1260
years of papal oppression
00:46:01.56\00:46:05.09
foretold in the prophecies
of Daniel and Revelation.
00:46:05.13\00:46:07.83
Christians were forced to choose
either to yield their integrity
00:46:08.20\00:46:12.67
and accept the papal ceremonies,
and worship or to wear away
00:46:12.70\00:46:17.27
their lives in dungeons
or suffer death by the rack,
00:46:17.31\00:46:21.54
the fagot, or the headman's ax.
00:46:21.58\00:46:24.91
Persecution opened upon
the faithful with greater fury
00:46:25.15\00:46:28.25
than ever before, and the world
became a vast battlefield."
00:46:28.28\00:46:33.52
That's what the church was
like during the middle ages.
00:46:34.36\00:46:36.16
It's estimated that 50 million
of God's faithful children
00:46:36.19\00:46:41.56
were martyred
during this period.
00:46:41.60\00:46:44.07
Ellen White
describes the Inquisition.
00:46:44.97\00:46:47.17
"In the thirteenth century was
established that most terrible
00:46:47.50\00:46:50.74
of all the engines of
the papacy; the Inquisition.
00:46:50.94\00:46:54.64
The prince of darkness
wrought with the leaders
00:46:55.14\00:46:57.48
of the papal hierarchy.
00:46:57.51\00:46:59.25
In their secret councils
Satan and his angels controlled
00:46:59.58\00:47:02.48
the minds of evil men,
while unseen in the midst
00:47:02.52\00:47:05.79
stood an angel of God taking
the fearful record of their
00:47:05.82\00:47:09.36
iniquitous decrees and
writing the history of deeds
00:47:09.39\00:47:12.36
too horrible to
appear to human eyes."
00:47:12.39\00:47:14.83
Is everything
written in the scroll?
00:47:15.93\00:47:17.53
Without missing any details?
00:47:19.77\00:47:21.77
It's all there.
00:47:21.97\00:47:23.30
Are they going to
have to face it again?
00:47:23.44\00:47:24.91
Are all these individuals
who oppressed God's people
00:47:26.27\00:47:28.54
going to resurrect
after the millennium?
00:47:28.58\00:47:31.65
Are they going to see
the great panoramic view?
00:47:32.61\00:47:35.62
Are they going to
see what they did?
00:47:35.82\00:47:37.19
Only now they're going
to recognize that they were
00:47:37.89\00:47:40.62
on the wrong side, whereas the
martyrs were on the right side.
00:47:40.66\00:47:45.19
She continues,
"Babylon the great was 'drunken
00:47:46.56\00:47:50.50
with the blood of the saints.'"
00:47:50.53\00:47:51.87
And now notice she's going
to allude to the fifth seal.
00:47:51.90\00:47:55.10
She's going to
apply the fifth seal to
00:47:56.27\00:47:59.51
the aftermath of this period.
00:47:59.54\00:48:01.41
She says, "The mangled
forms of millions of martyrs
00:48:02.04\00:48:06.11
cried to God for vengeance
upon that apostate power."
00:48:06.35\00:48:11.82
What are the martyrs
doing under the fifth seal?
00:48:12.15\00:48:14.79
They're crying out for justice.
00:48:15.26\00:48:16.83
So the martyrs are crying
out after the papacy has slain
00:48:17.83\00:48:22.73
God's faithful people for
the better part of 1260 years.
00:48:23.53\00:48:27.94
Is that the end of the story?
00:48:28.30\00:48:29.87
Is there going to be
another group of martyrs?
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Yes. Is it going to be the same
system that will persecute them?
00:48:33.74\00:48:36.98
So how many stages
does the fifth seal have?
00:48:37.15\00:48:39.91
Two.
00:48:40.12\00:48:41.45
And I see some with
kind of glassy eyes.
00:48:44.19\00:48:46.45
The fifth seal has two stages,
just like the sixth seal.
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Because the martyrs
that were killed during the
00:48:52.39\00:48:54.90
period of papal dominion,
they're crying out for justice.
00:48:54.93\00:48:57.37
They're given a white
robe, and God is saying,
00:48:58.13\00:48:59.80
"You're fine. Your
case is okay. You're safe."
00:48:59.83\00:49:02.27
And they're told, "You're
going to rest for a while
00:49:02.90\00:49:04.91
until the rest of the martyrs
who are going to be killed
00:49:04.94\00:49:07.81
like you were is complete."
00:49:07.84\00:49:09.78
What will be the persecuting
power that will persecute
00:49:11.25\00:49:13.92
God's people in the future?
00:49:13.95\00:49:15.42
The United States
performing the will of
00:49:17.15\00:49:20.36
the Roman Catholic papacy using
the civil powers of the world.
00:49:20.39\00:49:24.43
See, we haven't
believed cunningly devised
00:49:25.63\00:49:27.73
fables as Adventists.
00:49:27.76\00:49:29.43
This is all, when we
study contextually the sequence,
00:49:30.23\00:49:34.10
the Seventh-day Adventist
belief system is rock solid.
00:49:34.57\00:49:37.27
The trouble is, people
only pick a symbol here
00:49:38.14\00:49:40.51
and pick a symbol there.
00:49:40.54\00:49:41.88
They don't see all of the
structure and the sequence,
00:49:41.91\00:49:44.35
how everything takes
place in chronological order,
00:49:44.38\00:49:47.38
how one event
connects with all other events.
00:49:47.42\00:49:50.49
So right after this period
the martyrs have been slain,
00:49:52.29\00:49:56.16
and now they're crying
out to God for justice.
00:49:56.79\00:49:59.76
Here's another statement,
Great Controversy, page 78.
00:50:01.26\00:50:03.97
"The persecutions
visited for many centuries upon
00:50:04.00\00:50:07.44
this God fearing
people," the Waldensians,
00:50:07.47\00:50:09.87
"were endured by them
with a patience and constancy
00:50:10.17\00:50:13.98
that honored their Redeemer.
00:50:14.01\00:50:15.54
Notwithstanding the
crusades against them,
00:50:15.94\00:50:18.45
and the inhuman butchery..."
00:50:18.55\00:50:20.72
There you have the sword.
00:50:21.05\00:50:22.65
"...to which they were
subjected, they continued
00:50:23.52\00:50:25.65
to send out their missionaries
to scatter the precious truth.
00:50:25.69\00:50:29.39
They were hunted to death..."
00:50:29.76\00:50:31.46
What is it that hunts?
00:50:31.56\00:50:33.23
Animals hunt.
00:50:34.66\00:50:37.17
Human beings do too.
00:50:37.60\00:50:38.97
Human beings hunt animals,
00:50:39.00\00:50:40.34
but that's not what
this is talking about.
00:50:40.37\00:50:41.84
"They were hunted to
death, yet their blood watered
00:50:42.80\00:50:46.71
the seed sown, and it
failed not of yielding fruit."
00:50:46.74\00:50:51.75
Now we're on the last page.
00:50:53.31\00:50:54.95
We're on a roll here.
00:50:55.25\00:50:56.58
So far so good?
00:50:57.89\00:50:59.29
Are you understanding
the sequence of the seals?
00:50:59.99\00:51:02.46
How one event
leads to another event.
00:51:03.12\00:51:05.49
So what is the relationship
between the third, fourth
00:51:06.49\00:51:09.23
and fifth seals?
00:51:09.26\00:51:10.83
The darkness and scarcity
of bread during the third seal
00:51:12.33\00:51:17.24
intensifies under what?
00:51:18.07\00:51:20.98
It intensified under the fourth
and led to death and the grave.
00:51:21.64\00:51:28.55
Spiritual death because
there's famine for the Word,
00:51:28.58\00:51:31.19
and literal death because
the Inquisition killed all those
00:51:31.32\00:51:34.32
who were not in
harmony with the church.
00:51:34.36\00:51:36.12
Concerning this
period, Ellen White explained,
00:51:36.66\00:51:39.26
"The accession of
the Roman Church to power
00:51:39.73\00:51:43.80
marked the
beginning of the Dark Ages.
00:51:44.27\00:51:47.97
As her power increased..."
00:51:48.50\00:51:50.17
What color was the third horse?
00:51:50.47\00:51:52.44
Black.
00:51:54.11\00:51:55.44
Which is darkness, right?
00:51:55.74\00:51:57.35
Was there darkness
under the third horse?
00:51:58.05\00:52:00.22
Oh yeah, but the darkness
under the fourth intensified.
00:52:00.25\00:52:04.29
It got worse.
00:52:04.32\00:52:05.65
So it says, "The accession
of the Roman Church to power
00:52:06.05\00:52:08.66
marked the
beginning of the Dark Ages.
00:52:08.69\00:52:10.76
As her power increased,
the darkness deepened."
00:52:11.29\00:52:17.10
So is the period of the
fourth horse even a greater
00:52:18.27\00:52:21.97
apostasy than
under the third horse?
00:52:22.00\00:52:24.24
It begins in the third horse,
00:52:24.27\00:52:26.07
but it deepens
under the fourth horse,
00:52:26.11\00:52:29.41
the period of papal dominion.
00:52:29.44\00:52:31.88
When the church dies spiritually
because she does not feed on
00:52:33.21\00:52:37.49
the Word of God, she
begins to destroy those
00:52:37.52\00:52:41.52
who do not share her
lack of spirituality.
00:52:41.56\00:52:44.33
Those who cannot defend their
doctrines with the spiritual
00:52:45.49\00:52:48.40
sword will do so
with the literal sword.
00:52:48.43\00:52:52.60
Does that do any good?
00:52:55.34\00:52:56.67
No, because the more
they persecute, the more
00:52:57.64\00:52:59.71
of the faithful
followers God has.
00:53:00.44\00:53:02.44
Because once again, I repeat,
folks, that the reason why
00:53:03.31\00:53:07.35
the church grows in
very difficult times
00:53:07.38\00:53:10.65
where there's persecution
is because people see the
00:53:10.95\00:53:14.22
constancy and the
serenity and the peace
00:53:14.26\00:53:17.26
of those who are being killed,
they say, "How can these people,
00:53:17.66\00:53:20.83
you know, they're being
killed, and they're singing."
00:53:20.86\00:53:24.33
Like Huss, his flesh was burning
00:53:24.87\00:53:27.90
and he was
singing praises to God.
00:53:27.94\00:53:30.14
They say, "How
can a person do this?
00:53:30.94\00:53:33.78
There must be
something worth living for
00:53:35.18\00:53:38.18
if these people are
willing to die for it.
00:53:38.51\00:53:40.65
So let's check it out."
00:53:42.05\00:53:43.69
And so that's why the
word, martyr, means, witness.
00:53:44.85\00:53:48.02
The death of the
martyrs was a witness.
00:53:48.76\00:53:50.99
A witness to God.
00:53:51.43\00:53:52.76
In other words, let me ask you,
how many people do you think
00:53:53.29\00:53:57.63
are going to be
saved by the story of
00:53:57.67\00:54:02.44
the martyrdom of Stephen?
00:54:02.47\00:54:03.81
Or the martyrdom
of John the Baptist?
00:54:03.84\00:54:06.14
You know, John the
Baptist, he ended up in prison.
00:54:07.48\00:54:10.01
And for a while he
was kind of discouraged.
00:54:10.91\00:54:13.01
You know, he said, "Jesus
didn't even come to visit me."
00:54:13.98\00:54:16.48
He was depressed, Ellen
White says he was depressed.
00:54:18.25\00:54:20.59
But then the disciples, John
the Baptist told his disciples,
00:54:21.02\00:54:27.10
"Go and ask Jesus if He's the
Messiah that we're to expect."
00:54:27.13\00:54:31.17
So they went, and
Jesus didn't answer.
00:54:31.53\00:54:33.54
He said, "Just watch
what I'm going to do today."
00:54:33.57\00:54:35.54
And He healed the sick, He
opened the eyes of the blind,
00:54:35.97\00:54:38.21
He healed the lepers,
raised the dead, it says there.
00:54:38.24\00:54:40.94
And then at the end
of the day Jesus says,
00:54:41.14\00:54:42.68
"Go tell John what you saw."
00:54:42.71\00:54:44.08
And so they go back,
they say, "He raises the dead,
00:54:45.25\00:54:48.15
He performs these miracles.
00:54:48.18\00:54:49.52
He's got to be the Messiah."
00:54:49.55\00:54:50.92
And Ellen White says that
John the Baptist died in peace
00:54:51.29\00:54:54.26
there in prison.
00:54:55.22\00:54:56.56
He was beheaded in prison.
00:54:56.59\00:54:58.76
How many people are going
to be saved in the kingdom
00:55:00.20\00:55:02.06
as a result of the
story of John the Baptist?
00:55:02.10\00:55:04.40
And Stephen?
00:55:04.43\00:55:05.77
And John Huss?
00:55:05.83\00:55:07.17
Multitudes of people
are going to be saved
00:55:07.77\00:55:09.97
because of their witness.
00:55:10.27\00:55:12.27
Their willingness
to stand for the Lord
00:55:12.57\00:55:15.58
though the heavens fall.
00:55:15.61\00:55:16.98
No matter what
persecution comes.
00:55:17.28\00:55:20.48
Notice the last part here.
00:55:21.22\00:55:22.95
The martyrs whom the
papacy slew during the period of
00:55:23.35\00:55:26.79
the fourth horse
will now, not right now,
00:55:26.82\00:55:31.79
but after this takes
place, they will cry out to God
00:55:31.83\00:55:36.50
to judge and avenge their death.
00:55:36.80\00:55:40.27
This is the period of the
fifth seal, which is the topic
00:55:40.74\00:55:44.91
that we shall study in
the next exciting episode.
00:55:44.94\00:55:49.04
Now, when will God answer,
I'll getting ahead of myself
00:55:50.65\00:55:54.85
a little bit here, when will God
answer the pleas of the martyrs?
00:55:54.88\00:55:58.59
When will God judge
and avenge God's people
00:55:59.09\00:56:02.72
who have been slain
because of their faith?
00:56:02.76\00:56:05.49
Revelation 19, the last
verses that we're going to read,
00:56:05.99\00:56:09.06
Revelation 19:1-2.
00:56:09.10\00:56:12.73
This is in the
context of the seventh plague.
00:56:13.70\00:56:17.21
And God is going to intervene.
00:56:18.61\00:56:21.18
By the way, is the harlot
in the end time the same harlot
00:56:21.78\00:56:25.45
that persecuted God's
people during the 1260 years?
00:56:25.48\00:56:28.52
Is it the same harlot? Yeah.
00:56:29.15\00:56:31.05
It's the papacy.
00:56:31.09\00:56:32.42
Notice Revelation 19:1-2.
00:56:32.95\00:56:35.62
"After these things, I heard a
loud voice of a great multitude
00:56:35.89\00:56:40.16
in heaven saying,
'Alleluia! Salvation and glory
00:56:40.20\00:56:44.87
and honor and power
belong to the Lord our God.'"
00:56:44.90\00:56:48.97
And now notice verse 2.
00:56:50.01\00:56:51.47
"For true and
righteous are His judgments..."
00:56:51.87\00:56:55.78
So is God going to
rectify everything?
00:56:57.25\00:56:59.28
"True and righteous are
His judgments, because..."
00:57:00.32\00:57:03.79
At this point, the
seventh plague has taken place.
00:57:03.82\00:57:06.59
"...because He..." What?
"...has judged the great harlot
00:57:07.02\00:57:13.09
who corrupted the
earth with her fornication;
00:57:13.50\00:57:15.70
and He has..." What?
"...avenged on her the blood
00:57:15.73\00:57:19.93
of His servants shed by her."
00:57:20.07\00:57:21.94
Are both groups of
martyrs going to be avenged
00:57:23.30\00:57:27.18
by the Lord and
justice executed?
00:57:27.21\00:57:29.88
Absolutely.
00:57:30.21\00:57:31.55
But meanwhile, the martyrs
have to rest for a while.
00:57:31.95\00:57:35.92
I love the way the
Bible expresses that.
00:57:36.22\00:57:38.22
"Rest for a while."
00:57:38.25\00:57:39.59
Death is like sleeping.
00:57:39.62\00:57:41.36
How many of you are
afraid of going to sleep?
00:57:41.72\00:57:44.19
I love to go to sleep.
00:57:45.49\00:57:47.06
We don't need to fear death.
00:57:49.66\00:57:51.27
"Yea, though I walk through the
valley of the shadow of death,
00:57:52.00\00:57:53.84
I will fear no evil;
for You are with me."
00:57:53.87\00:57:56.00
"Precious in the
sight of the Lord
00:57:56.77\00:57:58.17
is the death of His saints."
00:57:58.21\00:57:59.77
So the time is
coming when we're going to
00:58:01.04\00:58:02.38
have to stand for our faith.
00:58:02.41\00:58:03.75
May the Lord keep us faithful.
00:58:03.78\00:58:06.01