Hello, friends, and welcome
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to another
Wednesday night Bible study
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here at 3ABN Worship Center.
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Can we all say, "Good
evening?" Good evening.
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And we are
bidding you a good evening
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from Thompsonville
here in Southern Illinois,
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where the
weather is unpredictable.
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Yesterday, it was 70 degrees
and some people today dressed
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like it was yesterday
and they ended up freezing,
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'cause it was like 41
and right now it is 38.
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So wherever you maybe
enjoying the weather...
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If you are in the
Bahamas, pray for us.
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If you are in
Minnesota, we'll pray for you.
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'Cause Minnesota
has been dumped on
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and the South has
been inundated by tornados,
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the East Coast by heavy weather.
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It's just...
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This is the time of the year
where nothing is consistent.
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But we are thankful
that the Lord is consistent,
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amen to that?
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So tonight we're gonna
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open the Word of
God and study together.
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And we'll let you
know in just a few minutes
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where you can get
a copy of the lesson
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to follow along on the
continuation of the study,
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"The Truth About the
Change of the Sabbath."
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But before we go our theme song,
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we always like to
begin with a word of prayer.
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So bow your head with us.
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Loving Father in heaven,
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we thank You that as
we open Your word tonight,
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You promise that Your spirit
will come and be our teacher.
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You promise to lead us
and guide us into all truth.
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And Lord, tonight's
topic is not an easy one,
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it's not a light topic, it
does require a lot of prayer
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and people's
hearts that are sincere.
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So be the
teacher, be the leader,
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and be our guide tonight
that hearts maybe enlightened
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and someone will
come to know the Savior
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as his or her personal friend.
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In Jesus name we pray, amen.
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And now for a
copy of the lesson,
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go to this following
website ASF.3ABN.org.
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Download lesson number 33.
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You may have done that last week
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but I added some more questions
so that you can follow along.
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Lesson number 33.
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Also on that same website,
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you can get the prior broadcast.
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I think we have
more than 100 videos,
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33 lessons and they will make
for a very good Bible study.
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So tonight, we're gonna
sing our theme song together.
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And what is the
title of our theme song?
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What is it? Victory in Jesus.
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I said seem song,
but its theme song.
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Let's sing this
theme song together.
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I heard an old, old story
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How the Savior came from glory
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How He gave His life on Calvary
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To save a wretch like me
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I heard about His groaning
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Of His precious blood's atoning
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Then I repented of my sins
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And won the victory
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O victory in Jesus
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My Savior, forever
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He sought me and bought me
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With His redeeming blood
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He loved me ere I knew Him
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And all my love is due Him
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He plunged me to victory
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Beneath the cleansing flood
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I heard about a mansion
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He has built for me in glory
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And I heard about
the streets of gold
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Beyond the crystal sea
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About the angels singing
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And the old redemption story
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And some sweet
day I'll sing up there
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The song of victory
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He changed
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O victory in Jesus
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My Savior, forever
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He sought me and bought me
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With His redeeming blood
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He loved me ere I knew Him
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And all my love is due Him
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He plunged me to victory
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Beneath the cleansing flood
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He plunged me to victory
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Beneath the cleansing flood
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Amen.
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The topic, the change or...
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"The Truth about the
change of the Sabbath."
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Let's say that together.
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"The Truth about the
change of the Sabbath."
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Now if you have
your Bibles tonight,
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go to the Book of Daniel 7.
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Daniel 7.
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One of things that we
can do at the beginning
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tonight is thank
the Lord for prophecy.
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Oh, yes. Amen.
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Now the reason I say
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that is because for
those who don't know
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what's going to
happen in the future,
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prophecy is a reliable timeline
written by the hand of God
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to remind us that the world
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is not just gonna
go on indefinitely.
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Isaiah 49, the Lord says,
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"Declaring the end
from the beginning,
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and from ancient times,
things that are not yet done."
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So prophecy is a
reliable timeline.
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When people ask whether
or not the Bible is true,
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I like to point
them to prophecy.
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Because prophecy
has been predicted
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as holy man of God's speak,
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they were moved
by the Holy Spirit
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and they wrote the
words of God faithfully.
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And we can now look
back on those prophecies
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whether Daniel or Revelation,
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whether Isaiah or
Malachi, or Ezekiel,
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or Isaiah, or Jeremiah,
the list goes on and on,
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there are many prophecies.
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Now out of all the prophecies
concerning nations rising,
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kingdoms falling,
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from one kingdom to
the next, to the next,
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one persecuting
power to the next.
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The most beautiful prophecies
in the Bible are prophecies
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that point to the
life, the ministry,
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matter of fact the birth,
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the life, the
ministry, the death,
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and the resurrection of Jesus.
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Amen?
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And so those prophecies
have all been fulfilled
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and there are other prophecies
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that are going to
be fulfilled, yet.
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And those are the ones pointing
to the coming of our Lord.
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So now between the...
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Between Jesus leaving
and Jesus coming back,
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He says in Matthew 24.
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"When all these
things begin to come to pass,
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then look up and
lift up your head
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because your
redemption draws" Where?
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"Draws near or draws nigh."
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So prophecy is reliable.
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Now this prophecy in particular
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that we're gonna cover tonight
in greater detail is about
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the fourth kingdom of Daniel 7.
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It's about what kingdom?
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The fourth kingdom.
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Now let's go very quickly
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and we're gonna cover
this in a very rapid review.
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There are four world empires.
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The first one is what? Babylon.
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The next one is two
powers together, Medo-Persia.
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The third one is
Greece. And the fourth is what?
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Rome.
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Now Rome is, as the
Bible comes to clarify to us.
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Go to Daniel 7.
We're gonna just use...
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We're gonna not bring on
the screen question number 10.
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But you'll see
that Rome is the one,
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is the only kingdom of the four
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that don't have any
earthly description.
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Now let me...
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The reason I tell you that is,
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Babylon was
defined as a golden kingdom
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in Nebuchadnezzar's dream
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and a lion in Daniel's dream.
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How many have seen gold before?
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How many have
seen a lion before?
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We could easily envision that.
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It's a little more
difficult to envision
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a lion with eagle's wings.
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We've never seen that.
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But that just simply showed,
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that just simply talked
about the rapid concurring
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and the power of
the Babylonian Empire,
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far reaching.
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Eagle flies high
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and the lion is the
greatest of all the beasts.
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That is up for some contention
in some people's minds.
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But the Babylonian Kingdom
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was depicted by a lion and gold.
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Then the
Medo-Persian Empire is the...
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What kingdom in the metal?
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Silver. And what beast?
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The bear.
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And the Bible says,
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"The bear with
three ribs in its mouth."
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And when the Medo-Persian
Empire rose to prominence,
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the three ribs
indicated the three nations
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they brought down to
come into prominence.
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Then you have the next
kingdom, Alexander the Great.
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He was the king of which empire?
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The Grecian Empire.
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This empire is depicted
by a leopard with four heads
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and how many wings?
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Four wings.
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And these four wings represent
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when Alexander the
Great died in his 30s.
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The kingdom of
Greece was broken up
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under the reign
of four generals,
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Cassander, Lysimachus,
Ptolemy, and Seleucus,
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four generals, North,
South, East, and West.
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Now you know very well
that the hardest thing to do
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is have one
company with four heads
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because four heads
have four different ideas.
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And that was the
beginning of the downfall
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of the Grecian Empire,
the dividing of that empire.
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And then let's go to this.
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Now you have the leopard
with four heads and four wings,
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depicted by the...
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What metal?
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Bronze or brass.
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In the image of
Daniel 2, it was the brass.
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And brass is, brass
is harder than silver,
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silver is harder than gold,
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what you'll discover is
that metals are getting stronger
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but they are
becoming less valuable.
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You find the
beasts are transitioning
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and then now we get
to this fourth beast.
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How does Daniel 2
described the legs
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in the image of Daniel 2?
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What kind of legs
did he have? Iron.
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Iron.
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What kind of teeth
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did the fourth
beast of Daniel 7 have?
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Iron.
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Iron and iron,
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and iron represents
the fourth great kingdom.
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But the Bible talked about
the ruthless of this kingdom.
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In the Bible, in
describing this fourth beast
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that represents Rome, it said,
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"It is great and
dreadful and terrible,
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exceedingly strong
with huge iron teeth."
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I don't care what
kind of animal you have.
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If something like
that is running after you,
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your animal is
gonna run with you.
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I'll be honest with you.
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Great, dreadful,
terrible, having 10 horns.
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Not two, not four, ten,
great, dreadful, terrible.
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And wherever it
stamps, it breaks, it tramples,
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it presses down the residue.
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And the Bible says,
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"This fourth beast will devour,"
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How much of the earth?
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Say it together,
how much of the earth?
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"The whole earth."
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So now, if there
are only four kingdoms,
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earthly
kingdoms, the next kingdom,
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if we talk about a
kingdom coming next,
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which kingdom...
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Where will that
last kingdom be from?
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Somebody tell me. Heaven.
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Say it again. Heaven. Heaven.
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The only way
that this last kingdom
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is going to be
taken out of commission,
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it is going to be replaced
by the heavenly kingdom.
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And Daniel 2 talks about that.
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The stone cut out with a
man's hand struck the image
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on the toes of iron and clay
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and just blew
it into smithereens
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and this kingdom became...
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This stone
became a great kingdom,
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great mountain
filled the entire earth.
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That is the establishment.
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And then Daniel says,
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"This kingdom will
not be left to other men.
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The Lord will
establish this kingdom."
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And of His kingdom,
there shall be no end.
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Amen to that?
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So we have this
fourth kingdom now,
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but between the three empires
that fell, you have Rome.
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And now, friends, I
hope you're ready tonight
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because we're gonna talk
about this beast, this iron,
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this ruthless kingdom,
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and how through
prophecy and history,
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this kingdom has
proved to be ruthless.
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Now go to Daniel 7.
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I want to show you
a couple of verses.
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Daniel 7:20.
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Look at Daniel 7:20. I
want to show you something.
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All right? And...
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Let me just start with verse 19.
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Daniel 7:19.
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"Then I wished to know the truth
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about the forth
beast, which was..."
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What is the next word, together?
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"Different from all the
others, exceedingly dreadful,
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with its teeth of iron
and its nails of bronze,
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which devoured, broke in pieces,
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and trampled the
residue with its feet."
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Ruthless power.
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No power in antiquity
withstood the power of Rome.
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Matter of fact, just to give you
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a few more facts about Rome,
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Rome mastered the
art of crucifixion
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but the
Medo-Persian Empire was the ones
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that introduced crucifixion.
00:14:01.87\00:14:04.21
But Rome studied it
from a medical point of view.
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So by the time they
came to crucify Christ,
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so use crucifixion,
they used it in a medical way
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to extract the most pain
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and to bring the most
discomfort to its victims.
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So they were
ruthless in every particular,
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no nation
withstood the onslaught
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and the advance of Rome.
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Matter of fact,
you know the phrase,
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I've said this
before but you can
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finish the statement with me.
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"All roads led to...
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All roads led to Rome."
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And today, I want to
just put this in context.
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Rome is still seeking to
do the very same thing today.
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This power that's
still in existence,
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once all nations to
still beat a path to its door.
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Although it's now not localized,
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it's worldwide in its influence.
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And it still wants
the very same thing,
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all nations to beat a path
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both politically and
religiously to its doors.
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Let's look at
something else in verse 20.
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And it says, "And
about the ten horns
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that were on its head,
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and about the
other horn which came up,
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before which three flee,
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namely, that horn which had eyes
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and a mouth which spoke" what,
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"Pompous or blasphemous words."
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Whose appearance was what?
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"Greater than his
fellows or more stout."
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Some
translations say more stout.
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Which meant...
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When it says more stout
than his fellows are greater,
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that means, there
were ten horns there,
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but when the three were removed,
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when the three nations...
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The Vandals, the
Heruli, and the Ostrogoths.
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Say that ten times, Ostrogoths.
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I'll use the
English version, Ostrogoths.
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When they were
removed, this nation
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or this little
horn that came up slowly
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started growing
in greater prominence
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and then it passed
all the other horns
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that represented
the other nations
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that continue to exist.
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And the other
nations, they had names like
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the Franks, the
Lombards, the Saxons.
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And so this little
nation that came up
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among the ten grow to
be the holy Roman Empire,
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growing up against
above all the other nations
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that surrounded it.
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But now let's look at
one more thing, verse 24.
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"The ten horns are ten kings
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which shall arise
from this kingdom.
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And another shall..." Do what?
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"Rise after
them. "He shall be..."
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What's the next word?
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"Different or diverse from the
first ones and he shall do..."
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What? "Subdue three kings."
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That's the verse 24.
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And we could look
at verse 25 briefly,
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but we'll go back
to that in a moment.
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So I want to just
dive into... We ended...
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We're gonna go to
question number 11
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and here it is on the screen.
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The question we want
to lead with tonight is,
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"What are some of the
claims made by Papal Rome?"
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Now before we bring
the answer on the screen,
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let me just go
ahead and make it clear.
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Papal Rome as we
studied last week
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was the power that
replaced Pagan Rome.
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But in the transition...
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And I'll show you
a timeline tonight
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to show you the
transitional stages.
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Between Pagan
Rome, 168 B.C to 476 A.D,
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between 476 A.D and
538 A.D, that was the...
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that was what I would
call the staggering period
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between Pagan Rome
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and Papal Rome rising
to complete prominence
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because they had opposition.
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So that was the bridging time,
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they had to get
rid of the powers
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that prevented them from
rising to full Papal power,
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where Pagan Rome was no
longer recognized as the ruling,
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the ruling, leading power
over this Kingdom of Rome.
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And it happened when Rome,
Pagan Rome adopted a religion.
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A religion that
was simply Catholic.
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When Rome adopted it,
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it became the
religion of Rome at the time,
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the Church of
Rome what was called.
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Later on called
"The Catholic Church."
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And why Catholic?
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The word
Catholic means universal.
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Let me make a point here
00:18:23.50\00:18:24.83
since I mentioned
the word Catholic.
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This message is not
about Catholic people.
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Can you all say
amen to that? Amen.
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No more than preaching about
00:18:30.54\00:18:32.34
the state the
dead being people die.
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It's not against...
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Nothing we teach
tonight is against Christians.
00:18:35.48\00:18:37.75
But we're speaking about systems
00:18:37.78\00:18:39.15
and the Lord
wants you to know this
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or else He would not
have put it in His Word.
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When Rome adopted a religion,
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it gave that
religion its authority.
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Since Rome was
a universal power,
00:18:49.76\00:18:51.63
all roads leading to it,
00:18:51.66\00:18:53.93
it gave the church
the very same status
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and to give it its status,
00:18:56.20\00:18:57.53
in the Latin the word
"Catholico" or Catholic.
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So Roman Catholicism
united with its own church.
00:19:00.50\00:19:04.94
Now today represents a worldwide
00:19:04.97\00:19:07.68
and there is probably
hardly any place on earth
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that you can go
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with the exception
of Islamic countries,
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that you don't find
00:19:13.42\00:19:14.75
the footprint of Rome somewhere.
00:19:14.78\00:19:16.35
However, Rome has a strong
influence in the Islamic world
00:19:16.38\00:19:20.09
because of Fatima and Mary.
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There's a unity there.
00:19:22.16\00:19:24.26
There's a sisterhood
there, Fatima and Mary.
00:19:24.29\00:19:26.59
Matter of fact,
Pope John Paul II
00:19:26.63\00:19:28.46
was the only pope ever invited
00:19:28.50\00:19:30.63
to speak at the
mosque in Saudi Arabia,
00:19:30.67\00:19:33.57
the only non-Islamic speaker
00:19:33.60\00:19:36.34
that was invited there to speak
at the mosque in Saudi Arabia.
00:19:36.37\00:19:39.64
So tonight, what
we're gonna look at
00:19:39.67\00:19:41.64
are some of the claims
made by Papal Rome today.
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Now I got to give
this some context.
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I want to make sure
that it's received well.
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The heads of Pagan Rome,
00:19:51.19\00:19:53.72
all consider
themselves to be kings.
00:19:53.76\00:19:57.69
So now they bring
their church into existence,
00:19:57.73\00:20:00.06
they give it universal status.
00:20:00.10\00:20:02.60
And they gave its
leaders the same status
00:20:02.63\00:20:05.33
that its Pagan leaders had,
00:20:05.37\00:20:08.14
universal and they
set them up as kings.
00:20:08.17\00:20:11.64
Now they begin to adopt creeds
that was simply transitioning
00:20:11.67\00:20:16.08
from dogmas and
beliefs and paganism
00:20:16.11\00:20:19.38
that was simply
introduced into Christianity.
00:20:19.41\00:20:21.85
And as some historians say,
00:20:21.88\00:20:24.39
"When the Church of Rome
began to rise into prominence,
00:20:24.42\00:20:27.09
it was nothing more
than baptized paganism."
00:20:27.12\00:20:31.49
It didn't change,
00:20:31.53\00:20:32.93
it just simply metamorphosized
into a religious power.
00:20:32.96\00:20:36.67
That's why the Bible said,
speaking of the fourth beast,
00:20:36.70\00:20:39.53
"It will be
different from all the others.
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It's religio-political."
00:20:41.60\00:20:44.87
So let's look at
some of the claims.
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And I want you to notice
these claims very carefully
00:20:46.31\00:20:49.81
because I'm not
just showing you claims
00:20:49.84\00:20:52.18
that are true
about the Roman Church
00:20:52.21\00:20:54.88
but these claims are still true
00:20:54.92\00:20:57.09
and embraced by the
Vatican Papal Rome today.
00:20:57.12\00:21:01.02
Look at this.
00:21:01.06\00:21:02.39
The claim of the pope,
00:21:02.42\00:21:03.76
the first one, here
it is one the screen.
00:21:03.79\00:21:06.23
"The pope is of so great dignity
00:21:06.26\00:21:08.86
and so exalted that
he is not a mere man,
00:21:08.90\00:21:13.50
but as it were God,
and the vicar of God."
00:21:13.54\00:21:17.77
That's a claim made by
the pope that exist today.
00:21:17.81\00:21:21.01
And here is how it happens.
00:21:21.04\00:21:22.38
He said, "Once you are elevated
00:21:22.41\00:21:24.51
from the status of a
cardinal or a bishop to a pope,
00:21:24.55\00:21:28.35
now step into infallibility."
00:21:28.38\00:21:30.79
In Time magazine
I have the article,
00:21:30.82\00:21:32.19
I got to bring
that to the forefront.
00:21:32.22\00:21:33.59
They talked
about the fact that...
00:21:33.62\00:21:36.66
And they show Pope
Francis and they said,
00:21:36.69\00:21:41.40
"A man who
cannot make mistakes."
00:21:41.43\00:21:45.73
Not, did not make mistakes,
but he is beyond mistakes,
00:21:45.77\00:21:48.64
he cannot make mistakes.
00:21:48.67\00:21:50.01
I'll include that by the
way in the next broadcast,
00:21:50.04\00:21:52.21
you'll see that article.
00:21:52.24\00:21:53.58
Right on the
cover of Time Magazine,
00:21:53.61\00:21:55.38
"A man who
cannot make mistakes."
00:21:55.41\00:21:58.31
Well, who's the only one
that cannot make mistakes?
00:21:58.35\00:22:00.08
Somebody tell me. God.
00:22:00.12\00:22:01.45
God is the only one
that cannot make a mistake,
00:22:01.48\00:22:03.75
only God has immortality,
only God has insight
00:22:03.79\00:22:06.62
and perfection of
that character, of that...
00:22:06.65\00:22:09.52
So he says, "He is
not a mere man anymore,
00:22:09.56\00:22:12.99
but as it were the vicar."
00:22:13.03\00:22:14.60
In other words, the
representative of God
00:22:14.63\00:22:17.63
or as it were God on earth.
00:22:17.67\00:22:20.10
That's why people
feel to some degree
00:22:20.14\00:22:22.14
that if they confess...
00:22:22.17\00:22:24.34
Well, I want to be kind
00:22:24.37\00:22:25.71
in my presentation here tonight.
00:22:25.74\00:22:27.74
But I want to be
clear. Can I be clear?
00:22:27.78\00:22:29.94
So I'm gonna try to
communicate this factually
00:22:29.98\00:22:32.08
rather than
making any statements
00:22:32.11\00:22:33.45
that might be
offensive to someone.
00:22:33.48\00:22:35.42
But when you look at the power
00:22:35.45\00:22:37.19
that the world
exudes toward any pope
00:22:37.22\00:22:40.86
or the Vatican City
or anything happening.
00:22:40.89\00:22:43.46
For example, if
there is a convention,
00:22:43.49\00:22:45.66
a Baptist
convention, it doesn't make CNN.
00:22:45.69\00:22:49.30
If there's a Mormon
convention, it doesn't make CNN.
00:22:49.33\00:22:52.03
If something happens
that there is a replacement
00:22:52.07\00:22:54.40
of a Baptist leader
or a Pentecostal leader,
00:22:54.44\00:22:57.94
it doesn't make CNN.
00:22:57.97\00:22:59.37
Christmas, they
focus on the Vatican City,
00:22:59.41\00:23:01.78
Easter, they focus
on the Vatican city.
00:23:01.81\00:23:04.31
Political maneuverings,
00:23:04.35\00:23:05.98
the pope comes
to speak to Congress
00:23:06.01\00:23:08.18
and at the White House.
00:23:08.22\00:23:10.09
And when he's received, it
doesn't matter who's there.
00:23:10.12\00:23:14.09
As I was in Washington,
D.C on this last city visit,
00:23:14.12\00:23:17.19
and people of varying religions,
00:23:17.23\00:23:20.00
they said, "He is
the peoples' pope."
00:23:20.03\00:23:23.60
Not the Catholics pope.
00:23:23.63\00:23:25.93
He is peoples' pope.
00:23:25.97\00:23:28.50
He is the
spokesperson for all of us.
00:23:28.54\00:23:31.21
And we had people from
varying denominations says,
00:23:31.24\00:23:34.08
"Although I am not a Catholic,
00:23:34.11\00:23:35.81
I believe he
speaks in my behalf."
00:23:35.84\00:23:40.12
Let's go on.
00:23:40.15\00:23:41.58
And that's how you see
00:23:41.62\00:23:43.99
raising him to
a god-like status.
00:23:44.02\00:23:45.95
Look at the next
claim by the same pope,
00:23:45.99\00:23:48.59
not just him per say but
anyone in the position of pope.
00:23:48.62\00:23:52.66
Here's the next claim.
00:23:52.69\00:23:55.10
"The Pope is crowned
00:23:55.13\00:23:56.46
with a triple
crown, as king of..."
00:23:56.50\00:23:59.93
Let's read that
together. As king of what?
00:23:59.97\00:24:01.84
"Heaven and of," what,
00:24:01.87\00:24:03.61
"Earth and of
the lower regions."
00:24:03.64\00:24:06.71
Now how could you
be king of heaven?
00:24:06.74\00:24:09.14
Somebody tell me.
00:24:09.18\00:24:10.91
Who is Jesus if the
pope is king of heaven?
00:24:10.95\00:24:15.38
Jesus is King of
Kings and together,
00:24:15.42\00:24:18.62
Lord of Lords of
heaven, of earth.
00:24:18.65\00:24:24.89
That sounds like Exodus 20.
00:24:24.93\00:24:28.76
"Worship him who made
the Heavens and the Earth
00:24:28.80\00:24:31.03
and the Sea and
the springs of water."
00:24:31.07\00:24:33.10
And this is a man
saying, "I wear a triple crown.
00:24:33.13\00:24:37.44
I am the king of heaven
00:24:37.47\00:24:38.81
and of earth and
of the lower regions."
00:24:38.84\00:24:40.44
Here's another claim.
00:24:40.48\00:24:42.11
And this
something that's leading
00:24:42.14\00:24:43.48
to our further
questions for tonight.
00:24:43.51\00:24:45.51
Look at the third claim.
00:24:45.55\00:24:47.38
"The Pope is of so
great authority and power
00:24:47.42\00:24:52.65
that he can," together,
00:24:52.69\00:24:54.42
"Modify, explain, or," what,
00:24:54.46\00:24:58.23
"Interpret even divine laws."
00:24:58.26\00:25:02.53
And there's a reference to that.
00:25:02.56\00:25:04.17
In other words,
somebody might say...
00:25:04.20\00:25:05.90
Let me give you an example.
00:25:05.93\00:25:07.84
And this is one of the
ones that we're gonna focus on
00:25:07.87\00:25:09.97
because this is
talking about the truth
00:25:10.01\00:25:11.34
about the change of the Sabbath.
00:25:11.37\00:25:12.91
So one of the ways
00:25:12.94\00:25:14.28
that he is interpreted
the divine law of the Sabbath,
00:25:14.31\00:25:16.48
you'll find in a moment,
00:25:16.51\00:25:18.21
he decides which day
that is, rather than the Lord
00:25:18.25\00:25:21.88
who already
established what date is,
00:25:21.92\00:25:23.72
the seventh day of the week,
00:25:23.75\00:25:25.15
sunset Friday
to sunset Saturday.
00:25:25.19\00:25:27.39
He says, "You know what?"
00:25:27.42\00:25:28.76
I can modify
that, I can change that
00:25:28.79\00:25:30.39
because I'm of so
great authority and power,
00:25:30.43\00:25:33.06
I can modify even
God's divine laws.
00:25:33.09\00:25:36.10
And here's one more
before we go to the next one.
00:25:36.13\00:25:40.07
Here it is.
00:25:40.10\00:25:42.57
"The Pope can modify divine law,
00:25:42.60\00:25:45.37
since his power is
not of man but of God,
00:25:45.41\00:25:51.31
and he acts as
vicegerent of God upon earth
00:25:51.35\00:25:56.85
with most ample power of," what,
00:25:56.89\00:26:00.16
"Binding and loosing his sheep."
00:26:00.19\00:26:04.23
Now this statement comes from
00:26:04.26\00:26:07.06
when Jesus was having a
conversation with Peter.
00:26:07.10\00:26:11.63
And He said, "Thou art Peter,
00:26:11.67\00:26:13.94
and upon this
rock I build my church
00:26:13.97\00:26:16.14
and the gates of hell
will not prevail against it."
00:26:16.17\00:26:18.44
The interpretation of that
by the Roman leaders is that,
00:26:18.47\00:26:23.98
the Lord was saying to him,
upon Peter I build my church.
00:26:24.01\00:26:27.82
Well, the weakness of that is,
shortly after that statement,
00:26:27.85\00:26:30.92
what did Peter do?
00:26:30.95\00:26:32.55
He denied his Lord.
Peter denied his Lord.
00:26:32.59\00:26:35.69
So if the church
is built on a man
00:26:35.72\00:26:38.26
and Peter dies, what
happens to the church?
00:26:38.29\00:26:41.66
It dies.
00:26:41.70\00:26:43.16
But the Bible says, "No
other foundation can anyone lay
00:26:43.20\00:26:47.30
than that which is
laid which is Christ Jesus."
00:26:47.34\00:26:50.57
Amen to that?
00:26:50.61\00:26:51.94
So Peter was not.
00:26:51.97\00:26:54.34
The word by the
way in the Greek there,
00:26:54.38\00:26:56.18
Peter is Petros, rock is petra.
00:26:56.21\00:26:59.88
And when the Apostle says...
00:26:59.91\00:27:01.25
Matter of fact, go
to 1 Corinthians 10,
00:27:01.28\00:27:02.72
let's look at that together.
00:27:02.75\00:27:04.12
Let's get some
clarity in the scriptures.
00:27:04.15\00:27:05.79
So I'm making a
lot of references
00:27:05.82\00:27:07.16
but I want to show
you some scriptures
00:27:07.19\00:27:08.56
because this is
widely important.
00:27:08.59\00:27:10.99
When you accept
the authority of a man
00:27:11.03\00:27:13.80
in the place of
the authority of God,
00:27:13.83\00:27:15.66
it doesn't seem
unusual to pray to that man.
00:27:15.70\00:27:19.80
And we'll see in
some upcoming lessons
00:27:19.83\00:27:22.27
how they claim to have
that kind of ability, all right?
00:27:22.30\00:27:27.28
1 Corinthians 10
and look at verse 4.
00:27:27.31\00:27:33.92
Speaking of the
journey of the Israelites
00:27:33.95\00:27:35.78
through the wilderness...
00:27:35.82\00:27:37.15
It says, "And all drink
the same spiritual drink,
00:27:37.19\00:27:42.32
for they drank
from that spiritual rock
00:27:42.36\00:27:45.79
that follow them..."
00:27:45.83\00:27:47.16
Let's read this
together with some volume.
00:27:47.20\00:27:48.90
"And that rock was Christ."
00:27:48.93\00:27:52.23
Who is the rock? Christ.
00:27:52.27\00:27:54.94
He is the
foundation that no one can lay.
00:27:54.97\00:27:59.21
So when a man says
that I am the rock,
00:27:59.24\00:28:03.95
that the church is built on me,
00:28:03.98\00:28:05.68
then of course he perceives that
00:28:05.71\00:28:07.88
he has the power
to do with the church
00:28:07.92\00:28:09.98
as he perceives
he has the power.
00:28:10.02\00:28:12.09
But there is perceived power
and then there is actual power.
00:28:12.12\00:28:16.02
Jesus is...
00:28:16.06\00:28:18.49
Matthew 28.
Okay, let's go there.
00:28:18.53\00:28:21.33
I don't want to just say
it, I want to show it to you.
00:28:21.36\00:28:24.43
I want to show you
what Jesus said of Himself.
00:28:24.47\00:28:27.00
And I also want to
insert in just a moment here.
00:28:30.31\00:28:33.07
Okay, here we go, Matthew 28:18.
00:28:36.51\00:28:40.22
Matthew 28:18.
00:28:40.25\00:28:41.95
Verse 18, "Then Jesus came
00:28:48.82\00:28:50.86
and spoke to them
saying all," what,
00:28:50.89\00:28:54.03
"All authority or all power
00:28:54.06\00:28:56.70
has been given to me
in heaven and," what,
00:28:56.73\00:29:00.04
"On earth."
00:29:00.07\00:29:01.40
So when a man rises and says,
00:29:01.44\00:29:03.51
"I have power in
heaven and earth,
00:29:03.54\00:29:07.24
and also the lower regions."
00:29:07.28\00:29:09.28
I got to ask him the question.
00:29:09.31\00:29:11.41
When did Jesus
transfer the power to you?
00:29:11.45\00:29:14.35
He has transferred
the power to no one.
00:29:14.38\00:29:17.02
The power is resident
only in Jesus, amen to that?
00:29:17.05\00:29:20.92
So now let's look
at the next question.
00:29:20.96\00:29:23.02
So these claims and
I hope you wrote down
00:29:23.06\00:29:24.79
in your best to understanding,
00:29:24.83\00:29:26.36
the claims one,
two, three, and four.
00:29:26.39\00:29:28.06
Let's go to the next
question, question number 12.
00:29:28.10\00:29:31.63
Question number 12
00:29:31.67\00:29:33.00
and we'll go to
Ecclesiastes 3:14 here.
00:29:33.03\00:29:36.44
But he question is,
"What does the Bible reveal
00:29:36.47\00:29:40.31
about the laws
and the Word of God?"
00:29:40.34\00:29:44.68
About the laws of
God and the Word of God?
00:29:44.71\00:29:46.92
Let's go to Ecclesiastes 3
00:29:46.95\00:29:50.32
and let's look
together at verse 14.
00:29:50.35\00:29:53.15
Okay, almost there.
00:29:53.19\00:29:55.52
Oh, that's amazing.
00:29:59.79\00:30:01.83
I'm glad you
reminded me of that.
00:30:01.86\00:30:03.67
Okay.
00:30:03.70\00:30:05.27
Look at Ecclesiastes 3:14.
00:30:05.30\00:30:08.94
Right.
00:30:08.97\00:30:10.31
Here's what the wise man says.
00:30:10.34\00:30:12.97
He says, "I know that whatever
God does, it shall be..."
00:30:13.01\00:30:17.78
Together.
00:30:17.81\00:30:19.15
"Forever.
00:30:19.18\00:30:20.95
Nothing can be added to it,
00:30:20.98\00:30:24.59
and nothing taken from it.
00:30:24.62\00:30:28.36
God does it, that men
should fear before Him."
00:30:28.39\00:30:32.29
What do you say?
00:30:32.33\00:30:33.66
So when God does something,
what can we add to it?
00:30:33.70\00:30:36.73
Nothing. What
can we take from it?
00:30:36.77\00:30:38.20
Nothing.
00:30:38.23\00:30:39.57
Matter of fact, to verify
that, go to Deuteronomy 5.
00:30:39.60\00:30:44.21
I'm bringing up this particular
scripture for a reason.
00:30:44.24\00:30:47.68
Actually everything
I do is for a reason.
00:30:47.71\00:30:49.88
But I want you to
see this scripture
00:30:49.91\00:30:51.25
here in Deuteronomy 5.
00:30:51.28\00:30:55.98
Because when you think
about, when you think about...
00:30:56.02\00:30:59.85
When you think
about the law of God,
00:31:03.69\00:31:06.29
in order for men to
be able to manipulate it,
00:31:06.33\00:31:09.03
they have to somehow convince us
00:31:09.06\00:31:12.53
that they could
add something to it.
00:31:12.57\00:31:14.44
But God said, you
can't anything to it.
00:31:14.47\00:31:17.51
And there are
those that say that,
00:31:17.54\00:31:19.24
"Well, the Ten Commandments
00:31:19.27\00:31:20.71
and the ceremonial
laws are merged together,
00:31:20.74\00:31:23.35
that the moral law
and the ceremonial laws
00:31:23.38\00:31:26.28
are merged together.
00:31:26.31\00:31:27.65
But that's not the case.
00:31:27.68\00:31:29.02
Look at Deuteronomy
5 and look at verse 22.
00:31:29.05\00:31:34.16
Deuteronomy 5:22.
00:31:34.19\00:31:36.12
And this also, in Deuteronomy 5,
00:31:36.16\00:31:39.03
we don't often
read Deuteronomy 5
00:31:39.06\00:31:40.63
for the Ten Commandments
but there are also here,
00:31:40.66\00:31:43.50
Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5.
00:31:43.53\00:31:46.77
Verse 22, "After
writing the Ten Commandments,
00:31:46.80\00:31:50.24
these words the Lord
spoke to all your assembly
00:31:50.27\00:31:54.61
in the mountain, from
the midst of the fire,
00:31:54.64\00:31:57.75
the cloud and the thick darkness
00:31:57.78\00:32:00.35
with a loud
voice and he added..."
00:32:00.38\00:32:03.02
How much?
00:32:03.05\00:32:04.39
"No more and He wrote
them on two tablets of stone
00:32:04.42\00:32:09.32
and gave them to me."
00:32:09.36\00:32:10.73
So when Jesus finished
writing the commandments,
00:32:10.76\00:32:14.76
how much did he add to it?
00:32:14.80\00:32:16.43
Nothing.
00:32:16.46\00:32:17.80
How much can we add to it?
00:32:17.83\00:32:19.33
Nothing.
00:32:19.37\00:32:20.70
He wrote it, He added
nothing when He was done.
00:32:20.74\00:32:23.84
And so He says, "I finished it."
00:32:23.87\00:32:26.57
How much can we add to it?
00:32:26.61\00:32:28.74
Absolutely nothing.
00:32:28.78\00:32:30.11
As a matter of fact,
go to question number 13,
00:32:30.15\00:32:32.81
go to question 13.
00:32:32.85\00:32:34.48
Moving at a good
pace, question 13.
00:32:34.52\00:32:38.95
All right.
00:32:38.99\00:32:40.32
"What will happen to anyone
00:32:45.03\00:32:47.10
that alters the
teachings of God's Word?"
00:32:47.13\00:32:52.53
Let's go to Revelation 22:18-19.
00:32:52.57\00:32:55.50
Revelation 22:18-19. All right.
00:32:55.54\00:32:58.77
What will happen to anyone
00:32:58.81\00:33:00.14
that alters the
teachings of God's Word?
00:33:00.18\00:33:03.88
Revelation 22:18 and 19.
00:33:03.91\00:33:09.02
You guys haven't
read with me yet tonight.
00:33:09.05\00:33:10.85
So let's read this one together.
00:33:10.89\00:33:12.49
Are you ready,
you got some voice?
00:33:12.52\00:33:13.86
Here we go.
00:33:13.89\00:33:15.22
Here's what the
Word of the Lord says.
00:33:15.26\00:33:16.59
"For I testify to everyone
00:33:16.62\00:33:19.43
who hears the words of
the prophecy of this book:
00:33:19.46\00:33:23.30
If anyone adds to these things,
00:33:23.33\00:33:25.97
God will add to him the plagues
that are written in this book."
00:33:26.00\00:33:30.74
Continuing.
00:33:30.77\00:33:32.11
"And if anyone takes away
00:33:32.14\00:33:34.21
from the words of the
book of this prophecy,
00:33:34.24\00:33:36.91
God shall take away his
part from the Book of Life,
00:33:36.95\00:33:41.08
from the holy city,
00:33:41.12\00:33:43.05
and from the things which
are written in this book."
00:33:43.08\00:33:46.55
So now, can we
take anything from it?
00:33:46.59\00:33:49.36
Can we add anything to it?
00:33:49.39\00:33:52.39
So to do that is to
trample on divine authority.
00:33:52.43\00:33:55.53
So on question number 13,
00:33:55.56\00:33:57.17
what does the Bible reveal about
00:33:57.20\00:33:58.53
the laws and Word of God?
00:33:58.57\00:33:59.93
Can't add to it,
can't take anything from it.
00:33:59.97\00:34:03.00
You can't add,
you can't subtract.
00:34:03.04\00:34:05.67
When God completes it,
it's blessed, it's anointed.
00:34:05.71\00:34:09.08
And He says, "I
won't even alter."
00:34:09.11\00:34:12.05
Matter of fact, I'm
going to go to that one next.
00:34:12.08\00:34:14.05
"You can't alter it."
00:34:14.08\00:34:15.42
But He also says
something about Himself.
00:34:15.45\00:34:17.95
Let's go to question number 14.
00:34:17.99\00:34:20.69
We cannot do
anything about God's Word.
00:34:20.72\00:34:22.99
No man has the authority
to alter the Word of God.
00:34:23.02\00:34:28.66
No one does.
00:34:28.70\00:34:30.03
Regardless of the denomination,
00:34:30.07\00:34:31.93
no one has the power
to alter the Word of God.
00:34:31.97\00:34:36.87
All right? Let's go
to question number 14.
00:34:36.91\00:34:39.31
What does the Bible reveal about
00:34:45.15\00:34:47.25
God's intention
to change His Word?
00:34:47.28\00:34:50.62
A little typo there.
00:34:50.65\00:34:51.99
What does the Bible reveal
00:34:52.02\00:34:53.36
about God's
intention to change His Word?
00:34:53.39\00:34:56.09
All right?
00:34:56.12\00:34:57.63
Psalms 89:34.
00:34:57.66\00:34:59.73
Psalms 89:34.
00:34:59.76\00:35:03.37
Let's look at that together.
00:35:03.40\00:35:06.07
All right?
00:35:06.10\00:35:08.77
And this is in the
King James Version.
00:35:08.80\00:35:11.81
"My covenant
will I not break..."
00:35:11.84\00:35:15.01
Next two words together.
00:35:15.04\00:35:16.75
"Nor alter the thing
that is gone out of my lips."
00:35:16.78\00:35:22.92
Will He change what He says?
00:35:22.95\00:35:24.75
So if God says, how...
00:35:24.79\00:35:26.32
If God says anything,
what lifespan does it have?
00:35:26.35\00:35:29.02
No, what lifespan does it have?
00:35:32.89\00:35:34.63
Eternity.
00:35:34.66\00:35:36.06
If He said it in Genesis,
it applies in Revelation.
00:35:36.10\00:35:39.23
If He said it
Old Testament times,
00:35:39.27\00:35:41.54
if He said, "Remember
the Sabbath to keep it holy."
00:35:41.57\00:35:44.01
He doesn't say, "Oh, by the way,
00:35:44.04\00:35:45.37
I don't remember what I said."
00:35:45.41\00:35:47.18
No, He does not have amnesia,
He does not alter the Bible.
00:35:47.21\00:35:53.75
But what's happening here
00:35:53.78\00:35:55.12
and you're gonna see
this in just a moment.
00:35:55.15\00:35:56.48
What we're talking about
here is a power in Daniel
00:35:56.52\00:36:00.26
that the Lord
knew would come along.
00:36:00.29\00:36:03.22
For those of you
who that may have
00:36:03.26\00:36:04.59
tuned in to just this broadcast,
00:36:04.63\00:36:06.26
go to Daniel 7.
00:36:06.29\00:36:08.36
I wanna show
you this, all right?
00:36:08.40\00:36:12.47
Daniel 7.
00:36:12.50\00:36:15.20
Okay.
00:36:15.24\00:36:18.14
Verse 25.
00:36:24.78\00:36:26.72
This is the
prophecy, Daniel 7:25.
00:36:26.75\00:36:30.05
"I showed you some
of the pompous words
00:36:30.09\00:36:31.92
or the blasphemous
words against the most high."
00:36:31.95\00:36:35.82
But it also says in Daniel 7:25,
00:36:35.86\00:36:38.16
"He shall persecute the saints
of the most high and shall..."
00:36:38.19\00:36:42.26
What is the next word?
00:36:42.30\00:36:43.63
"Think or intent
to change," what?
00:36:43.67\00:36:46.77
"Times and loss."
00:36:46.80\00:36:49.40
So we're going to see
as we go further that...
00:36:49.44\00:36:51.67
What the Bible talks about is...
00:36:51.71\00:36:53.84
And by the way, nothing
happens to God by surprise.
00:36:53.88\00:37:00.35
Nothing is a
surprise to God and He knew
00:37:00.38\00:37:03.45
because sin was in the earth.
00:37:03.49\00:37:04.82
By the way what is
sin? Somebody tell me.
00:37:04.85\00:37:06.89
What is sin?
00:37:06.92\00:37:08.52
Say it loudly. Losses.
00:37:08.56\00:37:10.09
Losses or the
transgression of the...
00:37:10.13\00:37:13.03
Sin is the
transgression of the law.
00:37:13.06\00:37:15.33
So is there sin in
the world, yes or no?
00:37:15.36\00:37:17.13
Yes.
00:37:17.17\00:37:18.50
So did God know that the
law would be transgressed?
00:37:18.53\00:37:20.60
Yes.
00:37:20.64\00:37:21.97
Did God know the
law would be changed?
00:37:22.00\00:37:23.87
He said somebody is gonna come
along to intent to change it
00:37:23.91\00:37:27.31
and He labeled the one
who will intent to change it
00:37:27.34\00:37:30.45
as the fourth beast of Daniel 7.
00:37:30.48\00:37:34.52
He said, "That
one is gonna intend
00:37:34.55\00:37:37.69
or think to
change times and laws."
00:37:37.72\00:37:41.82
And when you look
at the Ten Commandments
00:37:41.86\00:37:43.39
as written or modified
by the Catholic Church.
00:37:43.43\00:37:48.43
You know what two
commandments have done?
00:37:48.46\00:37:50.03
Somebody, I'm going to ask you.
00:37:50.07\00:37:51.40
You know, what two
commandments are no longer,
00:37:51.43\00:37:53.54
the way the God put them?
00:37:53.57\00:37:55.77
One about what? Idolatry.
00:37:55.80\00:37:57.14
One about
idolatry and what else?
00:37:57.17\00:37:59.17
And the fourth one.
00:37:59.21\00:38:00.71
The second
commandment that forbids
00:38:00.74\00:38:02.41
image worship has
been squeezed out.
00:38:02.44\00:38:08.25
And then, that must
have been taken out...
00:38:08.28\00:38:11.65
And the fourth
commandment has been pushed up
00:38:11.69\00:38:14.12
to the third
00:38:14.16\00:38:15.96
and the tenth commandment
has been broken into two parts
00:38:15.99\00:38:19.29
to cover nine and ten.
00:38:19.33\00:38:21.66
The one that forbids image
worship has been taken out.
00:38:21.70\00:38:24.43
Now I wonder why?
00:38:24.47\00:38:29.77
Because in this system also...
00:38:29.80\00:38:31.77
Remember, I said a
moment ago that when Rome,
00:38:31.81\00:38:34.71
which was a pagan
system adopted a church,
00:38:34.74\00:38:38.61
it simply brought
the practices of paganism
00:38:38.65\00:38:40.88
into its state religion.
00:38:40.92\00:38:44.12
So they worshiped idols before,
00:38:44.15\00:38:46.96
so they worship
idols continuously.
00:38:46.99\00:38:49.46
And today, it still
happens around the world,
00:38:49.49\00:38:53.19
it still takes place.
00:38:53.23\00:38:54.56
Matter of fact, I
just read Daniel Chapter...
00:38:54.60\00:38:57.87
I just read question number 15.
00:38:57.90\00:38:59.57
Okay, go to question
15, since we read it.
00:38:59.60\00:39:03.94
since we read it.
00:39:03.97\00:39:05.31
It's gonna come up
on the screen anyway.
00:39:05.34\00:39:06.84
All right?
00:39:06.88\00:39:08.74
Question number 15.
00:39:08.78\00:39:10.78
Okay.
00:39:10.81\00:39:12.85
Here it is. Here it is.
00:39:12.88\00:39:15.45
"How long did the Bible reveal
00:39:15.48\00:39:18.85
that Papal Rome would rule?"
00:39:18.89\00:39:22.99
"How long did the Bible reveal
that Papal Rome will rule?"
00:39:23.02\00:39:27.70
Look on the back of your
sheet, it should be on the back.
00:39:27.73\00:39:30.40
"How long did the Bible reveal
that Papal Rome would rule?"
00:39:30.43\00:39:37.31
Okay.
00:39:37.34\00:39:38.97
Okay, here it is.
00:39:39.01\00:39:41.21
And so let's look
at that, Daniel 7:25.
00:39:41.24\00:39:44.58
Okay, here we are.
00:39:44.61\00:39:46.38
It's on the screen.
00:39:46.41\00:39:49.18
Okay.
00:39:49.22\00:39:53.12
And here is the word.
00:39:53.15\00:39:54.49
We just read it, but
I'll read the rest of it.
00:39:54.52\00:39:56.09
"He shall speak pompous
words against the Most High,
00:39:56.12\00:39:59.29
shall persecute the
saints of the Most High,
00:39:59.33\00:40:02.63
shall intend to change..."
00:40:02.66\00:40:04.13
Together "Times and laws.
00:40:04.17\00:40:07.10
Then the saints shall
be given into his hand..."
00:40:07.14\00:40:10.91
Together, for a what?
00:40:10.94\00:40:12.54
"Time..." And what else?
00:40:12.57\00:40:13.98
"Times and..." What else?
00:40:14.01\00:40:15.78
"Half a time."
00:40:15.81\00:40:17.15
Okay, so write that down.
00:40:17.18\00:40:20.08
And I'm gonna show you
the progress here in a chart,
00:40:20.12\00:40:22.72
just coming up on
the very next screen.
00:40:22.75\00:40:26.12
He'll bring that up in,
00:40:26.15\00:40:27.49
as our graphic
individual bring the chart up,
00:40:27.52\00:40:29.49
I want to go ahead and walk
you through it very quickly.
00:40:29.52\00:40:31.33
Let's look at this chart.
00:40:31.36\00:40:32.89
Excuse my voice.
00:40:32.93\00:40:35.03
This is what I called the
"Progress of the Roman Empire."
00:40:35.06\00:40:38.63
We begin to the far
left with Pagan Rome,
00:40:38.67\00:40:40.87
notice the date
under Pagan Rome.
00:40:40.90\00:40:42.84
What date do I have there?
00:40:42.87\00:40:44.31
168 B.C.
00:40:44.34\00:40:47.94
That's when Pagan Rome
replaced the Grecian Empire.
00:40:47.98\00:40:51.48
From 168 B.C. to 476 A.D.
00:40:51.51\00:40:54.78
paganism reigned
uninterrupted, uninterrupted.
00:40:54.82\00:40:59.05
But as Rome
adopted a state religion
00:40:59.09\00:41:01.32
in around 476 A.D.,
00:41:01.36\00:41:04.39
there began a gradual rise.
00:41:04.43\00:41:06.90
Now look between 476 and 538
00:41:06.93\00:41:11.03
and you'll
notice in small print,
00:41:11.07\00:41:12.90
three horns plucked out.
00:41:12.93\00:41:15.90
Three horns plucked out.
00:41:15.94\00:41:18.17
That's the Vandals, the
Heruli, and the Ostrogoths.
00:41:18.21\00:41:22.24
These were the three nations,
00:41:22.28\00:41:23.85
these were
considered Aryan Nations,
00:41:23.88\00:41:26.31
that stood in the way
of Rome's total dominance.
00:41:26.35\00:41:31.02
So when the Bible says,
00:41:31.05\00:41:32.39
"Three horns
plucked out by the roots,"
00:41:32.42\00:41:35.09
these were the nations.
00:41:35.12\00:41:36.46
When you pluck something
out by the roots, do they die?
00:41:36.49\00:41:38.79
Yes.
00:41:38.83\00:41:40.16
So when these nations
were plucked out by the roots,
00:41:40.20\00:41:42.90
Papal Rome began
its unhindered Rome,
00:41:42.93\00:41:46.87
its unhindered reign.
00:41:46.90\00:41:49.20
In what year?
00:41:49.24\00:41:50.57
What date do you see under that?
00:41:50.61\00:41:51.94
538 A.D., Anno Domini,
in the year of our Lord.
00:41:51.97\00:41:56.44
So from 538, go all
the way down to 1798,
00:41:56.48\00:42:01.15
you'll see time,
times, half a time.
00:42:01.18\00:42:04.75
We break that down under that.
00:42:04.79\00:42:06.69
You have 1 Time equals what?
00:42:06.72\00:42:08.92
360.
00:42:08.96\00:42:10.69
Two times equal what?
00:42:10.73\00:42:12.43
720.
00:42:12.46\00:42:13.80
And half a time
equals what? 180.
00:42:13.83\00:42:16.33
Add that up to together,
that gives you how many?
00:42:16.36\00:42:18.57
1260.
00:42:18.60\00:42:20.44
So Rome reign
unhindered from 538 to 1798
00:42:20.47\00:42:25.04
and many, many
transitions took place
00:42:25.07\00:42:28.94
during this unhindered
ruthless iron kingdom,
00:42:28.98\00:42:34.28
kingdom
trampling, residue breaking,
00:42:34.32\00:42:37.25
earth shattering power of Rome.
00:42:37.29\00:42:40.19
Many things
happened during that time.
00:42:40.22\00:42:42.62
Anybody that
stood against Rome...
00:42:42.66\00:42:44.89
You should read
the history books,
00:42:44.93\00:42:46.63
"Of the all the powers
00:42:46.66\00:42:48.00
that were just
brought down by Rome."
00:42:48.03\00:42:51.00
It's quite a bit of
interesting reading.
00:42:51.03\00:42:52.97
I was a great student of
world history, I loved it.
00:42:53.00\00:42:57.11
Matter of fact,
one of the reasons
00:42:57.14\00:42:58.47
I loved it so much
00:42:58.51\00:42:59.84
because I had to pass
it to get out of school.
00:42:59.87\00:43:02.04
But it's very interesting
to see the history of Rome,
00:43:02.08\00:43:05.81
the popes, those that go
00:43:05.85\00:43:08.38
from one
transition to the other.
00:43:08.42\00:43:10.59
The enlightening portion of this
00:43:10.62\00:43:12.45
and I'll just make
reference to 538 to 1798 again.
00:43:12.49\00:43:15.86
The beautiful thing
about that is God only allows,
00:43:15.89\00:43:20.36
God only allows evil to
prevail but for so long.
00:43:20.40\00:43:26.50
And what I want you to
see is during this time,
00:43:26.53\00:43:29.94
can someone tell me...
00:43:29.97\00:43:31.31
This was called
the Medieval Times
00:43:31.34\00:43:32.94
but there was another phrase
00:43:32.97\00:43:34.61
that this long
period was known for.
00:43:34.64\00:43:37.61
Could someone
tell me what that was?
00:43:37.65\00:43:39.11
The Dark Ages. Say it again.
00:43:39.15\00:43:40.48
The Dark Ages. The Dark Ages.
00:43:40.52\00:43:42.02
Now why would it be
called the Dark Ages?
00:43:42.05\00:43:43.85
What is the Bible?
00:43:43.89\00:43:45.85
The light.
00:43:45.89\00:43:47.22
David the Psalmist says,
00:43:47.26\00:43:48.59
"The entrance of your
word brings," what, "Light."
00:43:48.62\00:43:52.43
So the Church of
Rome, the bishops of Rome,
00:43:52.46\00:43:55.10
the popes of Rome,
00:43:55.13\00:43:57.43
since there were no
massive printing presses,
00:43:57.47\00:44:00.80
the Bibles or
whatever Bible existed
00:44:00.84\00:44:03.07
was changed to
the alters in Rome.
00:44:03.10\00:44:06.71
So to have access to it,
00:44:06.74\00:44:08.11
you'd have to go on a pilgrimage
00:44:08.14\00:44:10.01
like Martin Luther did
to look at the Bible itself,
00:44:10.05\00:44:12.98
'cause they were
not allowed to be
00:44:13.01\00:44:14.35
in the hand of
the common people,
00:44:14.38\00:44:15.72
there were no
massive printing presses.
00:44:15.75\00:44:18.22
And the Bible was...
00:44:18.25\00:44:20.22
The teachings of the Word of God
00:44:20.26\00:44:21.92
were not in the
language of the people.
00:44:21.96\00:44:24.79
And so the church leaders
00:44:24.83\00:44:27.03
what they did to gain access
to the minds of the people,
00:44:27.06\00:44:30.07
is they built
massive beautiful cathedrals.
00:44:30.10\00:44:32.83
I did a study
once on stained glass,
00:44:32.87\00:44:34.54
I did a seminar on this.
00:44:34.57\00:44:35.90
This was a very
interesting to me.
00:44:35.94\00:44:38.24
Number of years ago, I did
the sermon called stained glass
00:44:38.27\00:44:40.54
and what I came to find out
00:44:40.58\00:44:42.18
is the wealth of
the Church of Rome
00:44:42.21\00:44:44.38
was of such magnificence
because they sold indulgences,
00:44:44.41\00:44:47.62
in other words,
they sold license to sin.
00:44:47.65\00:44:50.62
If you sin, you
can pay for your sin
00:44:50.65\00:44:52.99
and get it pardoned
00:44:53.02\00:44:54.69
or you can buy some
licenses to sin in advance.
00:44:54.72\00:44:58.49
"I plan on sinning on
Tuesday but I need some license,
00:44:58.53\00:45:00.46
how much would that cost me?
00:45:00.50\00:45:02.06
Thirty pennies for the
license, okay, I need three."
00:45:02.10\00:45:04.73
And, it's crazy as that
sounds, you had license to sin.
00:45:04.77\00:45:09.67
Then also, they
taught the teachings
00:45:09.70\00:45:11.14
of purgatory and limbo,
00:45:11.17\00:45:12.97
but the people had
no Bible understanding.
00:45:13.01\00:45:15.28
Purgatory is taught that
when your mother or father died
00:45:15.31\00:45:18.31
and they were not baptized,
00:45:18.35\00:45:20.32
their soul which is
not taught in scripture,
00:45:20.35\00:45:22.92
floated off to this Netherland
between earth and hell.
00:45:22.95\00:45:27.79
And they stay there,
until you paid the pope,
00:45:27.82\00:45:31.09
to pray them from
purgatory into heaven
00:45:31.13\00:45:33.56
and you had 30 days.
00:45:33.60\00:45:36.03
And so if you
love your mother, Dee,
00:45:36.06\00:45:38.07
or your dad, Dee, you'd say...
00:45:38.10\00:45:39.57
They'd say, "Dee, your
mother was not a baptized
00:45:39.60\00:45:42.30
member of the Catholic Church.
00:45:42.34\00:45:43.74
You know, you have 28
days before she goes to hell
00:45:43.77\00:45:46.37
and it's tormented forever."
00:45:46.41\00:45:48.31
That's where the
Roman Catholic Church,
00:45:48.34\00:45:49.78
they took to belief
the teachings of Hades,
00:45:49.81\00:45:53.38
Greek philosophy and inserted it
00:45:53.42\00:45:56.02
into the Roman Church
00:45:56.05\00:45:57.39
and they taught
this ever burning hell
00:45:57.42\00:45:58.79
which is not
supported by scripture.
00:45:58.82\00:46:01.19
And so that was for purgatory.
00:46:01.22\00:46:02.82
So if you paid the price,
00:46:02.86\00:46:04.73
your parents would, as
they taught, go to heaven.
00:46:04.76\00:46:09.13
But then for limbo
now, was for babies.
00:46:09.16\00:46:11.23
If the baby wasn't
baptized and had died,
00:46:11.27\00:46:13.54
either whatever reason,
the baby would go to limbo.
00:46:13.57\00:46:17.41
So that's why we
have this term nowadays.
00:46:17.44\00:46:19.24
Come on, why are in limbo?"
00:46:19.27\00:46:21.18
That term limbo
actually came from that belief.
00:46:21.21\00:46:24.11
You're neither in
heaven, you're not in hell,
00:46:24.15\00:46:26.31
you're just in Netherland.
00:46:26.35\00:46:27.78
It's like a bridge
between two countries.
00:46:27.82\00:46:29.82
You had no
place that you belong.
00:46:29.85\00:46:32.09
And the church
once again taught,
00:46:32.12\00:46:33.96
"That if you pay the price,
00:46:33.99\00:46:35.46
your baby won't
have to go to hell
00:46:35.49\00:46:36.86
and be tormented
forever, and ever,
00:46:36.89\00:46:38.69
and ever, and ever and ever,
00:46:38.73\00:46:40.33
and if I never
stop saying forever,
00:46:40.36\00:46:41.86
that's how long?"
00:46:41.90\00:46:43.33
So what do you think they did?
00:46:43.37\00:46:44.70
They paid the
money for the babies.
00:46:44.73\00:46:46.20
And the church literally existed
00:46:46.23\00:46:50.24
out of fraudulent
unscriptural practices
00:46:50.27\00:46:53.91
and they built
massive cathedrals.
00:46:53.94\00:46:56.41
And since the
people had no reason
00:46:56.44\00:46:58.45
to go to the cathedrals
00:46:58.48\00:46:59.81
because they were
not hearing God's Word,
00:46:59.85\00:47:01.68
but just these
repetitious chants in Latin
00:47:01.72\00:47:05.32
or whatever
language the cathedral
00:47:05.35\00:47:06.96
was established in Germany
00:47:06.99\00:47:08.52
or whatever part, Switzerland,
whatever the language was,
00:47:08.56\00:47:12.73
they created stained
glass which were beautiful.
00:47:12.76\00:47:17.07
It's because they didn't
have light like we have today.
00:47:17.10\00:47:19.83
They relied on
the light of the sun.
00:47:19.87\00:47:21.54
So people actually
went to the cathedrals
00:47:21.57\00:47:24.14
for a colorful light show.
00:47:24.17\00:47:27.28
That's what
stained glass was used for,
00:47:27.31\00:47:29.34
to attract the
people to the cathedrals.
00:47:29.38\00:47:31.91
And if you look at some
of the cathedrals of Europe
00:47:31.95\00:47:33.48
that are 1,000
years old, 800 years old,
00:47:33.52\00:47:36.18
we saw some of
the beautiful ones.
00:47:36.22\00:47:37.75
We went to London and we
saw the Cathedral of Saint John,
00:47:37.79\00:47:41.69
Saint Paul's
cathedral, beautiful,
00:47:41.72\00:47:43.59
you step in and
if you are not sane,
00:47:43.63\00:47:46.39
or if you don't know
God's Word, it just feels holy.
00:47:46.43\00:47:50.03
That had this awe-inspiring
magnificence about it.
00:47:50.07\00:47:53.13
But the stained glass was what
lit up the minds of the people
00:47:53.17\00:47:56.50
because they had no
light from God's Word.
00:47:56.54\00:47:59.47
But along came people
like Calvin and Zwingli
00:47:59.51\00:48:02.41
and Hus and Jerome and
Wycliffe and Martin Luther
00:48:02.44\00:48:06.41
and they began a
revolution back to the Bible.
00:48:06.45\00:48:09.62
So this whole period...
00:48:09.65\00:48:11.05
So I say go to Revelation 12.
00:48:11.09\00:48:12.75
Did I say that?
00:48:12.79\00:48:14.12
Go to Revelation 12.
00:48:14.16\00:48:15.49
Let's look at this.
00:48:15.52\00:48:16.86
I want you to see what happened.
00:48:16.89\00:48:18.23
Because it was not only
considered the Medieval Times,
00:48:18.26\00:48:21.26
it was also
considered the Dark Ages.
00:48:21.30\00:48:24.63
It was a time where this church
that was trampling everything
00:48:24.67\00:48:28.70
that was against
the dictates of Rome
00:48:28.74\00:48:30.94
and the teachings
of the Rome in Pontiffs
00:48:30.97\00:48:33.38
had to be exterminated
00:48:33.41\00:48:35.14
and 50 million
Christians lost their lives
00:48:35.18\00:48:38.08
through some measure of torture.
00:48:38.11\00:48:40.12
If you got a strong stomach,
00:48:40.15\00:48:41.82
get the book called,
"Foxe's Book of Martyrs."
00:48:41.85\00:48:44.45
You better have a strong stomach
00:48:44.49\00:48:45.82
when you read it.
00:48:45.85\00:48:47.19
It's not a novel.
00:48:47.22\00:48:48.56
By any mean it's
not easy reading.
00:48:48.59\00:48:49.92
But it does
give you some glimpse
00:48:49.96\00:48:51.86
into the torturous
power of the Church of Rome
00:48:51.89\00:48:54.06
during the Dark Ages.
00:48:54.10\00:48:55.43
Now you might ask yourself,
"Why are you saying that,
00:48:55.46\00:48:57.03
we're not living
in the Dark Ages?"
00:48:57.07\00:48:59.97
Stay tuned, you'll find out.
00:49:00.00\00:49:02.50
Look at Revelation 12
00:49:02.54\00:49:04.17
and this is what God
did to preserve His church.
00:49:04.21\00:49:08.51
Verse 13.
00:49:08.54\00:49:11.98
"So when the dragon..."
00:49:12.01\00:49:13.35
Who is Satan...
00:49:13.38\00:49:14.72
"Saw that he had
been cast to the earth,
00:49:14.75\00:49:16.82
he persecuted the woman
00:49:16.85\00:49:18.45
who gave birth
to the male child."
00:49:18.49\00:49:20.76
That's when he
tried to kill Jesus.
00:49:20.79\00:49:22.82
Since he couldn't kill Jesus,
00:49:22.86\00:49:24.29
he started to
persecute the woman, the church.
00:49:24.33\00:49:27.03
But look at how God
preserved its church.
00:49:27.06\00:49:29.50
"But the woman was given
two wings of a great eagle
00:49:29.53\00:49:32.70
that she might
fly into the," what,
00:49:32.73\00:49:35.37
"Wilderness to her place,
where she is nourished..."
00:49:35.40\00:49:39.31
Forget this.
00:49:39.34\00:49:40.88
"A time, times and half a time
00:49:40.91\00:49:44.48
from the
presence of the serpent."
00:49:44.51\00:49:46.05
So you look at that chart again,
00:49:46.08\00:49:47.52
time, times, and half
a time, from 538 to 1798
00:49:47.55\00:49:52.05
God hid His woman
in the wilderness.
00:49:52.09\00:49:54.96
What do you say?
00:49:54.99\00:49:56.32
God hid the church,
protected the church.
00:49:56.36\00:49:58.89
The devil said, "I
got to get to this church,
00:49:58.93\00:50:00.70
I got to wipe it out."
00:50:00.73\00:50:02.33
And he used the power
of Rome to try to do it.
00:50:02.36\00:50:05.67
Well, let's go on.
00:50:05.70\00:50:07.04
How did God help the church?
00:50:07.07\00:50:09.40
Look at what this
devil did, verse 15.
00:50:09.44\00:50:13.98
"So the serpent spewed water
out of his mouth like a flood
00:50:14.01\00:50:18.71
after the woman."
00:50:18.75\00:50:20.08
What does water
symbolize, you, prophetically?
00:50:20.12\00:50:21.65
What does it symbolize? People.
00:50:21.68\00:50:23.85
There was a new revolution
00:50:23.89\00:50:25.22
that sprung up
during the Dark Ages,
00:50:25.25\00:50:26.92
during the Medieval Times,
it was called the renaissance.
00:50:26.96\00:50:29.66
You see on the heels of
the Protestant Reformation,
00:50:29.69\00:50:31.69
this is all history.
00:50:31.73\00:50:33.13
On the heels of the
Protestant Reformation,
00:50:33.16\00:50:34.83
I'm teaching tonight
was the Counter Reformation.
00:50:34.86\00:50:39.63
The growth of art and music
and science and philosophy,
00:50:39.67\00:50:44.67
they decided...
00:50:44.71\00:50:46.07
And they decided to
turn the peoples' minds
00:50:46.11\00:50:48.64
away from the growing
interest on the Bible to...
00:50:48.68\00:50:50.75
"Isn't that a wonderful song?
00:50:50.78\00:50:52.45
Isn't that a
beautiful cathedral?
00:50:52.48\00:50:54.55
Isn't that a
wonderful philosophy?
00:50:54.58\00:50:56.38
Isn't that great science?"
00:50:56.42\00:50:57.79
And the devil is
doing it again today.
00:50:57.82\00:51:01.06
Many churches today are
nothing more than the cathedrals
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of the Dark Ages redesigned
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because music has
become the central focus
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and not God's Word.
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Have you noticed
how the devil decides?
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If it worked in the Dark
Ages, let's use it again.
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And many churches today
are just preferring music
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over the
unadulterated Word of God.
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And there's
nothing wrong with music
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but it depends on
what alter it leads you to.
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Okay, here we go.
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And it says, "He spewed water
like a flood after the woman
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that he might
cause her to be," what,
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"Carried away by the flood."
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He wants to
sweep away the church,
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he wants drown
everything it stood for.
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But verse 16, "But
the earth helped the woman
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and the earth opened its
mouth and swallowed up the flood
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which the dragon had
spewed out of his mouth."
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Now next lesson.
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This is a tough
lesson to preach.
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This is a
difficult one to teach.
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Next lesson, what
you're going to discover?
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And I'll just go
ahead and give you a preview
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before I go to
the next questions.
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We have a few more
time, few little more time.
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You'll discover why America
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is such a central focus of Rome.
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The earth opened its
mouth and helped the woman.
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You'll discover...
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Let's go ahead for
historical reasons.
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If you could bring
that chart up one more time.
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See if you could do
that, I would appreciate that,
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just bring this chart
up very quickly for me
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if you can on the screen.
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Between 538 and 1798
something was happening,
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that took place between
the 1400s and the 1700s.
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A little unknown
continent called the Americas
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was being
considered by a man by the name
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of Christopher
Columbus or the pilgrims.
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You have the Santa
Maria, La Pinta and the...
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I can't remember the third one.
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But some of you got to remember
the ships that came over here.
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But in the 1700s
particularly, 1776,
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this country declared
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its independence
from British rule.
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1776 is only 20...
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How many years from the 1776,
76 and 98, that's 22 years?
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Is that 22 years?
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Is that right?
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Okay, 22 years right?
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So 1776 to 1798,
it is only 22 years.
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So between
America being established
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as an independent colony,
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upper North-East as
independent colonists,
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they came to America running
from the tyranny of Rome.
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That's why they
call themselves pilgrims.
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You look at Hebrews 11
and Hebrews 11 tells you
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that Abraham
considered himself a pilgrim
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because he was
looking for a city
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which had foundations,
whose builder and maker is God.
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Amen to that?
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So they no longer had
the freedom to reign...
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I mean to worship as
they wanted to in Europe
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under the auspices
of you can be killed,
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burnt at the stake,
the list goes on and on.
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So they left coming to America.
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And in America, this
country established eventually
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through Roger Williams,
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the first
religiously free colony
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called Rhode Island.
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You see when people say,
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"I want to go
back to the religion
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of our forefathers."
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I say no, I don't.
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Because when the
forefathers came to America,
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they did not immediately
establish religious freedom,
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they almost duplicated
what Rome did to help America
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from getting influenced by Rome.
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And so they established
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what they called
religious intolerance.
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In other words they
said, "If you have anything
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that remotely
resembles Catholicism,
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you cannot be a
part of this colony."
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You cannot be a politician.
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Does it sound like today?
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So they put a
litmus test out for anybody
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wanting to hold office,
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so people became religious
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just to be a
part of the colonies.
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But Roger William
said, "That's not right.
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You're doing
exactly what Rome did."
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And, you know, what they did?
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They ostracized Roger Williams
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and they put him
out of the colonies
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and Roger Williams
lived among the Indians,
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the Native American Indians
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or the Native Americans
to teach them the Word of God
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and then he
established Road Island,
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the first truly religiously
free colony in this new land.
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America became the
earth that opened its mouth
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and helped the church.
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And today, if
you are an American,
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you know that,
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right now this is only
country that still offers
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most of its
citizens, all of its citizens
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at least constitutionally
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the right to
worship however you please.
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So we have to be very
careful if we as Americans
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start saying,
"Other people can't worship
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the way that they choose."
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In spite of the
religious climate in America
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and there's a whole
lot of instability here.
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Let us not get to the place
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where we become so
religiously intolerant
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and we start saying,
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"You cannot
worship the way you desire.
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I don't like the
way you worship."
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It's not about how they worship,
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when people become extreme
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and start using
what they believe
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as an instrument of persecution,
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that's when it's
crossed the line.
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So let's not label
any particular religion
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as a persecuting religion.
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Because if you want to do that,
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you will have to go
back to Roman Catholicism,
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the worst persecuting
religion of all time.
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And they don't deny the record.
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Matter of fact,
Pope John Paul II
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apologized during his reign
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for the atrocities
perpetrated by Rome,
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they admit that.
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But they said, "We are
new, we are not the same Rome."
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Well, I want to tell
you in the next broadcast,
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I'm spending sometime to teach.
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In the next
broadcast you're going to see
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the more things change,
the more they stay the same.
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America right now is
the only place on earth
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and I say this
without reservation.
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It is the only
safe place on earth
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for those who want to
practice their religion.
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And even as we speak,
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you can see that's
being eroded, with what?
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Same sex marriage.
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With people being
persecuted employment wise,
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for wanting to
honor the Sabbath.
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And for this push in America
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to unite Evangelicals
and Catholics together
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to establish one major religion,
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one head over that religion.
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And we know who
has suggested that?
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The pope himself said,
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"I would like to head
up the world religions."
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So we know America is
in a very pivotal place
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for the final
scenes to take place.
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In the very next
broadcast, you're going to see
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that what God
predicted in His Word
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is not only
accurate but we can trust it
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and we can rely on the
unadulterated Word of God.
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What do you say tonight?
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So friends, keep
studying God's Word
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and if it doesn't make sense,
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I guarantee you one day it
will come into a sharper focus.
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God bless you.
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