Hello, I'm Chris Shelton
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and welcome to
"Behold The Lamb Presents."
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We are so happy that you
have chosen to join us today
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for this very
important Bible study.
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Today's message is a
third in a five-part series
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that we have entitled
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"The Mystery of Inequity,
the Antichrist Revealed."
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As we've been
covering during these messages
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there are a great
number of confusing theories
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concerning the Antichrist
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and how it will
affect God's people?
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But if you've been
studying along with us,
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we pray that you're getting
a much clear vision of who
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and what the mystery
of inequity truly is.
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As we have been
basing our knowledge
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at our research upon scripture
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and supporting
historical records.
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Today's message is entitled
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"Understanding the
Prophecy of the Antichrist."
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It is so important
that we discover the truth
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that's found in scripture
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and then proclaim it as evidence
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against all the
circulating falsehood
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and erroneous teachings
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dealing with the mystery of
inequity and the Antichrist.
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So reach for your Bibles
and let's begin today's study.
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Once again it is entitled,
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"Understanding the
Prophecy of the Antichrist."
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And in preparation
for our study today
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we are blessed to first
listen to a song entitled,
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"Be Still and Know,"
as sung by Emma McDonald,
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from the 3ABN Worship Center.
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Be still and know that He is God
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Be still and
know that He is holy
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Be still, O
restless soul of mine
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Stand before the Prince of peace
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Let the noise and clamor cease
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Be still and know that He is God
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Be still and know
that He is faithful
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Be still, O
restless soul of mine
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Stand in awe and be amazed
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Know that He will never change
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Be still
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Be still and know that he is God
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Be still and know that he is God
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Be still and know that he is God
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Be still
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Be still and know that He is God
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Be still and
know He is our Father
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Come rest your
head upon His breast
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Listen to the rhythm of
His unfailing heart of love
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Beating for His little ones
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Calling each of us to come
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Be still
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Be still
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Welcome, we're glad
you could join us again
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as we study the
most important subject
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may be in the entire Bible, why?
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Because it's a warning against,
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we're talking
about the beast power.
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Some of you say, I don't
know what the beast power,
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mystery of
iniquity, the man of sin.
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You know, that's something
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that we need really be digging
in the word of God right now,
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because the time of this
world is soon to come to an end.
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And we need to
be studying because
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the mystery of
inequity is going to be, what?
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Is already working in
the world, to do what?
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To deceive us, so we need
to understand, what is truth?
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But always, before
we study the word of God
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and again I'm
glad that you joined us
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because this is
an exciting study.
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We always ask the
Holy Spirit to help
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to lead and guide
us into all truth.
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I'm going to kneel, as
I kneel to have prayer.
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Some of you who are at home,
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or you might be
able to kneel with me.
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Well, I sure
appreciate that if you'd pray
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along that the Holy
Spirit will guide us
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and give us the truth for
this hour in which we live.
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Shall we pray together?
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Kind, loving, heavenly Father,
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we thank You for the
privilege of prayer once again.
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Now we ask that
You would enlighten us
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through the power
of thy Holy Spirit
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as we read from the
pages of Your Holy Book,
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we pray as we study
prophecy that's man of sin,
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mystery of inequity,
the son of perdition.
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We pray will be revealed
to each and every one of us.
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It's very important
subject and how desperate
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we need the
Spirit of the Living God,
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inside of each
and everyone of us.
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Thank you for those who hear,
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thank you for
those who are tuning in,
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for every person
around the world today,
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this desiring truth.
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I pray Your Holy Spirit
will lead and guide them.
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Help us here, we
pray, forgive me of sin,
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anything in my heart and
life that needs not be there.
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So that our prayers maybe heard
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and answered
according to thy will.
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In precious name of Jesus
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we pray with thanksgiving, amen.
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Again we're glad
you joined us and again,
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get the pencil and paper
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'cause you're gonna
jot some things down.
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And as you jot
these things down,
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we have to move quickly on the--
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this is a five-part
series as you well know.
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This is our third-part.
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You say I missed the first,
I missed the second, whatever.
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Usually what we do, we
go over the following week,
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we go over and say on
part-one we discussed,
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on part two we discussed,
so today no exception.
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We're going to
go over the things
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that we learned in part-two
before we do the part-three.
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What we learned is truth
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after truth has
been given in scripture,
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we've studied that.
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It's given in
simplicity, it's given in signs,
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it's given in symbols,
and it's given in, what?
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Good, in the illustrations.
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So the Bible is true the Bible
is simple, the Bible is plain.
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Point number two,
that we went over.
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Only the surface reader,
pay close attention to me.
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Only the surface reader.
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Now I'm gonna, I'm
gonna label a surface reader.
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If surface reader is one
who is void of the Holy Spirit,
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they talk of
contradictions of scripture
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and they question the
authority of the Bible.
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Wow, that's pretty powerful,
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but we went over
some things on that.
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Three Jesus warns us that many
was going to be deceived, why?
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Because in the Mark
12, we learned, Jesus said,
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"Because the people
know not the scriptures,"
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we're gonna to be deceived, why?
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Because we don't
know scripture, why?
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Because many of us are
not staying in the scripture.
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We're not reading.
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This hour is vital to
God's last day people.
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The enemy is going to
deceive, the Bible says,
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"The whole world is
wondering after the beast."
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As we study the
mystery of inequity,
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we're studying the
Antichrist revealed.
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We're studying the man of
sin, the little horn of power,
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all these things add
up to one world power.
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We need to examine this power.
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Fourth-part, time has come
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when the truth must be
proclaimed, that means what?
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Pulling all stops, presenting
the truth as it is in Jesus.
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And you present truth, what?
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Truth will stand against, what?
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Falsehood, it will
stand against error,
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truth will stand on
its own merit, won't it?
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So we need to
understand what truth is.
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Point number five, that we
learned in lesson number two.
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Antichrist, simply what?
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That which is opposed to Christ,
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it's opposed to His followers,
it's opposed to what? To truth.
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So we learned these
things and we know now that
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this Antichrist is using
men, he's using organizations
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and powers of the
world to deceive mankind.
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He has a plan,
keep this in mind.
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He has a plan to
deceive the whole world.
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That's what the Bible says.
That's what we're learning.
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Point six, a
person who has heard,
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now I'm gonna be real plain,
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a person who has heard
the message of Jesus Christ,
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a person who has heard about
the divinity of Jesus Christ.
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The humanity, the
incarnation of Jesus Christ
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and they reject it,
they belong to the enemy.
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He that's not with me,
the Bible says, is against me.
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See it's time that
we, we come pointed.
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Lot of time preachers
they want to get on there,
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and they want to
pat this one over here,
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and they want to
pat that one over there.
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All I want to know is
what is truth, how about you?
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There's no just
patting, there's the truth,
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and the truth sometime is
difficult for us to accept,
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but God wants us to what?
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In plain, simple,
straight down the line.
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Point number seven,
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prophecy is we're studying
points out that man of sin,
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that mystery of
inequity, that Antichrist,
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you know what the Antichrist?
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He is a representative of Satan.
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Now what I'm saying
here, we're just not talking,
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we're bringing
some words out here.
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We're saying it
here as we get in
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and dig in the word of God
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and we reveal who this power is,
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please remember, he
is a representative.
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It is a representative
of Satan is the one.
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Now as, what?
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As he places
himself in the place of God.
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Now draw us what the Bible
said would happen, isn't it?
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And point number
eight, as we go on,
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the man of sin
would be covered up,
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as he covers
himself up, what does he do?
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He covers himself
up in a religious garb,
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in other words he
disguises himself,
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but the Bible is clear that
this man of sin would be, what?
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Would be exposed.
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Who would he be
exposed? Who's gonna expose him?
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The last day people of God,
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that's part of our
mission that God has given us.
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We don't back away from it,
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we don't turn and run from it.
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Displeasing as
it might be to many.
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Opposition that we receive,
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that's still -- the
mission that God has given to
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His last day
people is to expose this.
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Even if it means persecution.
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Maybe if it means
imprisonment and it means death,
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God requires His last day people
to expose this power, what?
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Because the world is
wondering after them,
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now I'm gonna quote this
two or three different times.
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Here is the reason,
because the world wonders
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after the beast
and they are those
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whose names are not written
in the "Lamb's Book of Life."
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Friend, doesn't that cause
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you some kind of
pain in your heart?
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Majority of the what?
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People say, oh, no,
it can't be that way.
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The Bible says it, God
has spoken and God knows.
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Today on part-three,
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understanding the
prophecies of the Antichrist,
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we'll be dealing
more with these issues.
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And then,
remember, there's part-four
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and then there's part-five.
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Just wanna bring
to your attention,
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just quickly right
now, this little book
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that I'm holding in my hand
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while I'm
thinking about it here.
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It's so powerful that
almost explodes in my hand.
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There's information in here
that everyone of God's people,
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now if you have the,
called the Mark of the Beast,
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if you already have
it, then that's beautiful.
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Just read it, 'cause you
have it doesn't mean anything,
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it's when you read it that
you become powerful for God.
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Things that
we're discussing here,
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for instance in
here, is discussing
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four critical Bible chapters
that we need to look at.
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Such as Daniel 7,
Daniel 8, Revelation 13,
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we do Revelation 17
and we can go on and on.
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And also in here there's
over 200, listen carefully,
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200 historical and religious
authorities are quoted.
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These authorities
they're quoted on the things
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that we are
discussing from the Bible,
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Bible prophecy and then
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there's over 300
Bible passages of that,
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there's lot that's
quoted, that's referred to.
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So you don't want,
this is a free copy,
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it has 200 of these, so it
goes to the first 200 callers.
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So I wouldn't
hesitate if I was you,
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get off the couch,
do something right now.
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You haven't done
anything in a while,
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do something now.
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Your soul could be at
stake, friend, please,
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you need that book, it backs
up exactly what we're going --
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because we're using
two vital important points
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that will help us in our study.
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We're using the
Bible, number one,
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and we're using what?
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Good, history.
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Historical
accounts as you add it.
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God intended it to be
that way for the skeptical mind
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and for those of
us who want to learn.
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Now, notice if this
power is so powerful,
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I mean it is just powerful.
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Do you understand why
that it must be uncovered?
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Why that it needs to be exposed?
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Because it does say,
that they -- that the world
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would wonder after this power.
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I was interested in this,
the world would wonder after.
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Some people say, they wonder,
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that means they're scratching
their head no, no, no, no.
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In the original language,
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I want you to pay special
attention and jot this down.
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When it says that the
whole world wondered after it,
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there is a couple of passages
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just jot down
quickly as you can.
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Revelation Chapter 13 verse
3 and Revelation 17 verses 8.
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Now we read verse 8 now,
when you read these things
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it says that the world,
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all the world
wonders after this power.
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That the world is
wondering after this power,
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then what kind of power is it?
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Is it a good
power, is it a bad power,
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but Bible that goes on to say,
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"That their
names are not written
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in the Lamb's Book of Life."
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So this power must be doing
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a good job of
deceiving the world.
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So I look that word wonder,
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you can do the very same thing.
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Revelation 13 Verse 3, the word
wonder in the Greek says this,
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"That the world
would be established,"
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they established
himself with his power.
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The world would
abide by this power.
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The world would be amazed.
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These are all
definitions of the word wonder.
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Are you still with me?
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They're going to wonder after
they're going to be amazed.
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Now listen to this, the
last two is really heavy duty,
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so if you're not ready,
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O dear friends,
please get ready.
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It says, "The whole world will
be bewitched by this power,"
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and the whole world will become,
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listen carefully, will
become insane by this power.
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That's what the word
means in original Greek,
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I'm not making it up,
you can look in your scrolls.
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And then in Revelation
17, verse 8 it talks about
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this that wonder
after this power again,
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and similar meanings
here, but notice, it says,
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that the people are
going to admire this power.
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They're going to
marvel at this power.
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They're going to look
closely at this power,
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notice and I thought
this was interesting.
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After they wonder
after they look at it,
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after they look closely at it.
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It says, they --
listen, "They visit this power."
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Wow! Why are people
so, it's like amazed,
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they wonder after this power.
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It must be such a
deception that we think that
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it's something
that maybe that is not.
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Have you ever
fell into that trap.
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Millions and millions of people
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they're going to,
they're going to be lost
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because they will
not hear the word of God.
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Millions are going to be lost
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because they will not see
what God is putting clearly
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in front of us
to give to the world
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so that we can be
warned of this power.
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Millions will be lost
because they will not obey.
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Now notice this, obey as
they study these prophecies.
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Too many people come
around nowadays and say,
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"Well, that's not
the way I want it to be."
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Well, may I say nicely
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and with respect to
you, that's too bad.
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Since when did God ask you
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or since when
did God ever ask me,
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if it's going to
be all right with me
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before He put it down
in the Bible, He didn't.
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Please think about it.
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Well, I don't want it that way,
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God never asked you if
you wanted it that way.
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But, boy, is He
revealing some starling facts,
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that as we look and again
it was taking lots of time
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to establish these things in
the Bible and history to say,
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all of this what we discussed
so far is 100% accurate.
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Then why not,
the last little bit,
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even though it
might be distasteful.
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Even though you say,
it's hard to believe.
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You think the
devil is not gonna pull
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all stops in the last days.
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Oh he's gonna pull everything
he could possibly can and you?
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Now listen, let
me just say that.
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Just because you go down,
you're driving down the road,
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you're just all bored.
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And you see this people
over here, oh, that's a church,
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you know, that's a
church, that's Christian people,
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well that may be so, but listen,
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every person, every person
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that goes by they
look and they say,
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oh, that's a church right there.
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That doesn't mean God
approves of that church.
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Church is people,
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because they have
church on the outside, what?
00:18:21.29\00:18:22.98
It doesn't mean He
approves of that at all.
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Because if God
approves us, there must be,
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there must be something there
that identifies it as God's.
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So God's church must
have identifying marks
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and they must be met in
order to be God's church.
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And let me tell you
this, friend, if it's not
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God's church, it
is the enemy's church.
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Let's be bold about
it, let's not mess around,
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too often we mess
around with these things
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and we cannot do that.
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Remember, if you
doesn't belong to God,
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who does it belong to?
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It belongs to the enemy.
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And I'll tell you, the
enemy has a lot of people,
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I'm telling you to lot
of it, oh, be bold now,
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a lot of churches, why?
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Because they won't
follow and obey the truth.
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They say, it doesn't
really matter, it's okay.
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Oh, friend, we need
to -- If the church,
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not talking about church people,
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we're talking groups of --
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if they're not teaching
the truth, now think about it.
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Then the enemy is
going to teach them, what?
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A lie.
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Either gonna accept the truth,
or they're gonna accept a lie.
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They're gonna accept
untruths, they're gonna accept,
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you know, sugarcoated.
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Many church all you hear
is just pleasing little fables
00:19:23.78\00:19:26.72
and just sugarcoated messages
00:19:26.73\00:19:28.62
and watered down liberal
message you hear all the time.
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Lukewarm
messages, you hear of this,
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no self-denial, you
hear no preparation,
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you hear no
second coming, basically.
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Just kind of go along as you are
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and somehow you're gonna
find your way into heaven.
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Somehow the
churches are teaching today,
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look as much like.
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Listen, look much like the world
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and dress like
the world as you want,
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think like the
world, do like the world,
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and heaven is
going to be your home.
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Oh friend, you
couldn't be into it, it's wrong.
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See many preachers'
getting up a television so on,
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I don't mind you get on you,
00:19:59.42\00:20:00.51
you get on to me if you want to.
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Get up there on your t-shirts
00:20:02.77\00:20:04.05
and -- shirts
unbuttoned and everything,
00:20:04.06\00:20:05.90
you'll look like the
world, what you said an example?
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What should be a Godly
man or woman for God, huh?
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Get out there and set an
example for the people today.
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Sometime in church we do that.
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We forget to conduct ourselves
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as the one whom
we're going to visit.
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See the devil wants us
to think along these lines.
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How we'd conduct
ourselves in the house of God?
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How do we to dress
in the house of God?
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We come into the house of God,
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we have to realize
we're meeting right
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with the Ruler of the Universe.
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The Ruler of the
Universe, then how our minds,
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then should be cleared
with the things of this world?
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We should leave all the
sides, I'm meeting with God.
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God that knows
everything about me.
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All my needs and
what's it gonna take for me,
00:20:49.19\00:20:51.44
you see, to make it to heaven.
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Quickly, I'm saying,
what about our appearance?
00:20:53.67\00:20:56.37
Oh friend, we
sometime come into church
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and we dress like we're
lounging around at home,
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we dress like we're to going
to -- on a picnic somewhere.
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Friend, remember you
say, it makes a difference,
00:21:06.18\00:21:09.07
it makes a difference when
we come in contact with God.
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When we come in
the presence of God,
00:21:11.79\00:21:13.61
He expects the
very best that we have.
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Nowadays, nowadays,
we see people are just,
00:21:18.32\00:21:21.01
oh, it doesn't matter.
00:21:21.02\00:21:22.46
Everything is cool,
we just come as you are.
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Let me tell you real quick,
I'll got to get over this,
00:21:24.46\00:21:27.22
I'm gonna get out the box.
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But lot of people
they talked about,
00:21:29.58\00:21:30.79
you know there are all,
oh, just come as you are,
00:21:30.80\00:21:32.95
if you realize that the
principle, come as you are,
00:21:32.96\00:21:35.75
Jesus was referring to
our spiritual condition
00:21:35.76\00:21:39.23
much more than the physical.
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That's how you come as you are.
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He expects the best that
you have and that I have.
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Maybe give you a
quick illustration,
00:21:47.43\00:21:48.76
if you're one of
those, just giving that.
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Well, you know,
this is all I have.
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Listen if you don't have
00:21:52.40\00:21:53.39
the right kind
of clothes to wear,
00:21:53.40\00:21:54.47
clean clothes to wear.
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The church's responsibility
is to get you something
00:21:55.53\00:21:57.69
that you can wear.
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Clean and nice
the best you have.
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When person gave
me this illustration.
00:22:01.16\00:22:03.54
Now we're
talking about a God now.
00:22:03.55\00:22:04.91
Now we're talking about God.
00:22:04.92\00:22:07.12
God told him to He
said, well, you know,
00:22:07.13\00:22:08.97
this is the best I have and
I'm just gonna be real plain,
00:22:08.98\00:22:11.11
all I have is just jeans.
00:22:11.12\00:22:13.44
Well, I said,
really it's all you have?
00:22:13.45\00:22:14.63
Yeah, that's all
I have, so I said,
00:22:14.64\00:22:15.70
best I've got, so I'm gonna,
00:22:15.71\00:22:17.33
I said, you think
maybe that's just a choice.
00:22:17.34\00:22:20.26
Well, no, I just,
this is the best I have,
00:22:20.27\00:22:22.15
I said really, how
much those jeans cost you?
00:22:22.16\00:22:25.21
Oh, that jeans cost me $24.
00:22:25.22\00:22:27.15
I said, I got
pair of suit pants on,
00:22:27.16\00:22:28.34
all they cost me $12.
00:22:28.35\00:22:29.35
So I can get
two. Do you have one?
00:22:29.36\00:22:30.72
It's a matter of choice.
00:22:30.73\00:22:33.37
Who you're going to
spend sometime with,
00:22:33.38\00:22:35.95
principle will always be
there, God expects the best,
00:22:35.96\00:22:38.60
He expects the best you have
00:22:38.61\00:22:39.96
when we're
studying about prophecy too.
00:22:39.97\00:22:44.04
We're shameful
sometimes, God help us.
00:22:44.05\00:22:47.31
We study we got
to take the Bible
00:22:47.32\00:22:49.16
and we've got to
take like a history
00:22:49.17\00:22:51.61
as it has been
revealed through history,
00:22:51.62\00:22:54.47
these movings of nations.
00:22:54.48\00:22:57.66
And so God says that we
can trace them right on down
00:22:57.67\00:23:00.19
so that we need not be
fooled in the last days.
00:23:00.20\00:23:03.44
This little horn power,
if you've never studied this,
00:23:03.45\00:23:07.36
it might be a little
difficult for you and you,
00:23:07.37\00:23:10.10
there has to be a
good place for us to start.
00:23:10.11\00:23:12.90
And I pray that we're
gonna be starting in the right,
00:23:12.91\00:23:15.59
the right point here,
00:23:15.60\00:23:16.84
so that it will help
you to understand it.
00:23:16.85\00:23:19.26
So become clearer in your
mind as well as in my mind.
00:23:19.27\00:23:22.94
First of all we
realize in every, in every age,
00:23:22.95\00:23:26.04
God has some, some truth.
00:23:26.05\00:23:28.20
A developing truth
that we need to be studying,
00:23:28.21\00:23:30.79
we need to be focusing on.
00:23:30.80\00:23:33.01
It's a message that
He gave to His people.
00:23:33.02\00:23:36.09
A message that we need to hear,
00:23:36.10\00:23:37.84
a message of warning of
may be some future things
00:23:37.85\00:23:40.44
that's getting ready to happen.
00:23:40.45\00:23:42.27
You see, new truth is
never, some people say,
00:23:42.28\00:23:44.62
oh, this is new, man,
00:23:44.63\00:23:45.83
this is new truth is never
independent of the old truth.
00:23:45.84\00:23:51.61
We must understand
the old in order to what?
00:23:51.62\00:23:54.54
To comprehend the new.
00:23:54.55\00:23:57.23
Let me give you an illustration,
00:23:57.24\00:23:58.26
you say, well,
listen, how did Jesus do it?
00:23:58.27\00:24:00.61
Oh, He's our example, isn't He?
00:24:00.62\00:24:02.95
As we study life of Christ,
00:24:02.96\00:24:04.13
we can understand
how to handle this.
00:24:04.14\00:24:05.88
Here's what Jesus
said, remember He wanted,
00:24:05.89\00:24:08.46
He wanted His disciples
to understand about His death
00:24:08.47\00:24:12.21
and His burial
and His resurrection,
00:24:12.22\00:24:13.87
you remember that.
00:24:13.88\00:24:14.89
They couldn't quite comprehend
00:24:14.90\00:24:16.27
that Jesus wanted
them to understand it,
00:24:16.28\00:24:17.72
so what did he do?
00:24:17.73\00:24:19.07
Here's where He
started His lesson,
00:24:19.08\00:24:20.87
Luke 24:27, the Bible says,
00:24:20.88\00:24:23.41
"He began at Moses
and all the prophets."
00:24:23.42\00:24:26.89
Wow! See, the reason I'm
bringing all these stuff is
00:24:26.90\00:24:30.13
because we're doing
lot of Old Testament study
00:24:30.14\00:24:32.31
and lot of call yourself
New Testament Christians
00:24:32.32\00:24:34.43
and you're
disregarding the Old Testament.
00:24:34.44\00:24:36.40
Oh, don't be so
bold, friend, to do that.
00:24:36.41\00:24:38.85
Don't be so bold
that we're bringing
00:24:38.86\00:24:40.28
some more points
here in a moment.
00:24:40.29\00:24:41.60
Here's how Jesus did,
00:24:41.61\00:24:42.77
when He wanted the
disciples to understand.
00:24:42.78\00:24:44.25
He said, "He began," with what?
00:24:44.26\00:24:45.75
Began at Moses and He
said, "And all the prophets."
00:24:45.76\00:24:49.10
And then again in John 5:46,
00:24:49.11\00:24:50.88
Jesus said this,
"Had you believed Moses,
00:24:50.89\00:24:53.76
you would have believed
me, for he spoke of me."
00:24:53.77\00:24:57.23
Wow! So for
what did Jesus teach?
00:24:57.24\00:25:02.66
That's right,
from the Old Testament,
00:25:02.67\00:25:04.56
that's all he had.
00:25:04.57\00:25:06.28
So we can't set
aside the Old Testament
00:25:06.29\00:25:08.70
when Jesus said in John 5:39,
00:25:08.71\00:25:11.33
"They are they
which testify of," what?
00:25:11.34\00:25:14.19
Good, "of me."
00:25:14.20\00:25:16.42
See if we reject the
old, we also reject what?
00:25:16.43\00:25:20.27
The new, if we reject, you know,
00:25:20.28\00:25:23.51
apart of this Bible
we reject another part,
00:25:23.52\00:25:26.47
it's now what we want it to be.
00:25:26.48\00:25:28.86
So it takes both
of them, both part,
00:25:28.87\00:25:30.85
the whole part to
make a complete whole.
00:25:30.86\00:25:33.26
In other words,
you think about here.
00:25:33.27\00:25:35.65
A person cannot
present the law of God
00:25:35.66\00:25:39.46
and talking about here, a
law of God without the gospel.
00:25:39.47\00:25:43.38
Or you cannot present
the gospel without, what?
00:25:43.39\00:25:45.81
Good, the law
of God, absolutely.
00:25:45.82\00:25:48.38
You can attempt it all you want.
00:25:48.39\00:25:50.08
But every attempt
that you made will fail.
00:25:50.09\00:25:53.29
God is speaking
plainly, keep this in mind.
00:25:53.30\00:25:55.89
You see the enemy
could not destroy the church.
00:25:55.90\00:26:00.33
And so, you know this well,
00:26:00.34\00:26:01.71
but since you could
not destroy the church
00:26:01.72\00:26:03.35
and you try that
during the dark ages.
00:26:03.36\00:26:05.10
We'll learn
much more about that,
00:26:05.11\00:26:06.32
but listen in dark
ages, so what did he do?
00:26:06.33\00:26:08.93
The enemy decide
to join the church.
00:26:08.94\00:26:12.37
I think he might have
his name on a role somewhere.
00:26:12.38\00:26:15.63
He's joined the church.
00:26:15.64\00:26:18.17
Sometime when
you come to church,
00:26:18.18\00:26:19.31
I tell you, I wonder sometime
that he's not showing up,
00:26:19.32\00:26:22.87
how about you?
00:26:22.88\00:26:24.45
Now he decide he's gonna
work inside and he works inside,
00:26:24.46\00:26:28.15
he's gonna tear the
people of God apart.
00:26:28.16\00:26:32.06
So remember, where he's working?
00:26:32.07\00:26:33.71
In the church.
00:26:33.72\00:26:34.84
So he's gonna
deceive the church.
00:26:34.85\00:26:36.67
When everybody is
hollering truth, truth, truth.
00:26:36.68\00:26:39.40
Somebody wrote me a letter
the other day, on there not.
00:26:39.41\00:26:41.98
Now it's like
somebody is banging
00:26:41.99\00:26:43.21
up the side of
the head or something,
00:26:43.22\00:26:44.59
I don't know whether
they think I believe it
00:26:44.60\00:26:45.83
or whether I don't.
00:26:45.84\00:26:47.15
And some of you be
watching you probably will be.
00:26:47.16\00:26:49.96
So I'm talking to you,
00:26:49.97\00:26:50.99
I haven't got chance
really order that yet,
00:26:51.00\00:26:52.87
or it look at over and see
what kind of order it's in.
00:26:52.88\00:26:56.11
We're kind of quick
on there, it just says,
00:26:56.12\00:26:57.95
you cannot possibly understand
00:26:57.96\00:26:59.24
what truth is unless
you understand Zechariah 4.
00:26:59.25\00:27:03.51
Well, I'm gonna be
just real bold with you,
00:27:03.52\00:27:04.92
how do you know I don't?
00:27:04.93\00:27:06.30
You see, and then he
gave me a bunch of passage,
00:27:08.47\00:27:10.75
well praise God, but
wouldn't it be better
00:27:10.76\00:27:12.29
to start if
you're trying to study
00:27:12.30\00:27:13.46
with somebody
and say, what about?
00:27:13.47\00:27:15.53
Or I found this out, then said,
00:27:15.54\00:27:17.30
you don't know
what truth is until you?
00:27:17.31\00:27:21.84
Friend, we want to be a
part of the family of God here.
00:27:21.85\00:27:23.34
We want to try to get,
00:27:23.35\00:27:24.34
get on to learn
these truths, and I do too.
00:27:24.35\00:27:28.26
So how did they --
we're talking about
00:27:28.27\00:27:29.95
as Satan works
inside the church,
00:27:29.96\00:27:32.03
then how does he do it?
00:27:32.04\00:27:34.05
Listen very carefully,
00:27:34.06\00:27:35.81
here's what the Great
Controversy page 50 says,
00:27:35.82\00:27:38.25
and you know what too.
00:27:38.26\00:27:39.48
You can study in
history, the devil came in,
00:27:39.49\00:27:42.08
now notice this, the
compromise between, what?
00:27:42.09\00:27:45.23
Come on, paganism
and Christianity, good.
00:27:45.24\00:27:49.56
Resulted in the man of
sin. This is who we're exposing.
00:27:49.57\00:27:54.00
How did the man of sin
develop inside the church?
00:27:54.01\00:27:56.64
He had no
business in the church.
00:27:56.65\00:27:58.81
But somehow he ended
up in the church, why?
00:27:58.82\00:28:00.80
Because he
brought in what? Paganism.
00:28:00.81\00:28:04.92
Think about
paganism inside the church,
00:28:04.93\00:28:07.31
it resulted in the man of sin
as prophecy has told us, why?
00:28:07.32\00:28:11.35
Because he's opposing
and exalting himself, what?
00:28:11.36\00:28:14.42
Above that, that's
God, above God it says.
00:28:14.43\00:28:18.91
So we find a gigantic,
00:28:18.92\00:28:20.67
then religious
system in the world today.
00:28:20.68\00:28:24.25
It's a master
piece of Satan's power.
00:28:24.26\00:28:27.11
It's a monument
even to his efforts,
00:28:27.12\00:28:29.52
to see himself on the
throne and to rule the world.
00:28:29.53\00:28:34.13
You think that's
such a big statement.
00:28:34.14\00:28:35.86
You may be reading
that in Isaiah 14:14,
00:28:35.87\00:28:38.36
you remember that?
00:28:38.37\00:28:39.38
Didn't Satan
said, I'll be, what?
00:28:39.39\00:28:41.97
Like the Most High.
00:28:41.98\00:28:45.32
And so we find Satan's plan
00:28:45.33\00:28:46.97
and we need to be
watching this plan.
00:28:46.98\00:28:49.59
Join the church, sit
right in the middle sometime.
00:28:49.60\00:28:53.37
you know, there's too difficult
passage, chapters in the Bible.
00:28:53.38\00:29:00.20
And then, oh they're
so hard to understand
00:29:00.21\00:29:01.96
and Daniel's hard to understand
00:29:01.97\00:29:03.17
and Revelation is
hard to understand.
00:29:03.18\00:29:05.75
These two books tell
the history of the world.
00:29:05.76\00:29:08.97
Dear friend, and
they told it, what?
00:29:08.98\00:29:11.31
Before it
happened, not after the fact,
00:29:11.32\00:29:14.10
but before it happened.
00:29:14.11\00:29:15.47
So that we would know what had
happened that it is the truth.
00:29:15.48\00:29:19.45
That's so, so important.
00:29:19.46\00:29:21.21
But mostly of these books,
00:29:21.22\00:29:22.79
these two books
deal mostly with what?
00:29:22.80\00:29:25.15
Symbols and types,
00:29:25.16\00:29:27.67
and so we have to be
restudies of the word of God.
00:29:27.68\00:29:30.26
And I know only people they're
afraid when you say, beast.
00:29:30.27\00:29:33.24
Wow! That's what you
afraid about beast for?
00:29:33.25\00:29:35.88
As we study, you're
gonna see that there's a very,
00:29:35.89\00:29:37.87
it's important here
because we need to understand
00:29:37.88\00:29:40.81
the prophecies
of the Antichrist.
00:29:40.82\00:29:43.20
When you
understand the language of it
00:29:43.21\00:29:44.96
and how it was written and why.
00:29:44.97\00:29:46.84
And only the true
seeker will find out.
00:29:46.85\00:29:49.59
Daniel 2 and Daniel 7
for instance we are --.
00:29:49.60\00:29:52.64
Talks about four world powers.
00:29:52.65\00:29:55.08
All you study them I
know many times before,
00:29:55.09\00:29:57.11
but the ruling over,
00:29:57.12\00:29:59.08
what we call then the
known civilized world.
00:29:59.09\00:30:03.49
Now, remember, if
we believe these things
00:30:03.50\00:30:04.69
and it's coming in line 100%,
00:30:04.70\00:30:06.92
we don't have to
add anything at all.
00:30:06.93\00:30:09.47
We just have to
say, boy, they harmonize,
00:30:09.48\00:30:11.29
but it's interesting
when we get into something
00:30:11.30\00:30:12.88
that's a little touchy after
the several world empowers,
00:30:12.89\00:30:15.61
it starts to get a
little bit touchy here.
00:30:15.62\00:30:17.08
It starts
identifying the man of sin,
00:30:17.09\00:30:18.98
mystery of inequity.
00:30:18.99\00:30:20.39
All of sudden, we --
well, that can't be -- remember,
00:30:20.40\00:30:23.15
the devil has joined the church.
00:30:23.16\00:30:26.82
You keep that in
mind, you're gonna find out,
00:30:26.83\00:30:28.06
that's gonna have to be,
00:30:28.07\00:30:29.22
he's gonna be
working through what?
00:30:29.23\00:30:30.43
Come on, somebody, help me.
00:30:30.44\00:30:32.10
He's gonna be working
through that so called
00:30:32.11\00:30:34.57
religious organization,
00:30:34.58\00:30:37.07
that had to work
out in the world,
00:30:37.08\00:30:38.09
he's got the
world-lings out there,
00:30:38.10\00:30:39.48
you know that and I know it.
00:30:39.49\00:30:41.99
So we need to -- we
know, all we need to know
00:30:42.00\00:30:43.89
is a little bit of history
and a whole lot of the Bible.
00:30:43.90\00:30:47.02
And, boy, as we put
those things together,
00:30:47.03\00:30:48.76
we find that
prophecy is 100% correct.
00:30:48.77\00:30:52.85
Remember these four
nations, four nations,
00:30:52.86\00:30:55.67
these four nations
worship the Sun and the moon
00:30:55.68\00:30:58.57
and the stars
and so we find that
00:30:58.58\00:31:00.46
there are a Baal
worship or Satan worship.
00:31:00.47\00:31:04.03
This is all that
they, that they knew.
00:31:04.04\00:31:06.59
So they've given
themselves over to the enemy.
00:31:06.60\00:31:09.23
And so everything
that surrounded them,
00:31:09.24\00:31:11.26
that's all people
heard, that's all people seen.
00:31:11.27\00:31:14.44
Man, that's an
awful surrounding to be,
00:31:14.45\00:31:16.60
and what does that as a
person who's looking for truth.
00:31:16.61\00:31:19.94
Well, see God uses this
term, we talked about beast.
00:31:19.95\00:31:25.46
He did it to describe
the character of each nation.
00:31:25.47\00:31:30.02
Beast to describe what?
The character of nations.
00:31:30.03\00:31:34.63
So don't -- let's say,
oh this ugly beast came
00:31:34.64\00:31:37.52
about -- notice
what-- here's how it say,
00:31:37.53\00:31:39.99
you say, well, I don't know.
00:31:40.00\00:31:41.14
Look in Daniel 7
verse 17 and we're gonna hit
00:31:41.15\00:31:43.71
this one again, in
just a few moments.
00:31:43.72\00:31:45.60
It says here, "The great beast,"
00:31:45.61\00:31:47.72
you can't get any
clearer than this,
00:31:47.73\00:31:49.07
"The great
beast are four kings,"
00:31:49.08\00:31:51.92
it's not hard to understand,
00:31:51.93\00:31:53.94
but sometime we
just make it hard.
00:31:53.95\00:31:55.36
We don't want to
put any effort into it.
00:31:55.37\00:31:58.18
So it may be, be well for
us as we study here for --
00:31:58.19\00:32:01.79
maybe the beginning,
rest of you've been through it
00:32:01.80\00:32:03.68
many, many times, you
may understand it well.
00:32:03.69\00:32:06.09
But well, there's millions who
do not understand this message.
00:32:06.10\00:32:09.29
It might be well in -- I really
don't see if happen too often,
00:32:09.30\00:32:12.63
that we begin our
study in Daniel Chapter 7,
00:32:12.64\00:32:15.64
rather than Daniel
Chapter 2 and then we'll go back
00:32:15.65\00:32:18.80
to identify Daniel
Chapter 2 and put it together
00:32:18.81\00:32:22.22
maybe in a little clearer
form for us, identification.
00:32:22.23\00:32:25.75
You have your
Bible, I want you to read.
00:32:25.76\00:32:28.01
We'll have to take
time, we're gonna have
00:32:28.02\00:32:29.27
to take time to
read these seven verses
00:32:29.28\00:32:31.68
in Daniel Chapter
7, verses 1 through 7.
00:32:31.69\00:32:33.87
Then we're gonna go back
00:32:33.88\00:32:34.91
and we're going to
discuss these things.
00:32:34.92\00:32:37.82
Bible says in Daniel
Chapter 7 in verse 1,
00:32:37.83\00:32:40.15
"First year of Belshazzar,
00:32:40.16\00:32:41.64
the King of Babylon Daniel
had a dream and a vision,"
00:32:41.65\00:32:45.02
is that important, is a
vision given to him by God?
00:32:45.03\00:32:48.14
On his head and his
bed, he wrote the dream,
00:32:48.15\00:32:50.73
and the sum of the matter.
00:32:50.74\00:32:52.73
Daniel spake and said,
he's telling us what he saw,
00:32:52.74\00:32:57.04
"He said, I saw in
the vision by night,
00:32:57.05\00:32:59.14
and behold the
four winds of heaven
00:32:59.15\00:33:02.31
strove upon the great sea."
00:33:02.32\00:33:04.24
Listen carefully, these words
00:33:04.25\00:33:05.65
because this is
what confuses the mind
00:33:05.66\00:33:07.30
and all of a sudden we say,
00:33:07.31\00:33:08.35
I don't know
about the four winds,
00:33:08.36\00:33:09.72
I don't know about
striving upon the great sea.
00:33:09.73\00:33:12.29
Then he said, "I
saw all this turmoil,
00:33:12.30\00:33:13.94
all that stuff going on.
00:33:13.95\00:33:15.13
And I saw, verse 3,
"Four great beast coming up
00:33:15.14\00:33:18.84
from the sea, and they
were diverse," means what?
00:33:18.85\00:33:21.20
"Different one from another."
00:33:21.21\00:33:22.79
Verse 4, "The first the
Bible said was like a good,
00:33:22.80\00:33:26.29
was like a lion, it
had eagles' wings on it,"
00:33:26.30\00:33:29.75
wow, I've never
seen one like that.
00:33:29.76\00:33:32.39
"I beheld to the
winds thereof was plucked,
00:33:32.40\00:33:34.17
and it was
lifted up in the earth,
00:33:34.18\00:33:35.97
and it made to stand
on its feet as a man,
00:33:35.98\00:33:38.67
and a man's
heart was given to it."
00:33:38.68\00:33:40.28
Verse 5, "I
behold another beast,
00:33:40.29\00:33:43.85
a second beast was like a bear,
00:33:43.86\00:33:45.97
raised itself upon
one side," the Bible said,
00:33:45.98\00:33:48.54
"Had three ribs in its
mouth between its teeth
00:33:48.55\00:33:51.76
and they said to it,
Arise, devour much," what?
00:33:51.77\00:33:54.61
"Much flesh."
00:33:54.62\00:33:55.62
Verse 6, "After this I beheld,
00:33:55.63\00:33:57.85
and lo another, like a leopard,"
00:33:57.86\00:34:00.22
all he was seeing
all these beast gives,
00:34:00.23\00:34:01.94
oh, I just can't understand,
oh, it's gonna be simple watch.
00:34:01.95\00:34:04.39
"A leopard, had upon his
back four wings of a fowl,
00:34:06.54\00:34:10.89
that beast had four
heads," oh, how scary,
00:34:10.90\00:34:13.87
"Dominion was given to it."
00:34:13.88\00:34:15.24
Verse 7, "And I, after
this I saw in the night vision,
00:34:15.25\00:34:19.06
behold the fourth beast,"
00:34:19.07\00:34:20.39
listen, "Dreadful,
terrible, strong exceedingly,
00:34:20.40\00:34:24.22
it had great iron teeth,
00:34:24.23\00:34:26.26
it devoured and
break into pieces,
00:34:26.27\00:34:28.06
stamped with
residue the feet of it,
00:34:28.07\00:34:30.23
it was diverse
from the other beast,"
00:34:30.24\00:34:32.08
notice, "that were
before it and it had 10 horns."
00:34:32.09\00:34:36.76
See that's where
people, they read it,
00:34:36.77\00:34:38.19
they say, oh, I
just can't, can't listen.
00:34:38.20\00:34:41.56
As we read Daniel 7
in verses 1 through 7,
00:34:41.57\00:34:45.45
contemplate now
as we back quickly
00:34:45.46\00:34:47.53
and try to go over some
of what we can cover today.
00:34:47.54\00:34:50.31
Take a closer look,
here's a fact, here's a fact.
00:34:50.32\00:34:54.88
If the countries of
the day of the world
00:34:54.89\00:34:56.58
are represented by symbols,
00:34:56.59\00:34:58.66
you've heard
this in every study.
00:34:58.67\00:35:00.20
They almost give
you too quick once
00:35:00.21\00:35:01.47
and then break it down.
00:35:01.48\00:35:03.57
So, it's not uncommon,
even in our world today
00:35:03.58\00:35:06.26
they're represented by symbols,
00:35:06.27\00:35:07.91
United States is
represented by what?
00:35:07.92\00:35:09.96
Good "the eagle."
00:35:09.97\00:35:11.04
Russia is what represented by?
00:35:11.05\00:35:13.01
They call "the bear."
00:35:13.02\00:35:14.25
And you can go on,
the other countries
00:35:14.26\00:35:15.82
are represented so,
when you saw a bear,
00:35:15.83\00:35:17.87
and they saw a leopard,
00:35:17.88\00:35:19.02
they saw it's not uncommon then.
00:35:19.03\00:35:21.85
And in fact if we
break it down to our level,
00:35:21.86\00:35:24.51
to our schools, to
our sports of the day,
00:35:24.52\00:35:28.98
you ever notice that?
00:35:28.99\00:35:30.38
Have you ever heard -- the rams.
00:35:30.39\00:35:34.45
The bears, the bulls,
the redbirds, the hawks,
00:35:34.46\00:35:38.63
the dolphins,
the dogs, the tigers,
00:35:38.64\00:35:40.32
are you still with me,
the gators and the colts,
00:35:40.33\00:35:43.03
and the list goes
on and on, and on,
00:35:43.04\00:35:44.56
so it's not
unusual to be represented
00:35:44.57\00:35:46.29
by a symbol of an animal.
00:35:46.30\00:35:49.52
So, these symbols that
Daniel saw here is not unusual
00:35:49.53\00:35:52.68
to be identified,
because we've already read,
00:35:52.69\00:35:55.14
remember, in verse 2.
00:35:55.15\00:35:57.32
The Lord has what?
00:35:57.33\00:35:58.47
The Lord has four symbols to
represent four world empires.
00:35:58.48\00:36:04.00
Four symbols represent
what, four world powers.
00:36:04.01\00:36:07.42
In verse 2 of Daniel 7,
we we're reading Daniel said,
00:36:07.43\00:36:10.67
"The four winds of
heaven," what does that mean?
00:36:10.68\00:36:14.29
You say, what you
mean the four winds?
00:36:14.30\00:36:15.92
What happens when
you have a nice calm sea,
00:36:15.93\00:36:18.22
then all of a sudden the
wind comes up and a storm.
00:36:18.23\00:36:20.99
It gets pretty rough
out there, doesn't it?
00:36:21.00\00:36:23.15
It gets stormy up
there, there could be disaster,
00:36:23.16\00:36:25.75
there could be
death, and in the Bible
00:36:25.76\00:36:27.98
the winds represent
strife, war, and commotion.
00:36:27.99\00:36:32.22
You say, yeah,
but how do we know?
00:36:32.23\00:36:33.85
Jeremiah Chapter
25 and Jeremiah 49,
00:36:33.86\00:36:37.51
you can read
those verses, 31 and 32,
00:36:37.52\00:36:40.34
and Jeremiah 25 and 36
and 37, and Jeremiah 49.
00:36:40.35\00:36:44.99
Anyway, they're there,
strife and commotion you say,
00:36:45.00\00:36:47.51
well okay, so
something has happened,
00:36:47.52\00:36:49.38
so we saw four what?
00:36:49.39\00:36:50.63
Four powers, four nations rise.
00:36:50.64\00:36:53.47
But there was war
and commotion going on.
00:36:53.48\00:36:55.56
Something big was going on.
00:36:55.57\00:36:56.78
Remember I'm talking about
the history of the world here.
00:36:56.79\00:36:59.02
We're talking about if we
can identify all these things,
00:36:59.03\00:37:01.14
we can get down and identify
00:37:01.15\00:37:02.34
the "Mystery of
Iniquity" that man of sin.
00:37:02.35\00:37:05.72
This is what it's all about
00:37:05.73\00:37:06.91
and what he's
doing to the world today.
00:37:06.92\00:37:09.37
See, these symbols
explain themselves, praise God.
00:37:09.38\00:37:12.60
But we have to keep searching.
00:37:12.61\00:37:14.03
We have to keep
digging, digging.
00:37:14.04\00:37:16.26
Also in Daniel
7:2, he uses the term,
00:37:16.27\00:37:19.78
notice this, "The great sea."
00:37:19.79\00:37:22.55
Do you remember
how you use that?
00:37:22.56\00:37:24.10
He saw all these beasts
coming up, that he wrote,
00:37:24.11\00:37:27.36
he said, "I saw in
the night vision, behold,
00:37:27.37\00:37:29.36
four winds of heaven
strove upon the great sea."
00:37:29.37\00:37:32.51
Now, what does that
mean, the great sea?
00:37:32.52\00:37:35.48
Daniel 7:2, "The great
sea," found it, you look up
00:37:35.49\00:37:39.01
Numbers 34 verse 6, you
see that the Mediterranean Sea,
00:37:39.02\00:37:43.55
see this gives us a hint of
where this was taking place.
00:37:43.56\00:37:47.22
The Mediterranean
Sea was called what?
00:37:47.23\00:37:49.56
The--good, the great sea.
00:37:49.57\00:37:51.51
Sea is a symbol of
what? Of lots of people, good.
00:37:51.52\00:37:56.05
Isaiah 8 says
it, verses 7 and 8.
00:37:56.06\00:37:58.67
Revelation 17:15 says
waters, may represents
00:37:58.68\00:38:02.68
multitudes,
nations, and tongues.
00:38:02.69\00:38:05.36
So, we say we have
four world empires,
00:38:05.37\00:38:07.57
the wind was strive, there's war
00:38:07.58\00:38:08.83
and bloodshed stuff going on
among a heavy populated area,
00:38:08.84\00:38:12.65
a lot of people were
involved during this time,
00:38:12.66\00:38:14.88
Mediterranean and
be the whole world.
00:38:14.89\00:38:17.87
United States
wasn't in existence yet?
00:38:17.88\00:38:20.79
So, we're going to
identify without mistake.
00:38:20.80\00:38:23.98
So far it's very clear.
00:38:23.99\00:38:26.05
God's work just
explains it all to us,
00:38:26.06\00:38:28.56
there's no need for us
to guess, you know that.
00:38:28.57\00:38:31.54
Four beasts, four
kings, four kingdoms
00:38:31.55\00:38:34.07
will rise out of the what?
00:38:34.08\00:38:35.37
Good, the sea of
people, nations, and tongues
00:38:35.38\00:38:39.86
that came from what, the old
world or what we call, Europe.
00:38:39.87\00:38:43.07
Let's go quickly over this,
now notice what Daniel saw,
00:38:43.08\00:38:45.69
Daniel 7:4, we're gonna
read verse 4, 5, 6, and 7
00:38:45.70\00:38:49.32
just to pickup
some things quickly.
00:38:49.33\00:38:50.84
Daniel 7:4, he said,
00:38:50.85\00:38:52.07
"The first was
like a lion," with what?
00:38:52.08\00:38:55.57
Yeah, "Eagle's wings."
00:38:55.58\00:38:57.11
The second was a bear
had three ribs in its mouth.
00:38:57.12\00:39:00.21
The third was a
leopard and had what,
00:39:00.22\00:39:02.21
four wings, four heads.
00:39:02.22\00:39:04.46
Wow! That's scary.
00:39:04.47\00:39:05.84
Fourth beast was dreadful
and terrible and strong.
00:39:05.85\00:39:09.37
It had ten horns, you
remember that, Daniel 7:7.
00:39:09.38\00:39:12.65
Now, help us figure this out
00:39:12.66\00:39:14.10
for those you
really want to study.
00:39:14.11\00:39:15.71
Daniel made it clear
about the symbolic meaning,
00:39:15.72\00:39:18.40
and we're repeating this,
00:39:18.41\00:39:19.64
of the beast
again in Daniel 7:17.
00:39:19.65\00:39:22.89
Here's the key, once
again, if you miss the key,
00:39:22.90\00:39:26.18
if you don't have the
key you can start the engine,
00:39:26.19\00:39:28.90
the key once
again is Daniel 7:17,
00:39:28.91\00:39:31.63
he said that the great
beasts, which are four,
00:39:31.64\00:39:35.02
are four kings, which
shall arise out of what?
00:39:35.03\00:39:38.53
Out of the
earth. Oh, interesting.
00:39:38.54\00:39:40.44
Four kingdoms would
rise up out of the old world
00:39:40.45\00:39:43.51
and would become world powers,
00:39:43.52\00:39:46.19
is history
verifying this, oh yes 100%,
00:39:46.20\00:39:50.74
let's identify,
shall we, the first beast.
00:39:50.75\00:39:52.93
What was the
first beast as a lion,
00:39:52.94\00:39:54.95
what did it have?
00:39:54.96\00:39:56.03
It had eagle's wings
on. What does it mean?
00:39:56.04\00:39:58.10
And then this first world
power we know was Babylon,
00:39:58.11\00:40:00.71
but it said what, wings
on his back, meaning what?
00:40:00.72\00:40:03.83
Quickly, quickly devouring,
you know, its enemies.
00:40:03.84\00:40:07.33
So the wings represent
swiftness in which it did
00:40:07.34\00:40:09.59
it's work, conquering,
remember there was wind
00:40:09.60\00:40:11.42
and strife on the
sea, war and bloodshed.
00:40:11.43\00:40:14.82
So Babylon then began to reign
the first world power there.
00:40:14.83\00:40:18.46
But interesting
Isaiah 13:17 through 23
00:40:18.47\00:40:22.49
and also Daniel Chapter
2, said that be another power
00:40:22.50\00:40:25.75
after Babylon and
so what do we see.
00:40:25.76\00:40:29.32
Daniel 7:5, another
beast second like and to what?
00:40:29.33\00:40:32.08
A bear, the bear
raised itself up one side,
00:40:32.09\00:40:35.07
had three ribs you remember
in it's mouth, in his teeth,
00:40:35.08\00:40:38.34
and it said
arise, devour much flesh.
00:40:38.35\00:40:41.72
What does history tell us?
00:40:41.73\00:40:43.12
The Bible says this and
then we go back to history,
00:40:43.13\00:40:44.98
we'll say well Babylon
was the first world power,
00:40:44.99\00:40:48.38
but then there was
another that conquered it
00:40:48.39\00:40:50.12
and it was Medo
Persian, the Grecian empire.
00:40:50.13\00:40:54.27
In 538 B.C, Cyrus the
Persian, you remember him?
00:40:54.28\00:40:58.13
Yeah, as you can study
your history Cyrus the Persian.
00:40:58.14\00:41:01.18
He took over the city of Babylon
00:41:01.19\00:41:03.02
and it's very interesting.
00:41:03.03\00:41:04.77
All this was
recorded in scripture, listen,
00:41:04.78\00:41:07.44
100 years before
Cyrus was even born.
00:41:07.45\00:41:13.28
Well, that's a prediction,
that's prophecy, isn't it?
00:41:13.29\00:41:16.13
The Bible said, there
will be Cyrus that would go
00:41:16.14\00:41:18.72
into Babylon
through those lead gates,
00:41:18.73\00:41:20.47
you remember, and destroy,
100 before he's ever born.
00:41:20.48\00:41:23.14
God is right on target, and
we're on target as we study.
00:41:23.15\00:41:27.05
You can read that
account in Isaiah Chapter 45.
00:41:27.06\00:41:30.83
He said that the
bear that would have
00:41:30.84\00:41:32.26
three ribs in his mouth.
00:41:32.27\00:41:33.30
What's it mean three ribs?
00:41:33.31\00:41:35.14
It represents
exactly how Babylon
00:41:35.15\00:41:37.76
would be divided
when it was conquered.
00:41:37.77\00:41:40.39
How was it divided?
00:41:40.40\00:41:42.30
History says
that it divided into
00:41:42.31\00:41:43.91
Babylon and Lydia, and Egypt.
00:41:43.92\00:41:46.56
Just exactly what the word says.
00:41:46.57\00:41:49.02
Wow! Now the third
beast, Daniel 7:6 says,
00:41:49.03\00:41:53.04
it was like a
leopard it had what?
00:41:53.05\00:41:55.37
On the back of it
four wings of a fowl,
00:41:55.38\00:41:58.00
the beast had four heads,
Dominion was given unto it.
00:41:58.01\00:42:01.02
What does that
mean? Third kingdom.
00:42:01.03\00:42:04.19
Certainly the Bible
and history makes it clear
00:42:04.20\00:42:06.65
that Greece, right
the Grecian empire.
00:42:06.66\00:42:09.72
Oh, friend, have
you ever thought about
00:42:09.73\00:42:12.82
this empire with
Alexander the Great.
00:42:12.83\00:42:15.97
Has it ever dawned on your mind
00:42:15.98\00:42:17.45
Alexander the Great,
he's written in history.
00:42:17.46\00:42:19.83
I read about him in
history, how about you?
00:42:19.84\00:42:21.65
You could study about him today,
00:42:21.66\00:42:23.45
that leopard like beast, notice,
00:42:23.46\00:42:26.32
is a fitting symbol
of Greece, but it said,
00:42:26.33\00:42:28.70
he had four wings on its back.
00:42:28.71\00:42:31.53
What does that mean?
It means it conquered.
00:42:31.54\00:42:34.87
Alexander conquered
twice as fast as Babylon
00:42:34.88\00:42:38.74
or any other powers
before that, swiftness,
00:42:38.75\00:42:41.60
swiftness, and it conquered.
00:42:41.61\00:42:43.27
Now what about the four heads,
00:42:43.28\00:42:44.87
just quickly we're
talking four heads here,
00:42:44.88\00:42:46.99
four kingdoms,
four kingdom was divided
00:42:47.00\00:42:50.16
after his death, and you say,
00:42:50.17\00:42:52.05
yeah, but is that really true?
00:42:52.06\00:42:53.67
Yeah, history even recorded it,
00:42:53.68\00:42:55.89
Lysimachus, Cassander,
Ptolemy, and Seleucus.
00:42:55.90\00:42:59.47
That's what we see,
those are the four kingdoms
00:42:59.48\00:43:01.29
represented by the four
heads that are broken to
00:43:01.30\00:43:03.38
after the demise of
Alexander the Great.
00:43:03.39\00:43:06.05
So, what did you have?
00:43:06.06\00:43:07.83
You have Babylon, you've
the Medes and the Persians,
00:43:07.84\00:43:10.89
and then you have
Greece, and then you have
00:43:10.90\00:43:12.94
the fourth beast, Daniel
7:7, dreadful and terrible.
00:43:12.95\00:43:16.04
We've got go
through these things,
00:43:16.05\00:43:17.23
you've got to stay with me.
00:43:17.24\00:43:18.60
Dreadful and
terrible destroying what?
00:43:18.61\00:43:20.71
Because we've got to
get down to that man of sin.
00:43:20.72\00:43:23.70
We've got to get down that
false system in the last days.
00:43:23.71\00:43:27.41
We've got to get down
that third angels message.
00:43:27.42\00:43:30.06
We're gonna look
at that beast power
00:43:30.07\00:43:32.30
and this right here, if
we spend enough time on it,
00:43:32.31\00:43:34.29
we're gonna say okay,
okay, okay, okay, okay,
00:43:34.30\00:43:36.56
the Bible said and
history has said and it's right,
00:43:36.57\00:43:38.83
it's right, it's
right, it's right.
00:43:38.84\00:43:40.26
So, we can't
disagree with what's to come.
00:43:40.27\00:43:44.55
The fourth little power is easy
00:43:44.56\00:43:47.28
to identify, you know that?
00:43:47.29\00:43:50.38
I've got 11
things jotted down here
00:43:50.39\00:43:52.90
so you know that
it represented what?
00:43:52.91\00:43:55.16
Notice, it said
dreadful, terrible, and strong
00:43:55.17\00:43:57.68
exceedingly, it had ten horns.
00:43:57.69\00:44:00.05
So, the fourth
power is we identified
00:44:00.06\00:44:02.04
it said it was a
kingdom that would be larger
00:44:02.05\00:44:04.49
than all the other
kingdoms before it.
00:44:04.50\00:44:07.33
That we know was
Rome, don't we, right?
00:44:07.34\00:44:09.40
Babylon, Medo-Persia,
Greece, and Rome, Pagan Rome.
00:44:09.41\00:44:13.14
Existed between
168 B.C. and 476 A.D.
00:44:13.15\00:44:17.31
That's what history
says, but when it fell,
00:44:17.32\00:44:20.16
when it began and when it fell.
00:44:20.17\00:44:22.67
We know that it persecuted what?
00:44:22.68\00:44:24.35
The Jews, Jesus was crucified
under the control of it.
00:44:24.36\00:44:29.04
They destroyed
the temple in A.D. 70.
00:44:29.05\00:44:32.50
They fed the children to lions,
00:44:32.51\00:44:34.29
do you remember, as a sport.
00:44:34.30\00:44:36.97
It was a land of
mystery as you study it.
00:44:36.98\00:44:40.29
They invented weapons of what?
00:44:40.30\00:44:42.49
Of iron, all the
world come under the what,
00:44:42.50\00:44:46.20
iron hand of Roman empire.
00:44:46.21\00:44:50.29
Anything that got in
its way was trampled.
00:44:50.30\00:44:53.68
This was a Pagan kingdom,
00:44:53.69\00:44:56.11
but they left with its
Pagan kingdom, noticed this,
00:44:56.12\00:44:59.19
the names of the
week, and of the month,
00:44:59.20\00:45:03.79
and some titles, and
some sayings written in Latin.
00:45:03.80\00:45:08.53
Now, it's interesting.
00:45:08.54\00:45:09.91
Now remember this, we
talk about a while ago
00:45:09.92\00:45:12.19
and I'm gonna mention again,
00:45:12.20\00:45:13.54
things that have
its root in Paganism
00:45:13.55\00:45:15.75
you need to leave it alone.
00:45:15.76\00:45:17.72
And I found
this very interesting
00:45:17.73\00:45:19.61
even as Christians.
00:45:19.62\00:45:20.67
You're talking about
present truth Christians.
00:45:20.68\00:45:23.47
We'll find something that
it has its roots in Paganism,
00:45:23.48\00:45:27.06
but we like it and
we just say, too bad.
00:45:27.07\00:45:30.68
But as God's last day people
we have to expose Paganism,
00:45:30.69\00:45:34.36
where it came from?
What kind of belief?
00:45:34.37\00:45:36.60
Where did it come from?
00:45:36.61\00:45:37.67
Oh that came from Paganism.
00:45:37.68\00:45:39.52
Oh that came
from the Roman church.
00:45:39.53\00:45:41.18
Oh that came from,
oh I tell it's were--
00:45:41.19\00:45:44.30
Interesting when you
mention Christmas or Easter
00:45:44.31\00:45:46.85
and all these other things
came directly from Paganism,
00:45:46.86\00:45:49.11
we say, oh yeah, but I like it.
00:45:49.12\00:45:52.02
That's right, good, there
are some of you out there,
00:45:52.03\00:45:53.57
look some of you up, didn't we?
00:45:53.58\00:45:56.39
How is it then, how is it,
00:45:56.40\00:45:57.81
that we can say
all of these are wrong
00:45:57.82\00:46:01.24
and then we like these
00:46:01.25\00:46:02.62
even though we know the roots,
00:46:02.63\00:46:04.96
we know where it came from,
00:46:04.97\00:46:07.20
and we say it's all right.
00:46:07.21\00:46:09.91
But maybe
something wrong with us.
00:46:09.92\00:46:12.75
We've got to root out Paganism.
00:46:12.76\00:46:16.18
It's become, what?
00:46:16.19\00:46:17.29
The man of sin
was a result of what?
00:46:17.30\00:46:19.38
Paganism coming into
the church to Christianity.
00:46:19.39\00:46:23.41
Baptize and
whitewash it a little bit
00:46:23.42\00:46:24.82
and say, now it's
okay, no, it's not.
00:46:24.83\00:46:27.24
Why? Because the Bible says so.
00:46:27.25\00:46:30.43
As it roots, and
so we see this role,
00:46:30.44\00:46:36.26
the titles, the
saying, and, you know,
00:46:36.27\00:46:39.40
for instance you
take, as you well know,
00:46:39.41\00:46:40.85
you take our
dollar bill for instance.
00:46:40.86\00:46:43.03
Well, there is a
pyramid on that, you notice it.
00:46:43.04\00:46:45.15
Latin words on
it says a new, what?
00:46:45.16\00:46:47.67
A new order for the age.
00:46:47.68\00:46:49.74
Kind of interesting
here, it has a eagle on it.
00:46:49.75\00:46:51.82
You know for United
States and more Latin words,
00:46:51.83\00:46:55.25
just take your
dollar when you have time.
00:46:55.26\00:46:56.48
We don't have time to
go through everything.
00:46:56.49\00:46:58.36
But over the top of it,
00:46:58.37\00:46:59.94
more Latin words over
the top of the pyramid
00:46:59.95\00:47:02.39
and it says, it means this,
00:47:02.40\00:47:04.32
that God has
favored our undertaking.
00:47:04.33\00:47:08.16
And so we've the eagle has
a ribbon tien in its mouth.
00:47:08.17\00:47:11.66
And there's more Latin
words it says one out of many.
00:47:11.67\00:47:16.05
At the
foundation of this pyramid
00:47:16.06\00:47:17.97
you see down there,
00:47:17.98\00:47:19.15
you've Roman numerals
and you see that they add up
00:47:19.16\00:47:21.42
to 1776 the year of the
Declaration of Independence.
00:47:21.43\00:47:26.73
Roman numerals
then are used where?
00:47:26.74\00:47:28.81
In our numbering
system even today.
00:47:28.82\00:47:31.54
Interesting and
please don't forget,
00:47:31.55\00:47:34.67
the Lord has warned us
about "The number 666".
00:47:34.68\00:47:39.20
Many is gone be deceived by that
00:47:39.21\00:47:40.47
by that as it were that
what represent a number,
00:47:40.48\00:47:43.39
by that man of sin.
00:47:43.40\00:47:45.21
A religious system
and a political system
00:47:45.22\00:47:48.21
coming together, but
God said I'm gonna pour out
00:47:48.22\00:47:50.74
my wrath upon that power,
00:47:50.75\00:47:53.23
Revelation 13 verses 17 and 18
00:47:53.24\00:47:55.43
see what God
says about this power.
00:47:55.44\00:47:57.19
How it needs to be
exposed here in the last days,
00:47:57.20\00:47:59.25
how the world is
wondering after this power.
00:47:59.26\00:48:01.43
And that they need to be warned.
00:48:01.44\00:48:02.64
Who's gonna warn them?
00:48:02.65\00:48:05.78
Whose gonna warn
them f we're gun shy?
00:48:05.79\00:48:08.64
That's why I think
this book is so important
00:48:08.65\00:48:10.10
the first 200 that calls in
00:48:10.11\00:48:11.38
because the
information will blow your mind,
00:48:11.39\00:48:13.55
that will blow up
in my hand, come on.
00:48:13.56\00:48:15.39
That's
information that we all need.
00:48:15.40\00:48:18.71
See all the
world then comes under
00:48:18.72\00:48:20.42
the control of
this power, listen,
00:48:20.43\00:48:22.49
including the United
States of America, what?
00:48:22.50\00:48:26.57
All the power, all the
world is gonna come underneath
00:48:26.58\00:48:29.59
the power including
United States of America,
00:48:29.60\00:48:32.06
except a very small
remnant of God's people.
00:48:32.07\00:48:35.35
That's gonna be made clear
in our study as we continue.
00:48:35.36\00:48:38.14
So, we're
looking at, now look 666,
00:48:38.15\00:48:41.06
the mark of the beast,
the image of the beast,
00:48:41.07\00:48:43.51
the man of sin,
the son of prediction,
00:48:43.52\00:48:45.80
notice the little horn power.
00:48:45.81\00:48:47.44
The Antichrist, notice this,
00:48:47.45\00:48:49.23
Babylon the
Great, Revelation 17,
00:48:49.24\00:48:51.09
what I'm seeing here,
00:48:51.10\00:48:52.11
they all add up
to the same power
00:48:52.12\00:48:53.88
that God is warning us over,
over, over, and over again.
00:48:53.89\00:48:56.85
And yet most of us
have the courage not to say,
00:48:56.86\00:48:58.33
we don't want to say
anything we have no courage.
00:48:58.34\00:49:00.60
We're worried
about what people think
00:49:00.61\00:49:01.68
rather than what God says
00:49:01.69\00:49:02.76
that we need to be doing.
00:49:02.77\00:49:05.36
Friend, I tell you again,
00:49:05.37\00:49:07.31
identifying this power
we use history and scripture
00:49:07.32\00:49:10.07
makes it simple,
there is no guessing.
00:49:10.08\00:49:14.17
If you really want
to know what truth is.
00:49:14.18\00:49:16.93
But even a simple as it
is made what we talk about--
00:49:16.94\00:49:19.48
this is simple what
we've gone through so far.
00:49:19.49\00:49:22.78
You know what, it's just simple,
00:49:22.79\00:49:25.09
but many people
will refuse it, why, why?
00:49:25.10\00:49:28.79
Well, shame, shame on
many of the pastors today.
00:49:28.80\00:49:32.22
They tell their
people, "Oh, don't worry
00:49:32.23\00:49:33.64
about this beast
power, don't worry about
00:49:33.65\00:49:35.99
the worship of the beast
or the mark of the beast,
00:49:36.00\00:49:38.39
and then they go tell
you a great big old lie."
00:49:38.40\00:49:40.61
They will say, you
don't need to worry about
00:49:40.62\00:49:41.78
because you're
gonna be raptured away.
00:49:41.79\00:49:44.45
The rapture of the
saints won't be here.
00:49:44.46\00:49:46.09
That's a false
teaching and that is a lie
00:49:46.10\00:49:48.45
that the devil has invented,
it's time to get clear.
00:49:48.46\00:49:51.46
It's past time to get clear.
00:49:51.47\00:49:53.69
In fact many
leaders in the church today,
00:49:53.70\00:49:56.18
they really don't even know
00:49:56.19\00:49:57.54
about the "Mystery of Iniquity"
00:49:57.55\00:49:58.59
the man of sin.
00:49:58.60\00:50:00.69
They don't know
and when you ask him
00:50:00.70\00:50:02.07
the question about it,
you know, what they say?
00:50:02.08\00:50:03.92
Well they'll, well
I'm not really sure,
00:50:03.93\00:50:05.83
I know, I'm not
really sure about
00:50:05.84\00:50:07.23
that it's all
confusing and you discourage
00:50:07.24\00:50:09.69
the seeker for truth.
00:50:09.70\00:50:11.68
And so we begin to, listen.
00:50:11.69\00:50:13.15
So, what does the preacher do?
00:50:13.16\00:50:14.39
He begins to
belittle the message
00:50:14.40\00:50:16.33
and he begins to belittle
the messenger every time,
00:50:16.34\00:50:19.12
it never fails.
00:50:19.13\00:50:21.48
Those who give this
message like Elijah,
00:50:21.49\00:50:24.62
dear friend, will
be in the minority.
00:50:24.63\00:50:27.60
Never popular, no one is gonna,
00:50:27.61\00:50:29.94
very few is gonna like
it, you've to love the truth.
00:50:29.95\00:50:33.90
And when the truth is told,
00:50:33.91\00:50:34.99
you have the multitude is gonna
00:50:35.00\00:50:36.16
stand in opposition of it.
00:50:36.17\00:50:38.11
They're gonna
raise up against it.
00:50:38.12\00:50:40.62
What does truth do?
00:50:40.63\00:50:41.69
Truth rebukes the hearer.
00:50:41.70\00:50:45.04
This brings in a sense of guilt
00:50:45.05\00:50:47.34
and either a change
in the heart and life
00:50:47.35\00:50:49.26
must occur or we
begin to hate the message,
00:50:49.27\00:50:52.56
our heart hardens.
00:50:52.57\00:50:55.15
Daniel's prophecy,
friends, 100% correct,
00:50:55.16\00:50:58.79
revealing the
work of the Antichrist.
00:50:58.80\00:51:01.33
There is much more to come
that's pertaining to our day.
00:51:01.34\00:51:03.82
You don't miss
the next two-parts.
00:51:03.83\00:51:06.20
See these truths
have to be revealed
00:51:06.21\00:51:08.57
because many are doing what,
00:51:08.58\00:51:10.18
blindly following after Satan.
00:51:10.19\00:51:13.57
His plan must be
exposed to the world
00:51:13.58\00:51:15.96
before Jesus comes, why?
00:51:15.97\00:51:17.56
So that we can give
the second angel's message,
00:51:17.57\00:51:19.33
come out of her my people
00:51:19.34\00:51:20.98
that you be not
partakers of her sin.
00:51:20.99\00:51:23.18
You read that in
Revelation 14, have you?
00:51:23.19\00:51:25.79
God has-- still has a people,
00:51:25.80\00:51:27.76
He has a people in the moment,
00:51:27.77\00:51:28.89
He has people in the world
00:51:28.90\00:51:29.95
that He's calling to come out.
00:51:29.96\00:51:31.46
But how are they gonna come out
00:51:31.47\00:51:32.52
if no one has, you know,
00:51:32.53\00:51:33.73
the courage and
the Holy Spirit power
00:51:33.74\00:51:35.34
enough to say,
this is dead wrong,
00:51:35.35\00:51:37.29
it may be religious,
religious, religious,
00:51:37.30\00:51:39.54
and the garb of
religious and fantastic things
00:51:39.55\00:51:41.88
are going on and the
world is wondering after
00:51:41.89\00:51:44.48
and millions and billions maybe
00:51:44.49\00:51:46.73
people who believe in it.
00:51:46.74\00:51:49.06
God says, it's false, you
identify it as being false.
00:51:49.07\00:51:52.82
It is an opposition to Him,
00:51:52.83\00:51:54.40
the devil is
behind the whole thing.
00:51:54.41\00:51:57.02
Wouldn't you want to know
now rather than it's too late?
00:51:57.03\00:52:01.49
We need the spirit
in the churches today.
00:52:01.50\00:52:04.81
We need that spirit.
00:52:04.82\00:52:06.17
Hear what the
spirit says to the churches
00:52:06.18\00:52:09.50
Two things enemy's maybe
confused us, he's found a way
00:52:09.51\00:52:15.33
just two little simple
ways to coufuse the mind.
00:52:15.34\00:52:17.54
Number one, he's
conditioned the world
00:52:17.55\00:52:19.82
to accept
apostasy rather than truth.
00:52:19.83\00:52:23.43
Our minds are condition through
traditions and Pagan festivals
00:52:23.44\00:52:27.91
and Pagan rights
over, over, and over
00:52:27.92\00:52:30.08
that lead us away from God.
00:52:30.09\00:52:32.43
So every time I hear
somebody talking about,
00:52:32.44\00:52:33.85
well that's okay if
we do this and this--
00:52:33.86\00:52:35.30
and I know where the
roots are at, I'll tell you,
00:52:35.31\00:52:37.33
I rather stand and fight.
00:52:37.34\00:52:40.47
I hope somebody had the courage
00:52:40.48\00:52:41.66
to stand and fight with us.
00:52:41.67\00:52:43.52
If you want to do
it, that's your choice,
00:52:43.53\00:52:45.55
but if I know
where the roots is at,
00:52:45.56\00:52:47.23
and I dug down deep,
I mean I dug down deep
00:52:47.24\00:52:50.12
and I see where
those roots are at,
00:52:50.13\00:52:51.40
if it's pagan it's pagan.
00:52:51.41\00:52:54.46
We make these
excuses, I like it.
00:52:54.47\00:52:55.92
and well, everybody's doing it.
00:52:55.93\00:52:58.50
Well, that's what
makes it wrong right there.
00:52:58.51\00:53:01.58
Number two, enemy has done this
00:53:01.59\00:53:05.37
just a little bit at a
time over the centuries.
00:53:05.38\00:53:11.33
And he did, remember,
00:53:11.34\00:53:12.43
we read in the days of
the apostles, the disciples.
00:53:12.44\00:53:15.75
And now it's
working even more so.
00:53:15.76\00:53:18.62
Read Acts Chapter 20,
if you don't believe it
00:53:18.63\00:53:20.16
and Second Thessalonians
2, and he's working even more,
00:53:20.17\00:53:24.11
the spirit of
Antichrist is working.
00:53:24.12\00:53:26.94
So much confusion
in the religious world,
00:53:26.95\00:53:29.15
today's mind boggling.
00:53:29.16\00:53:31.70
Everybody say we have the truth,
00:53:31.71\00:53:33.20
we have the truth.
00:53:33.21\00:53:34.93
As we understand and we study
00:53:34.94\00:53:36.22
the prophecies of the Bible,
00:53:36.23\00:53:38.21
we're finding
out what Jesus said.
00:53:38.22\00:53:41.16
What He said, listen carefully,
00:53:41.17\00:53:43.11
here's what Jesus said
00:53:43.12\00:53:44.21
before there was a Protestant,
00:53:44.22\00:53:46.65
before there was
a Catholic church,
00:53:46.66\00:53:50.32
the Bible is the standard
00:53:50.33\00:53:52.32
for the message
of what is truth.
00:53:52.33\00:53:54.38
All teachings are to be
tested line upon line for us.
00:53:54.39\00:53:59.13
To come to the point of
truth as Ephesians 4:5 says,
00:53:59.14\00:54:02.37
what is to lead us, what?
00:54:02.38\00:54:03.88
"One Lord, one faith."
00:54:03.89\00:54:07.21
The Bible was
there, the Bible is truth.
00:54:07.22\00:54:11.32
Remember, we've
only touched on Daniel 2,
00:54:11.33\00:54:13.13
and our time is running out.
00:54:13.14\00:54:14.84
And so I want to be
sure and encourage you,
00:54:14.85\00:54:16.14
we've got a lot
we're gonna go over
00:54:16.15\00:54:18.58
and things that
may blow your mind
00:54:18.59\00:54:20.32
before it's over, dear friend.
00:54:20.33\00:54:21.51
But this is what we
need to do right now
00:54:21.52\00:54:22.89
to wake us up, don't forget,
00:54:22.90\00:54:24.39
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00:54:30.72\00:54:32.44
It's free, you just need to call
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and we'll be glad
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00:54:33.86\00:54:36.49
I'm gonna pray
with you right now
00:54:36.50\00:54:37.70
the Holy spirit
will lead and guide us
00:54:37.71\00:54:38.97
into all truth
before our time runs out.
00:54:38.98\00:54:41.14
Would you pray
with me one more time
00:54:41.15\00:54:43.84
Loving Father in
heaven, we thank You
00:54:43.85\00:54:45.02
for the privilege of prayer,
00:54:45.03\00:54:46.03
we thank You
for Your word today,
00:54:46.04\00:54:47.94
pray that it will stir us up.
00:54:47.95\00:54:50.27
And some righteous indignation
that we may move forward
00:54:50.28\00:54:52.29
and the truth that You
give us from day-to-day.
00:54:52.30\00:54:54.01
Thank You for the
precious listeners.
00:54:54.02\00:54:55.91
For those who now
are taking a stand
00:54:55.92\00:54:57.38
for what is truth,
we give You praise,
00:54:57.39\00:54:58.64
honor and glory
in Jesus name, amen
00:54:58.65\00:55:03.49
We want make sure
you mark on the calendar,
00:55:03.50\00:55:05.28
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00:55:05.29\00:55:08.13
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00:55:08.14\00:55:10.31
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00:55:12.72\00:55:14.70
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00:55:18.73\00:55:20.73
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00:55:20.74\00:55:23.28
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00:55:23.29\00:55:25.01
to give this out to you.
00:55:25.02\00:55:26.34
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00:55:26.35\00:55:27.37
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00:55:28.39\00:55:31.05
Friends, welcome back,
00:55:32.36\00:55:33.87
you know, truly we're
seeing how the enemy of souls,
00:55:33.88\00:55:36.73
the devil himself has
been at work for centuries
00:55:36.74\00:55:40.00
promoting his
weave of deception.
00:55:40.01\00:55:42.45
He's always wanted to
be like the Most High God
00:55:42.46\00:55:45.76
and His agenda
really hasn't changed.
00:55:45.77\00:55:48.37
He wants our
worship, he wants our legion
00:55:48.38\00:55:51.06
even if it is disguised
under the cloak of Christianity.
00:55:51.07\00:55:56.22
All his lies and
deceptions are leading up
00:55:56.23\00:55:58.58
ot his crowning act in this
drama between good and evil.
00:55:58.59\00:56:03.46
The Bible tells us
that He will appear
00:56:03.47\00:56:05.66
before time is finished,
00:56:05.67\00:56:06.95
he will appear
as an angel of light
00:56:06.96\00:56:09.85
and with deeper
study of the subject
00:56:09.86\00:56:12.10
we believe that he
will impersonate Christ
00:56:12.11\00:56:14.94
and His second
coming, to gather, to gather,
00:56:14.95\00:56:18.20
an even greater harvest
of souls for his destruction.
00:56:18.21\00:56:22.79
So, we hope that you'll
continue this study with us,
00:56:22.80\00:56:25.94
so as not to be
blinded by Satan's lives.
00:56:25.95\00:56:29.54
Thus far in this
five-part series,
00:56:29.55\00:56:31.84
the "Mystery of Iniquity,"
the Antichrist revealed,
00:56:31.85\00:56:35.09
we've covered,
"Stirring the Wrath of Satan,"
00:56:35.10\00:56:38.46
"Let No Man Deceive You,"
00:56:38.47\00:56:40.40
and today's message
00:56:40.41\00:56:41.50
"Understanding the
Prophecy of the Antichrist,"
00:56:41.51\00:56:44.46
but still to come
friends in this series
00:56:44.47\00:56:46.99
we've "Mystery,
Babylon the Great,"
00:56:47.00\00:56:49.91
and finally "Deception
Instead of Persecution."
00:56:49.92\00:56:53.90
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