Hello and welcome to
"Behold the Lamb Presents."
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I'm Chris Shelton your host.
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And we are so glad that you
have tuned in with us today.
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Today's message is a
first of a three part series
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that we have entitled
"America in Prophecy."
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For some of you right now it's
as if I heard you say, "What?
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I've never read anything
that pertained to America
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as the nation in the Bible."
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And that maybe true because when
it comes to reading the Bible,
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many Christians avoid
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the prophetic book
Revelation altogether.
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Often people feel it is
beyond their understanding.
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Well, we're here today
to set the record straight.
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For decades avid Bible students
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have prayerfully opened its
pages and have been enlightened
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and guided by the Holy Spirit
to a greater understanding
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and knowledge about
this world, its history,
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its present condition and
its near future and final end.
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We find that the
knowledge of history is vital
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in order to fully
comprehend the symbolism
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that the Lord chose to
use throughout scripture.
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And today, we live in
a knowledge-filled world.
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For many of us,
answers to our questions
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are right at our
finger tips literally.
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I know for myself,
if I have a question
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that that needs to be answered
outside of the scripture,
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the first thing I usually
do is to Google it on my phone.
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I use the speed of my phone
to look at definitions of words,
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historical events,
and so many other things.
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We now have to
use of our phones,
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pads, our computers to read
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and research all
types of literature.
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My point is, we
have little excuse,
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very little excuse for not
being able to study prophecy
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and related
symbolism with history.
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We just need to take
the time needed to study
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and to do the research.
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And once we begin to do this,
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we will see how
all the great nations
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throughout history have
been addressed in the Holy Writ
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and we will soon realize
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that the good old
United States is no different.
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God foresaw and ordained
the rising of this great nation
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and He describes us very well
through the prophetic vision
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He gave to His
beloved disciple John.
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And not only as
America refer to a prophecy,
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but it has a tremendous role
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to play in the final
events of this world.
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So stay tuned as
Pastor Kenny Shelton
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begins to put
all these many things
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together for us in a
simple fashion to help us gain
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the proper insight to
"America in Prophecy,"
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and this is part one.
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But first, let's visit
the 3ABN Worship Center
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and be blessed with the song
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that is entitled
"Shepherd of My Heart"
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as sung by Denise Barclay.
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Maker of this heart of mine,
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You know me very well
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You understand my deepest parts,
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more than I know myself
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So when I face the darkness,
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when I need to find my way
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I'll trust in You,
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shepherd of my heart
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Keeper of this heart of mine,
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Your patience knows no end
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You've loved me
back into your arms,
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time and time again
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So if I start to wander,
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like the lamb that's gone astray
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I'll trust in You,
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shepherd of my heart
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You're the beacon of my night,
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You're the sunlight of my days
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I can rest within Your arms,
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I can know Your loving ways
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So let the cold winds blow
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and let the
storms rage all around
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I'll trust in You,
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shepherd of my heart
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Oh, giver of this
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heart of mine,
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You're what I'm looking for
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For all my deepest gratitude
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You love me even more
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So as I walk through valleys,
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listening for my master's call
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I'll trust in You
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shepherd of my heart
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And You're the
beacon of my night,
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You're the sunlight of my days
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I can rest within Your arms,
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I can know
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Your loving ways
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So as I walk through valleys,
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listening for Your call
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I'll trust in You,
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shepherd of my heart
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I'll trust in You,
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shepherd of... my heart.
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Thanks for joining us
here "Behold the Lamb."
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As you already heard
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this is a very,
very important subject.
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I want to just
make this very clear
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onset of this program.
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It's a three part series
of "America in Prophecy".
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This definitely
will be dealing with you,
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it'll be dealing with
me, it's going to be dealing
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with the whole world.
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So you don't want
to miss the study,
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but before we get
into it we always ask
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God's special
blessing and anointing.
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The enemy does
not want you to hear,
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to see this message.
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He just doesn't.
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He has these little
things up his sleeve.
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We talk about here. They
wants to surprise us with,
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but I'm
thankful for the prophecy
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of the Book of
Revelation, aren't you?
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We're gonna be
studying, but let's first,
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let's go, where you can.
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How about praying with me?
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I'm gonna kneel right here,
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you pray with me where you can.
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Loving Father in
Heaven, again we thank You
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for the privilege
of studying Your word.
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Now we ask for the guidance
of thy sweet Holy Spirit.
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Oh, Lord, send the Holy
Spirit and sweet abundance
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that we may hear Your
voice so we may understand
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this prophecy and it
is a life and death issue.
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So bless us now
we pray--pray clear.
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Our minds, our
hearts that we may hear
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the sweet voice of Jesus we
may understand this message.
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Bless each one who
maybe listening or viewing.
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Lord, just take the pressures
of everyday life off of them,
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help them to
concentrate on this message.
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We'll give you praise,
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give you honor
and give you glory,
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and we thank you
in Jesus name, amen.
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Grab your Bible where you
can turn to Book Revelation 13.
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Now in this first part,
we're going to be setting
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the foundation
on which to build.
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The second part
and the third part,
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there is a lot of
meet, a lot of understanding
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that we need to go into
little verse by verse study.
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So you'll need a
pencil and paper,
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jot all these things down.
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I would like to start with the--
give you some food for thought,
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so that you can get on
the same page with me because
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as we look at the truth
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of the Three Angels
Message of Revelation 14,
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how they're coming to
pass even before our very eyes.
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And so I looked in the
book "The Great Controversy."
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Some of you have
it, many have been
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calling in to get it from us,
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and I want to read just a
couple of paragraphs, page 605.
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It says, "The
truths of the three angel's
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third angel's message have often
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been regarded
as mere alarmists."
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So here's what happened?
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Those who were preaching
about the Mark of the Beast,
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the Image of
the Beast and so on,
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all your alarmists, that
can't happen in this country.
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Listen, you are regarded
as an alarmist, let it be.
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I'm saying today,
the alarm is going off.
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The alarmists
said, "Their predictions
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that religious intolerance
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would gain control
in the United States,
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that the church and the
state would unite to persecute
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those who keep the
commandments of God,
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have been pronounced."
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Notice this,
"Groundless and absurd.
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It has been
confidently declared that."
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Notice this with me,
"That this land could never be--
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become other than
what it has always been.
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" What? "The defender
of religious freedom."
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If you stop here, you
say, "Well, there's more."
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Yes. Next word is,
"But as the question
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of enforcing Sunday
observance is widely agitated,
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the event so long doubted."
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Oh, boy, "And disbelieved
is seen to be approaching."
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Pay attention those of viewers
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studying the Bible
and The Great Controversy.
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Notice this. "The third
angel's message will produce."
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Listen, "An effect
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which it could
not have had before.
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In every
generation." Listen carefully.
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"God has sent His
servants to rebuke sin,
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both in the world
and in the church."
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These are words that
many do not want to hear,
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but notice, when this comes up
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enforcing of Sunday observance
becomes to be agitated
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in the world, the third angel's
message will produce, what?
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An affect that
it's never had before.
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We haven't approached that yet.
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We've been giving
the three angels message
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for years and
many people before us.
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But it's never
going-- had the effect
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so far as it will have
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when the Sunday
question is agitated.
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God is going to work remarkably
for the people of God.
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Now notice this in
referring to Sunday enforcement.
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Notice this. And
we're talking about
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by the power that
we're talking about
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United States
and Bible prophecy.
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We're talking about Catholicism
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and
Protestantism uniting together.
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Revelation
13:11-18, this is our study.
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Great
Controversy makes two lines
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here that so important.
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We need to bring this up.
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Great Controversy 607
says, "The church appeals
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to the strong arm
of the civil power,
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in this work. " What? "
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The papists and
the Protestants unite."
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Let me tell you,
there's a lot of emphasis,
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especially in Adventism.
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Let's just be clear about this.
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A lot of eyes and ears
always on the papist or,
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you know, Catholicism
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and what they're going
to do and who is in control?
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I must say this right here.
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Once again we need to
keep our eyes on Protestants,
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apostate Protestantism.
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They're gonna
bring about these events
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that we're gonna
be talking about,
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you know, the beast power,
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the image to the beast.
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So keep an eye on that.
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A lot of time
we're looking over here
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and we should be
looking this direction.
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Notice the church
when it begins to appeal
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to the civil--strong
arm of the civil power
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then we find the papists
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and Protestants
working together.
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Still another quote
here, I want to do it quickly.
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Great Controversy,
page 616, jot this down,
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read the whole thing
when you have the opportunity.
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"Romanism-- Romanism
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in the Old World."
We're talking about Roman.
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What's happened in
Europe in the Old Country?
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"And apostate Protestantism
in the New will pursue
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a similar course
toward those who honor
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and keep all the
divine precepts."
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Very, very interesting here.
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Are you a commandment keeper?
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My friend, I'm not
just appeal to you right now
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while we're doing this
study of "America in Prophecy,"
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that we really need your help
in getting this message out.
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We spend a very
little time talking about it,
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receiving phone calls
and people are interested,
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they're interested in
getting Great Controversy and,
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you know, prophet of the
end and the Mark of the Beast
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books and all how they
loved the message and say,
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"Boy, straight
testimony is coming forward."
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We need your help
to get these books
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and get this
message is out to the world.
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We have a
privilege by God's grace
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of reaching the whole world
with His undiluted message.
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I'm not talking about
some of the little sweet
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water down
thing, I'm talking about
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the straight testimony
that's even going to make
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many people in a high
position little bit angry,
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but it either is a
message or it's not.
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And so by God's grace,
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we're gonna get
this message out.
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We can't do it without
the help of God's people.
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So, please keep that in mind,
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in this study you
think it's valuable
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and we need to do more and say,
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"Hey, it's nice.
Okay, praise God.
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We need to get
with the program."
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Help to get these things up.
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People are hungering and
thirsting after this message
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and we need to get
it out to every one
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who wants to know what truth
is. Have you thought about it?
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When you talk
about America, how?
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Just the name America.
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There's something
special about that.
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And when you turn to
the Book of Revelation 13
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and 11 so on, there's
this power that's coming up
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and we need to-- we
really get into it and study.
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But I think about
when I say America,
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I really do and I've been
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to a lot of other
countries in the world,
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but I think America
is the greatest country.
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I really do. And you can go
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and you can visit,
you come back and you say,
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"Oh, praise God for the
United States of America."
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It's a land of opportunity like,
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no other place in the world.
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It's a land of equality.
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It's a land of freedom.
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It's a land of vast resources.
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God has blessed this country
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in a wonderful, wonderful way.
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God's hand has
been on this country.
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He's been
blessing it by the millions
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and millions and
millions of people.
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And, you know, as
we study the Bible,
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Bible prophecy
predicts this country coming up
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exactly at the right time,
and we're many were looking
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for a place safe haven of rest.
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Friend, I wonder today.
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Have you been looking
for that safe haven of rest?
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You need to be looking to Jesus,
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the author and
finisher of our faith.
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But many people were
coming from the old country
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and they were coming
to the new world. Why?
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So they could worship
God according to the dictates
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of their own conscience.
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There were people coming here
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and wanting to make choices.
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Think about that.
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They wanted to make their
own choices and own religions.
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You know, they think about,
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I want to serve God the way
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that God's
impressing me to not the way
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maybe a church says to do it.
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What a country?
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For the people
and by the people.
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A country where you
can elect individuals
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to represent you in
the government. Wow.
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A country founded on democracy.
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So we'd be talking about this
lamb and the horns and so on,
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but just stay
with me and let's bill.
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We talk about a
country of democracy.
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What does that mean, democracy?
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Simply means that they-- a
people hold the ruling power
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through their
elected representatives.
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Then you say,
"Well, yeah, but, you know,
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this is republican reform
of government or republican.
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What does that mean?
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It simply means a
state, it can mean a nation
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in which a supreme
power rest with the people.
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And what? And we
have the right to vote.
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We have a say, we're
supposed to have a say.
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And so when you
hear of republicanism,
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it simply that means this.
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It means a-- the
fundamental principles
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of the United
States of America. Wow.
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Praise God for a constitution.
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Praise God for
our bill of rights.
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Oh, friends, you're going to see
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how this all fits together
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as we go through
this three part series.
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You're going to see
it, but you're gonna
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have to view all three.
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Praise God for the constitution.
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Praise God for
the bill of rights.
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What are they
lump them together?
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Simply, a system of laws,
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principles that
governs a nation.
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It's a supreme
law of this country
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adopted in 1789 and of course,
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I need to mention
the bill of rights so,
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so very, very important here.
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What does the bill of rights do?
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Just exactly what it says.
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It lists the
rights and the freedoms
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that is essential
for a group of people.
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And basically you can
boil it down simply dealing
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with freedom of
speech, freedom of worship,
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freedom to the symbol together.
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Praise God for these things.
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God directed them.
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There's no doubt in my
mind that God has directed them,
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but we find a lot of people
tampering with them today.
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So in our study of
Revelation 13:11-18,
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we see this power starting out.
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Oh, for and by the people,
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but as time goes by
great changes take place.
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Well, how does this come about?
00:19:05.59\00:19:07.97
How do these changes come about?
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And can they come about?
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People are saying remember,
00:19:12.15\00:19:13.68
alarmists or what this
can happen in our country.
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See, with all
of these safeguards
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that we just
barely touched on here,
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the safeguards in place.
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And what is the safeguards?
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Constitution, bill of rights.
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Is it needless to worry about
00:19:29.67\00:19:32.16
our civil and our
religious liberties?
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Are they not guaranteed?
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See, people say
that they're guaranteed.
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These religious
principles, liberties,
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they are guarantee, so I am not
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gonna worry about them.
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Should we worry?
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Because the Bible
says, we need to worry.
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We should worry.
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Because this power that
comes up begins to change.
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Would it be awful if we
just did a quick overview
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of the study that
we're getting ready
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to do here in
America in Prophecy
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and break it down real simple?
00:20:03.33\00:20:05.18
Now I can do this very quickly,
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but in the second,
third study you'll see more,
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I think how it make sense.
00:20:09.18\00:20:11.03
Revelation 13:11. I'm
just kind of do a one line,
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so get what's talking about.
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This power that comes up
will speak as the dragon.
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Funny, comes up as a lamb,
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but it begins to
speak as the dragon.
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In Revelation
13:12, notice this.
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This power that comes
up, it does something--
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it has something
to do with worship.
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And then it says what?
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To worship the first beast.
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Interesting here.
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Very few people can
connect that what the power
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that we're talking
about deals with worship.
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Isn't it
interesting when we really begin
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to put our mind to this
thing about when you worship?
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Who are we going to
give our legions to?
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Is it going to be to God?
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Is it going to be to man?
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It's going to boil down
to these--the issue here
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of the commandments of God
or the commandments of man.
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Revelation 13:13,
14, quick overview,
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you got to jot it down.
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This power is going to
use great signs and miracles
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and wanders to produce
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or to deceive
mankind and to take, what?
00:21:16.08\00:21:19.97
They're going to
really-- we're talking about
00:21:20.00\00:21:21.95
some real, real miracles here.
00:21:21.98\00:21:23.69
We're not talking about
some little counterfeit,
00:21:23.72\00:21:25.50
some little
rabbit in the hat thing,
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we're talking about a
power that's going to come upon
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the scene that'll
produce things that your mind,
00:21:29.79\00:21:32.51
you can't wrap
it around you say,
00:21:32.54\00:21:34.00
"That must be from God unless
you know what the truth is."
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And this same power to
working these miracles,
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they're going to call for, what?
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We need to make an
image to the beast.
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Sad thing, most
people have no idea
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about the image of the beast.
00:21:48.87\00:21:50.55
They don't understand
what the Mark of the Beast is,
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the number of the beast, 666.
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They're still loud landy.
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Some of the things that we hear
going on in the world today,
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but if you always
sinner, it around the worship,
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it will help you to understand
00:22:02.82\00:22:04.19
the great
controversy that is going on.
00:22:04.22\00:22:06.60
Revelation
13:15. Here, we can see.
00:22:06.63\00:22:10.89
Here, we can see beyond a shadow
00:22:10.92\00:22:12.29
of that that there must
be some laws that are passed
00:22:12.32\00:22:15.56
because that's
using the word "Cause"
00:22:15.59\00:22:18.39
that if anyone would
not worship or go long
00:22:18.42\00:22:21.86
with this beast power,
the bottom-line or the image
00:22:21.89\00:22:25.17
they should be killed.
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Now remember.
00:22:27.33\00:22:28.70
Proven from scripture,
if this is United Sates
00:22:28.73\00:22:30.93
in Bible prophecy,
comes like a lambs,
00:22:30.96\00:22:32.76
begin to speak like a, what?
00:22:32.79\00:22:34.29
A dragon. And pretty soon
00:22:34.32\00:22:35.72
it causes people to
worship, and if you don't do it,
00:22:35.75\00:22:38.38
a death decree that
could-- that could mean you.
00:22:38.41\00:22:42.06
We need to know
about this power.
00:22:42.09\00:22:43.84
Revelation 13:16, 17, 18.
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And once again,
he causes by, what?
00:22:47.85\00:22:50.00
By law. Everyone to receive
a mark that no man might--
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what does the Bible say? Good.
00:22:54.85\00:22:56.22
Buy or sale, safe
he have this mark,
00:22:56.25\00:22:58.94
the number or his name, the 666.
00:22:58.97\00:23:02.63
But, you know, the
sad part Revelation 13:8,
00:23:02.66\00:23:05.83
it talks about here
and they worshiped him.
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Say it again,
they worshiped him.
00:23:09.80\00:23:11.99
And buddy says here, what?
00:23:12.02\00:23:13.39
The beast and the
image to the beast,
00:23:13.42\00:23:15.01
but their names are not written
in the Lamb's book of Life.
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Their names are not written.
00:23:19.13\00:23:20.50
So the whole world,
basically the whole world
00:23:20.53\00:23:23.49
is going to
follow out to the beast.
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Their names are not written
in the Lamb's book of Life.
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Boy, I pray
brothers and sisters,
00:23:26.32\00:23:27.79
somebody is
concerned about it today,
00:23:27.82\00:23:29.64
somebody needs to
give a warning message,
00:23:29.67\00:23:31.97
and the devil doesn't want you
to be looking at this subject.
00:23:32.00\00:23:36.21
Now listen--after taking
just a quick short glance
00:23:36.24\00:23:39.00
of what we're
going to be discussing
00:23:39.03\00:23:40.62
in our next couple of lessons.
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I can already see and
I don't know about you,
00:23:43.44\00:23:46.17
but I can see some conditions
that prophecy talks about
00:23:46.20\00:23:49.38
some big changes
coming about in this world.
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They will come about.
00:23:52.32\00:23:53.97
And we're gonna
come to the point
00:23:54.00\00:23:55.37
in the United States of America.
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Somebody listen, that is either
00:23:56.80\00:23:58.96
going to be sink or swim.
00:23:58.99\00:24:01.08
This country is
almost there right now,
00:24:01.11\00:24:03.70
with the people are
putting the life jackets
00:24:03.73\00:24:05.36
on because
we're in such turmoil.
00:24:05.39\00:24:08.00
And every
direction that we go in,
00:24:08.03\00:24:09.78
we're going
against the Word of God.
00:24:09.81\00:24:12.19
You see, we're being challenged.
00:24:12.22\00:24:13.59
Day in and day out.
00:24:13.62\00:24:14.99
Who we're gonna serve?
00:24:15.02\00:24:16.39
Who we're gonna go along with?
00:24:16.42\00:24:17.79
Sink or swim.
00:24:17.82\00:24:19.43
And then what? What happens?
00:24:19.46\00:24:20.83
When you get to
this point, sink or swim,
00:24:20.86\00:24:22.67
in desperation when you
have a government as we do,
00:24:22.70\00:24:25.58
they believe that you need
to pass more laws, interesting.
00:24:25.61\00:24:29.28
And what will they do?
00:24:29.31\00:24:30.68
Bottom-line, they're going to
affect our religious freedoms.
00:24:30.71\00:24:34.79
Oh, you say that's impossible?
00:24:34.82\00:24:37.26
Once again, that's
impossible, can't happen.
00:24:37.29\00:24:40.18
Not for those kind of
changes you will say to take,
00:24:40.21\00:24:43.43
that means the
constitution must be change,
00:24:43.46\00:24:45.44
the bill of
rights must be changed.
00:24:45.47\00:24:47.23
Let me just posses to.
00:24:47.26\00:24:48.63
You think about
this for just a moment.
00:24:48.66\00:24:51.20
Could they really be changed?
00:24:51.23\00:24:52.91
Could they be
made to say something
00:24:52.94\00:24:54.36
that they're not really saying?
00:24:54.39\00:24:57.09
Very interesting.
00:24:57.12\00:24:58.49
Chief Justice
Hughes several years ago,
00:24:58.52\00:25:01.08
he was the
Supreme Court justice.
00:25:01.11\00:25:03.54
He said this. That
is just bottom-line
00:25:03.57\00:25:06.49
'cause people say the--
he said the constitution
00:25:06.52\00:25:09.01
is just exactly
what we say it is.
00:25:09.04\00:25:13.52
The chief justice, oh.
00:25:13.55\00:25:15.12
It's exactly what
we say that it is.
00:25:15.15\00:25:18.49
So listen, it doesn't
have to be thrown out,
00:25:18.52\00:25:22.19
it doesn't have to
have a lot of amendments
00:25:22.22\00:25:23.59
and different things put on it.
00:25:23.62\00:25:25.32
It's simply how the
chief justice interpret it.
00:25:25.35\00:25:31.10
Or you need an
example? Do you? All right.
00:25:31.13\00:25:32.80
Hey, we can do that.
00:25:32.83\00:25:34.20
I just want you to
get you to thinking
00:25:34.23\00:25:35.60
and if you're riled
up and you're already up
00:25:35.63\00:25:37.00
and you see praise
God, it's all right.
00:25:37.03\00:25:39.53
How they interpret it?
00:25:39.56\00:25:40.93
Did it really
need to be changed?
00:25:40.96\00:25:42.73
Listen, here's example.
00:25:42.76\00:25:44.78
This has to do
with the chief justice,
00:25:44.81\00:25:47.18
warns a conclusion in 1961
00:25:47.21\00:25:50.88
here on the Merlin
Sunday law closings.
00:25:50.91\00:25:55.38
See, when you say Sunday law,
people just scratch their heads,
00:25:55.41\00:25:57.48
"Hey, man, I don't know.
00:25:57.51\00:25:58.88
You realize they've
been before the court system
00:25:58.91\00:26:00.28
many, many years now,
been challenged with, what?
00:26:00.31\00:26:03.31
The Sunday law, a blue law.
00:26:03.34\00:26:05.52
And sometimes we can't
get that through our head.
00:26:05.55\00:26:08.30
This was quite a court case.
00:26:08.33\00:26:10.49
And one of the-- the
chief justice warned.
00:26:10.52\00:26:12.63
As long, long, you know,
00:26:12.66\00:26:14.92
paper after
paper he wrote on this,
00:26:14.95\00:26:17.01
but I want you to look
at the bottom-line here.
00:26:17.04\00:26:18.93
Now I want to present the
bottom-line of what he said.
00:26:18.96\00:26:21.25
Just exactly what
we just talked about,
00:26:21.28\00:26:23.00
how it's interpreting it?
00:26:23.03\00:26:24.77
Didn't have to change a thing?
00:26:24.80\00:26:27.04
This had to do with
Sunday closing laws.
00:26:27.07\00:26:28.87
Here's what he said bottom-line.
00:26:28.90\00:26:30.90
The present purpose and
affect is not to aid religion.
00:26:30.93\00:26:36.30
Already he ruled
it out, is it not?
00:26:36.33\00:26:38.15
Sunday closing law
doesn't aid religion?
00:26:38.18\00:26:41.32
Chief justice here said,
it's not the aid religion,
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but to say--listen, to set aside
00:26:44.24\00:26:46.50
a day of rest and recreation.
00:26:46.53\00:26:50.75
Where have you
heard that before?
00:26:50.78\00:26:52.91
Does that sound familiar?
00:26:52.94\00:26:56.03
Well, you know,
the papacy has done
00:26:56.06\00:26:57.43
this kind of thing for year.
00:26:57.46\00:26:58.83
You
know,--years. They want this.
00:26:58.86\00:27:00.34
They want the Sunday
closing because that's a day
00:27:00.37\00:27:02.53
that they have-- they have made.
00:27:02.56\00:27:04.75
Just a note here.
00:27:04.78\00:27:06.94
You realize now today
this is a Supreme Court.
00:27:06.97\00:27:11.06
Some of you're not listening.
00:27:11.09\00:27:12.67
The Supreme Court--
at least in my knowledge
00:27:12.70\00:27:15.44
now has no Protestants on it.
00:27:15.47\00:27:21.49
Most of them are all Catholics
00:27:21.52\00:27:23.88
and whatever, but no protestant.
00:27:23.91\00:27:26.07
You realize many years ago
00:27:26.10\00:27:28.28
that in order to be a
Supreme Court justice--
00:27:28.31\00:27:30.84
you have to have the
majority had to be protestants
00:27:30.87\00:27:33.05
because we
protest the Catholicism.
00:27:33.08\00:27:36.27
The enemy is
changing things around
00:27:36.30\00:27:38.78
to interpret laws different.
00:27:38.81\00:27:43.03
Now I'm gonna
list several things
00:27:43.06\00:27:45.32
that's going to happen
to United States of America.
00:27:45.35\00:27:47.87
What? The Bible says
that they're going to happen.
00:27:47.90\00:27:51.29
They maybe a
little lower your head.
00:27:51.32\00:27:52.69
They maybe say, "Hey,
00:27:52.72\00:27:54.09
I have already
see it happening."
00:27:54.12\00:27:55.49
These are the
things that you say,
00:27:55.52\00:27:56.89
"Well, it's in the future.
00:27:56.92\00:27:58.29
They're happening right now."
00:27:58.32\00:27:59.69
Number one, United
States is going to abandon
00:27:59.72\00:28:02.81
her protestant principles.
00:28:02.84\00:28:04.74
She is already in the process.
00:28:04.77\00:28:06.95
And when she
does, God will intervene
00:28:06.98\00:28:10.34
and this also
includes religious liberty.
00:28:10.37\00:28:14.38
Already you see-- you say,
00:28:14.41\00:28:15.78
"Well, I don't understand--"
00:28:15.81\00:28:17.18
There are places in the world.
00:28:17.21\00:28:18.58
I want somebody listen now.
00:28:18.61\00:28:20.38
There are places that
we have to be very careful.
00:28:20.41\00:28:21.92
What kind of
books that you pass out?
00:28:21.95\00:28:24.06
They're called hate crimes.
00:28:24.09\00:28:26.33
You might just be
presenting the truth,
00:28:26.36\00:28:28.13
but they say, it's a hate crime
00:28:28.16\00:28:29.53
and you can go to jail for that.
00:28:29.56\00:28:32.37
Freedom of speech.
00:28:32.40\00:28:35.03
Number two, Bible prophecy.
00:28:35.06\00:28:37.53
Many are making
an effort to change.
00:28:37.56\00:28:39.94
They're making an effort to
add to the constitution. Why?
00:28:39.97\00:28:44.64
So in order to
pass certain laws.
00:28:44.67\00:28:47.99
Maybe they're not even aware of,
00:28:48.02\00:28:49.39
but I guarantee you
the enemy is aware of it.
00:28:49.42\00:28:51.93
Three, legislators
will, legislators have,
00:28:51.96\00:28:57.10
legislators are
doing it right today.
00:28:57.13\00:29:01.52
In order to secure your vote,
in order to have popularity
00:29:01.55\00:29:06.54
in the world today,
they're going to yield
00:29:06.57\00:29:09.78
to popular
demand, not necessarily
00:29:09.81\00:29:12.69
what's right and
wrong, but popular demand.
00:29:12.72\00:29:16.26
We are in trouble
when these legislators,
00:29:16.29\00:29:19.04
our representatives
yield to popular demand
00:29:19.07\00:29:21.99
because the world
is enmity against God.
00:29:22.02\00:29:25.96
But they want to
be-- they want to back in.
00:29:25.99\00:29:30.31
And they're gonna pass and
they have been passing laws
00:29:30.34\00:29:32.86
that are contrary
to moral principle
00:29:32.89\00:29:36.14
as well as many other things.
00:29:36.17\00:29:37.64
I only name a couple. I
know lately we're saying, what?
00:29:37.67\00:29:39.75
Same sex marriages. Interesting.
00:29:39.78\00:29:42.96
Day of worship, abortion.
00:29:42.99\00:29:47.07
We can name a lot of
things that we're seeing
00:29:47.10\00:29:49.04
changing against the
moral principles of the Bible,
00:29:49.07\00:29:53.70
but yet the people--
the ones we've elected.
00:29:53.73\00:29:57.25
No me, I'm not bowing for that.
00:29:57.28\00:30:00.45
Put them in office and they're
passing and these kind of things
00:30:00.48\00:30:02.76
that's why we don't
have a choice anymore.
00:30:02.79\00:30:05.19
Four, our constitution.
00:30:05.22\00:30:08.43
We're going to see
it and we already have,
00:30:08.46\00:30:10.08
as it we're set aside
attitude, interpreted,
00:30:10.11\00:30:13.74
very principle of our protestant
and republican government
00:30:13.77\00:30:18.04
is going to be set aside before
this world comes to an end.
00:30:18.07\00:30:22.32
Then where is your
rights? Where is your freedom?
00:30:22.35\00:30:25.89
Five, Bible that--
it says very clearly
00:30:25.92\00:30:30.23
in Prophecy of the
Church and the state
00:30:30.26\00:30:33.32
is going to unite together.
00:30:33.35\00:30:35.49
Some of you fight
and fight and fight
00:30:35.52\00:30:37.63
that and it's so
obvious how join together
00:30:37.66\00:30:40.37
that we are now and
it's even what is increasing.
00:30:40.40\00:30:44.91
Number six, United
States will become.
00:30:44.94\00:30:48.35
Listen, because of her decision
we'll be humbled to the dust.
00:30:48.38\00:30:54.21
Am I happy to say that?
00:30:54.24\00:30:55.92
Absolutely not. United
States is going to be humbled
00:30:55.95\00:30:58.72
and to the dust because,
the wonderful great blessings
00:30:58.75\00:31:01.92
that God has be stood about
upon this country like no other.
00:31:01.95\00:31:04.42
There is no excuse for us.
00:31:04.45\00:31:07.21
We turned our back on God.
00:31:07.24\00:31:09.95
We forgotten God and
because we forgotten God,
00:31:09.98\00:31:12.85
we will be as a
nation humble in the dust.
00:31:12.88\00:31:17.22
And are we
really ready for that?
00:31:17.25\00:31:19.81
Oh, friend, well you and I can't
00:31:19.84\00:31:21.52
take it 2 hours
without electricity.
00:31:21.55\00:31:25.15
We can't live without ice-cubes.
00:31:25.18\00:31:26.70
Somebody stay with me.
00:31:26.73\00:31:28.51
We forgotten God.
00:31:28.54\00:31:30.24
Things are going to
change in this country.
00:31:30.27\00:31:32.12
Listen, we have been so blind.
00:31:32.15\00:31:35.39
And why we're so blind
and so cloudy by all the stuff
00:31:35.43\00:31:38.45
going on in the
world, we say, we see.
00:31:38.48\00:31:40.49
Oh, we understand and we see.
00:31:40.52\00:31:44.24
Because you know, we talk about
00:31:44.27\00:31:45.64
we boasted of being free.
00:31:45.67\00:31:48.02
And why we boasted in
this country of being free
00:31:48.05\00:31:52.35
what do we do?
00:31:52.38\00:31:53.75
We were promoting slavery.
00:31:53.78\00:31:56.28
But we say we were free.
00:31:56.31\00:31:57.71
Everyone had equal opportunity.
00:31:57.74\00:31:59.28
This is the land of the free.
00:31:59.31\00:32:01.13
And we were promoting and voting
00:32:01.16\00:32:02.53
and fighting for what?
00:32:02.56\00:32:03.93
Slavery at this time.
00:32:03.96\00:32:05.49
You remember that?
00:32:05.52\00:32:08.43
We boasted of
religious tolerance.
00:32:08.46\00:32:11.54
We boasted of religious freedom.
00:32:11.57\00:32:16.58
While at the same
time, listen very carefully,
00:32:16.61\00:32:19.34
in our colonies, in the
1,600s, you know what we did?
00:32:19.37\00:32:24.84
We find people almost
like for not going to church.
00:32:24.87\00:32:28.76
We took their property
away for not going to church
00:32:28.79\00:32:31.86
and we kill some
for not going to church.
00:32:31.89\00:32:34.03
That's just put it simple
way you study for yourself.
00:32:34.06\00:32:36.70
At the same time we were saying,
00:32:36.73\00:32:38.10
this is the land of the free.
00:32:38.13\00:32:39.50
We just came across the ocean.
00:32:39.53\00:32:41.09
We came here because
this is the land of the free
00:32:41.12\00:32:43.56
and we begin to implement
laws to restrict the conscience
00:32:43.59\00:32:47.14
of the people to say,
you have to go to church.
00:32:47.17\00:32:51.01
How could this be?
00:32:51.04\00:32:52.41
Have you ever
thought how could this be?
00:32:52.44\00:32:54.78
I was reading a little book
00:32:54.81\00:32:56.18
called Christianity
Through the Centuries,
00:32:56.21\00:32:57.72
page 364 made just a powerful,
powerful kind of one liner here.
00:32:57.75\00:33:02.32
Listen, various churches
created by the reformation
00:33:02.35\00:33:09.74
were transplanted
from England to America.
00:33:09.77\00:33:16.05
Some of you'll
get it, some won't.
00:33:16.08\00:33:18.22
The first 150 years, you see,
of the colonies what happen?
00:33:18.25\00:33:24.13
The enemy was working in Europe.
00:33:24.16\00:33:26.01
Let's just be honest about it,
the beast power, and then what?
00:33:26.04\00:33:29.93
You think the beast.
00:33:29.96\00:33:31.33
You think-- you
think the old devil himself
00:33:31.36\00:33:32.80
can't ride a boat
and get over here?
00:33:32.83\00:33:34.37
Some of you're not with me.
00:33:34.40\00:33:35.95
You think, you say,
"Well, we're going to let always
00:33:35.98\00:33:37.75
millions of
people come over here,
00:33:37.78\00:33:39.15
land of the free and I'm just
going to stay over here?" No.
00:33:39.18\00:33:41.57
He took a boat and he ride here.
00:33:41.60\00:33:44.05
And so what happen?
00:33:44.08\00:33:45.45
The reformation was
wonderful, but what?
00:33:45.48\00:33:47.37
The only enemy, what?
00:33:47.40\00:33:48.77
And the reformation
and all some of things
00:33:48.80\00:33:50.35
they were earning out
some different truths,
00:33:50.38\00:33:52.36
they came over here and what?
00:33:52.39\00:33:53.76
They setup the same type
of thing and the same time
00:33:53.79\00:33:57.27
we call it religious freedom.
00:33:57.30\00:33:59.76
You can't persecute someone
and say it's your freedom.
00:33:59.79\00:34:04.35
Bible says Revelation
13 is gonna be a power
00:34:04.38\00:34:06.74
that's going to come up like
a lamb and speak as the dragon.
00:34:06.77\00:34:12.37
Let me give you another example.
00:34:12.40\00:34:13.77
Just, you know, we
talk about it few years ago.
00:34:13.80\00:34:15.58
In our country,
while we were talking
00:34:15.61\00:34:18.37
heavy duty about freedom,
again we voted for and we--
00:34:18.40\00:34:24.96
you know, we fought for slavery.
00:34:24.99\00:34:27.82
Let me just get
real specific with this.
00:34:27.85\00:34:29.53
This article was
written and I think about 1855,
00:34:29.56\00:34:34.24
in the thick of things.
00:34:34.27\00:34:37.97
But remember, under
certain for I read this,
00:34:38.00\00:34:39.81
under certain
conditions of the world,
00:34:39.84\00:34:42.33
we have--we become
blind to other peoples'
00:34:42.36\00:34:45.75
needs when it affect us.
00:34:45.78\00:34:47.38
Are you still with me?
00:34:47.41\00:34:49.69
If our lives can be made
just a little bit easier,
00:34:49.72\00:34:53.26
we don't mind inflicting
something on someone else.
00:34:53.29\00:34:59.06
I want you to
think about this, too.
00:34:59.09\00:35:00.46
Think about the loss.
00:35:00.49\00:35:02.88
You say no loss of freedom.
00:35:02.91\00:35:04.28
Think about the loss of
freedoms that you have endured
00:35:04.31\00:35:07.06
and I have just in
the last several years.
00:35:07.09\00:35:11.00
Numerous freedoms have been
taken away because of, what?
00:35:11.03\00:35:14.00
Circumstances in the world.
00:35:14.03\00:35:16.26
And, you know,
what I'm talking about.
00:35:16.29\00:35:18.41
But you were willing to
give them up even though
00:35:18.44\00:35:19.81
it might affect
another people, what?
00:35:19.84\00:35:21.21
Make life a
little easier for you.
00:35:21.24\00:35:22.96
The devil knows how to operate.
00:35:22.99\00:35:24.87
You maybe in the
battle of the north and south
00:35:24.90\00:35:27.02
even in this country.
00:35:27.05\00:35:28.73
We were boasting freedom
and then supporting, what?
00:35:28.76\00:35:32.62
Slavery, I talked
about it moment ago
00:35:32.65\00:35:35.02
and this quote
become so real and even,
00:35:35.05\00:35:37.39
I think you get more to realize
we get to the coming of Jesus.
00:35:37.42\00:35:42.97
One Testimony 258, it says,
00:35:43.00\00:35:44.69
"Our government has become
very proud and independent.
00:35:44.72\00:35:51.46
The people of this nation have
exalted themselves into heaven,
00:35:51.49\00:35:56.23
they've looked down on
monarchical governments,
00:35:56.26\00:35:59.11
and they've triumphed
in their boasted liberty,
00:35:59.14\00:36:02.86
while the
institution of slavery,
00:36:02.89\00:36:05.00
that was a thousand times worse
than and a tyranny exercised
00:36:05.03\00:36:09.79
by monarchial governments,
00:36:09.82\00:36:12.20
was suffered to exist and
even was, what? Cherished."
00:36:12.23\00:36:15.61
So what's that point here?
00:36:15.64\00:36:17.22
We cherished that we said, land
of the free, but yeah, what?
00:36:17.25\00:36:20.25
We promoted slavery.
00:36:20.28\00:36:21.92
What's my point here?
00:36:21.95\00:36:23.32
We say, we see,
but we don't see.
00:36:23.35\00:36:26.50
"In this land, a
system is cherished
00:36:26.53\00:36:30.58
which allows one
portion of the human family
00:36:30.61\00:36:34.18
to enslave another
portion, degrading millions
00:36:34.21\00:36:37.84
of human beings to the level
of the brute creation." Wow.
00:36:37.87\00:36:42.81
"The equal of this sin is not
to be found in heathen lands.
00:36:42.84\00:36:48.62
This nation will be yet
be humbled into the dust.
00:36:48.65\00:36:53.04
Had our nation remained united
it would have had strength,
00:36:53.08\00:36:59.28
but divided it must fall."
00:36:59.31\00:37:02.71
Oh, we happy with that.
00:37:02.74\00:37:04.11
Do we want to talk about that?
00:37:04.14\00:37:05.51
No, not at all.
00:37:05.54\00:37:07.43
America-- America in Prophecy.
00:37:07.46\00:37:10.70
One moral power.
00:37:10.73\00:37:12.75
One after another would
rise up on the stage of action,
00:37:12.78\00:37:17.41
more and after
the other would rise
00:37:17.44\00:37:18.81
and then they
would-- they would fall.
00:37:18.84\00:37:20.88
Prophecy
indicated this was happened,
00:37:20.91\00:37:22.58
so that we can
trace it through history.
00:37:22.61\00:37:26.37
One by one each of these nations
fulfilled a prophetic destiny.
00:37:26.40\00:37:31.90
Each one did exactly
what God intended for it do.
00:37:31.93\00:37:36.58
Did He agree with
everything that went on?
00:37:36.61\00:37:38.03
No, but it fulfill the purpose.
00:37:38.06\00:37:40.86
See, God directed
in this, you remember?
00:37:40.89\00:37:43.13
Oh, I know you have.
00:37:43.16\00:37:44.53
You've read in Daniel 2:21.
00:37:44.56\00:37:47.78
It talks about this.
He said,God directed.
00:37:47.81\00:37:49.45
He said, "He tell
us, he changes the times
00:37:49.48\00:37:52.21
and the seasons, he
removeth, what? Good.
00:37:52.24\00:37:55.02
Kings and he setteth up kings."
00:37:55.05\00:37:58.70
So we see here that when people
are even elected to office.
00:37:58.73\00:38:01.68
Let's just take the
president, shall we?
00:38:01.71\00:38:03.11
The President of
the United States,
00:38:03.14\00:38:04.72
we bicker, we fight,
people get all kind of mess over
00:38:04.75\00:38:07.65
and let's say, my
Bible tells me that God sets
00:38:07.68\00:38:09.96
them up and He takes them down.
00:38:09.99\00:38:12.17
Not to get confused about it.
00:38:12.20\00:38:14.10
And well, you got to
vote, you got to--listen,
00:38:14.13\00:38:17.25
God sets them up.
00:38:17.28\00:38:18.65
There is the purpose, He
knows He's gonna occupy that.
00:38:18.68\00:38:20.91
They're gonna fulfill
His purpose even though
00:38:20.94\00:38:23.15
the majority of
things they do maybe is not
00:38:23.18\00:38:25.06
what it needed to be
done, but they will fulfill
00:38:25.09\00:38:27.64
the purpose that God
has in therefore because
00:38:27.68\00:38:29.88
He sets them up
and He takes them down.
00:38:29.91\00:38:33.66
Friend, I'm telling
you since many world powers
00:38:33.69\00:38:36.61
are mentioned in
scripture, we must follow here
00:38:36.64\00:38:40.25
with our thought that
all of these world powers,
00:38:40.28\00:38:42.02
there is no
power and greater than
00:38:42.06\00:38:43.67
the United States of America
and there's a Bible does trace
00:38:43.70\00:38:48.26
the rising and the falling.
00:38:48.29\00:38:50.63
We realize that this
great power Revelation 13
00:38:50.66\00:38:54.07
talks about here
is that not like,
00:38:54.10\00:38:56.00
no other nation
that is ever come upon
00:38:56.03\00:38:58.13
the history of
this world, it doesn't
00:38:58.16\00:38:59.82
and even in a different way.
00:38:59.85\00:39:02.53
But it's gonna
play such a major role.
00:39:02.57\00:39:05.52
It's gonna play such a
major part in the affect
00:39:05.55\00:39:08.57
of the whole world
that what United States
00:39:08.60\00:39:13.36
does the other world parts
of the world will follow after.
00:39:13.39\00:39:18.01
Bible prophecy
reveals these events,
00:39:18.05\00:39:21.36
that reveal the events
of the last days and the day
00:39:21.40\00:39:25.46
I just say again
United States of America
00:39:25.49\00:39:27.76
has had the
greatest blessings on God
00:39:27.79\00:39:30.85
than any place in this world.
00:39:30.88\00:39:33.27
Please, please, keep
that in consideration.
00:39:33.30\00:39:35.56
And along with
blessings, dear friends,
00:39:35.59\00:39:37.87
if we do not follow through
with them, comes to curse.
00:39:37.90\00:39:42.04
Think of the blessings
that we have day by day
00:39:42.07\00:39:44.00
that the other
countries do not have.
00:39:44.03\00:39:47.25
And God is
bestowing them and honest
00:39:47.28\00:39:48.99
if we do not
appreciate them and use them,
00:39:49.02\00:39:51.61
they're going to
be taken and then
00:39:51.64\00:39:53.84
there's a lessons to be learn.
00:39:53.87\00:39:57.29
And we need to be
very careful because
00:39:57.32\00:39:58.82
we are a spoil nation.
00:39:58.85\00:40:03.40
Other countries can get
Bible, practically nothing.
00:40:03.43\00:40:05.58
We think we have to
have all kind of stuff
00:40:05.61\00:40:07.10
in order to get back.
00:40:07.13\00:40:08.50
We're going to
see before it's over.
00:40:08.53\00:40:10.88
The Bible predicts
it. Am I happy with it?
00:40:10.91\00:40:12.89
No, I love this country.
00:40:12.92\00:40:16.05
But the Bible predicts
something's going to happen.
00:40:16.08\00:40:17.80
We need to be prepared for this
happening, blessings of God.
00:40:17.83\00:40:23.95
But we are--listen, we are
accountable for our conduct.
00:40:23.98\00:40:28.71
Does that make sense?
00:40:28.74\00:40:30.11
We're
accountable for our conduct
00:40:30.14\00:40:31.62
whether it'd be
small area or large area.
00:40:31.65\00:40:35.54
We're accountable to God.
00:40:35.57\00:40:38.23
This country was
handpicked by God.
00:40:38.26\00:40:42.70
Chosen of God for a
special haven of rest
00:40:42.73\00:40:48.21
for the saints of God.
00:40:48.24\00:40:50.74
And look what's taking place.
00:40:50.77\00:40:53.75
Look what's taking place
right now before your eyes.
00:40:53.78\00:40:59.02
You see, we think
about without a doubt.
00:40:59.05\00:41:02.42
God through this
Holy Spirit is speaking,
00:41:02.45\00:41:05.92
speaking to this
land of the free.
00:41:05.95\00:41:09.32
What she does
and what she will do?
00:41:09.35\00:41:11.82
And let me just say once again.
00:41:11.85\00:41:13.36
What happens in this country
will affect the saints of God,
00:41:13.39\00:41:17.69
God's last day people?
00:41:17.72\00:41:19.79
Bless your heart,
if you've been taught
00:41:19.82\00:41:21.60
in your local church
wherever it might be that you--
00:41:21.63\00:41:24.33
when the time gets rough
you're gonna be wraps it out.
00:41:24.36\00:41:26.45
You have been taught a lie.
00:41:26.48\00:41:29.20
Now I'm not gonna mince words,
00:41:29.23\00:41:30.60
we didn't try to soft-pedal
and let give you some.
00:41:30.63\00:41:32.15
So I'm gonna telling you right
in, it is the lie of the devil.
00:41:32.18\00:41:35.10
Because he
doesn't want you prepare
00:41:35.13\00:41:36.50
what's coming upon this world.
00:41:36.53\00:41:38.62
Certainly Jesus is the answer,
00:41:38.65\00:41:40.05
but there is other things
we can be doing to realize
00:41:40.09\00:41:42.87
is to not
preparing for anything,
00:41:42.90\00:41:44.37
just go right headlong, we
won't be here, you will be.
00:41:44.40\00:41:48.79
This could be around the corner.
00:41:48.82\00:41:52.47
See, in order to
get this prophecy
00:41:52.50\00:41:54.49
we need to spend a
short time in review,
00:41:54.53\00:41:59.41
a little bit update
on some of the material.
00:41:59.44\00:42:02.74
I realize many
have been through,
00:42:02.77\00:42:04.65
but we're going to do
this as quickly as we can.
00:42:04.68\00:42:06.59
We're going to
Daniel 2, Daniel 7
00:42:06.62\00:42:08.60
and leading to
Revelation 13 as our second part
00:42:08.63\00:42:11.38
and then in our third part.
00:42:11.41\00:42:12.83
We get into the
verses and dissect and,
00:42:12.86\00:42:15.55
but listen carefully.
00:42:15.58\00:42:17.33
We need to understand the beast.
00:42:17.36\00:42:19.47
The first beast of
Revelation 13:1-10.
00:42:19.50\00:42:22.38
We can understand
this beast here because
00:42:22.41\00:42:24.34
the second beast
then begins to, what?
00:42:24.37\00:42:26.51
Wonder after that
third-- the first things
00:42:26.54\00:42:29.33
of the first beast instituted.
00:42:29.36\00:42:31.75
They do exactly this
first beast which is a papacy.
00:42:31.78\00:42:35.07
So we need to be
very careful about that.
00:42:35.10\00:42:36.90
We can just read
past the history and say,
00:42:36.93\00:42:38.54
"Oh, is this gonna be fall,
00:42:38.57\00:42:40.30
the United
States of the America?
00:42:40.33\00:42:41.70
God help us. It
seems impossible.
00:42:41.73\00:42:46.95
Worthwhile to
retrace, in order to identify
00:42:46.98\00:42:50.67
this beast power and to
identify the United States
00:42:50.70\00:42:54.83
in scripture and in history
and using the tools that God
00:42:54.86\00:42:58.18
has given us, so
that we need not air,
00:42:58.21\00:43:03.36
with events talking place.
00:43:03.39\00:43:04.77
And I'm talking about right now.
00:43:04.80\00:43:07.30
It is life and death issues.
00:43:07.33\00:43:10.48
Please, think about that.
00:43:10.51\00:43:12.58
Just to know, put
down-- and say, no Protestants.
00:43:12.61\00:43:17.49
Beware,
Protestants, are you one?
00:43:17.52\00:43:21.75
I can't here you.
00:43:21.78\00:43:23.34
Protestants,
beware the new pope.
00:43:23.37\00:43:27.69
And I'm talking
about looking what.
00:43:27.72\00:43:29.11
We have to look it, you know,
00:43:29.14\00:43:30.97
Protestant and we
have to, and Catholicism.
00:43:31.00\00:43:33.61
But we have to realize
that the new Pope is what?
00:43:33.64\00:43:37.39
He's elected
there, he is a Jesuit.
00:43:37.42\00:43:41.04
The newly
elected Pope is a Jesuit.
00:43:41.07\00:43:44.99
Do you know
understand the Jesuit agenda
00:43:45.02\00:43:47.67
is to eliminate Protestants?
00:43:47.71\00:43:51.64
Oh, well, he can't,
he's so sweet and nice.
00:43:51.67\00:43:53.41
And we're not trying to
pick on the individual here.
00:43:53.44\00:43:56.64
We know the oath that
you take when you a Jesuit.
00:43:56.67\00:44:00.63
Things are being set in
order Supreme Court, right?
00:44:00.66\00:44:04.74
New Pope, Protestantism.
00:44:04.77\00:44:07.39
We cover some heavy duty things
in lesson two and lesson three
00:44:07.42\00:44:10.94
about the Protestant world
and how we keep our eye on it.
00:44:10.97\00:44:14.81
Now with that said,
we need to think in terms
00:44:14.84\00:44:18.80
of the points that
leading into our study.
00:44:18.83\00:44:21.10
Short to the point.
00:44:21.13\00:44:22.50
We need this info. Don't forget.
00:44:22.53\00:44:24.18
There's a lot of information
that's going to help us.
00:44:24.21\00:44:28.57
And we've already produce that.
00:44:28.60\00:44:29.97
You remember, you remember
in the five part series,
00:44:30.00\00:44:31.89
it call the
mystery of the iniquity,
00:44:31.92\00:44:34.17
the antichrist reveal?
00:44:34.20\00:44:36.37
If you have that
five part series here,
00:44:36.40\00:44:38.32
this always other really
helps that all fit together
00:44:38.35\00:44:42.28
and you go overall event.
00:44:42.31\00:44:43.73
And listen to this
and put it together.
00:44:43.76\00:44:45.13
It'll make your mind just swim
00:44:45.16\00:44:46.71
of what's taking
place around us right now.
00:44:46.74\00:44:48.98
And most of the world
is just loyal to sleep.
00:44:49.01\00:44:53.31
They think they
know, they don't know.
00:44:53.34\00:44:56.63
What's going to
happen to this good old
00:44:56.66\00:44:59.22
United States of America
that God reveals in His word?
00:44:59.25\00:45:05.77
After all He made that promise
did he not in Amos 3 verse 7.
00:45:05.80\00:45:08.76
He says what?
00:45:08.79\00:45:10.16
"Surely the Lord
God will not do." What?
00:45:10.19\00:45:11.57
Anything, "But he revealeth
00:45:11.60\00:45:13.59
his secret unto the
servants the prophets."
00:45:13.62\00:45:18.46
And some of you don't say right,
00:45:18.49\00:45:19.86
well, I have a
problem with the prophets.
00:45:19.89\00:45:21.82
Well, you need to get
in for the two part series
00:45:21.85\00:45:24.00
we did about
prophet of end, too.
00:45:24.03\00:45:26.28
It helped me to
understand the importance
00:45:26.31\00:45:28.87
of having direction here
in the days of earth' history.
00:45:28.90\00:45:32.42
May I say because every--every
wind of the doctrine is blowing?
00:45:32.45\00:45:37.03
My friend, if
we are not careful,
00:45:37.07\00:45:38.68
we're gonna be blown
off of this platform.
00:45:38.71\00:45:42.49
We need to be in the world like,
00:45:42.52\00:45:43.89
never--before to really study
to see whether these things
00:45:43.92\00:45:47.84
be so because what
we're talking about,
00:45:47.87\00:45:49.68
we're talking about
things that's taking place now,
00:45:49.71\00:45:51.88
but we'll take
place in the future.
00:45:51.91\00:45:55.79
When you're talking about things
taking place in the future,
00:45:55.82\00:45:58.67
you're talking
about prophesying.
00:45:58.70\00:46:00.60
God's word has told us
because He want us to be warned,
00:46:00.63\00:46:05.24
so that we're not
just-- Oh, devastated.
00:46:05.27\00:46:10.65
But we need a
relationship with Jesus Christ
00:46:10.68\00:46:12.86
more than ever before, right?
00:46:12.89\00:46:14.26
We need to be
cover by the blood.
00:46:14.29\00:46:15.79
We need to put
priorities in our life,
00:46:15.82\00:46:17.40
and well I see priorities
in the world today is not God.
00:46:17.43\00:46:21.48
It's everything, but
and we've got our nose
00:46:21.51\00:46:24.97
and everything is
going on the world
00:46:25.00\00:46:26.51
rather than our
nose in the Word of God.
00:46:26.54\00:46:28.27
And I think you follow
what I'm thinking here.
00:46:28.31\00:46:32.83
God is so clear.
00:46:32.86\00:46:34.23
Daniel Chapter 2 simply gives
us the history of the world
00:46:34.26\00:46:38.55
from Nebuchadnezzar's time.
00:46:38.58\00:46:39.95
I'm not going into lot of
stuff, I want you to just think.
00:46:39.98\00:46:41.45
It gives us the history
from Nebuchadnezzar's time
00:46:41.48\00:46:44.46
until the
coming of Jesus Christ.
00:46:44.50\00:46:47.02
Well, that sets it up
really nice, doesn't it?
00:46:47.05\00:46:48.96
When he comes,
Daniel 2:44, 45, it says,
00:46:48.99\00:46:54.11
"In the days of these
kings shall the God of heaven
00:46:54.14\00:46:57.83
set up a kingdom, which
shall never be destroyed."
00:46:57.86\00:47:02.72
And then it goes on to
say, "That God hath made known
00:47:02.75\00:47:05.85
to the king what shall
come to pass hereafter,
00:47:05.88\00:47:11.01
and the dream is certain,
and the interpretation is sure."
00:47:11.04\00:47:15.60
Well, friend, today, here it is.
00:47:15.63\00:47:17.33
The Bible is sure.
00:47:17.36\00:47:18.73
The interpretation is sure.
00:47:18.76\00:47:20.13
It's clear, but as
maybe not what you want to,
00:47:20.16\00:47:23.13
it's not what you thinks
gonna happen in this country,
00:47:23.16\00:47:25.23
but God says
that it is and again
00:47:25.26\00:47:27.34
it becomes clear as we study.
00:47:27.37\00:47:30.62
See, when Daniel
revealed this dream
00:47:30.65\00:47:33.07
in every detail
to Nebuchadnezzar.
00:47:33.10\00:47:36.83
You know what happened?
00:47:36.86\00:47:38.23
Holy Spirit
impressed Nebuchadnezzar
00:47:38.26\00:47:39.93
and he accepted it
as a divine revelation.
00:47:39.96\00:47:43.04
I'm asking you today, oh
my brothers and my sisters,
00:47:43.08\00:47:47.78
will you accept it
as a divine revelation
00:47:47.81\00:47:50.07
of what you're hearing
today and what you are studying?
00:47:50.10\00:47:52.78
When the Holy Spirit will
opens your eyes and your eyes,
00:47:52.82\00:47:55.51
how will you respond?
00:47:55.54\00:47:58.44
Will it be like Nebuchadnezzar,
the heathen king.
00:47:58.47\00:48:01.45
As he heard this, right?
00:48:01.48\00:48:02.85
It's not what he wanted
to hear because his kingdom
00:48:02.88\00:48:04.25
was coming down and his
place would be another kingdom,
00:48:04.28\00:48:07.16
but he prays God for it.
00:48:07.19\00:48:11.71
The image that
Nebuchadnezzar saw,
00:48:11.74\00:48:14.40
represented what? Come on, good.
00:48:14.43\00:48:16.11
The kingdoms of
this world, but notice,
00:48:16.14\00:48:18.71
as they deteriorated
in power and in glory
00:48:18.74\00:48:23.95
in religion and in morality.
00:48:23.98\00:48:27.88
Remember as a people, as
a nation, as we forget God.
00:48:27.91\00:48:33.21
If we ask Him to
leave, if we vote Him out,
00:48:33.24\00:48:37.67
if we throw Him out, if
we say, we don't want Him.
00:48:37.70\00:48:43.51
Weakness will be the results.
00:48:43.54\00:48:46.08
Mentally, physically,
spiritually, financially.
00:48:46.11\00:48:49.88
Well, we're looking right now
00:48:49.91\00:48:51.28
the ultimate
collapse financially
00:48:51.31\00:48:54.47
People say, "Oh, job
increase a little bit here
00:48:54.50\00:48:57.27
and less people's
drawing, you know, unemployment.
00:48:57.30\00:48:59.09
Oh, don't fool yourself.
00:48:59.12\00:49:01.15
God's getting,
He has given us time
00:49:01.18\00:49:02.55
to get this
message out to the world.
00:49:02.58\00:49:04.47
Friends, you
need to be helping us
00:49:04.50\00:49:05.87
to get this message
out to warn the world.
00:49:05.90\00:49:08.78
We're gonna be
held accountable because
00:49:08.81\00:49:10.46
we're spending our
money and doing your
00:49:10.49\00:49:12.04
--foolishness of the world,
00:49:12.07\00:49:13.44
rather than
talking to God's people.
00:49:13.47\00:49:15.38
And people around the
world need to hear the truth
00:49:15.41\00:49:17.71
and they don't need all
this rosy colored stuff,
00:49:17.74\00:49:19.73
they need to hear it
that Jesus is coming.
00:49:19.76\00:49:22.20
We have the Image of the Beast.
00:49:22.23\00:49:23.60
We have the Mark of the Beast.
00:49:23.63\00:49:25.00
We have the
Three Angels' Message
00:49:25.03\00:49:26.40
and it needs to go
out and to warn the world
00:49:26.43\00:49:27.84
and quick warn about all these
00:49:27.87\00:49:29.24
little flowery
stuff that's going on.
00:49:29.27\00:49:30.64
It's life and death issues.
00:49:30.67\00:49:35.39
Again, tracing the nations,
00:49:35.42\00:49:38.67
regardless of
how they started up.
00:49:38.70\00:49:43.06
Regardless of how they grew,
eventually they became worst.
00:49:43.09\00:49:47.61
Did you notice that?
00:49:47.64\00:49:49.01
And worst and worst until they
were either destroyed, right?
00:49:49.04\00:49:52.34
Another power came
and destroyed them.
00:49:52.37\00:49:54.20
They destroyed their self
even, you know, internally,
00:49:54.23\00:49:57.43
they were replaced.
00:49:57.46\00:49:59.85
Let me go with this again.
00:49:59.88\00:50:01.25
Some of you don't--
you didn't get this.
00:50:01.28\00:50:03.70
Food for thought.
00:50:03.73\00:50:05.69
Really, put
your thinking cap on.
00:50:05.72\00:50:07.98
As we go down from
Babylon right on down,
00:50:08.01\00:50:11.91
it gets worst. Why?
00:50:11.94\00:50:13.32
Because we get farther
and farther away from God.
00:50:13.35\00:50:16.71
We're losing God's
blessing day by day.
00:50:16.74\00:50:19.43
We deteriorated, the
nations deteriorated,
00:50:19.46\00:50:21.88
we're deteriorating
because we've cast off
00:50:21.91\00:50:24.74
our allegiance to God.
00:50:24.77\00:50:26.59
We've chosen some
kind of a strange God.
00:50:26.62\00:50:31.59
Friends, quickly,
Babylon, what happen?
00:50:31.62\00:50:37.65
In her
prosperity she forgot God.
00:50:37.68\00:50:42.47
Medo-Persia. God's
laws were forsaken.
00:50:42.50\00:50:47.42
God was forsaken.
00:50:47.45\00:50:49.17
Wickedness and
corruption was ramped.
00:50:49.20\00:50:53.60
The next power coming on
the scene was--was Greece.
00:50:53.63\00:50:58.03
She was
thinking lower and lower.
00:50:58.06\00:51:00.13
No law, no place for
God, no place for truth,
00:51:00.16\00:51:03.53
no place for righteousness,
00:51:03.56\00:51:04.99
idol worship in
the place of God.
00:51:05.02\00:51:09.34
The name God,
king of the universe,
00:51:09.37\00:51:12.27
very seldom ever heard.
00:51:12.30\00:51:13.94
And then the next
power was Pagan Rome.
00:51:13.97\00:51:16.60
Almost all
traces of right doing.
00:51:16.63\00:51:19.62
Christianity almost
wiped out and then people Rome.
00:51:19.65\00:51:24.99
Well, you realize
out of the ten toes,
00:51:25.02\00:51:27.25
ten this, what?
00:51:27.28\00:51:28.65
The little horn
power, the papacy developed.
00:51:28.68\00:51:32.38
You have the feet.
00:51:32.41\00:51:34.31
You remember the
toes of feet of iron
00:51:34.34\00:51:35.97
and clay representing what?
00:51:36.00\00:51:37.37
Church and
state coming together.
00:51:37.40\00:51:39.97
Oh, denied by many, I'm sure,
00:51:40.00\00:51:42.67
but in a weakening state,
iron and clay mix together. Why?
00:51:42.70\00:51:46.59
We're talking about what?
00:51:46.62\00:51:48.22
The church became
weakened because the civil power
00:51:48.26\00:51:50.93
was on a passing
laws and backing up.
00:51:50.96\00:51:53.89
The church coming together,
they say, we want this done,
00:51:53.93\00:51:56.14
civil laws just
come and pass them.
00:51:56.17\00:52:00.25
History is going to be repeated.
00:52:00.29\00:52:04.15
Always proven in history.
00:52:04.18\00:52:06.99
When the church goes
00:52:07.02\00:52:08.39
to the
government, listen carefully.
00:52:08.42\00:52:09.90
When the church goes to
the government investing
00:52:09.93\00:52:12.97
her power with the state,
results will always be evil.
00:52:13.00\00:52:19.40
And the majority
will always persecute
00:52:19.43\00:52:21.63
the minority every time.
00:52:21.66\00:52:24.29
It's always has been in history,
it's not going to change.
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And may I see this
about the government.
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The government is not always--
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they don't have to
make the first move.
00:52:30.88\00:52:34.66
The churches-- the
Protestants churches
00:52:34.70\00:52:37.02
are going to the
government to have laws pass.
00:52:37.06\00:52:40.43
Think about it.
00:52:40.47\00:52:42.41
To be try to make
laws to regulate morality.
00:52:42.45\00:52:45.87
Well, if it does
not working over it,
00:52:45.90\00:52:47.27
let's pass the more
laws, let's pass the more laws.
00:52:47.30\00:52:49.16
The church is
going to the state.
00:52:49.19\00:52:51.65
We've got problems here.
00:52:51.68\00:52:55.72
You cannot, you
cannot legislate morality.
00:52:55.75\00:53:00.02
You cannot pass
laws and everything is.
00:53:00.05\00:53:03.05
Listen, it's gone so
far even in this country.
00:53:03.08\00:53:06.27
You say, "Well, it's
not really the moral issue.
00:53:06.30\00:53:08.38
The government's passing laws,
00:53:08.41\00:53:10.28
at least trying to pass laws
on what you--on what you eat
00:53:10.31\00:53:14.32
and what you drink and how
much you can do it at time,
00:53:14.35\00:53:17.13
what you wear and life itself.
00:53:17.16\00:53:20.82
They are involved in
every aspect of life.
00:53:20.85\00:53:24.77
Not necessarily
because they want to because
00:53:24.80\00:53:26.52
we supposedly Christian people
00:53:26.55\00:53:28.56
are going to the
government saying,
00:53:28.59\00:53:29.96
"This is what's
best for us." Wow.
00:53:29.99\00:53:35.34
Man, you're
talking about, you know,
00:53:35.37\00:53:37.02
we're talking about
revival reformation,
00:53:37.05\00:53:38.58
it begins in the heart.
00:53:38.61\00:53:41.53
You can't convince somebody,
00:53:41.56\00:53:42.93
you can't pass the law
and convince them and say,
00:53:42.96\00:53:44.40
"My mother said this years
ago, said, a man convinced.
00:53:44.43\00:53:47.35
That's against his will,
is at the same opinions deal.
00:53:47.38\00:53:52.85
But let me tell you,
United States of America,
00:53:52.88\00:53:54.51
few minutes
left, listen carefully.
00:53:54.54\00:53:55.91
United States of
America is going to destroy
00:53:55.94\00:53:58.55
herself from within.
00:53:58.58\00:54:01.31
Not gonna take
somebody else in the world,
00:54:01.34\00:54:02.73
but within and we're destroying
00:54:02.76\00:54:04.13
our self within
our self right now.
00:54:04.16\00:54:07.27
The churches are going right
now and they're asking for funds
00:54:07.30\00:54:10.69
to run private school
00:54:10.72\00:54:12.09
and Christian
schools and colleges.
00:54:12.12\00:54:14.55
Is this not somehow?
00:54:14.58\00:54:16.69
Church and state united together
00:54:16.72\00:54:18.38
and we take their
money and say, No we're not."
00:54:18.42\00:54:23.52
Of course,
there's many other ways.
00:54:23.55\00:54:25.87
We hear about blue laws
00:54:25.90\00:54:27.27
and we hear
about Sunday closings.
00:54:27.30\00:54:28.67
And some Christians
believe that we should ask
00:54:28.70\00:54:30.25
the government
to close businesses
00:54:30.28\00:54:32.32
and car
dealerships which they are.
00:54:32.36\00:54:34.41
No shopping-- no
sports on Sunday.
00:54:34.44\00:54:37.48
You know why they say.
00:54:37.51\00:54:38.88
Because we need a day of
rest, just like the papacy said.
00:54:38.91\00:54:43.10
They want their day
Sunday, instituted up there
00:54:43.13\00:54:45.45
and whole world to follow after.
00:54:45.48\00:54:46.85
I hope somebody's with me.
00:54:46.88\00:54:50.02
They think--they
talk about the government.
00:54:50.05\00:54:51.64
Government, please.
00:54:51.67\00:54:53.04
Legislate laws to
make the people better
00:54:53.07\00:54:55.69
and they'll be better
if we pass the Sunday law
00:54:55.72\00:54:58.37
where we can all go to church.
00:54:58.41\00:55:01.88
Listen, our moral
issues, the government needs
00:55:01.91\00:55:03.77
to stay out of church business.
00:55:03.80\00:55:05.94
Did you get it?
00:55:05.97\00:55:07.78
And the time
they seem to walk to,
00:55:07.81\00:55:09.85
but the Christian people, what?
00:55:09.88\00:55:11.58
Ask them back in.
00:55:11.62\00:55:13.05
They pressure them.
00:55:13.08\00:55:14.80
They pressure the
elected officials.
00:55:14.83\00:55:16.92
Again, quickly you're
talking about moral issue
00:55:16.95\00:55:19.19
here about abortion.
00:55:19.22\00:55:20.71
It's a church issue, right?
00:55:20.74\00:55:22.16
It's a moral issue,
not a government issue.
00:55:22.19\00:55:25.29
Even though it's
a good, you know,
00:55:25.33\00:55:26.77
millions life, you know,
have been saying about that.
00:55:26.81\00:55:29.42
Friend, you see there's a lot
00:55:29.46\00:55:30.83
of material that
need to be covered.
00:55:30.86\00:55:32.23
I need to pray with you here.
00:55:32.26\00:55:33.63
Don't forget, you
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You need--please,
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00:55:35.81\00:55:37.74
Books by the hundreds
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People asking for
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I think it's time
you rise to the occasion.
00:55:43.99\00:55:45.36
Let's pray together, shall we?
00:55:45.39\00:55:46.76
As we close.
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Merciful Father in
Heaven, we thank you
00:55:48.19\00:55:49.56
for Your precious word.
00:55:49.59\00:55:50.96
Today we thank
you for illuminating
00:55:50.99\00:55:52.36
these beautiful
truths to bless your people.
00:55:52.39\00:55:53.76
We pray, help us,
we want to respond
00:55:53.79\00:55:55.16
to work together
to finish this work,
00:55:55.19\00:55:56.56
so that we can go
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00:55:56.59\00:55:58.87
and for His sake. Amen.
00:55:58.90\00:56:02.27
Friend, don't
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00:56:02.30\00:56:03.67
here at "Behold
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00:56:03.70\00:56:05.07
We realized when
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00:56:07.81\00:56:09.24
He's gonna try to
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00:56:09.27\00:56:10.64
You don't try to
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00:56:10.67\00:56:12.04
you know, program because
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we don't want--
Oh, friend, just pray.
00:56:13.62\00:56:15.41
These programs need to go.
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We'll see you next time.
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Welcome back, friends.
00:56:22.25\00:56:23.77
Studying
prophecy can be exciting
00:56:23.80\00:56:26.47
and challenging in many ways.
00:56:26.50\00:56:28.43
The subject of
America in prophecy
00:56:28.46\00:56:31.00
is one that
deals with our worship.
00:56:31.03\00:56:33.33
Therefore, it is
so very important
00:56:33.36\00:56:35.92
for us to gain a proper
understanding of its meaning
00:56:35.95\00:56:39.36
and we will most assuredly
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00:56:39.39\00:56:43.94
Christ Himself, He
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00:56:43.97\00:56:47.44
It is truth that will set
us free from sin and lead us
00:56:47.47\00:56:51.57
on the path of righteousness.
00:56:51.60\00:56:53.71
Therefore, who, what,
when or how we worship God
00:56:53.74\00:56:57.22
is so important,
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00:56:57.25\00:57:00.41
a saving relationship
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00:57:00.45\00:57:03.70
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