Hello and welcome again
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to another episode of
Behold the Lamb Presents.
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I'm Chris Shelton, your host,
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and I look forward to
spending this hour with you.
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Today's message has
somewhat of a long title,
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Pope Leo XIII,
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we hold upon the earth
the place of God Almighty.
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The last
portion of today's title
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may surprise some of you.
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But I'm sure that many of you
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realize that this is a quote
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from Pope Leo XIII
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from his encyclical letter
of June 20th back in 1894.
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And should you be curious
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enough to research this
statement or this title,
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you will find
that Pope Leo XIII was
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and or is not the only one
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that has this very same thought.
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So is it any wonder that
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this self exaltation
to that of God on earth
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has brought about major laws
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and traditions
that affect all of us
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in one form or another?
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And what other church leader
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that you know of gets
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the same homage as
is shown to the pope?
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I don't know of any myself.
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With such world
dominance for so many years,
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it should not surprise anyone
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that this religiopolitical power
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is described in the Word of God,
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God, the true God of heaven,
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whom in Isaiah 44:6 states that,
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"I am the first
and I am the last,
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and besides me there is no God."
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He saw fit to warn us
about this power in His Word.
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So today, Pastor Kenny Shelton
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will be delving specifically
into the prophecies of Daniel 7
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to share with each of us
what the Holy Spirit of God
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has laid upon his
heart about this power
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that claims to be
God Almighty on earth,
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and how this power
will continue to affect
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God's people until
they are all sealed.
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Again, the title
of the message today
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is Pope Leo XIII,
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we hold upon the earth
the place of God Almighty.
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But first, let's visit 3ABN
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and listen to a song
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entitled Rock of Ages
as sung by Pam Lister.
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Rock of Ages, cleft for me
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Le me hide myself in thee
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Let the water and the blood
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From thy wounded
side which flowed
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Be of sin the double cure
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Save from wrath and make me pure
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Not the labor of my hands
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Can fulfill thy law's demands
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Could my zeal no respite know
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Could my tears forever flow
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All for sin could not atone
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Thou must save, and thou alone
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While I draw
this fleeting breath
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When mine eyes
shall close in death
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When I soar to worlds unknown
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See thee on thy judgment throne
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Rock of Ages, cleft for me
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Let me hide myself in thee
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Let me hide myself in thee
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Praise the Lord.
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Welcome to Behold
the Lamb Ministries.
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We're very grateful and thankful
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that you've
decided to join us today.
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And to me one of the
most exciting subjects,
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because it
points to the last days.
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There are very many, many,
many people in the world say,
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"Oh, why would you
choose something like this?"
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Why?
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Because the Bible
has spoken it first.
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The Bible has warned
God's last day people,
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that can be
anybody that wants to be
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a part of His
family, the church.
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You know, I don't look at it,
oh, this is Adventist message,
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this is Baptist message,
this is Church of God message.
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It's the message of
the Bible of Jesus Christ.
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We have every right,
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every right to go to God's Word
and read what He says there.
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And I feel, like I say sorry,
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I feel sorry for
those who have been told
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by their pastors
and their teachers
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to stay out of the Book
of Daniel and Revelation.
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Now, you may have
been part of that,
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I'm not trying to hurt
you in any form or fashion,
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things that I will speak today
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is not just
trying to point you out,
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or trying to point
somebody is just all wrong,
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but point out what God
has pointed in His Word.
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And it's going to be distasteful
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by the majority of the world,
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because the Bible says
so, I'm not happy about that.
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But I didn't
write the Word, right?
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And God only
entails us to give the Word
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as He's given it
to us, truthfully,
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and we want to do that today.
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Again, our subject
title, my wife mentioned
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before in the beginning,
what you did not see here,
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but what will go on the
air and around the world.
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She mentioned the Pope Leo XIII.
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Most people know that
and they go back in history.
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He simply made this statement,
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"We hold upon the earth
the place of God Almighty."
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That is just a big
statement that most of us read,
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and we let it go off our back
like water off a duck's back.
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Are we there?
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Really, we read that, how
many of us really read that
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and really thought
anything about other than,
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well, they said.
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No, I'm taking
issue with it today
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based on God's Word.
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And naturally, how can we do it?
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I can't do it without
the power of the Holy Spirit.
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Usually all I do
is mess things up.
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And I know the Holy Spirit
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can straighten
out the messes that,
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that the Lord has
impressed my heart and mind
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to bring forward today.
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I'm going to pray about it.
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I pray that you will pray along
with me just as I kneel here.
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Merciful God in heaven, truly,
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we want to commit ourselves
into Thy care and Thy keeping.
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I ask forgiveness of any
sin, anything in my heart
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and life that
needs not be there.
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Lord, we need the
power of Thy Holy Spirit.
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We need You to
come into our hearts
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and our lives and the minds,
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and not look at
something as personal
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or like a hate crime
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or we're against
this group or that.
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We are against err.
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We are against the enemy of err,
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and that needs to be exposed.
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And we pray that Word of God,
you already have exposed it.
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And we pray that
will be brought home
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by Your power
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and Your
strength and Your might.
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Lord, grace us
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with Your
presence in Jesus' name.
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Amen.
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Notice, we read,
again, the subject title,
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it's pretty heavy
duty, Pope Leo XIII.
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We hold... That's interesting.
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We hold upon the earth
the place of God Almighty.
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I have and I hope
it's okay with you,
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I have an issue with that.
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I pray that you
have an issue with that.
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Now, again, as we've got
to look beyond the family.
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We've got to look
beyond our friends.
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It may be our
companion, you see?
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That whole certain things up,
then we look in the Word of God
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and say, "Oh, I
don't see it there.
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I don't see it there."
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And we must be willing to be
able to talk about those things
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and see whether
God says amen to it.
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If this is what God
has said in His Word
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or if it's something
we need to back away from.
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Remember, for every truth
that the Bible has, what is it?
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The enemy has
what? Okay, we all know.
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Okay, every truth the
devil has a counterfeit for it.
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Now remember, the
devil is a counterfeiter.
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He doesn't want truth.
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He doesn't know truth.
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He's thrown truth out.
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He was thrown out of heaven.
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He came down to this
earth to counteract everything
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that God put into operation.
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So don't think that your church,
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don't think that this
church is an exception
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to the rule that
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the devil can't
come through the door.
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The only way I know he
can get through that door
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is to come through me or you.
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And you know what?
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This morning by
the grace of God,
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I didn't open the door for him.
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I didn't open the door for him.
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So I pray that none of
you have opened the door
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and allowing
the enemy to come in
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because when he comes
in, I'll tell you this.
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I found that he
takes over. He takes over.
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He's not one just to
set back in the choir
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and be one of the boys.
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He's going to try to
lead everybody astray.
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And you know, he usually
starts with the leadership.
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That could be you,
me in whatever class
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or what have you too.
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I understand that well,
and I ask for God's guidance
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and His direction in this study.
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You know, if your
turn to the Book of Daniel,
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I just want to read a
couple of quick verses here.
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Didn't know
exactly how the Lord would,
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would lead and
guide an opening of this,
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but I wanted to
come right straight
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from the Word of God.
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Why?
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Not that you haven't heard
this before, but you know what.
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There will be millions
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that have not heard
some of the things that
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we will mention here today.
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And the many who
have heard it will say,
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it doesn't make any difference.
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Listen, everything that said
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from this pulpit
makes a difference,
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because I'm going to
read it from the Word of God
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or from their own lips of those,
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you see who have
made these statements.
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Remember, if it's
against the Word of God,
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you and I have a
right to stand up and say,
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"That's not what God said."
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Then I think as mentioned here,
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maybe in our, even
our children's story,
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then if I say something,
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and then you can
come back later and say,
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"Well, I found out different."
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Well, go ahead.
Let's discuss it.
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Let's bring it down.
It's nothing wrong with it.
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Well, I disagree with you,
then tell me why you disagree.
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But when you do,
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you need to have
some good information.
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Good information.
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Daniel Chapter 7,
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we're going to be
looking something very...
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To me it's fantastic,
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because we study
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the Books of
Daniel and Revelation.
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Remember, the Book
of Daniel was what?
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When it was given,
it was closed, right,
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for a while, until what?
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Until the time of the end.
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The Book of Daniel
was closed until what?
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The time of the end.
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We believe that we are
in the time of the end.
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Friends, if we go
through them in studies,
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we had time today and we won't
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because I'll go on and
on about certain things
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here that's really
gets under my skin.
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And we won't have time,
but we'd have time other,
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you know, we can get together
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and maybe spend more time on it.
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God has just warned
us over and over and over
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and in
timeframes and prophecies,
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you know, the 2300 day prophecy
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and so on that we are
in the time of the end.
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He talks about a beast power.
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He talks about a power
that would say certain things,
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and they would
claim certain things.
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And we look and say, yeah,
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well, they, maybe
somebody is doing it,
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maybe somebody is not.
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But notice in the
Book of Daniel Chapter 7,
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just read verse 1.
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And then we will turn
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and try to
discuss Daniel Chapter 7.
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Remember, the Book of Revelation
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has always been what?
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Can somebody say open book.
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It's been an open book,
because it reveals what?
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Reveals Jesus Christ,
right, and things, verse 1,
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that are
shortly to come to pass.
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That's why many
times preachers say,
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stay out of the Book of
Revelation, don't study.
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But don't you want a
revelation of Jesus Christ?
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Revelation Chapter...
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Remember,
Revelation Chapter 1 says,
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it's a
revealing of Jesus Christ.
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The devil says,
"Oh, no, I'm in trouble
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because it reveals Jesus Christ,
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and then it reveals my
plan to hoodwink the world.
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And so, somehow,
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I'm gonna try to keep
them out of the book."
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Because
there'll be some symbols,
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there'll be some things in there
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that's little bit
difficult to understand.
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And then I'll have some leaders
who say, stay out of that book.
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Don't be studying it.
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And I ask you, why would God
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have penned in
His Holy Word things
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that we could not understand.
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Yes, and that
reveals to His people
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what's getting ready to
take place in the world.
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See, we should be
known as a prophetic people.
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We should be
able to know prophecy
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and say this and this,
and this is on the horizon.
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Why? Because God has said so.
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You see, the world has no
idea which way it's going.
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And many of our
leaders don't know
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which way they're going either.
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They need some help.
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But notice there in Daniel 7:1
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The Bible says,
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"In the first
year of Belshazzar,
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king of," what?
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"Babylon, Daniel had a..."
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Come on with me, he had a what?
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"He had a dream
and the visions."
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So his dream was what?
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We say, "Well,
it was just a dream,
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it really a vision
that's what it said,
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"A vision of his
head upon his bed:
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then he wrote the dream,
told the sum of the matter."
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So what happened?
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God gave Daniel a
vision of something
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that was to take
place, notice this.
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Now we read all those a
little bit later on as we go,
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because it identifies this power
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that would come up
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that would claim to
basically be God on earth
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that would do
things out of the ordinary
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and the world
doesn't seem to mind.
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Let's get to verse 8, notice,
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Daniel was concerned here,
He said, I considered the what?
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What do you... What
does that really mean?
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I considered what the horn?
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"I considered
the horn and behold,
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there came up among
them a little horn."
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How many have heard
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whether you can
identify it or not have heard
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as you read Bible
prophecy about a little horn.
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Some of you have, if
you haven't, it's all right.
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We're coming to the fact.
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The Bible reveals
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there's going to
come up a little horn.
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Remember Book of Daniel
and Revelation is in symbols,
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right?
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And what we have to do
is dig for hidden treasure.
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Find out what horn, what
this little horn is doing.
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Why is it look like it's do
and what is it doing, you know,
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in prophecy?
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And how is it
deal with God's people?
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So Daniel says, oh,
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first of all we consider Daniel
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was in vision so we say,
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what he was
saying would be truth.
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Are we in
agreement so far? Right?
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What Daniel was
revealing is the truth.
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But he was even
confused about it.
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He said, "I consider or
I thought about this horn
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and behold, there came
up another little one,"
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notice, "a little horn
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before whom there were
three horns plucked up."
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Guess we don't
have time to look at,
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we realize this
was the breakdown
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of the Roman Empire
when it broke down into
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Daniel Chapter 2,
where they had the,
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you know, had Babylon,
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Medo-Persia, Greece, Rome,
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pagan Rome, papal Rome,
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and iron Rome
broke up into what?
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The 10 toes, the 10 nations,
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which some of the
nations are still, you know,
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10 over there now,
still some of the names,
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so you can look at those.
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But, here's the
point, you notice it,
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he said there came up
another that many has said 11.
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He said, "Up among
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there came up
another little horn."
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And when he came
up, he uprooted what?
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He uprooted three
of the known kingdoms.
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If there are only 10
nations in the world,
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surely history would bear
fact to that and was true.
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May say, when it come up,
it just wasn't an addition to,
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but it would tear up,
uproot three of the known 10.
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Interesting why?
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Because the three did
not go along with the belief
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or the teachings of this
power, this little horn power.
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"They were
plucked up by the roots.
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When something's
plucked up by the roots,
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will it grow again?
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And behold, in this horn,
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were eyes like
the eyes of," what?
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Man, and a mouth
speaking great things."
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We can spend a lot of
time on that, we will not.
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Pope Leo wrote what?
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We hold up on this
earth the place of what?
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God all mighty.
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What a strange statement,
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we hold the
place of God Almighty.
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Now, some people will take that,
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and some of the
people who want to defend
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this kind of stuff that
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has written will
make all kinds of excuses
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why it was written
in with over and over.
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I can give you a
lot of different quotes
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on this same purpose here.
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In fact, in Pope Pius V,
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Pope Pius V quoted in
the Barclay Chapter 27,
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page 218 says
this, listen carefully.
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He said, "The pope
and God are the same."
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The pope and God.
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See, that doesn't
surprise most people.
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No one's going to get
shocked out of your seat.
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I guess maybe I should
have my little shockers
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underneath your seat.
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And if I think you should jump,
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I should push the
button and then you will jump.
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Yeah.
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You see what I'm saying?
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That should make us jump.
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Because that's
blasphemy in the worst scenario,
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there's no doubt about it.
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Now, we've just left
it alone for so long,
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not to
criticize the present one,
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not to, you know,
criticize all the past one.
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That's not it at all.
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But God speaks about this power
as we will identify, notice.
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The pope and God are the same.
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So he has all the
power of heaven and earth.
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Well, let's just
give you one more,
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there's plenty of them.
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Notice this, this comes...
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This comes from the
Catholic National July,
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and this is written in 1895.
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The Pope is not only...
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Ooh, "The pope is not only
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the
representative of Jesus Christ,
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but he is Jesus Christ himself,
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hidden under the
veil of the flesh."
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Yeah, there you go.
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See, that's what
I'm talking about.
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No, really
seriously, you think about,
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who else in the world
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would say that about themselves?
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Notice that,
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he's not only the representative
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of Jesus Christ,
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he is Jesus Christ himself.
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Blasphemy again.
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There is no way, he's a sinner
just like all the rest of us.
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If he's going to be
saved, he'll be saved by grace,
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just like all the rest of us.
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My Bible says God
is love, 1 John 4:16.
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God is what?
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God is love.
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His nature is love.
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His law is love, right?
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He is love.
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He's always been.
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Everything that He's ever said,
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ever done, ever had penned down,
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cannot change.
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That cannot be altered
in any form or fashion.
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He's the high, He's the holy.
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He's the one that is lifted up.
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He's the one
that inhabit eternity
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is what my Bible tells me.
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He says, "He's from
everlasting to everlasting.
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There is no God beside Me."
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Time and time in
Scripture, right?
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You read the Word of God,
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and all of a sudden
somebody's saying their God
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or their part or something.
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God said, hmm, it's interesting.
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I don't know if
there's any other.
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Listen, if God doesn't know
00:19:59.56\00:20:00.90
if there's any other
God, there is no other God.
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But yet we have a power
on earth that says, I am.
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And I said,
"Well, what would this?
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Where this come?
00:20:10.04\00:20:11.44
They said there is
no variableness, right?
00:20:11.47\00:20:14.28
He doesn't
change, there's no verb.
00:20:14.31\00:20:15.98
People say, "Well, God changed."
00:20:16.01\00:20:17.35
Well, this is no like, we today,
00:20:17.38\00:20:19.21
we believe this and
this and this because,
00:20:19.25\00:20:20.88
well, God has changed.
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God has not changed.
00:20:22.28\00:20:23.62
He has not
changed one iota, right?
00:20:23.65\00:20:25.89
He's consistent with
the crossing of the T
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and the dotting of the
eye, God does not change.
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Like, how can you change truth?
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You just can't do it.
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This is what excites me really
00:20:35.76\00:20:37.87
and gives me encouragement
in my Christian walk,
00:20:37.90\00:20:40.40
is to know that
God doesn't change.
00:20:40.44\00:20:43.00
He still looks at
me the very same way.
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He's not
influenced by this group.
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He's not
influenced by that group.
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He's not worrying about
what the world is doing.
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He's not worrying about
00:20:51.08\00:20:52.41
what you're thinking and
what I'm thinking in that
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sense that he's
gonna hold just and justice
00:20:54.25\00:20:56.69
and mercy to each
and every one of us.
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I'm thankful for that.
00:20:58.52\00:21:00.59
He's the high,
He's the Holy One.
00:21:00.62\00:21:02.82
In Him, there is no shadow,
whoa, no shadow of turnings,
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what the Bible said.
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Some of you want
to jot down and say,
00:21:09.63\00:21:10.97
"Well, where's that found?"
00:21:11.00\00:21:12.33
Well, good for you.
I'm glad you asked that.
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Aren't you glad
somebody is asking you?
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Praise God.
00:21:18.04\00:21:19.37
Isaiah 57, just jot
it down, Isaiah 57:15.
00:21:19.41\00:21:23.61
Habakkuk 3:6.
00:21:23.65\00:21:26.45
And certainly James 1:17,
there is no shadow of turning.
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See, we can go
to the Word of God,
00:21:30.72\00:21:32.05
that's where we get it.
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Somebody else may say,
"Well, now He's changed."
00:21:33.46\00:21:35.72
You know, preacher that gets up
front and say, God has changed,
00:21:35.76\00:21:38.26
he ought to go out and
get himself a real job.
00:21:38.29\00:21:41.16
You know, he...
00:21:41.20\00:21:42.53
I don't know where he could,
00:21:42.56\00:21:43.90
I'm serious, I don't
know where he can hold a job.
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The Bible is so clear,
00:21:45.87\00:21:47.20
when you read it
that God does not what?
00:21:47.24\00:21:49.70
He does not
change, He will not change.
00:21:49.74\00:21:51.84
He doesn't have to change.
00:21:51.87\00:21:53.21
He knows the beginning
and from the end, right?
00:21:53.24\00:21:55.01
He knows
everything in your life,
00:21:55.04\00:21:56.38
every word that
you'll say, every action,
00:21:56.41\00:21:58.31
everything you've ever thought,
00:21:58.35\00:21:59.68
everything you've
ever done, God has it.
00:21:59.71\00:22:02.85
Every decision He's
made is the right decision.
00:22:02.88\00:22:05.92
That's good.
00:22:05.95\00:22:08.22
That gives me encouragement.
00:22:08.26\00:22:11.43
The word this
business come from,
00:22:11.46\00:22:15.36
certainly didn't
start with Pope Leo XIII.
00:22:15.40\00:22:18.07
Many popes said it
before and people will say,
00:22:18.10\00:22:20.60
"Well, you know,
he didn't really,
00:22:20.64\00:22:23.84
he didn't really mean that."
00:22:23.87\00:22:25.21
Well, you know,
pope when they talk,
00:22:25.24\00:22:28.51
they say it's the voice of God
00:22:28.54\00:22:29.98
is not to be
changed, it's infallible.
00:22:30.01\00:22:32.28
They claim infallibility.
00:22:32.31\00:22:34.65
So we have to look at
that point too, right?
00:22:34.68\00:22:36.22
You can't go back and
say, well, we didn't mean that.
00:22:36.25\00:22:38.05
No, mean, all of
them said infallible.
00:22:38.09\00:22:41.86
So it's very interesting.
00:22:41.89\00:22:43.73
Who...
00:22:43.76\00:22:45.09
Can I say who in the world?
00:22:45.13\00:22:47.73
I guess I already
did, Brother Terry.
00:22:47.76\00:22:50.00
I guess already,
sometime I just say it,
00:22:50.03\00:22:51.73
then I ask if I can say it.
00:22:51.77\00:22:54.80
So who would it be that
would hold upon this earth
00:22:54.84\00:22:59.17
the place of God Almighty?
00:22:59.21\00:23:01.11
Where would it?
Where would it start?
00:23:01.14\00:23:04.35
Can I just read
a couple of verses
00:23:04.38\00:23:06.21
please with it,
and see if you...
00:23:06.25\00:23:08.35
See maybe if you agree,
if you don't, it's good.
00:23:08.38\00:23:10.42
I spend as much time with you
00:23:10.45\00:23:11.79
after this as I need to,
00:23:11.82\00:23:14.49
because this is imperative.
00:23:14.52\00:23:15.86
This is life and death issue.
00:23:15.89\00:23:17.23
And most people have no idea.
00:23:17.26\00:23:18.66
And I don't understand why.
00:23:18.69\00:23:20.43
But I need to
see about this power.
00:23:20.46\00:23:22.56
And what this power is planning
to do with God's people.
00:23:22.60\00:23:25.43
Hmm.
00:23:25.47\00:23:26.80
Ezekiel Chapter 28.
00:23:26.84\00:23:28.54
Some of you know
exactly where I'm going,
00:23:28.57\00:23:30.54
and what I'm going to read
because it needs to be read.
00:23:30.57\00:23:34.48
It needs to be read.
00:23:34.51\00:23:36.28
Ezekiel Chapter
28, are we there?
00:23:36.31\00:23:38.65
I'm getting hot
and sweaty already.
00:23:38.68\00:23:42.92
And usually
once get ready to go,
00:23:42.95\00:23:44.65
I go for a long time.
00:23:44.69\00:23:47.32
Terry might
remember that from years ago,
00:23:47.36\00:23:49.59
especially when I was young.
00:23:49.62\00:23:53.40
The Bible says,
don't you like that?
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The Bible says, notice,
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and then you tell me
who it's talking about here?
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Ezekiel 28:13.
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It says, "Thou
hast been in Eden,
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in the garden of God."
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That's a hint, notice.
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"This power was
in Eden," right?"
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Every precious stone was
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I covering, sardius, topaz,
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and the diamond, the beryl,
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and the onyx, and the
jasper and sardine, you know,
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it goes on, the
sapphire, emerald,
00:24:19.32\00:24:21.02
carbuncle, gold,
workmanship, now notice,
00:24:21.06\00:24:24.23
talking about the pipes,
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notice this, and in the
day that thou was created."
00:24:25.86\00:24:30.07
So it was a
created being, right?
00:24:30.10\00:24:33.23
Had all this stuff.
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Verse 14, "And
thou art the anointed
00:24:35.64\00:24:38.24
cherub of the covenant,
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notice this,
covereth, I have set thee so:
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thou wast upon the
holy mountain of God,
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thou has walked in and down
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in the midst of
the stones of fire."
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Notice, "Thou wast perfect,
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this created was
perfect in the ways from the day
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when thou wast created,
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till iniquity
was found in thee."
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So who was this?
00:24:57.96\00:25:00.93
It was Satan.
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Notice, he was what?
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People want to
know how sin get here?
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Well the devil, he was
perfect the Bible said.
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Now why would we want to argue
with that, and many people do.
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He was perfect in the
day that he was created.
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And then what it says?
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Until iniquity or
sin was found in him,
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until he chose another way.
00:25:23.18\00:25:25.72
You go a lot of
different directions
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if you want to,
he was perfect, huh,
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till iniquity was found in him.
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Now interesting, we
see there the enemy,
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perfect, then we
see he made a choice
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that was the wrong choice.
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And he started
doing the wrong things
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and impressing other
people to do the wrong things.
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And then we realized,
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I think it would
behoove us if we read Isaiah 14,
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as many of you have read before,
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or maybe you haven't read it,
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if you haven't, maybe
this will help to make sense.
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This is talking about the devil.
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Are we there?
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Now remember, we're looking
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for this power
that says, "I'm God."
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This power that says,
"I'm ahead of everything.
00:26:06.13\00:26:08.06
I'm God on earth.
00:26:08.10\00:26:09.80
I can forgive sins.
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I can do all kinds of things."
00:26:11.20\00:26:12.60
And Bible said in Isaiah 14,
people need to be very careful
00:26:12.63\00:26:16.07
and study this,
like they may be,
00:26:16.10\00:26:18.14
may never studied before
because they tried to say,
00:26:18.17\00:26:20.24
well, that deals with Babylon,
00:26:20.28\00:26:21.71
it deals with, just
notice what it says,
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verse 12, Isaiah 14,
00:26:23.58\00:26:26.01
"How art thou
fallen from heaven."
00:26:26.05\00:26:27.95
Jesus said what?
00:26:27.98\00:26:29.32
He was cast
out, the old serpent,
00:26:29.35\00:26:31.22
the devil, Satan
was cast out of where?
00:26:31.25\00:26:32.59
Of heaven.
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Then he says, he tells the name,
00:26:33.99\00:26:35.32
"How arts thou
cast out of heaven,
00:26:35.36\00:26:37.36
O Lucifer, son of the morning!
00:26:37.39\00:26:40.06
How art thou cut
down to the ground,
00:26:40.10\00:26:43.47
which didst weaken the nations!"
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Notice this, here's what devil,
00:26:45.80\00:26:47.90
is what Satan said,
00:26:47.94\00:26:49.27
"For thou hast
said in thine heart,
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I will ascend into heaven,
00:26:51.37\00:26:53.27
I will exalt my throne
above the stars of God:
00:26:53.31\00:26:55.88
I will sit upon the
mount of congregation
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in the sides of the north.
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I will ascend above
the heights of the clouds,
00:27:00.02\00:27:02.75
I will be like," what?
00:27:02.78\00:27:04.65
Come on, church, wake up.
00:27:04.69\00:27:06.02
I will be what?
00:27:06.05\00:27:07.39
Satan said, "I'm cast out,
00:27:07.42\00:27:08.76
but I will be
like the Most High.
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I will be like the Most High."
00:27:11.33\00:27:12.83
Well, he couldn't
possibly show himself
00:27:12.86\00:27:15.13
for what he really is.
00:27:15.16\00:27:16.50
So therefore, he makes choices.
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He chooses
someone to represent him,
00:27:18.67\00:27:21.10
powers, nations,
even me and you at times,
00:27:21.14\00:27:24.17
when we do the
work of the enemy.
00:27:24.21\00:27:26.27
We have to be very
careful, we're not in.
00:27:26.31\00:27:27.68
The Bible says,
00:27:27.71\00:27:29.04
"He who is not
with me is against me."
00:27:29.08\00:27:31.38
The devil will use anything,
00:27:31.41\00:27:32.85
everybody that he can
to accomplish His purpose.
00:27:32.88\00:27:37.65
But he said, "I will be
like the Most High God."
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Other words, I'm going
to hold upon the earth,
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the place of God Almighty.
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Man, that's pretty
heavy duty, wouldn't you say?
00:27:46.93\00:27:51.33
Isn't that heavy duty,
is that maybe a little,
00:27:51.37\00:27:53.30
maybe too much for us today.
00:27:53.34\00:27:56.07
So what is the purpose?
00:27:56.10\00:27:59.24
Many purposes in this study,
but to show from Scripture.
00:27:59.27\00:28:04.51
Now remember,
there's good people
00:28:04.55\00:28:06.38
everywhere in
every denomination,
00:28:06.41\00:28:09.12
would never apologize
for presenting what is truth.
00:28:09.15\00:28:13.25
You can never apologize,
you don't want to hurt anybody,
00:28:13.29\00:28:15.76
you're not trying to.
00:28:15.79\00:28:17.13
But what you're
doing is you're looking at,
00:28:17.16\00:28:18.49
we're saying here,
there's a power on the scene,
00:28:18.53\00:28:20.53
and there's power on
the scene it's saying here,
00:28:20.56\00:28:22.83
they're going to
fulfill what Satan has said
00:28:22.86\00:28:25.07
when he came down to this earth.
00:28:25.10\00:28:27.27
I'm going to take over.
00:28:27.30\00:28:29.84
I'm going to take over.
00:28:29.87\00:28:32.04
We're going to hold the place
of God Almighty on this place.
00:28:32.07\00:28:35.58
Man didn't say
that within himself,
00:28:35.61\00:28:37.45
the enemy's coming in.
00:28:37.48\00:28:39.88
So the purpose
really of this study
00:28:39.91\00:28:41.45
is really to show from
00:28:41.48\00:28:42.95
Scripture, that what
00:28:42.98\00:28:46.99
we believe is an unauthorized.
00:28:47.02\00:28:52.76
We can go so far as to say
an unjust, it's groundless,
00:28:52.79\00:28:57.17
it's absurd, a
bold attempted change.
00:28:57.20\00:29:02.10
Now I'm going to go through
00:29:02.14\00:29:03.47
this point here
because people say,
00:29:03.51\00:29:04.84
"Well, you folks are a
little bit out of touch.
00:29:04.87\00:29:06.88
You go on the
seventh day Sabbath."
00:29:06.91\00:29:09.54
Well, maybe
somebody is out of touch.
00:29:09.58\00:29:12.18
Is it just a matter of choice?
00:29:12.21\00:29:13.68
Is it a matter of what
God's said in His Word?
00:29:13.72\00:29:15.68
But I think there's
unjust, this groundless,
00:29:15.72\00:29:17.62
this bold attempt to change
of the seventh day Sabbath
00:29:17.65\00:29:21.49
was prophesied by
Daniel the prophet.
00:29:21.52\00:29:24.79
In Daniel 7:25.
00:29:24.83\00:29:26.36
Mark that down, Daniel 7:25.
00:29:26.39\00:29:29.86
Notice Daniel 7:25.
00:29:29.90\00:29:32.07
Notice, "And he would speak
00:29:32.10\00:29:34.57
great words
against the Most High."
00:29:34.60\00:29:36.77
Who is it? Who is the he?
00:29:36.81\00:29:38.61
It would be Satan, would it not?
00:29:38.64\00:29:40.41
The enemy would
speak great words
00:29:40.44\00:29:42.64
against the Most High.
00:29:42.68\00:29:44.01
You realize this word here
translated when you look at it,
00:29:44.05\00:29:46.61
great words, in the
Hebrew is domineering words.
00:29:46.65\00:29:51.25
He would speak
great, huge words.
00:29:51.29\00:29:54.09
He would speak
stout words against what?
00:29:54.12\00:29:57.59
Against the Most High.
00:29:57.63\00:29:59.19
Other words, he would
challenge God's position.
00:29:59.23\00:30:03.13
He would try to
take God's position,
00:30:03.16\00:30:06.23
we say by hook or crook.
00:30:06.27\00:30:09.07
And he couldn't do it by
just coming out in the open,
00:30:09.10\00:30:11.31
he had to deceive just
like he deceived in heaven.
00:30:11.34\00:30:14.44
So the world is what?
00:30:14.48\00:30:16.88
The world is
deceived and they say,
00:30:16.91\00:30:18.45
"Well, this is all we know.
00:30:18.48\00:30:19.81
This is what we've been taught."
00:30:19.85\00:30:21.18
Absolutely,
he's been good at it.
00:30:21.22\00:30:22.55
He's been at it
for many long years.
00:30:22.58\00:30:26.55
He's gonna speak
words against the Most High.
00:30:26.59\00:30:28.42
Listen, and each of
these are identifying marks,
00:30:28.46\00:30:30.89
we'll go over
each one in a minute
00:30:30.93\00:30:32.43
time that we have.
00:30:32.46\00:30:34.23
And he, notice this,
00:30:34.26\00:30:35.60
speak words
against the Most High,
00:30:35.63\00:30:36.97
he shall wear out the saints.
00:30:37.00\00:30:39.00
Listen, if you feel
like you're a saint today,
00:30:39.03\00:30:41.70
and again, not
that you're so good,
00:30:41.74\00:30:43.10
but you belong to
the family of God.
00:30:43.14\00:30:44.94
Right?
00:30:44.97\00:30:46.31
Okay, you belong to
00:30:46.34\00:30:47.68
the family of God, I know Jesus.
00:30:47.71\00:30:49.34
This is talking about you.
00:30:49.38\00:30:51.95
This is talking about me.
00:30:51.98\00:30:54.35
If you believe that
00:30:54.38\00:30:55.72
you're part of the
family of God, you know Jesus,
00:30:55.75\00:30:57.42
and you think I
want to go to heaven.
00:30:57.45\00:31:00.19
This power was going to think
00:31:00.22\00:31:02.02
because we realize
the enemy is behind it.
00:31:02.06\00:31:04.39
He's going to do what?
00:31:04.43\00:31:05.79
"He's going to wear out
the saints of the Most High,
00:31:05.83\00:31:09.20
and he shall think to
change times and laws."
00:31:09.23\00:31:13.54
Man, these are such
clear identifying marks
00:31:13.57\00:31:16.87
of the enemy and his plan.
00:31:16.91\00:31:18.51
And you know what we do?
00:31:18.54\00:31:20.28
Most of us just
sleep through it.
00:31:20.31\00:31:22.68
Most of just taken, no,
it doesn't really matter.
00:31:22.71\00:31:25.35
You think not? You think not.
00:31:25.38\00:31:29.58
If you think
that's what's going on
00:31:29.62\00:31:31.02
in the world today is messed up.
00:31:31.05\00:31:34.92
It's all
heading in the direction
00:31:34.96\00:31:36.39
that we're
talking about right now.
00:31:36.42\00:31:38.73
It's heading in the direction.
00:31:38.76\00:31:41.56
You talk about communism,
you talk about socialism.
00:31:41.60\00:31:44.83
You talk about the
change of this world
00:31:44.87\00:31:47.10
where your
rights and your freedoms
00:31:47.14\00:31:48.54
and your Constitution,
your Bill of Right, all gone.
00:31:48.57\00:31:52.67
You have none.
That's right, fascism.
00:31:52.71\00:31:54.34
All of these things are
headed in that direction
00:31:54.38\00:31:56.75
to where the
government takes care of you,
00:31:56.78\00:31:58.78
basically gives you
little stipends here and there,
00:31:58.81\00:32:00.75
and you just be a
good boy and girl.
00:32:00.78\00:32:03.28
Is that okay to say that?
00:32:03.32\00:32:06.12
Look at the history.
00:32:06.15\00:32:07.49
Look at all that's
happened in the past,
00:32:07.52\00:32:08.86
is exactly the
way it's operated.
00:32:08.89\00:32:10.93
It happened in
France, didn't that way too?
00:32:10.96\00:32:12.63
You may look what happened
to them, and they gave it up.
00:32:12.66\00:32:14.50
They just banned God.
00:32:14.53\00:32:15.86
They just banned religion,
the Bibles burned, everything,
00:32:15.90\00:32:17.87
killed thousands.
00:32:17.90\00:32:19.23
Pretty soon after
about three years,
00:32:19.27\00:32:20.60
they came back to their senses.
00:32:20.64\00:32:23.41
But what a mess.
00:32:23.44\00:32:26.84
The Bible says, but notice this,
00:32:26.88\00:32:30.05
this power then God
would allow it to prosper,
00:32:30.08\00:32:34.68
listen, 1260 years.
00:32:34.72\00:32:39.55
What can happen in 1260 years?
00:32:39.59\00:32:44.69
You and I forget yesterday.
00:32:44.73\00:32:48.80
Is that true?
00:32:48.83\00:32:51.73
Think about 1260 years of...
00:32:51.77\00:32:56.00
I almost said baloney.
00:32:56.04\00:32:57.37
Can I say baloney up here?
00:32:57.41\00:32:59.41
Lies of the devil, baloney.
00:32:59.44\00:33:01.14
Terry, I said baloney.
I'm sorry, just the way it is.
00:33:01.18\00:33:05.05
Of lies of the devil
stacked on the other,
00:33:05.08\00:33:07.08
stacked on the other.
00:33:07.12\00:33:08.45
And this generation dies
off, that generation dies,
00:33:08.48\00:33:10.69
this
generation, this generation,
00:33:10.72\00:33:12.42
and it comes down to our time.
00:33:12.45\00:33:14.26
We don't know what truth is.
00:33:14.29\00:33:16.49
It's been covered,
but God said, Isaiah 58.
00:33:16.52\00:33:19.26
He said, "He's going
to uncover the truths
00:33:19.29\00:33:21.06
before He shall come."
00:33:21.10\00:33:22.66
'Cause we have
people that will rise up
00:33:22.70\00:33:24.10
and begin to proclaim a message
00:33:24.13\00:33:25.53
that has not been
proclaimed before,
00:33:25.57\00:33:28.27
because it's been covered
00:33:28.30\00:33:29.74
with traditions of
men and lies of the devil.
00:33:29.77\00:33:33.98
He wants you to
think you're a Christian,
00:33:34.01\00:33:35.58
he wants you to believe
in the cross of Calvary,
00:33:35.61\00:33:38.18
but doesn't want
it to change you.
00:33:38.21\00:33:41.35
He said to be given until time,
00:33:41.38\00:33:44.22
and a times and a
dividing of times.
00:33:44.25\00:33:47.46
This, most people have no idea.
00:33:47.49\00:33:49.39
You let the
Bible interpret itself.
00:33:49.42\00:33:51.96
When you talk about a time,
people say, "I know what time,
00:33:51.99\00:33:54.00
and times, dividing of times."
00:33:54.03\00:33:55.36
We'll read that in just a moment
00:33:55.40\00:33:56.73
when we have time to do that.
00:33:56.77\00:33:58.10
So we're seeing a power
00:33:58.13\00:33:59.47
that's pointed
out here in Scripture.
00:33:59.50\00:34:01.20
Listen, this, this
power challenges God
00:34:01.24\00:34:05.47
and it should
challenge you as God's children.
00:34:05.51\00:34:08.98
It challenges His
people, it challenges His law.
00:34:09.01\00:34:12.65
Why should I be
concerned about it?
00:34:12.68\00:34:14.08
Why don't I just go on
something smooth and talk about
00:34:14.12\00:34:16.38
whatever the
world wants to hear.
00:34:16.42\00:34:17.75
Man, we'll fill this place up.
Man, let's get the excavator.
00:34:17.79\00:34:21.29
Let's just start building on.
00:34:21.32\00:34:24.36
Let's increase the parking lots.
00:34:24.39\00:34:26.66
Let's build up two
stories. You see what I mean?
00:34:26.70\00:34:28.76
Just preach those things
that people go, I feel good.
00:34:28.80\00:34:31.93
Oh, I feel good. Right?
00:34:31.97\00:34:35.20
Give $10, you get 30 back,
00:34:35.24\00:34:36.91
everybody comes
through the door.
00:34:36.94\00:34:38.84
I'm not gonna preach no
little mickey mouse $30.
00:34:38.87\00:34:41.54
I'm gonna say 100 full.
00:34:41.58\00:34:42.91
I'm gonna say 200 bucks. Okay.
00:34:42.94\00:34:46.31
You see what I'm talking about?
00:34:46.35\00:34:47.98
People just go for that.
00:34:48.02\00:34:50.15
Instead of saying
we better get it right.
00:34:50.19\00:34:52.65
We better get it right
because time is almost gone.
00:34:52.69\00:34:55.92
Jesus has made it
clear in His Word.
00:34:55.96\00:34:58.76
If we take Daniel 7:25,
00:34:58.79\00:35:01.26
which we just read and
examine few of the points,
00:35:01.30\00:35:04.20
I believe it will
help us understand the whys
00:35:04.23\00:35:07.77
this power would
speak great words,
00:35:07.80\00:35:11.64
challenge God
against the Most High.
00:35:11.67\00:35:14.94
Against there simply
means that's what it means
00:35:14.98\00:35:16.98
against the Most High
00:35:17.01\00:35:18.35
means to the
side of over against,
00:35:18.38\00:35:20.98
it would be an opposition.
00:35:21.02\00:35:22.35
So this power then
would be an opposition of God.
00:35:22.38\00:35:25.49
So we're going to identify
00:35:25.52\00:35:27.02
who this power
is as we go along.
00:35:27.06\00:35:30.09
It says, "I want
to be equal with God."
00:35:30.13\00:35:33.73
So we'd have to look
at a power that's claiming
00:35:33.76\00:35:36.06
or wanting to be equal with God,
00:35:36.10\00:35:38.27
and working toward that.
00:35:38.30\00:35:40.07
Hmm.
00:35:40.10\00:35:41.87
If anyone in
the Bible we ever...
00:35:41.90\00:35:45.94
Oh, 2 Thessalonians,
you say, well, good for you.
00:35:45.97\00:35:49.64
2 Thessalonians 2:4.
00:35:49.68\00:35:52.95
In the New Testament,
00:35:52.98\00:35:54.32
the Bible said,
here's the power,
00:35:54.35\00:35:55.92
notice what it does?
00:35:55.95\00:35:57.35
2 Thessalonians what?
00:35:57.39\00:35:59.15
Two verse.
00:35:59.19\00:36:00.52
Yeah, most of you
are going to go out here
00:36:00.56\00:36:01.89
and you're going to say,
00:36:01.92\00:36:03.26
"Oh, boy, we're
having haystacks for lunch."
00:36:03.29\00:36:05.16
Oh, boy, having
haystacks for lunch, man.
00:36:05.19\00:36:08.76
Somebody put the
tomato and the onions on.
00:36:08.80\00:36:11.03
Listen, we need little fire
00:36:11.07\00:36:13.57
underneath our
bellies right now,
00:36:13.60\00:36:15.50
underneath our seats,
00:36:15.54\00:36:16.87
because again,
this is not what God...
00:36:16.91\00:36:19.37
I'll tell you, God
is saying right now,
00:36:19.41\00:36:20.74
His people will
rise up in opposition,
00:36:20.78\00:36:23.14
because it says here.
00:36:23.18\00:36:24.51
He warns us through
00:36:24.55\00:36:25.88
His Apostle Paul in
2 Thessalonians 2:4.
00:36:25.91\00:36:29.02
He said, "Here's the
power that's going to rise up
00:36:29.05\00:36:31.29
that's going to oppose
00:36:31.32\00:36:32.79
and exalt himself above
all that is called God."
00:36:32.82\00:36:37.19
Did you get it?
00:36:37.23\00:36:38.56
The power would do what?
00:36:38.59\00:36:39.93
Oppose God.
00:36:39.96\00:36:41.63
Or, now notice this,
00:36:41.66\00:36:43.00
here's the key,
"Or that is worshiped."
00:36:43.03\00:36:45.30
So this power then
00:36:45.33\00:36:46.67
would have to be
a power that what?
00:36:46.70\00:36:48.97
Demands worship, a
religious political power.
00:36:49.00\00:36:53.38
Come on, stay with me.
These are identifying marks.
00:36:53.41\00:36:56.11
Yeah. That's what it says.
00:36:56.14\00:36:58.11
He opposes and he's exalted.
00:36:58.15\00:36:59.58
He said in Isaiah 14,
"I will rise above," what?
00:36:59.61\00:37:02.82
"The throne of God.
00:37:02.85\00:37:04.19
I will sit on
the throne of God."
00:37:04.22\00:37:06.22
Whoa!
00:37:06.25\00:37:08.99
And so that he as God
setteth in the temple of God
00:37:09.02\00:37:13.86
showing himself,
notice, that he is God.
00:37:13.90\00:37:17.40
And then you write a
little article and say,
00:37:17.43\00:37:18.77
"Well, we really
didn't mean that.
00:37:18.80\00:37:20.20
Well, that's not
really what he meant.
00:37:20.24\00:37:21.80
Well, he just took part of it.
00:37:21.84\00:37:23.17
He took part of
it out of context."
00:37:23.20\00:37:24.54
Don't kid
yourself, the Bible is clear.
00:37:24.57\00:37:27.78
This bold power, whoa,
00:37:27.81\00:37:30.28
if I can just
say it nice as I can.
00:37:30.31\00:37:32.48
This bold, this power
is Satan's right hand man.
00:37:32.51\00:37:37.99
He's ready to carry on the work
that Satan started in heaven,
00:37:38.02\00:37:42.39
and he's going to continue it.
00:37:42.42\00:37:44.69
It's a fight
against the law of God.
00:37:44.73\00:37:48.16
Didn't he in heaven,
he challenges, right,
00:37:48.20\00:37:50.57
God's authority,
God's government?
00:37:50.60\00:37:53.74
He challenged it,
it should be different.
00:37:53.77\00:37:56.40
The world today
00:37:56.44\00:37:57.77
in lot of
religious circles, they say,
00:37:57.81\00:37:59.27
"Well, it should be different.
00:37:59.31\00:38:00.98
We don't have to
worry about being obedient.
00:38:01.01\00:38:02.74
We kind of do as we please.
00:38:02.78\00:38:04.68
Just believe it's
going to be all right."
00:38:04.71\00:38:06.21
Don't you kid yourself.
00:38:06.25\00:38:08.58
The Bible said, the
devils believe and tremble.
00:38:08.62\00:38:10.72
But you know what?
That hasn't changed them.
00:38:10.75\00:38:13.36
Belief is not enough.
Praise God for belief.
00:38:13.39\00:38:15.59
It's not enough.
There has to be a change.
00:38:15.62\00:38:20.16
This power
according to Daniel 7:25.
00:38:20.20\00:38:23.67
Notice this, again,
00:38:23.70\00:38:25.03
we're going to
identify little bit more.
00:38:25.07\00:38:27.17
Oh-oh, oh-oh, I said, oh, boy.
00:38:27.20\00:38:29.07
He's going to
wear out the saints.
00:38:29.10\00:38:31.84
You know what that
simply mean wear out the word,
00:38:31.87\00:38:33.41
he's going to kill.
00:38:33.44\00:38:35.44
He's going to make
war with the saints.
00:38:35.48\00:38:40.62
And he's going to do
it verse through verse 21
00:38:40.65\00:38:42.68
there through persecution.
00:38:42.72\00:38:44.99
And you seen it
through the ages,
00:38:45.02\00:38:46.35
we'll see it
more as we come down
00:38:46.39\00:38:47.72
to the end of time.
00:38:47.76\00:38:50.73
He would think, he would intend,
00:38:50.76\00:38:53.73
he would endeavor,
00:38:53.76\00:38:56.23
deliberately try to
change the law of God.
00:38:56.26\00:39:02.10
He would
deliberately try to change
00:39:02.14\00:39:04.51
the law of God,
change times and laws.
00:39:04.54\00:39:09.01
Isn't that very interesting?
00:39:09.04\00:39:11.81
So he would make a
deliberate attempt to exercise,
00:39:11.85\00:39:15.78
notice this, the
prerogatives of God.
00:39:15.82\00:39:19.82
This is the power
it's talking about here.
00:39:19.85\00:39:23.53
And these changes
would help him to direct
00:39:23.56\00:39:26.23
the course of human history.
00:39:26.26\00:39:30.23
Well, who could do that?
00:39:30.27\00:39:32.17
Who could just jump in and say,
"God, you're out, now I'm in."
00:39:32.20\00:39:35.74
Prerogatives of God.
00:39:35.77\00:39:37.11
Let me just
give you one example,
00:39:37.14\00:39:38.47
there's many.
00:39:38.51\00:39:39.84
Somebody
mentioned at the beginning.
00:39:39.87\00:39:41.21
Remember it said,
this power would speak
00:39:41.24\00:39:43.35
blasphemies against God.
00:39:43.38\00:39:46.01
You know, a lot of
things in Christian
00:39:46.05\00:39:47.62
we call blasphemy,
well, that's blasphemy.
00:39:47.65\00:39:49.88
But really, when
you look at scripture,
00:39:49.92\00:39:52.55
study Matthew Chapter 9,
00:39:52.59\00:39:55.46
and you can read
verses 3 through 5,
00:39:55.49\00:39:57.26
very, very, very interesting
00:39:57.29\00:39:59.66
because Jesus was having a
confrontation, you remember?
00:39:59.69\00:40:02.86
Something was going
on and he heals someone,
00:40:02.90\00:40:06.63
and on the hell
he can't do that.
00:40:06.67\00:40:09.30
Jesus said, thy sins be what?
00:40:09.34\00:40:11.37
He does heal, then He
said, thy sins be forgiven thee.
00:40:11.41\00:40:15.58
Oh, he said, oh, no you
can't, that's blasphemy.
00:40:15.61\00:40:20.72
You remember,
00:40:20.75\00:40:22.08
who can forgive
sin but God only.
00:40:22.12\00:40:24.72
The power that would
rise would be a power
00:40:24.75\00:40:27.42
that would claim to
forgive sin on earth.
00:40:27.46\00:40:29.89
That's what the Bible says.
00:40:29.92\00:40:31.99
Does that make sense?
00:40:32.03\00:40:33.73
That's what blasphemy.
00:40:33.76\00:40:35.10
And I compared to a lot of
different things, but blasphemy
00:40:35.13\00:40:37.43
is that earthly power that
claims to forgive sin on earth.
00:40:37.47\00:40:41.04
You have to look around and say,
00:40:41.07\00:40:42.40
what religion, who claims this?
00:40:42.44\00:40:48.04
Wow!
00:40:48.08\00:40:51.41
I say this, it is God
who determines the times.
00:40:51.45\00:40:55.52
It is God who what?
00:40:55.55\00:40:56.89
Who deserve, you
know, determines the time.
00:40:56.92\00:40:59.95
God sets up kings
and he takes them down.
00:40:59.99\00:41:04.53
Listen, throughout
all the New Testament
00:41:04.56\00:41:06.83
and you think quickly with me.
00:41:06.86\00:41:09.46
Time's really going down.
00:41:09.50\00:41:10.83
The New Testament times,
00:41:10.87\00:41:12.20
Christians observe the
seventh day of the week
00:41:12.23\00:41:15.24
as the Sabbath, is that right?
00:41:15.27\00:41:18.14
Yeah. Take Acts Chapter 17.
00:41:18.17\00:41:20.41
Had a man study with me
one time, very interesting.
00:41:20.44\00:41:22.44
I love to study
the Bible with you.
00:41:22.48\00:41:23.88
He said us, "Okay, good."
00:41:23.91\00:41:25.25
He said, "But we will only study
00:41:25.28\00:41:26.61
in the Book of Acts."
00:41:26.65\00:41:27.98
Well, was there 66
books, is that right?
00:41:28.02\00:41:30.49
So we're gonna throw out 65.
00:41:30.52\00:41:33.62
I said, "Why, the Book of Acts?
00:41:33.66\00:41:34.99
I love that too.
00:41:35.02\00:41:36.36
But no, there's
the whole Bible there."
00:41:36.39\00:41:38.19
No, it's only Acts.
00:41:38.23\00:41:39.56
Well, here in Acts 17:2,
00:41:39.59\00:41:42.06
it says, and
Paul, listen, and Paul,
00:41:42.10\00:41:44.17
was Paul a prophet of God?
00:41:44.20\00:41:45.77
Was he God's Messenger?
00:41:45.80\00:41:47.14
Was he called of God to get
the message to the Gentiles?
00:41:47.17\00:41:49.67
Absolutely, a
changed man he got.
00:41:49.70\00:41:51.41
Paul was a Sabbath keeper.
00:41:51.44\00:41:55.61
Paul was a seventh day keeper.
00:41:55.64\00:41:58.15
I'll be real bold,
00:41:58.18\00:41:59.51
not trying to offend
anybody, but he was...
00:41:59.55\00:42:03.12
He was Seventh-day Adventist.
00:42:03.15\00:42:06.96
And reason I say that
is because when you say
00:42:06.99\00:42:09.82
Seventh-day
Adventist, seventh day
00:42:09.86\00:42:11.89
means you go to church on
the seventh day of the week.
00:42:11.93\00:42:13.93
That's what the Bible says.
00:42:13.96\00:42:15.56
Adventist means you
believe in the Second Coming.
00:42:15.60\00:42:18.77
Every church ought to have
00:42:18.80\00:42:20.44
Advent somewhere in
it, every denomination.
00:42:20.47\00:42:22.84
That just simply
means you believe
00:42:22.87\00:42:24.21
in the Second Coming.
00:42:24.24\00:42:25.57
If you don't believe
in the Second Coming,
00:42:25.61\00:42:27.08
you can't be God's people.
00:42:27.11\00:42:29.61
Okay, you got
enough of that, right?
00:42:29.64\00:42:30.98
Don't wanna hear
any more than I was.
00:42:31.01\00:42:32.85
But just think, listen,
think free, as his matter was,
00:42:32.88\00:42:36.69
he says he went into them
00:42:36.72\00:42:38.15
three Sabbath
days reasoned with them
00:42:38.19\00:42:40.32
out of the Scripture.
00:42:40.36\00:42:43.29
We see this power
has attempted to do what?
00:42:43.32\00:42:48.13
It's attempted to
do some changing here.
00:42:48.16\00:42:50.37
I thought was very, very,
very interesting the changes.
00:42:50.40\00:42:54.64
It's attempted to
change the seventh day
00:42:54.67\00:42:57.31
of the week to Sunday,
the first day of the week.
00:42:57.34\00:43:00.08
Now remember
what did prophecy say?
00:43:00.11\00:43:03.11
Daniel 7:25, "He shall
think to change times and law."
00:43:03.14\00:43:06.85
This power will try to
kill, persecute God's people.
00:43:06.88\00:43:09.88
Man, if we get all through this,
00:43:09.92\00:43:11.25
you'll see as we go.
00:43:11.29\00:43:12.62
How can you do in 10
minutes? I don't know.
00:43:12.65\00:43:16.12
But these are identifying marks.
00:43:16.16\00:43:18.19
No other power
in the whole world
00:43:18.23\00:43:20.20
can match up to what
we're going out here.
00:43:20.23\00:43:22.46
None. It has to be this power.
00:43:22.50\00:43:27.34
Because this attempted change
00:43:27.37\00:43:29.14
is almost universal
now around the world.
00:43:29.17\00:43:33.48
But how? Just bear with me.
00:43:33.51\00:43:37.68
Because we believe that
the seven days continues on
00:43:37.71\00:43:41.98
as the changeless memorial
of God's original creation.
00:43:42.02\00:43:47.02
It started back in
the beginning of creation.
00:43:47.06\00:43:50.69
Plus, it's a sign
of His recreative power
00:43:50.73\00:43:53.93
to recreate us.
00:43:53.96\00:43:56.06
So taking the Bible
and just the Bible on only,
00:43:56.10\00:43:59.87
we are unable, I am unable.
00:43:59.90\00:44:01.60
Maybe you can,
00:44:01.64\00:44:02.97
I'm unable to find any scripture
00:44:03.00\00:44:05.57
that would warrant
any kind of a change.
00:44:05.61\00:44:09.84
Therefore we, you
know, follow what we believe.
00:44:09.88\00:44:13.21
Now, the world is
falling traditions
00:44:13.25\00:44:15.68
and commandments of men.
00:44:15.72\00:44:18.65
Are you still with me?
00:44:18.69\00:44:20.26
So today,
you're either following
00:44:20.29\00:44:21.69
what the Bible said,
or the traditions of men.
00:44:21.72\00:44:25.26
Jesus made it very,
very clear in Matthew 15:3.
00:44:25.29\00:44:30.97
Remember, this
is the identifying
00:44:31.00\00:44:32.33
mark of this devil,
00:44:32.37\00:44:34.10
the demon,
Lucifer before he fell,
00:44:34.14\00:44:36.10
came down, said, "This
is what I'm going to do."
00:44:36.14\00:44:38.27
And I'll give his identifying
00:44:38.31\00:44:39.64
marks of what he's trying to do.
00:44:39.67\00:44:41.01
Jesus was speaking, He said,
00:44:41.04\00:44:42.38
"But he answered
and said unto them."
00:44:42.41\00:44:44.25
Jesus talking about
the religious leaders.
00:44:44.28\00:44:46.31
He said, "Why do
you also transgress
00:44:46.35\00:44:49.25
the commandments of
God by your tradition?"
00:44:49.28\00:44:53.05
Can you imagine the
King of the universe
00:44:53.09\00:44:55.06
and look all the
stuff that you're doing,
00:44:55.09\00:44:57.03
your traditions in, notice this,
00:44:57.06\00:44:59.29
you're canceling out.
00:44:59.33\00:45:00.86
You're transgressing
the commandments of God.
00:45:00.90\00:45:03.26
And then he makes
it clear in verse 6,
00:45:03.30\00:45:05.63
"Thus have you made
the commandments of God
00:45:05.67\00:45:09.80
none effect by your tradition."
00:45:09.84\00:45:12.51
It either is a tradition,
00:45:12.54\00:45:14.04
the change that came about
00:45:14.08\00:45:16.14
or it is from
directly from the hand of God?
00:45:16.18\00:45:19.21
Interesting, Jesus
knew about nothing, right?
00:45:19.25\00:45:22.32
And the destruction
of Jerusalem in AD 70,
00:45:22.35\00:45:24.92
40 years after
His death, Jesus said,
00:45:24.95\00:45:27.72
"I pray that your flight be
00:45:27.76\00:45:29.09
nut in the winter
nor on the Sabbath day.
00:45:29.12\00:45:31.83
The King of the
universe didn't know about
00:45:31.86\00:45:34.36
any kind of change as it were
00:45:34.40\00:45:35.96
because almost 40
years in the future,
00:45:36.00\00:45:38.27
He was still calling
to seventh day Sabbath.
00:45:38.30\00:45:41.04
What has happened?
00:45:41.07\00:45:43.07
Boy, I mean,
there's a lot of stuff
00:45:43.10\00:45:44.44
that we need to
look at as God's people
00:45:44.47\00:45:45.87
because the devil
said here's the plan.
00:45:45.91\00:45:47.41
Here's what I'm going to do.
00:45:47.44\00:45:48.78
And God said, "I'm
going to list it out
00:45:48.81\00:45:50.15
in the Word to expose you."
00:45:50.18\00:45:51.51
But devil said,
"I'm not worried about,
00:45:51.55\00:45:52.88
too many people
they're not going
00:45:52.91\00:45:54.25
to study it anyway."
00:45:54.28\00:45:55.62
So verse 9 really
hits it hard right here,
00:45:55.65\00:45:56.99
notice this, it says,
"But in vain they do what?
00:45:57.02\00:45:59.35
Worship me,
teaching for doctrines
00:45:59.39\00:46:01.26
the commandments of men."
00:46:01.29\00:46:02.62
What did Jesus say?
00:46:02.66\00:46:03.99
He said, "In vain
do they worship me,
00:46:04.03\00:46:05.83
teaching for doctrines
the commandments of," what?
00:46:05.86\00:46:08.53
"Of men."
00:46:08.56\00:46:09.90
So you can
claim it all you want.
00:46:09.93\00:46:11.27
No, I love God, I'm doing it.
00:46:11.30\00:46:12.63
He said, "It's in
vain that you worship me,
00:46:12.67\00:46:14.04
teaching for doctrines
the commandments of men."
00:46:14.07\00:46:16.54
This is what we have to look at.
00:46:16.57\00:46:19.74
How does the enemy come in?
00:46:19.77\00:46:22.21
False doctrine and this Sabbath
begins to, you know, the enemy
00:46:22.24\00:46:25.85
begins to throw these
things out into the church
00:46:25.88\00:46:27.95
and people grab
on to them and say,
00:46:27.98\00:46:29.68
"Oh, this seems
like this is what it is."
00:46:29.72\00:46:32.52
And we grab sometime things
00:46:32.55\00:46:33.89
that have no
foundation whatsoever.
00:46:33.92\00:46:35.59
We didn't know it.
00:46:35.62\00:46:36.96
We were not accountable
because we didn't know it.
00:46:36.99\00:46:39.46
But God said in the last days,
00:46:39.49\00:46:40.83
He will raise a group of
people that would proclaim
00:46:40.86\00:46:42.36
the three angels' message
that will warn the world.
00:46:42.40\00:46:45.07
I wish we had time to
get into, we will not.
00:46:45.10\00:46:48.30
But James 4:17, the
Bible is very clear.
00:46:48.34\00:46:50.61
Listen, brothers and sisters,
00:46:50.64\00:46:51.97
still being, "Oh, I
wish I'd known all this time.
00:46:52.01\00:46:53.68
I wish I'd known."
00:46:53.71\00:46:55.04
This is only touching
the edges of the information.
00:46:55.08\00:46:57.55
But Jesus said, "To him
that knoweth to do good,
00:46:57.58\00:47:02.38
and doeth it not,
to him it is sin."
00:47:02.42\00:47:06.39
Did you get it?
00:47:06.42\00:47:07.76
Many can say,
"Well, how about mom?
00:47:07.79\00:47:09.12
And how about dad?"
00:47:09.16\00:47:10.49
Oh, if they did not know
they are not accountable.
00:47:10.53\00:47:12.86
You do what you can do.
00:47:12.89\00:47:14.53
But now God said, He's
bringing light forward.
00:47:14.56\00:47:17.77
Because it's very
clear there in 1 John 3:4.
00:47:17.80\00:47:21.17
The Bible said,
00:47:21.20\00:47:22.54
"Whosoever
committeth sin transgresses
00:47:22.57\00:47:25.01
also the law: for sin is."
00:47:25.04\00:47:27.94
what? Okay.
00:47:27.98\00:47:29.31
Just simply say this.
00:47:29.34\00:47:30.68
If the law of
God is done away with
00:47:30.71\00:47:32.21
and that's what you proclaim,
00:47:32.25\00:47:33.58
then there's no
sin, do what you want.
00:47:33.62\00:47:35.22
Sin is the
transgression of God's law.
00:47:35.25\00:47:38.42
When we say the law of
God is no longer binding,
00:47:38.45\00:47:41.66
then there's no sin.
00:47:41.69\00:47:43.76
Does that make sense?
00:47:43.79\00:47:45.76
No, not to us we're saying,
00:47:45.79\00:47:47.13
but that's what it means,
00:47:47.16\00:47:48.83
for sin is the
transgression of the law.
00:47:48.86\00:47:50.67
But here, Romans 4:15 says this,
00:47:50.70\00:47:53.47
"For where no law is,
00:47:53.50\00:47:55.70
there is no transgression."
00:47:55.74\00:47:57.57
Where there's no law, what?
00:47:57.61\00:47:59.67
I'm not trying to hoodwink you.
00:47:59.71\00:48:01.74
I'm not trying to fool
you, the Bible is clear here.
00:48:01.78\00:48:04.91
The law must be an operation.
00:48:04.95\00:48:07.75
James 2:10, 2:12 talk about
00:48:07.78\00:48:09.28
"Every man will be judged
by the perfect law of liberty."
00:48:09.32\00:48:12.92
There has to be a standard
00:48:12.95\00:48:14.36
in the judgment
that's equal for everybody
00:48:14.39\00:48:17.43
in every part of the world.
00:48:17.46\00:48:19.69
Sin is the
transgression of the law.
00:48:19.73\00:48:21.53
To say, well, no, no, we won't.
00:48:21.56\00:48:23.40
Most of us don't
have the nerve to say,
00:48:23.43\00:48:24.77
well, the law of
God is done away.
00:48:24.80\00:48:26.13
We'll see, nine of them is.
00:48:26.17\00:48:27.64
James 2:10, "Where
you offend in one point,
00:48:27.67\00:48:30.27
we're guilty of all."
00:48:30.31\00:48:32.11
You see a Sabbath,
00:48:32.14\00:48:33.74
at least in my
opinion, in my study,
00:48:33.78\00:48:35.14
you may have
something different,
00:48:35.18\00:48:36.91
was not a test in
the medieval times.
00:48:36.95\00:48:40.62
Are you still with me?
00:48:40.65\00:48:42.22
It was not a test,
even in the 16th century,
00:48:42.25\00:48:44.89
the Reformation
period, the time of Wesley,
00:48:44.92\00:48:48.96
and some of the great reformers.
00:48:48.99\00:48:50.33
It was not a test
at that point in time.
00:48:50.36\00:48:52.96
But in these last
days, it becomes a test.
00:48:52.99\00:48:57.03
Because God said,
"He will raise the people
00:48:57.07\00:48:58.57
to bring attention to
all the command, all 10."
00:48:58.60\00:49:02.97
None of us would have,
you know, the audacity to say,
00:49:03.00\00:49:05.47
"Well, we don't have
to worry about that."
00:49:05.51\00:49:08.51
In fact, He said, "all
truth is going to be restored
00:49:08.54\00:49:10.91
before Jesus comes."
00:49:10.95\00:49:12.71
Isaiah 58:12,
00:49:12.75\00:49:14.15
"He's the restorer of
the paths to dwell in."
00:49:14.18\00:49:17.25
All of this is
just simply said to go,
00:49:17.29\00:49:18.75
we're not even gonna
get even we're close to it.
00:49:18.79\00:49:22.59
But it's saying
that this power said,
00:49:22.62\00:49:24.19
this is what
we're going to be doing.
00:49:24.23\00:49:26.73
And again, it's all laid out
00:49:26.76\00:49:28.10
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7,
8, 9, 10, and then what?
00:49:28.13\00:49:31.30
Many times we
just will not accept it
00:49:31.33\00:49:33.23
because of our pride.
00:49:33.27\00:49:35.47
We do not accept
it because you say,
00:49:35.50\00:49:36.91
oh, my lands, I was
wrong all this time.
00:49:36.94\00:49:40.74
God say, we got to
say praise the Lord.
00:49:40.78\00:49:42.11
It's all right.
00:49:42.14\00:49:43.48
You said you wouldn't,
now what are we going to?
00:49:43.51\00:49:44.85
Let's redeem the
time. Let's keep going.
00:49:44.88\00:49:47.88
We all agree that God
knows the future, do we not?
00:49:47.92\00:49:51.12
He knows the future.
00:49:51.15\00:49:52.49
Isaiah 46:10.
00:49:52.52\00:49:53.96
He says, "He declares
the end from the beginning."
00:49:53.99\00:49:57.69
Amos 3:7, the Bible said,
00:49:57.73\00:49:59.43
"He revealeth
secrets unto his," what?
00:49:59.46\00:50:01.66
"The servants, the prophets.
00:50:01.70\00:50:03.26
God is going to reveal.
00:50:03.30\00:50:04.73
Listen, there's not...
00:50:04.77\00:50:06.10
You think there's
10,000 ways in a Word,
00:50:06.13\00:50:07.54
way to get to heaven,
we better think again.
00:50:07.57\00:50:10.64
There's only one way
that's through Jesus Christ.
00:50:10.67\00:50:12.81
How you say? Oh,
it's not by obeying.
00:50:12.84\00:50:15.08
It's not by keeping as it were.
00:50:15.11\00:50:16.75
It's not by,
oh, you live unto...
00:50:16.78\00:50:18.81
By grace are you
saved through faith?
00:50:18.85\00:50:21.92
It's a gift of God.
00:50:21.95\00:50:24.19
But there's no use to
throw out the part of obedience.
00:50:24.22\00:50:26.65
Christ was obedient unto death.
00:50:26.69\00:50:28.89
Praise God for that.
00:50:28.92\00:50:30.26
If He was not, none of us would
make it to the kingdom of God.
00:50:30.29\00:50:33.40
There's nothing
wrong to say obedient.
00:50:33.43\00:50:34.76
How is it?
00:50:34.80\00:50:36.13
We can say, "Oh, well,
00:50:36.16\00:50:37.50
I'm gonna play
the football game,
00:50:37.53\00:50:38.87
but I'm not
gonna go by the rules."
00:50:38.90\00:50:40.24
Get out. I play basketball.
00:50:40.27\00:50:42.04
There's some rule. Get out.
00:50:42.07\00:50:44.04
None of us say that, right?
00:50:44.07\00:50:45.41
First thing we say
when it goes haywire,
00:50:45.44\00:50:47.28
what's the rules? Right.
00:50:47.31\00:50:49.21
What are the
rules? The rule says...
00:50:49.24\00:50:53.82
Rule just simply said what?
00:50:53.85\00:50:55.18
God's safety
forces. Thou shall not, why?
00:50:55.22\00:50:58.05
Because if you do,
Kenny, it'll hurt you.
00:50:58.09\00:51:00.79
It'll hurt you, and I
don't want you to get hurt.
00:51:00.82\00:51:03.96
I think today
will be very simple.
00:51:03.99\00:51:05.43
If we had take Catholic folk,
00:51:05.46\00:51:07.10
we take the
Protestant folks today,
00:51:07.13\00:51:09.43
all the
historians you can gather up
00:51:09.46\00:51:11.47
that's written so
much and studied so hard.
00:51:11.50\00:51:15.60
They follow the breaking up
00:51:15.64\00:51:18.71
of the Roman Empire and
the papacy and papal Rome.
00:51:18.74\00:51:23.35
Why?
00:51:23.38\00:51:25.45
They will come
down to say, you know,
00:51:25.48\00:51:26.82
when that broke
up the Roman Empire,
00:51:26.85\00:51:28.35
there was 10 kingdoms.
00:51:28.38\00:51:31.32
And people said, "Well,
what are those 10 kingdoms?"
00:51:31.35\00:51:33.76
I wish we had time
more to talk about them.
00:51:33.79\00:51:35.82
We'll examine those,
00:51:35.86\00:51:37.19
I think we will
take time to do that
00:51:37.23\00:51:38.56
next time we come together
00:51:38.59\00:51:40.20
about the little horn
and his plan to hoodwink you,
00:51:40.23\00:51:44.47
his plan to make sure
00:51:44.50\00:51:46.10
you're not in
the kingdom of God.
00:51:46.13\00:51:47.70
Until then I guarantee
00:51:47.74\00:51:49.07
the devil will come against you.
00:51:49.10\00:51:50.74
He will do
everything in his power
00:51:50.77\00:51:52.61
to make sure you say,
"Well, I don't agree with it."
00:51:52.64\00:51:55.14
You haven't heard
enough to maybe agree
00:51:55.18\00:51:56.71
or disagree at this point.
00:51:56.75\00:51:58.95
But we have heard
plenty enough, right,
00:51:58.98\00:52:00.48
that we can read to say
there is a power that says
00:52:00.52\00:52:03.08
we are God upon this earth.
00:52:03.12\00:52:05.89
We claim the
prerogatives of God.
00:52:05.92\00:52:09.36
The enemy said, right?
00:52:09.39\00:52:10.73
We read it there in Ezekiel
28 and Isaiah 14, that he said,
00:52:10.76\00:52:14.06
when he came down here,
00:52:14.10\00:52:15.43
that he's going to sit
in the throne room of God.
00:52:15.46\00:52:17.57
He's going to
be as God on earth,
00:52:17.60\00:52:19.67
and this is what
he's going to do.
00:52:19.70\00:52:21.70
And one of them, he
claims to forgive sin.
00:52:21.74\00:52:25.07
Man, we need to fit
this thing together.
00:52:25.11\00:52:27.38
Because he's persecuting,
00:52:27.41\00:52:28.74
he's going to kill God's
people and get rid of him.
00:52:28.78\00:52:31.08
He has a plan.
00:52:31.11\00:52:32.91
When he comes up,
he would uproot three,
00:52:32.95\00:52:34.82
you remember that?
00:52:34.85\00:52:36.18
Yeah, of the ten.
00:52:36.22\00:52:37.55
We need to know this power
beyond a shadow of a doubt.
00:52:37.59\00:52:39.45
And we need to
put forth a fight,
00:52:39.49\00:52:41.32
because we have
a message to give
00:52:41.36\00:52:42.82
called the three angels' message
00:52:42.86\00:52:44.19
to give to the world.
00:52:44.23\00:52:45.56
I want to be a
part of that, don't you?
00:52:45.59\00:52:47.66
Because it's God's plan.
00:52:47.70\00:52:49.36
No one said it would be easy.
00:52:49.40\00:52:51.70
It's going to be a test.
It's going to be a trial.
00:52:51.73\00:52:54.80
It'd be a decision I
know that you want to make.
00:52:54.84\00:52:57.21
Let me just have a
short prayer for you right now
00:52:57.24\00:52:59.07
and pray for me as we close.
00:52:59.11\00:53:01.31
Shall we pray together?
00:53:01.34\00:53:03.61
Loving Father in heaven, again,
we thank You for Your Word.
00:53:03.65\00:53:05.95
Thank You that
You're warning us that
00:53:05.98\00:53:07.62
You're soon to come
in the clouds of glory.
00:53:07.65\00:53:09.42
Oh, Lord, help us to be ready.
00:53:09.45\00:53:11.22
Help us to swallow anything
that we need to swallow.
00:53:11.25\00:53:13.29
Simply put our eyes upon You.
00:53:13.32\00:53:14.89
We may be ready for Your coming.
00:53:14.92\00:53:16.42
In Jesus' name, amen.
00:53:16.46\00:53:19.09
Thank You for joining
us here at Behold the Lamb.
00:53:19.13\00:53:20.60
We look forward to spending
time with you next time.
00:53:20.63\00:53:24.73
Hello and welcome
back. Time is of the essence.
00:53:24.77\00:53:28.10
We must wake up and tell others
00:53:28.14\00:53:30.87
what God has left
in His Word for us
00:53:30.91\00:53:33.04
to give us all
hope and direction.
00:53:33.07\00:53:35.48
So often, I've thought about
00:53:35.51\00:53:38.11
what the last days on
this earth would be like.
00:53:38.15\00:53:40.72
I've wondered how I would...
00:53:40.75\00:53:42.38
How I could personally survive
00:53:42.42\00:53:45.09
during the time of
trouble that the Bible predicts
00:53:45.12\00:53:47.76
right before the
coming of our Lord.
00:53:47.79\00:53:50.33
And like many
others, I realize, I realize
00:53:50.36\00:53:54.03
it's very possible
that the Lord may see fit,
00:53:54.06\00:53:57.03
that I sleep in the
grave before His return.
00:53:57.07\00:53:59.97
I'm sure that
many of you Christians,
00:54:00.00\00:54:02.37
many of you, like believers,
00:54:02.40\00:54:04.14
have had these same thoughts
and these same questions.
00:54:04.17\00:54:07.48
However, as I was
pondering one day before,
00:54:07.51\00:54:11.25
we were
preparing for this message,
00:54:11.28\00:54:13.21
the thought came
vividly to my mind,
00:54:13.25\00:54:15.48
that I was born here that
00:54:15.52\00:54:17.02
we're all here for
such a time as this.
00:54:17.05\00:54:20.42
And it gave me hope,
00:54:20.46\00:54:21.79
because I thought if we're here,
00:54:21.82\00:54:23.16
God put us here right now,
00:54:23.19\00:54:25.13
therefore, he can strengthen us.
00:54:25.16\00:54:27.20
He can enable us to
face whatever it is,
00:54:27.23\00:54:30.37
as long as we are
100% hid in Christ.
00:54:30.40\00:54:35.87
That reminder gave me such hope
and a renewed sense of purpose,
00:54:35.90\00:54:40.61
as I hope it will you as well.
00:54:40.64\00:54:43.85
As we realize
that this beast power
00:54:43.88\00:54:45.61
that Pastor Kenny
00:54:45.65\00:54:46.98
just spoke about
today will continue
00:54:47.02\00:54:49.28
to exercise power
00:54:49.32\00:54:50.82
over the
inhabitants of the world
00:54:50.85\00:54:52.55
before Christ's return.
00:54:52.59\00:54:54.49
This power has
joined hands across the gulf
00:54:54.52\00:54:57.79
with what she
calls her daughters.
00:54:57.83\00:55:00.10
And like many of
our own children,
00:55:00.13\00:55:03.10
her daughters will be working
00:55:03.13\00:55:04.67
with her as her
image to pass laws that
00:55:04.70\00:55:09.07
will sorely try the
true children of God.
00:55:09.10\00:55:13.58
This final war is before us.
00:55:13.61\00:55:15.84
We are no doubt beginning to see
00:55:15.88\00:55:18.45
how the whole world can,
00:55:18.48\00:55:20.18
has and will come together
00:55:20.22\00:55:22.55
just as foretold
in biblical prophecy
00:55:22.58\00:55:25.99
to bring the final events
00:55:26.02\00:55:27.76
to a worldwide
crescendo as it were.
00:55:27.79\00:55:31.73
We are witnessing
this coming together
00:55:31.76\00:55:34.20
under global initiatives
00:55:34.23\00:55:36.26
such as the
pandemic, climate crisis,
00:55:36.30\00:55:39.70
and the teetering
economic collapse.
00:55:39.73\00:55:43.14
Today's message
again, Pope Leo XIII,
00:55:43.17\00:55:47.18
we hold upon the earth
the place of God Almighty
00:55:47.21\00:55:52.11
with Pastor Kenny Shelton.
00:55:52.15\00:55:54.08
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