The topic today is,
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"Antichrist in
Action" America beware.
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Now I want you to look over here
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at this man here.
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I just want to tell you
that's not a really good
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because the antichrist
doesn't look like that at all.
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Yeah, but we put
this up because we thought
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at least it would
get your attention,
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but the Bible tells me
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that the antichrist is a
person who is listen to this,
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the word antichrist
does not mean against Christ.
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The word antichrist
means in the place of Christ.
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Today, we're going to
give you great evidence
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why an honest seeker
of the truth can believe.
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I'm going to give you evidence
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that has led
millions of atheists
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in Russia to believe in God.
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So I want you to
hear the evidence,
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and I want you to be the judges.
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Want you to come to the
opening passage in scripture
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which is 2 Thessalonians 2:3-5,
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2 Thessalonians 2:3-5
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in the Bible.
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And here Paul is talking about
the coming of the man of sin,
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and the great
antichrist or the person
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who comes in
the place of Christ.
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The Bible says verse 3,
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"Let no one
deceive you by any means,
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but that Day will not come
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unless the
falling away comes first,
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and the man of sin is revealed,
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the son of the perdition,
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who opposes and exalts himself
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above all that is called
God or that is worshiped,
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so that he sits as
God in the temple of God,
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showing himself that he is God.
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Do you not remember that
when I was still with you
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I told you these things?"
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So this is rather incredible
and tremendously important.
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The Bible says that the
antichrist is not a power
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that is blatantly
opposed to Christ.
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It is a power that assumes
the prerogatives of Jesus.
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The Bible says, "He
sits in the temple of God."
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I want you to know this
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that the greatest
deception in the world,
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you know what it is?
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It's religious deception.
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We're going to
discover this today
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as we look at the prophecy.
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Let me give you just a
few opening observations.
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Number one, the first Americans,
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the Pilgrim Fathers,
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and we're proud
of this great country
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and the great heritage.
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But the early Americans
understood this prophecy
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that I'm going
to talk about today.
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You will find today
that in this great land
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probably not one person
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in a thousand
is even aware of it
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but America was built
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upon an
understanding of the prophecies
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about the antichrist.
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Second observation,
truth is noble and important.
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Jesus said in John 8:32.
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He said these tremendous words,
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He said, "And you
shall know the truth,
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the truth will make you free."
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Remember this, not
all ideas are the same.
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We live in a time of
political correctness
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when people say,
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"Well, everybody has the right
to his opinion which he has."
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But not all ideas are of equal
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value and merit.
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Observation number three,
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the greatest truth that
you can find anywhere is this.
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God exists and he loves you.
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Want you to come
over here to Romans 5:8,
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Romans 5:8,
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the Bible says, Paul says,
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"But God demonstrates
His own love toward us,
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in that while we
were still sinners,
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Christ died for us."
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Now many people have been taught
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that God is the
terrorist in chief.
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You can find this in
all the church creeds
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that the God of the
Bible is going to burn
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sinners in hell
for all eternity.
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No wonder so many people believe
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it's all right to
torture our enemies.
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A person cannot rise any
higher than his concept of God.
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And if you think God
does things like this
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then what's so bad
about water boarding.
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So the Bible teaches
that God is far better than
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we had ever dared to hope.
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He is a wonderful God.
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I do not believe in an
eternally burning hell.
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We're going to
talk about that one day.
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Remember you rise no
higher than your concept of God.
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If you think God
does things like this,
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you're not going to
be a very kind person.
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And observation
number four is this,
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God knows our hearts
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and God has got His
people in every nation
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and in every church.
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Want you to know this.
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I have a personal belief
that some of you may share,
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you may not share it.
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I believe the vast
majority of God's true children
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are found not in my church
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but in the
Roman Catholic Church.
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And so God is much
bigger than we are.
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Now we're going to notice
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the identification
marks of the antichrist.
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Number one, the
antichrist is a counterfeit
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and I want you to
turn in the scriptures
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to 2 Thessalonians 2:3, 4.
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The antichrist is a counterfeit,
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he masquerades in religion.
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The Bible says,
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"Let no one
deceive you by any means,
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so that Day, the
coming of Christ,
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will not come
unless the falling away
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from truth comes first,
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and the man of sin is revealed,
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the son of the perdition,
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who opposes and exalts himself
above all that is called God
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or that is worshiped,
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so that he sits as
God in the temple of God,
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showing himself that he is God."
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This is pretty important.
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People say, well,
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the great antichrist is atheism.
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Well, it's antichristian
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but it's not the
antichrist to Bible prophecy.
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The Bible says
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the antichrist is
the great pretender.
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When you go to Russia,
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you'll find the Russian
ruble is not worth a great deal,
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about 65 rubles to the Dollar.
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Not many people are
counterfeiting rubles,
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but lots of people are counting,
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goodness me.
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If I did a counterfeit
of the American dollar,
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it wouldn't be this man.
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A counterfeit is so ingenious
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and so clever
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that it's very
hard to distinguish
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the true from the counterfeit.
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Number two, we notice
the text 2 Thessalonians,
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this is
identification of number two,
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he sits in the temple of God.
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Now can you understand now
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why someone doesn't want
you to understand this prophecy?
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Can you understand it?
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Can you understand why
the devil his duped people
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into believing that no one
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can really
understand the Word of God?
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And so the Bible tells me
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that the antichrist with
almost the glory of Christ
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sits in the temple of God.
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He sits in what we
would call the church.
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Identification mark number 3.
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Now this is
where it's going to get
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very strong and very historical.
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The antichrist is built
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on the ruins of
the Roman Empire.
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We will see that the antichrist
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came out of the
bosom of the Roman Empire
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and we will prove it to you.
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Come over now to
the great prophecy
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of Daniel Chapter 7.
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And Jesus told us
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that we should study
the prophecies of Daniel,
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he said that in Matthew 24,
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Daniel 7:1-3,
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"In the first year of Belshazzar
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king of Babylon,
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Daniel had a dream and visions
of his head while on his bed.
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Then he wrote down the
dream, telling the main facts.
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Daniel spoke, saying,
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"I saw in my vision by night..."
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This is Daniel 7:2,
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"And behold, the
four winds of heaven
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were stirring up the Great Sea.
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And four great
beasts came up from the sea,
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each different from the other."
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As Daniel is watching
in spellbound fascination
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in the stream
given to him by God,
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he sees four beasts
come up out of the sea,
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and we are told in
another part of the scriptures
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that in prophecy
the sea is symbolic
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of the peoples of the earth.
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And we are also told
by the Prophet Daniel
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that a beast is
symbolic of a king or a kingdom.
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I want you to
notice Daniel 7:17,
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Daniel 7:17, the Bible says,
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"Those great
beasts, which are four,
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are four kings which
arise out of the earth."
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And verse 23
says, "Thus he said,
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"The fourth beast shall
be a fourth kingdom on earth,
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Which shall be different
from all the other kingdoms,
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And shall
devour the whole earth,
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Trample it down and
break it in pieces."
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Therefore, when you
study the Bible prophecies
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and you see these
ferocious animals,
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this is God's way of portraying
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some of the great
nations in the world.
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And we are going to
see that the antichrist
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came out of the
bloody Roman Empire,
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the first beast in Daniel 7:4,
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dear hearts and gentle people.
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"The first was like a
lion, and had eagle's wings.
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I watched till its
wings were plucked off,
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it was lifted up from the earth
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and made to stand
on two feet like a man,
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and a man's
heart was given to it."
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And so the first power
that comes upon the world scene
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in the prophecies
of Daniel is the lion.
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The lion back in the
days of the Babylonians
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was the symbol of
the Babylonian Empire.
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Daniel 7 is a repeat of Daniel 2
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under different symbols.
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In Daniel 2 you
have the great colossus
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with the head of gold.
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And the head of gold
is the symbol of Babylon,
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so what I want to say
to every person here today,
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we are not dealing
with airy-fairy nonsense.
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We're not
dealing with fairytales.
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We're dealing with
the facts of history.
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And so the lion is Babylon.
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Everybody who knows anything
about this understands it.
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Daniel 7:5,
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"Suddenly another bear
and suddenly another beast,
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another beast, the
second like a bear.
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It was raised up on one side,
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and had three ribs in
its mouth between its teeth.
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And they said thus to it:
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"Arise, devour much flesh!"
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This is not theology.
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After Babylon
came the rapacious bear
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and after
Babylon came Medo-Persia
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likened to the chest of
silver in Daniel Chapter 2.
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Now some would say who
do not understand history
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but you're making this up.
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No, we did not write history.
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These are the facts,
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and look at Daniel 7:6,
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"After this I looked,
and there was another,
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like a leopard,
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which had on its
back four wings of a bird.
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The beast also had four heads,
and dominion was given to it."
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So you have
Babylon, Medo-Persia,
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and then you have the
leopard which represents Greece,
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and they were the
thighs and the belly
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of the great
colossus of Daniel 2.
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This beast being a
leopard is tremendously fast.
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It's were the conquering
armies of Alexander the Great.
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And you will notice
that this beast has got
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four heads and four wings,
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because when
Alexander was dying,
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his generals
crowded around his bed
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and they said,
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"To whom shall the kingdom go?"
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And he said, "It
shall go to the strongest."
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And after a number of
years the kingdom of Alexander
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the Great was broken up
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among his four warring generals.
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Let me think,
Cassander, Lysimachus,
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Seleucus, and Ptolemy.
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Would you kindly
repeat that for me?
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Cassander, Lysimachus,
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Seleucus, and Ptolemy.
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Babylon,
Medo-Persia, Greece, Alexander,
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and the break up
of the Grecian Empire.
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Notice the next beast
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or the next kingdom, my friend.
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I think it is verse 7,
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Daniel 7:7,
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"After this I saw
in the night visions,
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and behold, a fourth
beast, or a fourth kingdom,
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dreadful and
terrible, exceedingly strong.
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It had huge iron teeth,
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it was devouring,
breaking, in pieces,
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and tramping the
residue with its feet.
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It was different
from all the beasts
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that were before it,
and it had ten horns."
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And this is not theology.
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It is not speculation.
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I say to the unbeliever,
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tell me how did this man know
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that these
events would take place
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before they took place.
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So you have
Babylon, Medo-Persia,
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Greece and then you
come, my dear friends,
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to the dragon or the
iron monarchy of Rome.
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And this power was
the very embodiment
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of antichrist.
00:16:19.54\00:16:21.81
They gave to the
world prosperity,
00:16:21.84\00:16:24.75
Pax Romana, the time of peace,
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power and also persecution.
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You will notice and I want
you to see this very carefully.
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This piece, my
friend, has ten horns.
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I want you to notice this
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because the ten horns
are of great significance
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because the antichrist
comes from the ten horns.
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Now I'm talking to
an American audience.
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Let me remind you again.
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The Puritans and
the Pilgrim Fathers
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were brought up on this.
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This was their
bread and their butter.
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And this is why
America was founded
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to get away from the persecution
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of the antichrist who
came out of the Roman Empire.
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It was this power
Rome that crucified Christ,
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that destroyed
Jerusalem in 70 A.D
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and that
persecuted the Christians.
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And so, in the very heart
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of Rome was antichrist.
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The spirit of persecution
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and the spirit of
intolerance is the essence
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and the heart and
the soul of antichrist.
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Wherever it may be found,
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wherever it may be found.
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Now look at verse 8, Daniel 7:8,
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"I was considering the horns,
and there was another horn,
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a little one,
coming up among them,
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that's the antichrist,
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before whom three
of the first horns
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were plucked up by the roots.
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And there, in
this horn, were eyes,
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like the eyes of a man,
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and a mouth
speaking pompous words."
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Now please notice
verse 24 in the scriptures.
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"The ten horns are ten kings.
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The ten horns and ten kings
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who shall arise
from his kingdom,
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from the Roman Kingdom,
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and another shall rise
after them, antichrist.
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He shall be
different from the first ones,
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and shall subdue three kings."
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Now listen very, very carefully.
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You have Babylon, Medo-Persia,
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Greece and Rome.
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And then upon the Roman
beast, you have ten horns.
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God said, through the prophet,
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the ten horns are ten kings
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who shall arise
from this kingdom.
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Roughly approximately
between 300 and 500 A.D
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In the year of our Lord A.D.
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between 300 and 500 A.D
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the Roman
Empire was not followed
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by another world empire,
00:19:34.24\00:19:37.21
but the Roman Empire
00:19:37.24\00:19:39.17
because of super deficits,
00:19:39.21\00:19:44.75
because of gross immorality,
00:19:44.78\00:19:49.12
because eye of licentiousness
and corrupt government.
00:19:49.15\00:19:55.42
The Roman Empire
broke up into the kingdoms
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and the states of Europe.
00:19:59.03\00:20:02.83
And so the ten
horns on the Dragon Beast
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are symbolic of
the Roman Empire.
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And the Bible says it is
out of those kingdoms of Europe
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that antichrist arises.
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Now somebody may say to me
00:20:23.45\00:20:25.12
who is not aware of
the facts of history
00:20:25.15\00:20:28.06
but this is pure speculation.
00:20:28.09\00:20:32.09
I would say, my
friend, that is nonsense.
00:20:32.13\00:20:37.57
These are the facts of
history, Babylon, Medo...
00:20:37.60\00:20:42.07
You see we never wrote the Bible
00:20:42.10\00:20:43.87
and we never wrote history.
00:20:43.91\00:20:48.18
Jesus said, "You
will know the truth
00:20:48.21\00:20:50.75
and the truth
will make you free."
00:20:50.78\00:20:53.62
So you have
Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece,
00:20:53.65\00:20:58.29
then you have the break
up of the Grecian Empire...
00:20:58.32\00:21:02.16
That's right.
00:21:02.19\00:21:03.93
And then you have
the bloody Roman Empire
00:21:03.96\00:21:06.83
that crucified Christ
00:21:06.86\00:21:08.20
and made war
against the saints of God,
00:21:08.23\00:21:10.73
and then you have the
break up of the Roman Empire
00:21:10.77\00:21:14.80
into the kingdoms
and the states of Europe.
00:21:14.84\00:21:18.34
And out of those ten kings
00:21:18.37\00:21:21.91
comes the nefarious little horn.
00:21:21.94\00:21:24.41
How did Daniel know?
00:21:24.45\00:21:28.98
I've asked this
question to millions of atheists
00:21:29.02\00:21:32.82
around the world.
00:21:32.85\00:21:35.56
And I've had
honest atheists come to me
00:21:35.59\00:21:39.29
after this lecture
and they have said,
00:21:39.33\00:21:41.90
"We are overwhelmed
00:21:41.93\00:21:43.50
by the evidence
that there is a God,"
00:21:43.53\00:21:47.24
because only a
man inspired by God
00:21:47.27\00:21:52.37
could have written down
these things 2500 years ago.
00:21:52.41\00:21:57.21
Now the next point,
00:21:57.25\00:21:58.58
we're going to come
now to point number four
00:21:58.61\00:22:00.92
which identifies the antichrist.
00:22:00.95\00:22:03.62
The Bible tells me, he
comes up after 500 A.D.
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How do I know? It's easy.
00:22:08.39\00:22:10.86
Look at verse 24 of Daniel 7,
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"The ten horns of ten
kings, kings of Europe,
00:22:14.33\00:22:19.13
who shall arise
from this kingdom,
00:22:19.17\00:22:20.60
the Roman Empire."
00:22:20.64\00:22:22.04
This is what
the Puritans taught,
00:22:22.07\00:22:23.44
my American friends,
00:22:23.47\00:22:25.24
"And another
shall arise after them.
00:22:25.27\00:22:29.88
He shall be
different from the first ones
00:22:29.91\00:22:31.95
and he shall
subdue three kings."
00:22:31.98\00:22:35.28
The little horn
00:22:35.32\00:22:37.09
who is the great
antichrist of Bible prophecy
00:22:37.12\00:22:42.19
who sits in the temple of God
00:22:42.22\00:22:46.29
comes up in Europe
00:22:46.33\00:22:49.26
after 500 A.D.
00:22:49.30\00:22:51.23
And so we are
looking for a power
00:22:54.47\00:22:56.44
that arises on the
ruins of the Roman Empire
00:22:56.47\00:22:59.57
after 500 A.D.
00:22:59.61\00:23:02.58
And point number five.
00:23:02.61\00:23:05.68
He subdues, he
overthrow three kings.
00:23:05.71\00:23:09.78
Daniel 7:8.
00:23:09.82\00:23:12.92
Daniel 7:8, "I was
considering the horns,
00:23:12.95\00:23:18.29
or the kings of Europe,
00:23:18.33\00:23:20.40
and there was
another horn, a little one,
00:23:20.43\00:23:24.53
he starts to add small
00:23:24.57\00:23:26.30
but he becomes the
king of all of Europe.
00:23:26.33\00:23:30.87
Coming up among them,
00:23:30.91\00:23:33.94
before whom three
of the first horns
00:23:33.98\00:23:36.51
were plucked up by the roots."
00:23:36.54\00:23:41.02
This is not
speculation but history tells me
00:23:41.05\00:23:44.65
that there were
three European powers
00:23:44.69\00:23:49.02
that withstood the
rise of this great,
00:23:49.06\00:23:54.40
great king,
00:23:54.43\00:23:56.23
and they were the Heruli,
00:23:56.26\00:23:58.83
the Vandals and the Ostrogoths.
00:23:58.87\00:24:03.91
This is the sure
word of Bible prophecy,
00:24:03.94\00:24:07.58
and this is the
word of the Lord.
00:24:07.61\00:24:10.85
Now we come to point number...
00:24:10.88\00:24:13.08
I think it's number six.
00:24:13.11\00:24:15.42
The Bible tells me
00:24:15.45\00:24:17.12
that this literal king becomes
00:24:17.15\00:24:19.95
the greatest
king in all the world.
00:24:19.99\00:24:23.89
Look at verse 20, Daniel 7:20,
00:24:23.93\00:24:27.83
"And the ten horns
that were on its head,
00:24:27.86\00:24:30.87
and the other
horn which came up,
00:24:30.90\00:24:33.23
before which three fell,
00:24:33.27\00:24:35.44
namely, that horn that had eyes
00:24:35.47\00:24:37.77
and a mouth that
spoke pompous words,
00:24:37.81\00:24:41.41
whose appearance was
greater than his fellows."
00:24:41.44\00:24:45.35
And so Bible prophecy tells me
00:24:45.38\00:24:48.78
that this king who
arises out of Europe,
00:24:48.82\00:24:52.85
of the ruins of the Roman Empire
00:24:52.89\00:24:54.96
comes up as a little king.
00:24:54.99\00:24:58.13
But soon He
becomes a mighty king
00:24:58.16\00:25:02.96
and he rules the world.
00:25:03.00\00:25:06.43
Now I'm not making this up.
00:25:06.47\00:25:08.70
Please I say to the
audience, don't get mad with me,
00:25:08.74\00:25:12.11
I never gave the
prophecies, please.
00:25:12.14\00:25:16.01
Now point number seven.
00:25:16.04\00:25:18.01
Identification
mark number seven,
00:25:18.05\00:25:19.75
Chapter 7:24,
00:25:19.78\00:25:22.28
"The ten horns are ten kings
shall arise from this kingdom.
00:25:22.32\00:25:25.99
And another
shall arise after them,
00:25:26.02\00:25:27.89
He shall be
different from the first ones,
00:25:27.92\00:25:31.19
And shall subdue three kings."
00:25:31.23\00:25:34.46
I put it to you,
00:25:34.50\00:25:37.23
could it possibly be so
00:25:37.27\00:25:41.00
that this king is
different to any other king
00:25:41.04\00:25:47.14
because he is religious.
00:25:47.18\00:25:52.48
And he is in the temple of God.
00:25:52.51\00:25:58.05
More identification
marks coming up soon.
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Hello, friend.
00:26:14.80\00:26:16.24
I'm John Carter in Havana, Cuba.
00:26:16.27\00:26:19.54
I'm standing here in
Revolutionary Square.
00:26:19.57\00:26:23.91
This great square is dedicated
00:26:23.95\00:26:26.11
to the great
communist revolution under Fidel
00:26:26.15\00:26:29.35
that came to this
country back 50, 60 years ago.
00:26:29.38\00:26:33.79
This place is still
undergoing a revolution.
00:26:33.82\00:26:37.79
We've come to check out
the reality of the situation.
00:26:37.83\00:26:42.33
Freedom of speech is
not allowed here still.
00:26:42.36\00:26:45.90
Preaching the
gospel out of doors
00:26:45.93\00:26:48.07
is not allowed here,
00:26:48.10\00:26:49.80
still whatever you
hear about reconciliation,
00:26:49.84\00:26:53.11
nothing has really changed.
00:26:53.14\00:26:55.84
We've been told,
00:26:55.88\00:26:57.21
we cannot run
public campaigns in Cuba
00:26:57.25\00:27:01.95
in any part of this world.
00:27:01.98\00:27:04.69
We can run meetings in churches,
00:27:04.72\00:27:06.92
that's allowed.
00:27:06.96\00:27:08.29
So what are we going to do?
00:27:08.32\00:27:09.96
We're going to
support the people of God
00:27:09.99\00:27:11.43
in this part of the world.
00:27:11.46\00:27:12.99
We're going to
step through those doors
00:27:13.03\00:27:15.26
as God opens those doors.
00:27:15.30\00:27:17.93
We're not going to
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00:27:17.97\00:27:22.34
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00:27:22.37\00:27:25.44
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00:27:25.47\00:27:31.41
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00:27:58.61\00:28:03.08
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