I'm John Carter in Moscow.
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In Havana, Cuba.
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Now in Kiev, the
capital of Ukraine.
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I'm John Carter in Petra.
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Right here in Communist China.
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Reporting from India.
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Hi, I'm John Carter
in the Solomon Islands.
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I'm John Carter in Soweto.
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From El Salvador.
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I'm John Carter
in Sydney, Australia.
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Today, an in-depth
study of Constantine
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and The Mark of the Beast.
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What a week we've had
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with all these fires
in Southern California,
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just up the road from us,
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the Ronald Reagan
Presidential Library
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snatched from the fire.
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Amazing, tremendous pilots.
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Tremendous firefighters.
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I think they're very, very best
you find anywhere in the world.
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So we've been delivered
from the fire and today,
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I wanted to talk to
you about another fire
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that is coming very, very soon.
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This program today
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is dedicated to the truth.
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We're not
talking about politicians
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or politics here today.
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We leave out
politics at the door
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when we come to the studio,
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but we are
talking about the truth
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because Jesus said,
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"You will know the truth,
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and the truth
will make you free."
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And the greatest
need in the world.
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The greatest
need in America today
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is for truth
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because most people
don't have the truth.
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The topic is Constantine
and The Mark of the Beast.
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What on earth this
is about Constantine
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and the Mark of the Beast
or when Constantine rides again
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because mark my word,
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Constantine is
going to rise again.
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He's going to ride again.
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I think I told you this
story a little while ago
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because it's such a great story.
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I'm going to tell it again.
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I was watching Pawn Stars.
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P-A-W-N Pawn Stars.
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And an old guy came
in and he said to Rick,
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he said, "You know,
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I've got Abraham
Lincoln's chair."
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Wow! I've got to...
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So they checked out the chair.
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They did all sorts
of tests on the chair.
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And it wasn't
Abraham Lincoln's chair.
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You know, the old guy said.
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He said, "Well, here,
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we all believe
what we want to believe.
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And I happen to believe
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that this is
Abraham Lincoln's chair."
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You say, "It's crazy."
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If that's crazy,
then there's got to be
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a lot of crazy people
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because I want
to say this to you
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and let this sink
down into your mind.
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It doesn't matter what you
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and I think about what is truth,
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that doesn't matter
because you and I can be wrong.
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Truth is truth is truth.
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And what we must discover today
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through struggle
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and conflict in our minds,
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and a dedication to God,
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we must discover
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what is truth
because truth is mighty,
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and will prevail
with us or without us.
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So we're gonna talk
today about Constantine
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and the Mark of the Beast.
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There's a fire coming.
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Wants you to take your Bibles
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and come over
here to John 18:33-36.
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If you're living here
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in the United
States of America as I am,
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this is one of the
most important talks
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you're ever going to hear
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because most of the
preachers it seems to me
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and most of the politicians,
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it seems to me
haven't got a clue
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concerning
what's going to happen.
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What did I say?
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John 18:33 and onwards,
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"Then Pilate entered
the Praetorium again,
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called Jesus, and said to Him,
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'Are you the King of the Jews?'"
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Look at this in
your Bibles, please,
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because I'm sure
most of you never read it.
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"'Are you the King of the Jews?'
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Jesus answered,
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'Are you speaking this
for yourself about this,
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or did others tell
you this concerning Me?'
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Pilate answered
and said, 'Am I a Jew?
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Your own nation
and the chief priests
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have delivered You to me.
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What have You done?'
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Jesus answered and said,
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'My kingdom is
not of this world.'"
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Then I asked the question,
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why is it that so
many preachers think that
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the Kingdom of
God is of this world.
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"My kingdom is
not of this world.
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If my kingdom
were of this world,
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My servants would fight,
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so that I should not
be delivered to the Jews,
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but now My kingdom
is not from here.'"
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Jesus said, "My
kingdom is not of this world."
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If there are millions
of my fellow Americans
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who believe that the
Kingdom of God is of this world,
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and they're going to bring
about the mark of the beast.
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Now what is a theocracy?
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The word for God is the...
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And we're talking about
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the Greek word
is theism for God.
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Theocracy, a
government that is led by God.
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A government where
God is the official head
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and enforces God's laws.
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Millions of people now
and huge numbers of preachers
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say we want the
Government of the United States
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of America to be
in charge of the laws
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and to make this
a Christian country.
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They come to me, I've
heard it on television.
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A theocracy.
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Example, The Old
Testament was Moses.
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The religious laws
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were the laws of
the state of Israel.
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If you broke the Sabbath,
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you were put to
death by stoning.
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If we had a theocracy,
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we'd be stoning
lots and lots of people.
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Even though lots
and lots of people
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are already stoned.
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Now you've all heard about ISIS.
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When you talk about ISIS,
your blood almost runs cold.
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You know what ISIS is?
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It's a theocracy,
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where the Quran
is the state law.
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It's an extreme theocracy,
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but it is a theocracy.
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Talk about Saudi Arabia.
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Saudi Arabia, one of the great,
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great allies of the
United States of America
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because they've got
the good oil I imagine.
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It's an Islamic state,
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most Americans
are not aware of this.
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Maybe you're not.
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It's an Islamic
state where Christians
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and Jews are not allowed.
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Oh, no, you say no,
no, no, no, that's...
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Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
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Christians and Jews
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are not allowed in Saudi Arabia.
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There are no churches. No, no.
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There are no
churches, no synagogues,
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but plenty of mosques.
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And no Bibles, no Bibles
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allowed in Saudi Arabia.
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Their main religion is
the religion of Wahhabi.
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Wahhabi was a person
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who believed in the
concept of a theocracy.
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Osama Bin Laden was a
fervent disciple of Wahhabi.
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Never heard of him?
Better go Google it.
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The Saudis have spent
in the last few years...
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Don't get mad with me
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because I'm
telling you the truth.
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The Saudis in the last few years
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have spent $100 million,
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no $100 billion exporting
Wahhabism to the world.
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And this is the basis
of terrorism, a theocracy.
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Iran is a more
moderate Islamic state,
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where Christians
and Jews are tolerated.
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I have been there.
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But it is a theocracy,
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where the Quran is
the law of the state.
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A theocracy is a
nation where church, mosque,
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or synagogue
are joined together.
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Many today in America think
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it would be good if
we were a theocracy,
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a Christian theocracy
because they've told me so.
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I've heard it on television.
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But more about this later,
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and let's talk
about Constantine.
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Who was Constantine?
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Well, he was a Roman emperor
who became a "Christian,"
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and who set up a
Christian theocracy,
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he could not have been
such a wonderful Christian
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because he delayed his baptism
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until almost the
day of his death.
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So he could do all
sorts of bad things,
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and thought that baptism
would wash away your sins.
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Baptism doesn't
wash away your sins,
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the blood of Jesus does.
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Okay. Baptism is the sign of it.
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Constantine lived around 300 AD
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and made Christianity
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the official
religion of the Roman Empire.
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It became a Christian theocracy.
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Like a lot of people in
America want to have today.
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He was preceded by
Diocletian and Galerius,
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who fiercely
persecuted Christians.
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Christians were compelled
to sacrifice to the pagan gods.
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Christians were
crucified, burned alive,
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thrown to wild beasts.
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You ought to watch
the movie on Netflix,
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I think it's
Netflix on Saint Paul.
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In one of the scenes
from the movie on Paul,
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you see a little
group of Christians,
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little boys and
girls, holding hands,
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old men and old women,
young couples marching,
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marching bravely
out into the arena,
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where they are met by the lions.
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When we meet these
people, by the grace of God,
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we might be ashamed
to go up and greet them
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because we live in a time
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of superficial
weak Christianity.
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People don't go to church
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because they
can't get out of bed.
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Goodness me.
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Now the Roman
Empire in Daniel 7:7
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which we're not going
to go into was predicted.
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We who understand
the prophecies know that
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Rome was predicted.
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It is the Roman
beast of the Caesars.
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Constantine,
now here's the point
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believed that he
had a vision of Christ
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and His cross or
words to that effect.
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There is some dispute
over the actual event.
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But he believed he had a vision.
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And the words were spoken
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the cross by this sign conquer
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and he became a great supporter
of the persecuted church.
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He became their champion.
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He made Christianity
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the official
religion of the empire.
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And what do you
think the Christians did?
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Praise God, hallelujah.
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We have been delivered
and whatever Constantine does,
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we will support him.
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But he was the
type of Antichrist.
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And as one great historian said,
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"The church not
only conquered Rome,
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but Rome conquered the church."
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As you will see, turn with
me to 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4.
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Read it in the
Bible, turn to the text,
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you just may discover
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something you
didn't know before.
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2 Thessalonians 2:3-4.
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"Let no one
deceive you by any means,
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for that Day of the Lord
return will not come unless
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the falling away comes first."
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A falling away from the truth.
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"And the man of sin is revealed,
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the son of 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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He sits in the church,
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"Showing
himself that he is God."
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Therefore the
Bible prophecies teach,
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prophecies taught that
the Antichrist would be
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a person inside the church.
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Wow!
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You say, "Where
did you get that from?
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From the reading of
scripture and from this text.
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Now some
interesting things happened.
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The title of Caesar
was Pontifex Maximus.
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Kindly notice it on the screen.
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Caesar divinity
Augustus Pontifex Maximus,
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can you please put
that down into your mind
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the title of the Antichrist,
the Caesar of pagan Rome
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was Pontifex Maximus.
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Ever heard of it before?
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Pontifex Maximus
means the chief priest.
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Remember what Jesus said,
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"My kingdom is
not of this world."
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But later on when a
Christian theocracy was set up,
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they had a new
spiritual emperor,
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and his name was
Pontifex Maximus.
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And there you can see in
St. Peter's Cathedral the words
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Gregory Pontifex Maximus.
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Over here Pope Sixtus
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Pontifex Maximus.
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The chief
priest, the Great Bridge
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to the Kingdom of God,
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the Savior of the world,
past from being the Caesar,
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to the Pope of Rome.
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You say, "No, I can't believe."
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My friend, this is not religion
we're talking about today.
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We're not talking religion.
I'm not talking politics.
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This is truth. This is history.
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The Pope became the new
Caesar of the New Roman Empire.
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And that is why
we call him today
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many
affectionately, the pontiff,
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the holy Pontifex Maximus.
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Now, a flood of pagan
teachings entered the church.
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In AD 321 Constantine passed
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the first Sunday law
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forbidding work
on the venerable day
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of the sun.
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You see, all the
pagans kept Sunday
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because they
were sun worshippers.
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Did you know this?
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That is why it is called Sunday.
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And Constantine
passed the first Sunday law,
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he said, "On the
venerable day of the sun,
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let the magistrates
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and people
residing in cities rest,
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and let all the
workshops be closed
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on the
venerable day of the sun."
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Now the Bible
says, my dear friend,
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"There would come a falling away
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from the truth
before Jesus came."
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There would be a
falling away from the truth,
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and the church would be
invaded with pagan teachings
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in the name of Jesus.
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Let me mention
some of them to you.
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Pontifex Maximus.
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That, of course, is
just the supreme example.
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Pontifex Maximus.
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And then images
came into the church.
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The pagan Romans
had a marvelous building
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that I've been in
many times that I love,
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the Pantheon, the
temple to all the gods,
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and the Christians
simply took the Roman gods,
00:17:13.03\00:17:17.80
and they christened them
as Christians, as saints.
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Don't say this, someone
say, say, this is St. Peter.
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Images invaded the church.
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And then an amazing
teaching was invented,
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which we call today The Mass.
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The power of the priest
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was so great that he could
say the words, this is my body.
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And through the power
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of the doctrine of
transubstantiation,
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the bread and the wine
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were turned into the actual body
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and the blood of Christ,
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when the Bible is
a book of symbols,
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"I am the door," said
Jesus, "I am the sheep."
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Nobody ever
thought He was a sheep,
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but people took this text
and they took it literally.
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And it gave tremendous authority
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to the priest Pontifex Maximus.
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And then there came
relics into the church.
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The church was
flooded with relics.
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The bone of this saint,
the toenail of that saint,
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the head of this saint,
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I do not say
this to get a laugh,
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but on one occasion
one man was going through
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one of the
buildings in old Europe,
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owned by the church,
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and they had there in
a display case two heads.
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The heads of St. Peter.
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The heads, why
are you looking at me
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like that for the
heads and the tourists said,
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"How come you got
two heads for St. Peter?"
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The guide said,
"Well, the small head
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was when he was a boy,
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and the big head
was when he grew up."
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And so the church
became filled with relics.
00:19:05.17\00:19:08.74
And if you
venerated those relics,
00:19:08.78\00:19:12.01
you will be saved or relieved
from the fires of purgatory.
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And there is no
such place, of course.
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Infant baptism
came into the church
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because the
priest had the capacity
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to confer divine
grace upon the baby.
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The worship of
the Mother of God.
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Can you think of
it? The mother of God.
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How can God have a mother
when God has got no beginning?
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But Mary was
called the Mother of God.
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Do people not realize
that Jesus had two natures?
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He was fully God,
but He was fully man.
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And Mary was the
mother of that part of Him
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that was fully man,
00:20:00.93\00:20:02.96
but Mary is not
the Mother of God
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because God is eternal
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and doesn't have a mother,
00:20:08.54\00:20:12.34
then into the church
in this great falling away
00:20:12.37\00:20:14.64
from the truth,
00:20:14.68\00:20:16.01
came the doctrine
of eternal torment
00:20:16.04\00:20:18.15
and purgatory because the church
00:20:18.18\00:20:20.92
did not understand
the gospel of salvation
00:20:20.95\00:20:24.32
through Christ alone.
00:20:24.35\00:20:26.65
They recognize the truth
that nobody is good enough
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to go to heaven.
00:20:29.69\00:20:31.03
At the point of His death,
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nobody is good
enough to go to heaven.
00:20:32.49\00:20:34.76
And therefore, because people
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are not good
enough to go to heaven,
00:20:36.16\00:20:37.63
they must be placed
in a fire of torment,
00:20:37.67\00:20:42.40
to remove all of the sin.
00:20:42.44\00:20:44.07
And after they had burned
for a billion or two years,
00:20:44.11\00:20:47.18
then the soul is good enough
00:20:47.21\00:20:49.21
to stand in the presence of God.
00:20:49.24\00:20:54.38
And, of course, it
was good for fundraising.
00:20:54.42\00:20:59.25
Who would stop going to church?
00:20:59.29\00:21:01.32
Who would start
confessing his sins
00:21:01.36\00:21:03.26
if he thought he was
going to go to purgatory,
00:21:03.29\00:21:05.86
which was
temporary, or in reality,
00:21:05.89\00:21:09.96
he would go to hell
and he burn for trillions
00:21:10.00\00:21:13.00
and trillions and
trillions of years.
00:21:13.03\00:21:16.67
No wonder people hated God
00:21:16.71\00:21:19.64
and became
atheists and communists.
00:21:19.67\00:21:24.75
Salvation by good works of grace
00:21:24.78\00:21:28.28
with the Holy Spirit in you,
you could become good enough.
00:21:28.32\00:21:32.45
Sunday keeping,
Sabbath was shoved aside,
00:21:32.49\00:21:36.59
and in the days of Constantine
they put in the day of the sun.
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What I am
battling against today,
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and what truth is
battling against today
00:21:43.37\00:21:46.23
is an almost
overwhelming sea of ignorance.
00:21:46.27\00:21:49.40
My friend, do not
be afraid of the truth,
00:21:52.71\00:21:56.68
be afraid of prejudice.
00:21:56.71\00:21:59.05
Then there was the confessional.
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Does the church
need a priest today,
00:22:02.48\00:22:04.22
I asked that question.
00:22:04.25\00:22:05.59
Does the church
need a priest today?
00:22:05.62\00:22:07.56
My answer is absolutely.
00:22:07.59\00:22:09.46
The church needs a priest,
and the church has a priest.
00:22:09.49\00:22:12.63
Jesus Christ, our High Priest,
00:22:12.66\00:22:15.06
but the people were
taught to go to a man,
00:22:15.10\00:22:18.37
certainly not to a woman,
00:22:18.40\00:22:20.74
but to go to a man
00:22:20.77\00:22:22.47
and open up the
secrets of the heart.
00:22:22.50\00:22:25.91
No wonder the village priest
00:22:25.94\00:22:28.44
had tremendous power
over his congregation
00:22:28.48\00:22:31.88
because he knew
00:22:31.91\00:22:33.25
every thought
they were thinking.
00:22:33.28\00:22:35.62
It was about power, control,
00:22:35.65\00:22:39.22
and money falling
away from the truth.
00:22:39.25\00:22:42.62
And then, of course, the idea
that Peter was the first pope.
00:22:45.69\00:22:49.30
Now that's not
taught in the Bible.
00:22:49.33\00:22:50.87
That is simply a fantasy.
00:22:50.90\00:22:52.40
My friends will come and
say, no our church teaches it,
00:22:52.43\00:22:56.07
therefore, we believe it,
my friend, please, please.
00:22:56.10\00:23:01.14
People have said to me,
00:23:01.18\00:23:02.51
"We have been
warned against people
00:23:02.54\00:23:04.45
like you who would come
and take away our faith."
00:23:04.48\00:23:07.85
I'm not here to
take away your faith.
00:23:07.88\00:23:09.72
I'm here to give
you faith in God.
00:23:09.75\00:23:12.92
Faith in the Bible,
faith in Jesus, you see.
00:23:12.95\00:23:18.59
Let me read you a
statement from the scholar,
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JC Woodhouse in his
book, The Apocalypse, page 146.
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"As the stream of
Christianity flowed farther
00:23:27.74\00:23:31.77
from its fountain,
00:23:31.81\00:23:34.28
it became more and more corrupt,
00:23:34.31\00:23:39.11
and as the centuries advanced,
00:23:39.15\00:23:41.35
superstition advanced with them,
00:23:41.38\00:23:44.09
and tales of
purgatory, and pious frauds,
00:23:44.12\00:23:50.03
and the worship
of saints, relics,
00:23:50.06\00:23:55.56
and images, took
the place of pure
00:23:55.60\00:23:58.57
and simple
Christianity, till at length,
00:23:58.60\00:24:03.64
the Book of God
00:24:03.67\00:24:05.91
being laid aside
for legendary tales,
00:24:05.94\00:24:09.34
and the 'traditions of men,'
00:24:09.38\00:24:13.95
all these
corruptions were collected
00:24:13.98\00:24:16.89
into our regular system
00:24:16.92\00:24:19.35
of superstition and oppression."
00:24:19.39\00:24:25.33
Now, this started
00:24:25.36\00:24:28.50
in the days of Constantine.
00:24:28.53\00:24:32.13
The Christians had
been terribly persecuted,
00:24:32.17\00:24:35.70
and then it
appeared to the Christians
00:24:35.74\00:24:38.24
that God had raised
up almost a new Messiah.
00:24:38.27\00:24:42.88
No, he was not a good
man, but that didn't matter.
00:24:42.91\00:24:47.12
How he acted,
that didn't matter.
00:24:47.15\00:24:49.88
What mattered?
00:24:49.92\00:24:51.25
He was on the
side of the Christians
00:24:51.29\00:24:55.92
and the Christians
turning their backs
00:24:55.96\00:24:58.83
on the Word of God.
00:24:58.86\00:25:01.23
We're swept up in
the flood of deception,
00:25:01.26\00:25:06.77
swept down the river.
00:25:06.80\00:25:08.94
And they said,
"Praise God, hallelujah."
00:25:12.11\00:25:17.71
We have a theocracy.
00:25:17.75\00:25:20.62
At last, we have a theocracy,
00:25:20.65\00:25:23.72
and this theocracy is
the very Kingdom of God,
00:25:23.75\00:25:29.52
but the Bible prophet
called it something else.
00:25:29.56\00:25:33.60
The Bible prophet
called it the heart,
00:25:33.63\00:25:37.50
and the essence, and
the soul of Antichrist.
00:25:37.53\00:25:42.90
And the truth is,
00:25:47.24\00:25:49.54
Constantine will ride again
00:25:49.58\00:25:54.02
in your day and in my day.
00:25:54.05\00:25:58.02
Soon we're going to talk about
00:25:58.05\00:25:59.99
the woman riding on the beast
00:26:00.02\00:26:02.42
that's in the
next part of this talk.
00:26:02.46\00:26:05.03
Stay with us.
00:26:05.06\00:26:06.59
We'll be back.
00:26:06.63\00:26:08.20
The second part of that program,
00:26:08.23\00:26:10.83
Constantine and
the Mark of the Beast.
00:26:10.87\00:26:14.60
Hello, friend. I'm John Carter.
00:26:29.15\00:26:31.55
Behind me is the
great city of Manila,
00:26:31.59\00:26:35.76
the capital of the Philippines.
00:26:35.79\00:26:38.06
Did you know,
this is quite amazing.
00:26:38.09\00:26:39.86
There are more
people living in this area
00:26:39.89\00:26:42.13
than in New York City.
00:26:42.16\00:26:44.17
And Christ died
for these people.
00:26:44.20\00:26:46.94
We came here, oh,
long time ago back in 1984.
00:26:46.97\00:26:52.87
What's that, 34, 35 years ago,
00:26:52.91\00:26:55.84
and we came here with
a team of young people
00:26:55.88\00:26:58.21
and we came to the PICC.
00:26:58.25\00:27:01.35
It is our intent to come here,
00:27:01.38\00:27:03.75
hire the biggest
hall that's available,
00:27:03.79\00:27:05.85
the greatest outdoor
stadium, whatever it takes.
00:27:05.89\00:27:10.13
You've got more than
20 million souls out here.
00:27:10.16\00:27:15.13
And I say it again.
00:27:15.16\00:27:16.50
These are people
for whom Christ died.
00:27:16.53\00:27:19.30
I'm asking you to pray
00:27:19.33\00:27:20.67
for the people
of the Philippines.
00:27:20.70\00:27:22.87
Please pray for the
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00:27:22.90\00:27:26.71
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