Participants: Pr. John Carter
Series Code: CR
Program Code: CR100013
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00:01 Some of the largest crowds in the history of Christianity
00:03 attended the Carter Report 00:05 in the Sir John Guise Stadium, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. 00:09 Who were these people? 00:11 Well, they were earnest seekers for truth 00:14 with hearts strangely warmed by the love of God. 00:18 They came hungry for God. 00:20 And they listened to His Word with a holy awe, 00:23 mingled with a divine excitement. 00:25 When the invitation to accept Christ 00:27 as Lord and Savior was given, thousands surged forward. 00:32 The fervency and devotion of these seekers 00:34 displayed the miracle working power 00:37 of the Holy Spirit in their lives. 00:39 You are now invited to join this mighty congregation 00:43 as Pastor John Carter forthrightly proclaims 00:45 the message hot from the heart of God. 00:48 Welcome to the Carter Report 00:50 in the Sir John Guise National Stadium, 00:53 Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. 01:02 It never fails to amaze us the tremendous crowds 01:05 have come night after night. 01:07 I was talking to one of the local leaders 01:11 and he told us that he felt 01:13 we had far in excess of 100,000 people here last night. 01:17 And the crowds have been like this 01:20 night after night after night. 01:22 The topic tonight is a big topic, 01:25 my friends, "Dark Deeds of Antichrist Revealed." 01:28 We are going to show you from Bible prophecy 01:31 and from the statements and confessions of the church. 01:34 Now the great church, actually changed the law of God. 01:38 And this is affected around the world, 01:40 millions and millions of people, including so many people 01:44 here in the great land of Papua New Guinea. 01:46 But tonight God is going to open our eyes, 01:49 and God is going to bless us and He's going to lead us 01:52 a little deeper into the great truth of God. 01:55 Now let me just get you folks there--what should I say? 01:59 Let's have a little talking now again, shall we? 02:04 God is good. 02:05 All the time. 02:06 All the time. 02:08 God is good. 02:09 God is good. 02:11 Maranatha. Maranatha. 02:12 Jesus is coming. 02:14 Jesus is coming. 02:15 Maranatha. Jesus is coming. 02:17 Maranatha. Maranatha. 02:20 Jesus is coming. 02:22 Maranatha. Jesus is coming. 02:24 Jesus is coming. 02:26 Maranatha. Halleluiah. 02:28 Praise the Lord. 02:29 Praise the Lord. 02:32 You folks are really with it tonight. 02:34 I tried to trick you, did you notice that? 02:36 I tried to trick you. 02:39 But you folks are just so much on the board tonight 02:42 that you're just really a wonderful audience. 02:46 Pastor Hawker told you 02:47 a little bit about our crew here. 02:51 We're based in the city of Arcadia which is a part 02:54 of Los Angeles County in the United States of America. 02:58 There we have a worship center 03:00 and we have a television production center 03:02 and a radio production center. 03:04 These television cameras, we have our 03:07 five television cameras that we're using 03:09 in this series of meetings. 03:11 These come from our center in Arcadia. 03:14 They came a long, long way for this series. 03:18 And we're planning to make a complete television series. 03:22 And with this series we hope and expect 03:26 we'll be showing right across the PNG on television. 03:31 It's not being done live, of course, 03:33 because we're going to put the series together 03:35 and make it a super, super 03:38 wonderful series for the glory of God. 03:41 What we're going to do right now 03:42 is just sit back and relax and enjoy. 03:48 Willie G, one of America's great singers. 03:52 When he was 19, he was one of the most famous singers 03:57 in the United States of America, "Willie G. with Thee Midniters." 04:03 And since those days, he's been working 04:05 for the gang members, leading people to Christ. 04:08 And singing the gospel, right around the Los Angeles, 04:13 and across the United States of America, 04:16 and right around the world. 04:17 And so please, would you make him feel right at home? 04:20 Would you please welcome, Pastor Willie Garcia? 04:43 I know the plans 04:47 I have for you, 04:51 declares the Lord 05:00 I know the plans 05:04 I have for you, 05:08 declares the Lord 05:18 Plans to prosper you 05:27 Plans never to harm you 05:35 Plans to give you a hope, and a future 05:43 These are the plans 05:47 These are the plans 05:51 These are the plans 05:54 That I have for you 06:04 Thank you Jesus 06:09 Hallelujah. I know the plans 06:15 I know the plans 06:17 I have for you 06:21 Declares the Lord 06:24 Oh, I know the plans 06:30 I know the plans, I have for you 06:32 That's God word 06:38 Declares the Lord 06:48 Plans to prosper you 06:54 That's God's word 06:56 That's God's word Plans never to harm you 07:01 And His promises He never failed 07:03 He'll never let us down 07:05 Plans to give you 07:09 A hope and a future 07:12 These are the plans 07:15 These are the plans These are the plans 07:19 These are the plans These are the plans 07:22 These are the plans That I have for you 07:49 Come on, somebody. 07:52 Can you just reach up and touch 07:53 the presence of Almighty God 07:55 that's in this place tonight? Somebody? 08:09 Plans to prosper you 08:11 That's God word That's God word 08:14 Plans never to harm you 08:18 And His promises He never failed 08:20 He'll never let you down 08:22 Plans to give you Yeah 08:26 Your hope and your future 08:29 Because these are the plans 08:31 These are the plans These are the plans 08:36 These are the plans These are the plans 08:40 That's God's word 08:42 These are the plans 08:43 Every promises He made to man 08:46 These are the plans 08:47 These are the plans 08:54 That I have for you 08:58 That I have for you 09:02 Thank you, Lord 09:07 Thank you that You're restorer of the people 09:11 These are the plans 09:24 Our topic tonight is "Dark Deeds of Antichrist Revealed." 09:32 We're going to take this slow and easy tonight my friends. 09:37 This is a tremendous, even a formidable truth. 09:41 I'm going to tell you tonight from the word of God. 09:45 How the great state church of the Middle Ages 09:49 tampered with the times in the law of God. 09:55 This will truly amaze you. 10:00 People have said to me as they come to the meetings, 10:02 we are amazed that all of these great truths 10:06 that you're presenting are fair and squarely based 10:10 upon the Word of God. 10:13 In these meetings we believe with all our hearts 10:17 that a person must build his faith 10:20 not upon the teachings of the church, 10:23 but upon the commandments of God in the faith of Jesus 10:27 to the law and to the testimony. 10:30 If they speak not according to this word, 10:32 it is because there is no light in them. 10:35 So tonight, "Dark Deeds of Antichrist Revealed," 10:40 as I look out tonight, we see a tremendous audience. 10:44 Some of the local pastors told me last night, 10:47 some of the local leaders told me that we had well over 100,000 10:53 people here tonight in this vast stadium 10:56 and standing outside the stadium. 10:58 And tonight on this Sunday night, 11:01 we have once again a capacity crowd 11:04 inside this great stadium. 11:07 Now before we go any further, we're gonna stand to our feet 11:10 and we're going to pray and we're going 11:12 ask the Lord to bless us. 11:16 We're sure, we need the presence of God in this place tonight. 11:24 What a great crowd it is? 11:28 What we're gonna do now is bow our heads 11:32 and we're going to close our eyes and at the same time 11:38 we're going open up our hearts. 11:40 I want you to do some thing tonight 11:42 as I explain this tremendous subject. 11:45 I want you to pray that the Spirit of God 11:48 will come into the meeting. 11:51 I want you to pray that the Spirit of God will bind 11:55 the strong man whose name is Satan. 11:58 And that Jesus will be glorified in this meeting tonight. 12:03 And we will see the Spirit of God 12:05 move across this vast audience. 12:08 Are you with me, my friends? 12:11 Let us bow our heads and let us pray. 12:15 Our Father in heaven, we thank You 12:17 for this magnificent evening. 12:20 We thank You for this gentle breeze. 12:23 We thank You for the coolness of the night. 12:26 We thank You for Jesus Christ, our blessed Lord, 12:31 who came into this world to save sinners 12:34 of whom we are chief. 12:36 We thank You tonight that God 12:38 so loved the world that He gave His only Son, 12:42 so that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, 12:46 but have everlasting life. 12:49 We pray tonight that the mighty Spirit 12:51 of the living God will come into this meeting 12:54 that He will move across this vast audience 12:58 and that the name of Jesus will be magnified and glorified 13:04 as the truth is preached. 13:06 Bless every person here tonight with the forgiveness of sins 13:10 and the indwelling peace that can only come 13:13 from our relationship with Jesus. 13:16 And so tonight we worship You, 13:18 we bless You, and we praise You 13:21 and we thank You in Jesus' name, amen. 13:27 Please be seated. 13:31 The topic is "Dark Deeds of Antichrist Revealed," 13:35 when the great antichrist church changes the law of God. 13:40 But firstly I want to answer the question, 13:44 how can I be saved and how can I go to heaven? 13:50 And the text is Ephesians 2:8-10. 13:55 And I want you to notice this text 13:57 on the giant screens here tonight. 14:01 The Bible says, this is the great Apostle Paul talking. 14:04 He says, "For it is by grace you have been saved, 14:10 through faith, and this not from yourselves, 14:14 it is the gift of God." 14:18 You see we are saved, how? 14:20 The Bible says, it is by number one grace, 14:24 you have been saved through faith, 14:26 that's number two, through faith. 14:29 And this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God." 14:34 We can never pay for our salvation, 14:37 we can never earn our salvation, 14:39 "It is the gift of God not by works, 14:43 so that no one can boast. 14:46 For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus 14:51 to do good works, which God prepared 14:54 in advance for us to do." 14:57 Listen to me, I want you to hear this, 15:01 I want you to hear it good. 15:02 Are you all listening to me? 15:05 Come on, I want you to talk to me. 15:06 Are you listening to me? Yes. 15:09 The Bible says, "We are saved by grace." 15:13 We are not saved by our works. 15:16 We are not saved by being good enough. 15:20 The Bible says, "We are saved by grace 15:23 and grace is the gift of God." 15:26 Salvation is a free gift and if you and I will turn 15:31 to Jesus tonight with all our hearts, 15:34 we are going to be saved by grace. 15:38 And how do we accept this gift of salvation? 15:40 The Bible says, "We accept it through faith." 15:45 We come to Christ, just as we are. 15:47 And faith says, I believe, I will trust in Christ. 15:52 So we are saved by grace, that's the merit and the means 15:57 of salvation is by faith. 16:00 We accept it by faith. 16:02 Can you hear what I am saying tonight? 16:05 And the Bible says, it's not by works, 16:08 because our works are not good enough. 16:11 But the Bible says, "We are created 16:14 in Christ Jesus to do good works. 16:18 Good works do not save us, but good works 16:22 are the fruitage of salvation." 16:26 I want this to sink down 16:28 into the molecules of our minds tonight. 16:33 Good works, obedience to the law of God 16:37 that is the fruitage of a right relationship with God. 16:42 I want to tell you a little story. 16:45 It's a story about a beautiful Armenian family, 16:50 and about a beautiful Armenian girl. 16:54 Notice this over here, grace, faith, works. 16:58 Now let me tell you about the beautiful Armenian girl. 17:02 This is a story when I first heard it, 17:06 it just moved upon my heart. 17:10 This happened about 100 years ago. 17:14 There was an awful war in that part of the world. 17:18 The father and the mother and the children 17:21 were shot to death. 17:24 It was a terrible thing. 17:27 The girls were given away to the soldiers 17:30 and the soldiers raped them. 17:33 The oldest girl was kept by the captain for himself. 17:41 And by the mercy and by the grace of God 17:47 after some months this girl was enabled to escape 17:51 from this captain who'd murdered her father 17:55 and her--all of her brothers and had given 17:59 the girls away to the soldiers. 18:04 And through the help of the British, 18:06 she found refuge in a British hospital. 18:10 And they trained her to be a nurse. 18:13 And one night this beautiful Armenian nurse 18:17 was walking down the ward and she was holding up 18:20 the candle and all of sudden the candle light shine upon 18:24 a face that she recognized too well. 18:28 He was the captain who'd murdered her father, 18:34 her mother, and her brothers, 18:37 and who had violated the sacred temple of her body. 18:43 And he was dangerously sick and she thought to herself, 18:46 I can kill him tonight. 18:51 What would you have done my friend? 18:54 She thought I can kill him tonight, 18:57 but she was a Christian. 19:00 And so she nursed him back to health. 19:04 And the doctors marveled at her devotion. 19:08 And when this man recovered, 19:09 when he became conscious because he'd been in a coma. 19:15 The British doctor brought this Armenian girl 19:18 to this captain and said, but for this girl's devotion, 19:23 captain, you would be dead and he went white. 19:28 And when the doctor left he insisted her, 19:30 why didn't you kill me? 19:34 And she said because I belong to Christ. 19:39 Hatred is not healed by hatred. 19:45 Anger is not healed by anger. 19:48 She said, "I belong to the Christ who said, 19:53 'Love your enemies 19:56 and forgive them.'" 20:01 Now my friend, I want you to notice something, 20:04 a lot of people do a lot of talking about being Christians. 20:12 But that girl had Christ in her heart 20:15 and she was a true Christian 20:19 because she loved her enemies. 20:24 And this made such a tremendous impact upon that captain, 20:31 who was not a Christian that he said to the nurse 20:35 if this is your religion, I want to learn more about 20:40 this Christ that you talked about. 20:46 What did she do? 20:49 She showed him grace. 20:52 She showed him mercy. 20:56 The Bible tells me we ought to show grace to people 21:00 who did terrible things to us. 21:03 This is what it means to be a Christian in PNG, 21:07 and in Sydney, and in Los Angeles. 21:13 And we must learn to show grace to our enemies, 21:18 because we are saved by grace, 21:23 by the mercy and by the love of God, 21:26 not because we deserve it but because Christ loves us. 21:34 So the Bible says, "For by grace you have been 21:38 saved through faith and that not from yourselves, 21:43 it is the gift of God not by works, 21:47 but we are created in Christ Jesus 21:50 to do good works." 21:52 Good works are the fruitage 21:54 of a right relationship with God. 21:56 And I want you to hear this tonight 21:58 and I don't want you to forget it. 22:01 I want you to know tonight that the law of God 22:05 is sacred and eternal. 22:08 Now I'm going to take my Bible, 22:10 I've used this Bible for many years 22:12 and it's just about worn out, 22:16 but I just don't want to get a new one. 22:18 And my friends are gonna put the text on the screen 22:23 and I'm going to stand here and I'm going to read it out 22:26 on my Bible because that does me good. 22:29 Romans 3:31 says, "Do we, then, 22:35 nullify the law by this faith? 22:38 Not at all! Rather, we uphold the law." 22:45 The Bible tells me that faith in God 22:50 does not do away with the law of God. 22:57 I am saved by grace not to break the commandments, 23:00 but I am saved by grace to obey the commandments. 23:05 So I'm going to come over here to the blackboard 23:08 and I'm going to write up this point because it is so important 23:13 and I want you to get a camera close, 23:15 so the people can see it a mile away, okay. 23:19 The Bible says, that the law of God 23:26 as summarized in the Ten Commandments, 23:30 the law of God is eternal. 23:36 That means that nobody can do away with the law of God, 23:42 because the law of God is eternal. 23:47 We're going to see tonight that the great church 23:51 of the Dark Ages in an act 23:54 of presumption and blasphemy 23:59 has attempted to change the law of God 24:03 and has fooled the whole wide world. 24:08 Now what we're going to do now is this, 24:11 I'm just going to go slow tonight. 24:14 I'm in the teaching mode tonight. 24:17 I'm just going to go slow and easy 24:21 and I want you folks to think it through 24:24 and I want you to see the truths of the Bible. 24:27 I don't want you to follow me, 24:30 but I want you to follow Jesus Christ, our Lord. 24:34 Now we're going to have a revision 24:36 of the meeting last night on the antichrist. 24:40 Remember last night, now I'm not trying to prove 24:43 this to you right now, because I did that last night 24:47 when we had more than 100,000 people. 24:51 In Daniel 7, you have the little horn power 24:55 and he is the antichrist. 24:57 And in Daniel 7, we started last night 25:00 with the lion and the lion is symbolic 25:04 of the kingdom of Nebuchadnezzar. 25:08 That is Babylon that ruled the world 25:10 between 605 and 538 BC, this is history. 25:16 And after the lion came, the rapacious bear 25:20 and that was Medo-Persia. 25:22 And that came on the world scene under Cyrus 25:25 the great and it ruled the world, 25:27 it was a mighty power. 25:29 This is history in advance. 25:31 And after the bear came the leopard and this leopard 25:35 had four heads and four wings 25:38 and this was the power of Greece. 25:41 And the four wings represented the break up 25:44 of the Grecian Empire into those kingdoms. 25:48 You know, when Alexander was dying, 25:49 his general said, "Who shall have the kingdom?" 25:52 And he said, "It is going to go 25:54 to the strongest and the four wings represent 25:57 the four roaring generals, Cassander, Lysimachus, 26:00 Seleucus and Ptolemy and don't you forget it. 26:03 Now after Greece came the monster. 26:08 And there he is on the screen. 26:10 And this is the iron monarchy of Rome. 26:14 Are you with me? 26:16 Do you remember this? 26:17 And the Roman beast had ten horns. 26:21 And the ten horns are parallel to the ten toes 26:26 of the great image of Daniel 2. 26:29 And we spent a night talking about 26:31 this about a week ago. 26:32 Now folks this is as plain as the nose on your face. 26:38 Anybody can understand this, if he's got a heart for God. 26:42 Now there you got the ten kingdoms. 26:45 The Bibles said, the ten horns are ten kings that will come out 26:50 of the great power of the Roman Empire. 26:53 There you got it. 26:55 And the Bible tells us that another king came up in Europe 26:58 and he overthrew three of those kings 27:01 and that power is the power of the antichrist. 27:07 Now look at me. 27:09 In the Bible, antichrist does not mean against Christ. 27:14 Did you hear this? 27:16 Antichrist does not mean against Christ, 27:20 it means in the place of Christ. 27:26 The antichrist is a power that presumes 27:30 to have the authority of Jesus Christ and the truth. 27:37 So just remember this, 27:38 because this is really, really important. 27:42 The Bible tells me that-- now we're gonna go through 27:46 these points and we're gonna do it fast because 27:49 we spend an hour last night. 27:51 But this is a revision to stir up your pure minds. 27:55 The first point, he is a sinister counterfeit. 28:01 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4. 28:06 Now look at the screen. 28:10 "Don't let anyone deceive you in any way, 28:14 for that day will not come," 28:16 that is the day of Christ return. 28:19 "Until the rebellion occurs 28:21 and the man of lawlessness is revealed." 28:24 The antichrist is against the law of God. 28:28 Did you hear this? 28:29 The antichrist is against the law of God, 28:32 the Bible say so. 28:34 The man doomed to destruction. 28:36 He may think that he can change the law of God. 28:38 But the Bible says that God is going to destroy him. 28:42 Did you hear what I said? 28:44 "The man doomed to destruction. 28:45 He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything 28:49 that is called God or is worshiped, 28:53 so that he sets himself up in God's temple, 28:57 proclaiming himself to be God." Amazing. 29:03 The antichrist is the great pretender. 29:07 The antichrist is the great counterfeit. 29:11 The antichrist is the great deceiver, 29:14 the great charlatan. 29:17 And the Bible says that the antichrist 29:20 is found in the bosom of the Christian church, 29:26 that's the best place for the antichrist to hide 29:31 in the very bosom of the Christian church. 29:35 We talked about this last night. 29:36 Remember, we are not talking about people today. 29:40 We are not criticizing people today. 29:42 We are talking about the facts of history 29:45 and this has been understood by thousands and thousands 29:49 of Roman Catholic and Protestant scholars. 29:55 So he is a sinister counterfeit. 29:57 Number 2, he is a European power. 30:02 He comes up among the ten horns. 30:04 Number 3, he comes up after 500 AD. 30:09 The Bible says, and after them, 30:12 that was in Daniel 7:8 I believe. 30:15 And then he becomes greater than all the kings of Europe. 30:20 This is what the Bible says, he starts small but he becomes 30:25 a tremendous king. 30:27 And you can read that also in the scriptures in Daniel 7:20. 30:31 The Bible says, in Daniel 7:24, 30:35 that he is different to every other king in the world. 30:41 Look at this text. 30:44 I just got a great team. 30:46 They know what I am going to say next, 30:48 so they put it up. 30:50 "The ten horns are ten kings 30:53 who will come from this kingdom," that's Europe. 30:56 And remember this was written 30:58 a 1,000 years before it happened. 31:02 "After them another kings will arise," 31:06 after them, it's around 500 AD. Different. 31:09 He is different because he is a religious king 31:12 and he is in the church. 31:16 He lurks in the garb of religion. 31:21 "Different from the early ones, he will subdue three kings." 31:25 And they were, you know, who they were? 31:27 The Heruli, the Vandals and the Ostrogoths. 31:33 And we made it very plain last night 31:37 that there was a power that arose 31:40 on the ruins of the Roman Empire. 31:44 And this power got inside the Christian church. 31:51 It goes on to say, 31:53 I think I'm down to point 5, he's greater. 31:57 Point 6, he's different. 32:00 Point 7, he rules for 1,260 days, 32:04 prophetic days of 1,260 years. 32:10 And this time period goes from five--this is approximate 32:14 from 538 right through until 1798 and that time period 32:20 is called by historians "The Dark Ages," 32:26 the noon day of that church 32:28 was the midnight of the world, never forget it. 32:35 When you turn away from God, it's always midnight. 32:39 Point number 8, he is a union of church and state. 32:47 A union of church and state. 32:51 And in Revelation 17, you have a graphic picture 32:59 of a woman riding on the beast. 33:03 And in the Bible prophecy, a good woman is the good church. 33:08 My friend, I want to belong to the good woman. 33:13 You see. I want to be a part of God's church. 33:17 But the Bible tells me, there is a counterfeit church. 33:22 And in Revelation 17, the woman, 33:26 the church rides upon the beast. 33:32 For more than a thousand years in Europe, 33:35 when the truth of God almost went out. 33:41 The church controls the state and put to death millions 33:49 of people who would not bow 33:52 the knee to Baal. 33:57 There's no doubt about it. 33:59 This is the great church of the Dark Ages, 34:05 no doubt about it. 34:08 And point number 9 tells me, 34:11 it is the great city that reigns over the kings of the earth. 34:19 The text is Revelation 17:18, here it is. 34:26 I'm not giving you all the text, 34:28 because we went through this last night. 34:30 It says, the woman or the church, 34:34 you saw, you say, does everybody believe 34:37 that woman is the church in Bible prophecy, 34:39 every Roman Catholic scholar, every Protestant scholar? 34:43 They all know, even Jewish scholars 34:45 know this that in Bible prophecy a woman is a symbolic 34:50 of the church, you see. 34:52 "The woman you saw is the great city 34:58 that rules over the kings of the earth." 35:02 Now listen this is not speculation, 35:05 I'm not making this up. 35:06 This is the word of God. 35:08 This is the word of the Bible prophecy. 35:12 The city that reigned over the kings of the earth 35:18 in the days of Jesus and the apostles 35:22 was one city and one city alone, 35:26 it was the city of Rome. 35:34 The city of Rome. 35:39 And the Bible says that right there in that great city 35:46 would be the heart of the worldwide system 35:53 that would deceive the world 35:56 and change the commandments of God. 36:03 Now, we talked about this last night. 36:08 So tonight, I'm not trying to prove it to you. 36:11 I think I did this last night. 36:13 Point number 10, this church persecutes Daniel 7:25. 36:21 This church will wear out the saints of the most high. 36:27 History tells the bloody tale 36:33 of millions of innocent Roman Catholics, 36:38 Protestants and even Jews, who were put to death 36:45 by that great church that ruled from Rome. 36:52 And I would remind every person here tonight, 36:55 it was the preaching of these great prophecies 37:01 that gave birth to the United States of America, 37:06 the land of freedom. 37:09 And the people who founded the United States of America, 37:13 went to America to get away from that. 37:19 They went to America. 37:20 Did the Pilgrim Fathers-- because they were tired 37:25 of religious bigotry and persecution. 37:29 And they got on this little boat 37:32 and they sailed across the ocean. 37:35 And they went to America to start up a new type of country 37:41 where they would have a church without a pope 37:47 and a state without a king. 37:55 All of this my friend is predicted in the prophecy. 38:00 This is the Saint Bartholomew's massacre. 38:04 I took this in the Vatican. 38:09 I went into this room where they elect 38:11 the popes with an ambassador from 38:15 one of the great Latin American countries. 38:18 And I took this picture 38:21 of these innocent saints of God 38:26 being slaughtered for their faith. 38:31 The Bible says in Revelation 17, 38:35 "I looked and the woman was drunk with a blood of the saints 38:43 and with those who followed Jesus." 38:49 And during the Dark Ages this-- and we are not talking about 38:53 people who are living today. 38:57 But we are talking about a system 39:00 that existed in the Dark Ages, which is still alive today. 39:05 And the Bible says, now look at this picture here. 39:09 On the left hand side, you have the woman. 39:12 The woman in Bible prophecy is the church. 39:16 And they've got it right around the wrong way. 39:20 But there is the church holding across 39:27 and holding the flame of persecution. 39:35 I took these pictures in Rome. 39:40 The Bible says, "One of the identification marks 39:45 of this great power is that she would persecute 39:51 the saints of God and she did. 39:56 Point number 11, the Bible says, 39:59 she would receive a deadly wound. 40:04 And point number 12 says, 40:06 the deadly or a mortal wound would be healed, 40:10 that's Revelation 13:3. 40:14 And let me come over here, and let's bring a camera, 40:16 and I want you to get this up close. 40:19 I want my dear friends here to see this. 40:22 The Bible says that this great power 40:26 would rule for 1,260 years. 40:32 And this great church became a world power 40:39 in the year 538 AD 40:43 and if you add 1,260 years onto that, 40:47 it brings you through unto 1798. 40:54 History tells me that in 1798, General Berthier, 41:01 one of the generals of Napoleon Bonaparte 41:05 march down into Rome 41:07 and took the pontiff prisoner in the year 1798. 41:14 And that great system received 41:18 a deadly or a mortal wound. 41:23 But the Bible says that the mortal wound will be healed 41:28 and that power will come back 41:31 with all the force of the Dark Ages. 41:35 Now remember my friends, 41:37 it was the teaching of this great prophecy 41:40 that changed the course of history 41:44 and gave birth to the great democracies. 41:50 And the reason I am preaching 41:52 and I am teaching this great prophecy tonight 41:57 is because I want your eyes to be opened 42:01 and so that when you leave this meeting, 42:04 you will say, "Thank you Jesus. 42:07 I now know the truth 42:09 and the truth have set me free." 42:14 Now point number 13, 42:19 this church changes God's Law. 42:24 As Daniel 7:25 and we'll major on that tonight. 42:29 And point number 14 is 42:31 this great monolithic system of church and state. 42:39 This great ecclesiastical power 42:42 endures to the second coming of Christ 42:48 and that's Daniel 7:25-27. 42:55 And I say it with confidence and love 43:00 recognizing that God has His people in every church. 43:05 And that God has a big family and God loves everybody. 43:12 I say there is only one power that fulfills 43:16 all the specifications of the prophecy. 43:19 The church of the Dark Ages that lives on 43:25 and still has a worldwide 43:30 and a growing influence. 43:34 Now I take my old Bible. 43:41 Now listen to me. 43:43 Tonight, I take my stand upon the Bible. 43:50 I believe in Christ and I believe in the Bible. 43:57 I believe that the Bible 44:00 and the Bible alone is the authority 44:05 for every Christian man and woman. 44:09 My authority tonight is not the tradition of the church, 44:15 but it is the Holy Bible. 44:19 I want you to know that. 44:23 And I'm glad you're with me tonight. 44:28 I'm gonna turn now to Daniel 7:25, 44:32 here we go. 44:34 Daniel 7:25, 44:42 "He will speak against 44:44 the Most High and oppress his saints." 44:47 That's the persecutions. 44:51 "And try to change the set times and the laws. 44:57 The saints will be handed over to him for a time, 45:02 times and half a time, or 1,260 years." 45:07 The Bible says, God says, your judge, 45:15 my judge says the great Creator of the universe. 45:23 The God who made us and the God 45:26 who gave His Son to die for us. 45:28 He tells us that this power will try to change 45:36 the set times and the laws. 45:39 And let me come over here to the blackboard. 45:43 I've got 40 feet of blackboard here 45:45 but it's not enough. 45:47 But I'm going to write this up. 45:49 The Bible says that the great church 45:54 of the Dark Ages will try. 46:00 He will try to change the set times 46:07 and the law of God. 46:13 Now when it says the set times, 46:16 it means the times that are found in the law of God. 46:22 The law of Almighty God. 46:31 This power would become so presumptuous, 46:36 so arrogant that this great church 46:40 would think that she had the ability 46:44 and the authority to change the law of God. 46:50 Now I'm going to turn 46:51 in the Holy Bible to Exodus 31:18. 46:59 Exodus, I'm gonna take this slow now 47:03 because I'm gonna give you some amazing material. 47:06 So I'm just going to talk softly and I want you to concentrate. 47:13 "When the Lord finished speaking to Moses on Mount Sinai, 47:17 he gave him the two tablets of the Testimony, 47:22 the tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God." 47:28 Can you imagine it? 47:31 Almighty God came down from heaven. 47:36 He came down in fire 47:39 and thunder, lightning. 47:44 And He spoke the Ten Commandments 47:48 with His own mouth. 47:49 Can you imagine that? 47:52 God spoke the Ten Commandments with His own mouth 47:56 and He spoke and wrote them. 48:01 He spoke the Ten Commandments with His mouth 48:04 and He wrote the Ten Commandments 48:07 with His own finger. 48:10 Amazing. 48:14 They must be tremendously important. 48:17 Just get the picture my friends in PNG. 48:22 Almighty God, the Creator of the universe, 48:26 He comes down to this earth and He starts to speak. 48:32 And as He speaks the words of the Ten Commandments 48:39 come out of His holy mouth. 48:42 And then He takes these tablets of stone 48:46 and He starts to write on the tablets of stone, 48:51 the Ten Commandments. 48:57 The Bible says that the antichrist 49:01 would actually try to change the commandments of God. 49:09 Now the Bible makes it plain, that the commandments of God 49:15 are certain and eternal. 49:21 Romans 7:7, and this is a text in the New Testament. 49:27 So we take the New Testament, 49:28 we take the old, we take it all together. 49:31 We don't cut pages out of the Bible, we believe it all. 49:36 Romans 7, "What shall we say, then? 49:40 Is the law sin? Certainly not. 49:43 Indeed I would not have known 49:46 what sin was except through the law. 49:51 For I would not have known what coveting really was 49:55 if the law had not said, 'Do not covet.'" 49:59 That is the tenth commandment. 50:03 The Apostle Paul-- now you're going to meet people 50:06 and they're going to tell you that the Ten Commandments 50:09 are abolished that my friend is the devil's lie. 50:15 The Bible says, Paul says, 50:17 you and I would not know 50:19 what sin was except for the Ten Commandments of God. 50:25 God gave us the Ten Commandments, 50:27 so that we can see what sin is 50:30 and so we can flee to the Savior 50:33 and have our sins washed away in the precious blood of Jesus, 50:38 so we can be saved by grace. 50:42 So I want to say tonight with all the great churches 50:47 and all the great theologians, 50:50 I want to say with all the great prophets, 50:52 I believe in the commandments of God. 50:59 Listen. Listen. 51:03 I was brought up in the Church of England, 51:06 in Australia that's the church 51:13 of my old motherland, Great Britain. 51:19 I remember the priest standing up the front 51:22 and he would open up the prayer book, 51:25 the Church of England prayer book 51:27 and he would read the Ten Commandments. 51:31 You shall not make yourself a graven image. 51:35 You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain. 51:38 Remember the Sabbath day, 51:40 by keeping it holy and so forth. 51:43 And each time he read one of the Ten Commandments, 51:47 the congregation would cry out from the prayer book. 51:50 "Lord, have mercy upon us 51:54 and incline our hearts to keep this law. 51:59 Every great church in Christendom 52:03 has taught that the Ten Commandments 52:06 are eternally binding, my friend. 52:11 It is a heresy. 52:13 It is a lie to suggest that the Ten Commandments 52:18 of Almighty God have been done away with. 52:23 The Bible tells me God wrote them 52:27 with His own finger on tables of stone 52:32 and He spoke them with His own mouth. 52:35 This is the word of the Lord. 52:38 Now, I have an important question to ask 52:43 this vast audience here tonight. 52:48 And I want you to answer me. 52:50 Has any church the authority 52:55 to change the law of God? 53:00 Going to say it again. 53:02 Listen, has any church 53:08 the authority to change the law of God? 53:13 Tell me plain. Tell me plainer. 53:18 No. Tell me even more... 53:21 more, more. 53:23 No. 53:29 But this great church of the Dark Ages 53:34 did not think like you. 53:37 The Bible says, he would think himself 53:40 able to change the times and the law. 53:45 Now there's a text in Deuteronomy, 53:48 I'm gonna pop it up here on the screen, God says. 53:51 Deuteronomy 4:2, these are the words of the Lord, 53:57 "Do not add to what I command you." 54:00 God says, "Don't add to what I command you, 54:04 do not subtract from it, but keep the commandments, 54:07 keep the commands of the Lord your God that I give you." 54:16 Almighty God, our Lord, our Creator, 54:23 our Redeemer tells us to keep the commandments of God, 54:28 keep the Ten Commandments, don't add to my commandments, 54:33 do not subtract from my commandments. 54:35 These are the commandments that I spoke with my own mouth 54:40 and then I wrote with my own finger. 54:42 But the Bible says that this great church 54:46 would think himself able to change the times 54:53 and the laws of Almighty God, that's the prophecy. 55:01 Now, what we're going to do is easy. 55:08 But you'll need to concentrate 55:10 and remember I show this to you 55:12 because I want you to follow Christ and the truth. 55:16 I don't want you to follow me. 55:19 But you'll need to concentrate. 55:22 We are going to compare God's law, 55:26 the Ten Commandments with man's law, 55:30 man's commandments is found in the Bible 55:35 and is found in the Roman catechism. 55:41 The Ten Commandments 55:44 are found in the Bible in Exodus 20. 55:50 That this great church has catechism. 55:54 And those wonderful people who read from the catechism, 55:58 those earnest beautiful Christians 56:02 often do not know what the Bible says 56:05 because they get it from the catechism. 56:17 The Spirit of God today is moving. 56:20 He is moving wherever human hearts sense their need. 56:23 He's moving whenever 56:25 and wherever souls reach out to Him. 56:27 He is moving because these are not ordinary times. 56:30 He is moving through 56:32 the proclamation of His living word. 56:34 During the Port Moresby meetings, 56:36 the Spirit of God was powerfully present. 56:39 One evening as Pastor John Carter 56:41 spoke about the Holy Spirit and his work to redeem souls, 56:44 a huge white bird flew low over the audience. 56:48 The congregation of more than 100,000 witnessed the sight 56:51 and believed that God had sent them a sign. 56:55 Tens of thousands poured forward 56:57 to accept Christ as Lord and Savior. 57:00 God today is calling you as you view this program 57:03 to come to Him in faith. 57:05 The work of the Holy Spirit 57:06 is not restricted to any one place on earth. 57:09 Wherever you are, He is there. 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