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Hello, once again we welcome
you to Daniel All Access...
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our behind-the-scenes
look at the book of Daniel.
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We've been seeking to ask
not only the question "what"
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but also the question "why"
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and sometimes "who" and "how"
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as we look behind the scenes at
this powerful book of prophecy
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that has so much to say
to us in these last days.
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We've looked at Daniel
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and we've seen how
God has blessed his life
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and we've taken out
lessons for ourselves
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and tonight will be no different
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as we take a look
at Daniel chapter 7.
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We've entitled our message
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"Alpha Predators and the
Protestant Inconsistency"
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Alpha Predators and the
Protestant Inconsistency.
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Join with me now
in a word of prayer
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as we open God's Word.
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"Father God, we do
praise you and thank you
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for the power of your Word
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and how this ancient
Book has so much to say to us
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in the latter stages
of this earth's history.
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There is so much
that you want us to know
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and so much that
you want us to do
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and so much that
you want us to be.
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Help us Lord...
to know and to do
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and to be the kind of
children that you can use.
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Oh Father, teach us this night,
show us your will for our lives
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fortify us for the
trials which are sure to come
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that we may be overcomers,
that we may stand victorious
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on the day we
see you face to face.
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We thank you dear
Father in Jesus' name, amen. "
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Daniel chapter 7 pivots into
full prophetic apocalyptic mode
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and although it
appears that he is covering
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some of the same
material as Daniel chapter 2...
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and indeed he is,
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you will find that
a feature of Daniel
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is this particular
idea of of what we call
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"Repeat and Enlarge"
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"Repeat and Enlarge... "
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whenever Daniel goes over
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previously-spoken-of
prophetic material,
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he repeats it but
he also enlarges it.
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I was telling someone just today
I look at it... I look at it...
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much as Google Earth,
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you know, when
you have Google Earth
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and you see a
picture of a... a continent
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and you push it a little
closer and you see cities
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and you go a little
closer and you see streets
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and you push a little
closer and you see houses,
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and you push a little closer
and you can actually see people
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on the lawn and
near those houses.
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Well, that's what Daniel does.
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Each time he goes
over the material,
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he gives you a
little better view...
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he gives you a
little better view
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and we will see
this in Daniel chapter 11
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in a very, very
marked and dramatic way.
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So, it's called
"Repeat and Enlarge"
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it does cover the same material
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but he gives you a
little more depth...
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he magnifies it a little more,
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he gives you a
little more information,
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he shines the
light a little brighter
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every time he
goes over material.
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So, Daniel 2, is the
worldview through naked eyes.
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Daniel 7 now, is that same
world with reading glasses on.
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and Daniel 11
actually is that same material
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under a microscope
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and we'll see that
coming up in our lectures
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that come in just a little bit.
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So, he repeats and he enlarges.
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Daniel chapter 11 is
going to be a fun chapter
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that we will get to
in just a little bit,
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it's... it's entitled,
"The Train is on the Tracks"
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so we want you to
look out for that.
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So, we will see the same
history that we saw in Daniel 2
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but we see it
with greater clarity...
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we'll see it again
in Daniel chapter 8,
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we'll see it again
in Daniel chapter 9,
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we'll see it again
in Daniel chapter 11.
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Pause.
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So, we... we... we
see the same material
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but this time... we actually get
the help of an angelic tutor,
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so we're going to get
homeschooled by an angel.
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Notice, we are
going back in time,
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we are going back to the
first year of Belshazzar's reign
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so we are going back previous
to Daniel chapters 5 and 6.
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Nebuchadnezzar's
reign of course was 40 years
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and we ended that
in Daniel chapter 4.
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Daniel chapter 2 took place
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at the second year of
Nebuchadnezzar's reign,
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so, now, we are
dealing with events
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that proceed
Daniel chapter 5 and 6
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and we are at the
behest of an angel instructor.
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So we got to go
to school with Daniel
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and we got to
homeschool with Daniel.
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Daniel now has a dream.
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He states he had a dream
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and he wrote down the
main points of that dream.
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So, when we interpret
Scripture, we do so literally
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until we move
into apocalyptic mode
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and then, things
equal other things.
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So, we're moving
into that mode now...
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from the historical...
the interpersonal...
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to full apocalyptic mode.
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Let's go to
Daniel chapter 7 verse 2
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because the Bible
talks about wars and strife
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and school is now in session.
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Wars and strife mean political,
social, societal upheaval
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and I've given you
some reference texts...
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Jeremiah chapter 49...
Revelation and Zechariah.
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So, when the Bible
talks about winds and strife,
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you know you're dealing
with a situation of war...
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of strife... of upheaval...
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political war...
sometimes spiritual conflict
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but a scene of turmoil and chaos
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and so, what is
happening here in early...
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in the early
portions of Daniel chapter 7,
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war... strife...
political chaos...
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and we've given
you the texts for that.
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The winds are
striving upon the great sea
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and of course, The
Great Sea is the Mediterranean
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and we've given you
some background material
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for that also,
Joshua chapter 1 verse 4,
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Numbers chapter
34 verses 6 and 7.
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We don't have time
to read all of those
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but this is your
homework assignment,
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you can look at those yourself.
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They will assure you
that we're talking about
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the Mediterranean Sea.
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So, in short, Daniel is
viewing war and strife...
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conflict among nations
that border the Mediterranean.
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So, we know the "what"
and we know the "where"
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Daniel sees four
great carnivorous beasts...
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I call them Alpha Predators.
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These are
top-of-the-food-chain beasts,
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these are big
cats and a big bear
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and a beast that I
call the iron-teeth beast,
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these are... these
are alpha predators.
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They're on the scene.
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So, not only do we
see political strife,
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we also see military
strife and military power.
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Daniel chapter 7 and verse 4.
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That first beast in this
particular scenario is a lion.
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These empires super-imposed
their cultures over each other
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when one country
captured another country,
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they imposed their
culture on that second country
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and so, Daniel chapter 7 verse 4
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introduces us to the lion
which we know is analogous
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to the golden head of
the image in Daniel chapter 2
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so, we're talking
about the Empire of Babylon.
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But here, again, Daniel
gives us more information
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because Daniel says...
this lion undergoes a change...
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because it's a winged lion,
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it undergoes what we call
an "anthropomorphic change"
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which is a long 25-cent word...
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simply means... he
gets human characteristics.
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What was once a
beast now becomes a man...
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literally and figuratively.
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It's talking
about Nebuchadnezzar
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because Nebuchadnezzar
lived 7 years as a beast
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and then, came back to be a man
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but more than that,
Daniel is giving us some clues
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to the conversion
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and ultimate
redemption of Nebuchadnezzar.
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He started out as
an idol worshipper.
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He started out as one who
worshipped the gods of wood
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and stone and gold and silver
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but before it was all
over, he stood up like a man...
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gave his heart to the
Lord and is a saved person.
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Isn't it nice to know
when you get to heaven
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one of the people who
will be in your neighborhood
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will be King Nebuchadnezzar.
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You can get to talk to him
and ask him what it was like
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to live and eat
grass for seven years
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and then come
back to his kingdom
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and have his kingdom
there waiting for him
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So, the Bible is saying
here that this beast worshipper
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becomes a man... he gets eyes,
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he gets a...
he... he gets saved...
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pause
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and when did that happen?
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When Nebuchadnezzar
surrendered himself to the Lord.
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So, in the first four
verses of Daniel chapter 7,
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we actually get a summary
of the first four chapters
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of the book of Daniel,
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highlighted by the conversion
of its greatest king...
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Nebuchadnezzar.
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Now we come to
Daniel chapter 7 verse 5.
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We go from the lion
to the Medo-Persian Bear.
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Now, what is interesting...
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again, we get a
little more information
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the median half is older
but the Persian half is stronger
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which is why the bear has got
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sort of a scoliosis
kind of condition...
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he's kind of... up on one side
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the Median half...
Media was an older country
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but the Persian
half was stronger.
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So, he's on one side and
he, of course, has three ribs
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in his mouth.
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The three principal nations
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conquered by the
Medo-Persian Empire
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were Lydia, Egypt
and Babylon itself.
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Lydia, Egypt and Babylon...
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those are the three ribs.
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Daniel chapter 7 verse 6
we see... another big cat...
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Daniel chapter 7 verse 6...
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Greece comes...
which is a leopard...
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another big cat...
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an alpha predator...
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a leopard with four
wings and four heads.
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Again... more information...
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the four wings
indicate the speed
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at which Alexander the Great and
the Grecian Empire was formed.
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By the time he was
30 plus years of age,
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he had conquered
the then-known world...
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he had crossed the Indus
River had gone into India,
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he had gone as far west
as Greece and Central Europe
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he'd gone south
into North Africa...
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he had covered pretty
much all he wanted to cover
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and all he could cover
and then in a drunken stupor
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suffered from
Malaria... he died...
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four wings... but
also, four heads...
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Alexander was the
son of Philip of Macedon
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and he conquered the
then-known world at age 30.
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It's an amazing feat
that at 30 years of age,
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you've conquered
just about everything
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that you wanted to conquer.
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You've done just about
everything you've wanted to do.
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Pause.
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So, let's note, that
each empire increases in size.
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the Babylonian
Empire was fairly compact,
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the Medo-Persian
Empire was fairly broad
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and the Grecian
Empire was broader still
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but before his death,
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Alexander summoned his
four principal Generals
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Cassander... who was given
Macedonia, Greece and the west,
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Lysimachus or Lysimachus...
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who was given Thrace/Bithynia...
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also called
Pergamum in the north,
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Seleucus... who
took Syria and the east
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and all of the Seleucid
kings took the name "Antiochus"
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all of them were
called Antiochus the 1st...
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Antiochus the 2nd
and Antiochus the 3rd
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Antiochus the 4th or
Antiochus Epiphanes...
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they all took
the name Antiochus...
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there were eight Seleucid kings
all taking the name "Antiochus"
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then, of course, Ptolemy...
he took Egypt and the south.
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Cleopatra was a Ptolemy
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and, of course, there
were several Cleopatras.
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The Cleopatra that we all
know was Cleopatra number seven
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and when we get
to Daniel chapter 11,
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we're going to
see a lot of interplay
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between these four Generals.
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Daniel chapter 11 really shines
a light on these four Generals
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and gives us much history and
there's some interesting stuff
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that went on
between these four fellows.
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So, this leopard has
four wings and now four heads.
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Then, I suspect,
Daniel saw the beast
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that caused him
the most distress.
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Pause.
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I call this beast
the Iron-Teeth beast
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because it has no analogy in
fiction or in the real world.
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Now, I've seen it
portrayed as a dragon,
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usually some sort of
cobbled-together beast,
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we don't know what he
saw... we know it had iron teeth
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and it had claws
and it ground down
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and stamped into powder
everything that opposed it.
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It is an incredibly strong,
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vicious,
unmerciful devouring beast
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that breaks into pieces
everything that opposes it
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and then stamps on
the residue... residue.
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When the Roman
armies attacked a nation,
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they either enslaved it
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or destroyed it
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and so, this picture of this
beast is very, very accurate.
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Rome's legacy
168 B.C. to 476 A.D.
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just over 600 years
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by far, the longest
of the world kingdoms,
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by far the largest
of the world kingdoms
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and we saw the other
day that the Roman Empire
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went from East to
West... North to South...
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and even crossed
over the English Channel
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into Great Britain.
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Pause.
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Then, Daniel sees the Germanic
tribes that begin to encroach
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and invade on Roman territory
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breaking it into pieces.
00:16:21.98\00:16:24.61
Here they are, the Alamanni...
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the
Ostrogoth's... the Visigoths...
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the Franks... the Vandals...
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the Suevi... the Burgundians...
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the Heruli...
the Anglo Saxons...
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and the Lombard's.
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These Germanic tribes began
to encroach on the territory
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of the Roman Empire
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and for a while... for a time...
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Rome was able to
withstand their forays
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but soon the internal decay of
the Roman Empire began to show
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and these Germanic tribes
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began to take large
sections of territory
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once ruled by Rome.
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Pause.
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Daniel chapter 7 verse 8...
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there comes from
the head of this beast
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a small horn which
displaces three of those horns,
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let's read it, "I was
considering the horns,
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and there was
another horn, a little one,
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coming up from among them,
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before whom...
of the first horn...
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before whom three... rather...
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of the first horns were
plucked out by the roots.
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And there, in this horn,
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were eyes like
the eyes of a man,
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and a mouth
speaking pompous words.
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Pause.
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Now, when you try to identify
who and what this horn is,
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there are some parameters
that you need to be governed by,
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one, when you're trying
to find out who this horn is,
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there is no need to look in
Asia, Africa or North America.
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Amen.
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That's because the text
says, the horn came up...
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out of the head
of the first beast
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and among the ten horns.
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So, if the first
beast is the Roman Empire,
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then, if you're trying to
identify who this horn is,
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there's no need
to look in China.
00:18:35.78\00:18:38.61
Amen.
00:18:38.65\00:18:39.98
There's no need
to look in Africa.
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There's no need to conjecture
about North or South America
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because the horn comes from
the head of the Roman Empire.
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So, whatever that horn is...
it's got to be Roman, amen.
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Because it's coming
up out of the head...
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it's coming up out of
the seat of authority.
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So, if we're trying to
identify who this beast is,
00:19:01.90\00:19:04.87
all you've got to do
is go to your history book
00:19:04.91\00:19:07.84
and find out what came up out
of the seat of the Roman Empire.
00:19:07.91\00:19:13.45
Not that tough.
00:19:13.48\00:19:15.45
Out of the Roman
Empire, came the Roman Church.
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Amen.
00:19:19.99\00:19:21.32
Now, the Bible also says
00:19:21.36\00:19:23.79
that it plucks up
three of those kingdoms...
00:19:23.83\00:19:26.49
well, we know who
those three kingdoms are.
00:19:26.53\00:19:30.07
The Heruli... the
Vandals... and the Ostrogoth's
00:19:30.10\00:19:33.50
were completely
destroyed by the Roman armies
00:19:33.54\00:19:36.37
and never really got
a chance to settle in.
00:19:36.40\00:19:39.17
What's interesting is
that those three kingdoms...
00:19:39.24\00:19:42.71
the Heruli...
Vandals... Ostrogoth's...
00:19:42.74\00:19:45.15
embraced a theological
concept called "Arianism"
00:19:45.18\00:19:49.02
they all believed and taught
that Christ was a created being
00:19:49.05\00:19:53.42
and somehow... they
developed this belief
00:19:53.46\00:19:58.39
and they were
destroyed by the Roman armies
00:19:58.43\00:20:02.63
before they ever got
a chance to take root
00:20:02.66\00:20:06.20
and so, today, there
are no Ostrogoth's...
00:20:06.23\00:20:09.70
there are no Vandals...
there are no Heruli...
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these other ten tribes are
now the ten kingdoms of Europe,
00:20:11.74\00:20:15.94
you've got the
Lombard's... you've got...
00:20:16.01\00:20:17.98
you've got the Italians...
you've got the French...
00:20:18.01\00:20:20.98
you've got the Anglo-Saxons...
you've got the Germans...
00:20:21.02\00:20:23.45
you've got the Swiss...
00:20:23.49\00:20:24.82
they're all here today
but there are no Heruli...
00:20:24.85\00:20:28.69
there are no Vandals...
00:20:28.72\00:20:30.26
there are no
Heruli... let's see... Heruli...
00:20:30.29\00:20:35.63
no Vandals and no Ostrogoth's.
00:20:35.66\00:20:37.43
So, this horns get...
this horn gets eyes and a mouth
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this is code for new power that
will not be ruled by Committee
00:20:43.57\00:20:49.91
but that will be
ruled by a single person.
00:20:49.94\00:20:53.15
This is not a
parliamentary system,
00:20:53.18\00:20:55.52
this is not a system where
people are voted in and out
00:20:55.55\00:20:58.05
the Bible is telling
us that this new entity
00:20:58.09\00:21:02.22
that comes from the
head of the old Roman Empire
00:21:02.26\00:21:06.39
is going to have one
person sitting at the top
00:21:06.43\00:21:10.63
and that one person
will speak for this entity...
00:21:10.67\00:21:14.84
will be the
power in this entity...
00:21:14.87\00:21:17.77
and will speak great words.
00:21:17.84\00:21:21.18
One man... a top...
00:21:21.24\00:21:23.91
a System that is
going to speak pompous words
00:21:23.95\00:21:29.18
pause
00:21:29.22\00:21:31.72
comes up from
among the others...
00:21:31.75\00:21:33.36
so we're talking about Europe...
00:21:33.39\00:21:34.96
it comes from the
head of pagan Rome
00:21:34.99\00:21:38.19
and it uproots the
Heruli... the Vandals...
00:21:38.23\00:21:41.46
and the Ostrogoth's.
00:21:41.50\00:21:42.96
So, when we take
our time with prophecy,
00:21:43.00\00:21:44.90
it tends to make sense...
00:21:44.93\00:21:46.60
it tends to fall apart or
build itself up on its own.
00:21:46.63\00:21:51.04
So, the Bible is identifying
not a person, per se...
00:21:51.07\00:21:55.44
but a Position and a System...
00:21:55.48\00:21:59.01
a Position and a System.
00:21:59.05\00:22:02.58
The Position is
Head of the Church.
00:22:02.62\00:22:06.19
The System is the
ecclesiastical body
00:22:06.22\00:22:09.72
that came up after
pagan Rome fell to ashes.
00:22:09.76\00:22:14.73
So, we're
talking about an entity
00:22:14.76\00:22:18.83
that speaks pompous words.
00:22:18.87\00:22:21.94
Now, the word for "pompous"
in the Bible is "rabrab"
00:22:21.97\00:22:27.48
interesting word...
00:22:27.51\00:22:29.28
it means... huge in size
00:22:29.34\00:22:33.58
and domineering or
dominating in character.
00:22:33.62\00:22:37.65
Very interesting.
00:22:37.69\00:22:39.15
The Bible is saying
that this new entity
00:22:39.19\00:22:41.92
is going to be huge as
far as its size is concerned,
00:22:41.96\00:22:46.43
as far... as far as
its control is concerned,
00:22:46.46\00:22:50.23
but it will also be
dominating in character.
00:22:50.27\00:22:54.57
It's going to be a
bossy kind of a System.
00:22:54.60\00:22:58.87
It's going to
try to take control
00:22:58.91\00:23:00.88
not only of what man
does but what man thinks.
00:23:00.91\00:23:06.61
History tells us that the Entity
00:23:06.65\00:23:10.35
that came up out of
the pagan Roman Empire
00:23:10.39\00:23:14.42
was called the
Holy Roman Empire.
00:23:14.46\00:23:19.56
The pagan Roman Empire fell
00:23:19.59\00:23:23.30
to be replaced by
the Holy Roman Empire,
00:23:23.37\00:23:27.54
in short, the
Roman Universal Church
00:23:27.57\00:23:31.67
or the Roman Catholic Church.
00:23:31.71\00:23:33.64
The Holy Roman Empire
was an amalgamation of kings,
00:23:33.68\00:23:38.15
emperors, electors and popes
00:23:38.18\00:23:42.02
that dominated the history
of Europe from the sixth century
00:23:42.05\00:23:46.76
all the way down
to the 18th century.
00:23:46.79\00:23:50.29
The Holy Roman Empire
began with the inauguration
00:23:50.33\00:23:56.03
by Pope Leo of King Charlemagne
of France in 538 B.C.
00:23:56.06\00:24:01.90
and it pretty much
continued unabated till 1808
00:24:01.97\00:24:08.54
just after the 1,260 years
00:24:08.58\00:24:12.11
which we'll talk
about in just a minute.
00:24:12.15\00:24:14.95
So, kings,
emperors, electors and popes
00:24:14.98\00:24:17.59
were in-charge of
the Holy Roman Empire
00:24:17.62\00:24:20.16
for short periods of time
00:24:20.19\00:24:22.79
the emperors and the
electors took the lead
00:24:22.82\00:24:26.19
but make no mistake about
it, the power behind the church
00:24:26.26\00:24:31.40
from 538 to 1798...
that 1,260-year period
00:24:31.43\00:24:36.10
was the man who sat
on the Cathedra in Rome
00:24:36.14\00:24:40.91
that was the Pope... the
Head of the Catholic Church.
00:24:40.94\00:24:45.41
The church insinuated itself
00:24:45.45\00:24:49.25
into every
aspect of medieval life.
00:24:49.28\00:24:53.12
The church
controlled how you ate,
00:24:53.15\00:24:56.66
the church
controlled what you drank,
00:24:56.69\00:25:00.03
the church
controlled how you lived,
00:25:00.06\00:25:03.37
the church
controlled your employment
00:25:03.43\00:25:06.23
and they even tried to
control what you thought.
00:25:06.27\00:25:11.04
European culture had one Master,
00:25:11.07\00:25:14.94
it was run from Rome
00:25:15.01\00:25:18.55
and Rome insinuated itself
00:25:18.61\00:25:21.65
into every aspect of
medieval church life.
00:25:21.68\00:25:27.26
That's one of the things
that becomes very, very apparent
00:25:27.29\00:25:32.06
as we study Daniel chapter 7.
00:25:32.09\00:25:34.83
Pause.
00:25:34.86\00:25:36.60
So, Daniel now
gives us increased focus
00:25:36.63\00:25:39.77
on beast number 4.
00:25:39.80\00:25:43.17
Daniel uses that
term, "Pompous Words"
00:25:43.20\00:25:47.64
a number of times.
00:25:47.71\00:25:49.04
Daniel chapter 7 verse 8,
Daniel chapter 7 verse 11,
00:25:49.08\00:25:53.75
Daniel chapter 7 verse 25.
00:25:53.82\00:25:56.69
He is begging the point...
00:25:56.72\00:26:00.09
insisting on the
fact that this new entity
00:26:00.12\00:26:04.46
stands not necessarily for God
00:26:04.49\00:26:08.90
but oft times in
opposition to God
00:26:08.96\00:26:12.50
and by the words that it speaks
00:26:12.53\00:26:16.00
and the way that
it conducts itself,
00:26:16.04\00:26:18.74
it assumes
00:26:18.77\00:26:21.31
many of the prerogatives of God.
00:26:21.34\00:26:24.11
In Daniel chapter 7
verse 21, Daniel says,
00:26:24.15\00:26:27.48
"This same horn was
making war against the saints. "
00:26:27.52\00:26:33.02
So, make no mistake about
it, this is not a civil army,
00:26:33.05\00:26:38.66
this issue is a...
a spiritual battle.
00:26:38.69\00:26:43.00
When we look at this new beast,
00:26:43.03\00:26:46.13
we are moving
from physical conquest
00:26:46.17\00:26:50.04
to spiritual warfare...
00:26:50.07\00:26:52.31
the issue in Daniel chapter 7
is not just physical conquest...
00:26:52.34\00:26:58.61
it is spiritual warfare
00:26:58.68\00:27:01.02
and this horn is not
fighting a nation or a kingdom
00:27:01.05\00:27:05.59
or even an ideology,
00:27:05.62\00:27:07.62
it's fighting
against the saints of God
00:27:07.66\00:27:10.33
and when you fight
against the saints of God,
00:27:10.36\00:27:13.93
you are in effect
fighting against God Himself.
00:27:14.00\00:27:17.53
Pause.
00:27:17.57\00:27:19.73
So, we're speaking
about pompous words
00:27:19.77\00:27:22.00
and an entity that is
wearing out the saints
00:27:22.04\00:27:25.64
of the Most High.
00:27:25.67\00:27:27.01
The Bible explains
how this little horn power
00:27:27.04\00:27:30.85
virtually reigns
unfettered and unchallenged
00:27:30.88\00:27:34.62
for a period of 1,260 years...
that's an awful long time.
00:27:34.65\00:27:39.49
Paul talks about him
00:27:39.52\00:27:41.56
in 2nd
Thessalonians chapter 2 verse 4.
00:27:41.59\00:27:44.39
The Bible says... this
power exalts himself above God,
00:27:44.43\00:27:48.56
sits in the place of
God... in the temple of God
00:27:48.60\00:27:52.37
claiming that he is God.
00:27:52.40\00:27:54.57
Now, how do you do that?
00:27:54.60\00:27:56.74
You do that when you try to...
00:27:56.77\00:27:59.51
to say that... the things
that God says are important
00:27:59.54\00:28:03.01
are not important.
00:28:03.04\00:28:04.38
You do that when you say...
00:28:04.41\00:28:05.95
the Laws of God are
no longer able to be kept
00:28:05.98\00:28:11.05
or even should be kept.
00:28:11.09\00:28:12.45
You do that when you try to
take the prerogatives of God
00:28:12.49\00:28:17.23
and the power of God
and apply it to yourself.
00:28:17.26\00:28:21.46
So, this new exposition
is telling us what happens
00:28:21.50\00:28:25.40
down in the ankles and
toes and feet of that image
00:28:25.43\00:28:29.30
of Daniel chapter 2.
00:28:29.37\00:28:31.07
It's explaining in
greater detail what we saw
00:28:31.11\00:28:34.68
in Daniel chapter 2
00:28:34.71\00:28:36.54
just prior to the second coming
00:28:36.58\00:28:38.91
of our Lord and
Savior Jesus Christ.
00:28:38.95\00:28:40.28
So the... the
picture we get is one of...
00:28:40.32\00:28:45.22
is one of aggressive...
grinding persecution.
00:28:45.25\00:28:50.39
Years of persecution...
years of privation...
00:28:50.43\00:28:55.53
we get a picture of a power
00:28:55.56\00:28:58.23
that insinuates itself
00:28:58.27\00:29:02.34
into every aspect of
life and controls that life
00:29:02.37\00:29:06.84
and grinds
against the people of God
00:29:06.88\00:29:09.84
even to... to the
extent of coming to America...
00:29:09.91\00:29:12.98
the... the... the
Inquisition went as far as
00:29:13.01\00:29:16.08
Goa, India and
also came to America.
00:29:16.12\00:29:21.59
If you want to read
interesting history,
00:29:21.62\00:29:23.73
look how the Papacy
ordered Spain and Portugal
00:29:23.76\00:29:31.77
to divide South America.
00:29:31.80\00:29:34.64
Why some
countries are Portuguese...
00:29:34.67\00:29:36.91
some countries speak in Spanish
00:29:36.94\00:29:38.27
that was done at... at...
at the insistence of Rome.
00:29:38.31\00:29:42.98
"You get this piece...
you get that piece... "
00:29:43.01\00:29:46.38
very, very interesting history
00:29:46.41\00:29:48.32
how the church even insinuated
itself into South America.
00:29:48.35\00:29:52.85
I remember speaking
with Malachi Martin...
00:29:52.89\00:29:55.52
that name may not be
familiar to some of you,
00:29:55.56\00:29:58.13
he was a famous
Jesuit scholar...
00:29:58.16\00:30:01.66
lived in New
York... died in 1999.
00:30:01.70\00:30:05.13
We had a chance to meet
at a local radio station
00:30:05.17\00:30:08.70
and had many, many talks,
00:30:08.74\00:30:12.17
he has written a
number of books...
00:30:12.21\00:30:13.68
"The Decline and
Fall of the Roman Church"
00:30:13.71\00:30:15.54
"Keys of This Blood"
00:30:15.58\00:30:16.91
just a number of books...
00:30:16.95\00:30:18.81
an outspoken Jesuit scholar
00:30:18.88\00:30:20.45
and after having read his,
00:30:20.48\00:30:22.88
"The Decline and
Fall of the Roman Church"
00:30:22.92\00:30:24.42
about 650 pages...
00:30:24.45\00:30:25.89
Dr. Martin admitted to
me in private discussion
00:30:25.92\00:30:30.69
how he felt... his church
had done many, many wrong things
00:30:30.73\00:30:35.70
down through the Middle Ages.
00:30:35.73\00:30:37.07
I was meeting with him and
we were going to have a debate
00:30:37.10\00:30:42.34
on one of the
local radio stations
00:30:42.37\00:30:44.64
in the... in the
New York City area
00:30:44.67\00:30:46.84
and I came armed
with all of this material
00:30:46.88\00:30:49.68
as to how the Catholic Church
had done some of these things
00:30:49.71\00:30:52.71
in the Middle Ages
00:30:52.75\00:30:54.08
and I had facts and
figures from the Lutheran...
00:30:54.12\00:30:57.85
the Lutheran
church and other churches
00:30:57.89\00:30:59.22
how they say... the Catholic
church during the Inquisition
00:30:59.25\00:31:02.36
was responsible for the death
of about 50 million people.
00:31:02.39\00:31:05.86
I came armed with my material
and we sat down for the debate
00:31:05.89\00:31:09.36
and I hit him with
my... my hardest salvo,
00:31:09.40\00:31:11.73
I said, "Well, my figures show
00:31:11.77\00:31:13.90
that the Catholic Church
00:31:13.94\00:31:16.44
through the Inquisition
was responsible for the death
00:31:16.50\00:31:18.57
of about 50
million Protestants...
00:31:18.61\00:31:19.94
he said, "It was
way more than that. "
00:31:19.97\00:31:21.31
Audience: Laughter...
00:31:21.34\00:31:22.68
He said, "Way more than that"
00:31:22.71\00:31:24.05
and he disarmed me right away,
00:31:24.08\00:31:25.68
he said, "Yeah,
everything is true"
00:31:25.71\00:31:27.05
he said, "We did. "
00:31:27.08\00:31:28.42
But this is what he said
00:31:28.45\00:31:29.78
and we're going to come back
to this in just a little bit,
00:31:29.82\00:31:32.42
this is what Malachi Martin,
famous Jesuit Scholar said to me
00:31:32.45\00:31:35.16
he said, "Sometimes,
mothers are little over-zealous
00:31:35.19\00:31:40.43
in correcting
their wayward children. "
00:31:40.46\00:31:42.60
Pause.
00:31:42.63\00:31:43.97
That was his statement...
00:31:44.00\00:31:45.37
statement of a
famed Jesuit scholar
00:31:45.40\00:31:48.74
he said, "Sometimes mothers
can be a little over-zealous
00:31:48.77\00:31:53.74
in correcting
their wayward children. "
00:31:53.78\00:31:56.91
Some scholars
estimate 50 million...
00:31:56.95\00:32:00.02
Malachi Martin said,
"Much more than that. "
00:32:00.08\00:32:03.25
So, he wasn't making an excuse,
00:32:03.28\00:32:05.25
he said, "Sometimes
when you spank your children,
00:32:05.29\00:32:08.89
you spank them a little hard...
00:32:08.92\00:32:10.26
you spank them a
little too hard. "
00:32:10.29\00:32:11.63
But given all of the torture
and the millions of deaths,
00:32:11.66\00:32:18.07
as sad as that was...
00:32:18.10\00:32:21.44
and as bad as that was...
00:32:21.47\00:32:24.74
perhaps the most audacious
aspect of Papal intention
00:32:24.77\00:32:31.71
was to change... times and laws
00:32:31.75\00:32:36.45
and that's what Daniel
chapter 7 tries to stress
00:32:36.48\00:32:42.09
in its portrayal
of this new beast.
00:32:42.12\00:32:45.79
What does that mean?
00:32:45.83\00:32:49.40
What does it
mean to try to change
00:32:49.46\00:32:53.47
times and laws?
00:32:53.54\00:32:56.60
There is a wonderful book
that is no longer in print
00:32:56.64\00:32:59.31
that I have in
my library called,
00:32:59.34\00:33:01.54
"How the Pope Became Infallible"
00:33:01.58\00:33:03.75
and it deals with the
changing of times and laws
00:33:03.78\00:33:07.78
but in verse 25
of Daniel chapter 7,
00:33:07.82\00:33:11.92
we see that statement made.
00:33:11.95\00:33:15.86
This new power... this horn...
00:33:15.89\00:33:19.69
will seek to
change times and laws...
00:33:19.73\00:33:25.37
this little horn claims
the prerogatives of God.
00:33:25.40\00:33:31.77
The question we need to ask,
00:33:31.81\00:33:34.41
"What times and whose
laws is the Bible speaking of?"
00:33:34.44\00:33:41.38
Well, first we can
discount man's laws...
00:33:41.42\00:33:44.65
can you say, "Amen"
00:33:44.69\00:33:46.02
because man's laws
change like the wind.
00:33:46.05\00:33:52.23
Think of the number of times
that England, as a country,
00:33:52.26\00:33:56.60
went from
Catholic to Protestant...
00:33:56.63\00:33:58.73
Catholic to Protestant
00:33:58.77\00:34:00.10
depending on the king
or the queen on the throne,
00:34:00.14\00:34:02.00
it went from
Catholic to Protestant.
00:34:02.04\00:34:04.04
We now have in... in
the United States here,
00:34:04.07\00:34:07.01
a President can
sign Executive Orders.
00:34:07.08\00:34:09.81
One President can
sign an Executive Order
00:34:09.84\00:34:12.55
that says, "Yea... "
00:34:12.58\00:34:13.92
and the next
President comes right behind him
00:34:13.95\00:34:16.28
and signs an Executive
Order that says, "Nay. "
00:34:16.32\00:34:19.25
So, we're not talking
about man's times and laws
00:34:19.29\00:34:22.19
because man's laws change
with the whim of the person
00:34:22.22\00:34:25.19
who gets elected...
00:34:25.23\00:34:26.56
they are not permanent...
00:34:26.59\00:34:27.93
they are as ropes of
sand... they're like the wind...
00:34:27.96\00:34:30.00
so, when we talk about
changing times and laws...
00:34:30.03\00:34:32.83
we've got about
the church trying...
00:34:32.87\00:34:35.10
we've got to be
speaking about the church
00:34:35.14\00:34:37.24
attempting to change
God's times and God's Laws
00:34:37.27\00:34:41.68
because it's only God's time
00:34:41.71\00:34:43.95
and God's law that
really matter amen.
00:34:43.98\00:34:46.55
Pause...
00:34:46.58\00:34:51.69
Every time we
amend the Constitution,
00:34:51.72\00:34:53.52
it occurs to me... we
change our own laws...
00:34:53.56\00:34:55.69
so, we're talking about
God's time... God's Law...
00:34:55.72\00:34:59.09
here's a text for you,
Malachi chapter 3 verse 6,
00:34:59.13\00:35:02.60
the Bible says, "I am
the Lord, I change not"
00:35:02.63\00:35:06.00
So, God is not fickle...
God doesn't say one thing today
00:35:06.03\00:35:10.37
and then sign an Executive Order
00:35:10.41\00:35:12.27
and sign and make it
another thing tomorrow
00:35:12.31\00:35:14.54
and the battle really is
between earth and heaven.
00:35:14.61\00:35:19.71
So, let's put that in context,
00:35:19.78\00:35:22.02
God's Law is the 10 Commandments
00:35:22.05\00:35:24.82
amen...
00:35:24.85\00:35:26.19
we're talking
about the Law of God...
00:35:26.22\00:35:27.56
we're talking about
the eternal Law of God
00:35:27.59\00:35:29.76
the Law that is
part of His character...
00:35:29.79\00:35:32.06
that's the 10 Commandments.
00:35:32.09\00:35:33.46
The only
Commandment that deals with time
00:35:33.50\00:35:37.10
is the 4th Commandment.
00:35:37.13\00:35:39.30
The rest of the Commandments
00:35:39.33\00:35:41.27
are sort of "do"
and "don't" Commandments
00:35:41.30\00:35:42.80
that really deal with
interpersonal relationships
00:35:42.87\00:35:44.61
between humans
00:35:44.64\00:35:46.17
and interpersonal relationships
between man and God.
00:35:46.21\00:35:48.08
The only one that deals with
time is Commandment number 4.
00:35:48.11\00:35:53.58
Now, this is
very, very important...
00:35:53.62\00:35:55.22
I'm going to show you
something in just a little bit.
00:35:55.25\00:35:56.99
So, God's Law...
Ten Commandments...
00:35:57.02\00:35:59.89
God's time...
the 4th Commandment.
00:35:59.92\00:36:02.72
So, then, Daniel
chapter 7:25 identifies a power
00:36:02.76\00:36:07.40
that will attempt to
change the Lord's Sabbath.
00:36:07.43\00:36:11.93
That's what
Daniel 7:25 is saying.
00:36:12.00\00:36:14.80
This power is going
to attempt to change
00:36:14.84\00:36:19.71
God's holy Sabbath
00:36:19.74\00:36:21.91
because the Sabbath is the only
part of the Ten Commandments
00:36:21.94\00:36:25.91
that deals with time.
00:36:25.95\00:36:28.52
The first change... or
the first attempt to change
00:36:28.55\00:36:33.39
began with the
Edict of Constantine
00:36:33.42\00:36:36.22
in 321 A.D.
00:36:36.26\00:36:38.09
Now, we're not going
to go through that because
00:36:38.13\00:36:39.83
many people talked about that.
00:36:39.86\00:36:41.93
What the Edict of
Constantine... 321 A.D. did
00:36:41.96\00:36:45.73
it
de-criminalized work on Sunday.
00:36:45.77\00:36:50.64
Prior to 321 A.D.,
00:36:50.67\00:36:53.64
Christianity was
still a religio-illicitus,
00:36:53.68\00:36:58.31
in other words, an
illegal religion...
00:36:58.35\00:37:00.28
and the reason we know
that it was an illegal religion
00:37:00.32\00:37:02.58
because just ten
years before or less,
00:37:02.65\00:37:07.52
the Christian
Church went through
00:37:07.56\00:37:09.82
one of the worst times of
persecution in its history
00:37:09.86\00:37:12.83
called the
Diocletian Persecution.
00:37:12.86\00:37:14.76
Ten years of persecution
under the Emperor Diocletian
00:37:14.80\00:37:18.97
303 to 313
00:37:19.03\00:37:20.44
when Christians were slaughtered
by the tens of thousands
00:37:20.47\00:37:26.91
so now, after 313... in 321...
Constantine makes an Edict
00:37:26.94\00:37:33.35
that
de-criminalizes work on Sunday.
00:37:33.42\00:37:37.75
It de-facto
recognizes Christianity
00:37:37.79\00:37:41.22
it turns it from
a religio-illicitus
00:37:41.26\00:37:44.59
to a legitimate religion.
00:37:44.66\00:37:47.76
Most people know about 321...
00:37:47.80\00:37:50.80
I want to take you to the
next big attack on Christianity
00:37:50.87\00:37:57.04
at the Council of
Laodicea in 364 A.D.
00:37:57.07\00:38:02.54
364 A.D.
00:38:02.58\00:38:06.01
and I want to give you
the language that was voted
00:38:06.05\00:38:09.58
by the Church at the
Council of Laodicea... 364 A.D.
00:38:09.62\00:38:13.05
"... Christians shall not
Judaize and be idle on Saturday"
00:38:13.09\00:38:19.26
that is the Sabbath...
00:38:19.29\00:38:20.63
"Judaizing" meant
just acting like a Jew
00:38:20.66\00:38:23.87
and doing nothing on Sabbath.
00:38:23.90\00:38:26.00
So they wanted you
working on... on Sabbath.
00:38:26.03\00:38:29.97
a little bit later,
something very interesting...
00:38:30.01\00:38:32.54
the Catholic Church
actually instituted something
00:38:32.57\00:38:35.04
they called "the Sabbath Fast"
00:38:35.08\00:38:36.85
they made you fast on Sabbath
to make it a day of drudgery
00:38:36.88\00:38:40.95
and then they allowed
you to feast on Sunday.
00:38:40.98\00:38:43.45
Pause.
00:38:43.49\00:38:45.75
So, you can't
"Judaize" on Sabbath...
00:38:45.79\00:38:47.66
"but shall work on that day. "
00:38:47.69\00:38:49.39
So they want you in
the field working...
00:38:49.42\00:38:50.99
they want you
working on that day.
00:38:51.03\00:38:52.56
"But the Lord's Day
they shall especially honor
00:38:52.59\00:38:56.93
and as being
Christians shall if possible,
00:38:56.97\00:39:01.27
do no work on that day. "
00:39:01.30\00:39:04.51
If, however, they
are found Judaizing,
00:39:04.54\00:39:08.61
they shall be cut
off from Christ... "
00:39:08.64\00:39:13.01
That's the Council
of Laodicea 364 A.D.
00:39:13.05\00:39:17.35
In other words, if they caught
you not working on Saturday,
00:39:17.39\00:39:24.09
you were anathema... you
were cut off from the Lord.
00:39:24.13\00:39:28.96
So, this now, is the
first fully functioning Edict...
00:39:29.03\00:39:33.84
not only in favor of Sunday,
00:39:33.90\00:39:37.21
but
specifically against Sabbath.
00:39:37.24\00:39:40.68
Then, in the 16th Century,
00:39:40.74\00:39:44.11
the church found its
philosophical motherlode.
00:39:44.15\00:39:49.78
Pause.
00:39:50.02\00:39:52.12
In the 16th Century, the church
convened an 18-year convocation
00:39:52.15\00:39:57.89
called "The
Council of Trent" T R E N T
00:39:57.93\00:40:03.43
after the city
in northern Italy.
00:40:03.47\00:40:06.47
Pause.
00:40:06.50\00:40:08.97
The Council of Trent
took up many, many doctrines
00:40:09.00\00:40:12.81
pause
00:40:12.84\00:40:14.91
but one of the
things that it did
00:40:14.94\00:40:18.18
towards the end of the Council
00:40:18.21\00:40:21.72
was address
itself to the Sabbath.
00:40:21.75\00:40:25.22
Let me give you
some of the words
00:40:25.25\00:40:29.16
of the hero of the
Council of Trent...
00:40:29.19\00:40:32.26
his name was Archbishop Reggio
00:40:32.29\00:40:35.86
or the Archbishop of Reggio.
00:40:35.90\00:40:39.07
Pause.
00:40:39.10\00:40:40.44
Here is what the
Catholic Church discovered
00:40:40.47\00:40:43.67
in 1551 right near the
close of the Council of Trent.
00:40:43.71\00:40:48.94
"The written word
00:40:48.98\00:40:51.81
explicitly enjoins the
observance of the seventh day"
00:40:51.85\00:40:57.12
now, that's the Catholic Church
00:40:57.15\00:40:59.62
telling the truth
about the Sabbath.
00:40:59.65\00:41:03.22
"The written word
explicitly enjoins
00:41:03.26\00:41:06.53
the observance of
the seventh day... "
00:41:06.56\00:41:09.33
in other words, "The Bible
says, 'keep the Sabbath... '"
00:41:09.36\00:41:11.50
"as the Sabbath.
00:41:11.53\00:41:13.67
We do not
observe the seventh day.
00:41:13.70\00:41:17.34
If they... "
that is... Protestants
00:41:17.37\00:41:20.98
"do truly hold the Scripture
alone as their standard...
00:41:21.01\00:41:27.02
they would be
observing the 7th day
00:41:27.05\00:41:31.95
as enjoined in the
Scripture throughout. "
00:41:31.99\00:41:35.26
See what he's saying,
00:41:35.29\00:41:36.69
he's saying, "If you
really were Bible keepers,
00:41:36.73\00:41:40.00
you would be
keeping the seventh day. "
00:41:40.03\00:41:42.86
Now, hold on to your hats,
00:41:42.90\00:41:44.37
here is how he
uses that argument.
00:41:44.40\00:41:45.73
"Yet they not only reject
the observance of the Sabbath
00:41:45.77\00:41:54.48
enjoined in the written word"
00:41:54.51\00:41:56.44
so he's saying it again,
00:41:56.48\00:41:57.81
not only do you reject
the Sabbath in the Bible,
00:41:57.85\00:42:00.02
"but they have
adopted and do practice
00:42:00.05\00:42:04.82
the observance of Sunday
00:42:04.85\00:42:06.82
for which they have only
the tradition of the church. "
00:42:06.86\00:42:11.19
Now, look what he's saying,
00:42:11.23\00:42:12.56
he is saying, "You say
that you're Bible keepers,
00:42:12.59\00:42:18.13
but the day you're keeping...
00:42:18.17\00:42:20.77
you'll forgive my
pejorative English,
00:42:20.80\00:42:23.44
"ain't in the Bible"
00:42:23.47\00:42:27.01
so, you're keeping a day
00:42:27.04\00:42:30.48
and the only reason you
have for keeping that day
00:42:30.51\00:42:33.88
is because we're
telling you to keep that day.
00:42:33.92\00:42:37.82
So, you cannot really
say... you're Bible keepers.
00:42:37.85\00:42:41.72
Now, this... this is
very, very important,
00:42:41.79\00:42:44.46
this is very crucial.
00:42:44.49\00:42:45.96
"Consequently... " he goes on,
00:42:45.99\00:42:48.00
"the claim of Scripture
alone as their standard falls
00:42:48.03\00:42:53.74
and the doctrine of Scripture
and tradition as essential
00:42:53.77\00:42:59.41
is fully established... "
00:42:59.44\00:43:00.78
He's... he's... he's... we've
got a pretty tight case here.
00:43:00.81\00:43:03.71
"The Protestants
themselves being judges. "
00:43:03.75\00:43:07.92
This was voted at
the Council of Trent
00:43:07.95\00:43:10.49
in spring of 1551.
00:43:10.55\00:43:13.62
It's a powerful,
powerful argument.
00:43:13.66\00:43:16.02
Pause.
00:43:16.09\00:43:18.16
Now, the Augsburg Confession...
00:43:18.19\00:43:20.70
The Augsburg Confession
was voted as the Catholic...
00:43:20.73\00:43:27.27
I'm sorry, the
Protestant doctrine in 1530.
00:43:27.30\00:43:32.71
It was presented to the
00:43:32.74\00:43:39.21
Holy Roman Empire
Elector in Germany...
00:43:39.25\00:43:43.99
Lutheran
scholars put it together
00:43:44.02\00:43:46.99
and before long all
Protestant Denominations
00:43:47.06\00:43:51.66
accepted the
Augsburg Confession.
00:43:51.69\00:43:54.06
I've read the
Augsburg Confession.
00:43:54.10\00:43:56.40
The... the book in which it
is written is 878 pages long.
00:43:56.43\00:44:00.44
It's got 28 different parts
00:44:00.47\00:44:02.34
and each of the different parts
has about 20 different sub-texts
00:44:02.37\00:44:06.61
it's a long, long thing.
00:44:06.64\00:44:08.98
The Council of Trent calls
it the Protestant Inconsistency.
00:44:09.01\00:44:17.25
Here's their reasoning,
00:44:17.29\00:44:20.56
the Augsburg Confession
states that Protestants
00:44:20.59\00:44:29.46
would accept and revere Sunday
00:44:29.50\00:44:33.50
and all
Protestant Churches signed on
00:44:33.54\00:44:36.91
to the Augsburg Confession.
00:44:36.94\00:44:38.87
It admits the observance
of Sunday as the Lord's Day.
00:44:38.91\00:44:45.28
So now, Archbishop Reggio
comes along, 21 years later
00:44:45.31\00:44:51.65
at the Council
of Trent and says,
00:44:51.69\00:44:54.62
"Because of this one issue...
00:44:54.66\00:44:57.69
because of this one issue,
00:44:57.73\00:45:00.63
he says, "the entire
Protestant Reformation
00:45:00.66\00:45:06.07
is nothing more than
an unwarranted revolt
00:45:06.10\00:45:11.37
against the Mother Church
00:45:11.44\00:45:13.31
and that was voted
at the Council of Trent
00:45:13.34\00:45:16.24
and from that day to this,
00:45:16.28\00:45:18.48
that shows what
the Catholic Church
00:45:18.51\00:45:22.72
thinks of Protestantism.
00:45:22.75\00:45:26.42
It is an unwarranted revolt.
00:45:26.45\00:45:30.09
Why is it a revolt?
00:45:30.13\00:45:31.66
He says, "Because you
don't believe yourself...
00:45:31.69\00:45:36.46
what you're teaching"
00:45:36.50\00:45:37.83
and it's a powerful argument.
00:45:37.87\00:45:40.34
He says, "You cannot
believe what you're teaching...
00:45:40.37\00:45:45.11
because the main argument
of the Protestant Reformation
00:45:45.14\00:45:49.88
was Sola Scriptura...
00:45:49.91\00:45:53.31
the Bible and
the Bible only... "
00:45:53.35\00:45:57.49
The main argument coming
out of the Council of Trent
00:45:57.52\00:46:02.12
is that Scripture
and tradition are equal
00:46:02.16\00:46:08.20
so, how can you
be Sola Scriptura
00:46:08.23\00:46:13.00
and keep a day
which is not "Scriptura?"
00:46:13.03\00:46:18.27
You understand that argument?
00:46:18.34\00:46:20.81
It is so powerful
that every Catholic scholar
00:46:20.84\00:46:25.65
from that day to this
has used that same argument,
00:46:25.71\00:46:29.38
every one, you name them.
00:46:29.42\00:46:31.09
Cardinal Gibbons...
Albert Smith... John Newman...
00:46:31.12\00:46:36.12
Louis Gaston de Ségur
00:46:36.16\00:46:38.16
Nathan Canaan,
00:46:38.19\00:46:39.56
all of the great theologians
have used that same argument
00:46:39.59\00:46:48.14
that you cannot
be Sola Scriptura
00:46:48.17\00:46:51.87
because you're keeping a day
that has no place in Scripture.
00:46:51.91\00:46:56.98
"We changed the day...
you're keeping our day...
00:46:57.01\00:47:01.08
so you're not
really Protestant. "
00:47:01.12\00:47:03.69
And many Catholic
theologians call it to this day,
00:47:03.72\00:47:09.26
"The Protestant Inconsistency"
00:47:09.29\00:47:12.49
they say, cannot
be Sola Scriptura
00:47:12.53\00:47:17.67
because you're keeping a
day that is not in Scripture.
00:47:17.70\00:47:20.94
I brought this up
to Malachi Martin...
00:47:20.97\00:47:23.44
this "Protestant Inconsistency"
00:47:23.47\00:47:26.14
this idea that you
cannot be Sola Scriptura
00:47:26.17\00:47:29.51
and keep Sunday
00:47:29.54\00:47:30.88
and here's what Malachi
Martin told me face to face.
00:47:30.91\00:47:33.85
He said, "If
you worship the Lord
00:47:33.88\00:47:40.02
on the day designated
by the Catholic Church...
00:47:40.06\00:47:44.39
if you worship the Lord
00:47:44.43\00:47:47.76
on the day designated
by the Catholic Church
00:47:47.80\00:47:52.30
regardless of what
you call yourself...
00:47:52.33\00:47:55.97
you are Catholic... "
00:47:56.00\00:47:58.77
that's Malachi Martin.
00:47:58.81\00:48:01.04
It doesn't matter
what your name is...
00:48:01.08\00:48:03.65
Baptist, Protestant...
Presbyterian... doesn't matter
00:48:03.68\00:48:06.45
if you're worshipping on
the day that we designate,
00:48:06.48\00:48:09.25
you're Catholic...
00:48:09.28\00:48:10.79
and that is the mindset
of the church to this day
00:48:10.82\00:48:14.29
and that's why you hear
terms like, "Erring Brethren"
00:48:14.32\00:48:17.73
you know, brethren
that have departed...
00:48:17.76\00:48:19.49
"you're still Catholic because
you're worshipping on our day"
00:48:19.53\00:48:21.93
now that's not the
Protestant argument,
00:48:21.96\00:48:24.93
that's not the
Seventh-day Adventist argument,
00:48:24.97\00:48:26.94
it is the Catholic Church's
theological content from 1551
00:48:26.97\00:48:32.21
and the Council of Trent.
00:48:32.24\00:48:33.64
You're accepting our
day... you are de facto Catholic
00:48:33.68\00:48:38.91
and of all the dogma
coming from the Council of Trent
00:48:38.95\00:48:44.15
and they ratified many things
00:48:44.19\00:48:46.52
arguably the one that has
the most far-reaching effect
00:48:46.55\00:48:52.09
on how Catholic theologians
00:48:52.13\00:48:55.16
view and treat all
Sunday-keeping Protestants
00:48:55.20\00:48:59.90
is this idea of the
Protestant Inconsistency.
00:48:59.93\00:49:04.54
They're saying,
00:49:04.57\00:49:06.68
"You don't believe
yourself what you're teaching...
00:49:06.71\00:49:09.14
you cannot... because
you're keeping our day. "
00:49:09.21\00:49:11.61
It's a very,
very powerful argument
00:49:11.65\00:49:13.38
and it... it is buttressed
00:49:13.42\00:49:15.38
by what the Bible says
in Daniel chapter 7:25,
00:49:15.42\00:49:18.95
"They will seek to
change times and laws"
00:49:18.99\00:49:21.72
and then we find out in
Revelation that the whole world
00:49:21.76\00:49:24.69
is moving in that direction.
00:49:24.73\00:49:26.70
That is why,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
00:49:26.73\00:49:29.66
the Counter
Reformation was so vicious
00:49:29.73\00:49:33.07
and why the fires of
the Inquisition raged
00:49:33.13\00:49:36.44
for the next 400 years
00:49:36.50\00:49:39.01
because from the
Catholic standpoint,
00:49:39.04\00:49:41.61
said Malachi Martin to me,
00:49:41.64\00:49:44.05
"They were crushing
an illegitimate religion
00:49:44.08\00:49:48.78
whose adherence not only
didn't believe what they taught,
00:49:48.85\00:49:54.42
they couldn't
believe what they taught...
00:49:54.46\00:49:57.43
according to Malachi Martin,
"they couldn't believe it
00:49:57.46\00:50:00.60
because
00:50:00.63\00:50:01.96
their basic worship premise
00:50:02.00\00:50:04.30
did not come
from the Word of God.
00:50:04.33\00:50:07.97
Pause.
00:50:08.00\00:50:11.74
Many of the Popes
and Leaders of the Church
00:50:11.77\00:50:14.81
saw their
persecution of Protestants
00:50:14.84\00:50:19.11
not as persecution but rather...
fumigation... sterilization...
00:50:19.18\00:50:27.39
eradication of a disease that
infected the Holy Mother Church.
00:50:27.42\00:50:35.60
Protestantism in the
Middle Ages was for many
00:50:35.63\00:50:40.70
not a rival religion...
00:50:40.74\00:50:43.61
but a virus that
needed to be cleansed.
00:50:43.64\00:50:48.58
That's why they took
such extreme measures...
00:50:48.61\00:50:52.58
such ungodly measures...
00:50:52.61\00:50:54.55
such horrific
measures in stamping out
00:50:54.58\00:50:58.15
what they thought
was an unnecessary revolt
00:50:58.19\00:51:04.26
that should have
never taken place.
00:51:04.29\00:51:07.13
So, groups like the
Huguenots, the Albigenses,
00:51:07.16\00:51:12.50
the Waldenses, the
Cathari, the Lombards,
00:51:12.53\00:51:17.81
the Anabaptists, the
Jews... I'm sorry, the Lollards,
00:51:17.84\00:51:25.41
the new Christians which were
00:51:25.45\00:51:28.38
Sabbath-keeping
Christians by the way,
00:51:28.42\00:51:30.85
were hunted down and destroyed
00:51:30.89\00:51:35.12
because the Church thought
they were doing the work of God.
00:51:35.16\00:51:39.83
As far as India
and... in the east
00:51:39.89\00:51:44.87
and Spain and its
colonies in the west
00:51:44.90\00:51:49.80
the church thought it...
its duty to execute offenders.
00:51:49.87\00:51:58.21
The move to
change God's Sabbath...
00:51:58.28\00:52:01.98
to change the
times and laws of God
00:52:02.02\00:52:05.69
did not happen overnight
00:52:05.72\00:52:07.86
it took centuries of force,
coercion, edicts, Papal Bulls
00:52:07.89\00:52:17.33
and discipline to try to
get the Sabbath to go away
00:52:17.37\00:52:23.67
but praise God...
00:52:23.71\00:52:25.57
after 100,000 Albigenses
were destroyed in a day
00:52:25.61\00:52:30.28
and 70,000
Huguenots destroyed in France
00:52:30.31\00:52:35.35
and tens of thousands
of Christians destroyed,
00:52:35.38\00:52:39.12
God's truth still marched on.
00:52:39.15\00:52:44.13
Audience: Amen.
00:52:44.16\00:52:45.59
Now, let's look quickly
before our time gets away
00:52:45.63\00:52:48.53
at the time period as
spoken of in Daniel chapter 7.
00:52:48.56\00:52:51.43
The Bible says that
this persecuting power
00:52:51.47\00:52:54.64
would be in the ascendency
00:52:54.67\00:52:56.30
Time, Times and
dividing... or half a Time
00:52:56.34\00:53:01.74
so let's look at numbers,
00:53:01.78\00:53:03.11
looking at the
day/year/day principle,
00:53:03.14\00:53:06.25
Time... 360 day/years
00:53:06.28\00:53:09.18
the Jewish year
was 360 days not 365...
00:53:09.22\00:53:13.86
Times... is a multiplication
of that times two...
00:53:13.92\00:53:17.86
or 720 day/years
00:53:17.89\00:53:20.23
and 1/2 a Time is 180 day/years
00:53:20.26\00:53:24.93
we mark that from the year that
Pope Leo crowned Charlemagne
00:53:24.97\00:53:31.91
Head of the Holy Roman Empire...
00:53:31.94\00:53:35.54
the same year that the
Ostrogoths were eradicated
00:53:35.58\00:53:39.75
from Italy...
00:53:39.78\00:53:41.38
the same year that the Catholic
Church began to function
00:53:41.45\00:53:46.29
on its own... the year 538 A.D.
00:53:46.32\00:53:51.56
you add to that 1,260
years and you come up to 1798.
00:53:51.59\00:54:00.24
It was in that year
that Alexandre Berthier...
00:54:00.27\00:54:07.31
Napoleon's General
00:54:07.34\00:54:09.24
went to Rome and took
the Pope off his throne
00:54:09.28\00:54:14.38
and the 1,260-year Reign
of Terror came to an end.
00:54:14.42\00:54:21.72
During that time,
God's people stood up for Him
00:54:21.76\00:54:29.03
in marked and wonderful ways.
00:54:29.06\00:54:31.43
God's people were
burned and hounded and chased
00:54:31.47\00:54:38.44
and weren't
allowed to read the Bible,
00:54:38.47\00:54:43.41
they were
persecuted almost beyond reason
00:54:43.45\00:54:48.88
and yet, the truth
of God stood strong.
00:54:48.92\00:54:54.29
Audience: Amen.
00:54:54.32\00:54:56.09
I'll say it again...
00:54:56.12\00:54:57.83
I said before,
rather, and will say again,
00:54:57.86\00:55:01.23
God has always had
His witnesses always...
00:55:01.26\00:55:04.57
there have always been people
00:55:04.60\00:55:07.04
who were able to risk
life and limb and even liberty
00:55:07.07\00:55:15.31
for the cause of Christ.
00:55:15.34\00:55:16.85
We don't know how many millions
died at the hands of persecution
00:55:16.91\00:55:24.25
but God does.
00:55:24.29\00:55:26.45
Every name has
been written down,
00:55:26.49\00:55:29.52
every face is
marked in the mind of God
00:55:29.56\00:55:33.86
and not one tear was shed that
wasn't written down in heaven
00:55:33.90\00:55:40.87
and that's why I'm so thankful
00:55:40.90\00:55:44.84
that at the end of
that wonderful faith chapter
00:55:44.87\00:55:48.34
in the book of Hebrews,
there is this text that says,
00:55:48.38\00:55:53.21
"they without us
should not be made perfect"
00:55:53.25\00:55:57.79
even those who suffered...
when they get their reward
00:55:57.82\00:56:04.19
you will get your
reward at the same time...
00:56:04.23\00:56:07.03
we'll all go in together...
00:56:07.06\00:56:09.36
my prayer is that we
all stand for the Lord.
00:56:09.40\00:56:14.34
Our faith will be tested...
00:56:14.37\00:56:16.77
oh yes, it will be...
00:56:16.81\00:56:18.14
but the same God who was with
those wonderful saints of old
00:56:18.17\00:56:24.75
is with us here today.
00:56:24.78\00:56:26.88
Audience: Amen.
00:56:26.92\00:56:28.25
He has not left us...
He has not forsaken us
00:56:28.28\00:56:32.15
and He guarantees
that the children of God
00:56:32.22\00:56:36.16
will be victorious.
00:56:36.19\00:56:39.33
This is like the
seal... the... the...
00:56:39.36\00:56:46.13
I'm trying to think of
the person you go to...
00:56:46.17\00:56:47.77
the Notary Public
00:56:47.80\00:56:49.50
who gives you that seal
and makes it official...
00:56:49.57\00:56:51.34
that's what this last line is.
00:56:51.37\00:56:53.44
"For the mouth of
the Lord has spoken. "
00:56:53.48\00:56:57.98
That's the Notary Public's seal.
00:56:58.01\00:57:01.18
God says, "What
I have told you...
00:57:01.22\00:57:04.39
I, Myself, guarantee...
00:57:04.42\00:57:06.55
they will seek to
change times and laws...
00:57:06.59\00:57:10.16
they will seek to
tell you what you can do
00:57:10.19\00:57:13.66
or even what you can think
00:57:13.70\00:57:15.96
but have no fear... "
00:57:16.00\00:57:19.83
fear not...
00:57:19.87\00:57:21.20
God will bring forth a people...
00:57:21.24\00:57:24.71
and I want to be in
that number, how about you?
00:57:24.77\00:57:27.94
Amen.
00:57:28.01\00:57:29.34
And then He says,
00:57:29.38\00:57:30.75
"I'm guaranteeing
you your deliverance"
00:57:30.81\00:57:34.45
you will make it through.
00:57:34.48\00:57:37.72
Why? Because the mouth
of the Lord has spoken it.
00:57:37.75\00:57:45.39
Amen.
00:57:45.43\00:57:46.76
Audience: Amen.
00:57:46.80\00:57:48.13
Pastor Murray: And amen.
00:57:48.16\00:57:49.66