Hello.
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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 and sometimes,
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who and how, as we
look, behinds the scenes,
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at this
powerful book of prophecy
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that has so much to
say 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 7.
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We've entitled our
message "Alpha Predators
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and the
Protestant Inconsistency."
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"Alpha Predators
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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
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and thank You for
the power of Your Word
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and how this ancient book
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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.
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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.
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Amen.
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Daniel 7 pivots
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into full
prophetic apocalyptic mode.
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And although it appears
that he is covering some
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of the same
material as Daniel 2,
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and indeed he is, you will find
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that a feature of
Daniel is this particular idea
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of what we call
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,
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I look at it
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 continent,
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and you push in 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
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and you can actually
see people on the lawn
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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 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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He 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 world
viewed 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, and
we'll see that coming up
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in our lectures that
come in just a little bit.
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So he repeats and he enlarges.
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Daniel 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 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 on Daniel 2,
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but we see it
with greater clarity.
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We'll see it again in Daniel 8.
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We'll see it again in Daniel 9.
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We'll see it again in Daniel 11.
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So we see the same material,
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but this time,
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we actually get the
help of an angelic tutor.
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So we're gonna 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
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of Belshazzar's reign.
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So, we're going back,
previous to Daniel 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 4.
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Daniel 2 took
place at the second year
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of Nebuchadnezzar's reign.
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So now we are
dealing with events
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that precede Daniel 5 and 6.
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And we are at the
behest of an angel instructor.
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So we've got to go
to school with Daniel,
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and we've got to
home school 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 7:2
because the Bible talks about
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wars and strife, and
school is now in session.
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"Wars and strife mean political,
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social, societal upheaval."
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And I've given you
some reference texts,
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Jeremiah 49,
Revelation, and Zachariah.
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So when the Bible
talks about wins 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
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in the early
portions of Daniel 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.
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Joshua 1:4, Numbers 34:6-7.
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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
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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 alpha predators.
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They're on the sea.
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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 7:4, that first beast
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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 impose their
culture on that second country.
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And so Daniel 7:4
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introduces us to the lion
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which we know is analogous
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to the golden head of
the image in Daniel 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, simply means
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it 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
live seven 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
and ultimate redemption
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of Nebuchadnezzar.
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He started out as
an idol worshipper.
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He started out as one who
worshiped 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 person.
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Isn't it nice to know
when you get to heaven,
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one of the people
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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
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what it was like 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.
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He gets eyes, he gets...
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He gets saved.
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And when did that happen?
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When Nebuchadnezzar
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surrendered himself to the Lord.
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So in the first
four verses of Daniel 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 7:5,
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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,
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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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It's kind of up on
one side, the Median half,
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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,
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has three ribs 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,
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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 7:6, we
see another big cat.
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Daniel 7:6 Greece
comes, which is a leopard.
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Another big cat,
an alpha predator.
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A leopard with four
wings and four heads.
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Again, more
information, the four wings
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indicate the speed at
which Alexander the Great
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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,
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he had gone into
India, he had gone
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as far west as
Greece, and Central Europe,
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he had 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,
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and then in a drunken
stupor, suffering from malaria,
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he died, four
wings, but also four heads.
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Alexander was a 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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So let's note
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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,
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Greece and the west,
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Lysimachus, who was given
Thrace, Bithynia, also called
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Pergamum in the north,
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Seleucus, who
took Syria and the east
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and all of us Seleucus kings
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took the name Antiochus,
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all of them were called
Antiochus I, Antiochus II,
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Antiochus III, Antiochus
IV, or Antiochus Epiphanes.
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They all took
the name Antiochus,
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they were eight Seleucus kings,
all taking the name Antiochus.
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And then of course, Ptolemy.
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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
of is Cleopatra number seven.
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And when we get to Daniel 11,
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we're gonna see
a lot of interplay
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between these four generals.
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Daniel 11
really shines the light
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on these four generals
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and gives us much history.
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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
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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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I call this beast
the iron teeth beast
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because it has no
analogy in fiction
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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.
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We know it had iron
teeth and it had claws
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and it ground down
and stamped into powder
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everything that opposed it.
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It is an incredibly
strong, vicious, unmerciful,
00:15:18.05\00:15:23.05
devouring beast
that breaks into pieces
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everything that opposes it
and then stamps on the residue.
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When the Roman
armies attack a nation,
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they either
enslaved it or destroyed it.
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And so this
picture of this beast
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is very, very accurate.
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Rome's legacy 168 BC
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to 476 AD,
00:15:47.61\00:15:50.98
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,
00:16:03.39\00:16:06.76
and even crossed
over the English Channel
00:16:06.80\00:16:09.40
into Great Britain.
00:16:09.43\00:16:13.03
Then Daniel sees
the Germanic tribes
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that begin to encroach
and invade on Roman territory,
00:16:17.11\00:16:22.51
breaking it into pieces.
00:16:22.54\00:16:25.01
Here they are, the Alamani,
the Ostrogoths, the Visigoths,
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the Franks, the Vandals,
the Suevi, the Burgundians,
00:16:30.82\00:16:36.62
the Heruli, the Anglo
Saxons, and the Lombards,
00:16:36.66\00:16:41.16
these Germanic tribes
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began to
encroach on the territory
00:16:44.33\00:16:47.60
of the Roman Empire.
00:16:47.64\00:16:50.07
And for a while, for a time,
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Rome was able to
withstand their forays,
00:16:52.11\00:16:54.94
but soon, the internal
decay of the Roman Empire
00:16:54.98\00:17:00.48
began to show
00:17:00.52\00:17:01.85
and these dramatic tribes
began to take large sections
00:17:01.88\00:17:05.85
of territory once ruled by Rome.
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Daniel 7:8.
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There comes from the head
of this beast a small horn,
00:17:15.56\00:17:21.54
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,
00:17:27.24\00:17:30.51
coming up from among them,
00:17:30.55\00:17:32.35
before whom of the first horn...
00:17:32.38\00:17:36.22
before whom three
rather of the first horns
00:17:36.25\00:17:39.29
were plucked out by the roots.
00:17:39.32\00:17:42.49
And there, in this horn,
00:17:42.52\00:17:45.96
were eyes like the eyes of a man
00:17:45.99\00:17:48.90
and a mouth
speaking pompous words."
00:17:48.93\00:17:53.60
Now when you try to identify
who and what this horn is,
00:17:53.64\00:17:58.47
there are some parameters
00:17:58.51\00:17:59.84
that you need to be governed by.
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One, when you're trying
to find out who this horn is,
00:18:01.34\00:18:05.95
there is no
need to look in Asia,
00:18:05.98\00:18:09.95
Africa, or North America.
00:18:09.98\00:18:12.59
Amen.
00:18:12.62\00:18:14.06
That's because, the
text says, the horn came up
00:18:14.09\00:18:19.59
out of the head
of the first beast
00:18:19.63\00:18:23.43
and among the 10 horns.
00:18:23.47\00:18:26.13
So if the first
beast is the Roman Empire,
00:18:26.17\00:18:31.47
then if you're
trying to identify
00:18:31.51\00:18:34.61
who this horn is,
00:18:34.64\00:18:36.38
there's no need
to look in China.
00:18:36.41\00:18:39.31
Amen.
00:18:39.35\00:18:40.68
There's no need
to look in Africa,
00:18:40.72\00:18:43.12
there's no need to conjecture
about North and South America
00:18:43.15\00:18:47.06
because the horn comes
00:18:47.09\00:18:49.12
from the head of
the Roman Empire.
00:18:49.16\00:18:52.66
So whatever that horn
is, it's got to be Roman.
00:18:52.69\00:18:56.90
Amen.
00:18:56.93\00:18:58.27
'Cause it's coming
up out of the head,
00:18:58.30\00:18:59.73
it's coming up out of
the seat of authority.
00:18:59.77\00:19:02.00
So if you're trying to
identify who this beast is,
00:19:02.04\00:19:05.27
all you've got to do
is go to your history book
00:19:05.31\00:19:08.14
and find out what came up
00:19:08.18\00:19:11.01
out of the seat
of the Roman Empire.
00:19:11.05\00:19:14.58
Not that tough.
00:19:14.62\00:19:16.28
Out of the Roman
Empire came the Roman Church.
00:19:16.32\00:19:20.76
Amen.
00:19:20.79\00:19:22.16
Now the Bible also
says that it plucks up
00:19:22.19\00:19:25.36
three of those kingdoms.
00:19:25.39\00:19:27.50
Well, we know who
those three kingdoms are,
00:19:27.53\00:19:29.63
the Heruli, the
Vandals, and the Ostrogoths
00:19:29.66\00:19:33.64
were completely
destroyed by the Roman armies
00:19:33.67\00:19:36.81
and never really got
a chance to settle in.
00:19:36.84\00:19:39.57
What's interesting is
that those three kingdoms
00:19:39.61\00:19:42.78
the Heruli, Vandals, Ostrogoths
00:19:42.81\00:19:45.45
embraced a theological
concept called Arianism.
00:19:45.48\00:19:49.42
They all believed and taught
00:19:49.45\00:19:51.59
that Christ was a created being.
00:19:51.62\00:19:54.56
And somehow they
developed this belief
00:19:54.59\00:19:59.33
and they were
destroyed by the Roman armies
00:19:59.36\00:20:04.20
before they ever got
a chance to take root.
00:20:04.23\00:20:06.77
And so today,
there are no Ostrogoths,
00:20:06.80\00:20:09.80
there are no
Vandals, there are no Heruli,
00:20:09.84\00:20:11.87
these other ten tribes are
now the ten kingdoms of Europe.
00:20:11.91\00:20:15.91
You've got the Lombards,
you've got the Italians,
00:20:15.94\00:20:19.98
you've got the French,
you've got the Anglo Saxons,
00:20:20.02\00:20:22.38
you've got the
Germans, you've got the Swiss.
00:20:22.42\00:20:25.59
They're all here
today, but they are no Heruli,
00:20:25.62\00:20:28.96
there are no
Vandals, there are...
00:20:28.99\00:20:34.03
No Heruli, that's it,
no Heruli, no Vandals,
00:20:34.06\00:20:36.50
and no Ostrogoths.
00:20:36.53\00:20:38.73
So this horn get
eyes and a mouth,
00:20:38.77\00:20:44.71
this is code for a new power
00:20:44.74\00:20:47.54
that will not be
ruled by committee
00:20:47.58\00:20:50.71
but that will be
ruled by a single person.
00:20:50.75\00:20:53.58
This is not a
parliamentary system.
00:20:53.62\00:20:55.52
This is not a system
00:20:55.55\00:20:56.89
where people are
voted in and out.
00:20:56.92\00:20:58.55
The Bible is telling
us that this new entity
00:20:58.59\00:21:02.26
that comes from the
head of the old Roman Empire
00:21:02.29\00:21:07.10
is gonna have one
person sitting at the top.
00:21:07.13\00:21:11.10
And that one person
will speak for this entity,
00:21:11.13\00:21:15.27
will be the
power in this entity,
00:21:15.30\00:21:18.41
and will speak great words,
00:21:18.44\00:21:21.98
one man atop a system
00:21:22.01\00:21:25.61
that is going to
speak pompous words.
00:21:25.65\00:21:31.65
Comes up from among the others,
so we are talking about Europe,
00:21:31.69\00:21:35.69
it comes from the
head of Pagan Rome,
00:21:35.72\00:21:38.89
and it uproots the Heruli,
00:21:38.93\00:21:40.73
the Vandals, and the Ostrogoths.
00:21:40.76\00:21:43.03
So when we take
our time with prophecy,
00:21:43.06\00:21:45.43
it tends to make
sense, it tends to fall apart
00:21:45.47\00:21:48.87
or build itself up on its own.
00:21:48.90\00:21:51.74
So the Bible is
identifying not a person per se
00:21:51.77\00:21:56.04
but a position and a system,
00:21:56.08\00:21:59.98
a position and a system.
00:22:00.02\00:22:02.68
The position is
head of the church,
00:22:02.72\00:22:06.05
the system is the
ecclesiastical body
00:22:06.09\00:22:09.86
that came up after
Pagan Rome fell to ashes.
00:22:09.89\00:22:15.30
So we're talking about an entity
00:22:15.33\00:22:19.40
that speaks pompous words.
00:22:19.43\00:22:22.67
Now the word for pompous
in the Bible is "rabrab."
00:22:22.70\00:22:28.54
Interesting word.
00:22:28.58\00:22:29.91
It means huge in
size and domineering
00:22:29.94\00:22:35.35
or dominating in character.
00:22:35.38\00:22:38.35
Very interesting.
00:22:38.39\00:22:39.72
The Bible is saying
that this new entity
00:22:39.75\00:22:42.32
is going to be huge as
far as its size is concerned,
00:22:42.36\00:22:47.13
as far as its
control is concerned.
00:22:47.16\00:22:49.66
But it will also be
dominating in character.
00:22:49.70\00:22:55.00
It's gonna be a
bossy kind of a system.
00:22:55.04\00:22:59.57
It's gonna try to take control
not only of what man does
00:22:59.61\00:23:04.11
but what man thinks.
00:23:04.15\00:23:07.62
History tells us that
the entity that came up
00:23:07.65\00:23:11.42
out of the Pagan Roman Empire
00:23:11.45\00:23:15.32
was called the
Holy Roman Empire.
00:23:15.36\00:23:20.53
The Pagan Roman
Empire fell to be replaced
00:23:20.56\00:23:25.13
by the Holy Roman Empire,
00:23:25.17\00:23:28.30
in short, the
Roman Universal Church
00:23:28.34\00:23:31.97
or the Roman Chthonic Church.
00:23:32.01\00:23:34.74
The Holy Roman Empire
was an amalgamation of kings,
00:23:34.78\00:23:38.71
emperors, electors, and popes
00:23:38.75\00:23:42.85
that dominated
the history of Europe
00:23:42.88\00:23:45.25
form the 6th
century all the way down
00:23:45.29\00:23:48.52
to the 18th century,
just after the 1,260 years,
00:23:48.56\00:23:53.70
which we'll talk
about in just a minute.
00:23:53.73\00:23:56.36
So kings,
emperors, electors, and popes
00:23:56.40\00:23:59.60
were in charge of
the Holy Roman Empire.
00:23:59.63\00:24:02.50
For short periods of time,
00:24:02.54\00:24:04.41
the emperors and the
electors took the lead.
00:24:04.44\00:24:08.64
But make no mistake about
it, the power behind the church
00:24:08.68\00:24:13.38
from 538 to 1798,
00:24:13.42\00:24:16.25
that 1,260 year
period was the man
00:24:16.28\00:24:19.85
who sat on the
cathedral in Rome,
00:24:19.89\00:24:23.16
and that was the pope,
00:24:23.19\00:24:25.16
the head of the Catholic Church.
00:24:25.19\00:24:27.73
The Church insinuated itself
00:24:27.76\00:24:32.27
into every aspect
of the medieval life.
00:24:32.30\00:24:36.07
The Church
controlled how you ate,
00:24:36.10\00:24:39.44
the Church
controlled what you drank,
00:24:39.47\00:24:42.41
the Church
controlled how you lived,
00:24:42.44\00:24:45.51
the Church
controlled your employment,
00:24:45.55\00:24:48.78
and they even tried to
control what you thought.
00:24:48.82\00:24:54.02
European culture had one master,
00:24:54.06\00:24:57.23
it was ran from Rome,
00:24:57.26\00:25:00.93
and Rome insinuated
itself into every aspect
00:25:00.96\00:25:05.90
of medieval Church life.
00:25:05.93\00:25:09.64
That's one of the things
00:25:09.67\00:25:11.01
that becomes very, very apparent
00:25:11.04\00:25:13.84
as we study Daniel 7.
00:25:13.88\00:25:18.25
So Daniel now
gives us increased focus
00:25:18.28\00:25:21.88
on beast number four.
00:25:21.92\00:25:25.85
Daniel uses that term
pompous words a number of time.
00:25:25.89\00:25:30.83
Daniel 7:8, Daniel 7:11,
00:25:30.86\00:25:35.73
Daniel 7:25.
00:25:35.76\00:25:38.67
He is begging the
point, insisting on the fact
00:25:38.70\00:25:43.71
that this new entity
00:25:43.74\00:25:47.21
stands not necessarily for God
00:25:47.24\00:25:51.75
but off times in
opposition to God.
00:25:51.78\00:25:55.22
And by the words that it speaks
00:25:55.25\00:25:57.95
and the way that
it conducts itself,
00:25:57.99\00:26:00.99
it assumes many of
the prerogatives of God.
00:26:01.02\00:26:06.66
Daniel 7:21, Daniel says,
00:26:06.70\00:26:09.66
"This same horn was making war
00:26:09.70\00:26:13.57
against the saints."
00:26:13.60\00:26:16.74
So make no mistake about it.
00:26:16.77\00:26:18.41
This is not a civil army.
00:26:18.44\00:26:20.91
This issue is a
spiritual battle.
00:26:20.94\00:26:25.55
When we look at this new beast,
00:26:25.58\00:26:28.42
we are moving
from physical conquest
00:26:28.45\00:26:32.15
to spiritual warfare.
00:26:32.19\00:26:34.36
The issue in Daniel 7 is
not just physical conquest,
00:26:34.39\00:26:40.43
it is spiritual warfare.
00:26:40.46\00:26:43.06
And this horn is not
fighting a nation or a kingdom
00:26:43.10\00:26:47.30
or even an ideology,
00:26:47.34\00:26:49.70
it's fighting
against the saints of God.
00:26:49.74\00:26:52.27
And when you fight
against the saints of God,
00:26:52.31\00:26:55.18
you are in effect fighting
00:26:55.21\00:26:57.18
against God himself.
00:26:57.21\00:27:01.45
So we are speaking
about pompous words
00:27:01.48\00:27:03.99
and an entity
that is wearing out
00:27:04.02\00:27:06.59
the saints of the Most High.
00:27:06.62\00:27:08.99
The Bible explains
how this little horn power
00:27:09.02\00:27:12.39
virtually reigns
unfretted and unchallenged
00:27:12.43\00:27:16.36
for a period of 1,260 years.
00:27:16.40\00:27:19.77
That's an awful long time.
00:27:19.80\00:27:21.94
Paul talk about him
in 2 Thessalonians 2:4,
00:27:21.97\00:27:25.97
the Bible says,
00:27:26.01\00:27:27.34
"This power
exalts himself above God,
00:27:27.38\00:27:30.81
sits in the place of
God, in the temple of God,
00:27:30.85\00:27:34.22
claiming that he is God."
00:27:34.25\00:27:37.02
Now how do you do that?
00:27:37.05\00:27:39.25
You do that when you try to say
that the things that God says
00:27:39.29\00:27:43.76
are important are not important.
00:27:43.79\00:27:46.29
You do that when
you say the laws of God
00:27:46.33\00:27:48.76
are no longer
00:27:48.80\00:27:51.63
able to be kept
00:27:51.67\00:27:53.00
or even should be kept.
00:27:53.03\00:27:54.37
You do that when you try to
take the prerogatives of God
00:27:54.40\00:27:59.67
and the power of God
and apply it to yourself.
00:27:59.71\00:28:02.84
So this new
exposition is telling us
00:28:02.88\00:28:06.61
what happens down
in the ankles and toes
00:28:06.65\00:28:09.68
and feet of that
image of Daniel 2.
00:28:09.72\00:28:12.82
It's explaining
in greater detail
00:28:12.85\00:28:15.19
what we saw in Daniel 2
just prior to the second coming
00:28:15.22\00:28:20.50
of our Lord and
Saviour Jesus Christ.
00:28:20.53\00:28:22.06
So the picture
we get is one of...
00:28:22.10\00:28:25.30
is one of aggressive,
00:28:25.33\00:28:29.17
grinding persecution,
00:28:29.20\00:28:32.37
years of
persecution, years of privation,
00:28:32.41\00:28:37.48
we get a picture of a power
00:28:37.51\00:28:40.72
that insinuates itself
00:28:40.75\00:28:44.05
into every aspect of
life and controls that life
00:28:44.09\00:28:48.79
and grinds
against the people of God,
00:28:48.82\00:28:51.53
even to the extent
of coming to America.
00:28:51.56\00:28:55.86
The inquisition went
as far as Goa, India,
00:28:55.90\00:29:01.74
and also came to America.
00:29:01.77\00:29:03.61
If you want to read
interesting history,
00:29:03.64\00:29:06.21
look how the people see
00:29:06.24\00:29:10.58
ordered Spain and Portugal
00:29:10.61\00:29:14.15
to divide South America.
00:29:14.18\00:29:16.95
Why some
countries are Portuguese,
00:29:16.99\00:29:18.55
some countries speak in Spanish,
00:29:18.59\00:29:20.06
that was done at
the insistence of Rome.
00:29:20.09\00:29:25.59
You get this
piece, you get that piece.
00:29:25.63\00:29:28.40
Very, very interesting
history how the Church
00:29:28.43\00:29:31.13
even insinuated
itself into South America.
00:29:31.17\00:29:35.60
I remember speaking
with Malachi Martin.
00:29:35.64\00:29:37.74
That name may not be
familiar to some of you.
00:29:37.77\00:29:39.87
He was a famous Jesuit scholar,
00:29:39.91\00:29:43.24
lived in New York, died in 1999.
00:29:43.28\00:29:47.18
We had a chance to meet
at a local radio station
00:29:47.22\00:29:50.79
and had many, many talks.
00:29:50.82\00:29:53.79
He's written a number of book,
00:29:53.82\00:29:55.52
"Decline and Fall
of the Roman Church,"
00:29:55.56\00:29:57.16
"Keys of this Blood,"
00:29:57.19\00:29:59.33
just a number of books,
an outspoken Jesuit scholar.
00:29:59.36\00:30:02.83
And after having read his
00:30:02.86\00:30:04.57
"Decline and Fall
of the Roman Church"
00:30:04.60\00:30:05.93
about 650 pages, Dr.
Martin admitted to me
00:30:05.97\00:30:11.01
in private discussion
how he felt his church
00:30:11.04\00:30:15.44
had done many, many wrong things
00:30:15.48\00:30:17.31
down through the middle ages.
00:30:17.35\00:30:19.71
I was meeting with him.
00:30:19.75\00:30:22.88
And we were gonna have a debate
00:30:22.92\00:30:24.25
on one of the
local radio stations
00:30:24.29\00:30:27.26
in the New York City area.
00:30:27.29\00:30:28.69
And I came armed
with all of this material
00:30:28.72\00:30:31.46
as to how the Catholic Church
had done some of these things
00:30:31.49\00:30:34.33
in the Middle Ages,
and I had facts and figures
00:30:34.36\00:30:38.30
from the Lutheran
Church and other churches
00:30:38.33\00:30:40.94
how they say
the Catholic Church,
00:30:40.97\00:30:42.94
during the Inquisition,
was responsible for the death
00:30:42.97\00:30:45.37
of about 50 million people.
00:30:45.41\00:30:47.84
I came armed with my material
and we sat down for the debate
00:30:47.88\00:30:51.01
and I hit him
with my hardest salvo.
00:30:51.05\00:30:53.42
I said, "Well, my figures
show that the Catholic Church,
00:30:53.45\00:30:58.25
through the
Inquisition, was responsible
00:30:58.29\00:30:59.62
for the death about
50 million Protestants."
00:30:59.65\00:31:01.32
He said, "Oh, it's
way more than that.
00:31:01.36\00:31:04.16
It's way more than that."
00:31:04.19\00:31:05.53
And he disarmed me right away.
00:31:05.56\00:31:07.33
He said, "Yeah.
Everything is true."
00:31:07.36\00:31:08.83
He said, "We did."
00:31:08.86\00:31:10.20
But this is what he
said, and we're gonna come back
00:31:10.23\00:31:12.33
to this in just a little bit.
00:31:12.37\00:31:13.70
This is what Malachi
Martin famous Jesuit scholar,
00:31:13.74\00:31:16.00
said to me.
00:31:16.04\00:31:17.37
He said, "Sometimes
mothers are little over zealous
00:31:17.41\00:31:22.34
in correcting
their wayward children."
00:31:22.38\00:31:26.01
That was his statement,
00:31:26.05\00:31:27.38
statement of a
famed Jesuit scholar.
00:31:27.42\00:31:30.62
He said, "Sometimes mothers
can be a little over zealous
00:31:30.65\00:31:35.46
in correcting
their wayward children."
00:31:35.49\00:31:39.43
Some scholars
estimate 50 million.
00:31:39.46\00:31:42.20
Malachi Martin said,
"Much more than that."
00:31:42.23\00:31:45.00
So he wasn't making an excuse.
00:31:45.03\00:31:47.24
He said, "Sometimes
when you spank your children,
00:31:47.27\00:31:50.41
you spank them a little hard,
00:31:50.44\00:31:51.77
you spank them a
little too hard."
00:31:51.81\00:31:54.31
But given all of the torture
00:31:54.34\00:31:57.55
and the millions of death
00:31:57.58\00:32:01.82
as sad as that was
and as bad as that was,
00:32:01.85\00:32:07.36
perhaps the most audacious
00:32:07.39\00:32:10.66
aspect of papal intention
00:32:10.69\00:32:14.10
was to change times and laws.
00:32:14.13\00:32:18.67
And that's what
Daniel 7 tries to stress in
00:32:18.70\00:32:24.44
its portrayal of this new beast.
00:32:24.47\00:32:28.81
What does that mean?
00:32:28.84\00:32:32.25
What does it
mean to try to change
00:32:32.28\00:32:35.55
times and laws?
00:32:35.58\00:32:38.65
There is a wonderful book
that is no longer in print
00:32:38.69\00:32:40.99
that I have in
my library called,
00:32:41.02\00:32:42.62
"How the Pope
became infallible."
00:32:42.66\00:32:46.16
And it deals with the
changing of times and laws.
00:32:46.19\00:32:50.03
But in verse 25 of Daniel 7,
00:32:50.07\00:32:53.84
we see that statement made.
00:32:53.87\00:32:58.47
This new power, this
horn will seek to change
00:32:58.51\00:33:04.45
times and laws.
00:33:04.48\00:33:07.78
This little horn
00:33:07.82\00:33:09.72
claims the prerogatives of God.
00:33:09.75\00:33:14.96
The question we need to ask,
00:33:14.99\00:33:17.26
what times and whose laws
00:33:17.29\00:33:20.93
is the Bible speaking off?
00:33:20.96\00:33:24.03
Well first we can
discount man's laws.
00:33:24.07\00:33:26.53
Can you say amen?
00:33:26.57\00:33:28.24
Because man's laws change
00:33:28.27\00:33:33.17
like the wind.
00:33:33.21\00:33:35.58
Think of the number of times
00:33:35.61\00:33:36.95
that England as a country
00:33:36.98\00:33:38.31
went from
catholic to protestant,
00:33:38.35\00:33:40.52
catholic to protestant,
00:33:40.55\00:33:41.88
depending on the king
or the queen on the throne,
00:33:41.92\00:33:43.65
it went from
catholic to protestant.
00:33:43.69\00:33:45.72
We now have, in
the United States here,
00:33:45.75\00:33:48.72
the president can
sign executive orders.
00:33:48.76\00:33:51.73
One president can sign an
executive order that says,
00:33:51.76\00:33:54.73
"Yea."
00:33:54.76\00:33:56.10
And then the next president
comes right behind them
00:33:56.13\00:33:57.70
and signs an executive
order that says, "Nay."
00:33:57.73\00:34:00.57
So we're not talking
about man's times and laws
00:34:00.60\00:34:03.71
because man's laws change
with the whim of the person
00:34:03.74\00:34:06.84
who gets elected.
00:34:06.88\00:34:08.21
They are not permanent.
00:34:08.24\00:34:09.58
They are as ropes of
sand. They're like the wind.
00:34:09.61\00:34:11.68
So when we talk about
changing time and laws,
00:34:11.71\00:34:14.48
we've got about
the church trying,
00:34:14.52\00:34:16.72
we've got to be
speaking about the church
00:34:16.75\00:34:18.92
attempting to change
God's times and God's laws
00:34:18.95\00:34:23.46
because it's only
God's time and God's law
00:34:23.49\00:34:26.76
that really matter.
00:34:26.80\00:34:28.13
Amen?
00:34:28.16\00:34:29.50
Every time we
amend the constitution,
00:34:33.47\00:34:35.10
it occurs to me, we
change our own laws.
00:34:35.14\00:34:37.64
So we're talking
about God's time, God's law.
00:34:37.67\00:34:41.54
Here's a text
for you, Malachi 3:6.
00:34:41.58\00:34:44.61
The Bible says, "I am
the Lord, I change not."
00:34:44.65\00:34:48.52
So God is not fickle.
00:34:48.55\00:34:50.59
God doesn't say one thing today
00:34:50.62\00:34:52.29
and then sign an executive order
00:34:52.32\00:34:53.99
and make it
another thing tomorrow.
00:34:54.02\00:34:56.73
And the battle really is
between earth and heaven.
00:34:56.76\00:35:02.20
So let's put that in context,
00:35:02.23\00:35:04.33
God's law is the
Ten Commandments, amen?
00:35:04.37\00:35:07.70
We're talking
about the law of God,
00:35:07.74\00:35:09.10
we're talking about
the eternal law of God,
00:35:09.14\00:35:11.47
the law that is
part of His character,
00:35:11.51\00:35:13.84
that's the Ten Commandments.
00:35:13.88\00:35:15.68
The only
commandment that deals with time
00:35:15.71\00:35:18.68
is the fourth commandment.
00:35:18.71\00:35:21.85
The rest of the
commandments are sort of do
00:35:21.88\00:35:23.59
and don't
commandments that really deal
00:35:23.62\00:35:25.15
with interpersonal relationships
00:35:25.19\00:35:26.52
between humans and
interpersonal relationships
00:35:26.55\00:35:28.82
between man and God.
00:35:28.86\00:35:30.66
The only one
that deals with time
00:35:30.69\00:35:33.43
is commandment number four.
00:35:33.46\00:35:35.40
Now this is
very, very important.
00:35:35.43\00:35:37.07
I'm gonna show you
something in just a little bit.
00:35:37.10\00:35:39.23
So God's law, Ten
Commandments, God's time,
00:35:39.27\00:35:43.27
the fourth commandment.
00:35:43.30\00:35:44.64
So then Daniel
7:25 identifies a power
00:35:44.67\00:35:49.48
that will attempt to
change the Lord's Sabbath.
00:35:49.51\00:35:54.35
That's what
Daniel 7:25 is saying.
00:35:54.38\00:35:57.12
This power is going to attempt
to change God's holy Sabbath
00:35:57.15\00:36:03.69
because the
Sabbath is the only part
00:36:03.73\00:36:06.26
of the Ten Commandments
that deals with time.
00:36:06.29\00:36:12.43
The first change or
the first attempt to change
00:36:12.47\00:36:15.50
began with the Edict
of Constantine in 321 AD.
00:36:15.54\00:36:19.77
Now we're not
gonna go through that
00:36:19.81\00:36:21.14
because many people
have talked about that.
00:36:21.18\00:36:23.38
What the Edict of
Constantine 321 AD did,
00:36:23.41\00:36:27.82
it
decriminalised work on Sunday.
00:36:27.85\00:36:33.15
Prior to 321 AD,
00:36:33.19\00:36:35.96
Christianity was
still a Religio Illicitus,
00:36:35.99\00:36:39.93
in other words,
an illegal religion.
00:36:39.96\00:36:42.06
And the reason we know
that it was an illegal religion
00:36:42.10\00:36:44.30
is because just 10
years before or less,
00:36:44.33\00:36:49.60
the Christian
church went through
00:36:49.64\00:36:51.27
one of the worst times of
persecution in its history
00:36:51.31\00:36:54.28
called the
Diocletian Persecution.
00:36:54.31\00:36:57.01
Ten years of persecution
under the Emperor Diocletian,
00:36:57.05\00:37:00.48
303 to 313,
when Christians where
00:37:00.52\00:37:03.55
slaughtered by
the tens of thousands.
00:37:03.59\00:37:07.42
So now after 313, in 321,
00:37:07.46\00:37:11.06
Constantine makes an edict
00:37:11.09\00:37:15.36
that
decriminalizes work on Sunday.
00:37:15.40\00:37:19.30
It de facto
recognizes Christianity,
00:37:19.33\00:37:23.94
turns it from a Religio Illicita
00:37:23.97\00:37:26.61
to a legitimate religion.
00:37:26.64\00:37:30.75
Most people know about 321.
00:37:30.78\00:37:33.05
I want to take you
to the next big attack
00:37:33.08\00:37:37.69
on Christianity at
the council of Laodicea
00:37:37.72\00:37:41.42
in 364 AD.
00:37:41.46\00:37:44.86
364 AD.
00:37:44.89\00:37:47.60
And I want to give you
the language that was voted
00:37:47.63\00:37:50.03
by the church at the
council of Laodicea 364 AD,
00:37:50.07\00:37:56.04
"Christians shall not
Judaize and be idle on Saturday,
00:37:56.07\00:38:01.21
that is the Sabbath."
00:38:01.24\00:38:02.58
Judaizing meant
just acting like a Jew
00:38:02.61\00:38:05.65
and doing nothing on Sabbath.
00:38:05.68\00:38:07.95
So they wanted you
working on Sabbath.
00:38:07.98\00:38:11.65
A little bit later,
something very interesting,
00:38:11.69\00:38:14.02
the Catholic Church
actually instituted something
00:38:14.06\00:38:16.52
they called the Sabbath fast.
00:38:16.56\00:38:18.79
They made you fast on Sabbath
to make it a day of drudgery,
00:38:18.83\00:38:22.80
and then they allowed
you to feast on Sunday.
00:38:22.83\00:38:27.50
So you can't Judaize on Sabbath
"but shall work on that day."
00:38:27.54\00:38:31.01
So they want you
in the field work
00:38:31.04\00:38:32.44
and they want you
working on that day,
00:38:32.47\00:38:34.84
"But the Lord's day
00:38:34.88\00:38:37.15
they shall especially honor
and as being Christians shall,
00:38:37.18\00:38:42.02
if possible, do
no work on that day.
00:38:42.05\00:38:47.32
If however they
are found Judaizing,
00:38:47.36\00:38:50.83
they shall be
cut off from Christ."
00:38:50.86\00:38:54.96
That's the Council
of Laodicea, 364 AD.
00:38:55.00\00:38:59.00
In other words,
00:38:59.03\00:39:00.37
if they caught you
not working on Saturday,
00:39:00.40\00:39:06.07
you were anathema, you
were cut off from the Lord.
00:39:06.11\00:39:10.48
So this now is the
first fully functioning edict
00:39:10.51\00:39:16.18
not only in favor of Sunday
00:39:16.22\00:39:19.22
but
specifically against Sabbath.
00:39:19.25\00:39:23.16
Then in the 16th century,
00:39:23.19\00:39:26.73
the church found its
philosophical mother load.
00:39:26.76\00:39:31.13
In the 16th century,
00:39:34.14\00:39:36.00
the Church convened an
18-year convocation called
00:39:36.04\00:39:41.28
the Council of Trent, T-R-E-N-T,
00:39:41.31\00:39:45.28
after the city
in Northern Italy.
00:39:45.31\00:39:49.98
The Council of Trent took up
00:39:50.02\00:39:52.42
many, many doctorates.
00:39:52.45\00:39:56.46
But one of the
things that it did
00:39:56.49\00:40:01.26
towards the end of the council
00:40:01.30\00:40:03.33
was address
itself to the Sabbath.
00:40:03.37\00:40:08.40
Let me give you
some of the words
00:40:08.44\00:40:11.11
of the hero of
the Council of Trent,
00:40:11.14\00:40:14.24
his name was Archbishop Reggio
00:40:14.28\00:40:18.01
or the Archbishop of Reggio.
00:40:18.05\00:40:21.92
Here is what a Catholic
Church discovered in 1551
00:40:21.95\00:40:28.16
right near the close
of the Council of Trent.
00:40:28.19\00:40:32.39
"The written word
explicitly enjoins
00:40:32.43\00:40:36.40
the observance
of the seventh day."
00:40:36.43\00:40:39.57
Now that's the Catholic
Church telling the truth
00:40:39.60\00:40:43.51
about the Sabbath.
00:40:43.54\00:40:45.11
"The written word
explicitly enjoins
00:40:45.14\00:40:49.58
the observance
of the seventh..."
00:40:49.61\00:40:50.95
In other words the Bible
says, "Keep the Sabbath."
00:40:50.98\00:40:54.22
"As the Sabbath,
00:40:54.25\00:40:56.35
we do not
observe the seventh day.
00:40:56.38\00:41:00.56
If they," that is protestants,
00:41:00.59\00:41:04.26
"do truly hold
the scripture alone
00:41:04.29\00:41:07.23
as their standard,
they would be observing
00:41:07.26\00:41:12.40
the seventh day as enjoined
in the scripture throughout."
00:41:12.43\00:41:17.57
You see what he is saying?
00:41:17.61\00:41:18.94
He's saying if you
really were Bible keepers,
00:41:18.97\00:41:22.11
you would be
keeping the seventh day.
00:41:22.14\00:41:24.95
Now hold onto your hats,
00:41:24.98\00:41:26.31
here's how he
uses that argument,
00:41:26.35\00:41:28.72
"Yet they only...
00:41:28.75\00:41:32.05
"Yet they not only reject
the observance of the Sabbath
00:41:32.09\00:41:36.42
enjoined in the written word..."
00:41:36.46\00:41:38.13
So he's saying it again.
00:41:38.16\00:41:39.49
"Not only do you reject
the Sabbath in the Bible,
00:41:39.53\00:41:42.73
but they have
adopted and do practice
00:41:42.76\00:41:46.30
the observance of Sunday
00:41:46.33\00:41:49.07
for which they have only
the tradition of the church."
00:41:49.10\00:41:52.91
Now look what he is saying.
00:41:52.94\00:41:55.41
He is saying,
00:41:55.44\00:41:57.21
"You say that
you're Bible keepers,
00:41:57.25\00:42:00.62
but the day you're keeping..."
00:42:00.65\00:42:03.55
You will forgive
my pejorative English,
00:42:03.59\00:42:05.49
eight in the Bible.
00:42:05.52\00:42:09.02
So you're keeping a day,
and the only reason you have
00:42:09.06\00:42:15.03
for keeping that day is
because we're telling you
00:42:15.06\00:42:17.97
to keep that day.
00:42:18.00\00:42:20.17
So you cannot really
say you're Bible keepers.
00:42:20.20\00:42:24.37
Now this, this is
very, very important,
00:42:24.41\00:42:26.27
this is very
crucial, "Consequently,"
00:42:26.31\00:42:28.98
he goes on, "the
claim of scripture alone
00:42:29.01\00:42:32.98
as their standard falls
and the doctrine of scripture
00:42:33.01\00:42:38.55
and tradition as
essential is fully established."
00:42:38.59\00:42:43.43
He's weaving a
pretty tight case here,
00:42:43.46\00:42:46.29
"The Protestants
themselves being judges."
00:42:46.33\00:42:50.07
This was voted at the Council
of Trent in spring of 1551.
00:42:50.10\00:42:55.90
It's a powerful,
powerful argument.
00:42:55.94\00:43:00.08
Now the Augsburg Confession,
00:43:00.11\00:43:03.38
the Augsburg Confession
was voted as the Catholic...
00:43:03.41\00:43:09.15
Sorry, the
Protestant doctrine in 1530.
00:43:09.18\00:43:15.39
It was presented
00:43:15.42\00:43:17.86
to the Holy Roman Empire
00:43:17.89\00:43:23.57
elector in Germany,
00:43:23.60\00:43:26.84
Lutheran
scholars put it together,
00:43:26.87\00:43:29.40
and before long,
00:43:29.44\00:43:31.11
all protestant denominations
00:43:31.14\00:43:33.61
accepted the
Augsburg Confession.
00:43:33.64\00:43:36.21
I've read the
Augsburg Confession,
00:43:36.24\00:43:38.18
the book in which it is
written is 878 pages long.
00:43:38.21\00:43:42.12
It's got 28 different parts
and each of the different parts
00:43:42.15\00:43:46.32
has about 20 different subtexts.
00:43:46.35\00:43:48.19
It's a long, long thing.
00:43:48.22\00:43:51.89
The Council of Trent calls
00:43:51.93\00:43:55.06
it the Protestant Inconsistency.
00:43:55.10\00:44:01.20
Here's their reason,
the Augsburg Confession
00:44:01.24\00:44:06.71
states that Protestants
00:44:06.74\00:44:11.75
would accept and revere Sunday.
00:44:11.78\00:44:15.78
And all protestant churches
00:44:15.82\00:44:17.72
signed on to the
Augsburg Confession.
00:44:17.75\00:44:22.36
It admits the observance
of Sunday as the Lord's day.
00:44:22.39\00:44:28.40
So now Archbishop Reggio
come along 21 years later
00:44:28.43\00:44:33.47
at the Council
of Trent and says,
00:44:33.50\00:44:36.44
"Because of this one issue,
00:44:36.47\00:44:40.44
because of this
one issue," he says,
00:44:40.48\00:44:44.41
"the entire Protestant
reformation is nothing
00:44:44.45\00:44:48.82
more than an unwarranted revolt
00:44:48.85\00:44:53.96
against the mother church."
00:44:53.99\00:44:55.59
And that was voted
at the Council of Trent.
00:44:55.62\00:44:58.09
And from that day
to this, that shows
00:44:58.13\00:45:02.56
what the Catholic
Church thinks of Protestantism.
00:45:02.60\00:45:08.67
It is an unwarranted revolt.
00:45:08.70\00:45:12.04
Why is it a revolt?
00:45:12.07\00:45:14.51
He says,
00:45:14.54\00:45:15.88
"Because you
don't believe yourself
00:45:15.91\00:45:18.51
what you're teaching."
00:45:18.55\00:45:20.25
And it's a powerful argument.
00:45:20.28\00:45:22.52
He says, "You cannot
believe what you're teaching
00:45:22.55\00:45:25.82
because the main argument
of the Protestant reformation
00:45:25.85\00:45:31.86
was sola scriptura."
00:45:31.89\00:45:36.00
The Bible and the Bible only.
00:45:36.03\00:45:40.40
The main argument coming
out of the Council of Trent
00:45:40.44\00:45:44.61
is that scripture
and tradition are equal.
00:45:44.64\00:45:51.05
So how can you be sola scriptura
00:45:51.08\00:45:55.48
and keep a day
which is not scriptura?
00:45:55.52\00:46:01.39
You understand that argument?
00:46:01.42\00:46:03.56
It is so powerful
that every Catholic scholar
00:46:03.59\00:46:07.46
from that day to this
has used that same argument.
00:46:07.50\00:46:11.60
Every one, you name them,
Cardinal Gibbons, Albert Smith,
00:46:11.63\00:46:16.34
John Newman, Louis Gaston Segur,
00:46:16.37\00:46:20.08
Nathan Keenan.
00:46:20.11\00:46:22.81
All of the great theologians
00:46:22.84\00:46:27.22
have used that same argument
00:46:27.25\00:46:30.75
that you cannot
be solo scriptura
00:46:30.79\00:46:33.79
because you're keeping a day
that has no place in scripture.
00:46:33.82\00:46:39.26
We changed the day.
00:46:39.29\00:46:41.10
You're keeling our day
00:46:41.13\00:46:43.03
so you're not really Protestant.
00:46:43.06\00:46:47.17
And many Catholic
theologies call it, to this day,
00:46:47.20\00:46:51.17
the Protestant inconsistency.
00:46:51.21\00:46:54.81
They say, "You
cannot be sola scriptura
00:46:54.84\00:47:00.05
because you're keeping a
day that is not in scripture."
00:47:00.08\00:47:02.82
I brought this up
to Malachi Martin.
00:47:02.85\00:47:05.32
This Protestant inconsistency,
00:47:05.35\00:47:08.42
this idea that you cannot be
sola scriptura and keep Sunday.
00:47:08.46\00:47:12.26
And here is what Malachi
Martin told me face to face.
00:47:12.29\00:47:16.03
He said, "If you
worship the day..."
00:47:16.06\00:47:20.14
"If you worship the
Lord on the day designated
00:47:20.17\00:47:24.81
by the Catholic Church..."
00:47:24.84\00:47:27.28
"If you worship
the Lord on the day
00:47:27.31\00:47:31.55
designated by
the Catholic Church,
00:47:31.58\00:47:34.85
regardless of what
00:47:34.88\00:47:36.32
you call
yourself, you are Catholic."
00:47:36.35\00:47:41.59
That's Malachi Martin.
00:47:41.62\00:47:43.96
It doesn't matter
what your name is,
00:47:43.99\00:47:45.33
Baptist,
Protestant, Presbyterian.
00:47:45.36\00:47:47.10
Doesn't matter.
00:47:47.13\00:47:48.46
If you're worshiping on
the day that we designate,
00:47:48.50\00:47:51.67
you're Catholic.
00:47:51.70\00:47:53.90
And that is the mindset
of the church to this day.
00:47:53.94\00:47:56.77
And that's why your hearing
terms like erring brethren,
00:47:56.81\00:47:59.57
you know brethren
that have departed.
00:47:59.61\00:48:01.14
You're still Catholic
00:48:01.18\00:48:02.51
because you're
worshiping on our day.
00:48:02.54\00:48:04.15
Now that's not the
Protestant argument,
00:48:04.18\00:48:06.58
it's not the
Seventh-day Adventist argument.
00:48:06.61\00:48:08.75
It is the Catholic
Church's theological context
00:48:08.78\00:48:12.12
form 1551 in the
Council of Trent.
00:48:12.15\00:48:15.82
You're accepting our day,
you are de facto Catholic.
00:48:15.86\00:48:22.30
And of all the dogma
00:48:22.33\00:48:24.10
coming from the Council of Trent
00:48:24.13\00:48:26.37
and they ratified
many things, arguably,
00:48:26.40\00:48:29.67
the one that has the
most far reaching effect
00:48:29.70\00:48:35.28
on how Catholic theologians view
00:48:35.31\00:48:37.85
and treat all Sunday-keeping
Protestants is this idea
00:48:37.88\00:48:43.15
of the Protestant inconsistency.
00:48:43.18\00:48:47.26
They're saying, "You
don't believe yourself
00:48:47.29\00:48:49.79
what you're teaching, you cannot
00:48:49.82\00:48:51.99
because you're keeping our day."
00:48:52.03\00:48:53.36
It's a very, very
powerful argument,
00:48:53.40\00:48:55.63
and it is buttressed
00:48:55.66\00:48:57.27
by what the
Bible says in Daniel 7,
00:48:57.30\00:49:00.64
"They will seek to
change times and laws."
00:49:00.67\00:49:03.54
And then we find
out in Revelation
00:49:03.57\00:49:05.31
that the whole world is
moving in that direction.
00:49:05.34\00:49:09.54
That is why,
ladies and gentleman,
00:49:09.58\00:49:11.55
the Counter
Reformation was so vicious
00:49:11.58\00:49:15.48
and why the fires
of the inquisition rage
00:49:15.52\00:49:18.22
for the next 400 years
00:49:18.25\00:49:21.12
because from the
Catholic standpoint,
00:49:21.16\00:49:23.59
said Malachi Martin to
me, "They were crushing
00:49:23.63\00:49:27.93
an illegitimate religion
whose adherence not only
00:49:27.96\00:49:34.00
didn't believe what they taught,
00:49:34.04\00:49:36.44
they couldn't
believe what they taught."
00:49:36.47\00:49:39.37
According to Malachi Martin,
"They couldn't believe it
00:49:39.41\00:49:42.34
because their
basic worship premise
00:49:42.38\00:49:47.42
did not come
from the Word of God.
00:49:47.45\00:49:49.55
Many of the popes
and leaders of the church
00:49:53.32\00:49:57.06
saw their
persecution of Protestants
00:49:57.09\00:50:01.46
not as persecution
but rather fumigation,
00:50:01.50\00:50:07.74
sterilization,
ratification of a disease
00:50:07.77\00:50:13.88
that infected the
holy mother church.
00:50:13.91\00:50:18.65
Protestantism in the middle ages
00:50:18.68\00:50:21.15
was for many
not a rival religion
00:50:21.18\00:50:26.19
but a virus that
needed to be cleansed.
00:50:26.22\00:50:31.19
That is why they took
such extreme measures,
00:50:31.23\00:50:34.56
such ungodly
measures, such horrific measures
00:50:34.60\00:50:38.27
in stamping out what they saw...
00:50:38.30\00:50:41.84
what they thought
was an unnecessary revolt
00:50:41.87\00:50:46.31
that should have
never taken place.
00:50:46.34\00:50:50.18
So groups like the Huguenots,
the Albigenses, the Waldenses,
00:50:50.21\00:50:56.69
the Cathary, the Lombards,
00:50:56.72\00:51:02.12
the Anabaptists, the Jews...
00:51:02.16\00:51:05.56
I'm sorry, the
Lollards, the new Christians
00:51:05.59\00:51:09.00
which were
Sabbath keeping Christians
00:51:09.03\00:51:12.03
by the way were
hunted down and destroyed
00:51:12.07\00:51:17.64
because the church thought
00:51:17.67\00:51:19.77
they were doing the work of God.
00:51:19.81\00:51:22.91
As far as India and
in the east and Spain
00:51:22.94\00:51:29.15
and its colonies in the west,
00:51:29.18\00:51:32.85
the church thought its duty
00:51:32.89\00:51:37.46
to execute offenders.
00:51:37.49\00:51:40.90
The move to
change God's Sabbath,
00:51:40.93\00:51:44.23
to change the
times and laws of God
00:51:44.27\00:51:47.47
did not happen overnight.
00:51:47.50\00:51:50.51
It took centuries
of force, coercion,
00:51:50.54\00:51:55.94
edicts, papal bulls
00:51:55.98\00:51:58.91
and disciplines to try
00:51:58.95\00:52:01.95
to get the Sabbath to go away.
00:52:01.98\00:52:06.12
But praise God
after 100,000 Albigenses
00:52:06.15\00:52:10.49
were destroyed in a
day and 70,000 Huguenots
00:52:10.53\00:52:15.50
destroyed in France,
00:52:15.53\00:52:17.63
and tens of thousands
of Christians destroyed,
00:52:17.67\00:52:21.37
God's truth still marched on.
00:52:21.40\00:52:25.64
Amen.
00:52:25.67\00:52:27.01
Now let's look quickly
before our time gets away
00:52:27.04\00:52:28.88
at the time period as
spoken of in Daniel 7.
00:52:28.91\00:52:33.38
The Bible says that
this persecuting power
00:52:33.42\00:52:36.35
would be in the
ascendency times,
00:52:36.38\00:52:39.79
time, times and
dividing or half a time.
00:52:39.82\00:52:43.46
So let's look at the numbers,
looking at the day, year,
00:52:43.49\00:52:46.96
day principle,
time, time, 360 day/years.
00:52:47.00\00:52:51.10
The Jewish year
was 360 days, not 365.
00:52:51.13\00:52:55.97
Times is a
multiplication of that,
00:52:56.00\00:52:58.47
times 2 or 720 day/years,
00:52:58.51\00:53:02.21
and half a time
is 180 day/years.
00:53:02.24\00:53:06.48
We mark that from the
year that Pope Leo crowned
00:53:06.51\00:53:12.62
Charlemagne head of
the Holy Roman Empire
00:53:12.65\00:53:17.59
the same year
that the Ostrogoths
00:53:17.63\00:53:19.69
were eradicated
from Italy, the same year
00:53:19.73\00:53:24.83
that the Catholic Church
began to function on its own,
00:53:24.87\00:53:29.64
the year 538 AD.
00:53:29.67\00:53:33.78
You add to that 1,260 years,
00:53:33.81\00:53:37.01
and you'll come up to 1798.
00:53:37.05\00:53:42.42
It was in that year that...
00:53:42.45\00:53:47.29
Alexander birth year,
Napoleon's general went to Rome
00:53:47.32\00:53:52.73
and took the
pope off his throne,
00:53:52.76\00:53:56.93
and a 1,260-year reign
00:53:56.97\00:54:00.47
of terror came to an end.
00:54:00.50\00:54:05.71
During that time,
God's people stood up for Him
00:54:05.74\00:54:10.98
in marked and wonderful ways.
00:54:11.01\00:54:14.25
God's people were
burned and hounded
00:54:14.28\00:54:19.19
and chased and weren't
allowed to read the Bible.
00:54:19.22\00:54:24.19
They were persecuted
00:54:24.23\00:54:27.96
almost beyond reason.
00:54:28.00\00:54:31.27
And yet the truth
of God stood strong.
00:54:31.30\00:54:36.17
Amen.
00:54:36.20\00:54:38.74
I'll say it again.
00:54:38.77\00:54:40.11
I said before
rather and will say again.
00:54:40.14\00:54:43.18
God has always had
His witnesses, always.
00:54:43.21\00:54:46.78
There have always been people
00:54:46.82\00:54:49.42
who were able to
risk life and limb
00:54:49.45\00:54:55.79
and even liberty
for the cause of Christ.
00:54:55.82\00:54:59.46
We don't know how
many millions died
00:54:59.49\00:55:04.63
at the hand of
persecution but God does.
00:55:04.67\00:55:09.24
Every name has
been written down,
00:55:09.27\00:55:12.57
every face is
marked in the mind of God.
00:55:12.61\00:55:17.21
And not one tear was shed
00:55:17.25\00:55:20.82
that wasn't
written down in heaven.
00:55:20.85\00:55:23.45
That's why I am so
thankful that at the end of that
00:55:23.49\00:55:28.29
wonderful faith
chapter in the Book of Hebrews,
00:55:28.32\00:55:33.03
there is this text that says,
00:55:33.06\00:55:35.20
"They without us
should not be made perfect."
00:55:35.23\00:55:40.77
Even those who suffered,
when they get their reward,
00:55:40.80\00:55:46.71
you'll get your
reward at the same time.
00:55:46.74\00:55:49.84
We'll all go in together.
00:55:49.88\00:55:52.95
My prayer is that we
all stand for the Lord.
00:55:52.98\00:55:57.19
Our faith will be tested.
00:55:57.22\00:55:58.75
Oh, yes, it will be.
00:55:58.79\00:56:01.46
But the same God
who was with those
00:56:01.49\00:56:04.93
wonderful saints of
old is with us here today.
00:56:04.96\00:56:08.53
Amen.
00:56:08.56\00:56:09.90
He has not left us,
He has not forsaken us,
00:56:09.93\00:56:13.87
and He guarantees
that the children of God
00:56:13.90\00:56:18.51
will be victorious.
00:56:18.54\00:56:22.64
This is like the seal, the...
00:56:22.68\00:56:27.55
I'm trying to think of
that person you go to the...
00:56:27.58\00:56:29.88
notary republic who gives you
00:56:29.92\00:56:31.59
that seal and makes it official?
00:56:31.62\00:56:33.66
That's what this last line is.
00:56:33.69\00:56:35.92
"For the mouth of
the Lord has spoken."
00:56:35.96\00:56:41.23
That's a notary republic seal.
00:56:41.26\00:56:43.43
God say, "What I have told you,
00:56:43.47\00:56:46.84
I myself guarantee."
00:56:46.87\00:56:50.54
They will seek the
changed times and laws,
00:56:50.57\00:56:53.17
they will seek to
tell you what you can do
00:56:53.21\00:56:55.58
or even what you can think.
00:56:55.61\00:56:59.55
But have no fear, fear not.
00:56:59.58\00:57:03.65
God will bring forth our people.
00:57:03.69\00:57:07.39
And I wanna be in that number.
00:57:07.42\00:57:08.76
What about you?
00:57:08.79\00:57:10.99
And then He says,
00:57:11.03\00:57:12.93
"I'm guaranteeing
you your deliverance.
00:57:12.96\00:57:17.00
You will make it through."
00:57:17.03\00:57:20.10
Why?
00:57:20.14\00:57:21.70
Because the mouth of
the Lord has spoken it.
00:57:21.74\00:57:27.14
Amen?
00:57:27.18\00:57:28.51
Amen. And amen.
00:57:28.54\00:57:30.61