It's been 2,000 years
since the glorious light
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of the cross
illuminated the world
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veiled in darkness and confusion
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about the character of God.
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And still today the
greatest need of mankind
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is a revelation of God's love
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as revealed in
the life of Christ.
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Amazing Facts
presents the Everlasting Gospel
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with Pastor Doug Batchelor,
coming to you each week
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from Sacramento Central
Church in sunny California.
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Discover hidden
treasures in God's Word today.
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The message today that
I feel impressed to share
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I have titled "The
Last Little Big Horn."
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Now some of you know
little bit about history
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and you heard of the, the
battle of little big horn.
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And that's of
course sometimes referred
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to as Custer's Last Stand.
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It was probably the most,
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complete victory of
the Native American's
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over the American military.
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When they managed to lure
Custer and his Seventh Cavalry
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far away from many
post got them far away
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from geographical protection
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and then it
confederacy of Indians
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under Sitting Bull came together
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and caught them
completely by surprise,
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overwhelmed them
with superior numbers
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and I don't believe
there is a survivor.
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One horse survived.
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Now you might wonder,
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what in the world does
Pastor Doug have in his mind,
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he is gonna preach
about Custer's Last Stand?
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Not, really it's a play on
words, the little big horn.
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I was thinking about
what's been happening
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in the news today
and I kept thinking about
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the little big horn.
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And it really comes
from a verse in the Bible
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you didn't know
that Custer's Last Stand
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is in the Bible.
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Turn in your
Bible's to Daniel 7:8...
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in this prophecy of The Ram
and the Goat it tells us that,
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the goat ends up
sprouting four horns
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and from among one of those
horns, something happens here.
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"I considered the
horns, and, behold,
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there came up among
them another little horn,
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before whom there were
three of the first horns
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plucked up by the
roots, and, behold,
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in this horn were
eyes like the eyes of man,
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and a mouth
speaking great things."
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Little horn speaking
great things, a little big horn.
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Well, like that
was my stab at it.
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Matter of fact this
is an important subject
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because this little
horn does big things
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and you find
that this little horn
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that you read about
here on Daniel Chapter 7
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that ends up being the last day
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prosecuting power is
the same as the beast,
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the first beast in
Revelation Chapter 13.
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Now, it says in the
Book of Galatians 4:16
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"Am I therefore
become your enemy,
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because I tell you the truth?"
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Do you want me to
tell you the truth friends?
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I just feel I have an
obligation to talk to you
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about what's been
happening recently
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more specifically
with the people who visit.
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I think we are seeing a
segment or segments today,
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a brick today in
the wall of fulfilled
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prophecy has been added.
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And I probably wouldn't
be very faithful as a pastor
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if I did not
address these things
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because I want to make
sure you understand history
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and what's going on and
you can view these things
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through what I believe
is a clear perspective.
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Daniel 7:25 tells us,
"This little horn power
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will speak great words
against the most High,"
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and where out will prosecute
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the saints of the most high
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and think to
change times and loss.
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I have got an amazing
fact for you, did you know,
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the biggest country in
the world today is what?
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You have any
doubts, shop at Wal-Mart
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and look at where it's made.
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China is the biggest country.
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About 1.3 to
1.4 million Olympics
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will begin this year in China.
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You know there are
more people in China
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now than they in the
entire world 150 years ago.
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So that's the biggest country.
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You know what the smallest
country in the world is?
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Smallest country is the Vatican.
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Did you know the Vatican
is an independent country,
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that's right?
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1929 under the terms
of the Lateran treaty,
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Vatican city or The Holy See
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was established as
an independent state
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with 109 acres with in Rome.
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Less than 1,000 people
live in this little country
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that is governed by the Pope,
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who has absolute executive,
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legislative and judicial powers.
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Furthermore, Vatican
City has its own currency
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and postal system, they
publish a daily newspaper,
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a monthly journal they manage
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their own telephone
and telegraph services.
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It even has a small railroad
station and a radio station.
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The famous Swiss
guards serve as the police,
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maintaining internal security
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and protection for the Pope.
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Yet, in spite of
their tiny territory,
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even China fears
this little country.
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It is a little big horn.
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Now, this little horn
that is spoken of by Daniel
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and in Revelation and
by Paul and many others,
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the many of the
prophets identified
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as the Roman Catholic Church.
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Now, stay with me,
I don't want to say
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anything to be offensive.
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I want to be faithful and
to be true, I want to be kind.
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And I know that many people
are hearing this and going,
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where is he going
and what is he saying.
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It's interesting that
when you consider Catholicism
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is really supposed to be
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a branch of the
Christian religion.
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Why is it treated
as a political power?
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Why is the Pope
treated as the head of state?
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Well, it's because they knew,
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when they appealed
in 1929 to be treated
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as an independent country
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they would get the
benefits of a country
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and be recognized that way.
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And so basically they're saying
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that they are the
leaders of a country
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that is diffused
all over the planet.
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And so if you go
to the United Nations,
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you'll see the Pope there.
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Pope was met by President
Bush at Andrews Air Force base,
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typically somewhere
that only heads of state go.
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And this is the first
time that President Bush
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went to the airport to
meet the arriving dignitary
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that was a first.
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All the fanfare and the
attention was unprecedented.
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Matter of fact, it
was the largest gathering
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that Bush has had in
his entire presidency
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at the White
House, even surpassing
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the visit of Queen
Elizabeth II earlier this year,
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when the Pope showed up.
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A very interesting timing.
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It's also interesting that
they had a private audience
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with no advisors around them.
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Typically there are advisors
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and others
around recording this,
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but he wanted a
private audience.
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The Pope does, he
understands English
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even better than he
speaks it, a very educated man,
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and I would love to have heard
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what was said in
that private conversation.
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Now, you might be
wondering Pastor Dough,
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why are you taking our
Sabbath morning service
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to talk about what we
can read in the headlines.
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I want to give you little
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different
perspective on something.
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The way I read my
Bible, the last two powers
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that are going to consolidate
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to implement final
prophecy are Catholicism
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with its base in Europe
and Rome, and Protestantism
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with its
headquarters in North America.
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There will be a
joining of these two powers
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then under the influence
of spiritualism through this
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three fold union
religious laws will be made
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that will compel people
to worship a certain way.
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Now, I don't expect things
to change radically this week.
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Pope flies from tomorrow,
you probably will go shopping
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just like you always do
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and events will transpire
very much like they do.
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But I want you to know
history was made this week
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and that little by little
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people are being
transformed in their thinking
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and prepared for this final move
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that the Bible
foretells is going to happen.
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It's interesting
that when the Pope
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went to the national
stadium brand new stadium
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46,000 people
came to receive mass.
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In Washington D.C
our nation's capital
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a lot of things
have been happening
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that are very calculated
carefully orchestrated
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to have
significance and to change
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impressions and gain influence.
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This was all about gaining
influence matter of fact,
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as the Pope was preparing
for his trip from Italy,
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he said, I'm going
on a mission to America.
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What do missionaries do
when they go to another country?
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If I'm a missionary
and I go to another country
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I want to get converts.
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I want to change their thinking
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to what I believe is the truth.
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And so there is no question
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about what his purpose was,
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he said that very
openly I respect him for that.
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Have this mass, mass--
its interesting that someone
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who is
interviewing President Bush,
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you know one time Bush
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when he had his first
interview with Vladimir Putin,
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Bush said you know I
looked into his eye's
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and I saw the man's soul.
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And someone asked
President Bush now,
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that you have looked
into Pope Benedict's eyes,
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what do you see?
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And immediately with
out hesitation he said God.
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That's what he said.
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And you will find
that in the newspaper.
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Then what Pastor
has so much cloud
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about United Nations
will gather to be addressed.
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Not only did Pope Benedict,
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speak to address
the United Nation's
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general assembly then he
met on in another meeting
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following that to address
the United Nation's staff
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with a separate address.
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Would they do that for, me?
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No weight, Karen
said she would come
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or may be she said
they do it for her.
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But, no I think that I don't
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that they ever gotten
together to hear Billy Graham.
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But the Pope the Holy See
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if you ever look I have been
to the Untied Nations a group,
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right near at
the United Nations,
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there is a section on the floor
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with the different countries
have their little labels
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and you will see, you
know, they have got Russia
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and they have got all
the different countries
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they are tagged there.
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There is one section
its tagged "The Holy See"
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and there are ambassadors
from the United States
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that go to the Vatican
and there are ambassadors
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from Vatican to
the United States.
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Is this a church or what?
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Well, the Bible
says it's or what?
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And people are forgetting that,
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or what means it
is not just a church.
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It is a very powerful political
dynamic in the world today.
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If you have ever
read the book written by--
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I believe its Malachi Martin
called Keys of This Blood.
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Where he talks about
that there were very clear
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meetings between Ronald
Reagan and Pope John Paul II
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and they
recognized that in order
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to create some
security in the world
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they were gonna
need to work together
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for the over
through of communism
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which they successfully did
and that all came out later.
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But the plans there are clear
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and they are
long in their action.
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It says this little horn
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that you find in spoken of
in Daniel speak great words.
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I saw a number of
pictures in the news of course
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and in the, the internet
and he is not a big man.
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But what he says
is very important
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because before he was the Pope
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better known as
Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger
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he served as the Head of the
Catholic Churches Congregation
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for the Doctrine of the
Faith from 1981 to 2005,
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over 20 years defining
the Doctrine of the Faith
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and he is very
conservative in his theology,
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believing in the
former statements
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and the former
positions of the church,
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even before Vatican too.
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Newsweek magazine
said when Pope John Paul II
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traveled people came
to see Pope John Paul II
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he said that they
come to hear Pope Benedict.
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Because he is
speaking very concisely
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and very
deliberately as a theologian
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and you should know some
of the things that are said.
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Now it tells us,
as you read there,
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in Daniel and in Revelation 13,
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this little horn power
will be guilty of blasphemy.
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There are a couple of biblical
definitions for blasphemy.
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One of them you find
in Luke 5:21, it says,
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"Claiming to forgive sins."
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Claiming to have the
power to forgive sins
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is one of the
definitions of blasphemy.
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You remember when Jesus said
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that He could forgive
the sins of the paralytic?
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That the Jewish
scholars that were there said,
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"Who is this that
speak of blasphemy?
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Only God can forgive sins."
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They were right,
they just didn't believe
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that Jesus was God.
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Only God can forgive sin.
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Secondly, another
definition biblically
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for blasphemy is
claiming the position of God.
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And you find in John
10:33 and other places,
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where Jesus said,
"Before Abraham was, I am,"
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they took up stones to
stone him for blasphemy,
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because, "Thou being a
man make it thy self God."
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So when a man puts himself
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in the place of God
that is called blasphemy.
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Now, listen to what
the official teachings are
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that Pope Benedict agrees with
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of what the position
of the Pope represents.
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Some of you have
heard this quote before
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from Pope Leo XIII,
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"We hold upon this earth
the place of God Almighty."
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That would fulfill that
definition of blasphemy,
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but there's more.
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2 Thessalonians
2:4 Paul says here
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one of the definitions
of this little horn power
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in the last days, it says,
"Who opposes and exalts himself
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above all that is called God,
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or that is
worshipped, so that he as God
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sits in the temple of God,
showing himself that he is God."
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Now, the temple of God
today is not a building,
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the temple of God
today is the people,
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"What, know ye not ye
are the temple of God"
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Jesus said that
his body is the temple,
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destroy this temple and
three days I will raise it up.
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He spoke of His body,
you are the body of Christ.
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So when someone sits
over the temple of God,
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it means over the
church of God, you got that?
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Showing themself that he is God.
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Well, I believe that
the position of the Pope,
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by their description,
meets that definition,
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and that ought to
cause us a little edginess.
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For instance, you read
here on April 30th, 1922,
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Pope Pius XI
said, "You know that
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I am the Holy Father and
the representative of God
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on earth, the Vicar of Christ,
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which means that I
am God on the earth."
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These are the official
declarations of the Pope.
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Got another here from
Dignities of the Priest.
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It says, "God himself
is to abide by the judgment
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of His priests"
God has to go along
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with what his priests say.
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"And either not to
pardon or to pardon,
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according as they
refuse or give absolution"
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Absolution means forgiveness.
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The priests decide
who's gonna be forgiven,
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who's not, and God
must subscribe to that.
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"The sins of the priest proceeds
and God subscribes to it."
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Priest gets to decide who
is forgiven and who is not,
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God goes along with
what the priest says.
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That gives an
awful lot of power,
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regarding people's
eternal destinies, to men.
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And that power,
that supposed power,
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has been used to exploit
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and manipulate
nations in the past.
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Again, from the Book
by Pope John Paul II,
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this is a lot more recent.
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This is page 3,
it's under the chapter,
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The Pope, A
Scandal and a Mystery.
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"Confronted with the
pope, one must make a choice.
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The leader of
the Catholic Church
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is defined by the faith
as the Vicar of Jesus Christ
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and is accepted
as such by believers.
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The Pope is
considered the man on earth
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who represents the Son of God,
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who takes the place
of the second person
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of the omnipotent
God of the trinity."
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And, you know, Pope John Paul II
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seemed like such a lovely man.
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I think I've told you
many times my father met him,
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he was just very impressed.
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And Pope
Ratzinger oh, I'm sorry,
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Benedict, that's his old name.
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May be a lovely man.
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And keep in mind this is
no attack on the individual.
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Here's something
for you to think about.
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Do the Bible prophecies foretell
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that Babylon would
persecute God's people?
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The Bible power,
the prophecies tell
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that the king of
Babylon would destroy the temple
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and would kill the
people and burn the city?
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Prophecies told that?
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Nebuchadnezzar was the
instrument in that, correct?
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How many of you think we might
see Nebuchadnezzar in heaven?
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Think about it for a second.
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The last thing Nebuchadnezzar
says in the Bible,
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he is extolling
the God of heaven.
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And the Spirit of
God came back to him
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and he repented of his pride.
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He might be in the
kingdom, you don't know that.
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So you
understand what I'm saying?
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I'm not speaking
against these individuals.
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What we're talking
about is systems of government
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that the Lord has
foretold in His word,
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would be
instrumental in bringing
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about the final events
of compelling everybody
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to either receive
the Mark of the Beast
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or not be able to buy
or sell, or be killed.
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And the other group of course
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is going to
have the Seal of God,
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and I hope you
know what that is.
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And it tells us that there's
gonna be this confederacy.
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The first beast
in Revelation 13,
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I believe, is speaking
about the Roman Catholic Church.
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The orthodox churches
would maybe be included in that,
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with its
principal center in Rome.
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It says, the
dragon gave him his seat,
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his power and great authority.
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The dragon at
first was the Roman power
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ruled by the
Caesars, pagan Rome.
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As pagan Rome began to crumble,
00:19:01.94\00:19:03.54
in its place came up papal Rome.
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And in case you didn't know it,
00:19:06.12\00:19:07.21
the reason that the doctrines
of the Roman Catholic Church
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seemed so strange
for Bible Christians
00:19:11.24\00:19:13.93
is because the
Roman Catholic Church
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is in reality the commingling
of many pagan religions
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going all the way back
to Babylon in Christianity.
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So when you mix
some truth with error,
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what do you
have, truth or error?
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You still have error.
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When you mix a little
bit of truth with deception,
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what do you have?
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You still have deception.
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So what happened is, as the--
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Constantine was instrumental
in this, Constantine the great.
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He's the one who
first legalized Christianity
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with the edicts of
Milan, establishing Sunday
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as a day of
worship among other things.
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And being a shrewd politician,
00:19:51.44\00:19:52.72
he said, "Look,
our kingdom is split,
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Christianity has
become the vogue religion."
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They're not hurting anybody,
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they're pretty passive people
00:19:58.61\00:20:00.95
why don't we legalize it?
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We need he had
just fought a battle
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in order to get
the throne of Rome,
00:20:04.64\00:20:06.84
and he said, I need
support in the kingdom.
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And so he legalized
Christianity and to show
00:20:09.49\00:20:11.22
how sincere he was, he
ordered his army to march
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through the Tiber
River and to be baptized.
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Well, can you order
someone to be baptized?
00:20:16.38\00:20:20.04
So a lot of these
pagan soldiers that went down
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into the Tiber River dry pagans,
00:20:22.56\00:20:24.37
they simply came up wet pagans.
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And they said, what do we now?
00:20:25.60\00:20:27.10
He said, you are Christians
now or the Christians believe.
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And so they were
running to the priests,
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and the priests
had a real conundrum.
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The more conservative
priests that were biblical said
00:20:34.78\00:20:36.93
look, you've got to
get rid of your idols,
00:20:36.96\00:20:38.36
and you've got to stop
00:20:38.39\00:20:39.77
all of these pagan
ceremonies and festivals.
00:20:39.80\00:20:41.87
And some of the
others said, look, you know,
00:20:41.90\00:20:44.52
we're gonna get a lot
more pagans to join the church
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if we make a few compromises
and meet them part away.
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This is what happened.
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So they took all of
their statues that were called,
00:20:52.35\00:20:54.61
"Jupiter and
Apollo's, and Zeus and Diana,"
00:20:54.64\00:20:57.86
and they renamed them,
"Peter, James, John and Mary"
00:20:57.89\00:21:01.80
and they started
to develop a theology
00:21:01.83\00:21:03.79
that embraced these statues.
00:21:03.82\00:21:06.69
And the Christian
leaders used the dress
00:21:06.72\00:21:09.94
very humbly
like a common people.
00:21:09.97\00:21:11.55
Jesus, they didn't
say Jesus went around
00:21:11.58\00:21:13.28
in any royal
regale, yeah, did He?
00:21:13.31\00:21:16.30
Festooned with gold? No.
00:21:16.33\00:21:19.14
They didn't even know
where He was in the crowd
00:21:19.17\00:21:20.68
because He dressed
like everybody else.
00:21:20.71\00:21:22.77
Peter and Paul, they didn't wear
00:21:22.80\00:21:24.03
all of these sacramental robes.
00:21:24.06\00:21:27.51
But the pagan priests did.
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And gradually so many things
00:21:30.25\00:21:32.18
that were in the pagan
Roman and Greek cultures,
00:21:32.21\00:21:37.15
the Christians
began to adopt them
00:21:37.18\00:21:38.89
and commingle
them, until pretty soon,
00:21:38.92\00:21:40.86
about 500 years after Christ,
the Christian religion in Rome
00:21:40.89\00:21:44.56
had become a milkshake of
paganism and Christianity.
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And it's very much
like what you see today.
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Matter of fact I hope
its still in my Bible,
00:21:54.01\00:21:55.67
let me give you a
quick example of what
00:21:55.70\00:21:59.44
some of those things are
that are not just not biblical
00:21:59.47\00:22:02.28
that found their
way into the church.
00:22:02.31\00:22:04.00
And again I don't
mean to be unkind,
00:22:04.03\00:22:05.89
I just I want to be truthful
00:22:05.92\00:22:08.13
about what the
Bible really says.
00:22:08.16\00:22:09.47
You can believe
anything you want.
00:22:09.50\00:22:10.78
In America, you can be a
Buddhist, you can be Islamic,
00:22:10.81\00:22:13.25
you could be
Krishna or you are free.
00:22:13.28\00:22:18.62
But if you gonna say
you're a Bible Christian
00:22:18.65\00:22:20.73
then we gonna can talk about it.
00:22:20.76\00:22:22.25
Now, I tell you
what the Bible says,
00:22:22.28\00:22:24.50
all right for
instance, The Bible teaches
00:22:24.53\00:22:26.96
we are not to bow down
to statues, Exodus 20:4, 5.
00:22:26.99\00:22:31.19
The Roman Catholic Church says,
you should bow down to statues.
00:22:31.22\00:22:35.49
It's not an ancient tradition,
but mediaeval tradition.
00:22:35.52\00:22:40.93
The Bible teaches
that-- how many of you been
00:22:40.96\00:22:43.03
to catholic churches?
00:22:43.06\00:22:44.09
I used to go to catholic
school where there are statues.
00:22:44.12\00:22:46.52
Do you see people
praying in front of the statues?
00:22:46.55\00:22:48.61
They kneel in front of them,
00:22:48.64\00:22:49.67
they cross
themselves they leave flowers
00:22:49.70\00:22:50.75
they burn candles,
Bible calls it idolatry.
00:22:50.78\00:22:54.53
And you know I
have catholic friends
00:22:54.56\00:22:55.99
and they will say well, we know
00:22:56.02\00:22:57.41
that statue is not really Jesus
but it helps us think about Him.
00:22:57.44\00:23:00.43
We know it's not really Mary.
00:23:00.46\00:23:02.67
Well, Buddhists
are in the same boat.
00:23:02.70\00:23:05.68
You ask a Buddhists when
they are praying for Buddha
00:23:05.71\00:23:07.83
or some little Buddha
in your Chinese restaurant
00:23:07.86\00:23:09.50
you go to you think they
really think that's Buddha?
00:23:09.53\00:23:11.73
Yes, of course not.
00:23:11.76\00:23:12.79
It just helps us think about
him and to reverence to him.
00:23:12.82\00:23:15.68
It's called
idolatry, because it lowers
00:23:15.71\00:23:17.31
your conception
of who God really is
00:23:17.34\00:23:19.33
when you fabricate Him
like some plastic figurine
00:23:19.36\00:23:22.85
and put them on your dashboard
00:23:22.88\00:23:24.09
with double stick
tape, that's not God.
00:23:24.12\00:23:27.21
It lowers your concept
and He says you shall not even
00:23:27.24\00:23:29.89
lift up your tool upon My alter
00:23:29.92\00:23:32.27
because you will be tempted
00:23:32.30\00:23:33.33
to try make
something look like Me.
00:23:33.36\00:23:35.50
I'm too great for
you to conceive off,
00:23:35.53\00:23:37.93
its called idolatry.
00:23:37.96\00:23:40.34
The Bible teaches that
all have sinned except Jesus.
00:23:40.37\00:23:43.42
Romans 3:10, Hebrews 4
and many other scriptures.
00:23:43.45\00:23:46.95
The Roman Catholic Church
teaches that Mary was sinless.
00:23:46.98\00:23:51.30
That's the
miracle of conception.
00:23:51.33\00:23:54.29
The Bible says, that Jesus
00:23:54.32\00:23:55.68
is the only
mediator between man and God.
00:23:55.71\00:23:58.45
1 Timothy 2:5, the
Roman Catholic Church says
00:23:58.48\00:24:03.17
Mary is co-mediator with Christ.
00:24:03.20\00:24:07.62
I'm just wondering if
you don't mind showing
00:24:07.65\00:24:09.27
your hands, how many of
you either in your family,
00:24:09.30\00:24:11.57
your personal background
00:24:11.60\00:24:12.71
have a catholic or
Roman Catholic heritage?
00:24:12.74\00:24:14.74
Let me see your hands.
00:24:14.77\00:24:16.60
See a number of
people are there.
00:24:16.63\00:24:17.96
So, you folks I'm not
hearing any one disagree,
00:24:17.99\00:24:19.90
you understand these things
00:24:19.93\00:24:20.99
and we love
these people don't we?
00:24:21.02\00:24:22.91
I think you
gonna see a whole lot
00:24:22.94\00:24:24.46
of Roman Catholic
people in the kingdom.
00:24:24.49\00:24:26.15
Amen. No, question about that.
00:24:26.18\00:24:29.01
But biblically there
are lot things happening
00:24:29.04\00:24:31.72
that are not true.
00:24:31.75\00:24:33.14
In their teachings,
what we are talking about
00:24:33.17\00:24:34.70
is the teachings
of these institutions.
00:24:34.73\00:24:39.19
The Bible teaches
that Christ offered
00:24:39.22\00:24:40.79
His sacrifice for us on
the cross once and for all.
00:24:40.82\00:24:43.92
Hebrew 7:27, 28,
Hebrews 10:10 and others.
00:24:43.95\00:24:48.04
The Roman Catholic
Church teaches that the priest
00:24:48.07\00:24:50.02
sacrifices Christ on the altar
every time he conducts a mass.
00:24:50.05\00:24:53.73
The Bible teaches
that all Christians
00:24:53.76\00:24:55.39
are saints and priests.
00:24:55.42\00:24:57.14
All Christians, you
are really at priesthood.
00:24:57.17\00:24:59.44
Ephesians 1, 1 Peter 2:9,
the Roman Catholic Church says
00:24:59.47\00:25:03.66
that saints and
priests are special casts
00:25:03.69\00:25:06.40
within the Christian community.
00:25:06.43\00:25:08.24
The priesthood.
00:25:08.27\00:25:09.85
The Bible teaches that
all Christians should know
00:25:09.88\00:25:11.93
they have eternal life.
00:25:11.96\00:25:13.45
You can know, that
you have eternal life
00:25:13.48\00:25:15.30
because you accept
Christ and that gives you faith
00:25:15.33\00:25:17.89
and that gives you happy.
00:25:17.92\00:25:19.51
The Roman Catholic Church
teaches that all Christians
00:25:19.54\00:25:21.67
cannot and should not know
that they have eternal life.
00:25:21.70\00:25:26.06
The Bible, you can
just read these things
00:25:26.09\00:25:27.53
in your catholic catechism.
00:25:27.56\00:25:29.66
Well, I'm not assuming
00:25:29.69\00:25:30.72
you all have a
catholic catechism,
00:25:30.75\00:25:32.60
but you can buy one or borrow
00:25:32.63\00:25:34.35
you can get it at the
library if you want to know.
00:25:34.38\00:25:37.27
The Bible teaches
that we should call
00:25:37.30\00:25:38.63
no religious leader father.
00:25:38.66\00:25:41.24
Did you know that
Jesus said that Matthew 23:9
00:25:41.27\00:25:43.79
of course, Roman Catholic
Church teaches that we may
00:25:43.82\00:25:45.89
call the priests
and Pope and Father.
00:25:45.92\00:25:47.53
Oh, boy, Pope is been
called all kinds of things.
00:25:47.56\00:25:49.74
You are holiness,
glorious father, Holy Father.
00:25:49.77\00:25:54.60
I don't even like when
they call me Reverend Batchelor.
00:25:54.63\00:25:56.73
The Bible says, Holy
and Reverend is His name.
00:25:56.76\00:25:59.86
That's why we call
our pastors, pastor,
00:25:59.89\00:26:02.76
and if I met the
Pope I wouldn't call him
00:26:02.79\00:26:04.21
your holiness, I
would call him pastor.
00:26:04.24\00:26:07.54
But you shouldn't deify a man.
00:26:07.57\00:26:10.49
God is God, no man is God.
00:26:10.52\00:26:14.04
The Bible teaches not
to pray in vain repetition.
00:26:14.07\00:26:18.25
And yet the
Roman Catholic Church,
00:26:18.28\00:26:19.49
and that's
Matthew 6:7 and others,
00:26:19.52\00:26:21.85
the Roman Catholic Church,
says to pray the Lords prayer
00:26:21.88\00:26:24.66
or Hail Mary's or others
in repetition counting beads.
00:26:24.69\00:26:29.09
The Bible teaches to
confess our sins to God.
00:26:29.12\00:26:31.49
I understand they had
people wind up 20 deep
00:26:31.52\00:26:35.02
in the Washington
Stadium, doing confession.
00:26:35.05\00:26:37.28
They had kind of
this-- this say you know
00:26:37.31\00:26:39.41
like big
cafeteria of confessions
00:26:39.44\00:26:41.46
going on to the priests
00:26:41.49\00:26:43.40
that were all
appointed for that purpose.
00:26:43.43\00:26:46.13
The Roman Catholic Church says,
00:26:46.16\00:26:47.65
"You must confess your sins
to the priest for forgiveness."
00:26:47.68\00:26:51.30
And I could go on and on
"But the teachings of purgatory,
00:26:51.33\00:26:54.35
limbo and prayers for the
dead are nowhere in Scripture
00:26:54.38\00:26:57.66
but clearly relics of paganism.
00:26:57.69\00:27:00.52
The words of Jesus to
the Pharisees apply today
00:27:00.55\00:27:02.90
when we nullify the Word of God
00:27:02.93\00:27:04.93
with manmade
tradition," Matthew 15:6.
00:27:04.96\00:27:09.01
Tradition sometimes
contradicts tradition.
00:27:09.04\00:27:14.86
For example, the
Roman church teaches
00:27:14.89\00:27:16.79
the Pope is the
head of the church,
00:27:16.82\00:27:18.41
the bishop over all
but Pope Gregory the Great,
00:27:18.44\00:27:22.94
from 540 A.D to 604 AD,
00:27:22.97\00:27:26.96
he was the last of the four
original Doctors of the Church
00:27:26.99\00:27:29.30
and became known as Saint
Gregory, this is the pope.
00:27:29.33\00:27:32.82
At the end of the
ancient church period he said,
00:27:32.85\00:27:35.13
listen, Pope Gregory
said, that such a church,
00:27:35.16\00:27:39.24
he said, "I confidently affirm
00:27:39.27\00:27:40.88
that whoever calls
himself universal bishop
00:27:40.91\00:27:43.64
or desires to be so called is
00:27:43.67\00:27:45.54
in his pride is a
fore runner of antichrist."
00:27:45.57\00:27:48.26
He rejected that they
were calling the pope's
00:27:48.29\00:27:50.00
the universal
bishop of the church.
00:27:50.03\00:27:51.77
He said that is
antichrist in its nature.
00:27:51.80\00:27:54.03
A pope said that. That's
written in their history.
00:27:54.06\00:27:59.61
Index of Forbidden Books
of Pope Pius the 4th in 1559
00:27:59.64\00:28:03.63
he said,
experience has taught us
00:28:03.66\00:28:06.42
that the reading of the Bible
in the vernacular permitted
00:28:06.45\00:28:09.53
generally without discrimination
00:28:09.56\00:28:11.81
will cause more
damage than advantage
00:28:11.84\00:28:14.15
because of the boldness of man.
00:28:14.18\00:28:16.20
In other words, if you read
the Bible in your own language
00:28:16.23\00:28:18.34
it's dangerous, the
priests need to read it
00:28:18.37\00:28:20.10
and interpret
what it says to you.
00:28:20.13\00:28:23.64
It will harm or damage they say.
00:28:23.67\00:28:27.38
The judgments of
bishops and inquisitors
00:28:27.41\00:28:30.01
are to serve as
guides in this matter.
00:28:30.04\00:28:32.53
If someone is found in
possession of one of these
00:28:32.56\00:28:34.62
Bibles written
without permission
00:28:34.65\00:28:35.97
from priest or inquisitor
their sins shall not be forgiven
00:28:36.00\00:28:39.63
unless they turn in
the manuscript and confess.
00:28:39.66\00:28:43.66
Now, we forget
what the history is
00:28:43.69\00:28:47.13
and what is taught.
00:28:47.16\00:28:49.72
You know, by now
China is in the news a lot
00:28:49.75\00:28:52.13
because with their
human rights abuses
00:28:52.16\00:28:55.39
with forbidden certain freedom,
forbidden freedom of religion.
00:28:55.42\00:29:00.56
Folks are saying how can we go
00:29:00.59\00:29:02.20
and endorse the country
and support the country?
00:29:02.23\00:29:04.94
So some are
protesting and boycotting
00:29:04.97\00:29:06.81
because they say
they get problems here
00:29:06.84\00:29:08.10
we need to recognize.
00:29:08.13\00:29:09.56
But when the pope
comes we get amnesia
00:29:09.59\00:29:13.04
about what
history is and I think
00:29:13.07\00:29:15.90
that American's
forget that this country
00:29:15.93\00:29:18.50
was to a great
degree founded by people
00:29:18.53\00:29:21.59
who were fleeing from the
religious prosecution in Europe.
00:29:21.62\00:29:26.46
And so when the
prime representative
00:29:26.49\00:29:29.98
of that prosecution
shows up and is treated
00:29:30.01\00:29:32.29
with all of the fanfare
of a beloved head of state,
00:29:32.32\00:29:36.14
people have amnesia
about what the history is.
00:29:36.17\00:29:41.77
Any way, there is much
more I could share here.
00:29:41.80\00:29:46.02
Part of the last day scenario is
00:29:46.05\00:29:48.02
Protestants that
came out of Catholicism
00:29:48.05\00:29:52.27
are being wooed back in.
00:29:52.30\00:29:54.81
While the pope was here
as recently as yesterday
00:29:54.84\00:29:57.85
he met with religious leaders
at an ecumenical prayer meeting.
00:29:57.88\00:30:01.85
Two hundred and
fifty religious leaders
00:30:01.88\00:30:03.49
from orthodox, Protestant
and evangelical churches
00:30:03.52\00:30:08.46
in addition to that
history was made yesterday
00:30:08.49\00:30:11.43
when Pope Benedict
went for the first time
00:30:11.46\00:30:13.67
to an America synagogue
00:30:13.70\00:30:15.32
and met with the
leader of the synagogue Rabbi.
00:30:15.35\00:30:19.00
And they talked about
the things are hold in common
00:30:19.03\00:30:20.96
and how they should build
bridges and a lot of you know,
00:30:20.99\00:30:24.10
some of that
political mambo-jumbo
00:30:24.13\00:30:25.77
that they like to say that
how much they love each other.
00:30:25.80\00:30:28.64
I also that it was
interesting that the Rabbi
00:30:28.67\00:30:31.66
was a survivor of the Holocaust
00:30:31.69\00:30:34.41
and he is meeting
with a German pope.
00:30:34.44\00:30:38.12
It's interesting, I
mean that's they do,
00:30:38.15\00:30:40.05
that's what they said I
thought that was interesting.
00:30:40.08\00:30:41.86
In connection
with this on April 16th
00:30:44.78\00:30:48.47
on the pope's
birthday and I understand
00:30:48.50\00:30:51.34
it was also the
200th anniversary
00:30:51.37\00:30:53.85
of Catholicism in North America.
00:30:53.88\00:30:55.35
Now, they said that, I
don't know why they said that
00:30:55.38\00:30:57.28
because I know there been
00:30:57.31\00:30:58.34
catholic
jugglers since the 1500's.
00:30:58.37\00:31:00.80
But may be that some form
of recognition of the church
00:31:00.83\00:31:03.43
and they were fully
established I'm not sure,
00:31:03.46\00:31:05.51
but they claim that this weekend
represent the 200th anniversary
00:31:05.54\00:31:09.18
another significant day.
00:31:09.21\00:31:11.08
On April 16th Pope
Benedict on his birthday,
00:31:11.11\00:31:13.71
he met with American
Catholic Bishops and leaders.
00:31:13.74\00:31:16.21
So these are leaders of the
Catholic Church from America
00:31:16.24\00:31:18.69
listen very carefully, friends.
00:31:18.72\00:31:21.13
They met in Washington D.C,
00:31:21.16\00:31:24.53
at the National Shrine
00:31:24.56\00:31:25.85
of the Immaculate
Conception in Washington D.C.
00:31:25.88\00:31:28.27
They met in a church a
cathedral dedicated to Mary
00:31:28.30\00:31:32.21
and her worship
and her sinlessness
00:31:32.24\00:31:35.40
in our nation's capital.
00:31:35.43\00:31:37.88
Chicago Cardinal
Francis E. George
00:31:37.91\00:31:40.47
address the pope on behalf of
the American Catholic leaders.
00:31:40.50\00:31:43.32
He listed five priorities
for the common attention.
00:31:43.35\00:31:46.91
These are the
priorities for their attention
00:31:46.94\00:31:48.36
over the next several years.
00:31:48.39\00:31:49.79
So the pope is sitting
there on a special chair
00:31:49.82\00:31:51.94
and catholic leaders are saying,
here is what our mission is
00:31:51.97\00:31:53.98
for the next few years for
the church in North America.
00:31:54.01\00:31:57.16
This is all public,
this is in the news papers.
00:31:57.19\00:32:00.25
I don't know if you caught this.
00:32:00.28\00:32:03.16
Among them was, strengthening
of marriage and the family,
00:32:03.19\00:32:07.00
we all are in
favor of that? Yeah.
00:32:07.03\00:32:09.62
Protecting life and the dignity
00:32:09.65\00:32:11.20
of the human
person at every stage.
00:32:11.23\00:32:13.56
The every stage means,
even the unborn and the aged.
00:32:13.59\00:32:18.28
Fostering vocations to ordain
priesthood in consecrated life
00:32:22.56\00:32:27.23
and profiting from cultural
diversity in the church here
00:32:27.26\00:32:30.70
and there is a principally
among Hispanic Catholics.
00:32:30.73\00:32:34.35
And here is the one
that I really thought
00:32:34.38\00:32:36.42
was interesting,
listen carefully.
00:32:36.45\00:32:38.82
Handing on the faith in the
context and our whole faith,
00:32:38.85\00:32:42.54
these things we just mentioned,
00:32:42.57\00:32:44.44
should be handed
on in the context of
00:32:44.47\00:32:46.81
the sacramental practice
00:32:46.84\00:32:48.94
and the
observance of Sunday worship.
00:32:48.97\00:32:52.66
Now, what they are
saying is the way to arrive
00:32:52.69\00:32:56.54
at these other
things to save our society,
00:32:56.57\00:32:59.16
to save our
families, to save our culture
00:32:59.19\00:33:02.09
it must be done in the
context of the sacrament
00:33:02.12\00:33:05.83
of the sacredness
of Sunday worship.
00:33:05.86\00:33:10.71
That sounds to me like
a fulfillment of prophecy.
00:33:10.74\00:33:14.25
And that's 2008
Catholic News Service, US.
00:33:14.28\00:33:17.20
You can document
all these things.
00:33:17.23\00:33:18.73
I'm--I did my best
to research everything.
00:33:18.76\00:33:21.05
I hope on being as fair
and accurate as I can be.
00:33:21.08\00:33:24.10
So that was all done
in the context of meeting
00:33:24.13\00:33:26.44
with Protestant
leaders and evangelical leaders
00:33:26.47\00:33:30.85
and I think I
told you a moment ago
00:33:30.88\00:33:32.01
among them was Pat Robertson.
00:33:32.04\00:33:33.37
Here's a book that Pat Robertson
wrote a couple of years ago
00:33:33.40\00:33:35.63
if you want to know
where he stands on Sunday.
00:33:35.66\00:33:37.40
And this is a book
called "The New World Order."
00:33:37.43\00:33:39.99
Here's is one quote
in there from page 236,
00:33:40.02\00:33:42.90
I like to share with you.
00:33:42.93\00:33:44.37
"The next obligation that a
citizen of God's world order
00:33:44.40\00:33:47.58
owes to himself.
00:33:47.61\00:33:49.45
'Remember the Sabbath day
to keep it holy' is a command
00:33:49.48\00:33:52.28
for the personal
benefit of each citizen.
00:33:52.31\00:33:55.78
Higher
civilizations rise when people
00:33:55.81\00:33:58.21
can rest and draw
inspiration from God.
00:33:58.24\00:34:01.41
Laws in America that
mandated a day of rest"
00:34:01.44\00:34:05.09
he is referring
earlier to Sunday laws
00:34:05.12\00:34:07.34
"have been nullified as a
violation of church and state.
00:34:07.37\00:34:11.97
An outright insult
to God and His plan,
00:34:12.00\00:34:14.61
only those
policies that can be shown
00:34:14.64\00:34:17.46
to have a clearly
secular purpose are recognized.
00:34:17.49\00:34:22.17
It is not the duty of any
particular group of people,
00:34:22.20\00:34:25.55
it is the duty of the
government of its people
00:34:25.58\00:34:29.50
to proclaim a day as a Sabbath
to be universally observed
00:34:29.53\00:34:33.03
through the length
and breadth of our land,
00:34:33.06\00:34:35.70
Sunday as the lord's day."
00:34:35.73\00:34:37.79
I think I have
miss read that one,
00:34:37.82\00:34:39.15
it is the duty they are
saying of the government.
00:34:39.18\00:34:41.98
"If we as a nation would escape
00:34:42.01\00:34:43.34
the doldrums of
increased trouble
00:34:43.37\00:34:45.16
as God's hand
rest heavily upon us
00:34:45.19\00:34:47.65
His people opposition to Sunday
nationally declared must cease."
00:34:47.68\00:34:54.54
You know, Protestants
right now have the amnesia.
00:34:54.57\00:34:57.81
Protestants in North America
00:34:57.84\00:34:58.89
are suffering from
an identity crisis.
00:34:58.92\00:35:01.88
If you know your
history, you will remember that
00:35:01.91\00:35:04.31
when they where
building the Washington monument
00:35:04.34\00:35:05.88
that took them a long time
00:35:05.91\00:35:07.09
because they had
several set backs
00:35:07.12\00:35:08.33
including the civil
war but in the 1850's,
00:35:08.36\00:35:11.37
early 1850's the pope
sent a marble stone for them
00:35:11.40\00:35:15.67
to incorporate in the
building as a good will gesture.
00:35:15.70\00:35:19.33
Protestants in North America
were so out raged by this.
00:35:19.36\00:35:22.49
That they took
it and through it,
00:35:22.52\00:35:23.87
might be stole it away
from where it was store
00:35:23.90\00:35:25.99
and threw it in
the Potomac River
00:35:26.02\00:35:27.59
saying, we don't want
anything from the beast.
00:35:27.62\00:35:30.28
I'm attitudes have changed.
00:35:30.31\00:35:32.82
But they had their memory
was a little fresher back then.
00:35:32.85\00:35:36.24
Let me read a few
quotes to you from--
00:35:36.27\00:35:39.41
if you're a
Protestant, a Lutheran,
00:35:39.44\00:35:43.38
you know, Methodist, Baptist,
00:35:43.41\00:35:45.28
Presbyterian, those are
all Protestant churches.
00:35:45.31\00:35:48.33
Seventh-day
Adventist, Protestant church.
00:35:48.36\00:35:50.67
Let me read what
Protestant reformers believed.
00:35:50.70\00:35:53.57
Now, here are some
statements, and stay with me,
00:35:53.60\00:35:55.15
I'm gonna read
several statements
00:35:55.18\00:35:56.37
that may seem strong.
00:35:56.40\00:35:57.48
I am quoting from
Protestant reformers
00:35:57.51\00:36:00.31
from the great reformation
00:36:00.34\00:36:01.59
what their beliefs were
about the little big horn.
00:36:01.62\00:36:04.78
Here's Martin
Luther, 1483 to 1546,
00:36:04.81\00:36:08.58
"Luther proved
by the Revelations
00:36:08.61\00:36:10.28
of Daniel and Saint
John," speaking of Revelation,
00:36:10.31\00:36:13.83
"by the epistles of Saint
Paul, Saint Peter and Saint Jude
00:36:13.86\00:36:17.58
that the reign of
antichrist predicted
00:36:17.61\00:36:19.74
and described in the
bible was the papacy,"
00:36:19.77\00:36:22.90
or what we call the
Roman Catholic Church.
00:36:22.93\00:36:25.15
John Calvin, one of the great
leaders of the Presbyterian
00:36:25.18\00:36:28.28
and very influential
in the Baptist church,
00:36:28.31\00:36:30.91
"Some persons think us
too severe and censorious
00:36:30.94\00:36:33.26
when we called the
Roman pontiff Antichrist."
00:36:33.29\00:36:35.70
By the way, he once was a part
00:36:35.73\00:36:37.62
of the Roman Catholic
Church, as was Luther.
00:36:37.65\00:36:41.50
"But those who are of
this opinion do not consider
00:36:41.53\00:36:43.80
that they bring the same charge
00:36:43.83\00:36:45.06
of presumption
against Paul himself,
00:36:45.09\00:36:47.73
after whom we speak and
whose language we adopt.
00:36:47.76\00:36:50.44
I shall briefly
show that Paul's words
00:36:50.47\00:36:52.20
in 2 Thessalonians 2,
what I just quoted you,
00:36:52.23\00:36:54.93
are not capable of
any other interpretation
00:36:54.96\00:36:57.88
than that which
applies them to the papacy,
00:36:57.91\00:37:00.12
who sits in the temple of god,
showing himself that he is God,
00:37:00.15\00:37:02.81
that's what Calvin
is talking about here.
00:37:02.84\00:37:05.50
John Knox,
Scottish Presbyterian,
00:37:05.53\00:37:08.42
Knox sought to
counteract that tyranny
00:37:08.45\00:37:12.28
which the pope
himself has for so many ages
00:37:12.31\00:37:14.94
exercised over the church.
00:37:14.97\00:37:16.88
As with the
Luther, he firmly concluded
00:37:16.91\00:37:20.03
that the papacy
was the very antichrist
00:37:20.06\00:37:22.78
and son of
perdition of whom Paul speaks.
00:37:22.81\00:37:26.30
Now, again, I'm not
trying to attack anyone
00:37:26.33\00:37:27.92
I'm just telling you
this is what the history is.
00:37:27.95\00:37:30.43
Thomas Cranmer, who ended up
being martyred for his faith.
00:37:30.46\00:37:34.40
"Whereof it followed Rome
to be the seat of Antichrist
00:37:34.43\00:37:39.97
and the pope to be the
very Antichrist himself."
00:37:40.00\00:37:43.02
I could prove the same
by many other scriptures,
00:37:43.05\00:37:45.81
old writers and strong reason.
00:37:45.84\00:37:48.74
I'm just going
through a list of them.
00:37:48.77\00:37:50.31
And if you're an American,
you know who Roger Williams is,
00:37:50.34\00:37:53.69
one of the great
founders of our country.
00:37:53.72\00:37:55.29
Matter of fact, he founded
00:37:55.32\00:37:56.36
the principal of
religious freedom
00:37:56.39\00:37:57.81
that we have, that's
why he named providence,
00:37:57.84\00:37:59.99
Rhode Island, the way he did.
00:38:00.02\00:38:01.40
Roger Williams said,
00:38:01.43\00:38:02.97
he was a first
Baptist pastor in America.
00:38:03.00\00:38:07.20
"Pastor Williams
spoke of the pope
00:38:07.23\00:38:09.30
as the pretended
Vicar of Christ on earth
00:38:09.33\00:38:11.71
who sits as god
over the temple of god."
00:38:11.74\00:38:14.33
They all interpreted
these scriptures that way,
00:38:14.36\00:38:16.58
"Exalting themselves not only
above all that is called God,
00:38:16.61\00:38:20.31
but over the souls and
consciences of all his vassals,
00:38:20.34\00:38:24.02
yea, over the Spirit of
Christ, over the Holy Spirit,
00:38:24.05\00:38:26.77
yea, and God himself"
00:38:26.80\00:38:28.37
spoke very strongly
about what's going on here.
00:38:28.40\00:38:32.49
Cotton Mather, who was a
great reformer in North America,
00:38:32.52\00:38:35.75
someone told me he had the
whole New Testament memorized.
00:38:35.78\00:38:39.71
The oracles of God foretold
the rising of an Antichrist
00:38:39.74\00:38:42.88
in the Christian
church, and in the Pope of Rome,
00:38:42.91\00:38:46.05
all the characteristics
of that Antichrist
00:38:46.08\00:38:48.40
are so marvelously answered
00:38:48.43\00:38:50.31
that if any who would read
the Scriptures do not see it,
00:38:50.34\00:38:53.13
there is a marvelous
blindness upon them."
00:38:53.16\00:38:56.04
Especially if you read
not only Daniel Chapter 7,
00:38:56.07\00:38:59.39
and if you read
the Revelations 17,
00:38:59.42\00:39:01.79
and if we have time, I may
even go there with you today.
00:39:01.82\00:39:05.35
All right, let's go to
the next one is John Wesley,
00:39:05.38\00:39:08.09
founder of the Methodist Church.
00:39:08.12\00:39:09.97
We sang a song
during Sabbath school
00:39:10.00\00:39:11.52
written by his brother, Charles.
00:39:11.55\00:39:13.97
Speaking of the
papacy, John Wesley wrote,
00:39:14.00\00:39:16.09
"He is in an emphatically
sense the man of sin,
00:39:16.12\00:39:19.89
as he increases all
manner of sin above measure.
00:39:19.92\00:39:23.48
Probably and he is too properly
styled for the sons of perdition
00:39:23.51\00:39:27.81
as he has caused the
death of numberless multitudes,
00:39:27.84\00:39:30.51
both of his
oppressors and followers.
00:39:30.54\00:39:34.80
He is it that exalted himself
above all that is called God
00:39:34.83\00:39:39.58
or that is worshipped,
claiming the highest power
00:39:39.61\00:39:42.22
and the highest honor,
claiming to be the prerogatives,
00:39:42.25\00:39:45.88
which, claiming the prerogatives
which belong to God alone."
00:39:45.91\00:39:49.56
I've got more I
think from Wesley here.
00:39:49.59\00:39:52.88
This is from John Wesley's
commentary on the Bible,
00:39:52.91\00:39:55.80
you can just read this online.
00:39:55.83\00:39:58.82
"That is Europe, this
beast is the Roman papacy
00:39:58.85\00:40:02.82
as it came to a
point 600 years since,
00:40:02.85\00:40:06.09
stands now and will
for some time longer.
00:40:06.12\00:40:08.99
To this, and no other power
of earth agrees the whole text
00:40:09.02\00:40:12.77
and every part of
it in every point.
00:40:12.80\00:40:15.58
This beast is a
spiritually secular power
00:40:15.61\00:40:18.96
opposite to the
kingdom of Christ.
00:40:18.99\00:40:21.16
A power not merely
spiritual or ecclesiastical,
00:40:21.19\00:40:24.17
not merely secular or political
but a mixture of both."
00:40:24.20\00:40:31.88
I may have been
at 40, it slipped.
00:40:31.91\00:40:37.47
In the book,
"Great Cloud of Witnesses"
00:40:37.50\00:40:39.36
here's another quote.
00:40:39.39\00:40:42.79
"Wycliffe--" first English Bible
"Tyndale--" another translator,
00:40:42.82\00:40:46.98
"Luther, Calvin,
Cranmer; in the 17th century,
00:40:47.01\00:40:50.99
Bunyan--" John Bunyan
wrote pilgrim's progress
00:40:51.02\00:40:53.35
"the translators of
the King James Bible
00:40:53.38\00:40:55.63
and the men who
published the Westminster
00:40:55.66\00:40:57.49
and Baptist
confessions of faith,
00:40:57.52\00:40:59.53
Sir Isaac Newton, Wesley,
Whitfield, Jonathan Edwards,
00:40:59.56\00:41:03.89
and more
recently Charles Spurgeon,
00:41:03.92\00:41:06.36
Bishop J.C.Ryle and
Dr. Martin Lloyd-Jones,
00:41:06.39\00:41:10.97
these men among
countless others,
00:41:11.00\00:41:13.24
all saw the office of the
Papacy as the antichrist."
00:41:13.27\00:41:18.04
So I'm not teaching
you something new today.
00:41:18.07\00:41:21.02
I just sometimes feel
like I'm one of the only ones
00:41:21.05\00:41:22.71
who is teaching
something very old.
00:41:22.74\00:41:24.86
You just don't hear
people say it anymore,
00:41:24.89\00:41:26.63
because there's a blindness
00:41:26.66\00:41:28.13
that's come upon
Israel, as Paul said
00:41:28.16\00:41:31.58
that these things are
happening under our nose
00:41:31.61\00:41:33.59
and there's just hardly a ripple
00:41:33.62\00:41:35.56
going through the
Protestant church.
00:41:35.59\00:41:38.19
You know, I
thought it was interesting.
00:41:38.22\00:41:40.09
Let me read something to you.
00:41:40.12\00:41:42.40
In 2007, July 16th, not that
long ago, not even a year ago.
00:41:42.43\00:41:47.61
There is a 16 page
document that it was released
00:41:47.64\00:41:50.43
for the Orthodox Churches
coming from the pen of the pope.
00:41:51.97\00:41:59.08
You remember he was the overseer
of their doctrine of the faith.
00:41:59.11\00:42:04.18
It says, the
Orthodox Churches meaning,
00:42:04.21\00:42:06.15
they are Greek
orthodox, Russian orthodox,
00:42:06.18\00:42:08.21
the Orthodox
Church in middle-eastern,
00:42:08.24\00:42:09.81
Orthodox Churches are
suffering from a wound,
00:42:09.84\00:42:13.53
they use the word wound
00:42:13.56\00:42:14.80
because they do
not worship the pope.
00:42:14.83\00:42:18.73
Now, you know,
what the big argument is
00:42:18.76\00:42:21.06
that they have been trying
to reconcile with the Lutherans
00:42:21.09\00:42:23.98
and they have
just about done that
00:42:24.01\00:42:25.80
with the Church of England,
with the Orthodox Churches
00:42:25.83\00:42:30.12
is will they acknowledge
the supremacy of the pope.
00:42:30.15\00:42:33.69
When the pope comes in
his jet with his regalia
00:42:33.72\00:42:36.70
and all of the
attention of head of state,
00:42:36.73\00:42:39.68
he is trying to
impress these other churches
00:42:39.71\00:42:41.70
that he deserves that presage.
00:42:41.73\00:42:44.31
Notice, I'm gonna read on here.
00:42:44.34\00:42:45.70
What really caught people's
attention is what was further--
00:42:45.73\00:42:48.14
the further
description of Protestants,
00:42:48.17\00:42:50.51
not just the
other Orthodox Churches,
00:42:50.54\00:42:52.25
saying, their wound,
the wound of the Protestants
00:42:52.28\00:42:55.07
is even more profound.
00:42:55.10\00:42:57.80
The document went on to
say that it is difficult to see
00:42:57.83\00:43:00.15
how the title of a church
00:43:00.18\00:43:02.18
could possibly be
attributed to Protestants.
00:43:02.21\00:43:05.26
Because there can't
even be a titled church.
00:43:05.29\00:43:08.46
It also affirms that
the Roman Catholic Church
00:43:08.49\00:43:10.36
is the "only
true Church" on earth.
00:43:10.39\00:43:13.12
It further said off a
firestorm of criticism
00:43:13.15\00:43:15.46
among Protestants and
other Christian denominations
00:43:15.49\00:43:18.13
because the document said,
they were not true churches
00:43:18.16\00:43:21.27
but merely ecclesial communities
00:43:21.30\00:43:23.69
and therefore they
had no means of salvation.
00:43:23.72\00:43:26.58
A lose translation of that, they
cannot be saved outside of us.
00:43:26.61\00:43:33.07
At least, we got
the courtesy to say,
00:43:33.10\00:43:34.50
yeah, there will be
Catholics in Heaven.
00:43:34.53\00:43:36.73
There will be Greek
Orthodox and Russian Orthodox
00:43:36.76\00:43:38.71
and Baptists and all, people
who are not part of my church
00:43:38.74\00:43:40.99
are gonna be in heaven.
00:43:41.02\00:43:42.99
But the Catholic Church says,
00:43:43.02\00:43:44.46
their means of
salvation is lost.
00:43:44.49\00:43:48.55
So, all of the smiles in
the nice cities that you see
00:43:48.58\00:43:52.96
nothing is changed
as recently as last year
00:43:52.99\00:43:55.10
in what their believes are.
00:43:55.13\00:43:57.06
I want to read something,
oh, boy, my clock is going fast.
00:43:57.09\00:43:59.91
Let me read something to you
00:43:59.94\00:44:00.97
from a book
written by little old lady
00:44:01.00\00:44:04.09
with just about
three grades of education.
00:44:04.12\00:44:06.55
This is in a book
called "Great Controversy."
00:44:06.58\00:44:08.26
You ever heard
that? I recommended.
00:44:08.29\00:44:10.98
There is a chapter in here
called, "Liberty of Conscience"
00:44:11.01\00:44:14.67
different versions of the book
use different chapter titles.
00:44:14.70\00:44:18.92
And I think you are gonna find
this in about page 562 to 563.
00:44:18.95\00:44:24.44
"Romanism is now
regarded by Protestants
00:44:24.47\00:44:27.25
with far greater
favor than in former years.
00:44:27.28\00:44:30.55
There is an
increasing indifference
00:44:30.58\00:44:32.01
concerning the doctrines that
separate the reformed churches
00:44:32.04\00:44:34.66
from the papal hierarchy.
00:44:34.69\00:44:36.39
The opinion is gaining ground
00:44:36.42\00:44:37.85
but after all, we do not differ
so widely upon vital points
00:44:37.88\00:44:40.63
as it been supposed,
00:44:40.66\00:44:42.24
and that a little
concession on our part
00:44:42.27\00:44:43.92
will bring us into a
better understanding with Rome."
00:44:43.95\00:44:45.93
Let's make little concessions,
but what they don't know
00:44:45.96\00:44:47.99
was happening is
over the last 100 years,
00:44:48.02\00:44:51.04
we have been making
all the concessions.
00:44:51.07\00:44:53.55
So, if you got two people
00:44:53.58\00:44:54.61
that are separated
by doctrinal differences
00:44:54.64\00:44:56.34
and you say let's make some
concessions and come together
00:44:56.37\00:44:58.56
and you got one group that
keeps making all the concessions
00:44:58.59\00:45:02.45
protestants will be full
most in stretching their hand
00:45:02.48\00:45:04.64
across abyss, the
class behind the Romanism.
00:45:04.67\00:45:08.76
The one who is making
the concessions is far most.
00:45:08.79\00:45:14.14
"We don't differ so widely,
few concessions will bring us
00:45:14.17\00:45:16.69
into a better
understanding with Rome."
00:45:16.72\00:45:18.43
Listen to this, "The time
was when Protestants placed
00:45:18.46\00:45:21.23
such a high value upon
the liberty of conscience
00:45:21.26\00:45:24.10
which has been
so dearly purchased.
00:45:24.13\00:45:26.69
They taught their children
to abhor to shun popery,
00:45:26.72\00:45:31.34
they held that to
remain at peace with Rome
00:45:31.37\00:45:33.37
is to be disloyalty to God."
00:45:33.40\00:45:36.51
Making peace with
Rome is disloyalty to God.
00:45:36.54\00:45:39.25
When someone claims
the purgatives of Christ
00:45:39.28\00:45:41.15
that's blasphemy.
00:45:41.18\00:45:43.15
Christian's
should not be indifferent
00:45:43.18\00:45:44.91
or uncomfortable with that.
00:45:44.94\00:45:46.67
If you love Jesus and someone
00:45:46.70\00:45:48.04
is claiming to be
His representative
00:45:48.07\00:45:49.75
and the Bible calls him a
son of perdition and antichrist
00:45:49.78\00:45:52.36
you shouldn't be comfortable.
00:45:52.39\00:45:54.85
Ah, you know, when first
I heard the pope was coming
00:45:54.88\00:45:56.72
you know, I got
friends they get so wound up
00:45:56.75\00:45:58.99
over everything that
I like to stay balanced.
00:45:59.02\00:46:02.38
And everything the pope
sneezes they send me a letter.
00:46:02.41\00:46:05.79
And I'm not like that, I
don't want you to understand
00:46:05.82\00:46:07.73
and so you know I just thought
of take this all and stride
00:46:07.76\00:46:10.04
and the more I
watch things happening
00:46:10.07\00:46:11.48
over the course of the
weekend I felt very disturbed
00:46:11.51\00:46:13.46
and the Holy Spirit was
saying that you heard of Satan.
00:46:13.49\00:46:15.62
You are watching
prophecy get fulfilled
00:46:15.65\00:46:17.40
and you are being
mesmerized like everybody else
00:46:17.43\00:46:20.81
to just shrug it off
00:46:20.84\00:46:22.25
and then I picked up
this book and started reading.
00:46:22.28\00:46:24.46
And remember pastors, I read
this to you when we met Friday.
00:46:24.49\00:46:27.57
I said, I'm getting stirred
that things were happening.
00:46:27.60\00:46:34.46
"The defenders of popery
declare she has been maligned
00:46:34.49\00:46:36.69
and the Protestant world
is inclined to accept this."
00:46:36.72\00:46:39.21
She is just been misunderstood.
00:46:39.24\00:46:41.04
"Many urge that it is unjust to
judge the Roman Church of today
00:46:41.07\00:46:44.22
by the
abominations and absurdities
00:46:44.25\00:46:45.76
that marked her reign
00:46:45.79\00:46:46.82
during the centuries of
ignorance and darkness."
00:46:46.85\00:46:49.41
I hear these same arguments.
00:46:49.44\00:46:50.51
Oh that was back then,
everybody was mixed up back then
00:46:50.54\00:46:53.66
but they haven't
changed their doctrines.
00:46:53.69\00:46:56.89
"Have these persons forgotten
the claim of infallibility,
00:46:56.92\00:47:00.26
for eight hundred years put
forth by this haughty power?
00:47:00.29\00:47:02.50
The people church
will never relinquish
00:47:04.50\00:47:06.46
a claim of infallibility.
00:47:06.49\00:47:09.23
All that she has
done in her persecution
00:47:09.26\00:47:10.78
of those who reject her
dogmas she holds to be right
00:47:10.81\00:47:14.02
and would she not
repeat the same acts,
00:47:14.05\00:47:16.23
should she have the opportunity?
00:47:16.26\00:47:18.75
Let the restraints now imposed
00:47:18.78\00:47:22.34
by secular
governments be removed
00:47:22.37\00:47:24.25
and Rome will be
reinstated to her former power,
00:47:24.28\00:47:28.03
there would be a speedy revival
of her tyranny and persecution."
00:47:28.06\00:47:33.11
I don't have
time to read all this.
00:47:33.14\00:47:35.66
"But Romanism as a
system is no more in harmony
00:47:35.69\00:47:38.24
with the gospel of Christ now
00:47:38.27\00:47:39.58
than at any
former period of history.
00:47:39.61\00:47:42.34
The Protestant
churches are in great darkness,
00:47:42.37\00:47:45.26
or they would discern
the signs of the times."
00:47:45.29\00:47:47.20
Listen, listen, "The
Roman Church is far-reaching
00:47:47.23\00:47:51.00
in her plans and
modes." Very patient.
00:47:51.03\00:47:54.77
"She is employing every
device to extend her influence
00:47:54.80\00:47:57.34
and increase her
power in preparation,"
00:47:57.37\00:47:59.66
all of this is in preparation
00:47:59.69\00:48:01.53
"for a fierce and
determined final conflict
00:48:01.56\00:48:04.56
to regain control of the world."
00:48:04.59\00:48:07.95
That's what Malacia
Martin, former Judge
00:48:07.98\00:48:10.27
said in his book "This Blood."
00:48:10.30\00:48:12.69
He said there is a
battle for control of the world.
00:48:12.72\00:48:15.00
Now, tell you not only is
that pope working right now,
00:48:15.03\00:48:17.82
aggressively to try to
win Protestant and Jews,
00:48:17.85\00:48:22.24
they understand that Islam
00:48:22.27\00:48:24.11
is something that
he needs to deal with
00:48:24.14\00:48:26.01
and he knows that unless he
consolidate the Christian world
00:48:26.04\00:48:30.61
they are not going to
be able to stand against
00:48:30.64\00:48:32.15
the explosion of
the Islamic religion
00:48:32.18\00:48:35.47
and the pope says they are
looking for a spiritual leader
00:48:35.50\00:48:37.77
in the
Christian world right now,
00:48:37.80\00:48:39.83
to deal with the
fanatical Islamic extremism
00:48:39.86\00:48:43.78
and he is coming here to say
00:48:43.81\00:48:45.51
I'm going to be
your hope for leadership.
00:48:45.54\00:48:47.53
We need to pull together.
00:48:47.56\00:48:50.56
I just made a prediction
00:48:50.59\00:48:51.62
did you hear me,
did you catch that?
00:48:51.65\00:48:54.08
I think that's
what happening here,
00:48:54.11\00:48:55.50
because he realizes the Islamic
00:48:55.53\00:48:57.64
and Muslim religion
is exploding in Europe.
00:48:57.67\00:48:59.83
And the old strong
holds of Catholicism
00:48:59.86\00:49:02.67
are greatly threatened now
00:49:02.70\00:49:04.58
in France and
Spain and other places.
00:49:04.61\00:49:08.85
And if you know your history
00:49:08.88\00:49:09.91
you will know that
lots of battles happened
00:49:09.94\00:49:11.33
during the crusades
with that same power.
00:49:11.36\00:49:13.72
They need to support a
Protestants to win that battle
00:49:13.75\00:49:16.66
and Protestants are beginning
to think we need help too
00:49:16.69\00:49:20.12
in our war against terror.
00:49:20.15\00:49:22.86
I just kind of see a trend here.
00:49:22.89\00:49:24.43
"Protestants have tampered
with and patronized popery,
00:49:29.23\00:49:32.18
they have made
compromises and concessions
00:49:32.21\00:49:34.13
which papists
themselves are surprised to see,
00:49:34.16\00:49:36.68
and they fail to understand.
00:49:36.71\00:49:38.53
Men are closing their eyes to
the real character of Romanism,
00:49:38.56\00:49:41.92
and the dangers to be
apprehended from her supremacy.
00:49:41.95\00:49:45.24
The people our
land need to be arouse
00:49:45.27\00:49:47.84
to resist the advances
of this most dangerous foe
00:49:47.87\00:49:51.42
to civil and religious liberty."
00:49:51.45\00:49:54.06
That's what I'm
talking about, dear friends.
00:49:54.09\00:49:55.79
I'm talking about
somebody who comes to our shores
00:49:55.82\00:49:58.31
that claims to be both
the leader of the church
00:49:58.34\00:50:00.92
and the leader of a government.
00:50:00.95\00:50:03.15
The reason America was founded
is we were a beast that came up
00:50:03.18\00:50:07.12
up with two horns like a lamb.
00:50:07.15\00:50:08.51
You know what those
two lamb-like horns were?
00:50:08.54\00:50:11.19
Freedom of Religion we have
a government without a king.
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We get to choose our
king, and he better behave well
00:50:14.78\00:50:16.84
or we're gonna
choose another one.
00:50:16.87\00:50:18.83
So it gives us a
freedom, there's accountability.
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And we have freedom of religion,
00:50:21.74\00:50:24.08
freedom of
government, freedom of religion.
00:50:24.11\00:50:26.45
When someone comes to our
shores and they deny that,
00:50:26.48\00:50:29.30
and they say, "I'm a
sovereign over my own country,"
00:50:29.33\00:50:31.50
I am the king, I am
the religious leader,
00:50:31.53\00:50:33.18
I am the government leader,"
00:50:33.21\00:50:35.90
and we start to ally with that,
00:50:35.93\00:50:37.79
we're moving
backwards from our liberties,
00:50:37.82\00:50:41.09
where they're gonna
start-- and don't you remember,
00:50:41.12\00:50:42.92
what the Catholic Church
did during the inquisition?
00:50:42.95\00:50:44.81
They said, "This
is what you believe.
00:50:44.84\00:50:45.87
And if you don't believe
what we tell you to believe,
00:50:45.90\00:50:47.14
we're sending armies and we have
the right to take your property,
00:50:47.17\00:50:50.66
we have the right
to take your life.
00:50:50.69\00:50:53.73
They haven't renounced that.
00:50:53.76\00:50:56.54
They make very veiled apologies
00:50:56.57\00:50:58.54
but you read them carefully
they don't really apologize.
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Well, friends, I need--
00:51:02.79\00:51:05.06
I think we need to be
aware of what's happening.
00:51:05.09\00:51:09.43
You know, things aren't
gonna change radically next week
00:51:09.46\00:51:14.15
but something happened.
00:51:14.18\00:51:16.22
This week was very
interesting historically.
00:51:16.25\00:51:19.07
Passover, 200 year anniversary,
00:51:19.10\00:51:22.41
an election year in
America, no accident
00:51:22.44\00:51:24.71
this was a very
carefully calculated trip
00:51:24.74\00:51:27.27
to impress any
future power in America.
00:51:27.30\00:51:29.93
Who is in-charge?
00:51:29.96\00:51:32.41
Now, we live in a day
where not too many people
00:51:32.44\00:51:34.12
cut down trees
with axes anymore.
00:51:34.15\00:51:35.79
Any of you ever remember
00:51:35.82\00:51:36.85
when we used an
axe to cut down a tree?
00:51:36.88\00:51:38.69
I can do it, you
will be impressed.
00:51:40.75\00:51:43.70
Pastor Doug, can hit a fly
on a block of wood with an axe.
00:51:43.73\00:51:48.48
I can, I might
have to swing 50 times
00:51:48.51\00:51:50.44
but eventually I will get him.
00:51:50.47\00:51:52.53
And the fly has to be dead.
00:51:52.56\00:51:55.83
No, I'm pretty good and I
have cut down trees with an axe.
00:51:55.86\00:52:00.06
And if you ever fell
a big tree with an axe
00:52:00.09\00:52:03.78
you know that
you got to watch it
00:52:03.81\00:52:07.18
because you get your back cut
00:52:07.21\00:52:09.07
and then you
start your under cut
00:52:09.10\00:52:10.73
and you chip away
one and the chip fly
00:52:10.76\00:52:13.02
if you got a sharp axe
they fly out one at a time
00:52:13.05\00:52:15.21
and every swing as you start to
get a big bite in that undercut
00:52:15.24\00:52:18.91
you got to be
listening because you don't know
00:52:18.94\00:52:21.49
which chip it's gonna
be where all of a sudden
00:52:21.52\00:52:23.29
you can hear a creak and
a crack and you better run
00:52:23.32\00:52:26.21
because those
widowmaker will come of the tree
00:52:26.24\00:52:27.86
and they will take your life.
00:52:27.89\00:52:29.01
Those branches fall down
and so those last few swings,
00:52:29.04\00:52:31.88
the little chip
here little chip there
00:52:31.91\00:52:34.17
eventually, the tree goes down.
00:52:34.20\00:52:36.84
Well, in case you didn't know,
we lost that big chip this week.
00:52:36.87\00:52:41.31
And it's happening chip
by chip, swing by swing.
00:52:41.34\00:52:45.13
Things are
changing and we are at risk
00:52:45.16\00:52:47.42
of loosing our freedom, friends.
00:52:47.45\00:52:50.00
You know I thought it
would be appropriate for us to--
00:52:50.03\00:52:53.57
I challenge you read
the book Great Controversy,
00:52:53.60\00:52:55.94
especially that
chapter if you have,
00:52:55.97\00:52:57.35
and I just read a
few small excerpts.
00:52:57.38\00:53:00.12
We are forgetting our
heritage and how we started.
00:53:00.15\00:53:02.94
You know one more thing,
00:53:02.97\00:53:04.75
It's also
interesting that at one point
00:53:04.78\00:53:07.26
there were only Protestants
on the Supreme Court.
00:53:07.29\00:53:09.99
Now, the Catholics
on the Supreme Court
00:53:10.02\00:53:11.97
outnumber the Protestants.
00:53:12.00\00:53:14.23
Chip, chip, chip
happening little by little
00:53:14.26\00:53:18.66
things are going to change.
00:53:18.69\00:53:19.76
Some national or
international disaster,
00:53:19.79\00:53:24.35
economic, natural disaster,
something's gonna trigger it.
00:53:24.38\00:53:27.91
We're all gonna be
looking for a daddy to run to,
00:53:27.94\00:53:31.11
someone to help save
us, a spiritual leader.
00:53:31.14\00:53:33.96
You watch how
quickly, who do you think
00:53:33.99\00:53:36.05
people are gonna turn
to like a compass needle?
00:53:36.08\00:53:38.22
Especially when now and
the flood of immigration,
00:53:38.25\00:53:43.56
the denominational makeup
of our country is changing.
00:53:43.59\00:53:48.16
It's happening before
your very eyes, friends,
00:53:48.19\00:53:49.86
we need to wake up.
00:53:49.89\00:53:51.75
And I hope that your personal
relationship with Jesus,
00:53:51.78\00:53:54.22
'cause no matter what
you know about prophecy,
00:53:54.25\00:53:55.85
if you don't know
Jesus, it won't save you.
00:53:55.88\00:53:58.36
You've got to have a personal
relationship with Christ
00:53:58.39\00:54:00.64
and appreciate salvation
by grace that He offers.
00:54:00.67\00:54:04.66
Why don't we turn in our
hymns to our closing hymns,
00:54:04.69\00:54:06.91
by Martin Luther of all
things, A Mighty Fortress, 506.
00:54:06.94\00:54:13.75
A mighty Fortress is our God
00:54:24.76\00:54:30.23
A Bulwark never failing
00:54:30.26\00:54:35.80
Our Helper He amid the flood
00:54:35.83\00:54:41.46
Of mortal ills prevailing
00:54:41.49\00:54:47.49
For still our ancient foe
00:54:47.52\00:54:52.20
Doth seek to work us woe
00:54:52.23\00:54:56.61
His craft and power are great
00:54:56.64\00:55:00.83
And, armed with cruel hate
00:55:00.86\00:55:05.69
On earth is not his equal
00:55:05.72\00:55:12.01
Did we in our
own strength confide
00:55:12.04\00:55:18.10
Our striving would be losing
00:55:18.13\00:55:23.99
Were not the
right Man on our side
00:55:24.02\00:55:29.86
The Man of God's own choosing
00:55:29.89\00:55:35.64
Dost ask who that may be?
00:55:35.67\00:55:40.23
Christ Jesus, it is He
00:55:40.26\00:55:44.74
Lord Sabaoth His Name
00:55:44.77\00:55:49.33
From age to age the same
00:55:49.36\00:55:53.96
And He must win the battle
00:55:53.99\00:56:00.88
And though this
world, with devils filled
00:56:00.91\00:56:06.66
Should threaten to undo us
00:56:06.69\00:56:12.56
We will not fear,
for God hath willed
00:56:12.59\00:56:18.23
His truth to triumph through us
00:56:18.26\00:56:24.09
The Prince of Darkness grim
00:56:24.12\00:56:28.67
We tremble not for him
00:56:28.70\00:56:33.10
His rage we can endure
00:56:33.13\00:56:37.82
For lo! His doom is sure
00:56:37.85\00:56:42.41
One little word shall fell him
00:56:42.44\00:56:48.54
Let's pray that God will really
fill our hearts with His Spirit
00:56:50.41\00:56:53.36
we can be totally surrendered
and take a stand for the truth.
00:56:53.39\00:56:55.96
Do it lovingly, do
it with tacking wisdom
00:56:55.99\00:56:58.16
but we got to speak up.
00:56:58.19\00:56:59.28
Father in heaven,
Lord, we do believe
00:57:00.85\00:57:03.71
that today we are
living in ominous time,
00:57:03.74\00:57:06.51
when prophecy
is being fulfilled.
00:57:06.54\00:57:08.62
We see our beloved country
rolling out the red carpet
00:57:08.65\00:57:12.92
for one who at one
time was recognized
00:57:12.95\00:57:15.18
as the very antichrist.
00:57:15.21\00:57:17.70
And this is unsettling war
and we realize what we believe
00:57:17.73\00:57:21.79
and preach which
was once the foundation
00:57:21.82\00:57:24.26
of all protestant churches
is now becoming unpopular.
00:57:24.29\00:57:28.07
Even in our own church,
it's sometimes unpopular.
00:57:28.10\00:57:32.34
I pray Lord, that we
will not be intimidated
00:57:32.37\00:57:34.10
but we will
speak up for the truth
00:57:34.13\00:57:36.14
realizing the
power of Your word.
00:57:36.17\00:57:38.85
I pray that You
will be with each person
00:57:38.88\00:57:40.59
help us to realize
the times in which we live
00:57:40.62\00:57:42.74
that Jesus is coming soon.
00:57:42.77\00:57:45.09
And that we will be
resolved both with our minds
00:57:45.12\00:57:47.82
because it's
true in with our heart
00:57:47.85\00:57:49.22
because we love You
to be fully surrendered.
00:57:49.25\00:57:51.91
Bless us Lord, we
pray You'll prolong
00:57:51.94\00:57:54.80
the freedom and tranquility
we have in our country
00:57:54.83\00:57:57.42
to preach the truth while
people are willing to listen
00:57:57.45\00:58:01.22
while we have this freedom.
00:58:01.25\00:58:02.52
Be with us as we go from
this place to live the truth.
00:58:02.55\00:58:05.51
We thank You, and we
ask this in Jesus name. Amen
00:58:05.54\00:58:08.84