We want to review
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what we studied
in our last session,
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and then we'll get
into some new material.
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Let us pray.
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Father in heaven
as we open your word,
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we ask for the
guidance of your Holy Spirit.
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We ask for understanding,
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we ask for the willingness
to open our hearts and minds
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to receive what you have for us.
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Give us your wisdom,
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we pray in the
precious name of Jesus, amen.
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Let's just review
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what we studied
in our first session.
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We're studying the
great prophetic chain.
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Now where does the chain
begin, with which kingdom?
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It begins with
Babylon, very well.
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Then it continuous
with which kingdom?
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Medo-Persia, then the
third kingdom is what?
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Greece.
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The fourth kingdom
is the Roman Empire.
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But then what happens,
the Roman Empire is what?
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Is divided into 10 kingdoms,
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because that fourth
beast sprouts 10 horns.
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And then in the midst
of the 10 horns rises what?
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A little horn,
and it becomes big.
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It's little at
first, but then it grows
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and it becomes
larger than its fellows.
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So in our study today,
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we are going to
attempt to define
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what is meant
by the little horn.
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We already know
that the lion is Babylon,
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the bear is Medo-Persia,
the leopard is Greece,
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the dragon beast is Rome,
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the 10 horns represent
the 10 divisions of Rome,
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but the question is
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"What is
represented by the little horn?"
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I'm gonna share
with you, as we begin
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seven characteristics
of the little horn,
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and I'm going to
list them first of all,
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and then we are going to look
at each of them more carefully.
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So let's just go through
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the seven
characteristics first of all,
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and then we'll
amplify each one of them.
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Number one,
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the little horn rises
after the 10 horns are there,
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so we know when the
little horn is going to arise.
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It has to arise after
the 10 horns are complete,
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after the Roman Empire
is divided in other words.
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Characteristic number two,
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we know that the
little horn must be a power
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that rises in Western Europe,
more specifically in Rome.
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You say why in Rome,
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because the fourth
beast represents Rome,
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and the little horn
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rises from the head
of the fourth beast.
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So the little horn in some sense
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must be Roman, it
rises in Western Europe,
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more specifically in Rome.
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The third characteristic
is that the little horn
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uproots three of the ten horns.
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So we must look to a
historical occurrence,
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where the little horn uprooted
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three of the
divisions of the Roman Empire.
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The last four characteristics
are found in Daniel 7:25.
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We find there in that
verse the following words.
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"He shall speak pompous
words against the Most High,"
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that's
characteristic number four.
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The pompous words are
defined in Revelation 13,
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which we will study
tomorrow Lord willing,
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is defined as blasphemies.
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The great words
or the pompous words
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are blasphemies.
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So the fourth characteristic
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is that the little
horn speaks blasphemies.
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The fifth
characteristic is expressed
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in verse 25 once again,
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"He shall speak pompous
words against the Most High,
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shall persecute the
saints of the Most High,"
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that's
characteristic number five.
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It would be a power
that would persecute
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God's faithful people.
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And then we have
characteristic number six,
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it says about the little horn,
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"And he shall intend
to change times and law."
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In other words,
this would be a power
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that would think that
it could have the capacity
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and the power to
change God's very law.
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And the final characteristic
is that this little horn
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was going to rule for
a certain period of time.
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It says at the end of verse 25,
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"Then the saints
shall be given into his hand
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for a time and
times and half a time."
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And so we have these
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seven characteristics
of the little horn
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and now we want to take a look
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at which power fulfils
these seven characteristics.
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However, before we do,
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I want to emphasize something
very important once again
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and that is that when we
identify the little horn,
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we are not talking
about the individuals
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represented by the little horn.
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The little horn represents
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an apostate
religious organization.
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In other words,
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it represents an
apostate system of religion.
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It doesn't mean that everybody
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who belongs to that
religion is apostate.
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What it means is
that the system itself
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is an apostate system
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and its
condition is irreversible.
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In other words,
it's not going to change
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according to Bible prophecy.
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But in that system
are many sincere people
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who love the Lord Jesus
well with all their hearts.
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They serve Jesus to
the best of their ability
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according to the
knowledge that they have.
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I want to make
that very, very clear.
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So you say,
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what is
represented by the little horn,
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which apostate
religious organization
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is represented
by this little horn.
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I'm going to tell
you, which power it is,
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and then we are going
to look at the evidence.
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There is no doubt whatsoever
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as we look at
the characteristics
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of the little horn,
that there is only one power,
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one system in the world
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that fits with every
single characteristic
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and that is the
Roman Catholic papacy.
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The little horn represents
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the Roman Catholic
papacy as a system.
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It does not represent
individuals within the system.
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It represents the organization,
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the apostate organization
of the Roman Catholic papacy.
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So let's look at the
seven characteristics
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to see if they
square or they fit
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with the Roman Catholic papacy.
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The first characteristic
is that the little horn
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would rise after the 10
horns or the 10 divisions
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of the Roman
Empire were complete.
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Yesterday I briefly mentioned
about the barbarian tribes
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that came from the
northern sector of the empire.
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And they started carving up
what had been the Roman Empire.
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Some of these are kingdoms,
I'll give you the names
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and you'll
immediately be able to identify
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the nations in Europe
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that descend
from these kingdoms.
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There was the Anglo-Saxons.
Where would they from?
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They would be from England.
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You have the Alemanni, you know,
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in Spanish German is Alemannis,
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so the Alemanni are the Germans.
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You have the Lombards.
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Where would the
Lombards be from?
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They would be from Italy.
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You know you have
the famous football coach
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Vince Lombardi,
which is an Italian name.
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You also have the Franks.
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Which nation
came from the Franks?
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France of course.
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And then you have the Visigoths,
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which arose in Spain.
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Those are only five of the ten.
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In other words,
the nations of Europe
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were the result of the divisions
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of the Roman Empire.
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Now in the fourth century,
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Constantine the emperor in Rome
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decided that he would
move the seat of the empire
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to Constantinople in the east.
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And so the throne of Caesar
in the west was left vacant
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because in the year 476
the last western Roman emperor
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was deposed from his throne,
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his name was Romulus Augustulus.
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And so basically,
Constantine moving the empire,
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the seat of the
empire to the east
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and the last Roman emperor
being deposed in the west,
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allowed now for
the bishop of Rome,
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whom we know to be the pope
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to occupy the throne
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that had been left
vacant by Romulus Augustulus.
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In other words,
the throne of Caesar
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became the throne
of the pope of Rome
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in the year 476,
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when the last Roman emperor
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was deposed from
his throne in the west.
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Are you with me or not.
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And the result of the
divisions of the Roman empire
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are the nations of Europe today,
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each nation with
their own language,
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each nation with
their own culture,
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very different than
when the Roman empire
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was one empire and was united.
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The empire was fragmented
and the nations of Europe
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are the result
of the fragmentation
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of the empire.
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So characteristic number one
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fits the Roman
Catholic papacy very well.
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Rome was the united empire,
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then it was
divided into 10 kingdoms
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and then the emperor
moved to Constantinople,
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the last emperor was deposed,
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and this allowed
the Roman Catholic pope
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to come and occupy the throne
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that had been
occupied by Caesar.
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The little horn definitely arose
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after the 10 horns
were complete and in place.
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In terms of geography,
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this is the
second characteristic,
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where would the
little horn arise?
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Obviously it
rises in Western Europe
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because the 10 horns represent
the nations of Western Europe.
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But more specifically,
it would be a Roman power,
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because the little horn
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rises from the
head of the fourth beast
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and the fourth beast is Rome.
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The question is "Is
the papacy a Roman power?"
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Let's look at
the characteristics.
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First of all what is
the name of the church?
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The Roman Catholic Church.
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What is its
geographical location?
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Its geographical location
is Vatican City in Rome.
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What is its official language?
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Latin, the official
language of the Roman Empire.
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What kind of number
system does the papacy use?
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It uses Roman numerals.
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What is the architecture
in the Vatican like?
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It is Roman architecture.
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Furthermore the papacy inherited
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and transformed the
organizational system
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of the Roman Empire into
an ecclesiastical empire.
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Let me read you a statement here
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from a Jesuit scholar
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by the name of
Malachi Martin in his book
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"The Decline and
Fall of the Roman Church."
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How the papacy
transformed the organization
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that it inherited
from the Roman Empire.
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This is how it reads,
"Within three centuries,
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the Roman Church had transformed
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the administrative
organization of the Roma Empire
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into an ecclesiastical
system of bishoprics, envoys,
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representatives,
courts of justice,
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and a criminal
system of intricate laws
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all under the
direct control of the pope.
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His Roman Palace, the
Lateran, became the new Senate.
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The new senators were whom?
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The cardinals.
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The bishops who lived in
Rome and the priests and deacons
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helped the pope to
administer this new imperium."
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In other words, this new empire.
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So did the papacy inherit
the empire from ancient Rome?
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It most certainly
did. It is a Roman power.
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Furthermore,
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many of the
beliefs and practices
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of the Roman Catholic Church
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were inherited from
the pagan Roman Empire.
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Among those pagan
practices for example
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was the day of the sun.
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In other words,
Sunday as a day of worship
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came into the church
from the ancient Roman Empire.
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In fact the first Sunday Law
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was proposed by
Constantine in the year 321.
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He was a pagan at that time.
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Of course, later
on in the year 336
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in the Council of Laodicea,
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this particular Sunday Law
became a religious Sunday Law,
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because at first there
was a secular Sunday Law,
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and then it became a
religious Sunday Law.
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Perhaps you didn't know
that the name Supreme Pontiff,
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Sumo Pontífice
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as the pope is called in Spanish
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is a direct
importation from the name
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that was given to
the Roman Emperor.
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The Roman Emperor was
called Pontifex Maximus,
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the Supreme Pontiff and
this is exactly the name
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that is given to the pope today.
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He inherited the very name
of the Caesar's in other words.
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Now I want you to notice
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a couple of
statements from historians,
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where the
historians clearly tell us
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that the Roman
Catholic papacy rose from Rome,
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takes the place of
Rome, geographically speaking.
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I'm gonna pass up
the first statement
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that we find, you can
read that at your leisure.
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I'm going to read the next two,
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the one that
comes from W.F. Barry,
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and the one that
is from Adolf Harnack.
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Notice what is
said by W.F. Barry.
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"If we extend our view
00:14:03.30\00:14:04.91
over the ruins of
the Western Empire,
00:14:04.94\00:14:07.84
such is the spectacle
that meets us on every side,
00:14:07.88\00:14:11.91
the Pax Romana has ceased,
the Roman peace has ceased,
00:14:11.95\00:14:16.18
it is universal confusion.
00:14:16.22\00:14:19.12
But wherever a
bishop holds his court,
00:14:19.15\00:14:22.12
religion protects all that
is left of the ancient order."
00:14:22.16\00:14:25.99
And now notice this,
00:14:26.03\00:14:27.40
"A new Rome ascends
slowly above the horizon.
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It is the heir of the religion
which it has overthrown,
00:14:32.70\00:14:36.47
which is paganism, it assumes
00:14:36.50\00:14:38.97
the outward
splendors of the Caesars.
00:14:39.01\00:14:42.51
The emperor is no more...
00:14:42.54\00:14:44.71
But the e
Pontifex Maximus abides,
00:14:44.75\00:14:47.98
he is now the Vicar of Christ,
00:14:48.02\00:14:50.35
offering the old civilization
to the tribes of the north.
00:14:50.39\00:14:54.32
He converts them to his creed,
00:14:54.36\00:14:56.46
and they serve him as
their Father and Judge supreme.
00:14:56.49\00:14:59.86
This is the Papal Monarchy,
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which in its
power and its decline
00:15:02.20\00:15:05.23
overshadows the
history of Europe for how long,
00:15:05.27\00:15:09.07
for a thousand years."
00:15:09.10\00:15:10.87
Actually it was more
than a thousand years.
00:15:10.91\00:15:13.27
So is the papacy a Roman power
according to this historian?
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Absolutely.
00:15:17.35\00:15:19.01
Notice what Adolph
Harnack wrote in his book,
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"What is Christianity,
" pages 269 and 270.
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"The Roman Church in this way
00:15:26.05\00:15:28.42
privily pushed
itself into the place
00:15:28.46\00:15:31.59
of the Roman World-Empire,
00:15:31.63\00:15:33.53
of which it is the
actual continuation,
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the empire has not perished,
00:15:37.47\00:15:39.80
but has only undergone
a what, a transformation.
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It is a political creation,
00:15:44.41\00:15:46.68
and as imposing
as a World-Empire,
00:15:46.71\00:15:50.45
because it is what,
00:15:50.48\00:15:52.41
the continuation
of the Roman Empire.
00:15:52.45\00:15:55.55
The pope, who calls himself
'King' and 'Pontifex Maximus,
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is Caesar's successor."
00:16:00.39\00:16:03.83
So let me ask you,
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is the little
horn a Roman power?
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It most certainly is.
00:16:07.26\00:16:09.20
It comes from the
head of the fourth beast
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which is Rome.
00:16:11.47\00:16:12.80
Once the 10 kingdoms are there,
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the little horn
comes up, this Roman horn.
00:16:15.07\00:16:19.14
Now the third
characteristic that we noticed
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is that this little horn
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would uproot
three of those 10 horns,
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or three of those 10 kingdoms.
00:16:27.92\00:16:30.32
Now the 10 kingdoms were
complete by the year 476.
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In other words,
00:16:33.89\00:16:35.22
by the year 476 when
the last western emperor
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was deposed,
00:16:38.09\00:16:39.43
the empire had been
divided into 10 kingdoms,
00:16:39.46\00:16:42.63
but there was a problem
00:16:42.66\00:16:44.30
that the papacy
had after the year 476
00:16:44.33\00:16:48.54
and that is that there
were three of the 10 kingdoms
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that did not
agree with the theology
00:16:51.57\00:16:54.64
of the Roman Catholic Church,
00:16:54.68\00:16:56.58
particularly they believed
00:16:56.61\00:16:58.51
that Jesus Christ
was a created being.
00:16:58.55\00:17:01.72
They did not believe
that Jesus was eternal God.
00:17:01.75\00:17:05.35
These three kingdoms
were the Heruli, the Vandals,
00:17:05.39\00:17:09.39
and the Ostrogoths.
00:17:09.42\00:17:11.39
And so the papacy
was desirous of uprooting
00:17:11.43\00:17:15.26
these three rebellious kingdoms,
00:17:15.30\00:17:17.60
three of the 10
rebellious kingdoms.
00:17:17.63\00:17:20.00
And so what happened is
that the pope encouraged
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Theodoric of the Ostrogoths
to go against Odoacer,
00:17:24.17\00:17:29.28
the king of the Heruli,
00:17:29.31\00:17:30.65
because the Heruli
were one of the kingdoms
00:17:30.68\00:17:32.75
that were
rebellious to the papacy.
00:17:32.78\00:17:34.82
And thus it was,
that in the year 493,
00:17:34.85\00:17:38.95
Odoacer of the Heruli was killed
00:17:38.99\00:17:42.42
by Theodoric of the Ostrogoths.
00:17:42.46\00:17:45.19
And Theodoric was
sent by the papacy
00:17:45.23\00:17:47.73
to uproot the Heruli
00:17:47.76\00:17:49.96
and they were
uprooted in the year 493
00:17:50.00\00:17:52.63
and there was no
kingdom in Europe today
00:17:52.67\00:17:55.60
that descends from the Heruli.
00:17:55.64\00:17:58.04
Then you have a second
kingdom which was rebellious,
00:17:58.07\00:18:00.38
the Vandals.
00:18:00.41\00:18:01.74
And in the year 534
00:18:01.78\00:18:04.25
the papacy
influenced the Emperor Justinian
00:18:04.28\00:18:07.28
who was now the
emperor in the east,
00:18:07.32\00:18:08.65
but he had a lot
to say about the west,
00:18:08.68\00:18:10.75
the pope encouraged the emperor
00:18:10.79\00:18:13.05
to send armies to
fight against the Vandals.
00:18:13.09\00:18:16.36
And in the year 534,
00:18:16.39\00:18:18.63
the Vandals were
uprooted from history.
00:18:18.66\00:18:21.10
There is no nation in Europe
that descends from the Vandals.
00:18:21.13\00:18:25.33
There was one rebellious kingdom
00:18:25.37\00:18:27.20
that was left, the Ostrogoths.
00:18:27.24\00:18:29.80
And in the year 533,
the Army General Belisarius
00:18:29.84\00:18:36.81
was sent to do war
against the Ostrogoths.
00:18:36.85\00:18:40.82
To make a long story short,
00:18:40.85\00:18:43.12
in the year 538
the Ostrogoths suffered
00:18:43.15\00:18:46.72
a devastating defeat,
they were expelled from Rome,
00:18:46.76\00:18:50.36
even though they
existed until the year 550,
00:18:50.39\00:18:54.30
they no longer had any power,
00:18:54.33\00:18:56.40
and they
disappeared from history
00:18:56.43\00:18:58.80
after the year 538.
00:18:58.83\00:19:01.20
And so exactly the
way history points it out,
00:19:01.24\00:19:04.47
the papacy
influenced the emperor
00:19:04.51\00:19:07.71
to go against these
three rebellious kingdoms,
00:19:07.74\00:19:10.58
the Heruli were
uprooted in the year 493,
00:19:10.61\00:19:13.88
the Vandals were
uprooted in the year 534,
00:19:13.92\00:19:17.29
and the Ostrogoths were
uprooted in the year 538.
00:19:17.32\00:19:23.39
I want you to notice
the statement that was made
00:19:23.43\00:19:26.70
by the Emperor
Justinian about the pope.
00:19:26.73\00:19:32.23
It says, therefore he's writing
a letter actually to Pope John.
00:19:32.27\00:19:36.34
"Therefore, we
have exerted ourselves,
00:19:36.37\00:19:39.37
that is the emperors,
00:19:39.41\00:19:40.98
to unite all the
priests of the East
00:19:41.01\00:19:44.35
and subject them
to Your Holiness...
00:19:44.38\00:19:47.98
because you are the
head of all the Churches,
00:19:48.02\00:19:51.65
for We shall exert
Ourselves in every way
00:19:51.69\00:19:54.46
as has already been stated,
00:19:54.49\00:19:56.32
to increase the honor
and authority of your See."
00:19:56.36\00:19:59.93
What significant
about this statement?
00:19:59.96\00:20:02.13
What significant is
that the emperor is saying,
00:20:02.16\00:20:04.83
you are the head
of all the churches
00:20:04.87\00:20:07.34
and the state is going to
put forth all of his effort
00:20:07.37\00:20:11.27
to make sure that
everybody obeys you
00:20:11.31\00:20:14.78
as the head of
all of the churches.
00:20:14.81\00:20:16.44
Since when is the
state suppose to guarantee
00:20:16.48\00:20:20.92
the unity of the church
and the obedience of people
00:20:20.95\00:20:24.49
members to the church.
00:20:24.52\00:20:27.09
It's interesting to notice
characteristic number four.
00:20:27.12\00:20:30.43
Are you clear with the
first three characteristics now?
00:20:30.46\00:20:33.23
Is the papacy a
Roman power? Yes.
00:20:33.26\00:20:36.13
Did it rise to power
00:20:36.16\00:20:37.50
after the divisions
of the Roman Empire?
00:20:37.53\00:20:39.43
Yes.
00:20:39.47\00:20:40.80
Did it uproot
three of the 10 kingdoms?
00:20:40.84\00:20:43.30
It most certainly did.
00:20:43.34\00:20:44.67
Now the fourth characteristic
is that the little horn
00:20:44.71\00:20:47.58
would speak blasphemies
against the Most High.
00:20:47.61\00:20:52.21
Now we must allow the Bible
to interpret what blasphemy is.
00:20:52.25\00:20:56.18
You know most people
today when you say blasphemy,
00:20:56.22\00:20:58.62
they think of
somebody who raises their hand
00:20:58.65\00:21:00.66
in defiance against
God, maybe some atheist
00:21:00.69\00:21:03.02
who claims that
God doesn't exist.
00:21:03.06\00:21:05.26
It maybe even uses
bad language to curse God.
00:21:05.29\00:21:08.56
That's the idea that people
have about blasphemy today.
00:21:08.60\00:21:11.73
But we should allow the
Bible to define blasphemy,
00:21:11.77\00:21:14.90
not the dictionary
in the 21st century.
00:21:14.94\00:21:17.81
How does the
Bible define blasphemy?
00:21:17.84\00:21:21.81
Well, it defines it in two ways.
00:21:21.84\00:21:24.71
The first way is blasphemy means
00:21:24.75\00:21:28.18
"When a mere man claims to
have the power to forgive sins."
00:21:28.22\00:21:34.79
Let's notice Mark 2:7,
00:21:34.82\00:21:37.59
Mark 2:7 Jesus had
just said to a paralytic,
00:21:37.63\00:21:42.26
your sins are forgiven,
00:21:42.30\00:21:44.20
and of course the Jewish leaders
00:21:44.23\00:21:45.60
were furious with him,
00:21:45.63\00:21:46.97
because they consider
that he was a mere man.
00:21:47.00\00:21:48.94
And so they said,
00:21:48.97\00:21:50.31
this man is
speaking blasphemies,
00:21:50.34\00:21:52.04
who can forgive sins except God.
00:21:52.07\00:21:55.24
Notice what we find in Mark 2:7.
00:21:55.28\00:21:58.51
"Why does this man
speak blasphemies like this?
00:21:58.55\00:22:01.75
Who can forgive
sins but God alone?"
00:22:01.78\00:22:06.39
But let me ask you, does
the Roman Catholic Church
00:22:06.42\00:22:08.79
claim to have the
power to forgive sins.
00:22:08.82\00:22:11.79
You go to Roman
Catholic cathedrals and churches
00:22:11.83\00:22:14.30
and you find
confessionals everywhere.
00:22:14.33\00:22:17.73
Priests receive confession
from the subject of the church.
00:22:17.77\00:22:22.27
And they actually
say that they have power
00:22:22.30\00:22:24.54
to forgive the
sins of the penitents.
00:22:24.57\00:22:27.44
Let me read you a statement
from Saint Alphonsus Liguori,
00:22:27.48\00:22:30.45
one of the 33 doctors of
the Roman Catholic Church.
00:22:30.48\00:22:33.95
This is in his famous book,
00:22:33.98\00:22:35.55
"Dignity and
Duties of the Priest,
00:22:35.58\00:22:37.02
or, Selva" page 28.
00:22:37.05\00:22:39.05
"Were the Redeemer to
descend into a church,
00:22:39.09\00:22:41.99
and sit in a confessional
00:22:42.02\00:22:43.69
to administer the
sacrament of penance,
00:22:43.73\00:22:46.53
and a priest to sit
in another confessional,
00:22:46.56\00:22:50.20
Jesus would say
over each penitent,
00:22:50.23\00:22:52.67
"Ego te absolvo,"
which means I forgive you,
00:22:52.70\00:22:55.60
the priest would likewise
say over each of his penitents,
00:22:55.64\00:22:59.27
"Ego te absolvo,"
00:22:59.31\00:23:00.88
and the penitents of each
would be equally absolved."
00:23:00.91\00:23:05.85
Now are you understanding
what that statement is saying.
00:23:05.88\00:23:07.92
It's saying that the
priest has the same power
00:23:07.95\00:23:10.55
as Jesus Christ to forgive sins.
00:23:10.59\00:23:13.22
Notice what the
Baltimore Catechism has to say,
00:23:13.25\00:23:16.26
these are Roman
Catholic publications.
00:23:16.29\00:23:18.46
"The priest does
not have to ask God
00:23:18.49\00:23:21.66
to forgive your sins.
00:23:21.70\00:23:23.57
The priest himself
00:23:23.60\00:23:24.93
has the power to do
so in Christ's name.
00:23:24.97\00:23:28.90
Your sins are
forgiven by the priest,
00:23:28.94\00:23:31.71
the same as if you
knelt before Jesus Christ
00:23:31.74\00:23:35.44
and told them
to Christ Himself."
00:23:35.48\00:23:39.75
You are aware of the fact
00:23:39.78\00:23:41.12
that Pope
Francis I has proclaimed,
00:23:41.15\00:23:43.08
"This year, the year of mercy,
00:23:43.12\00:23:46.25
actually it's from December 8,
2015 through November 20, 2016.
00:23:46.29\00:23:51.76
And he's even said that
women who I have aborted babies,
00:23:51.79\00:23:55.00
if they're truly
sorry for what they've done,
00:23:55.03\00:23:57.37
and they confess
their sin to the priest,
00:23:57.40\00:24:00.04
the priest can
forgive their sin.
00:24:00.07\00:24:03.20
The papacy certainly claims
00:24:03.24\00:24:05.04
to have the
power to forgive sin,
00:24:05.07\00:24:06.68
that's one of
the characteristics
00:24:06.71\00:24:08.04
of the little horn,
00:24:08.08\00:24:09.41
it speaks blasphemies
against the Most High.
00:24:09.44\00:24:12.08
But there is a
second characteristic
00:24:12.11\00:24:14.12
of blasphemy.
00:24:14.15\00:24:15.55
Blasphemy is also
when a mere human being
00:24:15.58\00:24:19.32
claims to occupy the
place of God on earth.
00:24:19.35\00:24:24.09
Notice John 10:30-33,
00:24:24.13\00:24:27.60
John 10:30-33.
00:24:27.63\00:24:31.43
Here Jesus makes a
revolutionary statement,
00:24:31.47\00:24:34.10
"I and my Father are one."
00:24:34.14\00:24:36.50
Wow, that really made
the religious leaders angry.
00:24:36.54\00:24:39.87
It says in verse 31,
00:24:39.91\00:24:41.24
"Then the Jews took up
stones again to stone him.
00:24:41.28\00:24:44.11
Jesus answered them,
00:24:44.15\00:24:45.48
"Many good works have I
shown you from my Father,
00:24:45.51\00:24:48.22
for which of those
works do you stone me?
00:24:48.25\00:24:51.19
The Jews answered him, saying,
00:24:51.22\00:24:52.72
"For a good work
we do not stone you,
00:24:52.75\00:24:54.96
but for blasphemy, and
because You, being a Man,
00:24:54.99\00:24:58.56
make Yourself
what, make Yourself God."
00:24:58.59\00:25:01.46
So when a mere
man makes himself God,
00:25:01.50\00:25:04.17
or proclaims
himself the representative
00:25:04.20\00:25:07.57
of God on earth,
that is blasphemy.
00:25:07.60\00:25:11.47
Incidentally the popes called
themselves Vicarius Christi.
00:25:11.51\00:25:16.44
That means the word vicar means,
00:25:16.48\00:25:18.28
one who takes the place of.
00:25:18.31\00:25:20.25
So Vicarius Christi means
00:25:20.28\00:25:22.32
one who takes
the place of Christ.
00:25:22.35\00:25:25.39
Last I know Jesus
said that the Holy Spirit
00:25:25.42\00:25:27.49
was going to take his place.
00:25:27.52\00:25:29.42
Another name that
the popes have claimed
00:25:29.46\00:25:31.26
is Vicarius Filii Dei,
00:25:31.29\00:25:33.53
which means the
vicar of the Son of God.
00:25:33.56\00:25:35.83
Basically it means
00:25:35.86\00:25:37.20
he who takes the
place of the Son of God,
00:25:37.23\00:25:39.47
or the substitute
for the Son of God.
00:25:39.50\00:25:42.04
That is blasphemy, folks.
00:25:42.07\00:25:44.34
Let me read you some
statements from church history.
00:25:44.37\00:25:48.24
In a narration
offered to the pope,
00:25:48.28\00:25:51.61
in the fourth session
00:25:51.65\00:25:52.98
of the Fifth
Lateran Church Council,
00:25:53.01\00:25:55.38
Christopher Marcellous stated
the following about the Pope.
00:25:55.42\00:25:59.29
And he is speaking to the Pope,
00:25:59.32\00:26:00.86
"For thou art the shepherd,
thou art the physician,
00:26:00.89\00:26:04.43
thou art the director,
thou art the husbandman,
00:26:04.46\00:26:08.73
finally thou art
another God on earth."
00:26:08.76\00:26:14.64
This is a Roman Catholic
00:26:14.67\00:26:16.00
who was speaking about the pope.
00:26:16.04\00:26:17.81
Now there's an
interesting encyclopedia,
00:26:17.84\00:26:19.51
it's called Prompta Bibliotheca,
00:26:19.54\00:26:21.51
it was published in
the middle of the 1800s,
00:26:21.54\00:26:23.85
I have all eight
volumes, they're very, very old.
00:26:23.88\00:26:28.22
If you look up the
article, papa, which is pope,
00:26:28.25\00:26:32.65
you're gonna find
something very interesting
00:26:32.69\00:26:34.62
that is written in this
Roman Catholic encyclopedia,
00:26:34.66\00:26:37.46
which has the church imprimatur,
00:26:37.49\00:26:39.36
which means it's an
authorized publication
00:26:39.39\00:26:42.13
of the Roman Catholic Church.
00:26:42.16\00:26:43.57
Let me read you this statement,
00:26:43.60\00:26:44.93
and you tell me
if this is blasphemy.
00:26:44.97\00:26:47.00
"Moreover the superiority
00:26:47.04\00:26:49.77
and the power of
the Roman Pontiff
00:26:49.80\00:26:52.31
by no means pertains
only to the heavenly things,
00:26:52.34\00:26:55.71
to the earthly things,
00:26:55.74\00:26:57.28
and to the
things under the earth,
00:26:57.31\00:26:59.45
but are even over the
angels, than whom he is greater.
00:26:59.48\00:27:04.35
So that if it were possible
00:27:04.39\00:27:05.75
that the angels
might err in the faith,
00:27:05.79\00:27:08.82
or might think
contrary to the faith,
00:27:08.86\00:27:11.49
they could be judged
00:27:11.53\00:27:12.86
and
excommunicated by the pope...
00:27:12.89\00:27:15.46
For he is of so
great dignity and power
00:27:15.50\00:27:18.43
that he forms one
00:27:18.47\00:27:19.80
and the same
tribunal with Christ.
00:27:19.83\00:27:22.14
So that whatever the pope does,
00:27:22.17\00:27:24.07
seems to proceed
from the mouth of God,
00:27:24.11\00:27:27.04
as according to
most doctors, etcetera.
00:27:27.08\00:27:29.74
The pope is as it
were God on earth,
00:27:29.78\00:27:33.58
sole sovereign of
the faithful of Christ,
00:27:33.62\00:27:35.98
chief king of kings,
having plenitude of power,
00:27:36.02\00:27:39.35
to whom has been entrusted
by the omnipotent God direction
00:27:39.39\00:27:43.22
not only of the earthly,
that's the state by the way,
00:27:43.26\00:27:47.23
but also of the
heavenly kingdom,
00:27:47.26\00:27:49.50
that's the church.
00:27:49.53\00:27:50.87
The pope is of so
great authority and power
00:27:50.90\00:27:53.84
that he can modify, explain,
or interpret even divine laws.
00:27:53.87\00:27:59.17
The pope can modify divine law,
00:27:59.21\00:28:01.44
since his power is
not of man but of God,
00:28:01.48\00:28:05.05
and he acts as
viceregent of God upon the earth
00:28:05.08\00:28:08.62
with the most ample power of
binding and loosing his sheep.
00:28:08.65\00:28:12.45
Whatever the Lord God
himself, and the Redeemer,
00:28:12.49\00:28:15.36
is said to do,
that his vicar does,
00:28:15.39\00:28:18.39
provided that he does
nothing contrary to what,
00:28:18.43\00:28:22.16
contrary to the faith."
00:28:22.20\00:28:24.17
That's blasphemy, folks.
00:28:24.20\00:28:26.40
That's a claim of
being the representative
00:28:26.43\00:28:29.10
of God on earth,
00:28:29.14\00:28:30.47
and in some cases
even God on earth.
00:28:30.51\00:28:32.81
So does the papacy fulfill
the fourth characteristic,
00:28:32.84\00:28:36.04
does it claim to occupy
the place of God on earth
00:28:36.08\00:28:39.11
and in some statements,
even claim to be God on earth.
00:28:39.15\00:28:41.98
It most certainly does.
00:28:42.02\00:28:43.55
That characteristic fits
just like the first three.
00:28:43.59\00:28:46.99
Now what about the
next characteristic,
00:28:47.02\00:28:49.32
"Did the papacy persecute
the saints of the Most High?"
00:28:49.36\00:28:53.06
This is where you'll
find a lot of added material
00:28:53.09\00:28:55.66
to what we have in the syllabus.
00:28:55.70\00:28:57.83
Let me read you first of all,
00:28:57.87\00:28:59.20
what was said by Thomas Aquinas,
00:28:59.23\00:29:01.20
one of the greatest theologians,
00:29:01.24\00:29:02.77
if not the greatest
theologian in the history
00:29:02.80\00:29:05.27
of the Roman Catholic Church.
00:29:05.31\00:29:07.01
He wrote this,
00:29:07.04\00:29:08.51
"But on the part
of the church is mercy
00:29:08.54\00:29:12.11
in view of the
conversion of them that err,
00:29:12.15\00:29:14.98
and therefore she
does not condemn at once,
00:29:15.02\00:29:17.99
but after the first
and second admonition,"
00:29:18.02\00:29:20.89
as the apostle teaches.
00:29:20.92\00:29:22.86
After that, however,
00:29:22.89\00:29:24.23
after the person is worn
the first and second time,
00:29:24.26\00:29:26.49
if the man is
still found pertinacious,
00:29:26.53\00:29:30.03
that is obstinate, the church,
00:29:30.07\00:29:32.23
having no hope
of his conversion,
00:29:32.27\00:29:34.77
provides for the
safety of others,
00:29:34.80\00:29:37.41
cutting him off from the church
00:29:37.44\00:29:39.01
by the sentence
of excommunication,
00:29:39.04\00:29:41.71
and further she leaves
him to the secular tribunal
00:29:41.74\00:29:45.41
to be exterminated
from the world by death."
00:29:45.45\00:29:49.68
Incidentally the
other great pillar
00:29:49.72\00:29:51.65
of the Roman Catholic theology,
00:29:51.69\00:29:53.19
Saint Augustine is the
one that originated the idea
00:29:53.22\00:29:56.76
that the church
should use the state
00:29:56.79\00:29:58.99
to destroy
those that don't agree
00:29:59.03\00:30:01.03
with the teachings and
practices of the church.
00:30:01.06\00:30:03.57
And I could have
read you statements
00:30:03.60\00:30:05.67
also from Saint Augustine.
00:30:05.70\00:30:07.97
The papacy was guilty of
persecuting the Hussites.
00:30:08.00\00:30:11.27
Have you ever heard of
the story of John Huss,
00:30:11.31\00:30:13.44
how he was burned at the stake.
00:30:13.48\00:30:14.94
Well, his followers
were persecuted mercilessly.
00:30:14.98\00:30:18.85
Pope Martin V
00:30:18.88\00:30:21.32
who ruled from 1417 to 1431.
00:30:21.35\00:30:25.32
In 1429 he wrote a
letter to the King of Poland,
00:30:25.35\00:30:30.39
and he told him, "You need
to exterminate the Hussites."
00:30:30.43\00:30:33.86
And now I'm reading
from what this pope wrote.
00:30:33.90\00:30:36.56
Know, he's writing to this king.
00:30:36.60\00:30:38.70
"Know that the
interests of the Holy See,
00:30:38.73\00:30:41.77
and those of your crown,
00:30:41.80\00:30:43.81
make it a duty to
exterminate the Hussites.
00:30:43.84\00:30:47.54
Remember that these
impious persons dare proclaim,
00:30:47.58\00:30:51.25
notice what they proclaim,
00:30:51.28\00:30:52.71
they proclaim
principles of equality,
00:30:52.75\00:30:55.55
they maintain that all
Christians are brethren,
00:30:55.58\00:30:57.49
like that's a big crime, right,
00:30:57.52\00:30:59.19
and that God has not
given to privileged men
00:30:59.22\00:31:02.46
the right of ruling the nations,
00:31:02.49\00:31:04.89
they hold that Christ came
on earth to abolish slavery,
00:31:04.93\00:31:08.23
they call the people to liberty,
00:31:08.26\00:31:10.17
that is to the annihilation
of kings and priests.
00:31:10.20\00:31:15.17
While there is still time then,
00:31:15.20\00:31:17.07
turn your
forces against Bohemia.
00:31:17.11\00:31:19.04
That's where the Hussites were.
00:31:19.07\00:31:20.68
Burn, massacre,
make deserts everywhere,
00:31:20.71\00:31:24.11
for nothing could be
more agreeable to God
00:31:24.15\00:31:27.18
or more useful to
the cause of kings,
00:31:27.22\00:31:29.68
than the
extermination of the Hussites."
00:31:29.72\00:31:32.95
That is a Roman Catholic pope
writing to the King of Poland.
00:31:32.99\00:31:38.09
What about the persecution
against the Waldensians,
00:31:38.13\00:31:40.63
also known as Waldenses.
00:31:40.66\00:31:43.20
In the 15th century, in
1487 Pope Innocent VIII,
00:31:43.23\00:31:48.04
by the way he was
not real innocent,
00:31:48.07\00:31:51.11
proclaimed a bull
that is a personal letter
00:31:51.14\00:31:53.78
against the Waldensians
or against the Waldenses.
00:31:53.81\00:31:57.98
In the bull, the pope
referred to the Waldensians as
00:31:58.01\00:32:02.38
"that malicious and
abominable sect of malignants,"
00:32:02.42\00:32:06.79
and stated that "if
they refuse to abjure,
00:32:06.82\00:32:09.72
that is to recant,
they should be crushed
00:32:09.76\00:32:13.60
like venomous snakes."
00:32:13.63\00:32:16.73
Who could forget the so
called Piedmont Massacre.
00:32:16.77\00:32:19.50
By the way I've been
there in this very place
00:32:19.53\00:32:22.40
of what I'm
going to tell you now.
00:32:22.44\00:32:24.21
1655, actually January 25, 1655.
00:32:24.24\00:32:28.31
The Duke of Savoy gave an edict
00:32:28.34\00:32:30.35
against the
Waldensians, he said,
00:32:30.38\00:32:32.65
"They must either
convert or leave the valleys
00:32:32.68\00:32:36.02
and have their
properties confiscated.
00:32:36.05\00:32:40.26
And if they didn't,
they would be subject
00:32:40.29\00:32:42.69
to the death decree."
00:32:42.72\00:32:44.56
I want to read
you now a statement
00:32:44.59\00:32:46.19
from a very valuable book,
00:32:46.23\00:32:47.56
which we have here
at Secrets Unsealed,
00:32:47.60\00:32:49.80
we carry Heresy,
Columbus and the Inquisition,
00:32:49.83\00:32:53.13
written by Salim
Japas, an old friend.
00:32:53.17\00:32:55.40
He died a few years ago,
but a very committed Christian.
00:32:55.44\00:32:59.14
He wrote this,
00:32:59.17\00:33:00.68
"On April
seventeenth, 15,000 soldiers
00:33:00.71\00:33:04.51
invaded the
valleys of the Piedmont.
00:33:04.55\00:33:06.92
Thousands of
Waldenses were murdered,
00:33:06.95\00:33:09.78
tortured and enslaved.
00:33:09.82\00:33:12.19
Hundreds who were able to escape
00:33:12.22\00:33:14.19
to the most rugged
areas of the mountains
00:33:14.22\00:33:16.52
were caught and
thrown off the jagged cliff
00:33:16.56\00:33:19.33
of Mount Catelluzo
near Torre Pellice."
00:33:19.36\00:33:22.73
I've been there, I've
been at that very ledge
00:33:22.76\00:33:24.97
where they threw off
dozens of Waldensians,
00:33:25.00\00:33:28.00
because they did not
agree with the teachings
00:33:28.04\00:33:30.04
and the practices of the church.
00:33:30.07\00:33:32.87
What could we say about
the Saint Bartholomew massacre,
00:33:32.91\00:33:36.08
which took
place August 24, 1572,
00:33:36.11\00:33:41.38
orchestrated by
Pope Gregory XIII.
00:33:41.42\00:33:45.22
At the tolling of a
bail, the Huguenots in France
00:33:45.25\00:33:49.82
were murdered
without mercy, 70,000 men,
00:33:49.86\00:33:54.40
women and children perished.
00:33:54.43\00:33:57.40
The Huguenots were the
professionals of the day,
00:33:57.43\00:34:00.27
they were what
the French would say
00:34:00.30\00:34:02.37
"la creme de la
creme" of France.
00:34:02.40\00:34:05.61
At the news of the massacre,
00:34:05.64\00:34:07.98
Pope Gregory XIII attended
00:34:08.01\00:34:11.51
with his cardinals
00:34:11.55\00:34:12.88
and other
ecclesiastical dignitaries,
00:34:12.91\00:34:15.35
a long procession to
the church of Saint Louis
00:34:15.38\00:34:18.99
where the Cardinal of
Lorraine chanted a Te Deum,
00:34:19.02\00:34:22.39
that means an
anthem of praise to God.
00:34:22.42\00:34:25.09
Incidentally, a metal was struck
00:34:25.13\00:34:27.60
to commemorate the massacre.
00:34:27.63\00:34:29.46
On one side of the metal
00:34:29.50\00:34:30.83
is the face of Pope Gregory XIII
00:34:30.87\00:34:33.60
and on the other
side is the image
00:34:33.64\00:34:36.81
of the destroying angel.
00:34:36.84\00:34:39.14
If you want to know, how
the inquisition functioned,
00:34:39.17\00:34:42.28
you need to read this book.
00:34:42.31\00:34:43.71
It's unbelievable
how this mechanism
00:34:43.75\00:34:46.38
persecuted people mercilessly,
00:34:46.41\00:34:48.92
tortured people simply
because they did not agree
00:34:48.95\00:34:52.09
with the practices and
the theology of the church.
00:34:52.12\00:34:56.59
The inquisition was
established in the 12th century,
00:34:56.62\00:34:59.83
and during the
pontificate of Innocent XIV,
00:34:59.86\00:35:03.40
which he ruled
from 1241 to 1253,
00:35:03.43\00:35:06.74
the inquisition was refined.
00:35:06.77\00:35:09.57
And I'm gonna talk
now about a papal bull
00:35:09.60\00:35:12.34
called Ad extirpanda,
00:35:12.37\00:35:14.84
it was proposed in the year 1252
00:35:14.88\00:35:18.51
by Pope Innocent XIV.
00:35:18.55\00:35:20.25
And these are
some of the provisions
00:35:20.28\00:35:22.48
that you find in that
00:35:22.52\00:35:24.35
particular
personal letter of the pope.
00:35:24.39\00:35:26.96
Number one, torture
must be applied to heretics,
00:35:26.99\00:35:30.59
so has to secure confessions.
00:35:30.63\00:35:32.83
Number two, those found guilty
must be burned at the stake.
00:35:32.86\00:35:38.07
Number three, this is the
pope is saying this by the way.
00:35:38.10\00:35:41.24
Number three, a police force
00:35:41.27\00:35:43.77
must be established to serve
the needs of the inquisition.
00:35:43.81\00:35:47.81
Number four, a
proclamation of a crusade
00:35:47.84\00:35:51.38
against all heretics in Italy,
00:35:51.41\00:35:54.22
and those who
participated in this crusade
00:35:54.25\00:35:56.99
were given the same
privileges and indulgences,
00:35:57.02\00:35:59.79
as those who went on
crusades to the holy land.
00:35:59.82\00:36:03.12
Finally the errs of heretics
00:36:03.16\00:36:06.73
were to have
their goods confiscated,
00:36:06.76\00:36:09.46
as well as the goods that belong
00:36:09.50\00:36:12.13
to the heretic himself.
00:36:12.17\00:36:14.17
It's interesting to
read what Peter De Rosa,
00:36:14.20\00:36:16.60
a Roman Catholic
wrote in his book
00:36:16.64\00:36:19.04
"Vicars of Christ"
00:36:19.07\00:36:20.41
pages 175 and 176.
00:36:20.44\00:36:22.98
Listen to this.
00:36:23.01\00:36:24.51
"Of eighty popes in a line
00:36:24.55\00:36:27.62
from the thirteenth century on,
00:36:27.65\00:36:29.82
not one of them
disapproved of the theology
00:36:29.85\00:36:33.19
and apparatus
of the Inquisition.
00:36:33.22\00:36:35.89
On the contrary,
one after another
00:36:35.92\00:36:38.99
added his own cruel touches
00:36:39.03\00:36:41.53
to the workings of
this deadly machine."
00:36:41.56\00:36:45.60
Let me read you this statement
00:36:45.63\00:36:46.97
from a 14th century
inquisitor, Bernard Gui.
00:36:47.00\00:36:50.84
This is what he wrote,
00:36:50.87\00:36:52.47
"The objective
of the Inquisition
00:36:52.51\00:36:54.24
is to destroy heresy,
00:36:54.28\00:36:56.24
it is not
possible to destroy heresy
00:36:56.28\00:36:58.81
unless you
eradicate the heretics,
00:36:58.85\00:37:01.55
and it is
impossible to eradicate
00:37:01.58\00:37:03.72
the heretics
unless you also eradicate
00:37:03.75\00:37:06.69
those who hide them,
00:37:06.72\00:37:08.12
sympathize with
them and protect them."
00:37:08.16\00:37:11.19
So you not only
persecute the heretic,
00:37:11.23\00:37:13.33
you also torture
the heretic to find out
00:37:13.36\00:37:16.67
who sympathizes with the heretic
00:37:16.70\00:37:19.17
is what he's saying.
00:37:19.20\00:37:20.67
Now Jean Antoine
Llorente, a Spaniard,
00:37:20.70\00:37:23.94
who was actually the secretary
00:37:23.97\00:37:25.91
of the Inquisition in Madrid
00:37:25.94\00:37:28.18
had some interesting things
to say about the Inquisition.
00:37:28.21\00:37:31.45
He kind of had a
conversion experience.
00:37:31.48\00:37:33.72
Let me read you
these two statements.
00:37:33.75\00:37:35.82
"I was the
secretary of the Inquisition
00:37:35.85\00:37:38.19
in the court of Madrid
00:37:38.22\00:37:39.95
in the years
1789, 1790 and 1791.
00:37:39.99\00:37:45.66
I knew the establishment
well enough to refute it.
00:37:45.69\00:37:50.60
It was vicious in
its origin, constitution
00:37:50.63\00:37:53.97
and laws in
spite of the apologies
00:37:54.00\00:37:57.14
which have been
written in its favor."
00:37:57.17\00:38:00.08
He also wrote,
00:38:00.11\00:38:01.64
"The horrid conduct
of this Holy Office,
00:38:01.68\00:38:04.05
which is the name
of the Inquisition,
00:38:04.08\00:38:05.91
weakened the power
00:38:05.95\00:38:07.32
and diminished the
population of Spain
00:38:07.35\00:38:09.85
by arresting the
progress of the arts,
00:38:09.88\00:38:12.32
sciences, industry and commerce,
00:38:12.35\00:38:15.06
and by compelling
multitudes of families
00:38:15.09\00:38:17.49
to abandon the kingdom,
00:38:17.53\00:38:19.19
by instigating the
expulsion of the Jews and Moors,
00:38:19.23\00:38:22.53
and by immolating
on its flaming shambles
00:38:22.56\00:38:26.13
more than three
hundred thousand victims."
00:38:26.17\00:38:32.11
This is written
by Roman Catholic,
00:38:32.14\00:38:34.01
who was an inquisitor,
00:38:34.04\00:38:35.54
he was a secretary of
the inquisitor in Spain.
00:38:35.58\00:38:38.31
He wrote several
volumes, documenting
00:38:38.35\00:38:40.72
what the Roman Catholic
Church did in the Inquisition.
00:38:40.75\00:38:44.09
I wish I had time
00:38:44.12\00:38:45.55
to go through the next
material in the syllabus.
00:38:45.59\00:38:48.26
You know for many years,
00:38:48.29\00:38:49.62
I had desire to visit
one specific spot in Peru.
00:38:49.66\00:38:54.30
And a few years ago,
00:38:54.33\00:38:55.66
I was invited to speak
00:38:55.70\00:38:57.03
at the Seventh-day
Adventist University in Lima,
00:38:57.07\00:38:59.87
near Lima.
00:38:59.90\00:39:01.24
And I wanted to visit the
Palace of the Inquisition,
00:39:01.27\00:39:04.67
because I'd heard that
00:39:04.71\00:39:06.04
there was an
interesting exhibition there.
00:39:06.07\00:39:08.18
And so one
afternoon they took me
00:39:08.21\00:39:10.25
to visit this
Palace of the Inquisition
00:39:10.28\00:39:13.31
in the city of Lima.
00:39:13.35\00:39:15.12
Incidentally the
Inquisition function
00:39:15.15\00:39:17.15
in three Latin
American countries,
00:39:17.19\00:39:19.05
it functioned in Colombia,
00:39:19.09\00:39:20.82
it functioned in Mexico,
00:39:20.86\00:39:22.42
and of course it
in functioned in Peru.
00:39:22.46\00:39:25.83
As we entered the
Palace of the inquisition,
00:39:25.86\00:39:28.20
as you look on
the right hand side,
00:39:28.23\00:39:29.66
you find this large mural,
00:39:29.70\00:39:31.43
or this large depiction of
what is called an auto-da-fe.
00:39:31.47\00:39:35.60
In other words,
they're actually doing
00:39:35.64\00:39:37.67
an examination of the
heretic, they're in the plaza,
00:39:37.71\00:39:40.61
they are must, and if
they just found guilty,
00:39:40.64\00:39:42.91
they're gonna burn
him there at the stake.
00:39:42.94\00:39:45.48
It's interesting
how this young man
00:39:45.51\00:39:47.72
who was our tour guy
simply described that,
00:39:47.75\00:39:50.35
whoever didn't
agree with the teachings
00:39:50.39\00:39:51.92
and practices of the church,
00:39:51.95\00:39:53.46
you know they
were tied to the stake
00:39:53.49\00:39:56.86
and then they were burned alive.
00:39:56.89\00:40:00.80
You can read in the material,
00:40:00.83\00:40:02.80
the different
torture instruments
00:40:02.83\00:40:05.23
that were used by the
Inquisition there in Peru.
00:40:05.27\00:40:09.70
In fact after
looking at this large mural
00:40:09.74\00:40:12.47
on the right hand
side, you take a left,
00:40:12.51\00:40:14.38
and you go into
the tortured chamber.
00:40:14.41\00:40:16.88
There you have, and you
can read this at your leisure.
00:40:16.91\00:40:19.21
There you have the strappado,
you have the whipping post,
00:40:19.25\00:40:23.05
you have the rack, the
garrote, waterboarding was used,
00:40:23.08\00:40:28.26
also you've heard of
waterboarding, right.
00:40:28.29\00:40:30.73
And then they took us
beyond the tortured chamber,
00:40:30.76\00:40:33.40
by the way, they have
all of the implements,
00:40:33.43\00:40:35.16
samples of all the implements,
and how they were used
00:40:35.20\00:40:37.90
to torture people to
get them to recant and also
00:40:37.93\00:40:41.67
to tell who
sympathized with their ideas.
00:40:41.70\00:40:46.68
Next, you found
these little cubicles
00:40:46.71\00:40:50.85
that were hewn in the rock,
00:40:50.88\00:40:52.58
where individuals
suspected of heresy were
00:40:52.61\00:40:54.55
enclosed in these little
cubicles hewn in the rock.
00:40:54.58\00:40:57.55
I mean they were barely
large enough for the individual
00:40:57.59\00:41:00.06
to fit in there, all curled up,
00:41:00.09\00:41:03.19
and they were kept in
the dark and in the cold,
00:41:03.22\00:41:06.19
their family knew not
where they were for days
00:41:06.23\00:41:09.83
and sometimes for months
00:41:09.86\00:41:11.37
they were kept in
there just barely alive.
00:41:11.40\00:41:14.27
That is the history of
the Roman Catholic system.
00:41:14.30\00:41:17.44
Let me read you
some other statements
00:41:17.47\00:41:19.61
from other Roman
Catholic thinkers.
00:41:19.64\00:41:22.51
Cardinal Robert Bellarmine,
00:41:22.54\00:41:24.41
one of the enemies of
the Protestant Reformation.
00:41:24.45\00:41:27.05
He was a champion of
the Counter Reformation.
00:41:27.08\00:41:29.85
Notice what he wrote,
00:41:29.88\00:41:31.22
by the way he
lived from 1540 to 1621.
00:41:31.25\00:41:34.52
He wrote, "The only
effective means against heretics
00:41:34.56\00:41:38.29
is to convey them to
that place provided for them
00:41:38.33\00:41:41.43
as quickly as possible.
00:41:41.46\00:41:43.63
In this way one is
only doing them a favor
00:41:43.67\00:41:47.47
as the longer they
are allowed to live,
00:41:47.50\00:41:49.87
the more
heresies they will devise,
00:41:49.90\00:41:52.51
and thus the more
believers they will seduce,
00:41:52.54\00:41:55.48
aggravating
their own damnation."
00:41:55.51\00:41:59.15
Pius IX wrote in an encyclical
letter in December 8, 1864.
00:41:59.18\00:42:05.89
And this is what he wrote,
"Cursed be they who assert
00:42:05.92\00:42:09.96
liberty of
conscience and of worship,
00:42:09.99\00:42:12.53
and such as maintain the
church should not employ force.
00:42:12.56\00:42:16.80
The State has not the
right to leave every man free
00:42:16.83\00:42:20.64
to embrace whatever
religion he may deem true."
00:42:20.67\00:42:25.61
Interesting that a pope
would say such things against
00:42:25.64\00:42:29.04
religious liberty saying
that state cannot allow people
00:42:29.08\00:42:32.61
to choose the religion
that they want to follow.
00:42:32.65\00:42:35.68
Pope Leo XIII
added his testimony
00:42:35.72\00:42:38.55
in his
encyclical Libertas humana.
00:42:38.59\00:42:42.69
This is what he wrote.
00:42:42.72\00:42:44.06
"From what has been said,
it follows that it is quite
00:42:44.09\00:42:47.66
unlawful to demand, to defend,
or to grant unconditional
00:42:47.70\00:42:52.37
freedom of thought, of speech,
of writing, or of worship,
00:42:52.40\00:42:56.40
as if these were so many
rights given by nature to man."
00:42:56.44\00:43:02.28
Here's another
statement by Marianus de Luca,
00:43:02.31\00:43:05.35
a Jesuit, and formally
a Professor of Canon Law
00:43:05.38\00:43:09.45
at the Gregorian
University in Rome.
00:43:09.48\00:43:11.29
That's where
priests are educated.
00:43:11.32\00:43:14.42
Notice what he wrote,
00:43:14.46\00:43:15.89
"The Catholic
Church has the right
00:43:15.92\00:43:17.49
and duty to kill
heretics because it is by fire
00:43:17.53\00:43:21.00
and sword that
heresy can be extirpated.
00:43:21.03\00:43:24.67
Mass excommunication
is derided by heretics.
00:43:24.70\00:43:27.90
If they are imprisoned or
exiled, they corrupt others.
00:43:27.94\00:43:31.21
The only recourse is
to put them to death.
00:43:31.24\00:43:34.44
Repentance cannot be
allowed to save civil criminals
00:43:34.48\00:43:37.58
for the highest
good of the church
00:43:37.61\00:43:39.41
is the duty of the faith,
00:43:39.45\00:43:41.05
and this cannot be preserved
unless heretics are what,
00:43:41.08\00:43:45.15
are put to death."
00:43:45.19\00:43:46.55
And this is a theology
teacher teaching priests
00:43:46.59\00:43:49.49
in the Pontifical University.
00:43:49.52\00:43:52.43
He further
remarked the following,
00:43:52.46\00:43:55.13
"Heretics
despise excommunication
00:43:55.16\00:43:58.53
and say that that
bolt is powerless,
00:43:58.57\00:44:02.00
if you threaten them
with a pecuniary fine,
00:44:02.04\00:44:05.11
they neither fear
God nor respect men,
00:44:05.14\00:44:07.54
knowing that they will find
fools enough to believe them
00:44:07.58\00:44:10.51
and support them.
00:44:10.55\00:44:11.98
If you imprison them
or send them into exile,
00:44:12.01\00:44:15.18
they corrupt those
near them with their words
00:44:15.22\00:44:17.99
and those at a
distance with their books.
00:44:18.02\00:44:20.96
So the only remedy is to send
them soon to their won place."
00:44:20.99\00:44:26.90
And of course the question
is what is their own place?
00:44:26.93\00:44:30.10
Well, he explains by quoting
Tanner in the next statement.
00:44:30.13\00:44:34.24
"The civil magistrate, by
the command and commission
00:44:34.27\00:44:38.04
of the Church, ought to
punish the heretic with what,
00:44:38.07\00:44:43.14
with the penalty of death."
00:44:43.18\00:44:47.22
Notice this statement
from Alfred Baudrillart,
00:44:47.25\00:44:51.75
he was a French cardinal.
00:44:51.79\00:44:53.79
These are no slouches of
the Roman Catholic Church,
00:44:53.82\00:44:56.36
these are popes and
cardinals of the church
00:44:56.39\00:44:58.73
and teachers at the
Gregorian University
00:44:58.76\00:45:01.10
that are writing these things.
00:45:01.13\00:45:02.50
Notice what he said.
00:45:02.53\00:45:04.07
"The church has, and she
loudly proclaims that she has,
00:45:04.10\00:45:08.64
a 'horror of blood.'
00:45:08.67\00:45:11.07
Nevertheless when
confronted by heresy
00:45:11.11\00:45:14.11
she does not content
herself with persuasion,
00:45:14.14\00:45:17.58
arguments of an
intellectual and moral order
00:45:17.61\00:45:20.55
appear to her insufficient,
00:45:20.58\00:45:23.32
and she has recourse to force,
00:45:23.35\00:45:25.59
to corporal
punishment, to torture.
00:45:25.62\00:45:29.02
She creates tribunals
like those of the Inquisition,
00:45:29.06\00:45:33.36
she calls the laws
of the State to her aid,
00:45:33.40\00:45:36.67
if necessary she
encourages a crusade,
00:45:36.70\00:45:39.67
or a religious war and
all her 'horror of blood'
00:45:39.70\00:45:43.67
practically
culminates into urging
00:45:43.71\00:45:47.01
the secular power to shed it,
00:45:47.04\00:45:49.08
which proceeding
is almost more odious,
00:45:49.11\00:45:51.68
for it is less frank
than shedding it herself."
00:45:51.71\00:45:55.42
In other words, it's much easier
00:45:55.45\00:45:56.79
to get the state to shut it
00:45:56.82\00:45:58.15
and then blame the state
and say, we didn't do it.
00:45:58.19\00:46:01.69
He continues writing.
00:46:01.72\00:46:03.12
"Especially did the church act
thus in the sixteenth century
00:46:03.16\00:46:07.20
with regard to Protestants.
00:46:07.23\00:46:09.36
Not content to reform
morally, to preach by example,
00:46:09.40\00:46:13.50
to convert people by
eloquent and holy missionaries,
00:46:13.54\00:46:16.74
she lit in Italy,
in the Low Countries,
00:46:16.77\00:46:20.41
and above all in Spain,
00:46:20.44\00:46:22.11
the funeral piles
of the Inquisition.
00:46:22.14\00:46:25.68
In France under
Francis I and Henry II,
00:46:25.71\00:46:28.88
in England under Mary
Tudor, she tortured heretics,
00:46:28.92\00:46:33.25
while both in France and Germany
00:46:33.29\00:46:35.16
during the second
half of the sixteenth
00:46:35.19\00:46:37.46
and the first half of
the seventeenth century
00:46:37.49\00:46:40.06
if she did not actually begin,
at any rate she encouraged
00:46:40.10\00:46:44.33
and actively aided
in the religious wars."
00:46:44.37\00:46:49.54
Notice what Alexis
M. Lepicier had to say.
00:46:49.57\00:46:53.27
Once again a cardinal of
the Roman Catholic Church.
00:46:53.31\00:46:56.81
He wrote, "He who
publicly avows a heresy
00:46:56.85\00:47:00.75
and tries to
pervert others by word
00:47:00.78\00:47:02.78
or example, speaking absolutely,
00:47:02.82\00:47:05.45
can not only be excommunicated
but even justly put to death,
00:47:05.49\00:47:10.06
lest he ruin others by
pestilential contagion,
00:47:10.09\00:47:13.66
for a bad man is
worse than a wild beast,
00:47:13.70\00:47:16.50
and does more
harm, as Aristotle says.
00:47:16.53\00:47:19.53
Hence, as it is not wrong
to kill a wild beast which does
00:47:19.57\00:47:23.87
great harm, so it must be right
to deprive of his harmful life
00:47:23.91\00:47:29.28
a heretic who withdraws from
divine truth and plots against
00:47:29.31\00:47:33.88
the salvation of others."
00:47:33.92\00:47:36.28
Are you following this?
00:47:36.32\00:47:37.92
This is not one or two
statements from nobody's,
00:47:37.95\00:47:41.66
this is popes and cardinals.
00:47:41.69\00:47:44.16
And the history shows
that the papacy persecuted
00:47:44.19\00:47:47.03
without mercy those
who did not agree with her.
00:47:47.06\00:47:50.97
The Catholic
Encyclopedia therefore says
00:47:51.00\00:47:54.87
and admits that
this is a dark period
00:47:54.90\00:47:57.27
of the history of the
Roman Catholic Church.
00:47:57.31\00:47:59.44
"Judged by
contemporary standards,
00:47:59.47\00:48:01.81
the Inquisition,
especially as it developed
00:48:01.84\00:48:04.91
in Spain toward the
close of the Middle Ages,
00:48:04.95\00:48:07.75
can be classified only
00:48:07.78\00:48:09.95
as one of the darker chapters
in the history of the Church."
00:48:09.98\00:48:15.16
There have been papal apologies
00:48:15.19\00:48:18.06
at Saint Peter's
Basilica on the first Sunday
00:48:18.09\00:48:21.16
of Lent March 12,
2000 Pope John Paul II
00:48:21.20\00:48:26.20
in a carefully
choreographed mass,
00:48:26.23\00:48:29.30
leaning against the crucifix
with an agonizing voice seemed
00:48:29.34\00:48:34.78
to apologize for the sins
00:48:34.81\00:48:36.85
of the church
against Protestants,
00:48:36.88\00:48:39.41
Jews, non-Christians,
immigrants, ethnic minorities,
00:48:39.45\00:48:43.69
women, abused
children, and the unborn.
00:48:43.72\00:48:46.29
He actually
mentions all these groups.
00:48:46.32\00:48:48.36
And he's
apologizing for the way in which
00:48:48.39\00:48:50.59
the Roman Catholic
Church treated them.
00:48:50.63\00:48:52.83
And now I read
00:48:52.86\00:48:54.20
one of the points
that he mentioned,
00:48:54.23\00:48:57.57
it's a long letter
that he wrote actually.
00:48:57.60\00:49:00.30
"We forgive and we
ask your forgiveness!
00:49:00.34\00:49:04.51
We cannot recognize
the betrayals of the Gospel
00:49:04.54\00:49:10.28
committed by
some of our brothers,
00:49:10.31\00:49:12.58
especially during
the second millennium.
00:49:12.61\00:49:15.28
We ask
forgiveness for the divisions
00:49:15.32\00:49:17.29
between Christians, for the
use of violence that some have
00:49:17.32\00:49:21.52
resorted to in
the service of truth."
00:49:21.56\00:49:23.73
Notice he doesn't say that
it was in the service of err,
00:49:23.76\00:49:26.33
he says in the service of truth.
00:49:26.36\00:49:28.23
"And for the acts of dissidence
and of hostility sometimes
00:49:28.26\00:49:32.47
taken towards
followers of other religions."
00:49:32.50\00:49:36.64
But in this long
letter he never admits
00:49:36.67\00:49:39.47
that it was the
church that persecuted.
00:49:39.51\00:49:41.41
He says some of our
brothers persecuted.
00:49:41.44\00:49:44.85
That lead the editor
00:49:44.88\00:49:46.21
of the New York
Times to write this about
00:49:46.25\00:49:48.58
this document
that the pope wrote.
00:49:48.62\00:49:50.92
"The document should
have put it in bold print
00:49:50.95\00:49:54.72
that 'children of the church'
00:49:54.76\00:49:57.23
includes popes,
cardinals and clergy,
00:49:57.26\00:50:01.26
and not just people in the pews.
00:50:01.30\00:50:04.13
The pope had a great idea
that some in the Vatican are
00:50:04.17\00:50:08.40
obscuring with a fog machine.'
00:50:08.44\00:50:12.81
'There was also an
apology by Pope Francis I
00:50:12.84\00:50:15.54
and this is amazing.
00:50:15.58\00:50:17.18
He actually
traveled to Torre Pellice,
00:50:17.21\00:50:20.15
the place where the
Waldensians actually lived.
00:50:20.18\00:50:23.85
And on June 22,
2015 just last year,
00:50:23.89\00:50:28.62
he spoke at this
oldest evangelical church
00:50:28.66\00:50:31.73
of the Waldensians.
00:50:31.76\00:50:33.19
And now I read
what he said to them.
00:50:33.23\00:50:36.83
"On the part of
the Catholic Church,
00:50:36.87\00:50:38.97
I ask your forgiveness,
00:50:39.00\00:50:41.10
I ask it for the non-Christian
and even inhuman attitudes
00:50:41.14\00:50:46.07
and behavior that
we have showed you."
00:50:46.11\00:50:49.84
In other words, he's apologizing
00:50:49.88\00:50:51.21
to the Waldensians
00:50:51.25\00:50:52.58
in the name of the Lord
Jesus Christ forgive us.
00:50:52.61\00:50:56.52
And so some people say,
00:50:56.55\00:50:57.89
see the papacy is repented
and sorry for what it has done.
00:50:57.92\00:51:00.99
We're gonna study a little
bit later on in our series
00:51:01.02\00:51:04.59
that the papacy is gonna act
in the future in the same way
00:51:04.63\00:51:08.20
that it acted in the past.
00:51:08.23\00:51:10.13
Bible prophecy tells us
that is going to happen.
00:51:10.17\00:51:13.94
So the facade that the papacy
is presenting today of being
00:51:13.97\00:51:17.97
a forgiving church, begging
for forgiveness and saying,
00:51:18.01\00:51:21.74
we're sorry for what
we've done is only way to gain
00:51:21.78\00:51:24.98
the confidence of people
00:51:25.01\00:51:26.61
and tell the papacy
can once regain power.
00:51:26.65\00:51:31.42
Now we're gonna study
characteristic number six,
00:51:31.45\00:51:33.39
and we're gonna leave number
seven for our next lecture,
00:51:33.42\00:51:36.19
because our next lecture
00:51:36.22\00:51:37.63
is going to deal
with the time period,
00:51:37.66\00:51:39.73
time, times, and
the dividing of time.
00:51:39.76\00:51:42.20
So let's cover point number six.
00:51:42.23\00:51:45.07
Does the papacy claim to
have change God's holy law?
00:51:45.10\00:51:50.51
Yes, in two ways.
00:51:50.54\00:51:52.51
One way indirectly,
and another way directly.
00:51:52.54\00:51:56.31
If you read the
Roman Catholic Bibles,
00:51:56.34\00:51:58.71
you're gonna find the second
commandment just like it is in
00:51:58.75\00:52:01.42
Protestant Bibles.
00:52:01.45\00:52:02.78
It says don't make images,
00:52:02.82\00:52:04.15
and don't bow before the images,
00:52:04.19\00:52:06.52
that's in Roman Catholic Bibles.
00:52:06.55\00:52:08.46
But when you go to
Roman Catholic catechisms
00:52:08.49\00:52:11.46
that commandment is gone.
00:52:11.49\00:52:12.89
It's not in the catechisms.
00:52:12.93\00:52:14.86
And you say why would it be
in the Roman Catholic Bibles
00:52:14.90\00:52:17.77
and not be in the
catechisms, very simple.
00:52:17.80\00:52:20.54
If it was in the catechisms
00:52:20.57\00:52:21.90
which are used
to teach children,
00:52:21.94\00:52:24.31
so they can
receive first communion,
00:52:24.34\00:52:27.54
if they saw that commandment
in the catechism, they say,
00:52:27.58\00:52:30.08
now, wait a minute,
there is a contradiction here.
00:52:30.11\00:52:32.95
It says don't make images
00:52:32.98\00:52:34.32
and don't bow before the images,
00:52:34.35\00:52:35.88
why then do we have so
many images in the church,
00:52:35.92\00:52:38.92
and why do we bow
before the images.
00:52:38.95\00:52:40.82
So the Roman Catholic Church
excludes the second commandment
00:52:40.86\00:52:43.96
from the catechisms, even though
00:52:43.99\00:52:45.83
it's following the
Roman Catholic Bible,
00:52:45.86\00:52:47.70
and most Roman Catholics
don't actually read the Bible.
00:52:47.73\00:52:50.97
So many of them are
definitely surprised,
00:52:51.00\00:52:53.70
when they discover
that the second commandment
00:52:53.74\00:52:55.70
says don't make images
and don't bow before them.
00:52:55.74\00:52:59.41
But the biggest change
00:52:59.44\00:53:00.78
that the Roman
Catholic system has made
00:53:00.81\00:53:03.38
in God's Law is that it
openly says we have changed
00:53:03.41\00:53:08.45
by the
authority of Jesus Christ,
00:53:08.48\00:53:10.25
the day of worship
from Sabbath to Sunday.
00:53:10.29\00:53:14.52
The Roman Catholic
Church claims and we're gonna
00:53:14.56\00:53:16.52
look at this more carefully
later on in the future lecture.
00:53:16.56\00:53:19.83
The Roman Catholic
Church without apology
00:53:19.86\00:53:23.33
says openly popes,
cardinals, theologians,
00:53:23.37\00:53:28.47
and teachers of
theology clearly say,
00:53:28.50\00:53:32.61
we changed the day of worship
00:53:32.64\00:53:36.34
from Sabbath to Sunday.
00:53:36.38\00:53:39.68
Allow me to read you a statement
00:53:39.71\00:53:41.48
from Saint Thomas Aquinas.
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Saint Thomas Aquinas
is the greatest theologian
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in the history of the
Roman Catholic Church.
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Saint Augustine would probably
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be a close rival
of Thomas Aquinas.
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But Aquinas, no doubt
is the greatest theologian
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in Roman Catholicism.
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Notice what he said
about the day of worship.
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"In the New Law the
keeping of the Sunday
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supplants that of the Sabbath,
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not in virtue of
the precept of the law,
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in other words, it's
not found in the Bible,
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but through
determination by the church
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and the custom of
the Christian people."
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So he's saying
Sunday is a day of worship,
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not because the Bible says it's
Sunday but because the church
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and the people decided
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that Sunday would be
the new day of worship.
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My Bible begs to differ.
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My Bible tells
me that the Sabbath
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was created by God
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at the very
beginning before sin.
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It's part of
God's original plan.
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It's in the fourth
commandment of God's holy law.
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Remember the
Sabbath day to keep it holy.
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Jesus Christ kept the Sabbath.
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He went to the synagogue as was
his custom on the Sabbath day.
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The apostles
according to the Book of Acts
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kept the seventh day
Sabbath as the day of rest.
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There is no vestige in the Bible
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that the day of
worship was ever changed,
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or they were
supposed to honor Sunday
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because Jesus
resurrected that day,
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or that Sunday
is particularly holy
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because of
Christ's resurrection.
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And yet the
Roman Catholic Church,
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time and again and
later on in this series,
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I'm gonna read you a
series of statements,
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they say we by the authority
of the Jesus Christ conceded
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to the Roman Catholic Church,
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we have changed
the day of worship
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from Sabbath to Sunday.
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The Bible says that the little
horn would think that it could
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change God's what, it
could change God's law.
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So let me ask you, do
all of the characteristic fit
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the Roman Catholic Church?
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Absolutely, number
one, what was number one,
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do you remember, number
one it was going to arise after
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the 10 kingdoms were complete.
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Is that true? Yes.
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It was going to
arise in Western Europe,
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more specifically
from Rome, is that true?
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It was going to uproot
three of the 10 kingdoms,
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the three rebellious kingdoms.
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That's true.
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Does the papacy speak
blasphemies by claiming
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to forgive sins,
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and by the pope claiming
to be the representative
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of Christ on earth?
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Absolutely.
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Does the papacy have a
long history of persecution?
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Yes, it does.
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Does the papacy claim to have
changed God's day of worship
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from Sabbath to Sunday?
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Absolutely.
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Now there is one characteristic
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that we did not
cover from this lesson.
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We're gonna look at
it in our next lecture
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and that is the period
that the Roman Catholic
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papacy ruled during the time
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that it did all of these
things that we're talking about.
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The Bible says that the
papacy would rule for time,
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times and the dividing of time.
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You say, "What in the
world could that ever mean."
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Time, times and
the dividing of time.
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In Revelation, it's
described as 42 months.
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In Revelation 12,
it's called 1,260 days,
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three parallel expressions,
1,260 days, 42 months,
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and time, times and
the dividing of time.
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And in our next
together, I'm going to show you
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that the papacy ruled exactly
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the time that
this prophecy says.
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It ruled for 1,260 years from
the time it rose to power till
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the time that it
received a deadly wound
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according to Revelation 13.
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So the last characteristic
also fits the papacy
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like glove in hand.
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So are you clear on
what we've studied so far.
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The prophetic chain,
Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece,
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the Roman Empire,
the divided Roman Empire
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and then from the
divided Roman Empire
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or in its midst
rises he little horn
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with all of
these characteristics
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and rules for 1,260 years.
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