Before we get into our study,
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we want to ask
for God's presence,
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and so I invite
you to bow your heads
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reverently with me as we pray.
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Our Father and our God,
what a wonderful God You are,
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the creator of the
heavens and the earth,
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our personal creator.
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We thank You for the
privilege of existing
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and enjoying
all of the blessings
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that You pour out upon us.
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We especially
thank You for Your word,
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a very necessary help
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in these trying times
that we are living in.
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Father, we ask that
Zas we open that word
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that Your Spirit will be with us
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to guide our thoughts
and to open our hearts.
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And we thank You
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for hearing and
answering our prayer,
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for we ask it in the
precious name of Jesus,
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amen.
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The first thing we want to do
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is review what we studied
in our last presentation.
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And I'm going to do
that in four specific points.
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Point number one,
there is only one true God,
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and He has distinguished
from all false pretenders
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by the fact that
He is the creator.
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That distinguishes a true
God from all false pretenders.
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Secondly,
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God created this world
in six literal 24 hour days
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just as we know them today.
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And then He rested
the literal seventh day
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of 24 hours.
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Point number three,
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because the God is the creator,
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God is entitled to the
worship of His creatures.
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In other words,
we must worship God
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because He is the creator.
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And finally, we
studied in our last lecture
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that God has a
sign, a seal or a memorial
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that He is the creator
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and He expects us
to keep that memorial
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and that memorial is
the seventh day Sabbath.
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So, in capsule form
that is what we studied
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in our last
lecture here together.
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Now, the Bible mentions
several titles and functions
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that belong to
the Creator God alone
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and no one else.
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I'm gonna mention
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several of those
prerogatives and powers
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that belong only to God
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and you'll see in a few moments
where we are going with this.
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First of all, the
Bible tells us very clearly
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that the
representative of God on earth
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is the Holy Spirit.
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When Jesus left, He said,
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"I will send you
another counselor
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to be with you."
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And he was talking
about the Holy Spirit.
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The Holy Spirit is
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Christ's
representative on earth.
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Secondly,
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the Bible tells us
that God alone has the right
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to be addressed as
our spiritual Father.
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Only He can be called
Father in a spiritual sense.
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You can see
that in Matthew 23:9.
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Also the Bible tells us
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that we can only
bow in reverence to God.
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And we're gonna
see a little bit later
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a couple of
examples in the Bible
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where a human being
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and actually a human
being in both occasions
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bowed before an angel and
before another human being
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and they were
rebuked for doing that,
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so only can we bow
before the true God.
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The Bible also tells us
that God alone can forgive sins.
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God alone can forgive sins.
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Mark 2:7 is one of the texts
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that we could
mention as an example.
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Another fact about God,
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the power and
prerogatives of God
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is that only God is
infallible in His proclamations.
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There is no shadow of
variation or turning in God
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according to James 1:17.
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The Bible also tells us
that God alone has the right
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to set up kings
and remove kings.
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You can find
that in Daniel 2:21.
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The Bible also teaches
us that God alone can judge
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and all and God
can be judged by none.
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So God is the judge and
He can be judged by no one.
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And finally, the Bible teaches
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that it was the
prerogative of God
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to establish the
seventh day Sabbath
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as the memorial and
sign that He is the creator.
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Those are some of the
powers and the prerogatives
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that belong only to God.
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Now in our study last time
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we read the
first angle's message
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of Revelation 14.
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God delivers
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three successive
messages to the world
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right before the
Second Coming of Christ.
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The first angel's message,
I want to read that now,
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it's found in
Revelation 14:6, 7.
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"It calls us to
worship the creator.
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It calls every nation,
kindred, tongue and people
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to worship the creator."
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Notice what we find
in Revelation 14:6, 7.
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"Then I saw another angel
flying in the midst of heaven,
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having the everlasting gospel
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to preach to those
who dwell on the earth
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to every nation,
tribe, tongue, and people
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saying with a loud voice,
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"Fear God and give glory to Him,
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for the hour of His
judgment has come..."
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And now notice.
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"And worship Him who
made heaven and earth,
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the sea and the
springs of water."
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So God's last message
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to all of the
nations of the world
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is to worship the creator.
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And yesterday, we noticed
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that the creator has
a memorial or a sign.
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What is that sign?
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It is the seventh day Sabbath,
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the observance of
the seventh day Sabbath.
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Now, there's a
third message also
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that God delivers to
the world at the end of time
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right before the second coming.
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And that third message is like
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the other side of
the coin to the first.
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Let's read the
third angel's message,
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it's found in
Revelation 14:9-11.
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"Then the third
angel followed them,
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that is followed
the first two angels
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saying with a loud voice,
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"If anyone worships
the beast and his image,
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and receives his mark on
his forehead or on his hand,
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he himself shall
also drink of the wine
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of the wrath of God,
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which is poured
out full strength
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into the cup of His indignation.
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He shall be tormented
with fire and brimstone
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in the presence
of the holy angels
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and in the presence of the Lamb.
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And the smoke of their torment
ascends for ever and ever..."
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And now, the same
thing that is mentioned
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at the beginning of this passage
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is repeated at the end,
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it says,
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"And they have no
rest day or night,
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who worship the beast
and whoever receives,"
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what, "the mark of his name."
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Now let's summarize
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what we find in the
third angel's message.
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First of all, it
must be that the beast
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which is the
same as a little horn,
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right, we've studied this.
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The little horn or the beast
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must claim to occupy
God's place on earth.
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You say, well,
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why would that be that you say
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that the beast or
the little horn claims
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to occupy God's place on earth,
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because he
commands the world to what,
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to worship him.
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So if he commands
the world to worship him,
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it must be that
he claims to be what?
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He claims to be God
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or he claims to
occupy the position of God.
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The third angel's
message thus tells us,
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"Don't worship the beast."
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The first angel says,
"Worship the creator."
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The third angel's message
says, "Don't worship the beast."
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It also tells us,
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"Don't receive the
sign of the beast."
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Are you following me or not?
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And the third
angel's message tells us
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that this is a
matter of life and death,
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because if you worship the beast
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who must claim to be God
because he's receiving worship.
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And you receive
his sign or his mark,
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the Bible says that
you will be eternally lost.
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This is a matter
of life and death.
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It is a matter of salvation
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according to the
Book of Revelation.
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Now, we need to
ask the question.
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Who is the beast
and what is his mark?
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You know, if you don't
want to worship the beast
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then receive his mark.
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Well, you better
know what the beast is
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and you better
know what the mark is
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or else you're gonna
end up worshipping the beast
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and receiving the mark.
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Now, we don't have to talk
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a lot about the
beast or the little horn
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because we've already
identified this power.
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We've looked at history,
we've looked at the Bible,
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and we've seen that
the beast represents what?
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The Roman Catholic papacy,
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not individuals in
the Roman Catholic Church
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but the system,
the organization,
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the papacy is
what is represented
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by the little
horn or by the beast.
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We have not
discovered this by guesswork
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or by conjectures.
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We have looked at history.
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We have looked at
God's great prophetic chain,
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and we have seen
the sequence of events,
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and the papacy fits right
there in the chain of events
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in the place in which prophecy
tells us that this place is.
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Now, somebody
might object and say,
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"Well, Pastor Bohr,
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the papacy does not claim
to occupy God's place on earth,
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does it?
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And if it doesn't claim to
occupy God's place on earth,
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the papacy doesn't demand
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or require people to worship it.
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Therefore the
third angel's message
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cannot apply to the papacy,
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because the papacy today
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doesn't claim
to be God on earth,
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neither does it
require people to worship it."
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That's the way
the argument goes.
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However, is this
argument true to fact?
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There is
unmistakable evidence, folks,
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and we're gonna
notice that evidence
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that the papacy claims
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to occupy the
place of God on earth.
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The papacy claims the
titles that belong only to God.
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The papacy claims
to possess the rights
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that belong only to God.
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And the papacy claims
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to exercise the
power and the functions
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that the Bible
ascribes to God alone.
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So if the papacy claims
to occupy the place of God,
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claims to have the
right to the titles of God,
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claims to possess
the rights of God,
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and the powers and
the prerogatives of God,
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then it must also demand worship
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because it's claiming to
occupy God's place on earth.
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So the question is,
what does the papacy claim?
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If the papacy
claims to be God on earth,
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then it is asking
people to worship,
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and we're gonna notice that
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it has a sign of its
authority or its power.
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Let's examine
the biblical evidence
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concerning the
papacy at this time.
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You'll notice that I
have several subtitles
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in the material that you
received in our lecture today.
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The subtitle in
The Temple of God
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is very important.
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In 2 Thessalonians 2:3, 4
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the Apostle Paul
describes the man of sin
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that was going to
arise in the temple of God
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claiming to be God.
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Let's read those
verses, 2 Thessalonians 2:3, 4.
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"Let no one deceive you by
any means, for that Day..."
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Talking about the
day of the second coming.
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"That Day will not come unless
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the falling away comes first..."
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The falling away in
Greek is the apostasy.
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Jesus is not going to come
until the apostasy takes place.
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There's going to be an apostasy
in the church in other words.
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And now notice,
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"And the man of sin is revealed,
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the son of perdition,
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"who opposes and exalts himself
above all that is called what,
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God or that is worshipped,
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so that he sits as
God in the temple of God,
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showing himself that he is God."
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Does the man of
sin claim to be God
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as he sits in the temple of God?
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Absolutely.
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Now, evangelical
Christians today say,
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"Well, when it speaks
about the temple of God here,
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it's speaking about
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the rebuilding of
a third Jewish temple
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in the Middle East."
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There are several
problems with this perspective
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that is presented by
the evangelical world
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and by the
protestant world in general.
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And that is that
whenever the Apostle Paul
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uses the word
temple, "Naos" in Greek.
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It always refers to
the Christian church
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or to the temple of our body.
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For example 1
Corinthians 3:16, 17,
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I'll just give
you the references,
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1 Corinthians 6:19, 20.
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2 Corinthians
6:16 and Ephesians 2:21
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which we gonna
notice in a moment.
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Every time that Paul
uses the word temple, Naos,
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it refers to the
Christian church,
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never to a literal
rebuilt Jewish temple.
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Furthermore, the
Bible tells us very clearly
00:14:27.06\00:14:29.80
that the Jewish temple
after the death of Christ,
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after the stoning of Stephen
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no longer was the temple of God.
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In fact, when Jesus
entered in his triumphal entry
00:14:40.54\00:14:43.45
which is described in
Matthew 21 into Jerusalem.
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We're told there that he
entered the temple of God,
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notice that when he entered
it's called the Temple of God.
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Then Jesus threw out the
money changers and he said,
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"This is my house,"
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so he entered what is
called the Temple of God.
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He said, ''It is my house."
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But then after giving his woes
00:15:03.60\00:15:06.67
upon the scribes
and the Pharisees,
00:15:06.70\00:15:08.44
the religious
leaders, in Matthew 23:38,
00:15:08.47\00:15:12.47
Jesus left the
temple and He said,
00:15:12.51\00:15:14.91
"Your house is left
on to you desolate."
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So in other words,
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when Jesus left the
temple the last time,
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it was no longer
God's house, it was what?
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It was their house.
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Now, I want to
show you one example
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in the writings of Paul
of what the temple of God is.
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It is not a
rebuilt Jewish temple
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where a literal nasty person
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is going to sit for
three and a half literal years
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and persecute the Jews.
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That is alien to the
teachings of the Apostle Paul.
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Notice Ephesians
2:19-22, so you can see that
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the temple that Paul speaks
about is a spiritual temple.
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It is the church, the
spiritual worldwide church.
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Notice what it says
there in Ephesians 2:19,
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"Now, therefore, he
says to the Ephesians,
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you are no longer
strangers and foreigners,
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but fellow
citizens with the saints
00:16:05.13\00:16:07.50
and members of
the household of God."
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And now notice,
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"Having been built
upon the foundation
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of the apostles
and the prophets..."
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What are the
foundations of this building?
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People.
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"The apostles and the prophets,
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Jesus Christ Himself
being the chief," what?
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Are we talking about
a literal cornerstone?
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No, the cornerstone is a person.
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Jesus is the chief cornerstone.
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Now, the
believers are the stones
00:16:35.02\00:16:36.56
that are built
up on the foundation
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because it says, "In
whom the whole building,
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being fitted
together, grows into a what?
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A holy temple in the Lord."
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So let me ask you, is
the church the temple?
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Yes, what are the
foundations of this temple?
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The apostles and prophets.
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Who is the chief
cornerstone of this temple?
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Jesus Christ.
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Who is the Shekinah
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that enters the
temple in the Old Testament?
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It was the visible glory of God,
00:17:01.48\00:17:03.39
but notice who is the
presence in this temple.
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He says, in whom verse 22.
00:17:07.42\00:17:09.99
"You are also built together
for a dwelling place of God
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in the..." what?
00:17:14.43\00:17:16.06
"In the Spirit."
00:17:16.10\00:17:17.43
So where is the Shekinah today?
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It is not a
visible glorious light,
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it is the Holy Spirit.
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So for the Apostle Paul
that temple of God is what?
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The church spiritually speaking.
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So where would we
expect this man of sin to sit,
00:17:31.45\00:17:35.82
if he sits in the temple of God?
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He must rise within
the Christian church.
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Are you with me or not?
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We're not to seek for
him over in the Middle East,
00:17:43.86\00:17:46.56
some leader of ISIS over there,
00:17:46.59\00:17:49.76
some Syrian Jew as
some people believe.
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No, no, no,
00:17:52.70\00:17:54.17
we are to look
for the antagonist,
00:17:54.20\00:17:55.74
the man of sin within the
bosom of the Christian church
00:17:55.77\00:17:58.97
because the
Apostle Paul defines that
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as the temple of God.
00:18:01.38\00:18:04.65
Now, we have another
subtitle in place of Christ.
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You know the succession
of Roman Catholic popes
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has claimed two titles.
00:18:12.92\00:18:15.32
One is Vicarius Filii dei.
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It means Vicar
of the Son of God.
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Another title
that they have claimed
00:18:20.93\00:18:22.56
is Vicarius Christi.
00:18:22.60\00:18:24.30
That means Vicar of Christ.
00:18:24.33\00:18:26.47
Now what does
the word vicar mean?
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The word vicar means one
who occupies the place of.
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A vicar takes the
place of someone else.
00:18:34.28\00:18:37.88
Now let me ask you
when Jesus went to heaven,
00:18:37.91\00:18:40.08
who did He leave
on earth as His vicar.
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Who did He leave on
earth to take His place?
00:18:43.05\00:18:46.15
It was the Holy
Spirit, but the papacy believes
00:18:46.19\00:18:49.99
that Jesus Christ on
earth is found in whom?
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In the Roman
bishop or in the pope.
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Incidentally the word
antichrist is very interesting.
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We usually think of
that word antichrist
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as meaning against Christ.
00:19:04.91\00:19:07.78
But the Greek word Anti
christos actually can mean
00:19:07.81\00:19:12.91
not only someone
who is against Christ,
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it can mean someone who claims
to occupy the place of Christ.
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You see the proposition
anti can mean also in place of.
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So the antichrist is not
someone who is an atheist
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and defies the God of heaven.
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The antichrist is someone
00:19:32.70\00:19:35.00
who claims to
occupy the place of Christ.
00:19:35.04\00:19:38.57
That's what antichrist means.
00:19:38.61\00:19:42.24
Now, for example
in classical Greek
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you have the word Anti-Basileus.
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Basileus is king.
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So the word Anti-Basileus means,
00:19:50.42\00:19:53.15
one who occupies
the place of the king.
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It's not someone
who's against the king.
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It's someone who
takes the place of the king,
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the vicar of the
king if you please.
00:20:00.66\00:20:03.06
You find in the New
Testament the word Antipas
00:20:03.10\00:20:06.10
the word Pas is father.
00:20:06.13\00:20:08.14
Antipas means he who
rules in place of his father.
00:20:08.17\00:20:13.48
So once again,
anti means in place of.
00:20:13.51\00:20:17.35
You have the word antitype.
00:20:17.38\00:20:19.15
Have you ever
heard the word antitype?
00:20:19.18\00:20:20.78
The lamb is the type
and Jesus is the antitype.
00:20:20.82\00:20:24.99
What does that mean?
00:20:25.02\00:20:26.35
It means that when Jesus dies,
he takes the place of the type.
00:20:26.39\00:20:30.53
You don't have to
sacrifice lambs anymore
00:20:30.56\00:20:33.09
because Jesus takes the
place of the sacrifices.
00:20:33.13\00:20:35.80
He is not
against the sacrifices.
00:20:35.83\00:20:37.70
He takes the
place of the sacrifices,
00:20:37.73\00:20:39.87
he fulfils them.
00:20:39.90\00:20:41.64
So we find that
the word antichrist
00:20:41.67\00:20:44.47
does not necessarily mean
someone who is against Christ
00:20:44.51\00:20:48.58
but it means
someone who claims to occupy
00:20:48.61\00:20:52.45
the place of Christ
or the place of God.
00:20:52.48\00:20:57.59
Let me read you some statements
from Roman Catholic sources.
00:20:57.62\00:21:01.69
Pope Leo the XIII
00:21:01.72\00:21:04.26
in an encyclical
letter dated June 20,1894
00:21:04.29\00:21:08.86
spoke, wrote these words.
00:21:08.90\00:21:10.87
"We hold upon this earth
the place of God Almighty."
00:21:10.90\00:21:17.01
Once again, Leo the XIII
00:21:17.04\00:21:18.87
stated on January
10, 1890 the following.
00:21:18.91\00:21:23.08
"But the supreme
teacher in the Church
00:21:23.11\00:21:25.05
is the Roman Pontiff.
00:21:25.08\00:21:26.75
Union of minds,
therefore, requires,
00:21:26.78\00:21:29.55
together with a perfect
accord in the one faith,
00:21:29.58\00:21:32.69
complete submission
and obedience of the will
00:21:32.72\00:21:35.96
to the Church and
to the Roman Pontiff,
00:21:35.99\00:21:38.59
as to God Himself."
00:21:38.63\00:21:41.73
Absolute obedience
to the Roman Pontiff
00:21:41.76\00:21:44.23
as to whom?
00:21:44.27\00:21:45.60
As to God Himself.
00:21:45.63\00:21:48.07
The famous Roman
Catholic encyclopedia
00:21:48.10\00:21:50.57
Prompta Bibliotheca
00:21:50.61\00:21:51.94
edited by Lucius
Ferraris has these words,
00:21:51.97\00:21:55.74
"The Pope is of so
great authority and power
00:21:55.78\00:22:00.05
that he can matter
of modify, explain,
00:22:00.08\00:22:02.75
or interpret even divine laws.
00:22:02.78\00:22:05.32
The Pope can modify divine law,
00:22:05.35\00:22:07.86
since his power is
not of man but of God,
00:22:07.89\00:22:11.43
and he acts as vice-regent,
00:22:11.46\00:22:13.53
vice-regent means vice
ruler of God upon earth
00:22:13.56\00:22:18.53
with most ample power of binding
00:22:18.57\00:22:20.57
and loosing his sheep.
00:22:20.60\00:22:21.94
Whatever the Lord God
himself, and the Redeemer,
00:22:21.97\00:22:24.67
is said to do, his vicar does,
00:22:24.71\00:22:27.34
provide of that he does
nothing contrary to the faith."
00:22:27.38\00:22:30.78
And by the way
this encyclopedia is not
00:22:30.81\00:22:32.85
some offshoot encyclopedia.
00:22:32.88\00:22:35.18
This encyclopedia
00:22:35.22\00:22:36.55
according to the Roman
Catholic encyclopedia volume 6,
00:22:36.58\00:22:39.42
page 48 is referred
00:22:39.45\00:22:41.56
to as a veritable encyclopedia
of religious knowledge
00:22:41.59\00:22:46.43
and a precious
mind of information.
00:22:46.46\00:22:49.40
And it bears the imprimatur
00:22:49.43\00:22:51.73
or the authorization of
the Roman Catholic Church.
00:22:51.77\00:22:56.77
Not only does
the pope claim to be
00:22:56.81\00:22:59.64
to occupy the place of Christ
00:22:59.67\00:23:01.11
which is the
meaning of antichrist,
00:23:01.14\00:23:03.45
but the papacy
also allows people
00:23:03.48\00:23:07.78
to refer to its
leader as Holy Father.
00:23:07.82\00:23:12.02
In Matthew 23:9, Jesus said,
00:23:12.05\00:23:14.66
"We are to call no
man on earth our" what?
00:23:14.69\00:23:18.09
"Our Father,"
spiritually speaking,
00:23:18.13\00:23:19.89
doesn't mean that I
can't call my dad father.
00:23:19.93\00:23:22.66
It's speaking
in spiritual terms,
00:23:22.70\00:23:24.40
you can look at the context.
00:23:24.43\00:23:25.77
Jesus says, "Don't call
any man your spiritual father."
00:23:25.80\00:23:28.30
The pope not only allows
people to call him father,
00:23:28.34\00:23:30.91
he allows people to
call him Holy Father,
00:23:30.94\00:23:34.71
a title that
belongs only to God.
00:23:34.74\00:23:37.98
The Bible tells us that we
are to only bow before God.
00:23:38.01\00:23:41.48
We are to bow before no man.
00:23:41.52\00:23:43.62
When you remember when Cornelius
00:23:43.65\00:23:48.02
came to where Peter was.
00:23:48.06\00:23:49.69
The Bible says that
Cornelius bowed before Peter
00:23:49.72\00:23:52.53
and what did Peter say,
00:23:52.56\00:23:53.90
"Yes, kiss my
ring, kiss my toe."
00:23:53.93\00:23:55.66
No, that's not what he said,
00:23:55.70\00:23:58.50
Peter said, "You stand up
00:23:58.53\00:24:01.40
for I am a man
like you are man."
00:24:01.44\00:24:04.31
In Revelation
19:10 and 22: 8, 9,
00:24:04.34\00:24:08.08
John bowed before an
angel and the angel said,
00:24:08.11\00:24:11.65
"Stand up, you can
only bow before" whom?
00:24:11.68\00:24:15.12
"Before God." Let me ask you.
00:24:15.15\00:24:17.22
Does the pope
allow and encourage
00:24:17.25\00:24:20.46
people to bow before him?
00:24:20.49\00:24:22.89
He most certainly does.
00:24:22.92\00:24:24.89
In fact, in a
document called Dictatus Papae
00:24:24.93\00:24:29.30
which is 27 statements
00:24:29.33\00:24:31.93
that were written
by Pope Gregory VII
00:24:31.97\00:24:34.67
in the year 1075.
00:24:34.70\00:24:37.34
In Article 9 the pope says this,
00:24:37.37\00:24:41.91
"That of the pope alone
00:24:41.94\00:24:44.41
all princess
shall kiss his feet."
00:24:44.45\00:24:47.75
Interesting,
00:24:47.78\00:24:49.48
furthermore the papacy claims
to have the power to what?
00:24:49.52\00:24:53.49
To forgive sins.
00:24:53.52\00:24:55.56
While the Bible teaches
that only God can forgive sin,
00:24:55.59\00:24:58.29
the papacy says,
"We can forgive sin."
00:24:58.33\00:25:01.40
Our Roman Catholic Church
is filled with confessionals
00:25:01.43\00:25:04.70
where people confess their sins
00:25:04.73\00:25:06.47
and receive supposedly
absolution from the priest,
00:25:06.50\00:25:10.61
absolutely.
00:25:10.64\00:25:12.04
Now, St. Alphonsus
Liguori, one of the 33 doctors
00:25:12.07\00:25:16.41
in the history of
the Roman Catholic Church
00:25:16.44\00:25:18.48
who was canonized as a saint
by Pope Gregory the XIV in 1839
00:25:18.51\00:25:24.55
and was proclaimed
a doctor of the church
00:25:24.59\00:25:27.62
by Pope Pius the IX.
00:25:27.66\00:25:29.66
One of the great theologians
00:25:29.69\00:25:31.36
in the history of
the Roman Catholic Church
00:25:31.39\00:25:33.56
wrote a very interesting book
00:25:33.60\00:25:35.73
where he described
00:25:35.76\00:25:37.67
what he believed was
the power of the priest.
00:25:37.70\00:25:41.20
And I want you to notice
what he states in his book
00:25:41.24\00:25:44.87
Dignity and Duties of
the Priest or Selve, page 34,
00:25:44.91\00:25:48.68
"When he ascended into heaven,
00:25:48.71\00:25:51.15
Jesus Christ left his priests
00:25:51.18\00:25:52.88
after him to hold
on earth his place."
00:25:52.91\00:25:58.35
What does he saying?
00:25:58.39\00:26:00.89
Once again, "When he
ascended into heaven,
00:26:00.92\00:26:02.76
Jesus Christ left his priests
00:26:02.79\00:26:04.23
after him to hold
on earth his place
00:26:04.26\00:26:07.16
of mediator
between God and men."
00:26:07.20\00:26:09.26
The Bible says,
"We have one mediator
00:26:09.30\00:26:11.03
between God and men,
00:26:11.07\00:26:12.40
Jesus Christ."
00:26:12.43\00:26:13.87
Continues saying,
"Particularly on the altar...
00:26:13.90\00:26:16.67
The Priest holds what?
00:26:16.71\00:26:18.94
The place of the Savior himself,
00:26:18.97\00:26:22.34
when by saying,
'Ego te absolvo,'
00:26:22.38\00:26:24.38
this means I forgive you.
00:26:24.41\00:26:25.98
He absolves or he
forgives from sin."
00:26:26.01\00:26:30.89
My Bible tells me that
only God can forgive sin.
00:26:30.92\00:26:33.25
So the papacy
claims to forgive sin.
00:26:33.29\00:26:35.19
Are they claiming to
occupy God's place on earth?
00:26:35.22\00:26:37.76
Absolutely.
00:26:37.79\00:26:40.10
Probably most of you know that
00:26:40.13\00:26:41.46
from December 8, 2015
through November 20, 2016,
00:26:41.50\00:26:46.47
Pope Francis has
proclaimed what is called
00:26:46.50\00:26:48.67
The Year of Mercy.
00:26:48.70\00:26:50.54
He's even gone so
far as to say that
00:26:50.57\00:26:52.74
if a woman who
has aborted the baby
00:26:52.77\00:26:54.51
truly repents of
the sin of abortion
00:26:54.54\00:26:57.18
that she can go to her priest
00:26:57.21\00:26:58.65
and the priest can
give her absolution,
00:26:58.68\00:27:01.05
the priest can forgive her sin.
00:27:01.08\00:27:03.59
And interestingly enough
00:27:03.62\00:27:05.32
the whole matter
of indulgences for sin
00:27:05.35\00:27:07.79
is what led to the
Protestant Reformation.
00:27:07.82\00:27:10.56
And there are some
Protestant churches
00:27:10.59\00:27:12.66
that are planning with
the Roman Catholic Church
00:27:12.69\00:27:15.46
to celebrate the 500th year
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of the posting of the 95
thesis in October of next year,
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Protestants and
Catholics together.
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Amazing.
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The papacy also claims
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when it speaks on faith
and morals to be infallible.
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In fact, at Vatican
Council I in the year 1870,
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the dogma of papal
infallibility was proclaimed.
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I want to read a
description of this,
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of this very blasphemous dogma
of the Roman Catholic Church.
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Here's the description.
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This is from the
Dogmatic Constitution
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on the Catholic Faith.
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"We teach and define
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that it is a
dogma divinely revealed:
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that the Roman Pontiff,
when he speaks ex cathedra,
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that is from the
throne, from the people throne,
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that is, when in
discharge of the office
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of pastor and
doctor of all Christians,
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by virtue of his
supreme Apostolic authority,
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he defines a doctrine
regarding faith or morals
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to be held by
the universal Church,
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by the divine assistance
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promised to him
in blessed Peter,
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is possessed of
that infallibility
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with which the divine
Redeemer willed that his Church
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should be endowed
for defining doctrine
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regarding faith or
morals, and that therefore
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such definitions
of the Roman Pontiff
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are irreformable of themselves,
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and not from the
consent of the Church.
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But if any one
which may God overt
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presume to
contradict this our definition:
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let him be anathema."
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Anathema mean let him be cursed.
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So does the papacy
claim infallibility
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when it speaks
on faith and morals?
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But my Bible tells me
that only one is infallible.
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Notice what Pope
Nicholas the I had to say.
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He ruled from
858 A.D. to 867 A.D.
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He stated this, "It is evident
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that the popes can
neither be bound nor unbound
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by any earthly power,
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nor even by that
of the apostle Peter,
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if he should
return upon the earth,
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since Constantine the Great
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has recognized
that the pontiffs..."
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Listen now carefully.
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"Held the place
of God upon earth,
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divinity not being able to
be judged by any living man."
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They're claiming divinity.
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Then he stated, "We
are, then, infallible
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and whatever may be our acts,
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we are not accountable
for them but to ourselves."
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Isn't that interesting?
That's blasphemous, folks.
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Does the papacy claim
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the rights and
prerogatives of God,
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must that then claim worship?
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Absolutely.
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Now notice this
statement about what happens
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when the pope
speaks on faith and morals.
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This is the Roman
Catholic theologian Fritz Leist,
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he said, "The
infallibility of the pope
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is the infallibility
of Jesus Christ Himself...
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whenever the pope
thinks, it is God Himself,
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who is thinking in him."
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See they're
incriminating themselves
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by what they're writing.
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Now the Bible tells us that
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only God can set up
kings and remove kings.
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But the papacy claims
to have that divine right
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of setting up
kings and removing kings.
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At the Council of Trent,
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notice the
decision that was made.
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"All temporal power is
his..." That is the Popes.
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"The dominion, jurisdiction,
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and government
of the whole Earth
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is his by divine right.
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All rulers of the
Earth are his subjects
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and must submit to him."
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Gregory the VII in
Dictatus Papae, Article 12,
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which we already mentioned
what this document is stated,
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"That it may be
permitted to him,
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that is the pope,
to depose emperors."
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Now you can read
this rather long statement
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because we don't have the
time to read this long statement
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from Pope
Boniface the VIII in 1302.
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It's a papal bull
called Unam sanctam
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where he says,
"That the civil power
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has to be subject
to the religious power.
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And that the religious
power because it's higher
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in the sight of God has a right
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to set up kings
and to remove kings."
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But my Bible tells me
that only God has the right
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to set up kings
and to remove kings.
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The papacy also
claims that the pope
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is the supreme
judge of the earth.
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Notice once
again, Dictatus Papae,
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Gregory the VII
1075 in Article 18,
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he says, "That his,
that is the pope's sentence
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is not to be reviewed by anyone,
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while he alone can review
the decisions of all others."
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In Article 19 of
this same document,
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Pope Gregory the VII said,
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"That he, that is the
pope, can be judged by no one."
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And St. Alphonsus Liguori,
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this renowned theologian
of the Roman Catholic Church
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expressed it this way.
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"So that if it were possible
that the angels might err
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in the faith, or might
think contrary to the faith,
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they could be judged and
excommunicated by the Pope.
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For he is of so
great dignity and power
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that he forms the
one and the same tribunal
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with Christ."
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Can you imagine
the pope doing that
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judging and
excommunicating the angels?
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Come on, be real but
that's what the papacy claims.
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Most of the world
is oblivious to this.
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Most Roman Catholics
don't have the foggiest idea
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that this is
Roman Catholic theology
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and many, when,
when I share this,
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they're
surprised, does the church
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really believe that?
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Is that what they've said?
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That's exactly what they
say, and there's much more
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that I have not
included in this lecture
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because we don't
have the time to cover it.
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But there's another
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blasphemous claim of the papacy.
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And that is that the priest
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when he performs
the right of the mass
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or the sacrifice of the mass,
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he becomes the
creator of his creator.
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Notice the way that Liguori
expressed it in his book,
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pages 33, 34.
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This is the
epitome of blasphemy.
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"Thus the priest
may, in a certain manner,
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be called the
creator of his Creator,
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since by saying the
words of consecration,
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he creates, as it
were, Jesus in the sacrament,
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by giving him a
sacramental existence,
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and produces him as a victim
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to be offered to
the eternal Father.
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As in creating the world
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it was sufficient
for God to have said:
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'Let it be made,
and it was created.
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He spoke, and they were made'
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so it is sufficient
for the priest to say,
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'Hoc est corpusmeum,'
that is this is my body,
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and behold the
bread is no longer bread,
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but the body of Christ.
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'The power of the priest,'
says St. Bernardino of Sienna,
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'is the power of
the divine person,
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for the
transubstantiation of the bread
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requires as much power as
the creation of the world."
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What do you think?
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That's blasphemy.
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That man can create the Creator.
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Be real.
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That's the epitome of blasphemy.
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So let me ask you so
far what we've looked at.
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Could we say that the papacy,
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the beast claims worship
because he claims to be God?
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Absolutely.
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Now some people say,
well, but Pastor Bohr,
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the papacy has changed.
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It's toned it down.
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Of course, if
the pope today said,
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I'm God on earth and he
said all these things openly,
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nobody on earth would
pay any attention to him.
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The papacy has toned it
down, but listen carefully.
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The papacy has
changed externally.
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But at her core,
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the papacy is the same
system that it was in the past
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because she
cannot change her DNA.
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If she changed her DNA,
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she would cease to be
the Roman Catholic Church.
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Ellen White wrote a
very interesting statement
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that I want to read.
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It's found in Great
Controversy, page 571
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on how the papacy adapts
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to the circumstances
in which it finds itself.
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This is how it states,
00:36:04.86\00:36:06.73
"The Roman Church now
presents a fair front..."
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And the motto of the
Roman Catholic Church is
00:36:11.47\00:36:13.40
Semper Idem.
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That means always the same.
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"So the Roman Church
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now presents a
fair front to the world,
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covering with apologies
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her record of
horrible cruelties.
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She has clothed
herself in Christlike garments,
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but she is but she is unchanged.
00:36:28.32\00:36:30.79
Every principle of the
papacy that existed in past ages
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exists today.
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The doctrines devised
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in the darkest
ages are still held.
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Let none deceive themselves.
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The papacy that Protestants
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are now so ready
to honor is the same
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that ruled the world in
the days of the Reformation,
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when men of God stood up,
at the peril of their lives,
00:36:50.17\00:36:53.94
to expose her iniquity.
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She possesses the same
pride and arrogant assumption
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that lorded it
over kings and princes,
00:36:59.81\00:37:02.22
and claimed the
prerogatives of God.
00:37:02.25\00:37:05.59
Her spirit is no
less cruel and despotic
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now than when she
crushed out human liberty
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and slew the
saints of the Most High."
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The papacy is just
what prophecy declare
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that she would be,
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the apostasy of
the latter times.
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It is part of her
policy to assume the character
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which will best
accomplish her purpose."
00:37:24.64\00:37:27.61
Do we see that happening
with Pope Francis the I?
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If you haven't noticed that
00:37:31.68\00:37:33.38
you, you've been
at some other planet
00:37:33.42\00:37:35.38
or you've been sleeping.
00:37:35.42\00:37:37.19
Then she gives the best
definition of the papacy
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that I've ever found.
00:37:39.65\00:37:40.99
She says, "But beneath
the variable appearance
00:37:41.02\00:37:44.93
of the chameleon she conceals
00:37:44.96\00:37:47.90
the invariable
venom of the serpent."
00:37:47.93\00:37:52.87
Now, the most arrogant claim
of the Roman Catholic papacy
00:37:52.90\00:37:58.14
which proves that the
papacy claims to be God
00:37:58.17\00:38:01.24
and demands to be
worshipped or obeyed
00:38:01.28\00:38:04.48
is the change of
the day of worship
00:38:04.51\00:38:07.78
from Sabbath to Sunday
the change in God's holy law.
00:38:07.82\00:38:12.19
You remember that
the Bible tells us
00:38:12.22\00:38:13.86
that the little horn thought
that it could change the law.
00:38:13.89\00:38:18.06
And the little horn
is the same as the what?
00:38:18.09\00:38:20.10
The same as the beast.
00:38:20.13\00:38:21.46
So the little horn or the beast
thought that it could change
00:38:21.50\00:38:25.27
God's holy law.
00:38:25.30\00:38:28.37
They say that this
power was conferred upon her
00:38:28.40\00:38:31.17
by God himself
00:38:31.21\00:38:32.54
that if the church
wanted to change the day,
00:38:32.57\00:38:34.78
the church could change the day.
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Let me give you
just a few remarks about
00:38:37.31\00:38:41.18
one example of this in
Roman Catholic theology.
00:38:41.22\00:38:45.55
On May 31, 1998,
00:38:45.59\00:38:47.99
Pope John Paul the II
published a document titled
00:38:48.02\00:38:51.53
Apostolic Letter Dies
Domini of John Paul the II
00:38:51.56\00:38:55.20
to the Clergy the episcopate
00:38:55.23\00:38:57.67
and the faithful on
keeping Sunday holy.
00:38:57.70\00:39:01.54
There's a document
00:39:01.57\00:39:02.90
that he wrote to the
laity and to the clergy
00:39:02.94\00:39:05.81
and he begins by
quoting the Book of Genesis.
00:39:05.84\00:39:09.71
This is what he states,
speaking about the Sabbath,
00:39:09.74\00:39:13.21
"In the first place,
therefore, the day of rest is so
00:39:13.25\00:39:16.25
because it is the
day 'blessed' by God
00:39:16.28\00:39:19.19
and 'made holy' by him,
00:39:19.22\00:39:21.52
set apart from
the other days to be,
00:39:21.56\00:39:24.79
among all of
them, 'the Lord's Day'."
00:39:24.83\00:39:27.16
Who could argue with that?
00:39:27.20\00:39:28.53
He is talking about
the Sabbath in Genesis.
00:39:28.56\00:39:30.93
Did God bless the
Sabbath in Genesis?
00:39:30.97\00:39:33.03
Yes. Did He make it holy?
00:39:33.07\00:39:34.50
Yes. Was it the Lord's Day?
00:39:34.54\00:39:36.24
Absolutely.
00:39:36.27\00:39:37.61
But that's where things
change in this apostolic letter
00:39:37.64\00:39:42.04
because then what the pope
does in the rest of his letter
00:39:42.08\00:39:45.11
is he takes everything
00:39:45.15\00:39:46.51
that the Bible
applies to the Sabbath,
00:39:46.55\00:39:48.78
he applies it to Sunday.
00:39:48.82\00:39:51.95
There are many places where
he openly contradicts the Bible,
00:39:51.99\00:39:54.99
and I'm going to share
several of those with you.
00:39:55.02\00:39:57.23
How is it that
the papacy can claim
00:39:57.26\00:39:59.66
to have the authority of God
00:39:59.69\00:40:01.06
when the papacy
openly contradicts
00:40:01.10\00:40:03.20
what the Bible teaches?
00:40:03.23\00:40:05.40
I want you to
notice first of all
00:40:05.43\00:40:07.00
that the pope calls the
Sabbath the Jewish Sabbath
00:40:07.04\00:40:12.41
several times in
his apostolic letter.
00:40:12.44\00:40:15.51
There is not one
reference in the Bible
00:40:15.54\00:40:17.38
it calls a
Sabbath a Jewish Sabbath.
00:40:17.41\00:40:19.58
It is always called the
Sabbath of the Lord your God
00:40:19.61\00:40:24.05
or it is called the
holy day of the Lord
00:40:24.09\00:40:27.99
and God calls it, "My holy day."
00:40:28.02\00:40:31.73
It is always God's holy day,
00:40:31.76\00:40:34.70
it is not the
holy day of the Jews.
00:40:34.73\00:40:37.77
The pope also places a conflict
00:40:37.80\00:40:39.80
between the old
covenant and the new covenant.
00:40:39.83\00:40:42.54
I read one statement
that he gives in this letter,
00:40:42.57\00:40:45.91
"In the light of this mystery,
00:40:45.94\00:40:47.28
he's speaking about
the resurrection of Christ,
00:40:47.31\00:40:49.14
the meaning of the
Old Testament precept
00:40:49.18\00:40:51.81
concerning the
Lord's Day is recovered,
00:40:51.85\00:40:54.22
perfected and fully revealed
00:40:54.25\00:40:56.62
in the glory which shines on
the face of the Risen Christ."
00:40:56.65\00:41:01.09
and then he says, "We
move from the 'Sabbath'
00:41:01.12\00:41:04.59
that is from the
seventh day to the first day
00:41:04.63\00:41:07.23
after the Sabbath',
00:41:07.26\00:41:08.63
from the seventh
day to the first day:
00:41:08.66\00:41:11.53
the dies Domini
becomes the dies Christi!"
00:41:11.57\00:41:16.14
Do you know what he's
saying in this statement?
00:41:16.17\00:41:18.07
Basically what he's saying
is that in the old covenant
00:41:18.11\00:41:21.04
the day of rest was the Sabbath,
00:41:21.08\00:41:22.74
but in the new covenant
because Christ resurrected
00:41:22.78\00:41:25.51
the day of rest
should be Sunday.
00:41:25.55\00:41:29.65
Let me ask you, has he borrowed
this argument from Protestants?
00:41:29.68\00:41:33.82
Isn't it Protestants
that create a dichotomy
00:41:33.86\00:41:36.56
between the old
covenant and the new covenant?
00:41:36.59\00:41:38.93
The problem
with this argument is
00:41:38.96\00:41:40.96
that the Sabbath was
not part of the old covenant
00:41:41.00\00:41:43.93
because the Sabbath
was made in Garden of Eden
00:41:43.97\00:41:48.44
before there was any sin,
00:41:48.47\00:41:50.01
before there was
any old covenant.
00:41:50.04\00:41:51.87
It's part of
God's original plan.
00:41:51.91\00:41:53.94
So to say that the Sabbath
was, you know, for the Jews,
00:41:53.98\00:41:56.58
it's for the old covenant,
00:41:56.61\00:41:57.95
but now in the new covenant
we have a new day of worship
00:41:57.98\00:42:00.82
simply isn't biblical
00:42:00.85\00:42:02.18
because God created the Sabbath
00:42:02.22\00:42:04.12
before there
was an old covenant.
00:42:04.15\00:42:05.79
Furthermore the
Bible tells us that
00:42:05.82\00:42:07.62
when everything is restored,
00:42:07.66\00:42:09.26
God's people will go and worship
00:42:09.29\00:42:11.33
before the Lord
from Sabbath to Sabbath.
00:42:11.36\00:42:15.16
Incidentally, I
find it quite interesting
00:42:15.20\00:42:17.93
that the papacy would say that
00:42:17.97\00:42:19.30
the Sabbath belongs
to the old covenant.
00:42:19.33\00:42:21.80
And yet the
Roman Catholic papacy
00:42:21.84\00:42:23.44
continues so many of
the Old Testament customs.
00:42:23.47\00:42:26.44
They light candles,
they sprinkle holy water,
00:42:26.47\00:42:29.08
they sacrifice at altars,
00:42:29.11\00:42:30.95
they rope themselves
with priestly garments,
00:42:30.98\00:42:33.45
they burn incense, they
put miters on their heads.
00:42:33.48\00:42:37.82
In other words they continue
00:42:37.85\00:42:39.25
basically the Old
Testament cultist.
00:42:39.29\00:42:41.16
But they say,
"Well, the day of worship
00:42:41.19\00:42:43.69
is not the same day of worship
00:42:43.73\00:42:45.36
that existed in
the Old Testament,
00:42:45.39\00:42:46.90
the day of worship now is
a different day of worship."
00:42:46.93\00:42:51.63
John Paul in this
letter also states that
00:42:51.67\00:42:55.20
Sunday is supposed
to be kept every week
00:42:55.24\00:42:58.04
as a memorial of
the resurrection.
00:42:58.07\00:43:00.61
Now, there's a
real problem here.
00:43:00.64\00:43:02.98
Let me ask you,
how many times a year
00:43:03.01\00:43:05.21
does the papacy
celebrate Palm Sunday?
00:43:05.25\00:43:09.25
Once.
00:43:09.28\00:43:10.62
How many days of the year
00:43:10.65\00:43:12.25
does the papacy
celebrate Holy Wednesday?
00:43:12.29\00:43:18.29
How many days out of the year
00:43:18.33\00:43:20.10
do they celebrate Holy Thursday,
00:43:20.13\00:43:22.76
Jueves Santo?
00:43:22.80\00:43:24.63
Once a year.
00:43:24.67\00:43:26.00
How many days a year do
they celebrate Holy Friday?
00:43:26.03\00:43:31.37
Once a year.
00:43:31.41\00:43:32.74
So if all of the
days of the Passion
00:43:32.77\00:43:34.81
are celebrated once a year,
00:43:34.84\00:43:36.48
why is the resurrection of
Jesus celebrated every week?
00:43:36.51\00:43:41.68
It makes no sense.
00:43:41.72\00:43:43.89
There is no place
in the Bible that says,
00:43:43.92\00:43:45.52
you're supposed to celebrate
the resurrection every week,
00:43:45.55\00:43:48.36
but there is a
commandment that says,
00:43:48.39\00:43:50.19
you should
celebrate God as creator
00:43:50.23\00:43:52.49
one day a week and that
week and that day is what?
00:43:52.53\00:43:56.23
That day is the Holy Sabbath.
00:43:56.26\00:43:59.10
One of the real serious
things that the pope says
00:43:59.13\00:44:01.67
in this apostolic
letter is that he says that
00:44:01.70\00:44:05.37
God has placed
his seal on Sunday.
00:44:05.41\00:44:08.94
He quotes Saint Augustine,
00:44:08.98\00:44:10.48
one of the great doctors
of the Roman Catholic Church
00:44:10.51\00:44:13.31
and I read now.
00:44:13.35\00:44:14.88
"Saint Augustine notes in turn:
00:44:14.92\00:44:17.95
'Therefore the Lord has
placed his seal on this day,
00:44:17.99\00:44:22.12
which is the third
day after the Passion."
00:44:22.16\00:44:24.49
So he's saying,
God's seal is found where?
00:44:24.53\00:44:28.83
On Sunday.
00:44:28.86\00:44:31.60
Which day
contains the seal of God?
00:44:31.63\00:44:34.60
The day which is the seal
00:44:34.64\00:44:36.17
or sign of God
we've studied is what?
00:44:36.20\00:44:38.61
The Holy Sabbath.
00:44:38.64\00:44:40.14
The only commandment
in the Ten Commandments
00:44:40.18\00:44:42.34
that has the three
elements necessary for a seal
00:44:42.38\00:44:45.45
is the fourth commandment.
00:44:45.48\00:44:47.42
You have the name of
the giver of the law.
00:44:47.45\00:44:50.49
His name is the Lord thy God.
00:44:50.52\00:44:52.72
We have his office or
his function, what is He?
00:44:52.75\00:44:56.76
He is the creator.
00:44:56.79\00:44:58.13
And number three,
00:44:58.16\00:44:59.49
the territory
over which He rules.
00:44:59.53\00:45:01.70
Heaven, earth, the sea,
and everything that is in them.
00:45:01.73\00:45:07.27
Ellen White has well explained
00:45:07.30\00:45:09.90
that when the papacy
changed the day of worship,
00:45:09.94\00:45:12.84
they removed the
seal from the law of God
00:45:12.87\00:45:16.14
and the pope placed
his own seal in there.
00:45:16.18\00:45:19.35
Let me read this statement,
00:45:19.38\00:45:20.72
it's found in Great
Controversy, page 452.
00:45:20.75\00:45:24.29
"The seal of God's law is
found in the fourth commandment.
00:45:24.32\00:45:29.06
This only, of all the ten,
00:45:29.09\00:45:31.69
brings to view both the name
and the title of the Lawgiver.
00:45:31.73\00:45:35.93
It declares Him to be
00:45:35.96\00:45:37.30
the Creator of the
heavens and the earth,
00:45:37.33\00:45:39.30
and thus shows His
claim to reverence and worship
00:45:39.33\00:45:42.17
above all others.
00:45:42.20\00:45:43.87
Aside from this precept,
00:45:43.91\00:45:45.61
there is
nothing in the Decalogue
00:45:45.64\00:45:47.58
to show by whose
authority the law is given.
00:45:47.61\00:45:51.08
When the Sabbath was
changed by the papal power,
00:45:51.11\00:45:54.55
the seal was
taken from the law."
00:45:54.58\00:45:57.75
The seal that
identifies who was the lawgiver
00:45:57.79\00:46:00.22
and it also
identifies who is a creator
00:46:00.26\00:46:02.49
because God made the Sabbath
as his signature on creation.
00:46:02.52\00:46:06.80
This is very serious, folks.
00:46:06.83\00:46:08.93
It's you're
swapping the position of God.
00:46:08.96\00:46:13.30
In paragraph 55 of
this apostolic letter,
00:46:13.34\00:46:17.91
Pope John Paul the II
makes this blasphemous claim.
00:46:17.94\00:46:22.04
"Blessed be he who has
raised the great day of Sunday
00:46:22.08\00:46:27.15
above all other days.
00:46:27.18\00:46:29.75
The heavens and the
earth, angels and of men
00:46:29.78\00:46:33.29
give themselves over to joy."
00:46:33.32\00:46:35.66
Now who is that,
that elevated Sunday
00:46:35.69\00:46:37.89
above every other day?
00:46:37.93\00:46:39.76
The Papacy.
00:46:39.79\00:46:41.13
So what is he saying?
00:46:41.16\00:46:42.50
What is he saying,
"Blessed be the papacy
00:46:42.53\00:46:46.10
who raised Sunday
above all other days."
00:46:46.13\00:46:49.70
Because the papacy
claims to have changed the day.
00:46:49.74\00:46:53.58
The pope also says that
when everything is finished
00:46:53.61\00:46:56.75
and we're in a new
heavens and a new earth,
00:46:56.78\00:46:59.15
we will live on
an eternal Sunday.
00:46:59.18\00:47:03.39
Notice this statement
that we find in paragraph 84,
00:47:03.42\00:47:07.72
"From Sunday to Sunday,
00:47:07.76\00:47:10.39
enlightened by Christ,
she goes forward towards
00:47:10.43\00:47:13.53
the unending Sunday of
the heavenly Jerusalem,
00:47:13.56\00:47:17.43
which "has no need of
sun or moon to shine upon it,
00:47:17.47\00:47:20.24
for the glory of God
00:47:20.27\00:47:21.60
is its light and
its lamp is the Lamb."
00:47:21.64\00:47:24.04
So what he is saying is
when we get to the kingdom,
00:47:24.07\00:47:26.91
there will be an unending what?
00:47:26.94\00:47:29.44
Unending Sunday.
00:47:29.48\00:47:30.98
But what does the Bible teach?
00:47:31.01\00:47:33.11
The Bible teaches very clearly
00:47:33.15\00:47:35.18
that there will be
months in the new earth
00:47:35.22\00:47:37.75
because we will go
from month to month
00:47:37.79\00:47:40.56
to worship before the Lord
00:47:40.59\00:47:42.09
and to eat from
the tree of life.
00:47:42.12\00:47:44.06
There will also be days,
weeks in the earth to come,
00:47:44.09\00:47:48.93
and it's not an
endless Sunday that will exist
00:47:48.96\00:47:51.93
but God's people will go
00:47:51.97\00:47:53.57
every Sabbath to
worship before the Lord.
00:47:53.60\00:47:56.67
So he openly
contradicts the Bible
00:47:56.71\00:47:59.34
by speaking of an endless Sunday
00:47:59.37\00:48:01.24
when the Bible says that
there will be a weekly cycle
00:48:01.28\00:48:03.98
and God's people
will worship the creator
00:48:04.01\00:48:06.72
on the holy Sabbath.
00:48:06.75\00:48:09.62
But you know what
he does in this letter
00:48:09.65\00:48:11.55
from a very long
time until recent times,
00:48:11.59\00:48:15.22
Roman Catholic writers
would actually make fun
00:48:15.26\00:48:20.16
of Protestant writers by saying,
00:48:20.20\00:48:21.86
"You know, you Pope folks
say that you go by the Bible,
00:48:21.90\00:48:25.53
you say that you get
everything from the Bible
00:48:25.57\00:48:28.67
but the Bible says
and doesn't say anywhere
00:48:28.70\00:48:31.21
you're supposed to keep Sunday.
00:48:31.24\00:48:32.61
It was a Roman Catholic
Church that changed the day
00:48:32.64\00:48:34.68
from Sabbath to Sunday.
00:48:34.71\00:48:36.04
So when you keep Sunday,
00:48:36.08\00:48:37.41
you're accepting the authority
of the Roman Catholic Church."
00:48:37.45\00:48:39.68
That's the way they argued
00:48:39.71\00:48:41.05
that the Sunday
was not in the Bible.
00:48:41.08\00:48:43.69
But in this apostolic letter,
00:48:43.72\00:48:45.52
Pope John Paul the II
00:48:45.55\00:48:47.59
knows that he wants
to win over Protestants
00:48:47.62\00:48:49.66
and he will not be
able to win them over
00:48:49.69\00:48:51.59
by saying that by keeping Sunday
00:48:51.63\00:48:53.83
they're following the tradition
of the Roman Catholic Church.
00:48:53.86\00:48:56.16
So he quotes the
very same arguments
00:48:56.20\00:48:58.97
that
Protestants have always used
00:48:59.00\00:49:01.24
in favor of Sunday
00:49:01.27\00:49:02.60
to give it a
semblance of being in scripture.
00:49:02.64\00:49:06.24
Let me just
mention the several things
00:49:06.27\00:49:07.81
that he says in
paragraph 20 and 21.
00:49:07.84\00:49:10.81
Six times he says
00:49:10.85\00:49:12.18
Jesus resurrected on
the first day of the week.
00:49:12.21\00:49:15.12
Then he says on the
first day of the week,
00:49:15.15\00:49:16.99
He walked and talked
with two of His followers
00:49:17.02\00:49:19.59
on the road to Emmaus.
00:49:19.62\00:49:21.39
On the first day of the week,
00:49:21.42\00:49:22.79
He appeared to the 11
apostles in the evening.
00:49:22.82\00:49:25.79
A week later on a Sunday,
00:49:25.83\00:49:27.23
Jesus appeared to
the apostles once again.
00:49:27.26\00:49:30.50
On the day of Pentecost
which was the last Sunday,
00:49:30.53\00:49:32.70
the Holy Spirit was poured out.
00:49:32.73\00:49:34.27
The first
proclamation of the gospel
00:49:34.30\00:49:35.94
took place on Sunday.
00:49:35.97\00:49:37.31
The first baptisms on the day
00:49:37.34\00:49:38.67
of Pentecost
took place on Sunday.
00:49:38.71\00:49:40.64
Christians were taking
their offerings to church
00:49:40.68\00:49:42.88
on the firs day of the week.
00:49:42.91\00:49:44.25
You know that
argument 1 Corinthians 16.
00:49:44.28\00:49:46.88
The Apostle Paul met
with the Church of Troas
00:49:46.92\00:49:49.32
on the first day of the week.
00:49:49.35\00:49:50.69
And Revelation calls
the first day of the week
00:49:50.72\00:49:52.82
the Lord's day.
00:49:52.85\00:49:54.19
He is using the very
arguments that Protestant used
00:49:54.22\00:49:56.93
in favor of Sunday
because he knows that
00:49:56.96\00:49:59.36
he will not be able
to win over Protestants
00:49:59.39\00:50:01.56
by saying that
the day was changed
00:50:01.60\00:50:03.50
by the tradition of
the Roman Catholic Church
00:50:03.53\00:50:05.27
because he
knows that Protestants
00:50:05.30\00:50:06.70
do not go by tradition.
00:50:06.74\00:50:08.10
Are you
understanding what he's doing?
00:50:08.14\00:50:11.01
Now this gets even more serious
00:50:11.04\00:50:14.68
because neither
Benedict, Pope Benedict
00:50:14.71\00:50:19.28
nor John Paul nor Francis the I
00:50:19.31\00:50:23.75
even believe that the
days of creation were literal.
00:50:23.79\00:50:27.92
In fact Pope Francis
and John Paul both believe
00:50:27.96\00:50:31.89
that this world
came into existence
00:50:31.93\00:50:34.96
by a long and cruel
process of evolution.
00:50:35.00\00:50:38.90
And Francis the I
refers to creation
00:50:38.93\00:50:41.70
as a symbolic story.
00:50:41.74\00:50:45.74
Let me read you
what John Paul had to say
00:50:45.77\00:50:47.71
about the creation story.
00:50:47.74\00:50:50.15
This is in a speech that he gave
00:50:50.18\00:50:52.15
to the Papal
Academy of the Sciences.
00:50:52.18\00:50:55.05
"Today almost half a century
00:50:55.08\00:50:56.69
after the
publication of the in cyclical,
00:50:56.72\00:50:58.92
this is an cyclical
book called by Pope Pius XII,
00:50:58.95\00:51:01.56
Humane Generis, 1950.
00:51:01.59\00:51:04.59
He says since the
publication of that encyclical,
00:51:04.63\00:51:07.30
new knowledge has
led to the recognition
00:51:07.33\00:51:09.96
of the theory of evolution
as more than a hypothesis.
00:51:10.00\00:51:14.40
It is indeed
remarkable that this theory
00:51:14.44\00:51:16.81
has been progressively
accepted by researchers,
00:51:16.84\00:51:20.01
following a
series of discoveries
00:51:20.04\00:51:21.88
in various fields of knowledge.
00:51:21.91\00:51:24.05
The convergence,
neither sought nor fabricated,
00:51:24.08\00:51:26.95
of the results of work there
was conducted independently
00:51:26.98\00:51:30.95
is in itself a
significant argument
00:51:30.99\00:51:34.36
in favor of the theory.
00:51:34.39\00:51:35.72
He says scientists have...
00:51:35.76\00:51:37.56
in different fields
have done a study of this
00:51:37.59\00:51:41.06
and they've independently
come to the conclusion
00:51:41.10\00:51:43.40
that evolution
is not a hypothesis,
00:51:43.43\00:51:46.13
evolution actually took place.
00:51:46.17\00:51:48.10
So he's saying that this world
did not come into existence
00:51:48.14\00:51:51.21
in seven literal days.
00:51:51.24\00:51:53.68
Notice what Pope
Francis the I had to say.
00:51:53.71\00:51:56.91
He in typical Jesuit fashion,
he's trying to reconcile
00:51:56.95\00:52:00.28
the creation story with science.
00:52:00.32\00:52:03.28
He said this, "The Big Bang,
00:52:03.32\00:52:05.32
which today we hold to
be the origin of the world,
00:52:05.35\00:52:07.82
does not
contradict the intervention
00:52:07.86\00:52:09.82
of the divine creator
but, rather, requires it.
00:52:09.86\00:52:12.99
Evolution in
nature is not inconsistent
00:52:13.03\00:52:15.36
with the notion of creation
00:52:15.40\00:52:16.90
because evolution requires
00:52:16.93\00:52:18.27
the creation of
beings that evolve.
00:52:18.30\00:52:20.94
When we read about
Creation in Genesis,
00:52:20.97\00:52:23.14
we run the risk of
imagining God as a magician
00:52:23.17\00:52:27.14
with a magic wand
able to do everything.
00:52:27.18\00:52:30.61
But that is not so.
00:52:30.65\00:52:33.92
He created human beings
00:52:33.95\00:52:35.48
and let them develop
according to the internal laws
00:52:35.52\00:52:38.32
that he gave to each one of them
00:52:38.35\00:52:39.85
so they would
reach their fulfillment.
00:52:39.89\00:52:41.62
In others words,
He placed within man
00:52:41.66\00:52:43.56
the capacity to evolve.
00:52:43.59\00:52:46.90
So neither one of
these popes believe
00:52:46.93\00:52:49.33
in the story of creation.
00:52:49.36\00:52:52.93
Now what does the
Catholic Church say
00:52:52.97\00:52:55.24
about its authority?
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Notice several statements
that I'm gonna read now
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about how the
Roman Catholic Church
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sees its authority.
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"It was the Catholic Church
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which by the
authority of Jesus Christ
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has transferred
this rest to Sunday
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in remembrance
of the resurrection
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of our Lord.
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Thus the observance of
Sunday," listen to this,
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by Protestants is
an homage they pay
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in spite of
themselves," to what?
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"To the
authority of the Church."
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So when Protestants keep Sunday,
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whose authority
are they accepting?
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The authority of the papacy
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because the
papacy changed the day.
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Now notice this statement.
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"A word about Sunday.
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God said:
'Remember the Sabbath day!'
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Remember to thou
keep holy the Sabbath day.
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The Sabbath was
Saturday not Sunday,
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why then do we keep
Sunday holy instead of Saturday?
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The Church altered the
observance of the Sabbath
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to the observance of Sunday."
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Now he indicts Protestants.
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"Protestants who say that
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they go by the
Bible and the Bible only
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and that they do
not believe anything
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that is not in the Bible,
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must be rather puzzled
by the keeping of Sunday
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when God distinctly said,
'Keep holy the Sabbath day.'
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The word Sunday does not
come anywhere in the Bible so,
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without knowing it,
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they are obeying the authority
of the Catholic Church."
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So by keeping Sunday,
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Protestants are
obeying the authority of whom?
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Of the Catholic Church.
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Notice this statement.
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"But since Saturday, not Sunday,
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is specified in the Bible,
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isn't it curious
that non-Catholics
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who profess to
take their religion
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directly from the Bible
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and not from the church
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observe Sunday
instead of Saturday?
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Yes, of course,
it is inconsistent,
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but this change was
made about fifteen centuries
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before Protestantism was born,
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and by that time the
custom was universally observed.
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They, Protestants,
have continued the custom,
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even though it
rests upon the what?
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The authority of
the Catholic Church
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and not upon an
explicit text in the Bible.
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That observance by
Protestants of Sunday
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remains as a reminder
of the Mother Church."
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The Sabbath is a
reminder of what?
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Of creator God,
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"but Sunday is a
reminder of what?
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Of the Mother Church
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from which the
non-Catholic sect broke away,
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like a boy
running away from home
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but still carrying in his pocket
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a picture of his
mother or a lack of her hair."
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One final statement.
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"It was the Holy Catholic Church
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that changed the day
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of rest from Saturday to Sunday,
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the first day of the week.
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And it not only
compelled all to keep Sunday,
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but urged all persons
to labor on the seventh day
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under pain of anathema.
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Protestants who profess
great reverence for the Bible,
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and yet by their
solemn act of keeping Sunday,
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they acknowledge the
power of the Catholic Church.
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The Bible says,
'Remember the Sabbath day
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to keep it holy.'
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But the Catholic Church says,
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"No: Keep the
first day of the week..."
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' And now, notice this.
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"And lo, the
entire civilized world
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bows down in reverent obedience
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to the command of the
holy Catholic Church."
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Are you catching the picture?
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Listen, folks,
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the trial at the end of time
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is not so much
a trial over days.
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The day is simply the
way in which God reveals
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which authority you accept.
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If you keep the
Sabbath you are saying,
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I follow and obey
the authority of God,
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because God
established the Sabbath.
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But when you keep
Sunday as the day of rest,
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you're saying, I accept
the authority of the power
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that changed the day of worship.
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I accept the power of the papacy
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because they were the
ones that changed the day.
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So the matter at the end of time
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is not only a matter of days,
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it's a matter of
which authority you accept.
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And the Bible tells us
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that the whole world
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with the
exception of a small remnant
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who keep the commandments of God
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will wander after the beast
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and obey the
sign of its authority.
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Did you understand what
we studied this evening?
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This was a difficult lecture
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because there's
so many quotations,
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and there's so much material,
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but I believe
you've seen the picture,
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the papacy does claim to
occupy God's place on earth.
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It does claim the
need to receive worship
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and it does have a
sign of its authority
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and God also claims authority
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because He is the
Creator and God has a sign.
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So at the end of time, two days,
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two signs of authority.
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